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ATLANTIC BOOKS JULY–DECEMBER 2014
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Contents Atlantic Books First Publications – Fiction 3 Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction 11 Atlantic Books Paperbacks – Fiction 27 Atlantic Books Paperbacks – Non-Fiction 34 Corvus Series 41 Corvus First Publications 52 Corvus Paperbacks 57 Grove Press 61 Allen & Unwin 65 Sales, Publicity & Rights 77
Atlantic Books First Publications – Fiction
Summer house with Swimming Pool I am a doctor. My office hours are from eight-thirty in the morning to one in the afternoon. I take my time. Twenty minutes for each patient. Those twenty minutes are my unique selling point. Where else these days, people say, do you find a family doctor who gives you twenty minutes? And they pass it along. He doesn’t take on too many patients, they say. He makes time for each individual case. I have a waiting list. When a patient dies or moves away, all I have to do is pick up the phone and I have five new ones to take his place. Patients can’t tell the difference between time and attention.
Summer House with Swimming Pool Herman Koch Translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett A doctor to the rich and famous goes to extreme lengths to protect his daughter in this dark and addictive novel from the author of the million-copy bestseller The Dinner. Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous. But his most famous patient, the actor Ralph Meier, has died. The medical board are accusing him of negligence. Ralph’s wife is accusing him of murder...
Praise for The Dinner:
‘Smart, shocking and unputdownable’ Gillian Flynn, author of the bestselling Gone Girl
Herman Koch, born in 1953, is a Dutch writer. His novel The Dinner was a huge international bestseller. He currently lives in Amsterdam.
‘A brilliantly addictive novel that wraps its hands around your throat on page one and doesn’t let go’ S. J. Watson, author of the bestselling Before I Go To Sleep
THE DINNER
From the author of the international million-copy bestseller 4
The Dinner 9781848873834 e-book 9781848873865
‘Shivers kept shooting up my backbone as I became engrossed in Koch’s darkly disturbing tale of family life... As the dinner disintegrates into mayhem, we discover just how far the middle classes will go to protect their monstrous offspring’ Daily Mail
Fiction 3 Jul 2014 Trade Paperback • £12.99 210 x 148 • 256pp 9781782390718 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ Rights: SL/AU
Open Market Edition • £6.99 9781782390992 e-book 9781782390732
Atlantic Books First Publications – Fiction • July
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The Confabulist
The Incorrigible Optimists Club
Steven Galloway
Jean-Michel Guenassia
From the author of the bestselling The Cellist of Sarajevo comes a spellbinding novel about Harry Houdini – the illusions, the intrigue and his shocking sudden death. The world’s gaze is focussed on the feats and daring of the amazing Harry Houdini, while not a soul is aware of down-and-out Martin Strauss. However, Strauss’s fate is inextricably linked with the magician’s, and as Houdini continues to rise, and Strauss continues to fall, their lives converge in spectacular and devastating fashion... At once entertaining and suspenseful, historically rich and cleverly told, The Confabulist is a novel of magic and memory, truth and illusion. It uncovers the ways that love, hope, grief and imagination can – for better or for worse – alter who we are and what we believe.
Translated from the French by Euan Cameron European bestseller The Incorrigible Optimists Club is a truly lovable novel of growing up, idealism and disappointment.
Steven Galloway lives in British Columbia, Canada and teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Cellist of Sarajevo.
Praise for The Cellist of Sarajevo:
‘Heartbreaking’ Guardian
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Jean-Michel Guenassia was born in Algeria in 1950. He is a prolific screenwriter and lives in France.
‘Extraordinary... The Incorrigible Optimists Club feels as if you are witnessing the birth of a true, great novelist.’ Le Lire
‘Marvellous’ Daily Mail ‘Gripping’ J.M. Coetzee
Paris, 1959. Twelve-year-old Michel Marin – amateur photographer and compulsive reader – is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. It is less the grown-up world of rock ‘n’ roll and the Algerian War that interests him, more the huddle of men gathered in the shadows of a back room. Here, a group of eastern European men gather to share stories of their lives before France – of lovers and wives, children and ambitions, exiled behind the Iron Curtain. It is a world beyond the boundaries of Michel’s childhood experience, a world of men made formidable in the face of history, ideas and politics: the world of the Incorrigible Optimists Club.
Fiction 7 Aug 2014 Hardback • £14.99 210 x 148 • 320pp 9781782393986 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ
Airport & Export Trade Paperback £12.99 9781782393993 e-book 9781782394006
Atlantic Books First Publications – Fiction • August
‘Powerful, deep, sad and joyful... A debut novel of staggering mastery’ L’Express ‘A debut, a door-stopper, a masterpiece’ La Parisienne
Fiction e-book 7 Aug 2014 Trade Paperback • £14.99 9781782394044 210 x 148 • 640pp 9781848875418 Territories: World English Language Rights: US/SL/AU
Atlantic Books First Publications – Fiction • August
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Volcano Street
Tim Leach
David Rain
When power falls on the shoulders of a callow young man, only his slave can teach him how to be an emperor. But power corrupts, and absolute power...
In the tradition of great Australian literature, Volcano Street is a wonderful portrayal of 1970s small-town life and the uncertainties of childhood.
Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus’s army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king’s son and heir Cambyses, who has inherited none of his father’s diplomacy and all of his vanity and violence. When the warriors of Persia are unexpectedly crushed in battle Cyrus is put to death, and Cambyses assumes the throne. Croesus, once a king himself, is called upon to guide the young man; but the new king cannot be guided. After taking offence at an insult by an Egyptian ruler, Cambyses takes the full force of his empire to Africa to seek bloody and brutal vengeance.
When Skip and Marlo Wells’ mother is sectioned, the sisters must move to the backwater city of Crater Lakes to stay with relatives. Skip puts her faith in her big sister, but even the ever-resourceful Marlo can’t think of a solution when she is told sixteen is too old for school, so she must instead go to work in her uncle’s shop. The sisters dream of escape, but with no sign of their mother’s release they resign themselves to their fate. As they are drawn into the lives of their new neighbours, it seems that Crater Lakes may not be as dull as it first appeared... Against the backdrop of a broken home, the Vietnam War and the fight for equality, Volcano Street is a heartfelt tale of acceptance and belonging.
Tim Leach is in his late twenties and lives in Sheffield. His first novel, The Last King of Lydia, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2013. This is his second novel.
Praise for The Last King of Lydia:
David Rain is an Australian writer living in London. His debut novel The Heat of the Sun was published in 2012.
Praise for The Heat of the Sun:
‘An extraordinarily assured debut novel, bringing together fascinating research and storytelling talent’ Tim Parks
‘This book captures the gaiety and tumult of a troubled age. But it is ultimately a novel of friendship, of love, and of lives’ Irish Examiner Historical Fiction 4 Sep 2014 Hardback • £12.99 210 x 148 • 336pp 9780857899217 Territories: UK & C/Wealth Rights: US/T/SL/AU
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Anthony Heaven
The King and the Slave
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Atlantic Books First Publications – Fiction • September
Fiction 2 Oct 2014 Trade Paperback £12.99 210 x 148 • 256pp 9780857892072 Territories: UK & C/Wealth Rights: US/T/SL/AU
e-book 9781782394068
Atlantic Books First Publications – Fiction • October
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* Re-issue *
The Visitor Maeve Brennan A stunning novella from one of Ireland’s finest and least-known writers, The Visitor is a literary masterpiece. The Visitor tells the haunting tale of Anastasia King, who returns to her grandmother’s house in Ireland after six long years in Paris. An exile in the place she once called home, Anastasia is forced to learn some bitter lessons in love and betrayal as the daily cruelties of family life begin to close in on her. The Visitor lays bare the destructive power of pride, and an emotionally unreachable side of the Irish temperament. The revival of the work of Maeve Brennan has won her the reputation as one of the best Irish writers since James Joyce. The Visitor lay unknown and unpublished for sixty years. Now, this literary masterpiece is re-issued by Atlantic to give the work of Maeve Brennan the audience it deserves.
Maeve Brennan was born in Dublin in 1917 and moved to the United States in 1934. She wrote regularly for The New Yorker and died in obscurity in 1993.
Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction
‘A formidable phrase maker... She is constantly alert, sharp-eyed as a sparrow for the crumbs of human event’ John Updike ‘Brilliant... will be treasured by a new generation of readers’ Sunday Times ‘An astonishing miniature masterpiece’ Nuala O’Faolain
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Fiction 4 Dec 2014 Hardback • £12.99 198 x 129 • 112pp 9781848872097 Territories: UK & C/Wealth Rights: contact Atlantic
Atlantic Books First Publications – Fiction • December
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Empty Mansions
The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World’s Greatest Fortunes Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr The New York Times number one bestseller Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the opulence of nineteenthcentury America with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman who valued the privacy she guarded above all else. Though she owned palatial homes, why did she live for twenty years in a hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? This is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms.
‘Hugely entertaining and well researched, Empty Mansions is a fabulous read.’ Amanda Foreman ‘An amazing story of profligate wealth . . . an outsized tale of rags-to-riches prosperity’ NewYork Times
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Bill Dedman received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting while writing for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Paul Clark Newell Jr, a cousin of Huguette Clark, has researched the Clark family history for twenty years.
Biography 3 Jul 2014 Hardback • £20.00 234 x 156 • 496pp 9781782394921 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL/AU
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Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • July
The Iceberg A Memoir
Marion Coutts Beautifully written and full of unflinching truth, The Iceberg is a memoir that will leave an indelible mark on all who read it. In 2008, Marion Coutts’ husband, the art critic Tom Lubbock, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told that he had not more than two years to live. The tumour was located in the area of the brain that controls speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. Tom was fifty-three when he died, leaving Marion and their son, Eugene, just two years old, alone. Written in beautiful, textured prose, The Iceberg is Marion’s description of the eighteen months leading to Tom’s death. It is about staring death in the face and finding solace, even beauty and joy, in the experience of dying. It is a story of pain and sadness, but also an uplifting and life-affirming tale of great fortitude, courage, determination – and above all, love.
Marion Coutts is an artist and writer. She is a lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and wrote the introduction to Tom Lubbock’s memoir Until Further Notice, I am Alive, published by Granta in 2012. She lives in London with her son.
Memoir 3 Jul 2014 e-book Hardback • £14.99 9781782393511 210 x 148 • 304pp 9781782393504 Territories: UK & C/Wealth Rights: SL/AU
Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • July
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A Strange Business
Console Wars:
James Hamilton
Blake J. Harris
From the author of the acclaimed biography of Turner comes a major new book on the art market in nineteenth-century Britain.
The chronicle of how small, scrappy gaming company Sega took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.
In A Strange Business, James Hamilton investigates the relationship between culture and business in nineteenth-century Britain. He explores how art was made and paid for, the turns of fashion, and the demands of a growing middle class, prominent among whom were the artists themselves. While the leading figures of the art world are players here, so too are patrons, collectors and industrialists; lawyers, publishers and journalists; artists’ suppliers, photographers and curators; shopkeepers and brothel keepers; quacks, charlatans and auctioneers. James Hamilton brings them all brilliantly to life and shows how this potent mix hurried the rapid growth of culture in Britain.
In 1990 Nintendo monopolized the videogame industry and Sega was a faltering arcade company. But the arrival of Tom Kalinske, a man who knew nothing about video games, transformed Sega and led to a ruthless showdown with Nintendo. The battle was vicious, sparking a corporate war that would be fought from living rooms and schoolyards to boardrooms and Congress. It was Sonic against Mario; the US against Japan. Console Wars tells how Kalinske turned an industry punchline into a market leader, and how he inspired a team of underdogs to slay a giant and birth a US$60 billion dollar industry.
Making Art and Money in NineteenthCentury Britain
James Hamilton is an art historian and biographer. Formerly Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, he is University Curator and Honorary Reader in the History of Art at the University of Birmingham. His biography of Turner was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
‘A pleasure to read’ A. S. Byatt, Sunday Express
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Blake J. Harris is a writer/director and co-founder of Flying Penguin Pictures. He is co-directing Console Wars, the documentary based on his book, which is being produced by Scott Rudin, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. He is also serving as an executive producer on the feature film adaptation
Film News:
Praise for Turner: A Life:
‘James Hamilton is an outstanding biographer. He reveals Turner’s world for all its wild contradictions and, like Turner, brings to life what the eye cannot see.’ Amanda Foreman
Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Social & Cultural History 7 Aug 2014 Hardback • £25.00 234 x 156 • 416pp 9781848879249 Territories: World English Language Rights: US/SL/AU
e-book 9781782394310
Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • August
Sony Pictures and Scott Rudin (Moneyball, The Social Network) are developing ConsoleWars as a feature film to be directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Knocked Up, Superbad). Rogen and Goldberg are also writing the screenplay.
Business 07 Aug 2014 Trade Paperback • £18.99 234 x 156 • 608pp 9781782395270 Territories: NCR Rights: AU / SL
Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • August
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* Re-issue *
The Trials of Oscar Pistorius
The Good Soldier The Biography of Douglas Haig Gary Mead
John Carlin The sensational insider story of Oscar Pistorius, by the acclaimed author of Invictus.
To mark the centenary of the commencement of the First World War, Atlantic are re-issuing this evocative biography of Douglas Haig – one of the Great War’s most controversial commanders. Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been cast as a commander who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele the following year. The Good Soldier re-assesses Haig’s record in these battles and examines with a fresh eye the most divisive decisions he made. More importantly, it evaluates Haig himself, exploring the nature of the man, turning to both his early life and army career before 1914. Finally, in this definitive biography, the man emerges from the myth.
‘The best and fairest biography of Haig that I have read.’ Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph
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Gary Mead was a journalist for the Financial Times for ten years and has worked extensively with the BBC. He is the author of The Doughboys: America and the First World War (2000).
The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius will rivet the world’s attention in a way no other case has since another famous sportsman, O. J. Simpson, was tried for the murder of his ex-wife in 1994. John Carlin brings his own extensive knowledge of South Africa and unique access to Pistorius himself, including his friends and family, to tell the story of the rise and fall of a tragic hero. It is the most remarkable sports story ever told – about a man whose legs were amputated at the age of eleven months and ended up running in the Olympic Games – and it is a story too about crime and punishment, love and death that has at its heart a compelling set of characters, among them the beautiful victim, two brilliant rival lawyers and the fascinating figure of Pistorius himself.
John Carlin grew up in Argentina and in the UK and spent 1989–95 in South Africa as the Independent’s correspondent there. His previous book, Invictus, was the basis for an Oscar-nominated Hollywood film directed by Clint Eastwood.
Praise for Invictus:
Biography 4 Sep 2014 Trade Paperback • £14.99 216 x 138 • 528pp 9781782392248 Territories: World English Language Rights: US/SL
‘Very few books match the historical sweep and world-shaking urgency of this one.’ Independent, ‘Books of the Year’ e-book 9781782394969
Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • September
Biography 4 Sep 2014 Hardback • £17.99 234 x 156 • 336pp 9781782393269 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • September
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Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original woman who was at the very epicentre of Britain’s changing place in the world: a solitary woman in an allmale world who understood politics and foreign policy much better than some of her ministers; a person possessed by demons, but demons which she was brave enough to conquer. Above all, I became aware, when considering her eccentric friendships and deep passions, of what a loveable person she was.
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ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:
Victoria
A Life A. N. Wilson A majestic portrait of a monarch whose name defines a golden era in British history, told by one of Britain’s finest biographers. When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe. Her reign was the period when Britain rose, for a few decades, to be the most supremely powerful nation on earth, and Victoria is the embodiment of this golden age. A. N. Wilson’s far-reaching and exhaustively researched biography explores the circumstances that led to Victoria’s coronation, her isolated childhood, her passionate marriage, Prince Albert’s pivotal influence and her intimate friendship with John Brown. He sets this against the backdrop of this most momentous political and historical epoch in Britain – and Europe’s – history.
A. N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire and was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist.
Praise for Tolstoy:
‘An outstanding biography... Wilson is an ideal biographer’ Daily Mail Praise for The Victorians:
Dante in Love
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‘A masterpiece of popular history’ Independent ‘Wonderful’ Sunday Telegraph
Biography 4 Sept 2014 Hardback • £25.00 234 x 156 • 656pp 9781848879560 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL/AU
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Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • September
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Eureka!
Why the Internet has Been an Economic, Political and Cultural Disaster – and How it Can be Transformed Andrew Keen In this controversial new book, Andrew Keen argues that the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. There can be no doubt that the digital revolution has transformed the world, but, according to Andrew Keen, instead of making us more equal, more prosperous and more empowered, the reverse is actually true. Twenty-five years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, its cultural, political, social and, above all, economic failures are becoming painfully apparent. So what is to be done? Keen says we need to rethink the Web, revive government authority, rebuild the value of content, resurrect privacy and reconceive humanity. If we do nothing, he warns, this new technology will continue to impoverish us all.
