Days Without End Sebastian Barry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export - Airside ed
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp h234mm x w153mm x s19mm 373g ISBN13: 9780571277018 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27701-8 ISBN10: 0571277012 x Description: WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR. "A violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've come across in years." (KAZUO ISHIGURO). "A beautiful, savage, tender, searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go." (DONAL RYAN). "I am thinking of the days without end of my life..." After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges, if only they can survive. Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Days Without End Sebastian Barry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
06 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 253g ISBN13: 9780571277049 ISBN13: 978-0-571-27704-9 ISBN10: 0571277047 x Description: WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR. "Pitch-perfect, the outstanding novel of the year so far." (Robert McCrum, Observer). "More wrenching and beautiful than anything I've read in a long time." (Aravind Adiga, Guardian Books of the Year). After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. But when a young Indian girl crosses their path, Thomas and John must decide on the best way of life for them all in the face of dangerous odds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Must be the Place Maggie O'Farrell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tinder Press
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
20 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 512pp h196mm x w135mm x s33mm 354g ISBN13: 9780755358816 ISBN13: 978-0-7553-5881-6 ISBN10: 0755358813 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARDS. SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BGE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR. A top-ten bestseller, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. 'A complex, riveting novel of love and hope that grips at the heart' The Sunday Times A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet? Her husband Daniel, reeling
from a discovery about a woman he last saw twenty years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off-course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Profile Books Ltd
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 371g ISBN13: 9781781255452 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-545-2 ISBN10: 1781255458 x Description: THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION #1 BESTSELLING FICTION HARDBACK CHRISTMAS 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 COSTA NOVEL AWARD OVER 100,000 HARDBACKS SOLD London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge. On arrival, rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for superstition, is enthralled, convinced that what the local people think is a magical beast may be a yet-undiscovered species. As she sets out on its trail, she is introduced to William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar, who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours, but thinks they are a distraction from true faith. As he tries to calm his parishioners, Will and Cora strike up an intense relationship, and although they agree on absolutely nothing, they find themselves at once drawn together and torn apart, affecting each other in ways that surprise them both. The Essex Serpent is a celebration of love, and the many different shapes it can take. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
19 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h222mm x w144mm x s26mm 395g ISBN13: 9781784740030 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-003-0 ISBN10: 1784740039 x Description: This book was short-listed for the Costa Book Award. It is the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in 'neutral' Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's childhood is spent in lonely isolation, his only toy a tin train with painted passengers staring blankly from the carriage windows. As time goes on, an intense friendship with a boy of his own age, Anton Zwiebel, begins to define Gustav's life. Jewish and mercurial, a talented pianist tortured by nerves when he has to play in public, Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined. Fierce, astringent, profoundly tender, Rose Tremain's beautifully orchestrated novel asks the question, what does it do to a person, or to a country, to pursue an eternal quest for neutrality, and self-mastery, while all life's hopes and passions continually press upon the borders and beat upon the gate. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 224g ISBN13: 9781784700201 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-020-1 ISBN10: 1784700207
x Description: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. What is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. An intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined until it is almost too late..."This is a perfect novel". (Observer). "The Gustav Sonata is beautifully rendered, and magnificent in its scope. It glows with mastery". (Ian McEwan). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Golden Hill Francis Spufford (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
29 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 278g ISBN13: 9780571225200 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22520-0 ISBN10: 0571225209 x Description: New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition - he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Good Guy Susan Beale (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
16 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 417g UK Trade Paperback ISBN13: 9781473630345 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-3034-5 ISBN10: 1473630347 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016 A deeply compelling novel set in 1960s suburban America for fans of The Engagements and Tigers in Red Weather. Ted, a car-tyre salesman in 1960s suburban New England, is a dreamer who craves admiration. His wife, Abigail, longs for a life of the mind. Single-girl Penny just wants to be loved. When a chance encounter brings Ted and Penny together, he becomes enamoured and begins inventing a whole new life with her at its centre. But when this fantasy collides with reality, the fallout threatens everything, and everyone, he holds dear. The Good Guy is a deeply compelling debut about love, marriage and what happens when good intentions and self-deception are taken to extremes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Good Guy Susan Beale (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
09 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w132mm x s22mm 226g ISBN13: 9781473630369 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-3036-9 ISBN10: 1473630363 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016 A deeply compelling novel set in 1960s suburban America for fans of The Engagements and Tigers in Red Weather. Ted, a car-tyre salesman in 1960s suburban New England, is a dreamer who craves admiration. His
