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Hugo Hamilton was born and grew up in Dublin. He is the author of six highly acclaimed novels: Surrogate City, The Last Shot and The Love Test (Faber); Headbanger and Sad Bastard (Secker); one collection of short stories; and the internationally acclaimed memoir The Speckled People.

From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather Morris and Alli Parker. During a train...

August 2, 1991, Twentynine Palms, California: a troubled Marine who has recently returned from the Gulf War savagely murders two young girls. One was about to turn 16, the other 21. Exquisitely and inexorably, Deanne Stillman uses this tragedy as a prism through which she examines a rootless culture of fatherless families, shattered dreams, and relentless violence. She also traces the family histories of each murder victim back for generations, in one case to the Donner Party and the other to a shack in the Philippines.

The evolution of Taylor Mali the poet could be measured in the number of people his poetry has directly inspired to be teachers. Or the increasing cast of high school and college-age students who perform his words in forensic competitions. This is Taylor in his element: performing in front of live and writhing audiences demanding and receiving all the rough, raw, and authentic passion of Taylor Mali's poetry.

Una periodista de televisió establerta a Barcelona, que segueix de prop la guerra dels Balcans, torna durant tres dies al seu poble natal per assistir a l'enterro del seu avi i per recuperar, sense preveure-ho, una història que li és pròpia. «Una mort dolça i una vetlla a l'antiga, honor a un cadàver de cent anys. I una història que es comença a contar, sola». La palmera de blat (publicada per primer cop el 1995) és precisament aquesta història: la del poble agrícola de Salavai i els canvis que ha sofert en els últims anys.