Praise for The Cult of the Amateur:
‘Staggering... His book will come as a real shock to many. It certainly did to me.’ A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail
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Andrew Keen is an Anglo-American entrepreneur, writer, broadcaster and speaker. He is currently the host of ‘Keen On’, the popular Techcrunch chat show. His books include Digital Vertigo and The Cult of the Amateur.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask Peter Jones An entertaining and illuminating history of ancient Greece, from the acclaimed author of Veni, Vidi, Vici. The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day in all our towns and cities; and laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy. But who were they? In Eureka!, Peter Jones tells their epic story, which starts with the Trojan War and ends with the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. Along the way he provides fascinating insights into everyday life in ancient times and reveals the very beginnings of Western culture.
Michael Amsler
The Internet is Not the Answer
Peter Jones was educated at Cambridge University and taught Classics at Cambridge and at Newcastle University. He has written the ‘Ancient & Modern’ column in the Spectator for many years and is the author of Vote for Caesar and Veni, Vidi, Vici.
Praise for Veni, Vidi, Vici: Social & Cultural History 2 Oct 2014 Hardback • £18.99 234 x 156 • 320pp 9781782393405 Territories: UK & C/Wealth Rights: T/SL/AU
Airport & Export Trade Paperback £14.99 9781782393412 e-book 9781782393429
Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • October
‘Jones spans all 1,200 years of Roman history with seemingly unstoppable enthusiasm.’ Sunday Times ‘It takes a man profoundly soaked in a subject to treat it lightly and still be not only witty but wise.’ The Times
Classical History 6 Nov 2014 e-book Hardback • £19.99 9781782395157 210 x 148 • 384pp 9781782395140 Territories: All Rights: US / AU / SL / T
Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • November
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Christopher Why Religion is Immoral And Other Interventions
A new collection of Hitchens’ sharpest unpublished interventions on religion – the subject that made him a household name. ISBN: 9781782394730 e-book: 9781782395010 £100
BOXED SET For the Sake of Argument e-book: 9781782394976
Prepared for the Worst e-book: 9781782394990
Unacknowledged Legislation e-book: 9781782394983
Love, Poverty and War e-book: 9780857899385
Arguably
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The publication of god Is Not Great (2007), which was a worldwide bestseller, established Christopher Hitchens as one of the most famous polemicists in the world. The book caused a firestorm of debate and controversy, with its author at the centre, taking on all comers. Why Religion is Immoral brings together Hitchens’s most vigorous and memorable interventions in the debate that followed publication of god is Not Great, including ‘Why Religion Poisons Everything’, ‘Is Islam a Religion of Peace?’ and ‘The Tyranny of Censorship’. It is essential reading.
Praise for god is Not Great:
‘The anti-religion argument has never been put so well, so comprehensively or so definitively as in this razor-sharp book.’ A. C. Grayling, Independent on Sunday ‘Easily the most brilliant and fascinating contemplation upon the role of religion in human society in recent times’ Kevin Myers, Irish Independent
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the author of numerous books, including works on George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger, and Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as his international bestseller god Is Not Great. His memoirs Hitch-22 and Mortality were Sunday Times bestsellers.
Collected Essays 2 Oct 2014 Hardback • £20.00 234 x 156 • 240pp 9781782394594 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ Rights: SL/AU
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Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • October
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The Making of Home Judith Flanders Today the symbol of family togetherness is a nuclear family gathered around a dinner table. Family breakdown is deemed visible in the millions of family members who eat individually, often in front of the television. Yet this picture of the family gathered around the dinner table was a novelty of modernity, and of times of plenty. Historically few sat around the family dining table for the simple reason that most households did not have tables, or enough chairs: in 18th century Pennsylvania, nearly one household in two did not possess a single table.
The Making of Home
The acclaimed author of The Victorian City and The Victorian House explores the history of the idea of home, how it has come to mean what it means to us and how our homes have come to be what they are. ‘There’s no place like home,’ says Dorothy in Oz. By 1900, this was a cliché, but two centuries before, it would have been incomprehensible. In The Making of Home, Judith Flanders tells the story of how the idea of ‘home’, a special and private place for families, developed economically, physically and emotionally. By tracing the development of ordinary household items in northwestern Europe and the USA – of windows, of cutlery, even tables and chairs – Flanders shows how the idea itself was born and developed, dismantling many myths along the way. As full of fascinating detail as her bestselling The Victorian House, this is also a book teeming with original and provocative ideas.
Praise for The Victorian City:
‘Full of detail and colour about everyday life in Dickens’s London, and leaves you with a sense not only of how hard life was then, but how strange.’ Sebastian Faulks, Mail on Sunday, ‘Books of the Year’ ‘Outstanding’ Sunday Times
Judith Flanders is the author of The Victorian House, Consuming Passions, A Circle of Sisters, The Invention of Murder and The Victorian City. She is a frequent contributor to the Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, the Spectator and the TLS. Currently a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, she lives in London.
Social & Cultural History 2 Oct 2014 Hardback • £25.00 234 x 156 • 432pp 9781848877986 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can + In Rights: SL/AU
e-book 9781782393788
Atlantic Books First Publications – Non-Fiction • October
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Havel
A Life Michael Zantovsky On the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution comes the remarkable biography of Václav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic. Václav Havel is an iconic figure: internationally successful playwright who became a political dissident then, reluctantly, a president. He played a pivotal role in the Velvet Revolution, the end of communism and the birth of the Czech Republic. A courageous visionary and a leader who inspired great loyalty, Havel remained wracked with self-doubt and ambivalent about his role on the world stage. Author Michael Zantovsky and Havel were fellow dissidents and lifelong friends; during Havel’s first presidency Zantovsky was his press secretary, speech writer and translator. He is uniquely placed as Havel’s biographer; a rare witness to a most extraordinary life.
Michael Zantovsky is the current Czech ambassador to the Court of St James. He was among the founding members of the movement that coordinated the overthrow of the communist regime. In January 1990, he became press secretary and advisor to his lifelong friend, President Václav Havel. Zantovsky has also authored fiction and translated into Czech many contemporary British and American authors. Biography 6 Nov 2014 Hardback • £25.00 234 x 156 • 400pp 9780857898494 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL/AU
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Atlantic Books Paperbacks – Fiction
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Goldblatt’s Descent
The Chef
Michael Honig
Martin Suter
A biting, brilliant, black tragicomedy of doctors, patients, lost hopes and last chances. When Dr Goldblatt finds himself working in yet another dysfunctional, griping and back-stabbing hospital department, the temptation to press the self-destruct button begins to feel less like professional suicide and more like salvation. Michael Honig trained in medicine and worked at a number of London’s teaching hospitals. He lives in London with his wife and son.
‘One of the funniest – and bleakest – books I’ve read this year’ Judith Flanders Fiction • 3 Jul 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 480pp • 9780857897039 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth Rights: T/SL/AU • e-book • 9780857897022
The Madonna on the Moon Rolf Bauerdick
Translated from the German by David Dollenmayer ‘Dazzling, larger than life, exuberant... German literature has a powerful new voice.’ Focus A novel of immense charm, The Madonna on the Moon is a stunningly inventive tale of satellites and gypsies, theft and revenge, the burden of guilt and the desire for redemption; all told in glorious Technicolour by one of Europe’s most exciting emerging talents. Rolf Bauerdick was born in Germany in 1957. The Madonna on the Moon won the prestigious Prix du Livre Européen.
‘Rolf Bauerdick is a natural born narrator. The fierce realism of his story spoils neither its magic nor its humour.’ Der Spiegel Fiction • 3 Jul 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 416pp • 9781848875050 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL/AU • e-book • 9781782391333
Translated from the German by Jamie Bullock ‘Sex, spices and arms dealing – a perfectly executed novel’ Le Monde Maravan and Andrea have formed an unlikely business partnership – aphrodisiac-food catering. But when their new company begins to struggle, they are forced to enter into a much more unsavoury business, plunging them deep into an underworld where murder and sex feed otherwise unquenchable thirsts. Martin Suter was born in Zurich in 1948. His novels have enjoyed huge international success and have been published in twenty-nine languages.
