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JANUARY
JANUARY
A celebration of our most important and picturesque country estates now lost under forestry, motorways and suburbia
The Finest Wines of Burgundy
Felling the Ancient Oaks How England Lost its Great Country Estates
John Martin Robinson
Bill Nanson
Photography by JOHN WYAND
For every sweeping country estate like Chatsworth or Castle Howard another is no more – buried under suburban housing like Watford’s Cassiobury; turned into East Midlands Airport and a motor racing circuit like Donington; or replaced by office block, roundabout and dual carriageway like Dorking’s Deepdene. Now, John Robinson takes twenty of England’s most egregious losses, from Biddlestone in Northumberland to Costessey in Norfolk, and tells the story of the estates, from their heyday to the many reasons for their decline. Whether sold off and divided, lost by feckless gambling of the family’s black sheep, or simply defeated by the post-war cost of maintaining a giant mansion, these once grand estates live on in this beautiful book - illustrated throughout with photographs of what once was, but has now gone for ever.
Burgundy has a far stronger hold over the imagination and passions of wine lovers than the relatively modest number of bottles it produces. Over the centuries, hundreds of plots of vineyard land were demarcated, farmed, and individually named. The monks who did this work noticed that each vineyard had a slightly different character, and that this difference was consistently expressed each year in the wine it produced. Today we call this phenomenon terroir, and in Burgundy it finds its fullest expression through the region’s signature varieties, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. This sumptuously illustrated and beautifully produced guide, complete with maps and more than 150 full-colour photographs, leads readers on a journey through the region’s well-worn paths and into the cellars of the Côte d’Or, where they will encounter exciting but relatively undiscovered producers, as well as recognized stars. Bill Nanson’s informative and entertaining narrative describes Burgundy’s vineyards and vintages, as well as the cultural, historical, and personal realities involved in their translation into wine and Jon Wyand’s stunning photographs bring the people and the countryside to life. This guide, from Hugh Johnson’s award-winning team, is the sixth in the acclaimed Finest Wines series, and presents the region more vividly than ever before.
UK 320pp 220 x 165mm Paperback with flaps £20 978 1 84513 692 5 Over 100 colour illustrations Food and drink US/Translation: Fine Wine Editions Agent/Serial: Fine Wine Editions/ Aurum 4
BILL NANSON publishes the Burgundy-Report website, a respected source of independent comment. For more than 15 years, he has made frequent visits to Burgundy, where he regularly works the vintage. JON WYAND is a professional photographer who has specialized in wine for more than 30 years. Best known for his photographs of Burgundy, he has since expanded his coverage into most of the major wine regions. His work appears frequently in The World of Fine Wine magazine.
JANUARY
A beautifully illustrated, definitive guide to wine from one of the world’s oldest vineyard regions
l Another
in Aurum’s successful ‘Lost’ series
l In the style of our sumptuous Country Life photographic books l Author is an eminent architectural historian, sure to be reviewed widely by his peers l Extract
World 208pp 282 x 218mm Jacketed hardback £30 978 1 84513 670 3 200 b/w photographs Architecture US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Johnson & Alcock/ Aurum
in major national newspaper
John Robinson is also the author of Aurum’s The Regency Country House. He lives in London. 5
JANUARY
Lucky Kunst The Rise and Fall of Young British Art
Gregor Muir
These days, artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin are major celebrities. But Gregor Muir knew them at the start; his unique memoir chronicles the birth of Young British Art. This is the first account of the early days of the YBAs, and is reissued with a new cover to coincide with a major Hirst exhibition at the Tate Modern. Muir, YBA’s ‘embedded journalist’, happened to be in Shoreditch and Hoxton before Jay Jopling arrived with his White Cube Gallery, when the area was still a semi-derelict landscape of grotty pubs and squats. There he witnessed, amid a whirl of drunkenness, scrapes and riotous hedonism, the coming-together of a remarkable array of young artists – Hirst, the Chapman brothers, Rachel Whiteread, Sam Taylor-Wood, Angus Fairhurst – who went on to produce a fresh, irreverent, often notorious form of art: Hirst’s shark, Sarah Lucas’s two fried eggs and a kebab. By the time of the seminal Sensation show at the Royal Academy, YBA had changed the art world for ever. ‘Brilliant! Gregor Muir captures the spirit of the age perfectly, and left me feeling very jealous I wasn’t there …’ James Frey ‘A fantastic historical document … Gregor was actually there’ Tracey Emin
BC excluding Canada 320pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 84513 766 3 8 pp colour plates Art US/Translation Janklow & Nesbit Agent/Serial: Janklow & Nesbit 6
l Reissued with new cover to coincide with Damien Hirst retrospective at Tate Modern l National and London review and feature coverage around the Tate’s exhibition
Gregor Muir is the Executive Director of the ICA.
FEBRUARY
‘This lucid, lurid, indiscreet memoir is an unrivalled record of 1990s Cool Britannia, when British Art ruled the world’ Financial Times Books of the Year
FEBRUARY
The definitive illustrated work on one of our greatest architects by Britain’s foremost architectural writer
Edwin Lutyens Country Houses
Prince
Inside the Music and the Masks
Ronin Ro
From the Archives of Country Life
Gavin Stamp
In over thirty years as one of the most original and charismatic figures in modern music, Prince Rogers Nelson has enjoyed huge success – and courted considerable controversy. At the height of his fame, his album Purple Rain was selling at a rate of a million copies a week in the US, and just four years ago his sell-out London concerts attracted more than 350,000 fans. Prince’s innovative sound and restless creativity helped define an era, producing a string of international hits including ‘Little Red Corvette’, ‘Let’s Go Crazy’, ‘Kiss’ and ‘Cream’. Along the way he has provoked moral outrage, starred in a hit movie, provided the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s Batman, adopted an unpronounceable symbol for a stage name, taken on his record label and fostered young talent, making a profound mark on the entertainment industry and pop culture at large. In this fascinating biography, acclaimed music journalist Ronin Ro lays bare the life of one of the most extraordinary musicians of our time, chronicling Prince’s journey from teenage obscurity to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Through unrivalled access to exclusive sources such as Prince’s producers, bandmates, managers and close friends, Ro gets closer to him than any previous biographer, peeling away the masks to tell the story of a true modern icon.
BC excluding Canada 384pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed royal hardback £20.00 978 1 84513 824 0 8pp colour plates Biography US/Translation: St Martin’s Press Agent/Serial: Watkins/Loomis Agency/Aurum 8
l Extract
in major music magazine
l Author
interviews on pop radio shows
l Extracts,
review copies and competition prizes offered to all Prince fansites
Ronin Ro is an award-winning author and music journalist. He has written for Rolling Stone, USA Today, Playboy and Vanity Fair and is the author of five other books including a biography of Dr Dre and Have Gun Will Travel, an acclaimed history of Death Row Records.
FEBRUARY
A revealing glimpse behind the public face of one of the most successful, provocative and mysterious recording artists rock and roll has ever produced
New in paperback Edwin Lutyens was perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, and such was his close relationship with Country Life that he even designed the magazine’s Covent Garden offices. In this book Gavin Stamp, one of our finest writers on architectural history, selects twenty-two houses from all phases of Lutyens’ career, from an early Arts & Crafts house like Goddards to his grandest house of all, Middleton Park. But he also covers Lindisfarne Castle and Castle Drogo, as well as Lutyens’ most famous creation, the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi. Stamp’s erudite text complements a truly remarkable collection of photographs. Praise for Gavin Stamp’s Lost Victorian Britain: ‘Powerful and compelling’ Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times Culture ‘A brilliant essay’ Guardian ‘Heartbreaking reading’ Sunday Times ‘An excellent book’ Literary Review ‘What makes this book particularly valuable, however, is the brilliant introductory essay on Lutyens’ houses by Gavin Stamp’ Spectator World 192pp 305 x 250mm Paperback £20 978 1 84513 765 6 Duotone and colour photographs throughout Architecture US/Translation: The Monacelli Press/Aurum Agent/Serial:Aurum
l Includes details of all of Lutyens’ major country houses in the UK l Over 200 stunning photographs from the unrivalled Country Life archive l Editorial and marketing support from Country Life magazine
Gavin Stamp’s other books for Aurum are the acclaimed Britain’s Lost Cities and Lost Victorian Britain. He lives in London. 9
FEBRUARY
Last Call for the Dining Car The Daily Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys
Edited by Michael Kerr New in paperback Ever since Paul Theroux set off on the marathon journey that became the bestselling travel book The Great Railway Bazaar, we have loved reading about travelling by train. Now, Michael Kerr, the Daily Telegraph’s deputy travel editor, has gone back through the archives to compile a riveting anthology of the best railway travel. Here are epic forays from Wick in northernmost Scotland all the way to Vladivostok, across India, high over the Andean Altiplano, from Moscow to Peking, and on the Sunset Express across America to California. From Michael Palin to Nicholas Crane, Lee Langley to Janet Daley, the Telegraph’s writers sample every kind of train, from the luxurious Orient Express to the newly reopened Welsh Highland narrow-gauge, and even the insanely crowded commuter trains of Bombay. By turns hilarious and alarming, this is armchair travel at its very best – and the perfect book, indeed, for a long train journey. ‘Fine writing spiced with wit, adventure and wonder, bringing to life rattlingly good railway rides and tall tales (all allegedly true)’ Scotsman l To be promoted extensively in the Daily Telegraph, editorially, via advertising and direct marketing
February 2012 World 320pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £9.99 978 1 84513 770 0 Travel Telegraph Books US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum 10
l Review
coverage across travel press and online
l Hardback was surprise 2009 Christmas bestseller, selling over 12,000 copies l Authors include Michael Palin, Nicholas Crane and Boris Johnson
Michael Kerr is deputy travel editor of the Daily Telegraph. He is also the editor of new title Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper and Bon Voyage!: The Telegraph Book of River and Sea Journeys. He lives in Surrey.
