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When Mr Dog Bites Brian Conaghan Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon’s Christopher Boone meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a journey …
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ylan Mint has Tourette’s. Being sixteen is hard enough, but Dylan’s life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in – the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed … But a routine visit to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed conversation between the doctor and his mother, Dylan discovers that he’s going to die next March. So he grants himself three parting wishes or ‘Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It’. But as Dylan sets out to make his wishes come true, he discovers that nothing – and no-one – is quite as he had previously supposed.
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Brian Conaghan is the author of the acclaimed The Boy Who Made It Rain. Originally from the Scottish town of Coatbridge he is now living in Dublin. Brian has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. When Mr Dog Bites is his first Adult and Young Adult crossover novel. @brianconaghan
Before We Met Lucie Whitehouse A psychological thriller about how the most dangerous lies are those closest to home, for fans of Before I Go To Sleep and Gone Girl
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annah has always avoided commitment but when she meets Mark one hot New York summer, her ideas change. Back in London, adored by her successful new husband, she knows she was right to let her guard down. When Mark fails to return from a business trip, however, her certainty starts to crack. Why have his financial papers disappeared? Why has her bank account been emptied? And who is the mysterious woman who has been calling his office?
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The more questions she asks, the fewer answers she finds. Now she must decide whether the secrets Mark has been keeping are designed to protect him or protect her … Lucie Whitehouse was born in Warwickshire in 1, read Classics at Oxford University and now lives in New York with her husband and daughter. She is the author of The House at Midnight and the TV Book Club-pick The Bed I Made.
The Crooked Maid Dan Vyleta Graham Greene meets Dostoevsky in a thrilling and atmospheric story of guilt and restitution, set in post-war Vienna
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ienna, 14. The war is over and, as the initial phase of denazification winds down, people rebuild their lives amidst the rubble. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled years earlier upon discovering her husband’s infidelity. She has come back to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Travelling on the same train is eighteenyear-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather’s sickbed and the secrets of his family’s past. As Anna and Robert navigate an unrecognizable city, beneath the bombed-out ruins a ghost of a man, wrapped in a red scarf, battles demons from his past and hides from a future that is deeply uncertain for all. Dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late 10s. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. His first novel, Pavel & I, was published to international acclaim. His second novel, The Quiet Twin, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. A Canadian by adoption, Dan Vyleta teaches Creative Writing at Durham University. www.danvyleta.com
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The Following Girls Louise Levene The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie meets 1984 in a biting social satire about a girl struggling to find freedom in 1970s suburbia
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he happiest days of your life? Not for Baker, sixteen and sick of it as she moves miserably between lessons packed with palm fibre and the use of the dative. Baker’s only solace is her fifth-form gang – the four Mandies – and a low-calorie diet of king-sized cigarettes, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain and consummate game player. So begins a passionate friendship that will threaten her future, menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone she holds dear. The Following Girls weaves the minutiae of 10s girlhood into an unsparing tragi-comedy of shrinking horizons, dangerous alliances and not-so-happy families. Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime, which was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott first novel prize, and Ghastly Business. She has been the dance critic of the Sunday Telegraph since 1. She lives in London with her husband and their two children.
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The Ghost Runner A Makana Mystery
Parker Bilal Sudanese investigator Makana travels into the desert heart of Egypt to solve a series of brutal murders and excavate the shifting sands of the past
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t is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of /11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo’s streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of the wife and daughter he lost, is shaken out of his grief when a routine surveillance job leads him to the horrific murder of a teenage girl.
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Seeking answers, he travels to Siwa, an oasis town on the edge of the great Sahara desert, where the law seems disturbingly far away. As violence follows him through the twisting, sand-blown streets and an old enemy lurks in the shadows, Makana discovers that the truth can be as deadly and as changeable as the desert beneath his feet. Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Following on from The Golden Scales and Dogstar Rising, The Ghost Runner is his third Makana Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.
The Poets’ Wives David Park The new novel from award-winning writer David Park ‘Park writes prose like a poet’ The Times
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hree women, each destined to play the role of a poet’s wife: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, a nineteenth-century poet, painter and engraver; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry cost him his life under Stalin’s terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after his death. Set across continents and centuries and in very different circumstances, these women confront the contradictions between art and life, contemplate their sacrifices for another’s creativity, and struggle with infidelities that involve not only the flesh but ultimately poetry itself. They find themselves custodians of their husband’s work, work that has been woven with intimacies and which has shaped their own lives in the most unexpected of ways.
David Park has written nine books including The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner and, most recently, The Light of Amsterdam. He has won many prizes including the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature and has been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Terms & Conditions Robert Glancy Terms & Conditions is an eye-wateringly funny and heartbreakingly quirky novel about freedom and frustration, success and second chances, and the devils that live in the detail
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rank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing memories – of the people around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print. But when Oscar, his brother, takes the family company into business with an inventively cruel arms manufacturer** and Alice, his wife, starts to seem oddly unlike the woman he remembers, Frank’s world begins to unspool and the terms and conditions that he has lived his life by*** begin to change. *apparently quite a serious one **who cannot be named for legal reasons ***and which are rarely in his favour
Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved from Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge, before working in London in public relations. By day he still works in PR, by night he writes. He currently lives in New Zealand with his wife and children. @RobertGlancy
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Wake Up Happy Every Day Stephen May From the Costa-shortlisted author of Life! Death! Prizes! comes an exhilarating modern fairy tale of risk, reward and happy-ever-afters
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icky has always known Russell was rich, but he has no idea how astronomically rich Russell is until his friend drops dead, on his fiftieth birthday, in his San Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness. And now Nicky has come up with an uncharacteristically daring plan. If Nicky were to become Russell and leave his old life lying dead on the bathroom floor, then he and his family could start again. But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack, the impact of Nicky’s hasty decision begins to be felt by everyone around him. Sharp, funny, warm and acutely observed, Wake Up Happy Every Day is a novel about dreams and delusions, family and friendship, and what happens if you do actually find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Stephen May’s first novel, Tag, won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 200 Welsh Book of the Year. His second, Life! Death! Prizes!, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’. Originally from Bedford, he now lives and works in West Yorkshire. www.sdmay.com / @RealStephenMay
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From a Distance Raffaella Barker From one of Britain’s favourite chroniclers of life and the rural dream comes a compelling story of a family divided by war
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n April, 14, Michael returns on a troopship from the war. In shock, he is caught in a moment at a station, and on impulse takes the train heading west to Cornwall. In doing so he changes his destiny.