wife, Abigail, longs for a life of the mind. Single-girl Penny just wants to be loved. When a chance encounter brings Ted and Penny together, he becomes enamoured and begins inventing a whole new life with her at its centre. But when this fantasy collides with reality, the fallout threatens everything, and everyone, he holds dear. The Good Guy is a deeply compelling debut about love, marriage and what happens when good intentions and self-deception are taken to extremes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Words in My Hand Guinevere Glasfurd (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Two Roads
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
14 Jan 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp h233mm x w162mm x s32mm 566g UK Trade Paperback ISBN13: 9781473617865 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-1786-5 ISBN10: 1473617863 x Description: 'EXCELLENT...AN ENTIRELY UNSENTIMENTAL LOVE STORY WITH A MEMORABLE AND ENGAGING HEROINE' - The Times (Book of the Month) The Words in My Hand is the reimagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr Sergeant the English bookseller. When a mysterious and reclusive lodger arrives - the Monsieur - Mr Sergeant insists everything must be just so. It transpires that the Monsieur is Rene Descartes. This is Helena's story: the woman in front of Descartes, a young woman who yearns for knowledge, who wants to write so badly she makes ink from beetroot and writes in secret on her skin - only to be held back by her position in society. Weaving together the story of Descartes' quest for reason with Helena's struggle for literacy, their worlds overlap as their feelings deepen; yet remain sharply divided. For all Descartes' learning, it is Helena he seeks out as she reveals the surprise in the everyday world that surrounds him. When reputation is everything and with so much to lose, some truths must remain hidden. Helena and Descartes face a terrible tragedy and ultimately have to decide if their love is possible at all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Words in My Hand Guinevere Glasfurd (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Two Roads
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
09 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w132mm x s28mm 300g ISBN13: 9781473617872 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-1787-2 ISBN10: 1473617871 x Description: 'EXCELLENT...AN ENTIRELY UNSENTIMENTAL LOVE STORY WITH A MEMORABLE AND ENGAGING HEROINE. CLEVER AND TOUCHING.' The Times (Book of the Month) 'AN ACCOMPLISHED FIRST NOVEL...GLASFURD BRILLIANTLY DISSECTS THE COMPLEX FRUSTRATIONS OF A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH A MAN CONSUMED BY INTELLECTUAL OBSESSIONS. THERE IS MUCH TO MOVE US HERE' Guardian The Words in My Hand is the reimagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr Sergeant the English bookseller. When a mysterious and reclusive lodger arrives - the Monsieur - Mr Sergeant insists everything must be just so. It transpires that the Monsieur is Rene Descartes. But this is Helena's story: the woman in front of Descartes, a young woman who yearns for knowledge, who wants to write so badly she makes ink from beetroot and writes in secret on her skin - only to be held back by her position in society. Weaving together the story of Descartes' quest for reason with Helena's struggle for literacy, their worlds overlap as their feelings deepen; yet remain sharply divided. For all Descartes' learning, it is Helena he seeks out as she reveals the surprise in the everyday world that surrounds him. When reputation is everything and with so much to lose, some truths must remain hidden. Helena and Descartes face a terrible tragedy and ultimately have to decide if their love is possible at all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Name is Leon Kit De Waal (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 191g ISBN13: 9780241973387 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97338-7 ISBN10: 0241973384 x Description: **A TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2016** A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you'd least expect to find one. Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. They have gone to live with Maureen, who has fuzzy red hair like a halo, and a belly like Father Christmas. But the adults are speaking in low voices, and wearing Pretend faces. They are threatening to give Jake to strangers. Since Jake is white and Leon is not. As Leon struggles to cope with his anger, certain things can still make him smile - like Curly Wurlys, riding his bike fast downhill, burying his hands deep in the soil, hanging out with Tufty (who reminds him of his dad), and stealing enough coins so that one day he can rescue Jake and his mum. Evoking a Britain of the early eighties, My Name is Leon is a heart-breaking story of love, identity and learning to overcome unbearable loss. Of the fierce bond between siblings. And how - just when we least expect it - we manage to find our way home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory Keggie Carew (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 432pp h241mm x w163mm x s38mm 781g illustrations ISBN13: 9781784740764 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-076-4 ISBN10: 1784740764 x Description: Winner of the Costa Biography Award. Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a member of an elite SOE unit he was parachuted behind enemy lines to raise guerrilla resistance in France, then Burma, in the Second World War. But his wartime exploits are only the start of it...Dadland is a manhunt. Keggie takes us on a spellbinding journey, in peace and war, into surprising and shady corners of history, her rackety English childhood, the poignant breakdown of her family, the corridors of dementia and beyond. As Keggie pieces Tom - and herself - back together again, she celebrates the technicolour life of an impossible, irresistible, unstoppable man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory Keggie Carew (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w130mm x s31mm 402g ISBN13: 9781784703158 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-315-8 ISBN10: 178470315X x Description: Winner of the Costa Biography Award. Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm. But these were not always enough to sustain a family. As his memory began to fail, Keggie embarked on a quest to unravel his story once and for all. Dadland is that journey. It takes us into shadowy corners of history, a madcap English childhood, the poignant breakdown of a family, the corridors of dementia and beyond. "OH THIS BOOK. Beautiful and fierce and brave. Memory and war and family and loss and, well, wow." (Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk).