MARCH
‘Endlessly enjoyable anthology of articles … sit back, slow down and relish’ HHHHH Wanderlust
MARCH
MARCH
The first biography of Britain’s most famous street artist
Banksy
The Man Behind the Wall
Will ellsWortH-JoNes For someone who shuns the limelight by concealing his real name, never showing his face and never giving interviews except by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. In his home city of Bristol, in Los Angeles, in London, in New York, wherever there is a Banksy exhibition there is always a huge queue. His book of his art, Wall and Piece, has sold over half a million copies. Such is the commercial value of his work that people have hacked an entire wall off a building because it bears some of his graffiti. But who is this man; how did he become what he is now; what makes him tick? How far can we get to know and understand someone who goes to such lengths to keep his distance from us? Now, in the book that Banksy did not want written, Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together Banksy’s life and builds up a picture of the world in which he operates. He talks to both friends and enemies, those who knew him in his early unnoticed days and those who have watched him try to come to terms with his new-found fame and fortune, and asks what, ultimately, this enigmatic character and his life’s work add up to. l Wall
and Piece has sold over 500,000 copies
l Banksy’s Oscar-nominated movie Exit Through the Gift Shop was a major global success l Features
in both broadsheets and tabloids
l Broadcast PR campaign to spark discussion on Banksy’s influence on the art world
World 320pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed royal hardback £20 978 1 84513 699 4 Integrated photography Art US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum 12
WILL ELLSWORTH-JONES was chief reporter at then New York correspondent for The Sunday Times as well as holding senior editorial positions at the Telegraph magazine. He was a member of the celebrated and influential The Sunday Times Insight team. He lives in London.
EXTRACT The whole Bristol Museum and City Art Gallery exhibition was mounted amidst great secrecy. Notices were stuck on the doors saying ‘Closed for essential maintenance’ and although the Banksy team had been constructing exhibits off the site for months, they had just two days to bring everything in and set it up. Anyone at the museum not yet in on the secret was told it was closed for filming. ‘It was like a big sort of Changing Rooms,’ says the museum’s then-director. ‘We shut and it all came in. The only reason we could do that was because they had the manpower and finances. They were incredibly professional. I am used to putting on exhibitions but it was done in such a large and accelerated fashion. It was a bit like working with a film crew.’ In television interviews at the time, she was always asked if she had met him and she always gave the same answer with a big smile on her face. She knew he had been in the museum, that he had planned the show in detail. But when asked, ‘So you don’t know which one of the crew he is?’ she replied, ‘No, we still don’t, and that’s part of the real charm...’
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MARCH
An engrossing collection of bite-size Olympic trivia for 2012
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The Book of Olympic Lists
The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
and Jaime Loucky
Don Thompson
From the multi-million selling author of The Book of Lists and The Complete Book of the Olympics comes an entirely new take on the Games. Wallechinsky has a uniquely vast knowledge of the Olympics and an unrivalled head for trivia – now the two are combined in this collection of 150 unexpected Olympic lists, including:
David Wallechinsky
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay twelve million dollars for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No.5, 1948 sell for $140 million? The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is the first book to look at the economics of the modern art world and the business strategies which power the market to produce such astronomical prices. Don Thompson talks to auction houses, dealers and collectors to find the source of Charles Saatchi’s Midas touch, and how far a gallery like White Cube has contributed to Damien Hirst becoming the highest-earning artist in the world. Treating taste as a subject for economics rather than aesthetics, this revelatory book unpicks the hidden laws that drive what we value and what we don’t and tips the world on its head in a manner reminiscent of The Undercover Economist and Freakonomics.
l The
eight slowest Olympic competitors twelve strangest sports ever contested l The six most spectacular collisions and falls l The top ten shaven-headed Olympians l The
Published for the 2012 Games, The Book of Olympic Lists is a quirky compendium of the unusual, the unknown and the downright bizzare. More than simply a book of lists, Wallechinsky elaborates and expands on the reason for an athlete or incident’s inclusion, to create a winning – and highly addictive – alternative history of the Olympics. l The Book of Lists has sold over 8 million copies worldwide
‘[An] enthralling revelation-rich trip through the money game of the art market’ Independent l 15,000
l An quick and curious compendium of facts perfect for the casual Olympics fan
copies sold
l Re-issued to coincide with a major Damien Hirst retrospective at the Tate Modern, which will include ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ (shark suspended in formaldehyde) l Extensive
UK & Commonwealth 304pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 84513 407 5 8pp colour plate Art/Economics US/Tranlsation St Martin’s press/Westwood Artists, Canada Agent/Serial: AP Watt 14
l Huge
l Contains exclusive interviews with artists, collectors, auctioneers and exhibitors l Giveaways and promotions via the Tate’s social media platforms
Don Thompson is an economist and professor of business who has taught at the LSE and Harvard Business School. He lives in Toronto.
market with the Olympics coming to London
l National newspaper, consumer magazine, comedy, sports and news website features
review coverage in art press
l National and London newspaper review and feature coverage
MARCH
‘If you read no other book about art in your life, read the one that’s gripped me like a thriller for the past two days’ The Times
World 192pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £7.99 978 1 84513 773 1 Sport US/Translation Aurum/ Ed Victor ltd Agent/Serial: Ed Victor
David Wallechinsky has produced nine editions of The Complete Book of the Olympics, as well as the bestselling The Book of Lists, in collaboration with his nephew Jaime Loucky. He is vice-president of the International Society for Olympic Historians and has been dubbed ‘The Human Encyclopedia’ by Vice magazine. He divides his time between Geneva and California. 15
MARCH
MARCH
One of the most remarkable – and controversial – sporting figures in British history, Chris Brasher piled unique achievement on unique achievement
Chris Brasher The Authorised Biography
John Bryant It was Chris Brasher who, along with Chris Chataway, paced Roger Bannister to break the four-minute mile. Then he won his own Olympic gold medal in the steeplechase at the 1956 Olympics. Probably best known now for founding the London Marathon, Brasher went on to become one of the founders of the modern sports of fell-running and orienteering. At the Observer, he effectively invented modern sports feature writing. He also invented the now ubiquitous Brasher walking boot, with the revolutionary aim of making heavy boots as comfortable as training shoes. Along the way he built up a highly successful sportswear chain, and even, in later life, a stable of racehorses. But Chris Brasher was also a highly controversial individual: irascible, domineering – a good friend but a bad enemy – and above all a hugely competitive man who had to win in everything he did. Now John Bryant, who knew Brasher well as a friend, has written the extraordinary story of this impossible and amazing man’s life. l First
biography of a controversial figure in British sport
l Launched to tie in with 2012 London Marathon (of which Brasher’s son Hugh is now the Director) l Major
national newspaper serialisation
l Widespread review and feature coverage across sports and national press
World 320pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed royal hardback £20 978 1 84513 637 6 8pp b/w plates Sport/Biography US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum 16
l PR and marketing campaign targeting fell-running and orienteering enthusiasts
EXTRACT ‘I actually heard Brasher before I saw him,’ says John Disley. ‘It was in Helyg one morning in 1949. I was lying there in bed when I heard an abrasive voice harassing some poor Cambridge University Mountaineering Club member on how to make porridge. I now know that Chris’s knowledge of porridge making was practically nil, but then, as I discovered later, he felt obliged to change any plan that he hadn’t actually made himself.’ Disley and Brasher brought in their friends from the Ranelagh Harriers to help design the course for the first London Marathon. It was difficult running on busy roads so they decided to do some late-night runs instead, invariably kicking off from a pub where they would have a beer before venturing out. Effectively the whole event was created on the back of a cigarette packet – apt, perhaps, because Brasher, feeling the pressure, had returned to his habit of chain smoking. The night before the race a Ranelagh member was mobilised to help paint the blue line along the road. ‘My job was to jog slowly some hundred metres ahead of the guys laying the line down,’ he remembers, ‘so I could show them the runners’ best route. Jogging through Surrey Docks alone at 3 a.m. was not an experience to be repeated.’