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May, 2012, and Kit, a charming stranger, arrives in a coastal Norfolk village to take up his inheritance – a de-commissioned lighthouse, half hidden in the shadows of the past, but now sweeping its beam forward through time. Married Luisa falters in the flow of her life – suspended, invisible – as her children begin to fly the nest. When Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the consequences of the split-second decision made by Michael all those years ago. Raffaella Barker is the author of seven acclaimed novels which have been beautifully repackaged for publication in 2014. These include the bestselling Hens Dancing, Green Grass and Summertime, and she has also written a novel for young adults. Barker is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and Harper’s Bazaar and teaches on the Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of East Anglia and the Guardian UEA Novel Writing Masterclass. She lives in Cley next the Sea, Norfolk.
What Was Promised Tobias Hill A breathtaking novel by a master storyteller: reaching across forty years and capturing a city and a people in a time of tumultuous change
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n post-war London children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find the Mother Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are strangers in a strange land; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take with both hands all that the world owes them. In the street markets and tenements of Bethnal Green the three families live and work together in uneasy harmony, until Michael shatters the balance between them, changing the courses of all their lives.
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What Was Promised is a beautiful, powerful, multi-layered novel of roots and belonging and of the collisions that pull us together and spin us apart. Tobias Hill was born in London. In 200 the TLS nominated him as one the best young writers in Britain. In 2004 he was selected as one of the country’s Next Generation poets and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the PEN/Macmillan Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. What Was Promised is his fifth novel.
The Giraffe’s Neck Judith Schalansky Translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside From the author of the acclaimed Atlas of Remote Islands comes a startling and completely original novel
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nge Lohmark is the last of her kind. As the Biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany, for her adaptation is everything. Yet in the course of a school year, it is Inge who is revealed to be the one falling behind in the race to survive, as everything and everyone now abandons the old ways to adapt to the new environment. The Giraffe’s Neck is an outstanding novel that by parodying old-style school textbooks, including the clever use of illustration, wittily and poignantly evokes the demise of its protagonist and the passing of an era. Judith Schalansky was born in 10 in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She studied Art History and Communication Design and now works as a freelance writer. Schalansky’s previous book, the international bestseller, Atlas of Remote Islands (I Never Visited and Never Will), was published to acclaim in the UK and the USA in 2010. She lives in Berlin.
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Hollow Mountain Thomas Mogford One of the most thrilling new voices in crime is back with a violent and exciting adventure set in the dark heart of the Mediterranean
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he late-morning sun rises high over the Rock of Gibraltar as a child stumbles upon a man’s severed arm, a plaything of the apes. In the narrow streets of the Old Town below, Spike Sanguinetti’s business partner is critically injured in a hit-and-run. Reluctantly, Spike must abandon his search for his girlfriend, Zahra, and return home to Gibraltar, where he is drawn into a case protecting the interests of a ruthless salvage company hunting for treasure in the Straits. As Spike battles to save his law firm, he begins to realise that his search for Zahra has triggered a terrifying sequence of events, and that everything he holds dear is under threat. Thomas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for the European Parliament. His first two novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series, Shadow of the Rock and Sign of the Cross, were published by Bloomsbury in 2012 and 201 respectively, to great critical acclaim. Thomas Mogford is married and lives with his family in London. www.thomasmogford.com / @ThomasMogford
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A God in Every Stone Kamila Shamsie A stunning new novel of heartbreak, frayed loyalties and hope from the Granta Best of Young British, Orange-shortlisted author of Burnt Shadows
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ummer, 114. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army.
© Brigid McAuliffe
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Summer, 11. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again. Kamila Shamsie is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saffron, Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 201. She grew up in Karachi and lives in London. @kamilashamsie
The Wives of Los Alamos TaraShea Nesbit The bold and emotionally charged story of the women of Los Alamos: the wives of the men who created the atomic bomb
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heir average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They were constrained by the words they couldn’t say, the letters they couldn’t send, the freedom they didn’t have. Though they were strangers, they joined together – babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up. But then ‘the project’ was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the atomic bomb. TaraShea Nesbit teaches creative writing and literature courses at the University of Denver. A graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis, TaraShea is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing.
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History of the Rain Niall Williams We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story …
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Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1. He is the author of eight novels including John and Four Letters of Love for which he has recently completed the screenplay for Element Pictures. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine.
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© Darrell Brownlow Crawford
edbound in her attic room beneath the rain, plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, Ruthie must first trace the Swains, their jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin, from the restless Reverend Swain, her greatgrandfather, to grandfather Abraham, to her father, Virgil – via pole-vaulting, salmon fishing, poetry and a wild rain-sodden history of the pursuit of the impossible on fourteen acres of the worst farming land in Ireland. A celebration of books, love and the healing power of storytelling, this is an exquisite, funny novel in which every sentence sings.