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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years John Guy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h199mm x w132mm x s33mm 396g ISBN13: 9780241963654 ISBN13: 978-0-241-96365-4 ISBN10: 0241963656 x Description: History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. We have not, until now, had the full picture. This gripping and vivid portrait of her life and times -- often told in her own words (and including details such as her love of chess and marzipan) -- reveals a woman who was insecure, human ('You know I am no morning woman'), and unpopular even with the men who fought for her. This is the real Elizabeth, for the first time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between Hisham Matar (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h204mm x w138mm x s28mm 375g ISBN13: 9780670923335 ISBN13: 978-0-670-92333-5 ISBN10: 0670923338 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of what it is to be human. Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, the fall of Gaddafi meant he was finally able to return to his homeland. In this moving memoir, the author takes us on an illuminating journey, both physical and psychological; a journey to find his father and rediscover his country. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between Hisham Matar (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 213g ISBN13: 9780241966280 ISBN13: 978-0-241-96628-0 ISBN10: 0241966280 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an individual life. And yet Hisham Matar's memoir isn't just about the burden of the past, but the consolation of love, literature and art. It is the story of what it is to be human. Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken to prison in Libya. He would never see him again. Twenty-two years later, the fall of Gaddafi meant he was finally able to return to his homeland. In this moving memoir, the author takes us on an illuminating journey, both physical and psychological; a journey to find his father and rediscover his country.
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I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music Sylvia Patterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
16 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h238mm x w172mm x s40mm 715g 16pp photos b/w ISBN13: 9780751558685 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-5868-5 ISBN10: 0751558680 x Description: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2016. This is a three-decade survivor's tale ...a scenic search for elusive human happiness through music, magazines, silly jokes, stupid shoes, useless blokes, hopeless homes, booze, drugs, love, loss, A&E, death, disillusion and hope - while trying to make Prince laugh, startle Beyonce, cheer Eminem up, annoy Madonna, drink with Shaun Ryder and finish off Westlife forever (with varying degrees of success). In 1986, Sylvia Patterson boarded a train to London armed with a tea-chest full of vinyl records, a peroxide quiff and a dream: to write about music, for ever. She got her wish. Escaping a troubled home, Sylvia embarks on a lifelong quest to discover The Meaning of It All. The problem is she's mostly hanging out with flaky pop stars, rock 'n' roll heroes and unreliable hip-hop legends. As she encounters music's biggest names, she is confronted by glamour and tragedy; wisdom and lunacy; drink, drugs and disaster. And Bros. Here is Madonna in her Earth Mother phase, flinging her hands up in horror at one of Sylv's Very Stupid Questions. Prince compliments her shoes while Eminem threatens to kill her. She shares fruit with Johnny Cash, make-up with Amy Winehouse and several pints with the Manics' lost soul-man Richey Edwards. She finds the Beckhams fragrant in LA, a Gallagher madferrit in her living room and Shaun Ryder and Bez as you'd expect, in Jamaica. From the 80s to the present day, I'm Not with the Band is a funny, barmy, utterly gripping chronicle of the last thirty years in music and beyond. It is also the story of one woman's wayward search for love, peace and a wonderful life. And whether, or not, she found them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music Sylvia Patterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