l Promotional opportunities with Sweatshop (the sports chain founded by Brasher) to include social media activity, direct e-marketing and involvement in Sweatshop Running Community events
John Bryant was formerly editor of the Daily Telegraph, and is the author of books on the London Marathon and the four-minute mile. He lives in London. 17
MARCH
The successor to Aurum’s bestselling Mile by Mile on Britain’s Railways
Mile by Mile on Britain’s Railways
Mile by Mile from London to Paris
S.N. Pike
Reginald Piggott and Matt Thompson
The Entire Routes by Historic Golden Arrow and Modern Eurostar’
The LNER, LMS, GWR and Southern Railway in 1947
New in paperback Back in 1947 someone called S.N. Pike – we know next to nothing about him – published three little pamphlets, each mapping in forensic detail one of Britain’s mainline rail routes. In 2011 Aurum reissued all three in facsimile in one handsome volume – adding a fourth in the same style to complete the set. The hardback bestseller that ensued is now published in paperback. Pike produced booklets on the LNER (East Coast main line), the LMS (West Coast main line) and the Southern Railway network (the Brighton line and all its ramifications) – but for some reason he never got around to the Great Western (from Paddington to Devon and Cornwall). What subsequently became of S.N. Pike we don’t know, but Aurum has completed the set in the same style to make one nostalgic guide to Britain’s railways as they were just after the War. The books are thus full of period interest – the East Coast line, for example, still goes past Alexandra Park racecourse, sees a tangle of colliery sidings all the way up through Yorkshire, and passes twenty places where ‘GPO mail bag catching nets are erected close to the rails’. When today’s high speed trains swish to Paris so fast that the landscape beyond is a blur, this delightful book reminds you what once could be seen on a long railway journey. l Over
World 128pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £7.99 978 1 84513 811 0 b/w illustrations throughout Transport US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum 18
The railway route from London to Paris has always been both historic and romantic. Until the 1960s the overnight sleeper train from Waterloo or Victoria was called the Golden Arrow, and its route down through France took in the coastal city of Boulogne, then hugged the Somme, scene of the most terrible trench warfare of the First World War, before passing through the horse racing centre of Chantilly. Now we take the Eurostar, a marvel of civil engineering with its high-speed lines down to Dover and then racing across France through Lille, and above all the sub-Channel crossing through the Tunnel. Aurum’s new Mile by Mile volume applies the cartographic method of Mile by Mile on Britain’s Railways to log every mile of both London–Paris routes in forensic detail: gradients, stations, the sights to be seen from the train, the history along the route, and how both railways were built. It is a fascinating guide as you whiz through the landscape on the train. l A follow up to the hugely popular Mile by Mile on Britain’s Railways which has sold over 10,000 copies l Fascinating maps to follow every mile from London to Paris showing the routes of the Golden Arrow and Eurostar
10,000 copies sold in hardback
l Reviews
in train and transport press
MARCH
The cult hardback bestseller now republished in paperback
World 128pp 216 x 135mm Hardback £12.99 978 1 84513 772 4 Line illustrations throughout Transport US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum
l Extensive line-side commentary on sights to be seen from the window, battle grounds, monuments, water towers for steam locos l Special
section on the building of the Channel Tunnel Extensive feature coverage in travel pages of national press
l Widespread
coverage in rail press
Reginald Piggott is one of Britain’s most distinguished cartographers. Matt Thompson is a researcher at the National Railway Museum. They both worked on the GWR section of Mile by Mile on Britain’s Railways 19
MARCH
MARCH
Brought fully up-to-date for the 2012 London mayoral race, a compelling and controversial biography of Boris Johnson
Just Boris The Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity
Sonia Purnell New in paperback Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to most of us he is just ‘Boris’ – the only politician of the age to be regarded in such familiar, even affectionate terms. Uniquely, he combines comedy with erudition, gimleteyed focus with jokey self-deprecation, and is a loving family man with a roving eye. He is also a hugely ambitious figure with seemingly no huge ambitions to pursue – other than, perhaps, power itself. From the unique vantage point of a former colleague, Sonia Purnell examines Boris’s remarkable rise: how a shy young boy from a broken home became our only box office politician; how the Etonian product fond of Latin tags became a Man of the People – and why he wanted to be; how the gaffe-prone buffoon charmed Londoners to win the largest personal mandate Britain has ever seen; and how the Johnson family built our biggest – and blondest – media and political dynasty. The first forensic account of his life and record, Just Boris unravels a political enigma and asks whether the Mayor who dreams of crossing the Thames to Downing Street has what it takes to be Prime Minister.
l Massive
tube and bus advertising campaign
High profile national press review and feature coverage, with author positioned as the perfect media commentator on the mayoral race
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l
Featured extensively in national newspaper paperback round-ups
l
Social and digital media campaign targeting political bloggers
‘Sonia Purnell must have had huge fun writing this wonderful book. The only person who won’t be amused is Boris himself ’ Michael Crick World English Language 464pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 84513 716 8 16pp colour plates Biography US/Translation: Aurum/ HHB Agency Ltd Agent/Serial: HHB Agency Ltd/ Aurum 20
Sonia Purnell is a writer and freelance journalist living in London. She worked closely with Boris Johnson in the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels bureau in the early 1990s at a turning point in his personal life and working career.
May 2012: It will be time for Londoners to give their verdict on Boris’s years in office. This book will help them make up their minds. 21
BRAND NEW TITLE
Trail Guides
BRAND NEW NATIONAL TRAIL GUIDES
SERGI RAMIS
MARCH
The first single-volume walking guide to the most popular long-distance route in Europe
MARCH
Three brand new official National Trail Guides, Aurum’s first long distance path outside the UK and five fully updated and redesigned guides
El Camino de Santiago 978 1 84513 708 3 El Camino de Santiago de Compostela is the ancient Christian pilgrimage route that has been travelled for over a thousand years to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where, legend has it, the bones of St James are buried. This guide follows the most popular route, starting at St Jean-Pied-de-Port in south-west France and heading all the way westwards across northern Spain for 800 km to finish at Cape Finisterre on the Atlantic coast. Now, extending its series of Trail Guides beyond the UK for the first time, Aurum publishes the first compact one-volume guide to the path. Fully illustrated with photography, it offers comprehensive route directions, sectional route maps, gradient profiles, a history of the route, details of sights, and separate chapter guides to the main cities along the way, as well as recommendations for accommodation.
Thames Path in London
Pennine Way
PHOEBE CLAPHAM 978 1 84513 706 9
Thames Path in the Country
DAVID SHARP 978 1 84513 717 5
DAMIAN HALL 978 1 84513 718 2
Previously, Aurum’s popular one-volume Thames Path guide has had all too little room to cover the endlessly rich array of sights and history along its London section, from Hampton Court to the Thames Barrier. Now, we publish a completely new walker’s guide just to the metropolitan section. Bursting with information, it covers everything from maritime Greenwich to the M16 building, and from idyllic woodlands to Canary Wharf.
This companion volume to the London guide concentrates on the appeal of the full 150 miles of the country Thames. This new edition contains a wealth of new information about the many sights and places of interest along the way, from Stanley Spencer’s Cookham to Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant at Bray, as well as full walking tours of historic Oxford and Windsor & Eton.
To replace our previous two-volume guide to the Pennine Way, we now publish an entirely new one-volume guide for the twenty-first century walker. This new edition to Britain’s toughest long distance path contains all the information the modern walker requires: GPS references, gradients of each section, public transport links, extensive details of the wildlife and flora to be seen along the way, and a guide for occasional walkers to the real highlight stretches of the path.
FULLY UPDATED, REVISED, REDESIGNED AND WITH NEW COVERS
Cotswold Way ANTHONY BURTON 978 1 84513 785 4
Hadrian’s Wall Peddars Way Path and Norfolk BRUCE ROBINSON Coast Path 978 1 84513 808 0
BRUCE ROBINSON
The Capital Ring
The London Loop
COLIN SAUNDERS
DAVID SHARP
978 1 84513 786 1
978 1 84513 787 8
978 1 84513 784 7 l Full
publicity and marketing campaign will relaunch the entire National Trail Guides series
l National
newspaper covermount featuring key walks in discussion
l Creation
of National Trails Day
l Marketing
material including posters and flyers created for all regional Natural England offices
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World 210 x 129mm £12.99 Colour photographs throughout Travel Agent/serial: Aurum 23
MARCH
Hero
The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Michael Korda An Oxford scholar and archaeologist, T.E. Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916 and vanished into the desert in 1917. He united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus, a campaign he recorded in the classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer, Lawrence was a visionary whose achievements transcended his time. But as this new, definitive biography sets out to show, the second half of Lawrence’s life was as fascinating as the first, because he spent it avoiding the limelight and cultivating an existence as humble and lowly as his Arabian adventures were high-profile and warrior-like. He enlisted in the RAF as a rank-and-file serviceman to spend his time repairing air-sea rescue launches, telling an oblivious admirer who accosted him in a bookshop that Lawrence of Arabia was ‘a washout’, and trying to get Seven Pillars of Wisdom published only as a limited edition to evade public scrutiny. As Hero reveals, Lawrence was as heroic in his humility as in his statesmanship. ‘A tremendous read: scholarly, moving and a joy to have on one’s bookshelf ’ Sunday Express ‘Magnificent … Wonderfully intelligent, sweeping and highly readable’ Economist ‘Superb’ Mail on Sunday l Tube/railway
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of Lawrence’s vision for the modern Middle East provides a strong contemporary element to the book
Michael Korda is the Editor in Chief Emeritus of Simon and Schuster US. He lives in New York.
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‘This magnificent, monumental portrait at a stroke makes all others redundant, and re-establishes Lawrence as one of the most extraordinary figures of the 20th century’ The Sunday Times
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One of Britain’s best travel writers infiltrates the English Season in this revealing, witty and fascinating social history
The English Season
A Journey through the English Summer
Sophie Campbell It begins, at least unofficially, with the Cheltenham Festival, and then whirls through an array of social events like the Chelsea Flower Show, the Boat Race and Cowes Week, to end on the Glorious Twelfth in August. The entrance fee to most events is somewhat expensive, and the dress code likely to involve an even bigger spend. One would hope, then, that such an outlay would grant access, at least temporarily, to an elite and exclusive stratum of society. Sophie Campbell, one of Britain’s best travel writers, buys the frocks, wears the hats and drinks the Pimm’s at every event in the Season, chronicling its highs and lows and revealing how much has changed since the hedonistic days of the Prince Regent and his funseeking trips out of London. The Debutantes’ Ball is no more – but our intrepid author assesses whether it has been replaced by Latitude or the Big Chill, and finds out if Royal Ascot nowadays is too much the preserve of the plebs to be seen at. She speaks to everyone, from fellow carousers on the open-top bus at the Derby and the Chief Executive of the Cheltenham Festival to Society correspondents and the compilers of Debrett’s, revealing every last quirky custom of an often anachronistic subculture. In what way is Glyndebourne much more than a night at the opera and the Derby a day at the races? In this highly engaging, witty social history, covering a hundred years of the Season, Sophie Campbell dons her party dress and an improbably large hat to find out.
