IMAGINE THIS
Author: Julia Baird
ISBN: 9780340839393
Price: $29.95
Non Fiction
An extraordinarily moving and honest memoir by John Lennon's sister revealing for the first time their often painful and lonely childhood.
Until now, the true story of John Lennon's childhood has never been told. Julia Baird has been on a personal journey which only now makes it possible. Julia reveals the cruelty of the decision to remove John from his mother at the age of five to live with his Aunt Mimi and also shows how the tragic death of their mother when John was 17 was to cause untold and painful repercussions for all the children.
Poignant and beautifully written, Imagine This casts John Lennon's life in a new light and unmasks the source of his emotional fragility and musical genius.
IMMORAL
Author: Brian Freeman
ISBN: 0 7553 2751 9 / 0 7553 25354
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction
In Duluth, Minnesota, a young woman, Rachel Stoner, has gone missing. Cop Jonathan Stride, a sharply focused detective despite the stresses of his troubled personal life, is quick to suspect her stepfather of murder. And yet, he has his doubts. Even for a man accustomed to power, the accused seems remarkably convinced he'll go free. Could he be telling the truth?
While Stride endeavours to make sense of the conflicting pieces of evidence, a young woman's body lies half-buried deep in the woods. But if it's not the body of Rachel, where is she? Is Rachel dead, or is the fate that awaits her stepfather one he does not deserve?
In this dark, involving mystery, nothing is as it seems and readers will be gripped to the very last page as the shocking truth gradually emerges.
IN SEARCH OF REMARKABLE TREES
Author: Thomas Packenham
ISBN:9780297843801
Price: $50.00
Non Fiction
On safari in Southern Africa in search of spectacular trees
The rarest, the largest, the oldest, the most spectacular, the simply beautiful, or those imbued with significance, written about by the great explorers of the past, or associated with major folklore and ritual – remarkable trees of all a kinds are the quarry in this rich and fascinating book.
IN THE WOODS
Author: Tara French
ISBN: 9780340924754
Price: $24.95
Fiction/Mystery
A stunningly accomplished psychological mystery, rich in atmosphere and strongly characterized.
You're twelve years old, playing in the woods with your friends. Something terrible happens. Your friends are never seen again.
Twenty years on, Rob Ryan — the child who came back — is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name., No one knows about his past. Even he has no memory of what happened that day.
Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery
THE
INTERPRETOR OF SILENCES
Author: Jean McNeil
ISBN: 1-55278-563-7 / 978-1-55278-633-8
Price: $24.95 / $16.95
Fiction
"Like a young Mavis Gallant in wit and intelligence." — Globe and Mail
"Like David Adams Richard and Alastair MacLeod … Jean McNeil demonstrates an uncanny ability to create a world, if not a universe, in an East Coast village smaller than a city block and with fewer people than a Toronto oyster bar on a Friday night.” — Toronto Star
"Richly complex … marked by powerful descriptive passages and keen insights into the nature of life." — Halifax Chronicle Herald
Life, says Eve's father, is a never-ending loop, like the journey of the eels he fishes, repeating endlessly from the Sargasso Sea to Seal Island, again and again. I don’t want to be part of this rigid continuum, thinks Eve as a young girl — Let me be the one to break the cycle. Now Eve is in her mid-thirties and she has come home to Cape Breton, to Clam Harbour, to take care of her father. In March he had started a fire in his cabin and Eve's sister is exasperated with him — he is having trouble remembering things, sequences. We're going to have to say goodbye, thinks Eve. He’ll lose his house, his land, his mind, himself. A barracuda of a real estate agent is already circling — there are Americans and Germans who want part of this gorgeous landscape. But there are too still many memories here and Eve knows very well that memory is not safe.