Flying Shoes Lisa Howorth Set in Mississippi in 1996, a beguiling, darkly humorous and bittersweet novel based on the real-life, unsolved murder of the author’s young stepbrother
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ary Byrd Thornton could understand how a journalist couldn’t resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother’s Day, 1. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighbourhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit Low Byrd County authorities had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the journalist’s call reels a reluctant Mary Byrd back to Virginia where she confronts her family and its tragedy. With a flamboyant cast of characters, lively scenarios and a shocking, true story at its heart, Flying Shoes is a rich and candid novel about family, memory and one woman’s flight from a wounded past. Lisa Neumann Howorth was born in Washington, DC, where her family has lived in the area for four generations. She moved to Oxford, Mississippi where she married her husband, Richard, and raised their three children. They opened Square Books (named by Publishers Weekly as the 201 Book Store of the Year) in 1.
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© Ethan Shapiro
No Country Kalyan Ray A sweeping, epic, multi-generational saga of the diaspora over two centuries and three continents
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n November 1 an immigrant couple is discovered murdered in a small town in upstate New York. They lie together as though just disengaged from a long embrace. These killings have been two centuries in the making.
© Charlotte Runcie
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From nineteenth-century Ireland and England to India, Italy, Poland and North America – the tides of history sweep people across continents. Weaving together private histories and historical personalities, through betrayals and friendships, through riots and splitting of nations on the Indian subcontinent, an East European pogrom and the Triangle fire in New York City, we are inexorably lead towards the terrible intimacy of that murder in a sleepy town. Kalyan Ray’s family was uprooted from the Ganges Delta (now Bangladesh) through a combination of natural disasters, political upheaval and poverty. He grew up in Calcutta, was educated in India and the US, and now lives in both countries. Among the jobs that Ray has held are those of taxi driver in Calcutta, nurse’s assistant at the psychiatric wing of an upstate New York hospital, professor of literature in the US and visiting professor of Comparative Theology in the Philippines.
Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil James Runcie The third in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series – six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history ‘We should welcome him to the ranks of classic detectives’ Daily Mail PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408850992 EBOOK: 9781408851005 PUB DATE: 08 MAY 2014 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
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ur favourite clerical detective is back with four longer mysteries in which Canon Sidney Chambers attempts to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an ‘accidental’ drowning on a film shoot may not have been so accidental after all; and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a baby from a hospital in the run-up to Christmas, 1. In the meantime, Sidney wrestles with the problem of evil, attempts to fulfil the demands of Dickens, his faithful Labrador, and contemplates, as always, the nature of love and marriage. James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning filmmaker and the author of six novels, including Sidney Chambers and the Shadow Of Death (2012) and Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night (201), the first two books in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series. He lives in London and Edinburgh. @james_runcie
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The Prince’s Boy Paul Bailey The masterful new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Peter Smart’s Confessions and Gabriel’s Lament, and most recently Chapman’s Odyssey
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ay 12. Dinu Grigorescu, aged nineteen, is newly arrived in Paris from Bucharest. An innocent in a new city, still grieving the loss of his beloved mother, Dinu is guided in la vie de Bohème by a distant cousin. Drawn tentatively, secretly, to the Bains du Ballon d’Alsace, a notorious place rumoured to offer the men of Paris everything they crave, Dinu meets Răzvan, the adopted child of a man of refinement – a prince’s boy – whose stories of Proust entrance Dinu, and who becomes the young man’s teacher in the ways of the world. This is a work of exquisite sensual delicacy from a master.
Paul Bailey’s novels include At The Jerusalem, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers’ Award; the Booker Prize-shortlisted Peter Smart’s Confessions and Gabriel’s Lament; Sugar Cane, Kitty and Virgil, Uncle Rudolf and most recently Chapman’s Odyssey. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster and the George Orwell Memorial Awards, and has written and presented features for radio. He lives in London.
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The True and Splendid History of The Harristown Sisters Michelle Lovric The glorious, grubby and magnificent story of the rise and fall of the seven longhaired Swiney sisters, from the author of The Book of Human Skin
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reland, mid-100s, the age of the Famine and of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, when Europe burns with a passion for long, flowing hair. So when seven Irish sisters, born into fatherless poverty, grow up with curls cascading down to their ankles, men are not slow to recognise their potential. Riches and fame follow, and a palace in Venice, but the sisters’ dark pasts trail behind them like the tresses on their heads, and success comes at a terrible price … A bewitching tale of exploitation, sibling rivalry, sexual betrayal and financial skulduggery – and an extraordinary luxuriance of exuberant Irish hair. Michelle Lovric is the author of four novels – Carnevale, The Floating Book (a WHSmith Read of the Week), The Remedy (longlisted for the 200 Orange Prize for Fiction) and The Book of Human Skin (a 2011 TV Book Club pick), as well as four children’s books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New York Times bestseller. www.michellelovric.com
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Outlaws Javier Cercas Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean The acclaimed new novel from the author of Soldiers of Salamis tells the story of three teenage outsiders, a summer of edgy bravado – and catastrophic consequences
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ne day, in an amusement arcade in Gerona, Ignacio Cañas, a timid, middle-class sixteen-year-old, known as Gafitas (Specs) to his few friends, encounters two tearaways: the beautiful Tere and her glamorous boyfriend, El Zarco. Hopelessly in love with Tere, Gafitas crosses the border into El Zarco’s dangerous world of booze, drugs and robbery. Twenty-five years later, Tere appears in Cañas’s lawyer’s office, to ask for his professional help, and the three-way love affair begins again. Brilliantly plotted, fast-paced and morally complex, Outlaws firmly establishes Javier Cercas as one of the most rewarding novelists writing anywhere in the world today. Javier Cercas is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books have won numerous awards, sold more than a million copies worldwide and been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona. Anne McLean is the translator of works by Julio Cortázar, Héctor Abad, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Enrique Vila-Matas and Juan Gabriel Vásquez among others. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in Toronto.
