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Click here for a sneak peek at Maggie O'Farrell's wonderful new book.

This stunning novel depicts a portrait of an Irish family in crisis, during the legendary heatwave of 1976 and is as richly comic as it is painfully well-observed. Join the conversation on twitter #heatwave

Click here for a sneak peek at AMITY & SORROW by Peggy Riley.

A story about God, sex and farming. An unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come. Join the conversation on twitter #godsexfarming

Click here for a sneak peek at THE HOPE FACTORY by Lavanya Sankaran.

An international event: a remarkable first novel of modern India, weaving together a rich tapestry of social manners and mores, ambition, greed, and love, which will establish Lavanya Sankaran as one of the most gifted and original writers of fiction today.

Click here for a sneak peek at THE YONAHLOSSEE RIDING CAMP FOR GIRLS by Anton DiSclafani.

1930s America, southern high society: Part love story, part coming-of-age novel, this is the moving, raw and exquisitely vivid story of an uncommon girl navigating a treacherous road to womanhood.

Click here for a sneak peek at Michel Rostain's incredible novel THE SON.

THE SON is a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, tackling the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways, with wit, wisdom and vitality. This is not a book about death. It's a book about life.

Click here for a sneak peek at THE OUTLINE OF LOVE by Morgan McCarthy.

A mesmerising novel about obsessive love.

Click here for a sneak peek at SNAPPER by Brian Kimberling.

Set in rural Indiana, SNAPPER is a book about birdwatching, a woman who won't stay true, and a pick-up truck that won't start. With wry humour and real freshness, this is a birdwatcher's guide to the human heart.

Maggie O'Farrell has now sold over a million books in the UK through Bookscan. She is consistently a hardback bestseller - THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE sold just over 15,000 copies in hardback alone.

The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.

It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each wih different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.

Maggie O'Farrell's sixth book is the work of an outstanding novelist at the height of her powers.

Maggie O`Farrell is the author of five novels, AFTER YOU`D GONE, MY LOVER`S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She lives in Edinburgh.From a writer who is perhaps better known for drama and psychological insight than humour comes a novel about family life and family meltdown that is as richly comic as it is painfully well observed.A novel for anyone who has ever wanted to escape their mother, or who has looked aghast at the wreckage young children have made of their perfectly planned life. Maggie O'Farrell is a writer with a unique connection to her readership, and this novel will cement and broaden her wide and passionate fanbase.Maggie's evocation of the legendary heatwave of 1976 is as colour-saturated and vivid as an album of period holiday photos. A novel rich in atmosphere and detail and in nostalgia for the summers of childhood.

Not everyone wants to be saved.

AMITY & SORROW is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's THE LOVELY BONES meets WITNESS: an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.

In the wake of a suspicious fire, Amaranth gathers her barely-teenage daughters, Amity and Sorrow, and flees from the cult her husband ran. After four days of driving, Amaranth crashes the car, leaving the family stranded at a gas station. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of a downtrodden farmer, a man who offers sanctuary when the women need it most.
AMITY & SORROW is the story of these remarkable women, their lives before the night they fled, and their heartbreaking, hopeful future. For, while Amity blossoms in this new world, Sorrow will move heaven and earth trying to get back home.
And, meanwhile, the outside world hasn't forgotten about the fire on the compound.

'Amity & Sorrow, grace and hope, honor and innocence, bliss and deliverance - all of this from one beautifully nuanced story about the nature of family and the power of faith. I savored every word''A startlingly original, intelligent and beautiful first novel that I found riveting from page one. I can only wait with great anticipation for what comes next from Peggy Riley'One of the most exciting books to be published this year[A] delicately stitched, finely patterned and poetic novel... packed with shock and hopeOnce in a while a book comes along that can not only grip you but keep you thinking long after the last page. Enter Amity & Sorrow... a stunningly original contemporary classic [with] remarkable characterisation and intense plot. I urge you to read Riley's novelA story about God, Sex and Farming, as two girls do a runner from a cult. It's aceA debut that will haunt and inspireA literary page-turner... her writing is clear, crispA taut debut, this will appeal to fans of Emma Donoghue's Room'An impressive and often pretty harrowing debut novel [with] strength and powerPeggy Riley is a writer and playwright. She recently won a Highly Commended prize in the 2011 Bridport Prize and was published in their latest anthology. Her short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio and published in Mslexia Magazine and as an app on Ether Books. Her plays have been commissioned and produced off-West End, regionally, and on tour. She has been a festival producer, a bookseller, and writer-in-residence at a young offender prison. Originally from LA, Peggy now lives in Kent.Bought in UK auction and the subject of a massive pre-empt in the USA contemporary classic in the making - with its themes of sisterhood and coming-of-age, set in the unforgettable context of an apocalyptic family cult, it is ROOM set in WITNESS-country, or THE LOVELY BONES meets THE NINETEENTH WIFE

This is not a book about death. It's a book about life.Selected for the Waterstones Eleven list for 2013.

