Three weeks until Aud!
Cover design by Thomas Colligan for MCD/Picador
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These are the US editions, out on June 3, from Picador. (The UK editions, from Canongate, are out exactly a month later—I’ll talk about those closer to the time.) But here in the US: just three weeks! In just 21 days Aud will once again be available in all her glory! More specifically in beautiful, easy-to-read matching trade paper editions and of course ebooks. Available wherever books are sold—and very definitely available for pre-order.
Why should you buy them? Because they are perfect, beginning-of-summer reads. And because—eschewing all modesty (okay, I’m lying: I don’t have to eschew it—when it comes to how good I think my books are, I have no modesty)—they are fucking brilliant reads and I guarantee you have read nothing like them, even now, more than two decades after their first publication.
Aud is not a victim. She’s not a trauma survivor. She’s not an alcoholic or addict or red with rage. She’s not an avenging fury and she’s not a cynical beat-down old cop. She’s not the protagonist you’re used to.
Read more about Aud and Always
She is the child of a Norwegian diplomat and a Chicago businessman. Thirty-one. A rangy six-footer with eyes the colour of cement, and the tendency to hurt people who get in her way. On the Atlanta streets, they know her as a retired Red Dogs lieutenant. At cocktail parties, they know who her mother is. She glides from one world to another, utterly at ease: beautiful and functional as a folded razor.
Aud was born in Norway, a harsh and marginal land: in winter, a land of ice and snow, dark and monochromatic; in summer, two months of midnight sun, air sharp as the juice of artic strawberries and smelling of sweet meadow grass. A land of black or white, on or off, yes or no.
That makes her sound cold—but, oh, she’s anything but cold…
Read more about Aud and The Blue Place
Aud knows danger. When it sits opposite and offers you the cup and dice, you should walk away. Danger, that casually violent viking, with its well-used axe and huge ham hands, is out to take you for all you’re worth. Danger loads the dice. Danger cheats. But Aud, like Norway, knows no compromise. She always plays. She always wins. And sometimes she loses herself in that cool blue place where everything slows down, becomes perfectly clear, and violence is bliss…
These books are full of danger and sex and violence and joy and grief and connection and change and thrills. But at their heart, the centre of all, they are about the ever-changing, never predictable Aud.
Read more about Aud and Stay