God Is an Astronaut Alyson Foster An exciting literary debut set in the immediate future of civilian space tourism – tautly plotted, and unfolding through the emails of one woman whose marriage is crumbling beneath her
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ess Frobisher is a botany professor at the local university. Her husband, Liam, works for a space tourism company called Spaceco, which has just become frontpage news: one of their shuttles exploded shortly after lift-off, killing everyone on board. The press descends. With the future of the company in doubt, two filmmakers approach Liam about making a documentary on the space tourism industry. Seeing this as an opportunity to save Spaceco, Liam agrees to cooperate, assembling a team for another trip into space. When he asks Jess to go, she must decide how far she’s willing to go to save her faltering marriage and her life as she knows it. Alyson Foster has a BA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and received her MFA from George Mason University, where she was a Completion Fellow. Alyson Foster lives in Washington DC, where she works for the National Geographic library and writes for the Nat Geo News Watch blog. @alysonfoster
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The Visitors Patrick O’Keeffe This enigmatic first novel by the prize-winning short story writer is a portrait of two families – the transatlantic distances that divide and the secrets that bind
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n a warm July night, a homeless man comes to the door of James’s apartment in a college town in Michigan. Walter has a sunburnt face, smells like dry wood and claims there is an old lady lying in the middle the road. But when James goes to look, there’s nobody to be seen, and he begins to question the stranger’s motives. Walter’s arrival stirs up memories that James thought he’d left behind on the small Tipperary farm where he was born. Slowly he unearths the long-ago mysteries: what the men in the village were whispering about, what happened to his Aunt Tess and whether people, especially his nemesis Kevin, ever really change. Patrick O’Keeffe was born and grew up in Co. Limerick, and moved to the US in his twenties. His first book, The Hill Road, was published by Bloomsbury in 200; in the USA it won the prestigious Story Prize ahead of such authors as William Boyd, T. C. Boyle, James Salter and Robert Coover. He teaches in the graduate creative writing programme at Ohio University.
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Focus The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Daniel Goleman Bestselling author Daniel Goleman returns with a groundbreaking look at the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention
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RE YOU PAYING ATTENTION? Are you completely focused on this book in your hand? Or have you already distracted yourself by quickly checking your watch, e-mails, messages, Facebook stream, Twitter feed, etc? Still resisted the urge to let your mind drift? Then well done, because a reader’s mind typically wanders up to 40% of the time when perusing a text. And what are the benefits of paying attention for sustained periods of time? One word: success. In this brilliantly argued book, Daniel Goleman shows why the cornerstone of success in all areas of your life hinge on your ability to FOCUS. Daniel Goleman, a former science journalist for the New York Times, is the author of many books, including the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence. He co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago). He lives in Massachusetts. www.danielgoleman.info / danielgolemanEl
Owning the Earth The Transforming History of Land Ownership
Andro Linklater A dazzling chronicle of the way in which land ownership has shaped modern society
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arely two centuries ago, most of the world’s productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern was consigned to history by the notion of private ownership of land, which laid waste to traditional communal civilisations, displaced entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. Owning the Earth offers a radically new view of the evolution of society and politics through the most creative – and, at the same time, destructive – cultural force of the modern era. Andro Linklater is the acclaimed author of Measuring America, The Fabric of America, An Artist in Treason and Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die. He lives in England.
Respect Yourself Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Robert Gordon The enduring artistic and cultural history of the legendary Memphis record label, by the premier authority on the subject
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et in the world of 10s and ‘0s soul music, Respect Yourself is a characterdriven story of racial integration, and then of black power and economic independence. It’s about music and musicians – Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, and Booker T. and the M.G.’s, Stax’s interracial house band. It’s about a small independent company’s struggle to survive in an increasingly conglomerateoriented world. And always at the centre is Memphis, Tennessee, an explosive city struggling through volatile years. Respect Yourself is an astonishing chronicle about one of America’s most treasured cultural institutions and the city that created it. Robert Gordon has been writing about Memphis music and history for thirty years and is the author of It Came from Memphis, Can’t Be Satisfied, The King on the Road, and The Elvis Treasures. He won a Grammy in 2011 and his film work includes producing and directing the documentary Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story. Gordon lives in Memphis.
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Capital Wars The New East-West Challenge for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Economic Success
Daniel Pinto A wake-up call for Western governments, corporate boards and business leaders who want to catch up with the East in the battle for economic supremacy
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few years is all it took for the debt crisis to bring down the twin towers of American and European capitalism, undoing two centuries of Western dominance on the world’s economic and political stage. The East is shaping the new world order, leaving the West with no choice but to adapt. Daniel Pinto provides a road map for entrepreneurs, business leaders, large corporations, governments and finance professionals: the West must re-energise its large corporations, better control its financial markets and reposition the entrepreneur at the centre of its capitalist model. Daniel Pinto is co-founder and CEO of Stanhope Capital, a major independent asset-management group, and the founder and Chairman of New City Initiative, a think tank at the forefront of the debate on reforming financial services. A former investment banker and financial adviser, he was named one of the top 20 men in investment management by Citywealth in 2011.
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White Beech The Rainforest Years
Germaine Greer A memoir of a love affair with the forest and her native Australia, White Beech is Germaine Greer’s most personal book yet
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n 2001 Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge: sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and devastation, had been abandoned to their fate. To have turned down the chance to help these acres of exotic pasture grass, impenetrable curtains of tangled Lantana canes, and few remaining White Beeches – stupendous trees up to forty metres in height – back to health would have been to succumb to despair. When her first replanting shot up to make a forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, she knew that at least here biodepletion could be reversed.
Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist voice of the mid-twentieth century. From 1 to 200 she was Professor of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Greer’s ideas have created controversy ever since The Female Eunuch became an international bestseller in 10. She is the author of many other books, most recently Shakespeare’s Wife.