‘As full of mystery as a crime novel, only more exotic and more erotic’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Fiction • 7 Aug 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 304pp • 9780857892935 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: US/SL • e-book • 9780857892928
The Erl-King Michel Tournier
Translated from the French by Barbara Bray ‘The most important book to come out of France since Proust’ New Yorker The Erl-King is a magisterial tale of innocence, perversion and obsession. Following the passage of Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to adult misfit, it takes us into the dark heart of fascism, where Abel meets his strange fate in the collapsing ruins of the Third Reich. Michel Tournier is one of France’s greatest living writers, winning the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970.
‘No summary can suggest the rich texture, the dazzling profundity and creative vitality of this novel.’ Sunday Times Fiction • 7 Aug 2014 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 336pp • 9781848878532 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782392071
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Barracuda
The Undertaking
Christos Tsiolkas
Audrey Magee
An electrifying coming-of-age novel from the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Slap.
‘Brutal but brilliant... An impressive, even stunning debut’ Sunday Times
Daniel Kelly has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His astonishing ability in the swimming pool should transform his life and silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of his dream. But when he melts down at his first big championships and comes only fifth, he turns on everyone around him and begins to destroy everything he has ever wanted.
When Peter Faber, a German soldier on the Russian Front, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met, it is a marriage of convenience that unexpectedly blossoms into love. The promise of their future is enough to sustain Peter through the horrors of war, while back home Katharina works her way into the Nazi party hierarchy, wedding herself and her young husband to the regime. But when the tide of war turns and the city falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their simple dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to.
‘Tsiolkas is a master chronicler of the zeitgeist... The words hurtle out as he depicts characters trapped between irreconcilable worlds... If The Slap was excellent material for a TV series, then Barracuda’s more substantial plot has all the hallmarks of a feature film.’ Guardian
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of The Slap, which won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize 2009 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. He lives in Melbourne.
Fiction 7 Aug 2014 Paperback • £8.99 198 x 129 • 528pp 9781782392446 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ Rights: SL
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‘Engaging and beautifully written, with an emotional resonance that remains long after you’ve closed the book. It succeeds in doing what only the best historical novels can do – making the past feel present’ Independent
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Audrey magee worked for twelve years as a journalist and has written for, among others, The Times, The Irish Times, the Observer and the Guardian. She lives in Wicklow with her husband and three daughters. The Undertaking is her first novel.
Fiction 4 Sep 2014 Paperback • £7.99 e-book: 198 x 129 • 304pp 9781782391043 9781782391050 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL / AU
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Sword at Sunset Rosemary Sutcliff
‘Without doubt Rosemary Sutcliff is a historical writer of genius.’ Guardian For centuries the story of Arthur has been considered a myth. But Arthur was real – a man of towering strength who lived, fought and died for his impossible dream. In Sutcliff ’s now legendary re-telling, King Arthur is brought passionately to life. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote more than forty historical novels for young adults. She died in 1992.
‘I defy you to read this and not to be able to smell the moors and weep for the doomed king.’ M.C. Scott Fiction • 2 Oct 2014 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 512pp • 9780857892546 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9780857892447
Before I Burn Gaute Heivoll
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett ‘One of the best Scandinavian crime books to reach our shores’ Daily Telegraph
Cataract City Craig Davidson The new novel by critically acclaimed Craig Davidson is at once a tough, visceral story of masculinity and a powerfully sensitive elegy to childhood friendship. Owen Stuckey and Duncan Diggs are childhood friends who have grown to adulthood in the seemingly picturesque border city of Niagara Falls – a hardscrabble factory town known to locals as Cataract City. Both young men dream of escape, but as Duncan, the less privileged, is drawn into the city’s underworld, he and Owen become reluctant adversaries on opposite sides of the law.
‘Terrific... A superb, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining novel that is, page-bypage, riveting and its prose flawless. Davidson is a seriously talented writer.’ National Post
Craig Davidson is the author of the short-story collection Rust and Bone and the novel The Fighter. His work has been published by Esquire, GQ, the Paris Review and the Washington Post among others.
Gaute Heivoll’s semi-autobiographical novel tells of a four-week period in 1978 when a pyromaniac ran amok in a close-knit community in rural Norway. Told from the perspective of the author, who was born at the time of the fires, it explores the darkness that can exist within us all. Gaute Heivoll is the author of poetry, children’s books, short stories and novels. He won the 2003 Tiden-prisen Prize.
‘Luminously written... an unsparing examination of the darker recesses of the human psyche’ The Times Fiction • 6 Nov 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 320pp • 9780857892171 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL/AU • e-book • 9780857892188
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Fiction 6 Nov 2014 Paperback • £8.99 198 x 129 • 416pp 9780857898852 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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The Good Nurse A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder
Charles Graeber
‘Stunning... A thriller in every sense of the word’ New York Times Charlie Cullen was a favourite son, husband, beloved father, best friend and celebrated hospital nurse. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also the most prolific serial killer in American history. Charles Graeber is an award-winning journalist and contributor to numerous publications including GQ, the New Yorker and the New York Times.
‘A standout true-crime book, one that doubles as both a thrilling horror story and a cautionary tale’ Boston Globe True Crime • 3 Jul 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 320pp • 9781782393498 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782393481
Atlantic Books Paperbacks – Non-Fiction
The Life of the Automobile A New History of the Motor Car
Steven Parissien
The first comprehensive world history of the most important transport innovation of the modern age. Steven Parissien examines the impact, development and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colourful 130-year history. But this is not just a story of horsepower and performance, it is also a tale of people: of intuitive carmakers; of exceptionally gifted designers; and of visionary industrialists.
Steven Parissien is an internationally-renowned author who has written extensively on architectural and cultural history.
‘There’s plenty here to fuel the petrolhead and the social historian for many miles’ Alan Judd, Literary Review History / Transport • 3 Jul 2014 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 216 x 138 • 448pp • 9781848877078 Territories: UK & C/Wealth • Rights: SL/AU • e-book • 9781782390213
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The First Muslim
Dante in Love
The Story of Muhammad
A. N. Wilson
Lesley Hazleton
‘Hazleton approaches her subject with scrupulous respect... Vivid and immediate’ Hari Kunzru, New York Times In The First Muslim, Lesley Hazleton brings Muhammad vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and vitality. Lesley Hazleton’s last book, After the Prophet, was a finalist for the PEN-USA Book Award. She lives in Seattle, USA.
‘Hazleton sets her keen eye and her sculpted prose on one of the most fascinating and misunderstood figures in history... Wonderful’ Reza Aslan History of Religion • 7 Aug 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 336pp • 9781782392323 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL/AU • e-book • 9781782392316
Dante in Love is a glittering study of Dante and his world. In this masterful biography, A. N. Wilson expertly argues that without an understanding of medieval Florence, and the enigma of the man himself, it is impossible to comprehend the meaning of Dante’s great poem. A. N. Wilson is a prolific and award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist.
‘Rich in both biographical detail and political history... A thoroughly readable, illuminating history.’ Independent Autobiography • 7 Aug 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 400pp • 9781848879508 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9780857895813
Band of Angels
A Great and Glorious Adventure
The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
A Military History of the Hundred Years War
Kate Cooper
Gordon Corrigan
‘A highly readable and important work of the history of religion’ Daily Telegraph
A lively and accessible history of the Hundred Years War by an acclaimed military historian.
The story of the beginnings of Christianity, told as never before. In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper uncovers the vital role women played in spreading the Christian religion and seeks to restore their rightful place in history.
Gordon Corrigan’s new history of the epic conflict between England and France is brisk, combative and refreshingly straightforward. The great kings, men and battles of the period receive the full attention and reassessment they deserve.
Kate Cooper is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester.
Gordon Corrigan’s most recent books include Mud, Blood and Poppycock; Blood, Sweat and Arrogance and The Second World War.
‘This remarkable book is the best sort of engaged history’ Diarmaid MacCulloch History of Religion • 7 Aug 2014 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 368pp • 9781848873308 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL/AU • e-book • 9781848873315
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‘Achieves for Dante and Florence what Peter Ackroyd accomplished for Shakespeare and London.’ Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph
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‘The sheer attention to detail is completely hypnotic’ Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph, on The Second World War Military History • 7 Aug 2014 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 156 • 320pp • 9781848879270 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL/AU • e-book • 9781782390268
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Don’t Tell Mum
* Re-issue *
Hair-raising Messages Home from Gap-year Travellers
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Simon Hoggart and Emily Monk
Sheri Fink
A re-issued edition offering hilarious and invaluable insight for gap-year travellers...
