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- Gerhard Roth's 2011 Reise zu den Toten, Orkus
- Lee Child's 2008 novel, Nothing to Lose, the twelfth in the Jack Reacher-series
- Giwi Margwelaschwili in conversation with Jörg Sundermeier, in Bedeutungswelten
- Takagi Akimitsu's 1965 mystery, Honeymoon to Nowhere
- Robert Littell's 1973 Cold War novel, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, re-issued last year
- Brian Moore's 1975 novel, The Great Victorian Collection
- Marie Darrieussecq's Our Life in the Forest, now also out in a US edition
- Martin Waddell's 1966 thriller featuring hapless Otley
- Jean Echenoz writes about his publisher, Les Éditions de Minuit's Jérôme Lindon
- Moussa Konaté's Inspector Habib-mystery, Headless in Kita, now in English, from Dedalus
- Beatrice Harraden's 1893 bestseller, Ships That Pass in the Night
- Two set-in-the-1940s mysteries featuring his PI Jack LeVine, Andrew Bergman's The Big Kiss-Off of 1944 and Hollywood and LeVine
- Two by Yamazaki Nao-Cola -- Beautiful Distance and Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives -- already out in the UK, from Daunt, and coming in September from SJP Lit in the US
- John Gregory Dunne's year-in-the-life of/at The Studio (Twentieth Century Fox), from 1969
- Anna Arno's biography of Paul Celan, now in English
- Matthew Head's 1955 novel, Murder at The Flea Club
- Lawrence Block's 1998 novel, Tanner on Ice, the eighth in his sleepless Evan Tanner series
- Clarence Petersen on Twenty-Five Years of Paperback Publishing, as he tells The Bantam Story
- Keith Laumer's Raymond Chandleresque 1971 novel, Deadfall (also published as: Fat Chance)
- Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's latest, Unter Tieren -- premiering at the Salzburg Festival on 16 August
- Michael Crichton's (writing as Jeffery Hudson) 1968 Edgar Award-winning abortion-themed thriller, A Case of Need
- Egon Erwin Kisch's 1937 account of making Australian Landfall
- Agatha Christie's 1970 stand-alone, Passenger to Frankfurt
- Sandy Wilson's hit 1920s/1950s musical, The Boy Friend
- Klaus Modick's Moss
- A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer, The West End Horror
- A Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers by Janet Hitchman from 1975, Such a Strange Lady
- Cho Yeeun's novel, Shift, now in English, from Honford Star
- Margit Schreiner, finding Kein Platz mehr
- Norishiro Yusuke's prize-winning novel, Traveling Practice
- Edgar Hilsenrath's 1980 novel, F**k America: Bronsky's Confession
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