First World War Still No End in Sight
Frank Furedi A brilliant examination of the Great War’s ever-lasting legacy
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irst World War: Still No End in Sight is about a war that is still going on. Historians have drawn attention to a chain of events that leads from the First to the Second World War. Others present the Cold War as the Third Act in the drama. In this extensively researched book, Frank Furedi explores how the conflicts left unresolved by the Great War were not settled with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and how World War One was not simply a struggle over territory or ideology. It also served as a catalyst for eroding the prevailing system of meaning and helped intensify disputes over norms and values, and also, most significantly, began today’s ever-prevailing Culture Wars. Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
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Farmageddon The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Philip Lymbery & Isabel Oakeshott Our farming industry is at a tipping point. Farmageddon – the dangerously quiet mega-farming revolution – is threatening our countryside, farms and food
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n the post-war years there was a humanitarian desire to feed people effectively and cheaply. But now the insidious creep of industrial agriculture, powered by the remorseless drive to get more for less, has taken hold. Farm animals have slowly disappeared from fields; the countryside is turning to wildlife desert, and mysterious and potentially deadly viruses have entered our food chain. Farmageddon is a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices. Philip Lymbery takes an investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry and strives to find a way to a better farming future. Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm welfare organisation, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming. @philip_ciwf / www.acompassionateworld.org
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Isabel Oakeshott is Political Editor at the Sunday Times and commentator on BBC One’s Sunday Politics show. She is also a regular commentator for Sky TV and Radio 4, including the Today programme. @isabeloakeshott
The Triple Package How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups
Amy Chua & Jed Rubenfeld An eye-opening examination of why some groups outperform others, by the bestselling husband and wife team Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
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t might be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups consistently excel and achieve disproportionate levels of success. But why? Drawing on groundbreaking original research and startling statistics, The Triple Package uncovers the secret to their irrefutable success: i) a superiority complex, ii) insecurity, iii) impulse control. Examining these three components one by one, Chua and Rubenfeld explore the motivational drive that leads to the rise – and sometimes fall – of cultural groups and offer lessons that we can all learn from. Provocative and probing, The Triple Package will completely transform the way we think about success.
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Amy Chua is the bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2011. Jed Rubenfeld is the author of the million copy bestselling, Richard and Judy Best Read The Interpretation of Murder. @amychua / facebook.com/amytigermother / amychua.com / www.jedrubenfeld.co.uk ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 17
The Nile Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present
Toby Wilkinson The author of the magnificent history, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, takes us on a journey from Aswan to Cairo
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rom Herodotus’s day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt’s heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers now carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – farming and fishing – continues much as it has for millennia. Egypt is a palimpsest – every age has left its trace – and Toby Wilkinson is the perfect guide to understanding the layers past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land. Toby Wilkinson read Egyptology at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of Clare College. He is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Egyptian History, and the author of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (2010) which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. He is currently Head of the International Strategy Office at the University of Cambridge and lives in Suffolk.
The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert A passionate investigation of the current extinction that combines natural history, field reporting and the history of ideas into a shocking and powerful account
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ver the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of researchers, geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the stories of a dozen species, including the Panamian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino, some already gone, others at the point of vanishing. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy and compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human. Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Front-line Report on Climate Change, which was based on ‘The Climate of Man’, her three-part series, which won several awards including the 200 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children. @E_Kolbert
A New History of Life The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink The cutting-edge account of life from the Big Bang through its beginnings on Mars to its flourishing on Earth
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or decades, our principal account of life on Earth has remained unchanged. Using groundbreaking research, scientists Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink expose the flaws in Darwin’s version and re-write it from the very beginning. They examine how life on Earth in fact began on Mars, how the rise of animals was delayed for billions of years, how fluctuations in global climate have both encouraged and destroyed organisms, and what the future of human life on the planet could be. Together, they set out to prove how much of what we know should be unlearned and that the true history of Earth is more surprising and wonderful than we could ever have imagined. Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Professor of Earth and Space Sciences. He is the author of seventeen books, including the bestselling Rare Earth and the presenter of the eight-part TV series Animal Armageddon.
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Joe Kirschvink received his PhD from Princeton University, is the Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology.
Rogue Elephant Harnessing the Power of India’s Runaway Democracy
Simon Denyer A gripping portrait of the state of India today and an investigation into where the world’s fastest-growing country is heading
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imon Denyer investigates the conflicts at the heart of the world’s most populous democracy, from its history of inherent greed, as evidenced by the fund embezzlement that ruined the 2010 Commonwealth Games, to the rise of popular movements against corruption. Through original interviews with influential figures both inside and outside the government, Denyer exposes the battle taking place for a functioning democracy. Rogue Elephant paints a vivid and comprehensive picture of India today; of those with the power to effect that change and those driven to fight for it, of the tensions splitting the country, of the possible futures that await it. Simon Denyer studied Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has worked as a Reuters correspondent in numerous countries around the world, including Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, covering the 2004 Indian general election and the Asian tsunami. He has just moved to Beijing to become the Washington Post’s China Bureau Chief, and is President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia. @simondenyer
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Hotel Florida Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Amanda Vaill A dazzling portrait of war-torn Madrid and six key figures whose lives are changed forever by a critical moment in history
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n a country in the throes of a civil war that many fear will engulf Europe, six people meet in besieged Madrid’s Hotel Florida. Amanda Vaill traces the tangled wartime destinies of three couples – Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, and Arturo Barea, chief of Madrid’s foreign press office, and his wife-to-be Ilsa Kulcsar. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, official documents and recovered reels of film, she creates a brilliant portrait of the conflict that defined a decade. Hotel Florida is a narrative of love, reinvention and truth: finding it, telling it and, if luck holds, living it. Amanda Vaill is the bestselling author of Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy – A Lost Generation Love Story, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and on which subject she wrote an award-winning documentary. She lives in New York City.