‘An unforgettable story… Social reporting of the first rank.’ New York Times
The email home is an essential part of every gap-year. Tales of waking to gunfire in Honduras or fending off marriage proposals from strangers offer a tantalising glimpse into the travels of loved ones. Don’t Tell Mum is a collection of the funniest, most surreal gap-year emails: giving the low-down on what not to do when trotting the globe.
Sheri Fink reconstructs the extraordinary and terrible events of five days at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina, drawing the reader into the lives of those who struggled to survive and to maintain the lives of others amid chaos.
Simon Hoggart, 1946-2014, was the parliamentary sketch-writer and diarist for the Guardian. Emily Monk completed her gap-year in 2006. She continues to enjoy travelling.
‘Hilarious’ Daily Mail Humour • 4 Sep 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 224pp • 9781782393719 Territories: UK C/Wealth • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782394808
The Clash
* Re-issue *
Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon
The huge bestseller from the pioneers of British punk rock, re-issued for 2014. The Clash: trendsetters, icons, revolutionaries. In this fantastic official book the band tell it like it was, in their own words, and bring their story to life through unprecedented access to The Clash archive. The surviving members of The Clash and the estate of Joe Strummer worked together to create this unique collection.
‘This book is a cracker... crammed with Clash bits and bobs’ Sunday Times Music • 4 Sep 2014 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 210 x 148 • 320pp • 9781782394754 Territories: UK & C/Wealth • Rights: T/SL
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Five Days at Memorial
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Sheri Fink, a former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2010.
‘Powerful… Recreate[s] in minute detail the sights, smells and sounds of Memorial in the days following the storm.’ USA Today True Stories of Heroism/Endurance & Survival • 4 Sep 2014 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 576pp • 9781782393757 • Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782393764
Son of a Gun Justin St. Germain
A stunning memoir that explores a mother-son relationship and an unflinching account of a murder. When Justin St. Germain’s mother was shot dead by her fifth husband, Justin’s world was shattered. Years later, he returned to his hometown of Tombstone, Arizona, as he tried to make sense of his mother’s death, by confronting his past and exploring the nature of gun crime in America. Justin St. Germain was born in Philadelphia in 1981. Son of a Gun is his first book.
‘Compelling and vivid’ Colm Tóibín ‘Spectacular’ NewYork Times ‘Extraordinary’ Kevin Powers Biography • 2 Oct 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 256pp • 9781782390664 Territories: UK C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782390657
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Year Zero A History of 1945
Ian Buruma
‘A compelling and astounding addition to the literature of the war.’ Daily Mail Drawing on hundreds of eye-witness accounts and personal stories, this sweeping book examines events in Europe and Asia in the months that followed the surrender of the Axis powers at the end of the Second World War. Ian Buruma is Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York State. He was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2008.
‘A superbly written chronicle of the conflict’s bittersweet aftermath.’ Observer History • 2 Oct 2014 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 384pp • 9781848879393 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782392088
Lawrence in Arabia War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Scott Anderson
Corvus Series
‘Fascinating… the best work of military history in recent memory.’ New York Times In a thrilling and revelatory narrative, Scott Anderson not only presents an incisive portrait of the man who rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, but also sheds invaluable light on the creation of the modern Middle East. Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent whose work frequently appears in the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair.
‘Daringly original… it feels like I’m reading about the topic for the first time.’ Sebastian Junger First World War • 6 Nov 2014 • Paperback • £12.99 • 198 x 129 • 592pp • 9781782392026 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781782392019
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WELCOME TO THE DARK HEART OF MODERN ITALY ‘Brooding Italian noir’ Independent on Sunday ‘Intelligent and convincing’ Daily Mail ‘Mystery, location and savage passion’ Guardian ‘Bridging the gap left by Michael Dibden’ Irish Examiner ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:
A Time of Mourning (Sandro Cellini i) 9781843549499 e-book: 9781848877528
The Sandro Cellini Series
The Killing Room Christobel Kent Sandro Cellini becomes head of security for a luxury private residence. He cannot know of the horrors he will uncover... When private investigator Sandro Cellini is invited to attend a launch party for a residence overlooking the glittering expanse of Florence, he has no idea of the secrets lurking behind its façade – an old torture chamber hidden in the bowels of the building, and a much more recent malevolence. The former head of security for this elite development has recently died, and Sandro finds himself stepping into dead man’s shoes. When a resident is found murdered, events begin to spiral out of control. Sandro must untangle the complex web of relationships between residents and staff to unmask a deadly killer.
Christobel Kent’s previous books include A Darkness Descending, The Dead Season, A Time of Mourning, A Party in San Niccolo, Late Season and A Florentine Revenge. She lives near Cambridge with her husband and five children.
Praise for the Sandro Cellini series:
A Fine and Private Place
‘Brooding Italian noir’ Independent on Sunday
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‘An intelligent and convincing thriller with fleshed-out characters you want to meet again’ Daily Mail
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‘Suspense, atmosphere, and the architectural beauty of Florence... Fantastic’ Irish Examiner
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Crime & Mystery 3 Jul 2014 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156 • 400pp 9780857893307 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: T/SL/AU
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The Professionals Series
Praise for Owen Laukkanen: ‘Really terrific – characters that live and breathe, a just-right story, and chills aplenty. Highly recommended’ Lee Child
‘Fasten your seat belts, Owen Laukkanen’s The Professionals is one heck of a wild ride.’ John Lescroart
‘A page-turning blend of classic suspense fiction and chillingly postmodern amorality. Ingenious plotting, perfectpitch characterization and evocative sense of place combine to create an impressive debut’ Jonathan Kellerman
‘The Professionals is a brutally beautiful piece of work’ John Sandford ‘A coiling plot, insightful characters, and a tale fraught with danger. The Professionals has it all.’ Steve Berry
‘The Professionals is a high-octane adrenaline and gunpowder-fueled rocket ride. What is remarkable about Owen Laukkanen’s debut is how skillfully he makes the reader care for his characters on both sides of the law. An excellent first novel!’ C. J. Box
‘A fast-moving debut thriller with enough twists to fill a pretzel bag… Let’s hope Laukkanen writes more thrillers like this one’ Kirkus Reviews
‘The Professionals grips you on page one and doesn’t let go until the last, satisfying page.’ Alafair Burke
COMING SOON IN SEPTEMBER:
Criminal Enterprise (The second instalment of The Professionals series)
The Professionals Owen Laukkanen A finger-burning thriller from hotly anticipated debut author Owen Laukkanen, for fans of Lee Child and Jeffery Deaver. Four friends, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it’s no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise works like a charm – until they kidnap the wrong man… Now two groups are after them – the law, in the form of state investigator Kirk Stevens and hotshot FBI agent Carla Windermere, and an organized crime outfit looking for payback. As they crisscross the country in a series of increasingly explosive confrontations, each of them is forced to recognize the truth: the real professionals are those who are willing to sacrifice everything.
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‘Really terrific – characters that live and breathe, a just-right story, and chills aplenty’ Lee Child ‘Ingenious plotting, perfect-pitch characterization and evocative sense of place’ Jonathan Kellerman ‘A first-class thriller by a terrific new voice’ John Lescroart
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A graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing programme, Owen Laukkanen spent three years in the world of professional poker reporting before turning to fiction. He currently lives in Vancouver, where he’s hard at work on the third and fourth instalments in the Stevens and Windermere series.
Thriller / Suspense 3 Jul 2014 Paperback Original • £7.99 198 x 129 • 384pp 9781782393665 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL/AU
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THE LEGEND OF VESPASIAN MARCHES ON
THE Vespasian Series
Masters of Rome Robert Fabbri
• Average reader reviews online 4+/5 stars • Simultaneous multi-format publication to satisfy reader demand • Summer Read National Rail advertising campaign for Vespasian IV • Strong global online profile at www.robertfabbri.com, @RobertEFabbri and Youtube/AtlanticBooks ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:
The fifth instalment in the bestselling Vespasian series: in the shadow of Stonehenge, an epic battle begins… Britannia, AD 45. Vespasian’s brother is captured by the druids. They want to offer a potent sacrifice to their gods – not just one Roman legate, but two. They know that Vespasian will come after his brother, and they plan to sacrifice the siblings on midsummer’s day. Vespasian must strive to save his brother while completing the conquest of the southwest of the haunted isle, before he is drawn back to the heart of imperial politics in Rome. Claudius’ three freedmen remain at the locus of power. As Messalina’s time as Empress comes to a bloody end, the freedmen each back a different mistress. Which woman will be victorious? And at what price for Vespasian?
Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and television for twenty-five years. He is an assistant director and has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His life-long passion for ancient history inspired him to write the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin.
Praise for the Vespasian series:
‘A stonking read’ Classic FM
Tribune of Rome Rome’s Executioner False God of Rome Rome’s Fallen Eagle
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Historical Adventure 7 Aug 2014 Hardback • £14.99 234 x 156 • 368pp 9780857899620 Territories: World English Language Rights: US/SL/AU
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CORRUPTION, HIGH POLITICS AND MURDER
A BLOCKBUSTER FUSION OF BORGEN AND THE KILLING
The Hanne Wilhelmsen series has been optioned by Academy Award-winning producer, Graham King (Argo, Blood Diamond, The Departed) The Lion’s Mouth was Anne Holt’s break-out book in Norway; as former Minster for Justice she’s the ultimate political insider
The Hanne Wilhelmsen Series
The Lion’s Mouth Anne Holt Hanne Wilhelmsen’s fourth investigation brings her into conflict with Norway’s highest powers: what secrets lie behind the Prime Minister’s death? Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge? The death shakes the country to its core. The hunt for her killer is complicated, intense and gruelling. Hanne Wilhelmsen must contain the scandal before a private tragedy becomes a public outrage, in what will become the most sensitive case of her career… This is a story of lies, intrigue and politics. The Lion’s Mouth questions who holds power, and how far they will go to keep it.
Praise for Anne Holt:
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‘The Godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction’ Jo Nesbo ‘A thriller writer of the highest order’ Liza Marklund
The Blind Goddess (Hanne Wilhelmsen i) 9780857892256 e-book: 9780857892324
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Anne Holt is Norway’s bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway’s Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in thirty languages with over six million copies of her books sold.
Blessed Are Those Death of the Demon (Hanne Wilhelmsen iii) Who Thirst (Hanne Wilhelmsen ii) 9780857892263 e-book: 9780857892331
‘Holt writes with the command we have come to expect from the top Scandinavian writers’ The Times
Crime & Mystery 6 Nov 2014 Paperback Original • £7.99 198 x 129 • 320pp 9780857892287 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL/AU
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Chronicles of the Tempus
The DCI Rosen Series
The Queen Alone
What She Saw
K. A. S. Quinn
Mark Roberts
The final instalment in the extraordinary timetravelling adventures of Katie Berger-JonesBurg. A historical trilogy for 9–12 year olds.
A boy is locked in a burning car. David Rosen investigates. This terrifying thriller announces Roberts as a major new star.
Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is a lonely New York teenager. It’s Christmas, and with her pop star mother away on a whirlwind tour, all is not well with Katie. She is having visions. She remembers. Katie is needed in another time. In 1860 it’s Christmas too. Princess Alice is helping her father Prince Albert with his endless stream of work while the rest of the family – including Queen Victoria – are enjoying the wonderful snow. But the merry royal family are under a shadow. There is a plot – both political and supernatural – to bring down the Queen. A Britain without its Queen is weak, and where Britain stumbles, the rest of the world falls…
David Rosen is scouring a crime scene for evidence. On a sink estate in Peckham, a boy was left to die inside a burning car. Above the wreckage is an exquisitely detailed graffiti image of a sinister eye. Behind it, mysterious markings are etched into the wall. Eleven-year-old Macy Connor is the only witness. She appears to be observant, articulate – an innocent. But her version of events doesn’t add up. Are darker forces at work among the children of the estate? Rosen must discover the truth before another attack takes place, and another soul is taken…
Praise for K. A. S. Quinn:
‘A humorous, historical, time-travelling adventure’ Guardian
K. A. S. Quinn was born and raised in California and studied History and English at Vassar College. She was the publisher of the Spectator, and has written for the Telegraph, the Independent and The Times. She lives in London and has two small boys.
ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:
The Queen At War
(Chronicles of the Tempus i) 9781848870550 e-book: 9780857896797
The Queen Must Die (Chronicles of the Tempus ii) 9781848870529 e-book: 9780857894663
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Praise for Mark Roberts:
‘Intricate, fast paced, and with a protagonist I am sure we will hear more of, Roberts announces himself as a genuinely innovative crime writer with a taste for the macabre and unexpected’ Daily Mail on The Sixth Soul ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:
Children’s Fiction 6 Nov 2014 Paperback Original • £7.99 198 x 129 • 256pp 9781848870567 Territories: World
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The Sixth Soul (Detective Rosen i) 9780857897893 e-book: 9780857897886
Mark Roberts has been a teacher for the last thirty years. He has received a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best New Play. This is the second novel in the DCI Rosen series after his acclaimed debut, The Sixth Soul. Find out more at www. markrobertscrimewriter.com.
Thriller / Suspense 4 Dec 2014 Paperback • £7.99 198 x 129 • 384pp 9780857898340 Territories: World English Language Rights: US/SL/AU
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Return to Fourwinds Elisabeth Gifford From the author of Secrets of the Sea House comes the mystery of a runaway bride. For fans of Kate Morton and Katherine Webb. One house. Two families. A lifetime of secrets…
Corvus First Publications
At Fourwinds they gather: Alice and Jack, Patricia and Peter, to celebrate the marriage of their children. The marquee is on the lawn, breathing in and out in the summer heat. But the bride is nowhere to be seen. As both families are drawn together, the past floods through the corridors of the house. What secret has Jack been keeping from his wife? What is it about Alice’s wartime encounter with Peter that has haunted her ever since? And what could have caused the bride to vanish without a word to the people she loves?
Praise for Secrets of the Sea House:
‘An arresting tale of the things that haunt us... at turns acute, delicate and fierce’ Liza Klaussmann, author of Tigers in Red Weather
Elisabeth Gifford grew up in a vicarage in the industrial Midlands. She has written articles for The Times and the Independent and has studied creative writing at Oxford OUDCE and Royal Holloway College. She is married with three children and lives in Kingston upon Thames.
‘This is a book you’ll remember long after the last page has been turned’ Daily Express ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK:
Secrets of the Sea House 9781782391135 e-book: 9781782391128
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Historical Fiction 4 Sep 2014 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156 • 400pp 9781782391142 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: T/SL/AU
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Night after Night
Mother of Eden
Phil Rickman
Chris Beckett
From the hugely popular author of the Merrily Watkins mysteries comes a tale of reality television in a haunted house.
A richly imagined, thought-provoking sequel to Dark Eden, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013.
When a group of minor celebrities are thrown a lifeline – a new reality television programme set in a notoriously haunted house – they snap the opportunity up. But as they explore the shadowy old building, uncanny things start to happen. While the camera rolls, their orchestrated fear turns into terror as they realise not all of the happenings in the house are for effect…
Generations after the break-up of the human family of Eden, the Johnfolk emphasise knowledge, the Davidfolk tradition. But both have built hierarchical societies sustained by violence and dominated by men – and both claim to be the favoured children of a woman from Earth that Eden knows as Gela, the mother of them all. When Starlight Brooking meets a handsome man from across Worldpool, she believes he will offer an outlet for her ambition. But she has no idea that she will be a stand-in for Gela herself, and wear Gela’s ring on her own finger…
Praise for the Merrily Watkins series:
‘Compassionate, original and sharply contemporary, Rickman’s crime series is one of the best around’ Spectator ‘Ancient history, violent deaths, feuds, intrigue and murder. A most original sleuth’ The Times
Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the acclaimed author of The Heresy of Dr Dee, The Bones of Avalon and the Merrily Watkins series.
‘Few writers blend the ancient and supernatural with the modern and criminal better than Rickman’ Guardian ‘First-rate crime with demons that go bump in the night’ Daily Mail
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‘A classic theme, beautifully told’ Sunday Telegraph
Chris Beckett is a university lecturer living in Cambridge. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Story competition, 2009, for The Turing Test, as well as the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013, for Dark Eden.
‘This is a world I’m desperate to return to’ Guardian Crime & Mystery 2 Oct 2014 Hardback • £18.99 234 x 156 • 432pp 9780857898692 Territories: World English language Rights: US/SL/AU
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‘A captivating and haunting book’ Daily Mail e-book 9780857898715
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The Good House
Save Yourself
Ann Leary
Kelly Braffet
A funny, poignant and revealing novel that’s become a huge word-of-mouth hit in the US.