We first meet Michel eleven days after the death of his son Lion. Lion was lost, suddenly, to a virulent strain of meningitis and it's left his father and entire family reeling. We join Michel on his personal journey through grief, but the twist that makes the journey truly remarkable, and tips this true story into fiction, is the fact that we see it all through Lion's eyes.

In a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, THE SON tackles the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways. Michel Rostain resolutely ducks away from sentimentality and pathos, and tells his story instead with wit, wisdom and vitality. For this is not a book about death; it's a book about life.Michel Rostain lives in Arles. Born in 1942, he works as an opera stage director, and directed the National Theatre of Quimper from 1995 to 2008.THE SON won the 2011 Goncourt First Novel Award, France's best-known and most prestigious literary prize. It has sold over 100,000 copies in France to date, and has been translated into 16 languagesNot only does it have a unique hook and fascinating author back-story, but it also has universal themes, real emotional resonance and that special life-affirming quality you need to create a word-of-mouth successThe extraordinary real life story behind the book, and the unique fusion of memoir and fiction makes it a true original, and one that will appeal to those who were moved by THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTEFLY

A birdwatcher's guide to the human heart - an unconventional coming of age story from an unforgettable new voice that will appeal to fans of David Vann and Annie Proulx.

With wry humour and real freshness, SNAPPER charts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him.

Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana, 'the bastard son of the Midwest', SNAPPER is a book about birdwatching, a woman who won't stay true, and a pick-up truck that won't start. Here turtles eat alligators for breakfast, Klansmen skulk in the undergrowth, and truckers drop into the diner of a town named Santa Claus to ensure that no child's Christmas letter goes unanswered, while Nathan grapples with the eternal question: should I stay, or should I go? Kimberling's vision of small-town life is as characterful as Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, but bristling with the tensions of race, class, poverty and prejudice, it makes for a bracing read.
Brilliant... an absolute joy of a book. I predict big things for itFunny and absorbingKimberling writes gracefully about absurdity... a delightful debutA total gem... you can't fail to love itFunny and Adroit FictionSnapper captures the high lonesome beauty of a songbird's canorous call... [it] is a brilliant field study, a soulful guide to the humble glories and enduring legacies of the Great Midwest. Brian Kimberling is a writer of serious wit and wisdomBrian Kimberling is an amazingly talented and wise writer. Snapper is filled with sly humor and uncommon grace and some of the most memorable characters to appear in fiction in recent yearsBrian Kimberling is a native of Indiana and a graduate of Indiana University. In the mid-nineties he was a research assistant for a major study of Indiana songbirds, an experience central to his first book. Since then he has lived and worked `mostly as a TEFL teacher` in the Czech Republic, Mexico, Turkey and England, where he lives now. He began writing his first book on the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA in 2009, and was awarded the first annual Janklow & Nesbit Prize for the best manuscript to emerge from the course. He lives in Bath with his wife and son.SNAPPER displays the imagination and wit that characterise contemporary American fiction at its finest. Brian Kimberling is a hugely distincive and exciting new talent for Tinder Press.SNAPPER is probably the only book you will ever read that will tell you how to track down the nest of a bald eagle, fish with a crossbow, smoke banana peel and seal a leak in a car radiator with an egg. Which is to say that it should particularly resonate with a male readership. However, Nathan's difficulties in love - in particular his hapless pursuit of the enigmatic Lola - are depicted with such tenderness that SNAPPER is also sure to touch the heart of women everywhere.

This beautiful, literary commercial novel in the vein of PREP will be an exciting, stand-out debut launch for Tinder Press1930s America, southern high society: Part love story, part coming-of-age novel, this is the moving, raw and exquisitely vivid story of an uncommon girl navigating a treacherous road to womanhood.

Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is 'exiled' from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrienne prowess; where young women are indoctrinated in the importance of 'female education' yet expected to be married by twenty-one; a world so rarified as to be rendered immune (at least on the surface) to the Depression looming at the periphery, all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots...'I fell completely under the spell of Anton DiSclafani's amazing first novel and was gripped by its lush and dreamy evocations of Southern decorum, family secrets, and boarding school rituals. DiSclafani is wildly talented, and this is a sexy, suspenseful, gorgeously written book''DiSclafani's pitch-perfect details of time and place effortlessly drew me into this fantastic novel's authentic and alluring world''The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is so sexy, smart, and vividly drawn that I was surprised to remember that this novel is Anton DiSclafani's first. With such a big-hearted and atmospheric book, Ms. DiSclafani's talents should be celebrated far and wide''A fierce and tender portrait of a young woman caught amidst the converging crises of her family, her country, and her own complicated desires... It's a beautiful novel''A clever and compelling coming-of-age novel'Anton DiSclafani, 30, was raised in northern Florida, where she rode horses, competing nationally. She graduated from Emory University, and received her MFA from Washington University. She currently lives in St. Louis, where she teaches creative writing at Washington University.A smart, distinctive and fresh voice on themes of adolescence, identity, young love and family relationships: sure to spark rich discussions for book clubs

An international event: a remarkable first novel of modern India, weaving together a rich tapestry of social manners and mores, ambition, greed, and love, which will establish Lavanya Sankaran as one of the most gifted and original writers of fiction today.

Where innocence, deceit and love collide

Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that's how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New India, neither of these is easy to find.

Kamala, Anand's family's maid, lives perilously close to the edge of disaster. She and her clever teenage son have almost nothing, and their small hopes for self-betterment depend on the contentment of Anand's wife: a woman to whom whims come easily.

But Kamala's son keeps bad company. Anand's marriage is in trouble. And the murky world where crime and wealth and politics meet is a dangerous place for good men, and those who rely on them

Lavanya Sankaran's first collection of stories, THE RED CARPET, was critically acclaimed in the UK and the US and a bestseller in India. She attended Bryn Mawr College and has worked in investment banking in New York and consulting in India. THE HOPE FACTORY is her first novel.Like The Namesake and The White Tiger, books about Indian family life and its entrenched caste system have universal reach and the potential to become bestsellers, and Lavanya Sankaran, US-educated and a resident of Bangalore, has observed much of what she describes first hand.The Hope Factory has already received a starred Kirkus Review

Praise for Lavanya Sankaran's previous novel, THE RED CARPET:

'I recommend this book so highly!' Washington Post 'THE RED CARPET [is] easily one of the most unselfconscious and engaging debuts of the year... This is a book for the reader. Any reader, anywhere' India Today 'Sankaran's tales... seem incapable of hitting a false note'US Elle '[An] animated debut collection... [These stories] are memorable for their wit and convincing evocation of a dynamic world' Publishers Weekly 'The prose is superb: it is not racy but absorbing; elegant with an economy that never skips the detail; discerning and descriptive without being overtly judgmental; mischievous, mocking, even wicked but never malicious or derisive' Tribune, India

Indian fiction is huge in the UK and globally, as shown by the success of authors such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Aravind Adiga, Manil Suri and Arandhati Roy, and THE HOPE FACTORY, long-awaited in the US and India, has immense international potential

A mesmerising novel about obsessive love

Persephone Triebold has grown up in the strange desolation of the Scottish Highlands, raised by her anxious father and memories of her dead mother. Inexperienced in the rules of friendship, sex and love, Persephone takes the opportunity to replace uninhabited mountain ranges with city life and leaves to study for a degree in London.

Parties, new friends and the polluted splendour of the capital intoxicate Persephone at first, but fail to supply her with the grand passion she wants. It's only when she meets the literary star Leo Ford, a former singer who has become a celebrated writer, that she finds someone she can love. Though Persephone succeeds in entering Leo's circle of friends she finds him to be as elusive as he is sought after. And she becomes increasingly curious about the incident in his past of which no one ever speaks...Gorgeously writtenA pageturnerMorgan McCarthy read English at Reading University, where she graduated with First Class honours. In 2008, she started working part-time in order to write her first novel, THE OTHER HALF OF ME.Fans of Sadie Jones, Richard Mason and Maggie O'Farrell will all love Morgan McCarthy.Morgan McCarthy is enormously talented, and we firmly believe she's one to watch. She has the most exquisite voice, and is a born writer.

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