Noel, an American, has moved into the abandoned cottage next door. Noel, too, is haunted by memories — of the Rwandans he met after the genocide, of bodies plummeting from the Trade Centre. As a journalist for Global Witness News, he struggles with what he has seen. Slowly, easily, together, Noel and Eve begin to revisit their pasts. But where is the exact boundary of the present and the past? Then Rachel, Noel’s fiancée, arrives.
There are many tales tangled in this small East Coast village. When Eve cleans out the shed, she uncovers her mother's ledgerbooks and with them, a very private story. What kind of heart do you have? asks her mother in this secret diary, as if this is the only question to ask, the only question whose answer is worth knowing. As Eve unravels the past, she learns the dramatic answer to her mother’s question.
In the end, Eve's journey home, to this safe harbour on the edge of a raging ocean, resolves her family’s tragic story. This is a thoughtful, lyrical, beautifully written novel touching on myth.
IRIS
AND RUBY
Author: Rosie Thomas
ISBN: 1-55278-573-4 / 978-1-55278-6413
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction
A stirring story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family.
Fragility and forgetfulness have left 82-year-old Iris vulnerable and in the care of her manservant, Mamdooh. Stiflingly quiet and claustrophobic Iris's house in old Cairo is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of her troubled and willful granddaughter, Ruby. Labouring under a fraught relationship with her family, Ruby has run away from England to seek solace with the grandmother she hasn’t seen for many years.
An unlikely bond arises as the two women open themselves up to one another. Ruby helps Iris document her deterioriating memories of the glittering cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two , a time when she lost her heart to her one true love – the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneaux – and then lost him to the ravages of war.
This early devastation of Iris's heart shapes her life as well as that of her daughter and her granddaughter. It is this need to recover Iris's past and solidify Ruby's present that leads the two women into terrible danger in the Egyptian desert.
Richly alive with descriptions of the bustling streets of Cairo and the vast, foreboding desert surrounding it, Iris and Ruby is a highly moving story spanning three generations of one family.
Rosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including A Simple Life and the Top Ten bestsellers, Every Woman Knows a Secret, Moon Island, White, Potter’s House and most recently Sun at Midnight. When not writing fiction she spends her time traveling and mountaineering. She lives in north London.
ISLANDBRIDGE
Author: John Brady
ISBN: 1-55278-520-3 / 1-55278-593-9
Price: $24.95 / $10.99
Fiction
"Sure to be one of the top books of the year, must reading" - Globe and Mail
An off-duty cop witnesses a double murder outside a Dublin nightclub in the nineteen eighties, and faces an ultimatum from the vicious crime boss behind the killings. Soon he soon learns the bitter truth of the saying, 'The past is never past. It's not even over.' The past is indeed another country, an island, and he can never get there. Facing betrayal from his fellow cops as much as the criminals, he takes the only way out.
Addled with grief, his widow manages to put her breakdown behind her, and she hitches her star to her new husband's police career, his rapid promotion, and his insider's knowledge of crime in the new Ireland of The Celtic Tiger. In boomtown Dublin, the crime families continue to make their grim harvest, but watch uneasily as criminals from Eastern Europe show up. Pausing in his Powerpoint lecture, a visiting cop remarks that criminal trafficking has its own map: 'Ireland is not an island any more, really."
An informant who offers Matt Minogue a rumour about a Dublin crime boss having a senior cop 'on side,' — and that the death of an undercover detective last year was connected — is found murdered twelve hours later. Inveigling his way into the cold file on the detective's death, Minogue is soon looking for a Moldovan woman, an asylum seeker, who has vanished. Following an oblique lead with a prostitution racket, Minogue is confronted by someone who brazenly tries to gun him down in a busy Dublin street.
The present is soon overtaken by the past in revenge, and the wheel of betrayal turns toward Minogue: he must now follow up on what a policeman will unwittingly disclose. The result is rage, gunshots in the night in a cop's home. The story closes on a man in a remote, windswept field facing the sea. Drunk, he yells nonsense into the long grasses that hiss all about him.
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