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Editor, Rachel Holmes

FEATURED IN THIS E-MAIL:
* What We're Reading
"A Star Called Henry"
by Roddy Doyle
"The Mighty Walzer"
by Howard Jacobson
"Music & Silence"
by Rose Tremain
* An extract from "The Nudist Colony" by Sarah May
* Interview with James Webb, author of "The Emperor's General"
* Literary Bestsellers
"Destiny"
by Tim Parks
"Headlong"
by Michael Frayn
"Charlotte Grey"
by Sebastian Faulks
* Coming Soon: Not Yet Published

***WHAT WE'RE READING***
"A Star Called Henry"
by Roddy Doyle
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0224060198/entertainments08
The anti-romantic star of Roddy Doyle's latest novel fights
for Irish freedom and workers' revolution. Finding the habit
of murder hard to break, Henry teaches guerrilla warfare to
dairy farmers and clerks, and falls in love with his
blood-thirsty teacher Miss O'Shea. Passionate, angry, wildly
and darkly comic "A Star Called Henry" has something to
offend everybody.

"The Mighty Walzer"
by Howard Jacobson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0224051571/entertainments08
An hilarious tale of sexual promiscuity and the vagaries of
family life, Howard Jacobson's "The Mighty Walzer" is set
among the seedily glamorous ping-pong halls of 1950s Manchester,
as it spins the story of aspiring star Oliver Walzer's journey
to adulthood.

"Music & Silence"
by Rose Tremain
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/186056027X/entertainments08
King Christian of Denmark dreams of divine music in the midst
of his country's ruin and his queen's public adultery, in Rose
Tremain's "Music and Silence"--a virtuoso composition so
beautifully written that the desires and longings of the
characters are almost tangible.

***EXTRACT FROM "THE NUDIST COLONY" BY SARAH MAY***
Sarah May strips back the decaying architecture of empire
that underpins contemporary Britain in her first novel "The
Nudist Colony". Set between the Brazilian rainforest and the
London underworld, May's darkly imagined tale of monomoniacal
millionaire Mack Velli's vision to rule the world with paper
pulp, and the people whose lives become enmeshed in the
branches of his empire, has been longlisted for the 1999
Guardian First Book Award. Read an extract, in which Hackney
teenager Aesop Whitmore finds himself adopted by London's
criminal jungle.
Literature & Fiction

***INTERVIEW WITH JAMES WEBB: STRIPPING THE EMPEROR***
Hollywood is beating a path to the door of the highly
acclaimed author and Vietnam veteran James Webb, whose
powerful new novel, "The Emperor's General", has just been
bought by Paramount for two million dollars. Narrated by a
young member of General Douglas MacArthur's diplomatic team
in the South Pacific during the final days of World War Two,
the novel deals fascinatingly with the question of why so few
Japanese war criminals were brought to trial. Webb talks to
Barry Forshaw about the truth behind the mystery.
Literature & Fiction

***LITERARY BESTSELLERS***
Editor's pick of the hottest titles available this month.
"Destiny"
by Tim Parks
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0436220881/entertainments08

"Headlong"
by Michael Frayn
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571200516/entertainments08

"Charlotte Grey"
by Sebastian Faulks
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099394316/entertainments08

***COMING SOON***
"The Blackwater Lightship"
by Colm Toibin
Publication date: 24 September, 1999
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330389858/entertainments08

"Living in Hope and History"
by Nadine Gordimer
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747544719/entertainments08

"Wild Decembers"
by Edna O'Brien
Publication date: 30 September, 1999
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0297645765/entertainments08

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