EXTRACT ‘It all seems to flower at the end of the 19th century under the great party man himself, the Prince Regent,’ said Liz from Debrett’s. ‘That’s when the determined pursuit of pleasure at spa towns, seaside resorts and so became a recognisable circuit. There seems to be a great restlessness that emerges at this time. ‘People are always trying to elicit from us a set of rules. We try really hard to get away from that. The Modern Social Season is extremely difficult to define: we focus on events that were part of the traditional season and are still going – the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, for example – but we also include Latitude and so on. The main criterion is fun, but they do need to have entered the country’s DNA. ‘It’s extraordinary that it’s all still going, that if you go to Clapham Junction during Ascot Week, you will still see the platform full of people in hats on their way to the Royal Enclosure. Extraordinary.’
l Huge publicity potential, with extracts and reviews in broadsheets and country pursuits magazines
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l Author will be appearing at numerous literary festivals and literary lunches in Summer 2012
Sophie Campbell writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and various magazines. She is also a London Blue Badge Guide. She lives in London. 27
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The pre-eminent point of reference for sports enthusiasts and journalists alike, and the essential guide to the London games
The Complete Book of the Olympics 2012 Edition
The Austerity Olympics When the Games Came to London in 1948
Janie Hampton Foreword by Sebastian Coe
David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky
Re-issued to coincide with a BBC docu-drama based on the book, Janie Hampton’s acclaimed The Austerity Olympics vividly depicts the last time the Games came to London. Her tales of teams ferried to events on doubledecker buses, billeted in army camps or sewing their own kit are a world away from the lavish 2012 arenas such as Zaha Hadid’s swimming pool and the plans for dedicated street lanes to speed rich bureaucrats from their luxury Picadilly hotels next summer. The cost of the 1948 Olympics was less than a hundredth of a percent of 2012’s massive budget. Back then, just after the war, London showed how to run a fantastic Games on a tiny spend of just £760,000. The main stadium may have hastily been cleared of greyhound racing to allow the athletics to take place, but great runners like Emil Zatopek and Fanny BlankersKoen thrilled the crowd, and the indomitable spirit of Londoners cheerfully overcame every obstacle, from equipment shortages to terrible weather.
At 1300 large-format closely typeset pages, The Complete Book of the Olympics is a prodigious and compendious work of reference. But it is also an amazingly readable book, for in the course of recording every single modern Olympic final at every single Games, it concentrates on the strange, the memorable, and the frankly unbelievable. Who knew (until reading this book) that croquet was once an Olympic sport, or tug of war, or that a 72-year-old once won a silver medal for target shooting? This new edition is updated to include every final’s result (to the first eight places) for every event at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, as well as a comprehensive preview of the London 2012 games. l The
top eight finishers in every summer Olympics since 1896
l Full
descriptions of rules and scoring for every event included for 2012
‘A fascinating book … researched with an awesome thoroughness’ Daily Telegraph
l 1300 pages of absorbing anecdote, statistic and esoteric detail l The single most valued resource for all journalists covering the Games
l Published
to coincide with BBC docu-drama based on 1948 games April 2012 World 368pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 84513 720 5 16pp b/w plates Sport US/Translation: PfD Agent/Serial: PFD 28
l Major national newspaper features in lead up to 2012 Olympics l Author
l Guaranteed coverage in national and regional newspapers, especially in London
to tie in with London 2012
l Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
national and regional TV and radio campaign
Janie Hampton is also the author of a bestselling biography of Joyce Grenfell and How The Girl Guides Won the War. She lives in Oxford.
one truly essential Olympics book
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‘An enthralling account’ Independent
l Re-issued
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‘Hampton’s excellent book should be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the 2012 London Olympics’ Daily Mail Critics’ Choice
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David Wallechinsky has produced nine editions of this book, as well as the bestselling Book of Lists, in collaboration with his nephew Jaime Loucky. He is vice-president of the International Society for Olympic Historians and has been dubbed the ‘Human Encyclopedia’ by Vice magazine. He divides his time between Geneva and California. 29
ROBIN SIEGER is a leading success strategist and has a reputation as a worldclass motivational speaker. In June 2011 he announced an exclusive partnership with The Concession Golf Club in Florida which will see him teach his mental path to peak performance to golfers both amateur and professional. The author of four previous books, including the international bestseller Winners, he divides his time Natural Born Winners between his native Scotland and the US and is happiest on the fairway.
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‘The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself’ Tom Watson
Golf’s Moment of Truth How to Play Under Pressure and Conquer the Choke Point
roBiN sieGer
World 160pp 197 x 129mm Jacketed B-format hardback £12.99 978 1 84513 809 7 Sport US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum
How to Empty Your Mind and Play Golf Instinctively
roBiN sieGer Foreword by toNY JacKliN ‘I wish I had this book over thirty years ago – I genuinely believe it would have prolonged my career at the highest level’ Tony Jacklin
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Whether amateur or Tour professional, every golfer will experience that crucial moment when victory hinges on just one shot. Make it, they win; blow it and they will probably re-live the memory on the golf course for years to come. They have arrived at their personal ‘moment of truth’. The question is: can they do it? The follow-up to his bestselling Silent Mind Golf, this new book sees Robin Sieger explore the concept of ‘choking’ and apply his easy-to-grasp mental conditioning techniques to help golfers at all levels perform under pressure. Using examples taken from the careers of the game’s greatest players, as well as case studies drawn from other sports and walks of life, Robin demystifies the psychological secrets of how to perform well at critical moments, and demonstrates how understanding the ‘choke point’ enables us to conquer it.
Silent Mind Golf
l National and regional newspaper reviews, plus features on how the power of positive thinking has led to spectacular sporting success
Programme of author speaking engagements (Robin is a world-leading motivational speaker)
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When world-class motivational speaker and bestselling author Robin Sieger decided to apply his strategy for success in the boardroom to the fairway, his golf improved dramatically. Earlier this year he announced an exclusive partnership with The Concession Golf Club in Florida, which will see him teach his mental path to peak performance to professional and amateur golfers. Aurum are thrilled to announce a three-book deal with Robin, teeing off with Golf’s Moment of Truth: How to Play Under Pressure and Conquer the Choke Point, published simultaneously with a paperback edition of last year’s successful Silent Mind Golf, and launched with a high-profile marketing and publicity campaign.
World 160pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £7.99 978 1 84513 810 3 Sport US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum
Imagine being able to achieve the perfect mental state to make your best possible swing over every shot. Being fearless at critical putts and stepping up with an inner calm that allows you to play great golf every time you stand over the ball. Now, Silent Mind Golf removes the mystery behind the mental prowess that lies at the heart of peak performance. Too often golfers concentrate all their efforts on technique, in the belief it is only the mechanics of the game they have to master. Instead, free of jargon, with easy-to-follow exercises and inspiring examples drawn from the lives of golf’s greatest players, this unique book will be your guide to developing the single most neglected, least understood and ultimately decisive dimension of the game: mental strength. 31
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The astonishing story of the ‘Great White Whale’, the luxury ocean liner turned troopship, diverted from the Med to the heart of the Falklands war
The Canberra in the Falklands aNDreW viNe
Thirty years ago, after Argentina had invaded the Falkland Islands, a Task Force sailed from Southampton. On it was one of Britain’s two flagship ocean liners, P&O’s Canberra, stopped in its tracks at Gibraltar on its Mediterranean cruise, refitted as a troopship in a week, and now carrying 2,000 soldiers – as well as almost all of its civilian crew – down to the South Atlantic. Unlike the QE2 (also requisitioned), the famously all-whiteCanberra went all the way into San Carlos Water to deliver its Royal Marines into battle, and was bombed ten times while in the Falklands. Once war commenced, the ‘Great White Whale’, as she was by now nicknamed, became a hospital ship; when she returned, battered and rusted, to Southampton, the port gates had to be closed after 40,000 people arrived to welcome her home. Once refurbished, she became the hot ticket for cruise passengers around the world. Now, Andrew Vine has interviewed the Canberra’s crew and the troops who sailed on her to tell the story of a truly remarkable episode of modern war – of how a luxury liner went into the heart of battle, and ordinary men and women found themselves on an adventure by turns terrifying and unforgettable. l Extensive national newspaper review and feature coverage l Feature and review coverage in military and general history press
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l Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the Falklands War
Welcome to Union Books Welcome to Union Books, a new, unapologetically upmarket and intellectually ambitious imprint which has been created in response to our belief that there is a growing appetite for good books – books that not only have something to say, but that care about the way in which it is said. Books that are necessary. Bringing our collective experience of literary journalism and publishing together to find, to publish, and to promote a select number of beautifully designed books each year, our titles will exemplify the editorial and creative values we prize most and will cater for an equally adventurous readership who will come to know – and to trust – our list. We hope you enjoy our first offerings. Alex Clark and Rosalind Porter
ANDREW vINE is deputy editor of the Yorkshire Post. His previous book for Aurum was Last of the Summer Wine. He lives in Leeds. 33
An Accidental Odyssey
DONOVAN HOHN
‘The book is by turns light-hearted and serious but always a pleasure to read.’ The Boston Globe ‘Hohn cleverly uses the deceptively whimsical premise of chasing a little plastic duck to provoke a massively complicated and thought-provoking conversation. Who knew spilled bath toys could be so important?’ Chicago Sun-Times
When Donovan Hohn first heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to some beachcombers and read up on Arctic science and geography. ‘But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away.’ Before long, Hohn’s accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors and the shadowy terrain of Chinese toy factories. Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy and some of the worst weather imaginable. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes. In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz and David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of wonder and curiosity.
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author media bookshop tour
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© Beth Chimera
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Moby-Duck
‘A far-ranging, delightfully narrated masterwork of adventure, science, exploration, and much more.’ Nathaniel Philbrick
EXTRACT At the outset, I felt no need to acquaint myself with the six degrees of freedom. I’d never heard of the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch. I liked my job and loved my wife and was inclined to agree with Emerson that travel is a fool’s paradise. I just wanted to learn what had really happened, where the toys had drifted and why. I loved the part about containers falling off a ship, the part about the oceanographers tracking the castaways with the help of farflung beachcombers. I especially loved the part about the rubber duckies crossing the Arctic, going cheerfully where explorers had gone boldly and disastrously before.
title published by new imprint, Union Books
DONOVAN HOHN is a journalist whose work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Outside and Best Creative Nonfiction. The recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, he is currently the features editor at GQ. He lives in New York with his wife and children.
