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Spring into Picador features the following authors:
1. Lost by Hans-?Ulrich Treichel:-""Arnold isn't dead. He didn't starve, either," is what the little brother, the narrator of this story, is finally told by his parents when he is about eight years old. "I was only just beginning to understand that Arnold, my un-dead brother, had the leading role in the family, and had assigned me a supporting part." ...
2. Wild Shore by Edward Marriott:-Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland waters. ...
3. Before You Sleep by Linn Ullmann:-"Through the sublimely unreliable voice of its narrator, Karin, Before You Sleep ranges from present-day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn to tell the story of the emotional legacies of the Blom family. ...
4. The Last Survivor by Timothy W. Ryback:-An investigation into what it is like to live in Dachau now. Ryback meets the people of Dachau and discovers how they live under the camp's shadow. He also tells the story of Martin Zaidenstadt, a camp guide whose past is difficult to reveal and, at times, to believe.
5. Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey:-**A MERVYN PEAKE FOR THE NEW CENTURY**Observatory Mansions was once the Orme family's ancestral home. ...
6. The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra:-The Romantics is the debut novel of Pankaj Mishra, the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World and Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond.
7. The Abomination by Paul Golding:-'An astonishing, heart-rending tour de force' Pat Barker The Abomination chronicles the life of Santiago Moore Zamora, a young man born to a beautiful, emotionally distant Spanish mother and an austere English father. ...
8. Mr. Bigstuff and the Goddess of Charm by Fiona Sax Ledger:-Written in a series of snapshots from Somalia to South Africa, Mozambique to Namibia, this travel book covers the life of a female features correspondent travelling around Africa. As well as showing all sides of Africa and its people, there are some amusing anecdotes of her own life.
9. Can You Have Bye Bye Baby? by Elyse Gasco:Daring, tough, and darkly humorous, these linked stories have at their centre the relationship between parents and children. ...
10. Plainsong by Kent Haruf:-Plainsong is a bestselling novel by Kent Haruf. Set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, it tells the interlocking stories of some of the inhabitants. The title comes from a type of unadorned music sung in Christian churches, and is a reference to both the Great Plains setting and the simple style of the writing.
11. The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon:-The Question of Bruno is set in Chicago and Bosnia. It is a book about the desolation of war and how an exile makes a new life in a new land. Its themes range from the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand to the art of dodging sniper fire.
12. The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis:-When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. ...
13. Mr Mee by Andrew Crumey:-'The playful preoccupation with alternative realities that dominated Scots author Crumey s previous fiction (including Pfitz and D Alembert s Principle) also informs this richly amusing novel about the search for an 18th-century encyclopedia that supposedly disproves the existence of the universe. ...
14. The Photograph by Eamonn Sweeney:-An extraordinarily rich narrative, in which the personal stories of four central characters and the larger issues of Irish National politics and identity are woven together to show the heights and depths, the ambiguities and the certainties, the comedy and the tragedy of half a century of Irish life.
15. To The Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury:-In October 1993 our narrator, a novelist, is invited to go to Stockholm and then to Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as 'The Diderot Project'. ...
16. Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon:-Esperanza's Box of Saints is a magical, humorous, and passion-filled odyssey about a beautiful young widow's search for her missing child -- a mission that takes her from a humble Mexican village to the rowdy brothels of Tijuana and a rarely seen side of Los Angeles. ...
17. Fin by James Delingpole:-'Save Our Sharks says the new kiddie-friendly cartoon propaganda poster in the atrium of my local swimming pool. And I'm thinking: "Fuck. Is nothing sacred?" I mean, whatever next? Save Our Cancerous Cells? Save Our Plague Bacilli?'So opens Joe's story. ...
18. Leadville by Edward Platt:-Leadville is a book by English writer Edward Platt, published in 2000 by Picador. It won both the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. Cambridge History of Science lecturer Patricia Fara selected it as one of her books of the decade.
19. A New World by Amit Chaudhuri:-A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his parents. ...
Spring into Picador features the following authors:1. Lost by Hans-?Ulrich Treichel:-""Arnold isn't dead. He didn't starve, either," is what the little brother, the narrator of this story, is finally told by his parents when he is about eight years old. "I was only just beginning to understand that Arnold, my un-dead brother, had the leading role in the family, and had assigned me a supporting part." ...2. Wild Shore by Edward Marriott:-Nicaragua's Atlantic coast is home to the most dangerous of fish, the bull shark, a lethal predator with a fearsome appetite and the only shark that swims in inland... Read More