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Richard Francis

Crane Pond

2016, pp. 326, $ 18.00
Region: Britain

Richard Francis's stunning novel Crane Pond is the story of Samuel Sewall, loving father and husband, anti-slavery advocate, defender of Native American rights, and presiding judge at the Salem Witchcraft trials in 1692, where he sentenced twenty innocent women to death.
Emily Woof

The Lightning Tree

2016, pp. 336, $ 17.00
Region: Britain

United Kingdom circa the 1980s——Ursula and Jerry find themselves surrounded by hip hairdos and dominating parents. When both escape to separate places, they keep in touch through letters that are deep, political, and full of irony——but Jerry harbors a secret uncertainty.
Robert Wilson

Stealing People

2016, pp. 384, $ 19.00
Region: Britain
Book collection: World Noir

In the latest entry in Robert Wilson’s acclaimed Charlie Boxer series, a convincing web of international intrigue unravels in a world where heroism may breed vice and virtue is an accidental byproduct of crime.
Jane Gardam

Bilgewater

2016, pp. 208, $ 17.00
Region: Britain

Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private all-boys school, where she hurdles headlong out of her own head and into the seething cauldron of adolescence: impossible crushes, intimidating girls, and a fair share of awkwardness.
Sathnam Sanghera

Marriage Material

2016, pp. 336, $ 18.00
Region: Britain

Sathnam Sanghera's debut novel is a luminous exploration of the life of an immigrant family in the UK, layering the contemporary story of a young man caught between British and Punjabi culture, the history of his family, and the new life he's made for himself.
Christopher Nicholson

Winter

2015, pp. 272, $ 17.00
Region: Britain

A tangled web of jealousy and missed opportunity ensnares the three principal characters in this fictionalized account which follows the theatrical production of Thomas Hardy's acclaimed novel: Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
Emma Jane Unsworth

Animals

2015, pp. 256, $ 17.00
Region: Britain

It is the moment every twenty-something must confront: the time to grow up. Adulthood looms, with all its numbing tranquility and stifling complacency. The end of prolonged adolescence is near
Rebecca Hunt

Everland

2015, pp. 320, $ 17.00
Region: Britain

Enticed by the promise of adventure and reward, three explorers, bound not by friendship, but by a dependence founded on survival, scout an uncharted island in the Antarctic named "Everland".
Wendy Jones

The World is a Wedding

2015, pp. 240, $ 16.00
Region: Britain

The sequel to The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
Robert Wilson

You Will Never Find Me

2015, pp. 304, $ 18.00
Region: Britain
Book collection: World Noir

Amy Boxer has vanished from London, taunting her parents with the last line of her note: “you will never find me.” Because they don’t want to get the news that every parent dreads, Charles Boxer and Mercy Danquah accept her challenge. Boxer pursues a lead that takes him to one of the most violent...