The next thing you know years have passed, and you’re still adrift, still waiting to see where the questions take you. At least that’s what happens if you’re a nearsighted, school-teaching, would-be archaeologist of the ordinary, with an indulgent, long-suffering wife and a juvenile imagination, and you receive in the mail a manila envelope, and inside this envelope you find a dozen back issues of a cheaply produced newsletter, and in one of those newsletters you discover a wonderful map – if, in other words, you’re me.
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‘Dazzling… Hohn seems to have it all: deep intelligence, a strikingly original voice, humility and a hunger to suss out everything a yellow duck may literally or metaphorically touch.’ The New York Times Book Review
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‘A love letter to the pleasures of reading.’ USA Today APRIL
By the bestselling author of The Gift, this brilliant new book explores the complex intersection between creativity and commerce, examining the history of intellectual property and the legacy it has left
Common As Air
Reading Like a Writer
Revolution, Art and Ownership
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
LEWIS HYDE
FRANCINE PROSE In this entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and skills of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart – to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O’Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Brontë’s structural nuance and Charles Dickens’s deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading.
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In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. Thirty years later his son registered the words ‘I Have a Dream’ as a trademark and now charges dearly for the right to reproduce them. Unlike many famous speeches, such as ‘The Gettysburg Address’ by Abraham Lincoln and ‘The Retreat from Flanders’ by Winston Churchill, ‘I Have a Dream’ is also private property, even though part of it comes from words written by Thomas Jefferson, a man who very much believed that the corporate land-grab of knowledge was at odds with the development of civil society. Moving deftly between literary analysis, history and biography, Common As Air examines ancient feudal laws, the drafting of the American Constitution, agribusiness, Bob Dylan’s admission that his early method of songwriting was largely comprised of ‘rearranging verses to old blues ballads, adding an original line here or there’ and the digital revolution in its reflections on our own attitudes to copyright, trademarking and patenting. ‘An eloquent and erudite plea for protecting our cultural patrimony from appropriation by commercial interests… Hyde builds his argument by telling stories, and he tells them well.’ The New York Times Book Review
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l Innovative sales campaign tailored to creative writing courses
‘Brilliant and absorbing... dense with lucid ideas, erudition and wry humor.’ Star-Tribune l Widespread l High
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New York Times ‘notable’ book
l As a paperback reissue, The Gift has sold over 28,000 copies since 2007
LEWIS HYDE is a poet, essayist, translator and cultural critic. A MacArthur Fellow, Hyde is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College and is a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Centre for Internet and Society. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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New York Times bestseller
l Critically acclaimed author with an extensive UK following
FRANCINE PROSE is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. A distinguished critic and essayist, she has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at major universities. She lives in New York City. 37
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Follow the Money
A Journey to the Heart of America
STEVE BOGGAN Armed with a ten-dollar bill and an insatiable curiosity to be led where it took him, journalist Steve Boggan booked a flight to America with the intention of spending the money and following it for as long as he could while it changed hands. Pretty soon what began as a pipe dream morphed into an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights; through six states across 3,000 miles. Bolstered by a sense of humour (and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of clothes), this beautifully written debut book charts Boggan’s experience – and adventures – following the money. As he cuts crops with farmers in Kansas, pursues a repo-woman from Colorado, gets wasted with a blues band in Arkansas and hangs out at a quarterback’s mansion in St Louis, Boggan enters the lives of ordinary people as they receive – and pass on – the bill. Add to that the missionaries from Missouri, the Amish in Michigan, the banker from Chicago and the deer hunters from Detroit, and what emerges is a chaotic, affectionate and funny portrait of a modern-day America that tourists rarely see. l An intelligent and affectionate portrait of America in the style of Louis Theroux’s The Call of the Weird and John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil lA
natural choice for summer reading and promotions
l Shooting l Huge
for film of the journey begins in November
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l A debut writer with a strong track record in investigative reportage
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surprising portrait of an unfamiliar America
STEVE BOGGAN was Chief Reporter of the Independent and co-founder of the newspaper’s investigations unit before moving into feature writing, which he now does for the Guardian, The Times and the Evening Standard. He lives in London and this is his first book.
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How far can you go with a ten-dollar bill? Join acclaimed journalist Steve Boggan on a strange and wondrous journey across America as he ‘passes the buck’
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Charting his wayward odyssey through modern America, this high-octane biography portrays the maverick life of Dennis Hopper as a great American story, populated by some of the most enduring icons of the twentieth century
Hopper A Wild Ride to the Heart of the American Dream
Tom Folsom
Praise for Tom Folsom’s previous books: ‘Spectacular’ The Sun on the The Mad Ones ‘Riveting, richly atmospheric’ Kirkus on The Mad Ones ‘As graceful as it is gruesome’ Daily Telegraph on Mr Untouchable
From film to politics to art to music, Dennis Hopper was an iconoclast who carved out his own rules, moved to his own rhythm and lived out his own strange and strangely idealistic version of the American Dream. While filming Rebel Without a Cause, he met James Dean, finding in Dean the inspiration for his own rebellion. At the height of the counterculture, he wrote and starred in his directorial debut, the revolutionary Easy Rider. He marched with Martin Luther King; collaborated with Warhol and Duchamp; and struck up close friendships with Elvis, John Wayne and Jack Nicholson. He also crossed paths with Charles Manson; was arrested countless times for carrying firearms; and was once described by Rolling Stone as ‘one of Hollywood’s most notorious drug addicts’. Commissioned shortly before his death in 2010, this compelling biography draws on original interviews with an unparalleled array of witnesses to Hopper’s life and career – including Easy Rider co-star Peter Fonda and Blue Velvet director David Lynch – to recreate a journey that leads all the way from the Dust Bowl to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The result is a thrillingly unconventional account of a very unconventional man.
l A major new biography, with the author enjoying unrivalled access to Hopper’s family and associates l High
profile national newspaper serialisation assured
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and regional newspaper reviews and features
l Widespread review and feature coverage in film press and online
Tom Folsom is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld and the co-author of Mr. Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of the Black Godfather, written with Harlem heroin kingpin Leroy ‘Nicky’ Barnes, whose character featured in the movie American Gangster. Folsom lives in New York. 41
‘This is revisionist history at its best – thoughtprovoking and original’ Sunday Herald
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Douglas Haig and the British Army
An engrossing anthology of the best Telegraph writing on a century of Olympic Games
Gary Sheffield New in Paperback Douglas Haig is the single most controversial general in British history. In 1918, after his armies had won the First World War, he was feted as a saviour. But within twenty years his reputation was in ruins, and it has never recovered. In this fascinating biography, Professor Gary Sheffield reassesses Haig’s reputation, assessing his critical role in preparing the army for war.
the Book of the Olympics
Edited by Martin Smith
‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified to make it … a balanced portrait’ The Sunday Times World 400pp 197 x 129 mm B-format paperback £12.99 978 1 84513 769 4 8pp plates Military History US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum
Drawn from the pages of the Telegraph, this superb anthology pulls together the very best writing on the Olympics. Published for London 2012 and beyond, it spans over a hundred years, and counts famous Olympians including Steve Redgrave, Sebastian Coe, James Cracknell, Michael Johnson and the Princess Royal as contributors. Martin Smith’s selection ranges from David Hemery’s hurdling triumph in 1968 to Usain Bolt’s sensational 100 metres record in Beijing, and from the Berlin Olympics in 1936 to the fabulous track duels of Coe, Ovett and Cram. We go right back to Dorando Pietri’s famous marathon bid in London’s 1908 Games, and then share the homespun pleasure of the ‘Austerity Olympics’ in 1948, the last time they came to London. Here, too, are the legendary Olympic performances of the young Cassius Clay, Abebe Bikila, Olga Korbut, Mary Peters and Mark Spitz. Articles also come from our most distinguished sports writers, such as Anita Lonsbrough (also our 1960 swimming gold medallist), Paul Hayward, Martin Johnson, Jim White and cyclist David Millar.
‘Solid scholarship and admirable advocacy’ Sunday Telegraph l National
press review and feature coverage
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coverage in history press
One of Britain’s leading military historians, Gary Sheffield is Professor of War Studies at the University of Birmingham and has written a number of critically acclaimed and commercially successful books on the First World War, including Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities.
‘Gripping … The men who fought with the UN force deserve to be remembered better than they currently are. Salmon’s moving, fascinating book at last does them justice’ Mail on Sunday
Scorched Earth, Black Snow Britain and Australia in the Korean War, 1950
l Editorial features and book offers in Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Andrew Salmon New in paperback Andrew Salmon’s history of the first year of the Korean War – a tumultuous series of epic battles, ending in an infamous and harrowing retreat – was critically acclaimed when published in hardback. More Britons were killed in Korea than died in the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan combined, yet Korea remains ‘the Forgotten War’. Drawn from dozens of new interviews with surviving veterans, this is the previously untold story of the Australian and British troops who fought during the most desperate days of that war.
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World 416pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £10.99 l Reviews in military history magazines and on military websites 978 1 84513 775 5 16pp b/w plates Military Andrew Salmon is a Seoul-based journalist for The Times, US/Translation: Aurum the South China Morning Post and Forbes. His first book on the Agent/Serial: Fox & Howard Korean War, To the Last Round, is also published by Aurum.
