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SECRECY
THOMPSON, RUPERT
It is Florence, 1691. The Renaissance is long gone, and the city is a dark, repressive place, where
everything is forbidden and anything is possible. The Enlightenment may be just around the corner, but
knowledge is still the property of the few, and they guard it fiercely. Art, sex and power - these, as always,
are the obsessions. Facing serious criminal charges, Gaetano Zummo is forced to flee his native Siracusa
at the age of twenty, first to Palermo, then Naples, but always has the feeling that he is being pursued by
his past, and that he will never be free of it. Zummo works an artist in wax. He is fascinated by the plague,
and makes small wooden cabinets in which he places graphic, tortured models of the dead and dying. But
Cosimo III, Tuscany's penultimate Medici ruler, gives Zummo his most challenging commission yet, and
as he tackles it his path entwines with that of the apothecary's daughter Faustina, whose secret is even
more explosive than his. Poignant but paranoid, sensual yet chilling, Secrecy is a novel that buzzes with
intrigue and ideas. It is a love story, a murder mystery, a portrait of a famous city in an age of austerity, an
exercise in concealment and revelation, but above all it is a trapdoor narrative, one story dropping
unexpectedly into another, the ground always slippery, uncertain...
FICTION
GRANTA BOOKS
9781847087652
$19.95 TP Original
AUGUST 2013
320 PAGES
SECRET II
ADELINE, L. MARIE
"I, Cassie Robichaud, solemnly swear to serve S.E.C.R.E.T. to the best of my abilities. I will do what is
necessary, what is right and what is within my power to assist in the execution of sexual fantasies for our
participant(s)..." And so begins S.E.C.R.E.T. II, which opens with Cassie's initiation into this mysterious
organization, one that helps women experience their most potent sexual fantasies. Cassie spends the
next year as a "S.E.C.R.E.T. member-at-large," not quite a guide, she'll assist Committee members
(including two new ones, Kit DeMarco and Angela Rejean) in recruiting men and helping to execute a new
inductee's fantasies. After a false start with the first potential inductee, Cassie makes the acquaintance of
Dauphine Gray, a 31-year old who works at the Funky Monkey vintage clothing store on Magazine Street
in New Orleans. Geeky, gawky and easily distracted, Dauphine has no idea how attractive she really is
because her face is forever in a book. Reading is her passion, music is her pleasure, and Dauphine's all
but given up on sex, especially after a painful rejection that still haunts her. Then Cassie and the women
from S.E.C.R.E.T. show her it's possible to reignite that flame.
FICTION - EROTICA
DOUBLEDAY CANADA
9780385680486
$17.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2013
1ST PRINTING 50,00 IN CANADA
288 PAGES