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A Face in the Crowd
Scribner 2012; US$ 2.99The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful , about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an eBook original to be published on August 21, 2012. Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching... more...
Songs for the Missing
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 12.99Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community?s efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missing. It soon deepens into an affecting portrait of a family trying desperately to hold onto itself and the memory of... more...
Last Night at the Lobster
Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 13.00The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn?t been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near-mutinous staff. All the while, he?s wondering how to handle the waitress he?s still in love with, what to do about his pregnant... more...
The Circus Fire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95The acclaimed author of A Prayer for the Dying brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism-the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Halfway through a midsummer afternoon performance, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus's big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin... more...
Snow Angels
Picador 2003; US$ 17.99Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974, experiencing the confusing pangs of adolescence and the pain of his parents? divorce. His world is shattered further by the sudden and violent death of Annie Marchand, his beloved former baby-sitter. Narrated by the adult Arthur, who continues to be haunted by memories, the story of a... more...
Emily, Alone
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 25.95A bittersweet tale of love and longing from the bestselling author of Last Night at the Lobster . Once again making the ordinary and overlooked not merely visible but vital to understanding our own lives, Stewart O'Nan confirms his position as an American master with Emily, Alone . A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish You Were... more...
A World Away
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 8.99A major new novel by the award-winning author recently named by Granta as one of America's best young writers.Set at a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons one summer during the Second World War, A World Away follows the fortunes of the Langer family, whose oldest son, Rennie, is missing in action in the Pacific theater. As we are soon aware,... more...
The Night Country
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004; US$ 17.99A ghost story that begins in everday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "scary, sad, funny . . . mesmerizing read" (Stephen King) At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another... more...
The Good Wife
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005; US$ 16.99From a writer who reveals 'the plainness of everyday life with straightforward lyricism' ( The New York Times Book Review ), the story of one remarkable, average woman. On a clear winter night in upstate New York, two young men break in to a house they believe is empty. It isn't, and within minutes an old woman is dead and the house is in flames.... more...
The Odds
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99In the new novel from the author of Last Night at the Lobster , a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster . Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara... more...









