Mysteries

 and other Fiction

New for fall 08/winter 09

 

 

The Long and Short

Allen Saddler

The second title in Allen Saddler’s trilogy and the sequel to his acclaimed Bless ‘Em All. Four years on from the Blitz London, as news of the Normandy landings filters, through the country, Saddler presents new characters struggling in wartime England alongside memorable figures from the first book.

Peter Owen Publishers | In Print | paper

ISBN: 9780720613070 | $35.00

 

 

 

 

 

The Day My Mother Changed Her Name

And other stories

William D. Kaufman

Forewards by Max Apple & Carol Montparker

William D. Kaufman grew up on his mother's kugel and his father's boyhood stories. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and the Ukraine and one of five children, he learned how to translate his colorful childhood into tales of his own, regaling audiences of family, friends, and eventually his retirement community with periodic public readings. Now, at the age of 93, Kaufman makes his stories, filled with a sharp wit and telling detail, available to a wider audience for the first time.

Syracuse University Press | September 2008 | cloth

ISBN: 9780815609322 | $28.00

 

 

 

 

 

Retreat

a Story of 1918

Charles R. Benstead

Retreat, a Story of 1918 by Charles R. Benstead was first published in England in 1930, as the genre of Great War fiction was shifting from positive accounts of combat heroism toward narratives of disillusionment and loss. Benstead's novel spans both phases through its tragic portrayal of an army chaplain driven to madness when his orthodox values hold no sway against the bloody realities of war and through its heartening vision of how devotion to duty can fortify soldiers' sense of purpose and self-worth in the absence of spiritual faith.

University of South Carolina Press | 2008 | paper

ISBN 9781570037689 | $31.00

 

 

 

 

 

Flesh in Armour

A Novel

Leonard Mann

Leonard Mann privately published his first novel, Flesh in Armour, in Melbourne in 1932, after he was unable to place it with a publisher in Australia or England. The novel was an immediate success, and Mann was subsequently awarded the Australian Literature Society's gold medal for outstanding book of the year. The book's merits then established, it was republished in England and Australia in 1944.

University of South Carolina Press 2008 | paper

ISBN 9781570037702 | $31.00

 

 

 

Murder casts a shadow

Vitoria Nalani Kneubuhl

New Year's Eve, 1934. While Honolulu celebrates with champagne and fireworks, someone is making away with the Bishop Museum's portrait of King Kalakaua and its curator. A series of brutal murders follows, and an unlikely pair, newspaper reporter Mina Beckwith and visiting playwright Ned Manusia, find themselves investigating a twisted trail of clues in an attempt to recover the painting and uncover the killer.

The University of Hawaii Press | July 2008 | paper

ISBN: 9780824832179 | $21.00

 

 

 

 

 

Seven Churches

Milos Urban

Translated from the Czech by Mark Corner

First published in the Czech Republic in 1999, Seven Churches is one of the most haunting and terrifying thrillers to come out of Europe in recent years. This title has been translated into six European language and Urban is already being talked about as one of Europe’s great writers.

Peter Owen Publishers | In Print | paper

ISBN: 9780720613117 | $41.00

 

 

 

 

 

Dalliance

A Novel

Diana Burg

Mary Turner  is accustomed to financial security, society balls, and the flirtatious attention of her many suitors. When she marries the ambitious, though dull, banker Isaac Burch, she secures an upper-class social position at the cost of a loveless relationship. Her rumoured indiscretions result in a very public divorce trial, pitting the domineering husband against the repentant and disgraced wife. Based on the actual Illinois divorce trial of 1860 that riveted the country with newspaper headlines displaying the personal lives of prominent citizens, Burg’s novel probes human motivations and failings along with a social climate percolating with the demands for civil and social rights of women.

Syracuse University Press | 2008 | cloth

ISBN: 9780815609315 | $38.00

 

 

 

 

 

THE IDLE YEARS

Orhan Kemal

With a foreward by Nobel Prize Winner, Orhan Pamuk

This title,, by Orhan Kemal -one of Turkey’s best-loved writers, with a standing equal to Charles Dickens in England- is one of his first two semi-autobiographical works.

Peter Owen Publishers | In Print | paper

ISBN: 9780720613100 | $37.50

 

 

 

 

 

Wonderful Fool

Shusaku Endo

Translated by Francis Mathy

The story of Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman who visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-pal Takamori. In this early novel Endo explores, in a deceptively light-hearted way, the contrasts and contradictions between East and West, between materialism and spirituality, between his adopted Catholicism and his inherited Shintoism, that in one way another preoccupy all his works.

Peter Owen Publishers | September 2008 | paper | 240pp

ISBN: 9780720613209 | $23.00