Tigers in Red Weather

Liza Klaussmann

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Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times

This is heady, page-turning stuff - the intelligent beach read of the summer, and not a shade of grey in sight.

A Fort of Nine Towers

Qais Akbar Omar

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My name is Qais Akbar Omar. I am an Afghan, a Muslim, a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, a carpet maker, a journalist, a boxer who has enjoyed breaking many noses, and “Qais, the Cruel Kite Cutter.” I just turned 30 years old, and am the author of A Fort of Nine Towers. 

If This Is Home

Stuart Evers

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Hugo Rifkind, The Times

Evers knocks out enviably beautiful prose, and the humming, muffled, air-conditioned neverland of Las Vegas is conjured up with a captivating and woozy effect

Qais Akbar Omar talks about growing up in Afghanistan posted by Kate Harvey

Friday 3rd May 2013 | Blog

Qais Akbar Omar's book A Fort of Nine Towers  is at times heart-breaking and others life-affirming. 

It's a book that he never set out to get published, but which has since been translated into thirteen other languages for publication around the world. 

Listen to him talking on The Current radio station in Canada here. 

James Salter at the Bristol Festival Ideas

Thursday 23rd May 2013 | Event

James Salter will be discussing his latest novel, All That Is.

Praise for Meeting the English posted by Kate Harvey

Thursday 16th May 2013 | Blog

Set in Hampstead in the sweltering heat of the summer of 1989, Meeting the English follows Struan Roberts, a Scot newly arrived in London and bound for the house of Phillip Prys, a literary giant who has suffered a massive stroke and who now needs constant care. To Struan, the leafy streets of Hampstead and the excruciating heat of London are entirely foreign, as are the strange and careless people who live there. It is to be a life-changing summer . . .

James Salter at the Hay Festival

Sunday 26th May 2013 | Event

James Salter and George Saunders will be reading from, and discussing, their latest work.

Sipping on gin, Tigers style posted by Lee Dibble

Tuesday 14th May 2013 | Blog

Most of the characters in Tigers in Red Weather love to drink. They drink to relax, drink to escape, and drink for the hell of it. Author Liza Klaussmann takes you through the steps of concocting a perfect Martha's Vineyard gin and tonic, and muses on why it might be that they do drink so very much.

James Salter at the Dublin Writers Festival

Wednesday 22nd May 2013 | Event

‘Sentence for sentence, Salter is the master’ Richard Ford

Martha's Vineyard: the inspiration for Tigers in Red Weather posted by Lee Dibble

Tuesday 14th May 2013 | Blog

Imagine the feel of the sun on your skin, the smell of the trees on the air. That's what Liza Klaussmann did when writing Tigers in Red Weather, and what a result...

Sunjeev Sahota's Life in Books posted by Rosanna Boscawen

Monday 15th Apr 2013 | Blog

Sunjeev Sahota's first novel, Ours Are the Streets, was published by Picador in 2011. He is currently working on his second novel about a group of illegal immigrants living in Sheffield. 'I think – I hope – I’m around halfway through a first draft,' he says.

Here's his life in books.