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The Day John Fitzgerald Kennedy Past is a book about the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The book covers the rush to judgment by President Lyndon Johnson in order to quell a potential storm by the media and others who suspected a government conspiracy. The case against Lee Harvey Oswald seemed to be open and shut but who was the stranger who entered the Texas Book Depository dressed as a police officer? Why was the testimony of several observers of those on the grassy knoll sealed? How could the Warren Commission or any other sane person believe the «pristine bullet,» theory? What was Oswald doing in New Orleans and what was his connection to Cuba? These and other revealing facts now corroborated through the release of millions of pages of historical documents give reason and purpose to the existence of a CIA cover-up.

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When an aspiring street artist by the name of Grafity watches the tenements outside his home being razed, he finds an unlikely canvas at the one wall still left standing in the debris. Over the next weeks, he begins creating a mural on the wall, one that chronicles the lives of his friends: a local low-level fixer named Jay who harbours dreams of being a rapper. A brilliant and awkward boy named Chasma who writes love letters between shifts waiting tables at a local Chinese restaurant. And Saira, an aspiring actress with ambitions so fierce that they threaten to consume her and all those around her. As the mural progresses, the story gives us glimpses into these incandescent lives, their hopes and dreams both inspired and impeded by the impossible city that they live in.

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«Стемнело; мягкий сентябрьский дождь стал падать на головы собирателей хмеля. Матери повернули скрипучие детские колясочки и покатили их из садов; старики вынули счетные книги. Молодожены двинулись домой, укрываясь под одним зонтиком; холостяки поплелись за ними и со смехом поглядывали на них. Ден и Уна отправились печь картофель в сушильню, туда, где во время сбора хмеля старый Хобден и его любимица, охотничья собака, синеглазая Бес, жили целый месяц…»

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Set in the sensual richness of India, Shobhan Bantwal's gripping new novel asks: Where can a woman turn when her life's greatest blessing is seen as a curse? It's a girl! For most young couples, news of their unborn child's gender brings joyful anticipation. Not so for Isha Tilak and her husband, Nikhil. They already have a beloved daughter, but Nikhil's parents, hard-wired to favor male children above all, coldly reject little Priya at every turn. Vain and selfish, they see female grandchildren as burdens, and would just as soon never meet the one growing in Isha's belly. Even the obstetrician agrees, going so far as to suggest the unthinkable, throwing Nikhil into a rage–and changing Isha's life forever. . . When Nikhil is discovered brutally murdered, Isha is convinced it had something to do with his reaction to the doctor's hideous «solution» to their problem. Alone, grief-stricken, and relentlessly oppressed by in-laws who believe her baby is a bad omen, Isha sets out on her own. Born into a privileged class, Isha doesn't know the first thing about fending for herself, but to protect her precious daughters, she will learn. And she will cling to the hope given to her by a strange old mystic: that her baby will arrive on the auspicious night of Kojagari Purnima, the full harvest moon, and be a gift from Lakshmi, the goddess of well-being. Isha and her girls will need all the blessings they can get, for the greatest danger of all lies ahead. . . Praise for Shobhan Bantwal and The Dowry Bride «Splendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.» –Dorothy Garlock «Vivid, rich. . .expertly portrays a young woman caught between love and duty, hope and despair.» –Anjali Banerjee

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Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book! Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. What he can't understand is people and why they're poisoning the planet around him. Shouldn't everyone be losing sleep over the fact that so many animals are on the endangered species list?

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The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it’s winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter. They don’t talk much with the other ten-year-olds – most of the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tierney, but she’s busy breaking kids’ faces with her math book. Besides, the Russians from the meat-packing plant are a lot cooler, and they always win at curling. But in small-town Alberta, there are just too many roman-candle fights, bonspiels, retaliatory river diversions, black-market submarines, exploding boilers, meat-packing-plant suicides and recess-time lightning strikes for one lonely kid to get any attention. He might as well go to Kazakhstan. Then the adults in his life start disappearing down tunnels and into rendering vats. Being ten is hard enough without all that, especially when your best friend is ruining the lemonade. But the Milk Chicken Bomb should change everything. Frenetic, hilarious and gently heartrending, The Milk Chicken Bomb takes us inside the mind of a troubled ten-year-old who is just beginning to understand that the adults around him are as lonely and bewildered as he is in the face of the slapstick demands of the world.

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Award winning writer whose writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Newcity, Salon.com, and broadcast on NPR. Lauded storytelling who has told stories around the world with his internationally acclaimed storytelling series the Windy City Story Slam. Authentic Chicago street legend as a feared street brawler, gang affiliate, drug dealer, convict, and Chicago Golden Glove Champion.Strong connections to Europe via mentor Irvine Welsh, who will take Hillmann on tour with him in 2014 as he does readings and festivals in the UK and elsewhere.Established presence in Spain due to: 1) prowess in annual 'Running of the Bulls' where Hillmann has become renowned as one of the best in the sport. 2) An award-winning piece composed for the Chicago Times and Financial Times on the 'encierros' – bull-runs – of Cuéllar in Old Castile, the most ancient of their kind in all of Spain that will result in both a prize and a sculpture.

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