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Martin Smith was for many years deputy sports editor of the Telegraph. He has edited previous Telegraph anthologies for Aurum on the Tour de France, horse racing and cricket letters. 43
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The tale of how a uniquely British combination of ingenuity, bluff and sheer luck produced some of the greatest games of all time
Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders
Leaves on the Line
Letters on trains to The Daily Telegraph
Edited by Gavin Fuller
How British Videogames Conquered the World
Rebecca Levene and Magnus Anderson
Whether it’s leaves on the line or the wrong kind of snow that prevents our train getting us to work in winter, or the curled-up sandwich on sale in the buffet car for an extortionate price, or the militancy of the rail unions that seem to be endlessly on strike over nothing, everyone in Britain has an opinion about our railways. After the weather, they are probably the country’s most reliable talking point. Consequently, Telegraph readers being the inveterate, trenchant, choleric and waggish letter-writers that they are, our railways have always figured high on the list of subjects requiring a missive to the Editor. Now, in this fascinating and hilarious selection, Gavin Fuller has put together the best letters on trains to the paper over the years. Here is the end of steam and the start of Eurostar; the punctuality of Swiss trains and the signal failures of ours; the laments for the branch lines lost under the Beeching cuts, and also for the peace and quiet lost for ever in a railway carriage to the menace of personal stereos and fellow passengers booming, ‘I’m On The Train!’ into their mobile phones.
It’s become the greatest British invasion of them all: Lara Croft is a world famous pin-up and the British-made Grand Theft Auto and its spin-offs have sold more than 120 million copies worldwide. ‘The UK videogames industry is now bigger than either its cinema or its music. Yet gaming’s birth in Thatcher’s Britain was almost accidental. While government policies variously ignored or cherry-picked humble computers like the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro, it was left to a grass-roots culture of amateur programmers and teenage entrepreneurs to unlock their true potential. Isolated from the rest of the world by its particular machines, British gaming evolved in a strange and brilliant profusion of odd-ball characters, programming miracles and Pythonesque humour. So when the games industry went global, British developers were ready to be a driving force behind the new Cool Britannia and beyond. Grand Thieves and Tomb Raiders is a story of local talent bursting onto the international stage and of a generation of brilliant young programmers whose creations swept them from the bedroom to the boardroom and unimagined riches. l Sponsorship of retro-gaming mini-site for launch
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Gavin Fuller is a former Mastermind champion who is now the Telegraph’s archivist.
in selected gaming magazines and websites
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be heavily promoted in the Telegraph
review coverage in travel and train specialist press World 208pp 197 x 129mm Jacketed hardback £14.99 978 1 84513 776 2 Transport/Humour US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum
l Advertising
for Father’s Day
l Extensive
MAY
SIR – Having suffered British Rail's inefficiency for so long, I find it staggering that they are capable of organising a go-slow so quickly and with such effect
BC excluding Canada 288pp 216 x 125mm Demy trade paperback £14.99 978 1 84513 704 5 8pp colour plates Popular Culture/Business US/Translation: Watson, Little Ltd Agent/Serial: Watson, Little Ltd/ Aurum
l Features and reviews in business press, and on the business pages of national press l Extensive online PR campaign targeting gaming websites, blogs and forums l Reviews
in men’s, technology and gaming magazines
Rebecca Levene has been a writer and editor for over fifteen years and is now a scriptwriter in the games industry. Magnus Anderson is a merchant banker and business analyst who has been following and investing in the videogames sector for over a decade. They both live in London. 45
MAY
MAY
The first in-depth look at the life and career of Joss Whedon – one of the most influential figures to emerge from American popular culture during the last quarter-century
Wunderkind Joss Whedon: A Biography
Amy Pascale Ranging across cinema, television and comics, Joss Whedon is a male writer whose most famous creation is a ‘girl power’ icon; a geek who deals in classic themes of love, death and redemption; and one of the first people in the entertainment industry to have harnessed the power of the Internet to engage directly with his fans. A journalist who happens to be one of those fans, Amy Pascale has based this revealing biography on extensive original interviews with Whedon’s collaborators and stars, as well as the man himself. Her book traces his development from an inspiring liberal upbringing and teenage years spent at elite English public school Winchester College, through his first bruising experiences writing for TV, to his status today as a blockbuster writer and director, whose every new project is pored over online by millions of loyal admirers. As well as offering candid behind-the-scenes accounts of the making of groundbreaking shows Buffy, Angel and Firefly, the book also details Whedon’s contribution to modern cinema, as the writer, and sometimes director, behind hit movies such as Speed, Toy Story and Serenity, before looking ahead to The Avengers, which is already being billed as the superhero movie of 2012.
BC excluding Canada 288pp 216 x 135mm Jacketed demy hardback £16.99 978 1 84513 719 9 16pp colour plates Biography/Film & TV US/Translation: Chicago Review Press/Aurum Agent/Serial: Foundry Literary + Media/Aurum 46
l Book published to coincide with May release of hugely anticipated Whedon movie The Avengers, starring Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson and Edward Norton l Features in national and film press to tie in with film release l Series of Whedon movie screenings at Everyman cinemas for UK bloggers and Whedon fans l Webchats and interviews with author across the enormous Whedon-related section of the blogosphere, including huge blog sites Whedonesque and Buffyfest.blogspot l Skype event with author at UK Whedon convention Hallowhedon, plus advertising to delegates
Amy Pascale is a writer and commentator on popular culture based in New York. She co-founded and edits the influential and offbeat web magazine popgurls.com and was one of the original members of The Bronze, the innovative online community through which the creators of Buffy the Vampire Slayer interacted with the show’s fans. 47
Do You Think That’s Wise? MAY
The Life of John Le Mesurier
Graham McCann New in paperback Best known for starring in Dad’s Army, where his Sergeant Wilson was the languid, rakish, distracted foil to Arthur Lowe’s pompous, chippy Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier was one of our most loved character actors. This fully authorised biography reveals that there was much of Sergeant Wilson in ‘Le Mez’, as he was known to friends and family. Just as Wilson appeared to enjoy a close – but unmarried – acquaintance with Private Pike’s mum, so Le Mesurier had three unconventional marriages, one with the comic actress Hattie Jacques. His third wife left him for an affair with Tony Hancock and he tended to prioritise an early-morning scan of the Racing Post above rehearsals.
World 288pp 197 x 129mm £8.99 978 1 84513 790 8 8pp b & w plates Film/TV US/Translation: Aurum/ Graham McCann’s books include biographies of Mic Cheetham Terry-Thomas, Frankie Howerd and Morecambe and Wise, and Agent/Serial: Mic Cheetham books on Fawlty Towers and Associated Scripts. He lives in Cambridge.
A charming and revealing biography of one of British comedy’s all-time greats
Sid James A Biography
Robert Ross
World 288pp 197 x 129mm Paperback £8.99 978 1 90753 216 0 8pp b/w plates Biography US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum 48
New in paperback Everyone thinks they know Sid James – the Carry On star and womaniser, who drank himself to death after his affair with Barbara Windsor ended – but hundreds of scandalous newspaper articles failed to tell the real story of this complex actor. This fascinating biography reveals every facet of his character: war hero, seducer, reluctant broadcaster, shrewd investor and gambling addict. It features never-before-published correspondence with his family, friends and colleagues, and exclusive tales from Sid’s inner circle including Jim Dale (Carry On co-star), Sally Geeson (Bless This House co-star), and scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (Hancock’s Half Hour).
Robert Ross has been writing about and researching British entertainment history for more than a decade, and is the author of 15 books on British comedy with subjects ranging from Monty Python to Benny Hill. He lives in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
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‘An eccentric, delightful surprise’ – Independent, Books of the Year
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JUNE
An all-new, awe-inspiring view of the greatest city in the world; the essential guide to London’s high points and what you can see from them
Skyline London A Guide to the Finest Views from the Capital’s Highest Points
caroline dale
World 144pp 284 x 216mm Paperback £9.99 978 1 84513 762 5 Full colour photographs throughout Travel US/Tranlsation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum 50
If you want the best view of New York, you go up the Empire State Building; in Paris, the Eiffel Tower. From 2012 London will have the Shard, with its 72nd-floor observation deck, the tallest building in Europe. But London, as this fascinating and original guidebook shows, is already full of fabulous views from above, if you know where to go – and those vistas are not of a rigid gridpattern of streets as in New York, but the teeming intricacy of a capital city shaped by settlement and redevelopment since Roman times. From Becton Alps in East London to Henman Hill at Wimbledon’s All-England Club, from Edison’s lighthouse at Leamouth to the top of Centre Point, here are fifty amazing and unexpected aerial views available to the curious visitor – of the sinuous course of the Thames, the radiating arcs of railway lines, or Waterloo Station at night lit up like an antique glasshouse.
l Published to coincide with the opening of the Shard, Europe’s tallest building
l Skyline maps, allowing the visitor to identify everything they can see from any of fifty elevated vantage points
l Olympic Year 2012 will see London full of visitors
l Comprehensive details of access, opening hours and nearby public transport
l Major national newspaper feature and review coverage
l Monuments, bars, restaurants, a lighthouse, cathedral and museum galleries, hills and much more
l Extensive publicity and marketing campaign targeting London media
l A selection of jaw-dropping new aerial photography of London
l Skyline London trailer seeded into travel and tourism blogs
This guide will appeal to the foreign tourist and the longtime London resident alike, as well as offering the best – because highest – places for a drink, a meal, a party or even a wedding. It will truly enable you to see London in a different way.