Alex Through The Looking-Glass How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos From the bestselling author of Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, a dazzling new book that turns complex maths into a brilliantly entertaining narrative PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408817773 EBOOK: 9781408845752 PUB DATE: 10 APRIL 2014 TERRITORY: COMMEUEX-CAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANKLOW & NESBIT EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408850985 PRICE: £12.99
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rom triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 0,000 survey submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, attends the World Mathematical Congress in India and visits the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop. Get hooked on maths as Alex delves deep into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have shaped the world we live in. Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. Curator-in-residence at the Science Museum and the Guardian’s maths blogger, he has worked in London and Rio de Janeiro as the paper’s unusually numerate foreign correspondent. Alex’s Adventures in Numberland was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize and was a Sunday Times bestseller for more than four months. @alexbellos / www.alexbellos.com
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The Disinherited A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Robert Sackville-West Five illegitimate children of a future Lord Sackville and his mistress, a Spanish dancer, struggle for succession to one of England’s largest private houses
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n the small hours of the morning of June 114, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himself minutes after the death of his wife from cancer; but Henry’s suicidal despair had been driven equally by the failure of his claim to be the legitimate son of Lord Sackville and heir to Knole. The Disinherited reveals the secrets and lies at the heart of an English dynasty, unravelling the parallel lives of Henry’s four illegitimate siblings: in particular his older sister, Victoria, who by marriage became Lady Sackville and mistress of Knole, and consigned her brothers and sisters to lives of poverty and disappointment. After studying History at Oxford University, Robert Sackville-West founded Toucan Books in 1. He chairs Knole Estates, the property and investment company which runs the Sackville family’s interests at Knole. In 200, he and his wife and three children moved into the house, which has been occupied by the Sackville family for 400 years. His history of Knole and the Sackville family, Inheritance, was published in 2010.
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D-Day Documents Paul Winter A complete and previously unpublished collection of compelling war diary entries and intelligence documents covering every unit and regiment to land on the Normandy beaches
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hat really happened on D-Day, that monumental date in history? This complete and previously unpublished collection of war diary entries covering every unit and regiment to land on the beaches of Normandy, combined with intelligence documents, military reports and photographs, provides the most compelling accounts yet. Published in partnership with The National Archives to mark the seventieth anniversary of D-Day, this book provides a fascinating insight for any reader interested in the Second World War and an invaluable primary source for historians. The included war diaries also offer captivating material for anyone researching a family member involved in the landings.
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Dr Paul Winter studied at the University of Cambridge and is a freelance academic. He is currently a Changing Character of War visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. He is author of Defeating Hitler: Whitehall’s Secret Report on Why Hitler Lost the War and has published in major British academic journals, as well appearing on BBC television and radio. ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 21
Eleanor Marx A Life
Rachel Holmes The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality
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leanor Marx’s life is packed with extraordinary achievements: she was the first to bring Ibsen to a British public, to translate Mme Bovary, to create the biography of her father Karl. But foremost amongst these was her strong, pioneering feminism. For Eleanor Marx, sexual equality was a necessary precondition for a just society and social contract. Not since Mary Wollstonecraft had any individual made such a profound contribution to British political thought and action.
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Rachel Holmes has gone back to original sources to create a life of the nineteenthcentury woman who did more than any other to transform British politics, and who was unafraid to live her contradictions. Rachel Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor, with Lisa Appignanesi and Susie Orbach, of Fifty Shades of Feminism and co-commissioning editor, with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon, of Sixty-Six Books: 21st century writers speak to the King James Bible. She lives in Gloucestershire.
Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim On Foot Across Europe to Rome
Harry Bucknall A witty, erudite and spiritual account of the journey on foot from St Paul’s in London to St Peter’s in Rome
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ike Continuum’s bestselling A Pilgrim in Spain by Christopher Howse, Harry Bucknall’s book concerns a long journey on foot from St Paul’s to St Peter’s in Rome. Though not as well-known as the Road to Compostella, this route, known as the Via Francigena, has been celebrated for centuries. In the tradition of Hilaire Belloc’s The Path to Rome, Bucknall’s writing is witty, erudite, spiritual and packed with incident. His journey takes him through Southwark, Canterbury, Calais, Agincourt, Reims, Lake Geneva, Valle d’Aosta, Lucca, La Foce, and the Via Cassia to Rome and the Vatican. Harry Bucknall is the author of In the Dolphin’s Wake and has written for a number of national newspapers and travel publications, including The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Irish Independent, and Country Life.
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War and Gold A History of Money
Kwasi Kwarteng Eminent historian Kwasi Kwarteng takes a unique look at the financial world and its troubled history, from the disaster that befell Spain in the sixteenth century to the 2008 global financial crisis
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n the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history has been echoed many times, from the French Revolution to both World Wars, right up to the present day, when our own financial crisis saw many of our great nations slip into financial trouble. Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world as we know it, that between war and gold. Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and was elected as the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. His first book, Ghosts of Empire, was published to critical acclaim in 2011. @kwasikwarteng / www.kwart2010.com
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The Graphic Art of the Underground A Countercultural History
Suzy Prince & Ian Lowey A dazzling rollercoaster ride through the art and design of the counterculture The decades after the Second World War saw tumultuous political and social change, accompanied by social protest, radical art, pop subcultures and countercultures. The Graphic Art of the Underground gives visual expression to these revolutionary times, taking the reader on a breathtaking journey through underground comix and ‘zines, punk graphics, lowbrow and Pop Art. Including over 200 carefullycurated images, including work by such influential and colourful figures as Robert Crumb, Frank Kozik, Takashi Murakami, Jamie Reid, Barney Bubbles and Banksy.
