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Forthcoming Books: 2009 edition

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Post by Margaret » Fri December 19th, 2008, 2:03 am

I just discovered Laurie R. King has a new Mary Russell mystery coming out in 2009: The Language of Bees. I find this series absolutely delicious. It's about a young woman who has a May-December romance with Sherlock Holmes during the early 1900s and, in one of the early books in the series, marries him. It's full of classic Sherlockian stuff - deductions, disguises, etc. - but also a sense of burgeoning early 20th century feminism.
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Post by Divia » Fri December 19th, 2008, 4:29 am

A Rib from Eve (read the interview on Michelle's blog) looks wicked cool.
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Post by michellemoran » Fri December 19th, 2008, 4:41 am

And another Eve book, this one called Eve: A Novel of the First Woman by Elissa Elliot.
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Post by annis » Fri December 19th, 2008, 6:31 am

And I see that Ben Kane has the second volume of his Forgotten Legion series due out mid-2009, called "Siver Eagle" I thought the first one was promising. it's about Roman survivors of the disastrous Battle of Carrhae who are taken prisoner by the Parthians. Alfred Duggan's "Winter Quarters" used this theme as well.

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Post by Carine » Fri December 19th, 2008, 6:58 am

I'm a fan of Kate Sedley's Roger the Chapman medieval mysteries and she had a new one coming out in February 2009 aswell, it's called The Dance of Death.

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Post by Ash » Fri December 19th, 2008, 1:30 pm

I wonder if the First Woman will be anything as close to David Maine's Fallen. His story of the first family was really quite excellent. Another similar story is by Mark Twain, Adam and Eve.

http://www.amazon.com/Fallen-David-Maine/dp/0312328494

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Post by Julianne Douglas » Fri December 19th, 2008, 10:23 pm

Sheramy Bundrick's THE SUNFLOWERS, about Vincent Van Gogh.
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Post by Sheramy » Sat December 20th, 2008, 7:12 pm

I did not pay Julianne to say that, I promise. :) Thanks, Julianne!

I am looking forward to the Miracles of Prato book mentioned earlier in the thread, Robin Maxwell's Signora da Vinci (about Leonardo's mother), and some mystery about Gustav Klimt whose title has completely escaped me.

I'm hoping Elizabeth Peters will have a new Amelia Peabody mystery in 2009, but I haven't heard if she will or not.
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Post by Ariadne » Sat December 20th, 2008, 7:50 pm

There's a 3rd Eve book out recently (the three faces of Eve?), Tosca Lee's Havah. Associated website here.

I was pleasantly surprised to receive an ARC of Jan Guillou's The Road to Jerusalem yesterday - I didn't know it was coming out in a US edition (Harper, next May). It's a novel about the Crusades, first in a trilogy, that was a bestseller in Sweden. I bought it from the UK a while back, but something odd happened with the trilogy... I don't think v.3 ever appeared in English.

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Post by annis » Sat December 20th, 2008, 11:06 pm

"Road to Jerusalem" Vol 1 and Knight Templar Vol 2 in Jan Guillou's "Knight Templar" series about Arn Magnusson, were both published by Orion earlier in the 2000s
They don't seem to have ever got around to putting out the third one, "The Kingdom at the End of the Road".

This new version of "Road to Jerusalem" is published by Harper, so maybe they intend to put out the whole trilogy in English translation?

There was also a follow-up novel, called "Heritage of Arn", about the founder of Stockholm, Birger Magnusson, fictionalized as Arn Magnusson's grandson. That one hasn't been published in English either.

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