06 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780751558708 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-5870-8 ISBN10: 0751558702 x Description: This is a three-decade survivor's tale ...a scenic search for elusive human happiness through music, magazines, silly jokes, stupid shoes, useless blokes, hopeless homes, booze, drugs, love, loss, A&E, death, disillusion and hope - while trying to make Prince laugh, startle Beyonce, cheer Eminem up, annoy Madonna, drink with Shaun Ryder and finish off Westlife forever (with varying degrees of success). In 1986, Sylvia Patterson boarded a train to London armed with a tea-chest full of vinyl records, a peroxide quiff and a dream: to write about music, for ever. She got her wish. Escaping a troubled home, Sylvia embarks on a lifelong quest to discover The Meaning of It All. The problem is she's mostly hanging out with flaky pop stars, rock 'n' roll heroes and unreliable hip-hop legends. As she encounters music's biggest names, she is confronted by glamour and tragedy; wisdom and lunacy; drink, drugs and disaster. And Bros. Here is Madonna in her Earth Mother phase, flinging her hands up in horror at one of Sylv's Very Stupid Questions. Prince compliments her shoes while Eminem threatens to kill her. She shares fruit with Johnny Cash, make-up with Amy Winehouse and several pints with the Manics' lost soul-man Richey Edwards. She finds the Beckhams fragrant in LA, a Gallagher madferrit in her living room and Shaun Ryder and Bez as you'd expect, in Jamaica. From the 80s to the present day, I'm Not with the Band is a funny, barmy, utterly gripping chronicle of the last thirty years in music and beyond. It is also the story of one woman's wayward search for love, peace and a wonderful life. And whether, or not, she found them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Falling Awake Alice Oswald (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h198mm x w130mm x s8mm 114g ISBN13: 9781910702437 ISBN13: 978-1-910702-43-7 ISBN10: 1910702439 x Description: Winner of the 2016 Costa Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Award. Shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize. A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New Statesman / Sunday Times / Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. Alice Oswald's poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Mutability - a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality - is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is involved in that drama: the held tension that is embodied life, and life's losing struggle with the gravity of nature. Working as before with an ear to the oral tradition, these poems attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language as it's spoken as well as how it's thought: fresh, fluid and propulsive, but also fragmentary, repetitive. These are poems that are written to be read aloud. Orpheus and Tithonus appear at the beginning and end of this book, alive in an English landscape, stuck in the clockwork of their own speech, and the Hours - goddesses of the seasons and the natural apportioning of Time - are the presiding figures. The persistent conditions are flux and falling, and the lines are in constant motion: approaching, from daring new angles, our experience of being human, and coalescing into poems of simple, stunning beauty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sunshine Melissa Lee-Houghton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penned in the Margins
Publisher:
Penned in the Margins
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback ISBN13: 9781908058386 ISBN13: 978-1-908058-38-6 ISBN10: 1908058382 x Description: Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain.Sunshine combines acute social observation with a dark, surreal humour born of first-hand experience. Abuse, addiction and mental health are all subject to Lee-Houghton's poetic eye. But these are also poems of extravagance, hope and desire, that stake new ground for the Romantic lyric in an age of social media and internet porn. In this new book of poems, Melissa LeeHoughton shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision.Includes 'i am very precious' - Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Say Something Back Denise Riley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main Market Ed.
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
19 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 64pp h197mm x w153mm x s9mm 155g ISBN13: 9781447270379 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7037-9 ISBN10: 1447270371 x Description: Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long. The book reproduces A Part Song, a profoundly moving document of grieving and loss, and one of the most widely admired long poems of recent years. Elsewhere these poems become a space for contemplation of the natural world and of physical law, and for the deep consideration of what it is to invoke those who are absent. But finally, they extend our sense of what the act of human speech can mean - and especially what is drawn forth from us when we address our dead. Lyric, intimate, acidly witty, unflinchingly brave, Say Something Back is a deeply moving book by one of our finest poets, and one destined to introduce Riley's name to a wide new readership.
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Let Them Eat Chaos Kate Tempest (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main Market Ed.