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Suzy Prince and Ian Lowey founded, edited and designed Nude, the influential magazine of pop and cult culture. They now run Cabin Creative, providing personalised consultancy, copywriting and design services for customers in the independent and public sector. www.nudemagazine.co.uk / www.cabincreative.co.uk www.SecondhandSafari.com / @SuzyPrince ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 23
Women of the World The Rise of the Female Diplomat
Helen McCarthy An original, compelling story of women’s fight to represent their country abroad in the face of opposition from the Foreign Office
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hroughout history, hundreds of British women defied social conventions to seek adventure and influence on the world stage. Yet until 14, when after decades of campaigning and the heroic labours performed by women during the Second World War diplomatic careers were finally opened to both sexes, no British woman could officially represent her nation abroad. This is their story of personal and professional struggle played out against the dramatic backdrop of war, superpower rivalry and global transformation. Drawing on letters, memoirs, personal interviews and government records, these heroines caught up in the endeavours of the world’s greatest empire are brought vividly to life to enrich our understanding of Britain’s global history. Helen McCarthy is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London. She studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University, before earning her PhD from the University of London. Her first book, The British People and the League of Nations, explores the vibrant popular cultures of internationalism in inter-war Britain. She lives in east London.
The Lagoon How Aristotle Invented Science
Armand Marie Leroi A fascinating and unique look at Aristotle, his pioneering research into the biological world, and his influence on modern day science
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ristotle is known by many as a philosopher – as the author of the Poetics and Politics and founder of formal logic. Few know that he was also a biologist, the first – and one of the most influential of all time. Travelling to a Greek island he lived there and studied its animals. He observed their behaviours, dissected their bodies and wrote about how they live, feed and breed. He developed an entire science. The Lagoon is not only about what Aristotle did, but also about how, two thousand years later, his thought still permeates modern science. Armand Marie Leroi is Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College London. He studied in Halifax, Canada, and Irvine, CA, and did postdoctoral work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. As well as many technical papers, he is the author of Mutants: On the Form, Variety and Errors of the Human Body (200), which has been translated into nine languages and won the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in London.
The Great War, 1914–18 Richard van Emden For the first time ever, the war is presented in vivid, moving close-up, using soldiers’ own unpublished photographs and first-hand accounts
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hortly after images of the famous Christmas Truce of 114 were published, the military banned the private use of cameras on the Western Front. A number of soldiers continued to use them illicitly to record life and death in the trenches until the armistice. Leading First World War historian Richard van Emden has selected 20 of these photographs and has woven them, with extracts from diaries and letters, into a single narrative to create an intimate history of the war in five chapters – one for each year of the conflict. It shows the reality of the Great War as it has never been experienced before. Richard van Emden has interviewed more than 20 veterans of the Great War and has written fifteen books, including Boy Soldiers and The Last Fighting Tommy. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the Great War, including the award-winning Roses of No Man’s Land and War Horse: The Real Story. He lives in southwest London.
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Bricks and Mortals The Story of our Lives in Ten Building
Tom Wilkinson A dazzling exploration of architecture and its effect on us, from the Tower of Babel to the Highland Park Car Factory, Detroit
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e don’t just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces we inhabit. We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create and destroy it. These aspects of buildings – economic, erotic, political and psychological – are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture moulds us just as much as we mould it, understanding architecture helps us to understand our lives and our world. Through ten great buildings across the world Tom Wilkinson reveals the powerful and intimate relationship between society and architecture and asks: can architecture change our lives for the better? Tom Wilkinson is writing a doctoral thesis on art history at University College London, where he teaches an undergraduate course on architectural history. He has lectured on the history of art and architecture at the Courtauld Gallery and the University of Oxford. He has lived in Shanghai and Berlin, and speaks Chinese and German. He lives in London.
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Poison Spring The Secret History of Pollution and the E.P.A.
E.G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins An insider’s account of how political pressure and corporate arm-twisting has had devastating effects on public safety and the environment
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illions of pounds of dangerous synthetic chemicals are dumped into the environment every day.
For twenty-five years E.G. Vallianatos saw the US Environment Protection Agency from the inside, with rising dismay over how pressure from politicians and threats from huge corporations were turning it from a public watchdog into a ‘polluter’s protection agency.’ Based on his own experience, the testimony of colleagues, and hundreds of documents Vallianatos collected inside the EPA, Poison Spring reveals how the agency has continually reinforced the chemical-industrial complex. Half a century after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring awakened us to the dangers of pesticides, we are poisoning our lands and waters with more toxic chemicals than ever. E.G. Vallianatos is the author of five books, including Harvest of Devastation and This Land is Their Land and a blogger for the Huffington Post. He lives in Claremont, California. His co-author McKay Jenkins is the Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English, Journalism and Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware.
The Impulse Society What’s Wrong With Getting What We Want?
Paul Roberts From the author of The End of Oil and The End of Food comes a galvanizing look at our restless, overindulged impulse society
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hat do soaring debt, endemic narcissism, road rage and killer drones share in common? All are symptoms of a society that moves relentlessly to exploit the fastest, most efficient means to any end, regardless of cost. This is the ‘impulse society’ in which we live. The costs of living this way are substantial: financial volatility, health epidemics, environmental exhaustion and political paralysis, to say nothing of a growing dissatisfaction. Paul Roberts traces the roots of this problem, damningly revealing how it has permeated society, and cogently argues how it may, perhaps, still be reversed. The Impulse Society is an epoch-defining wake-up call. Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil and The End of Food. As a journalist, he has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, and his work has appeared in Slate, the New Republic, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. Roberts also appears regularly on TV and radio. He lives in Washington State, USA.
The Rape of Europa Charles FitzRoy Part art history and part detective story, The Rape of Europa is a thrilling account of one of the world’s most celebrated pieces of art
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he Rape of Europa is a completely novel history of art book which centres on one of Titian’s most celebrated masterpieces. By telling the history of this painting from its origin to the present day, Charles FitzRoy includes fascinating accounts of King Philip II of Spain and how his art collecting reveals a dichotomy at its heart. How did the commission come about and what does it tell us about the relationship between an artist and his patron? Part art history, part detective story, this is a fascinating history of a quite remarkable painting. Lord Charles FitzRoy is a direct descendant of Charles II and the uncle of the Duke of Grafton. Educated at Eton and Magdalene Cambridge, he trained as an art historian under Professor Michael Jaffe. He runs Fine Art Travel Ltd and is a consultant to Christies and Sotheby’s.
