Three new books available

Three new Europa titles hit stores this week: The Art of Losing, Bandit Love and Chalcot Crescent.

In Rebecca Connell's debut novel, The Art of Losing, a young woman goes undercover to seek out the man she holds responsible for her mother's death.

Massimo Carlotto has been called Italy's best living crime writer. In Bandit Love, ex-con turned private investigator Marco "The Alligator" Buratti is thrust back into the world of organized crime when his friend's belly-dancing girlfriend is kidnapped.

And in her twenty-ninth novel, Chalcot Crescent, Fay Weldon imagines the life her younger sister Frances might have had (she died at birth), in an unsettling future that is far too close for comfort.