l Skyline London themed walks introduced to Walkit.co.uk and other leading walking sites
Caroline Dale is a former Reuters and Evening Standard journalist who now works as a Blue Badge tourist guide. She lives in London. 51
JUNE
‘When Bahamontes went for it in the mountains, you knew you’d never see him again’ Barry Hoban, eight times Tour de France stage winner
The Book of the Tour de France
The Eagle of Toledo
The Life and Times of Federico Bahamontes, the Tour’s Greatest Climber
Edited by Martin Smith
Alasdair Fotheringham
A man, a bike and the open road. What could be simpler? Certainly not the Tour de France, the annual travelling circus which for more than a century has been the ultimate test of sporting endurance. The Telegraph has been there for just about every turn of the wheel: up in the mountains on Mont Ventoux, Alpe d’Huez and Col du Galibier, the legendary climbs; ploughing through the picnicking, partying crowds; whizzing through London in 2007’s wondrous opening stage; dropping in and out of the peloton; and dodging the spills. Now, the full drama of the Tour is captured here through the contemporary reports of the newspaper’s cycling correspondents, who chronicled first-hand the achievements of greats such as Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Lance Armstrong; as well reporting the contest’s darker side, such as Tom Simpson’s death in 1967 and the stain of doping. A compendious history of the greatest show on two wheels, The Telegraph Book of the Tour de France is a must-have addition to the library of every cycling enthusiast. l Revised
Federico Martín Bahamontes, the Eagle of Toledo, is rated by many as the greatest climber in cycling’s history. The first Spaniard to win the Tour de France and a six-time champion of the race’s gruelling ‘King of the Mountains’ classification, he also became a national hero in a Spain struggling to rebuild after the atrocities and divisions of the Civil War. Born in Toledo in 1928, Bahamontes saw his family devastated and forced to flee to Madrid when Nationalist rebels rose up against the elected government in 1936. Impoverished and starving, he took to cycling as a means of delivering black market produce, before realising that sport offered an escape from the streets. After an impressive amateur career, he made his Tour de France debut in 1954 – and won the mountains competition on his first attempt. His success, and a charismatic but temperamental racing style, brought him fame at home and abroad. But it was also appropriated by the dictatorial regime of General Franco. Fifty years on, however, he remains a Spanish cycling hero. An eccentric of phenomenal willpower, he is one of the few key personalities from Spain’s ‘lost generations’ to remain alive and – as Alasdair Fotheringham discovered when interviewing him for this fascinating biography – more than willing to tell the tale.
and updated to cover every Tour up to 2011
l Extensive editorial and marketing support in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph l Reviews l Direct
World 304pp 210 x 138mm Paperback £12.99 ISBN 978 1 84513 545 4 Chapter-opening b/w photographs US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Telegraph Books/ Aurum 52
in sport and cycling magazines
l Major
marketing campaign to UK cycling clubs
l Published to co-incide with the peak of the cycling season
Martin Smith was formerly assistant sports editor and sports writer at the Daily Telegraph, where he worked for more than twenty years. An enthusiastic cyclist in his youth, he graduated to the less arduous four wheels as soon as he was able.
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A fascinating treasure trove of cycling history from the archives of the Telegraph that will keep readers gripped – all the way to that triumphant finish on the Champs Élysées
national newspaper feature and review coverage
l Extensive
World 304pp 216 x 135mm Jacketed demy hardback £16.99 978 1 84513 700 7 8pp b/w plates US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Jenny Brown Associates/Aurum
coverage in sports press
l Direct marketing campaign to all UK cycling clubs and the CTC (the UK’s national cyclists’ organisation)
Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist based in Spain. He has covered seventeen Tours de France and fifteen Tours of Spain, as well as numerous other major races. He first interviewed Bahamontes in 1993. Currently the cycling correspondent for the Independent, and the Spanish correspondent for the Independent on Sunday, he has also written for leading British cycling publications Cycling Weekly and Cycle Sport. 53
‘[A] brilliant balance between lucid analysis and piquant detail in masterly chapters’ Lawrence James, Daily Mail
JUNE
Stephen Bungay
An enthusiastic social history of a cultural icon
The VW Camper Van
For Great Britain there were two pivotal battles in the Second World War. One was the Battle of Britain. The other was El Alamein. Stephen Bungay’s rigorous and compelling account ranges from the phantasmagoric blur of shell-fire and swirling sand that was the soldiers’ war to the meeting of two evenly matched military minds as the mercurial Rommel faced the fastidious Montgomery. June 2012 World 256pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 84513 789 2 16pp b/w plates Military History Agent/Serial: David Grossman/Aurum
A Biography
Mike Harding Its eccentrically off-centre steering and capricious aircooled rear engine haven’t prevented the VW Camper Van from becoming a major transport icon. Much beloved of hippies, Australian surf bums and Europeans taking the overland route to enlightenment in India in the 60s and 70s, VW Campers now clutter the fields at fashionable music festivals and can change hands for tens of thousands of pounds. They’re the first choice for couples and families seeking a cheap camping holiday with wheels attached and have spawned a huge fan community complete with conventions, shows and national clubs. Radio 2 DJ Mike Harding’s first ride in a VW Camper Van took place in 1961, when it ferried his rock band, the Manchester Rainmakers. Almost fifty years later, by which time authentic Camper Vans had become collector’s items, he finally bought his own, a much-prized 2001 Type 2 bay window Brazilian import Danbury conversion. This wonderful biography traces the VW’s journey from inception to icon, and reveals the reasons for its enduring appeal.
‘An engrossing account’ Financial Times ‘Chilling and clinical detail’ The Times l Reissued
with a new jacket to coincide with the 70th anniversary of victory at El Alamein in Autumn 2012 l National press feature coverage around the anniversary STEPHEN BUNGAY is the author of The Most Dangerous Enemy (published by Aurum), the bestselling and definitive history of the Battle of Britain.
‘A fascinating and deeply moving piece of social history’ HHHHH Mail on Sunday
The Barbed-Wire University The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War
l High
Midge Gillies
latest in Aurum’s successful biographies of transport icons, following the success of Morris Minor (over 10,000 copies sold in hardback) and Flying Scotsman (12,000 copies sold in hardback)
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l Marketing campaign targeting the VW fan community, including: Partnership and advertising with Vanfest – the world’s largest event for VW owners and enthusiasts l Bumper stickers advertising the book sent to members of VW clubs
‘Rich and well-researched’ The Sunday Times ‘Every one of the pages hums with human interest’ HHHHH Daily Express ‘These astonishing tales of improvisation, ingenuity and courage are so enthralling’ Spectator l Widely
reviewed in paperback roundups
l Author
literary festival appearance
Midge Gillies is the author of a biography of Amy Johnson and a history of the home front in the first two years of the war. She lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
profile BBC Radio 2 DJ
l The
New in paperback POWs responded to the tedium and brutality of life in the camps with amazing ingenuity. They staged glittering shows and elaborate sporting fixtures, created exquisite art and even improvised daring surgical techniques. Drawing on letters howme, diaries and new interviews, Midge Gillies recreates the daily lives of a remarkable group of men. June 2012 World 512pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £9.99 978 1 84513 777 9 16pp b/w plates History Agent/serial: Faith Evans
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Alamein
World 256pp 216 x 138mm Jacketed hardback £14.99 978 1 84513 605 5 8pp colour plates Transport US/Translation: WGCB Agent/Serial: Aurum
l Features l Reviews l Author
on camper van fansites in car and history magazines
appearances at selected summer festivals
Mike Harding presents Mike Harding’s Folk and Acoustic on Radio 2 every Wednesday evening. His other books for Aurum are his Little Books on church iconography and A Guide to North Country Flies. He lives in West Yorkshire. 55
JUNE
The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe The Shocking True Story
Keith Badman New in paperback In his illuminating, fascinating book, Keith Badman finally uncovers the truth about the icon’s last years. It was a tough time – one in which the star’s increasingly erratic behaviour and dependence on alcohol and medication plunged her glittering movie career into drastic decline. Meticulously researched, the book reveals precisely how Monroe died at just thirty-six years of age, and shines a light on the suspicious delays on the night of her overdose – delays that indicate a cover up. He discovers new details about her rekindled relationship with Joe DiMaggio, and the horrendous weekend she spent at Frank Sinatra’s Cal-Nevada lodge, as well as why Fox refused to let her finish her final movie Something’s Got to Give, and her distress at being imprisoned at the Payne Witney psychiatric hospital. Drawing on private, previously unpublished itineraries and original eye-witness accounts, Badman sheds new light on Marilyn’s involvement with John and Bobby Kennedy, and ends a six-decade-old mystery by telling the precise date of her first encounter with the President. The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe features a deluge of stories of which even the most die-hard fan will be unaware. l Feature and broadcast publicity opportunities around the anniversary of Monroe’s death
World English Language 448pp 197x129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 907532 49 8 16pp b/w plates Biography US/Translation: St Martin’s Press/ Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum 56
l Attractive
package perfect for summer paperbacks
l Interview
campaign on national and regional radio
Keith Badman is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including The Beatles After the Break-Up (1999), The Beatles Off the Record (20000, and The Beach Boys – The Definitive Diary of America’s Greatest Band On Stage and In the Studio (2004). He lives in Berkshire.