Imprint:
Picador
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
06 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 80pp h197mm x w153mm x s7mm 135g ISBN13: 9781509830008 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-3000-8 ISBN10: 1509830006 x Description: Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, and, one by one, we see directly into their lives: lives that are damaged, disenfranchised, lonely, broken, addicted, and all, apparently, without hope. Then a great storm breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each other - and their last chance to connect. Tempest argues that our alienation from one another has bred a terrible indifference to our own fate, but she counters this with a plea to challenge the forces of greed which have conspired to divide us, and mend the broken home of our own planet while we still have time. Let Them Eat Chaos is a cri de coeur and a call to action, and, both on the page and in Tempest's electric performance, one of the most powerful poetic statements of the year. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bombs That Brought Us Together Brian Conaghan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h216mm x w135mm 501g ISBN13: 9781408855744 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-5574-4 ISBN10: 1408855747 x Description: Fourteen-year-old Charlie Law has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all his life. He knows the rules: no going out after dark; no drinking; no litter; no fighting. You don't want to get on the wrong side of the people who run Little Town. When he meets Pavel Duda, a refugee from Old Country, the rules start to get broken. Then the bombs come, and the soldiers from Old Country, and Little Town changes for ever. Sometimes, to keep the people you love safe, you have to do bad things. As Little Town's rules crumble, Charlie is sucked into a dangerous game. There's a gun, and a bad man, and his closest friend, and his dearest enemy. Charlie Law wants to keep everyone happy, even if it kills him. And maybe it will ...Perfect for readers of Patrick Ness, John Boyne and Malorie Blackman. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bombs That Brought Us Together Brian Conaghan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm 261g ISBN13: 9781408855768 ISBN13: 978-1-4088-5576-8 ISBN10: 1408855763 x Description: Fourteen-year-old Charlie Law has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all his life. He knows the rules: no going out after dark; no drinking; no litter; no fighting. You don't want to get on the wrong side of the people who run Little Town. When he meets Pavel Duda, a refugee from Old Country, the rules start to get broken. Then the bombs come, and the soldiers from Old Country, and Little Town changes for ever. Sometimes, to keep the people you love safe, you have to do bad things. As Little Town's rules crumble, Charlie is sucked into a dangerous game. There's a gun, and a bad man, and his closest friend, and his dearest enemy. Charlie Law wants to keep everyone happy, even if it kills him. And
maybe it will ...Perfect for readers of Patrick Ness, John Boyne and Malorie Blackman. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Orangeboy: Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children, Shortlisted for the Costa Award Patrice Lawrence (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Children's Books
Publisher:
Hachette Children's Group
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w130mm x s34mm 360g ISBN13: 9781444927207 ISBN13: 978-1-4449-2720-7 ISBN10: 1444927205 x Description: WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE FOR OLDER READERS, SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD AND THE YA BOOK PRIZE "A truly brilliant book." Malorie Blackman "Incredible book. Thank you Patrice Lawrence for such a fresh and riveting piece of fiction." Ben Bailey Smith (Doc Brown) "What a book! Such a gripping, gritty storyline, with such wonderful, believable characters. Loved it." Tanya Landman, author of Buffalo Soldier Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. I was the kid people looked straight through. NOT ANY MORE. NOT SINCE MR ORANGE. Sixteen-year-old Marlon has made his mum a promise - he'll never follow his big brother, Andre, down the wrong path. So far, it's been easy, but when a date ends in tragedy, Marlon finds himself hunted. They're after the mysterious Mr Orange, and they're going to use Marlon to get to him. Marlon's out of choices - can he become the person he never wanted to be, to protect everyone he loves? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Monstrous Child Francesca Simon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h211mm x w161mm x s26mm 468g ISBN13: 9780571330263 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33026-3 ISBN10: 0571330266 x Description: A stunning, operatic and epic drama like no other. Meet Hel, an ordinary teenager - and goddess of the Underworld. Why is life so unfair? But Hel tries to make the best of it, creating gleaming halls in her dark kingdom and welcoming the dead who she is forced to host for eternity. Until eternity itself is threatened. Francesca Simon's wonderful first foray into teen fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Monstrous Child Francesca Simon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 241g ISBN13: 9780571330270 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33027-0 ISBN10: 0571330274 x Description: 'Before you reject me, before you hate me, remember: I never asked to be Hel's queen.' But being a normal teenager wasn't an option either. Now she's stuck ruling the underworld. For eternity. She doesn't want your pity. But she does demand that you listen. It's only fair you hear her side of the story ...It didn't have to be like this. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Time Travelling with a Hamster Ross Welford (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
HarperCollins Children's Books
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h197mm x w130mm 280g ISBN13: 9780008156312 ISBN13: 978-0-00-815631-2 ISBN10: 000815631X x Description: For readers who loved Wonder and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time this extraordinary debut will make you laugh and cry. A story that crosses time and generations, for adventure-loving readers young and old. "My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve." On Al Chaudhury's twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al's late father. In it Al receives a mission: travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine and save his father's life. Al soon discovers that time travel requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, setting his school on fire and ignoring philosophical advice from Grandpa Byron. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer...Time Travelling With a Hamster is a funny, heart-warming race-against-time - and across generations - adventure that you will won't be able to put down. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________