A stunning novel about power struggles and divided loyalties, and how one decision can alter the course of your life…
Hildy Good has reached that dangerous time in a woman’s life – middle-aged and divorced, she is an oddity in her small but privileged town. But Hildy isn’t one for selfpity and instead meets the world with a wry smile, a dark wit and a glass or two of Pinot Noir. When her grown-up children stage an ‘intervention’, she thinks the fuss being made is ridiculous. Why shouldn’t she enjoy a drink now and then? But we start to see another side to Hildy Good, and to her life’s greatest passion. Soon, a cluster of secrets become dangerously entwined, with devastating consequences...
‘The Good House creates a one-of-a-kind character in Hildy Good... By the end you’ll be flipping pages, trying desperately to piece together what happened as much as the narrator is doing herself’ Jodi Picoult
Ann Leary is the author of the memoir An Innocent, a Broad and the novel Outtakes from a Marriage and has written fiction and non-fiction for various magazines and literary publications. She lives on a small farm in Connecticut with her family, four dogs, three horses and an angry cat.
Popular Fiction 3 Jul 2014 Paperback • £7.99 198 x 129 • 304pp 9781782393221 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL/AU
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When Patrick Cusimano’s alcoholic father kills a child in a hit-and-run, Patrick is faced with a terrible choice: turn him in or keep quiet. But can Patrick’s brother, Mike, live with the choice that was made that night? Layla Elshere was once a poster girl for purity. But when her evangelical father forces her to spearhead a campaign against her school, it compels her to question everything she’s ever known. Verna loves her older sister Layla, but as events begin to spiral, Verna must make the hardest choice: save the person she loves most in the world – or save herself.
‘One of those extraordinary books where the characters feel like living, breathing people. Dark and bleak yet so compelling’ Erin Morgenstern ‘You’ll find yourself breathless, shaken, moved’ Megan Abbott
Kelly Braffet was born in California and has lived in Arizona, rural Pennsylvania and Oxford, England. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College, and has taught novel writing at the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop. She lives in New York with her husband, the writer Owen King.
Thriller 7 Aug 2014 Paperback • £7.99 198 x 129 • 320pp 9781782393252 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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The Starter House Sonja Condit A home of dreams. A place of nightmares. Lacey has longed for a home of her own all her life. When she views a dilapidated Victorian property on an exquisite tree-lined street, she falls in love. She believes that soon its beautiful sunlit rooms will be filled with the joy of the new family she will build there. But the house doesn’t want her. Beneath the dark stairway, at the bottom of the shadowy hall, there lies a secret: for decades, no child has survived this house, no woman has emerged anything less than broken. Lacey has made a mistake. Now she must fight to survive it – and to save those she loves most.
‘Its haunting elements are inescapable... A promising start by a new author’ Booklist ‘A stylish debut’ PublishersWeekly
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Sonja Condit’s short fiction has appeared in many publications. She is the principal bassoon of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium, and she teaches at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities. The Starter House is her first novel.
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The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya
Annick Cojean
Translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager An astonishing portrait of the essence of dictatorship. A shocking and moving investigation into the hidden abuses perpetrated by Colonel Gaddafi, revealing the appalling private life of one of the twentieth century’s most malevolent dictators. Annick Cojean, foreign correspondent for Le Monde, is one of France’s most widely admired journalists.
‘An astonishing book.’ The Sunday Times ‘Gaddafi’s political excesses have been well documented. His sexual crimes are only now coming to light. Annick Cojean opens the floodgates. Her account of a sex-obsessed tyrant exposes the full extent of Gaddafi’s brutality.’ Independent on Sunday Reportage • 3 Jul 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 304pp • 9781611855678 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781611859812
Then We Take Berlin John Lawton
The new novel from the author of the Inspector Troy series, moving from London during the Blitz to divided post-war Berlin. Then We Take Berlin is a gripping, meticulously researched and richly detailed historical thriller – a moving story of espionage and war, and people caught up in the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century.
‘A stylish spy thriller.’ The NewYork Times Espionage & Spy Thriller • 7 Aug 2014 • Paperback • £8.99 • 198 x 129 • 432pp • 9781611855654 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can • Rights: SL • e-book • 9781611859805
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Sweet Sunday John Lawton Grove Press is pleased to be re-issuing this standalone novel from John Lawton, set in the tumultuous American summer of 1969. Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They walk out, they run away... they die. When his oldest friend Mel Kissing dies with an icepick through his skull, Raines picks up the thread and sets out to ask ‘who?’ and ‘why?’ But this is America in 1969 – a nation ripping itself apart, the middle of the Vietnam War – and one death is just a drop in the ocean. Raines’ questions take him back to the childhood home he left in Texas, back to the battered remains of his youth... and as his memory unravels, America unravels with it.
‘A sprawling heartbreaker of a novel.’ Literary Review ‘A terrific job... excellent at catching the mood of that hot summer of 1969 when the Vietnam War had divided families.’ Observer
Nick Lockett
Gaddafi’s Harem
John Lawton is the director of over forty television programmes, author of a dozen screenplays, several children’s books, seven Inspector Troy novels and two standalones. Lawton’s work has earned him comparisons to John le Carré and Alan Furst. Lawton lives in a remote hilltop village in Derbyshire.
Crime & Mystery 2 Oct 2014 Paperback • £8.99 198 x 129 • 400pp 9781611855647 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can Rights: SL
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The Tea Chest
Anzac Girls
An Extraordinary Story of World War One Nurses Peter Rees
Josephine Moon A beautifully engaging novel set in the world of a boutique London tea shop. Kate Fullerton, talented tea designer and now co-owner of The Tea Chest, never imagined that she’d be flying from Brisbane to London, risking her family’s future, to save the business she loves from the woman who wants to shut it down. Meanwhile, Leila Morton has lost her job; and if Elizabeth Clancy had known today was the day she would appear on the nightly news, she might at least have put on some clothes. Both need to start again. When the three women’s paths unexpectedly cross, they throw themselves into realising Kate’s magical vision for London’s branch of The Tea Chest. But every time success is within their grasp, increasing tensions damage their trust in each other. With the very real possibility that The Tea Chest will fail, Kate, Leila and Elizabeth must decide what’s important to each of them. Are they willing to walk away or can they learn to believe in themselves and each other?
Now an ITV series, this is the profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War.
Josephine Moon lives with her husband and son, and their large and diverse animal family, in Queensland, Australia. She has a passion for horses, imported fine chocolate and gourmet teas.
‘What a gloriously wonderful read, I loved it.’ Cathy Kelly Fiction 3 Jul 2014 Paperback Original £7.99 198 x 129 • 368pp 9781760110567 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ Rights: contact A&U
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By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left home looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Their strength and dignity were remarkable. Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps and the wards and the tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to enrich their experiences, and ours. Profoundly moving, Anzac Girls is a story of extraordinary courage and humanity shown by a group of women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognised.
Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years. He is the author of several books including Desert Boys and Lancaster Men. He lives in Canberra, Australia.
Military History 7 Aug 2014 Paperback Original • £9.99 198 x 129 • 384pp 9781760110062 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ Rights: contact A&U
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A Little History
Photographs of Nick Cave and Cohorts 1981–2013 Bleddyn Butcher An exquisite pictorial biography of one of today’s most intriguing performers: Nick Cave. In 1981, dazzled by Nick Cave’s extraordinary talent, rock photographer Bleddyn Butcher started taking photos of Cave and his then band, punk darlings The Birthday Party. A long friendship began. With over one hundred carefully selected and many never-beforeseen photographs, A Little History reflects the evolution of one of today’s most original artists, burrowing beneath Cave’s smouldering public persona to reveal the irrepressible humour that punctuates his private life. One of rock’s few singular personalities, Nick Cave’s influence now extends far beyond music into the realms of film and literature. A Little History is the definitive portrait of a crucial artist.
Bleddyn Butcher
‘Bleddyn Butcher has been taking pictures of me and my cohorts since I first got up on stage back in Australia right through to the shuddering present and some of these images are so familiar to me, so much a part of the fabric of my life, my little history, that much like the songs I have written, these photographs have become the props around which my memories collect. Without them so many of those days would be lost. Soul-stealer and dream-catcher – here he comes then – with his book of rescued moments.’ Nick Cave
Bleddyn Butcher worked for NME throughout the 1980s, photographing musicians ranging from Alex Chilton and Joe Strummer to the Pixies and U2. His photographic work has appeared in most leading music journals and is included in the permanent collection of Australia’s National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. He now lives in Sydney, Australia.
