Thirteen

Literature & Fiction

Sebastian Beaumont

Literary

Myrmidon Books Ltd

Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such knowledge comes at a terrible price. The enigmatic Endo is bound by disciplines of his own and when the Japanese invade Malaya, threatening to destroy Philip s family and everything he loves, he realises that his trusted sensei to whom he owes absolute loyalty has been harbouring a devastating secret. Philip must risk everything in an attempt to save those he has placed in mortal danger and discover who and what he really is. With masterful and gorgeous narrative, replete with exotic and captivating images, sounds and aromas of rain swept beaches, magical mountain temples, pungent spice warehouses, opulent colonial ballrooms and fetid and forbidding rainforests Tan Twan Eng weaves a haunting and unforgettable story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage and enduring love.

The Gift of Rain

Tan Twan Eng

The Painted Messiah

Craig S. Smith

Contemporary

The painted messiah is an intelligent and superior example of a genre whose popularity shows no signs of abating it combines a blistering action thriller set in the streets of zurich and on the lakes and wooded slopes of switzerland with a compulsive and convincing account of first century romano-judaean politics and the real reason for pontius pilates condemnation and execution of christ a legend persists that, after the scourging, pilate commanded that his victim be painted from life somewhere, the painting survives, the only true image of christ, granting the gift of everlasting life to whoever possesses it kate kenyon, the wealthy young widow of an english aristocrat killed on a swiss mountain, has an addiction to mortal risk she feeds it by engaging in the armed robbery of priceless artefacts with her accomplice and lover ethan brand, a tennessean who owns a bookshop in zurich their latest target is a priceless byzantine icon hidden in the tower of a chateau by lake lucerne so far they have never had to shoot anyone this time will be different thomas malloy is a retired cia man looking for his first lucrative freelance assignment his chance comes with a presidential favour to a rich but ailing televangelist malloys task seems simple enough: pick up the preachers newly acquired painting from a zurich bank and get it to the airport but, once in switzerland, malloys old friend, the enigmatic contessa claudia de medici tries to warn him off his mission sir julian corbeau is an international criminal holed up in switzerland to avoid us extradition proceedings he is also the sadistic head of the modern knights templar he had the painting and now he desperately wants it back as well as to wreak a bloody revenge upon those who stole it as the contenders vie for possession the bullets fly, the body count rises and the secrets of the portrait gradually unfold

Craig Smith

Gladiatrix

Russell Whitfield

Mrs Lincoln

Janis Cooke Newman

The Garden of Evening Mists

Eng, Tan Twan

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012. Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the Emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in Kuala Lumpur, in memory of her sister who died in the camp. Aritomo refuses, but agrees to accept Yun Ling as his apprentice 'until the monsoon comes'. Then she can design a garden for herself. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately drawn to her sensei and his art while, outside the garden, the threat of murder and kidnapping from the guerrillas of the jungle hinterland increases with each passing day. But the Garden of Evening Mists is also a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? Why is it that Yun Ling's friend and host Magnus Praetorius, seems to almost immune from the depredations of the Communists? What is the legend of 'Yamashita's Gold' and does it have any basis in fact? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?

Garden of Evening Mists

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