JACK FLINT
Author: Joe Donnelly
ISBN: 9781842555811
Price: $18.95
Children

Myth, magic and danger from a debut children’s fantasy author.  Jack Flint is 13.  On a stormy Halloween he leave his humdrum chores and steps from playing fields to battlefields in the legendary world of Temair.  Here Celtic myth comes to life as Jack, his best friend Kerry, and chieftain’s daughter Corriwen Redthorn face the terrifying Morrigan, goddess of death, and try to regain the lost Redthorn sword to save the kingdom..

THE JAPANESE WIFE
Author: Kunal Basu
ISBN:9781552786758
Price:$29.95
Fiction

Love, loss, dreams and discovery are enacted in ten stories set in the backdrop of novel encounters in India: a Japanese wife visits her husband's village home for the very first time fifteen years after their marriage; a Yugoslav holocaust victim finds himself in the eye of a storm during Hindus-Muslim riots in Calcutta; a Russian prostitute discovers her "Soviet" roots in the company of Bengal revolutionaries; an American rock queen falls hopelessly in love with a Punjabi businessman on her flight to India; a cynical Delhi journalist joins forces with a young African woman searching for her Tamil grandfather who served in the French foreign legion; a British researcher is caught up in a love triangle while on a project to study tiger poachers; a retired Israeli-American professor is suspected of kidnapping a young nomadic woman in the deserts of Rajasthan; a French nun contracts the "French Disease" setting off her doctor on a course to solve the mystery; a career accountant hallucinates about his past life as the Persian architect of the Taj Mahal; a wayward son meets his dead father, and has a rare glimpse of an era long past.  Dreamscapes and memoryscapes of insiders and outsiders, the stories conflate the rational with the ethereal, the obvious with the subliminal.

JEWELS
Author: Victoria Finlay
ISBN: 0-340-830131
Price: $24.95
Non Fiction

When we put on precious stones, what are we really wearing? Victoria Finlay travels the world to uncover the secret histories of these miraculous oddities of nature.

Her search takes her to the opal fields of Australia with their underground towns, to Scotland to find the last of the pearl fishers, and to the Native American reserve that holds the world's biggest supply of a forgotten gem.

JOHN
Author: Cynthia Lennon
ISBN: 034089511X
Price: $34.95
Non Fiction

The full and remarkable story, for the first time, of John Lennon's first wife — their life together, divorce, John's death, and the aftermath both for her and for their son Julian.

Cynthia Lennon is one of the closest witnesses of the Beatles phenomenon. But her personal story of a marriage to a man so idolised and admired is no less compelling. Her affection undimmed, Cynthia is candid about the cruel, as well of the loving side of John, the end of their marriage and his relationship with Yoko Ono, and the many difficulties, estrangement — and then John’s death — brought herself and Julian. But Cynthia is a remarkable survivor and she has an extraordinary story and unique insight into a man loved by so many worldwide.

JOURNALS
Author: Pete Doherty
ISBN: 9780752885919
Price: $39.95
Non Fiction

The journals of England's leading troubadour and rock star …

'Poet, young and busy, seeks cheap spacious rooms somewhere. Excellent references available…' so reads a self-penned ad, a very early entry from Pete Doherty's journals.

Filled with poems, drawing, personal reflections, lyrics and collages, this book forms an intimate insight into one of the music world's most talented and controversial figures.

From the early books a fascinating and very entertaining picture emerges of the young poet, broke in London, serving popcorn at the Prince Charles Cinema, ruminating on Britpop, dreaming of creating a band infused with 'the spirit of Albion.’'The later books reflect Pete's rise to fame, his changing world, and are full of artwork, photographs, notes and thoughts. It is intimate, honest stuff, very readable and very funny in places; pretty dark in others. All in all it's the work of a serious artist, a complete antidote to most things written about Doherty.

JOURNEY IN BLUE
Author: Stig Dalager
ISBN: 1-55278-575-0
Price: $24.95
Fiction

In his highly acclaimed novel Journey in Blue Stig Dalager has conjured up the complex personality of the Danish master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen to create a vivid and fascinating portrait of the writer.

Andersen's life swims into focus in fragments as morphine is administered to him in his final days. His interactions with the men and women who influenced his life and work reveal how he transformed his experiences into literature, including his celebrated fairytales. Yet his painful search for literary validation and religious certainty, combined with other longings that he is not always able to identify or control, often result in him feeling alienated – even tormented – and unable to understand why the Danes should have ambiguous feelings about him and the significance of his writings; for years he felt unrecognized as a major artist in his own country.

This powerful novel is Dalager’s first to appear in English and is one of the most translated Danish novels in recent years. It takes the reader on an absorbing journey through the mind, spirit and imagination of one of the most important names in world literature.

Stig Dalager was born in Copenhagen in 1952. He made his literary début with a collection of short stories in 1980 and has since become known as a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, radio plays and literary criticism. One of the most distinguished Scandinavian writers of his generation, he is gaining international recognition with a body of work that has been translated and performed internationally or adapted for cinema.

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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