Rock Music 4 Sep 2014 Hardback • £16.99 300 x 210 • 160pp 9781760110697 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ Rights: contact A&U
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Nest
The Railwayman’s Wife
The Art of Birds Janine Burke
Ashley Hay
In a small town on the land’s edge, in the strange space at a war’s end, a widow, a poet and a doctor each try to find their own peace, and their own new story. All three struggle with the same question: how now to be alive.
Nest reveals both the art and mystery found in nature and celebrates them with lyricism, insight and great affection. As an amateur naturalist and nature lover, Janine Burke, art historian and author, has spent many years observing birds. Nest is the story of her passion, a personal, wide-ranging and intimate book – part natural history, part folklore, part exploration of art and aesthetics, part memoir – that will appeal to all those who love nature, literature and art. In the tradition of Longitude, Cod or The Cello Suites, Nest is a short education that encompasses celebration and theory, investigation and memoir, the familiar and the revelatory – as surprising and enticing as any beautiful, intricately constructed nest.
Ashley Hay is a former literary editor of The Bulletin. The Railwayman’s Wife is her second novel.
‘A beautiful, dreamy, melancholy book.’ Gail Jones, author of Five Bells Fiction • 7 Aug 2014 • Paperback • £7.99 • 198 x 129 • 320pp • 9781743318355 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743432815
Sheila Janine Burke is an art historian, biographer, novelist and freelance curator. Her books include Joy Hester, Australian Gothic: A Life of Albert Tucker, The Heart Garden: Sunday Reed and Heide and The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection, the internationally acclaimed survey of Freud’s personal collection.
Natural History 3 Jul 2014 Paperback • £9.99 198 x 129 • 192pp 9781760110895 Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ Rights: contact A&U
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A heartbreaking novel of love and loss and the healing power of memory and words.
The Australian Ingenue Who Bewitched British Society
Robert Wainwright
Painted by Beaton, feted by film stars, courted by princes, adored by Fleet Street... Born on an Australian sheep station, Sheila Chisholm became a fashion icon, a society hostess, a doting mother and a canny businesswoman, with social connections that ran from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street to Hollywood and the Kennedys. Robert Wainwright has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and is the author of eight books. He lives in London.
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Biography • 7 Aug 2014 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 129 • 432pp • 9781743319444 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex Can/ANZ • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743431566
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Allen & Unwin is pleased to make available in the UK the following titles from our Australian publishing programme. For rights: contact A&U
Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone Gemma Crisp
Nina Morey’s back – with a glamorous career on the rise, could things get any better? After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals with the devil in her job as editor of Juice, Australia’s hottest weekly celebrity gossip magazine.
Gemma Crisp has spent the last twelve years working for Australia’s glossiest magazines and now lives in London, where she is the associate editor of Stylist. Fiction • 3 Jul 2014 • Trade Paperback • £10.99 • 234 x 153 • 288pp • 9781743317181 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743434956
Overcoming Baby Blues A Complete Guide to Perinatal Depression
Professor Gordon Parker, Dr Kerrie Eyers and Professor Philip Boyce A practical guide to the depression suffered by many women both during pregnancy and after the baby is born, with advice on identifying the symptoms and seeking the right help for both women and their partners.
Snake Bite Christie Thompson
The funny and shocking coming-of-age story of a wild teenager in Canberra. Over the course of one blazing summer, Jez runs a gauntlet of new experiences and discovers the real meaning of home. Filled with humour, brilliant observations and raw revelations, Snake Bite will sink in its fangs and inject you with its intoxicating venom. Christie Thompson lives in Canberra where she teaches Creative Writing at the Canberra Institute of Technology.
‘There is a rush to reading this novel... The language has a ferocious energy; there is a real kick to it.’ Christos Tsiolkas Fiction • 7 Aug 2014 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 153 • 328pp • 9781743316863 • Territories: UK & C/W ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743434079
Broken Nation Australians in the Great War
Joan Beaumont
The first book to bring together all the dimensions of Australia’s role in the First World War. The Australian experience of war in all its complexity – from the home front as well as the battlefront – as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it. Joan Beaumont is Professor of History at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.
Military History • 7 Aug 2014 • Hardback • £25.00 • 245 x 172 • 656pp • 9781741751383 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781741761559
Professor Gordon Parker, Dr Kerrie Eyers and Professor Philip Boyce are all fellows of the Sydney Black Dog Institute. Health • 3 Jul 2014 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 156 • 256pp • 9781743316771 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743436837
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First Footprints
Tsunami and the Single Girl
The Epic Story of the First Australians
One Woman’s Journey to Become an Aid Worker and Find Love
Scott Cane
First Footprints tells the largely unknown and captivating story of Australia’s remarkable heritage. Based on the ABC television series, this is the extraordinary story of how the Aboriginal people of Australia made their way out of Africa 60,000 years ago and how they were able to survive across a vast continent, from the harsh deserts of the inland to the glaciers of southern Tasmania.
Scott Cane is a consultant archaeologist and anthropologist who has lived and worked throughout Australia. He has spent long periods of time with desert people, including some of the last hunter-gatherers on earth. Australian & Pacific History • 4 Sep 2014 • Trade Paperback • £14.99 • 241 x 172 • 328pp • 9781743314937 Territories: UK & C/W ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743435724
Krissy Nicholson
A heartfelt and surprising adventure set against the backdrop of adrenalin-fuelled disaster response. One woman’s life as an international aid worker and her (seemingly) never-ending search for Mr Right in some of the world’s most dangerous disaster zones. Krissy Nicholson works for Plan International as the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Program Manager with a focus on Africa.
Memoir • 2 Oct 2014 • Paperback • £9.99 • 208 x 138 • 320pp • 9781743316948 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743434819
Back Pain
The Last Days of the National Costume
Treat the Cause, Not the Symptom
Anne Kennedy
Adam Gavine and Rod Bonello
A self-help guide for sufferers of back pain who want longlasting relief. If you are looking for long-lasting relief from your back pain, or to avoid back problems, it’s essential to treat the cause, not just the symptom. This book explains how to develop core muscle strength and stability, and provides simple exercises that can be done at home.
Adam Gavine and Rod Bonello are both highly experienced chiropractors. Gavine represented Canada in decathlon and Bonello is the president of the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia.
A charming and heart-warming novel about illicit love, sewing, blackouts and Belfast. A five-week blackout brings a city to its knees, and a drama to GoGo Sligo’s doorstep. A lover, a wife and finally the cheating husband all come to claim a vintage Irish costume that GoGo’s been mending. She doesn’t want to like the guilty husband, but can’t resist being drawn into the enticing web of his deceit.
Anne Kennedy is a well-known and award-winning poet. She lives between Auckland and Honolulu. Fiction • 2 Oct 2014 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 153 • 400pp • 9781743313862 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743431559
Chiropractic & Osteopathy • 4 Sep 2014 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 156 • 240pp • 9781743317129 Territories: UK & C/W ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743436899
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Twins A Practical Guide to Parenting Multiples from Conception to Preschool
Katrina Bowman and Louise Ryan
A user-friendly guide to having and parenting more than one baby or toddler at the same time. When Katrina and Louise discovered they were having twins, both had the same thought once they recovered from the shock: buy a book that explains what to expect in order to get organized and prepare, emotionally and physically, for the anticipated upheaval to their lives. When they couldn’t find such a text, they decided to write it themselves.
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Katrina Bowman and Louise Ryan both have active roles in the main support network for twin parents (AMBA). Parenting - 6 Nov 2014 • Trade Paperback • £12.99 • 234 x 153 • 368pp • 9781743318669 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743436943
The Bottom Line Diet How I Lost Weight, Kept it Off... and You Can Too!
Jessica Irvine
Let Jessica Irvine show you how to take off weight and – just as importantly – keep it off. In this straightforward but groundbreaking new book, Jessica Irvine documents her own dramatic weight loss and equips you with easy-to-use tools and practical information to help you lose weight. Packed full of personal tips, she explains the simple accounting principles she used to lose weight and then maintain her weight loss.
Jessica Irvine is one of Australia’s leading economics journalists. Dieting - 6 Nov 2014 • Paperback • £9.99 • 198 x 128 • 256pp • 9781743317839 • Territories: UK & C/Wealth ex CA/ANZ/SA • Rights: contact A&U • e-book • 9781743436721
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