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New & Notable
Whether you are a seasoned reader of international literature or
a reader just venturing out beyond your own literary shores, we know you
will find our New and Notable section a book browser's paradise! Reading
literature from around the world has a way of opening up one's perspective
to create as vast a world within us as there is without. Here are more than 50 new
or notable books we hope will bring the world to you. Remember—depending on what country you are shopping in,
these books might be sold under slightly different titles or ISBNs, in different
formats or with different covers; or be published in different months. However, the author's name is always likely to
be the same!
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LATIN AMERICA & the CARIBBEAN
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SUN DOG
Monique Roffey
A new edition of Roffey's debut novel. August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost. As Cosmo raises questions about August's identity, August finds himself changing with the seasons, in a journey that takes him deep into his past and to the very centre of his soul…
Monique Roffey was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and educated in the UK. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Sun Dog, was published in 2002. Since then she has worked as a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation and has held the post of Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Sussex and Chichester universities. She currently lives in Harlesden, North London, where she spends most of the day in her pyjamas, writing.
Sun Dog was published several years ago in the U.S. as August Frost by Atlantic Monthly Press.
Simon & Schuster, paperback, 9781849833035 (April)
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PARDNER MONEY STORIES
Deanne Heron
Pardner Money Stories is a collection of short stories which takes a whimsical look at life within an extended black Jamaican family in Britain.
Deanne Heron was born in Kingston, Jamaica and came to England in the 1960s. When not caring for foster children (she has fostered 23 children to date), she writes in her spare time. Her short stories have been published in The Jamaica Observer and United Press.
Hansib Publishing, paperback, 9781906190408 (April)
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