JULY
‘Shocking … lifts the lid, in microscopic detail, on the last months of the star’s life’ Mail on Sunday
JULY
Criminal London
Raymond Chandler
A Sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime
A Mysterious Something in the Light: A New Biography
Kris and Nina Hollington
Tom Williams
From Sherlock Holmes’s Baker Street and Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel to the East End of the Krays and The Sweeney’s Hammersmith, London’s streets have played silent witness to countless crimes both real and imagined. Moreover, in print and on screen the city has exported its criminal heritage to the world, becoming a global capital of wrongdoing rivalled only by New York and Los Angeles. Yet there has been no single guide to its darker points of interest until now. Traversing the city’s factual and fictional past, Criminal London features five original walks and over a hundred locations, including: the scenes of infamous murders; watering holes frequented by notorious felons; the homes of great consulting detectives; and sites from London’s rich history of law and order, such as the Clink, Tyburn Tree and Bow Street Police Station. Aimed at adventurous tourists and curious Londoners who enjoy exploring the surprising nooks and crannies of their city, this is a sightseeing guide for the intrepid. l Features l Reviews
What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as impenetrable and deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, literary gumshoe Tom Williams casts light on this most mysterious of writers. The Chandler he reveals is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age – experiences that fuelled his writing as much as they scarred his life. Born in Chicago in 1888, the disappearance of his alcoholic father forced Chandler and his doting mother back to Ireland, and eventually London. Later, intent on forging a new life unconstrained by the petty mores of the British middle class, he returned to the US – to corruption-ridden Los Angeles – where he met his one great love: Cissy Pascal, a married woman eighteen years his senior. It was only during middle age, after worsening alcoholism wrecked a lucrative career as an oilman, that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction, although his success was to prove bittersweet. An obsessive attitude towards his craft, unrealised literary ambitions and a suicidal turn after Cissy’s death prevented him ever recapturing the verve of his earlier novels. In this long-awaited new biography, the most balanced and comprehensive yet written, Tom Williams shadows one of the twentieth century’s true literary giants and considers how crime was raised to the level of art.
across all London media in true crime magazines and related websites
l Criminal London walking tour events for journalists and London bloggers l Marketing partnership with walkit.com, the urban walking community and routeplanner
World 320pp 190 x 106mm Pocket-sized paperback with flaps £10.99 978 1 84513 778 6 Over 100 colour photographs Travel US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Andrew Lownie/ Aurum 58
l Marketing opportunities with the Sherlock Holmes Museum
Kris Hollington is a freelance journalist and author who has co-written four bestselling books on policing in London with Met officer Harry Keeble. He is also a Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper enthusiast and wrote a walk inspired by the adventures of the former for the Sherlock Holmes Museum. Nina Hollington is Kris’s wife and a professional photographer who has provided many of the images for this book. They both live in London.
JULY
A fascinating guide to the darker side of London’s history
A major new biography of the writer who, more than any other, has defined modern crime fiction
l Major
World 400pp 234 x 153mm Jacketed royal hardback £20 978 1 84513 526 3 16pp b/w plates Biography US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: PFD/Aurum
national newspaper serialisation
l Digital PR campaign targeting crime websites, fansites and online communities l Extensive national and regional newspaper reviews and features l Appearances at several literary festivals, including launch at the Theakston’s Crime Festival
Tom Williams is a writer and journalist living in north London. He has previously written for the Observer and the Spectator. This is his first book. 59
JULY
‘I feel very honoured to have shared a TARDIS with Sarah Jane Smith, and I feel very lucky to have shared some time with Lis Sladen. She was extraordinary’ David Tennant
Fred Trueman
Elisabeth Sladen
Chris Waters
Elisabeth Sladen
New in Paperback Fred Trueman was so much more than a cricketing legend. ‘The greatest living Yorkshireman’ according to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, he couldn’t help excelling at everything he did, whether it was as a hostile fast bowler for Yorkshire and England, and the first man to take 300 Test wickets in a career, or as a fearlessly outspoken radio summariser for Test Match Special, famous for regularly spluttering that, ‘I don’t know what’s going off out there.’ Beloved of cricket crowds, who filled grounds to witness his belligerent way of playing the game, and nothing but trouble to the cricket authorities, ‘Fiery Fred’ was the epitome of a fullblooded Englishman. But as Chris Waters reveals in this first full biography, behind the charismatic, exuberant mask lay a far less selfassured man – terrified even that his new dog wouldn’t like him – and whose bucolic version of his upbringing bore no relation to the gritty and impoverished South Yorkshire mining community where he actually grew up. Drawing on dozens of new interviews with his Yorkshire colleagues, family and friends, this life of Fred Trueman will surprise and even shock, but also confirm the status of an English folk hero.
NEW IN PAPERBACK When Elisabeth Sladen debuted as journalist Sarah Jane Smith in 1973 Doctor Who story ‘The Time Warrior’, she had no idea that the character would become one of the most popular in the series’ history. Indeed, her decision to quit the TARDIS in 1976, having traversed space and time alongside Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, made front page news. But you don’t just walk away from the Doctor. Elisabeth reprised her role many times, and went on to tour the weird and wonderful world of Doctor Who fandom. So when TV wunderkind Russell T Davies approached her to come back again, this time to a show backed by multi-million pound budgets and garlanded with critical plaudits, how could she refuse? Completed only months before her death in April 2011, Elisabeth’s memoir is funny, ridiculous, insightful and entertaining, and a fitting tribute to a woman who will be sadly missed by millions.
The Autobiography
The Authorised Biography
l National
l Extensive 4 and 6 sheet tube and outdoor advertising campaign l Massive broadcast media publicity campaign featuring Elisabeth’s actress daughter (put together with the full support of Elisabeth’s family)
and regional outdoor ad campaign
l Digital and social media advertising on Doctor Who and sci-fi websites as well as Facebook
l Paperback round-ups in sports pages of newspapers, especially in Yorkshire l Reviews
World 308pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £9.99 978 1 84513 746 5 16pp b/w photographs Sport US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Aurum 60
in cricket magazines and on sport websites
Chris Waters is the cricket correspondent of the Yorkshire Post. He lives in Leeds.
JULY
‘Fred Trueman was the first superstar of the game. He was a flamboyant, larger-than-life character’ Ian Botham
World 320pp 197 x 129mm B-format paperback £8.99 978 1 84513 826 4 16pp colour plates Biography US/Translation: Aurum Agent/Serial: Cecily Ware Literary Agents/Aurum
l Competitions and reviews targeting the Doctor Who fan community l Elisabeth Sladen was consistently voted the all-time favourite Doctor’s companion, and paperback publication will be of massive interest to the huge national and international audience of Doctor Who fans
Elisabeth Sladen played companion Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures. She also appeared in Coronation Street, Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em and Z-Cars. She died in April 2011. 61
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Woman Who Worked There Sinclair McKay £8.99 l 978-1845136338
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The Most Dangerous Enemy A History of the Battle of Britain Stephen Bungay £10.99 l 978-1845134815
Just Boris: The Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity Sonia Purnell £20.00 978-1845136659
I Rest My Case Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph Iain Hollingshead £9.99 l 978-1845136901
Alien Vault: The Definitive Story Behind the Film Ian Nathan £30.00 978-1845136673
Is This The Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen Mark Blake £9.99 978-1845137137
Britain’s Lost Railways: The Twentieth Century Destruction of our Finest Railway Architecture John Minniss £25.00 l 978-1845134501
Not in My Day, Sir: Cricket Letters to the Daily Telegraph Martin Smith £14.99 978-1845136260
The Barbed Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War Midge Gillies £25.00 978-1845136291
I Could Go On…: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph Iain Hollingshead £9.99 978-1845135980
Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd Mark Blake £9.99 978-1845133665
Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell Running and Obsession Richard Askwith £8.99 978-1845130824
Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper A Second Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys Michael Kerr £20.00 l 978-1845136680
Am I Alone in Thinking…?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph Iain Hollingshead £9.99 978-1845135027
Star Trek Vault: 40 Years from the Archives Scott Tipton £35.00 978-1845136789
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back: The Definitive Story Behind the Film J W Rinzler £45.00 978-1845135553
Audrey Style Pamela Clarke Keogh £16.99 978-1845134907
Lost Victorian Britain: How the Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century’s Architectural Masterpieces Gavin Stamp £25.00 l 978-1845135324
Britain’s Lost Cricket Grounds The Hallowed Homes of Cricket that Will Never See Another Ball Bowled CHRIS ARNOT £25.00 978-184513591 1
Ray Harryhausen’s Fantasy Scrapbook Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton £30.00 978- 845135577 63
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A Alien Vault Alamein Anderson, Magnus Austerity Olympics, The B Badman, Keith Banksy Barbed-Wire University, The Boggan, Steve Book of Olympic Lists, The Bryant, John Bungay, Stephen C Campbell, Sophie Canberra in the Falklands, The Chief, The Chris Brasher Clapham, Phoebe Common As Air Complete Book of the Olympics 2012 Criminal London D Dale, Caroline Do You Think That’s Wise? E Eagle of Toledo, The Edwin Lutyens: Country House El Camino de Santiago Ellsworth-Jones, Will Elisabeth Sladen English Season, The F Felling the Ancient Oaks Final Years of Marilyn Monroe, The Finest Wines of Burgundy, The Follow the Money Folsom, Tom Fotheringham, Alasdair Fred Trueman Fuller, Gavin ed. G Gillies, Midge Golf’s Moment of Truth Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders H Hall, Damian Hampton, Janie Harding, Mike Hero Hohn, Donovan Hollingon, Kris and Nina Hopper Hyde, Lewis J Just Boris K Kerr, Michael ed. Korda, Michael
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L Last Call for the Dining Car Leaves on the Line Levene, Rebecca Loucky, Jaime Lucky Kunst M McCann, Graham Mile by Mile from London to Paris Mile by Mile from London to Paris Moby-Duck Muir, Gregor N Nanson, Bill National Trail Guides P Pascale, Amy Piggott, Reginald Pike, S.N. Prince Prose, Francine Purnell, Sonia R Ramis, Sergi Raymond Chandler Reading Like a Writer Ro, Ronin Robinson, John Martin Ross, Robert S Salmon, Andrew Scorched Earth, Black Snow Sharp, David Sheffield, Gary Sid James Sieger, Robin Silent Mind Golf Skyline London Sladen, Elisabeth Smith, Martin ed. Stamp, Gavin T Telegraph Book of the Olympics, The Telegraph Book of the Tour de France, The Thompson, Don Thompson, Matt V Vine, Andrew VW Camper Van, The W Wallechinsky, David Waters, Chris Williams, Tom Wunderkind
10 44 45 15,29 6 48 19 18 34 6 4 22 46,47 19 18 8 37 20 23 59 37 8 5 48 42 42 22 42 48 30,31 30 50 61 43,52 9 43 52 14 19 32 55 15,29 60 59 46,47