FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
"A simmering, colorful story about castaways and the deviance they inspire."
An albino woman suffers with her desperate need for intimacy in the wilds of World War II-era Australia.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"A thoughtful, sidelong approach to the worst moment in Germany's history that invites us to understand how decent people come to collaborate with evil."
Hegi (
The Worst Thing I've Done, 2007, etc.) probes the moral dilemmas facing ordinary Germans in the early days of Hitler's Third Reich.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"Spectacularly and convincingly inventive, assured and wholly spellbinding: one of the most impressive debuts in years."
A sort of paranoid-conspiracy, hard sci-fi whodunit: the Scotland resident, Finnish author's jaw-dropping debut.
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FICTION
Released: June 7, 2011
"Vigorous, smart and gripping, this debut novel is currently being turned into a feature film directed by Steven Spielberg."
In the not-too-distant future, a sentient computer program escapes from a research facility and initiates a bloody robot revolt against humankind.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2011
"Others will find the goings-on funny enough to forgive anything."
Colfer's adult crime-fiction debut—after his bestselling Artemis Fowl YA series—introduces a big, brash, bawdy, balding anti-hero.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 30, 2011
"There's even a happy ending of sorts, as characters adapt and keep going, fortified by the knowledge that they "were more than the sum of what had been taken from" them."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
"Likely to be a big book—and, soon, a big movie, with all the franchise trimmings."
Self-assured, entertaining debut novel that blends genres and crosses continents in quest of magic.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
"A flat thriller that succeeds in draining the drama from its endangered nuclear plant plot."
Famed consumer advocate and environmental activist AJ Palladino goes over to the other side by taking big money to promote a nuclear power plant in South Carolina. Meanwhile, back home in West Virginia, the evil father of her deceased lover Cole conducts a murderous campaign to gain custody of her disabled 9-year-old son David.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"Elegiac, mature and nostalgic--a fine evocation of childhood, and of days irretrievably past."
A graceful, closely observed novel that blends coming-of-age tropes with a Conradian sea voyage.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 4, 2011
"An enthralling tale rendered with consummate literary skill."
Hoffman (The Red Garden, 2011, etc.) births literature from tragedy: the destruction of Jerusalem's Temple, the siege of Masada and the loss of Zion.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 4, 2011
"Immersed as always in popular culture, but rises to the challenge of creative fiction."
An author best known for his journalism and nonfiction books makes a big leap with his second novel.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 17, 2011
"A perfect plot for a Meryl Streep or Diane Lane happily-ever-after movie."
