New Releases by Linda Coverdale

An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France''s master of psychological suspense In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losing battle with that most fearsome of adversaries—the self. Now, determined to escape the bleak visions of his narratives, he takes on a film project in the heart of Russia while also embarking on a new love affair back home in Paris. But soon enough, the diversion he seeks eludes him, intimacy proves too arduous, and Carrv®re is left peering into the dark mirror of his own life. Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Novel traces Carrère''s pursuit of two obsessions—the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. In prose that is elegant and passionate, Carrère weaves the strands of his story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, erotic tour de force—this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the inevitable payment they exact.

Memoirs of a Pakistani woman, a gang rape victim.

In the magical world of Fairytale, three teenage girls--Jade, Opal, and Amber--embark on a dangerous quest to save their enchanted land, a journey that also has profound repercussions in a parallel world, where a young girl named Joa battles for her life in a Parisian hospital. A first novel. Reprint.