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THE QUARRY
BANKS, IAIN M.
Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from
"highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live
together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry. His mother's identity is
another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time."Uncle"
Paul's a media lawyer now; Rob and Ali are upwardly mobile corporate bunnies; pretty, hopeful Pris is a
single mother; Haze is still living up to his drug-inspired name twenty years on; and fierce, protective Hol
is a gifted if acerbic critic. As young film students they lived at Willoughtree House with Guy, and they've
all come back because they want something. Kit, too, has his own ulterior motives. Before his father dies
he wants to know who his mother is, and what's on the mysterious tape they're all looking for. But most of
all he wants to stop time and keep his father alive. Fast-paced, gripping and savagely funny, The Quarry
is a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage
against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks' greatest work.
FICTION
REDHOOK
9780316281867
$29.00 HC
JUNE 2013
336 PAGES
QUIET DELL
PHILLIPS, JAYNE ANNE
In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, mother of three, is lonely and despairing, pressed for money after the
sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man
named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her
and her children. Weeks later, the family are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago
press, covers the case and becomes deeply invested in understanding what happened to this beautiful
family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and
sense of magic. Bold and intrepid, Emily allies herself with the Chicago banker who funds the
investigation and who is wracked by guilt for not saving Asta. Driven by secrets of their own, the heroic
characters in this magnificent tale will stop at nothing to ensure that Powers is convicted.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 100,000
SCRIBNER
480 PAGES
9781439172537
$32.00 HC
OCTOBER 2013
A QUESTION OF HONOR
TODD, CHARLES
In this emotionally powerful new entry in the “vivid period mystery series” (New York Times Book Review),
nurse Bess Crawford investigates an old murder that occurred during her childhood in India, a search for
the truth that will transform her and leave her pondering a troubling question: How can facts lie?
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 50,000
WILLIAM MORROW
320 PAGES
9780062237156 SERIES: BESS CRAWFORD
$27.99 HC LARGE PRINT EDITION:
AUGUST 2013 9780062278487 ($27.99)