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The Searchers The Making of an American Legend
Glenn Frankel The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers – and the amazing history of that story, as it was transformed into an American myth
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n 1 in Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and the Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann’s story has been told and retold over generations – the myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays and to a novel by Alan LeMay, which was adapted into one of Hollywood’s most legendary films, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. In The Searchers Glenn Frankel creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. Glenn Frankel worked for nearly thirty years for the Washington Post. As Jerusalem bureau chief, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1. His first book, Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel, won the National Jewish Book Award. Frankel is currently the director of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Beloved Strangers Maria Chaudhuri An unforgettable memoir marking the arrival of a brilliant new voice from Bangladesh
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ne of Maria’s early memories is from school, planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Even while she was growing up in Dhaka, Maria couldn’t quite figure out why it was so important for her to run away. It wasn’t that home was an unhappy place. It was just that in her family, joy was ephemeral. They were never able to hold on to it for very long. From Dhaka to Jersey City this is a candid and moving account of growing up and growing away, a meditation on why people leave their homes and why they sometimes find it difficult to return. Maria Chaudhuri was born and raised in Bangladesh. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Vermont. Her essays, features and short stories have been published in various collections, journals and literary magazines. She lives in Hong Kong.
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Romany and Tom Ben Watt A moving, funny and beautifully written memoir by musician and writer Ben Watt about his parents’ lives and marriage, the post-war years, childhood and old age
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ommy Watt was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician whose 10s heyday took him into the glittering heart of London’s West End. Romany Bain was a RADA-trained Shakespearian actress, who had triplets in her first marriage before becoming a leading showbiz feature writer. Divorcees from very different backgrounds, they came together like colliding trains in 1. Both a personal journey and a portrait of his parents, Romany and Tom is a vivid story of the post-war years, ambition and stardom, family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. It is also about who we are, where we come from, and how we love and live with each other for a long time. Ben Watt is a musician, DJ and author. His first book, Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Sunday Times Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Esquire Non-fiction Book of the Year. For twenty years he was one half of alt-pop duo Everything But The Girl. Ben Watt lives in north London with his wife Tracey Thorn and their children. @Ben_Watt
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Inside a Pearl My Years in Paris
Edmund White A literary treat: a memoir of Edmund White’s years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris
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hen Edmund White moved to Paris in 1, he was forty-three years old, spoke no French and knew just two people in the whole city. But he soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture, and by the time he left, fifteen years later, to return to the US, he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and television, and had made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves St Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. He fell in love with the city, through his close friendship with a cultured Frenchwoman, Marie-Claude, who was a celebrity only to her many friends. Edmund White has always written about the rewards of friendship, and never more poignantly than in this tribute to a fascinating woman and her city. Edmund White is the author of many novels including the classic A Boy’s Own Story and most recently, Jack Holmes and His Friend; two previous memoirs, My Lives and New York Boy; biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud; and several other works of non-fiction, including The Flâneur. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at Princeton University.
Overwhelmed Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time
Brigid Schulte An eye-opening, funny, and urgent book about burning our candles at both ends and in the middle – and what we can do about it
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rigid Schulte has baked cupcakes until 2 a.m., carried her BlackBerry on school field trips, fearing she’d be fired, then gone back to work until 4 a.m. after her children were in bed. Like so many of us, she began to question whether it is possible to be anything you want to be, have a family and still have time to breathe.
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In Overwhelmed, Schulte maps the individual, historical and societal stresses that have ripped working mothers’ and fathers’ leisure to shreds, and embarks on a quest to put the pieces back together. This is a game-changing look at time, frenetic families and the search for an elusive moment of peace. Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and the Washington Post Magazine. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she has won numerous writing awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her two children, Liam and Tessa, and her husband, Tom Bowman, Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio. @BrigidSchulte
Two Turtle Doves A Memoir of Making Things
Alex Monroe By the internationally renowned jewellery designer: The Hare with Amber Eyes meets Toast in this memoir of a life spent making things
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rowing up in 10s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild gardens, Alex Monroe was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental influence, but with sisters to love him and brothers to fight for him, he made nature into his world. Creation became a compulsion, whether it was go-carts and guns, booby-traps, boats, bikes or scooters. And then, of course, it was jewellery. From full-out warfare waged against the local schoolboys to the most intricate designs for necklaces and earrings, Two Turtle Doves is about where we find our creativity, how we remember and why we make the things we do. Alex Monroe grew up in rural Suffolk and showed a keen interest in art and design from an early age. Alex trained at Sir John Cass School of Art in Whitechapel. He set up his business in South London in 1 and Alex Monroe Jewellery is now an iconic and internationally successful brand. www.alexmonroe.com / agmonroe
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Music Night at the Apollo A Memoir of Drifting
Lilian Pizzichini A haunting story of a lost and damaged family, the dark underbelly of Southall and a woman’s descent into the arms of addiction
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00. Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Southall arm of the Grand Union Canal. Her plan is to learn more about her workingclass London forebears, but as her ancestors begin to take root in her head, Lilian is pulled into a strange netherworld of drink, drugs, vagrant neighbours and criminals. Pete, an ex-burglar, brings her heroin and bags of pills and they lose consciousness on a regular basis. He tells her about the Somali and Punjabi gangs, about the honour killings under the bridges, and they watch as the prostitutes and pimps run the streets. But addiction has a relentless appetite and Lilian soon realises that, just like her boat, she is sinking and must try to pull herself back.
Lilian Pizzichini’s first book, Dead Men’s Wages – part biography, part memoir about her conman grandfather living in London’s demi-monde – won the 2002 CWA Gold Dagger for non-fiction. Her second, The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys, was published in 200 to critical acclaim. Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review, the Times Literary Supplement and as writer-in-residence at a prison. She lives in London.
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The Valley A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
Richard Benson From the bestselling author of The Farm, the story of twentieth-century, working-class England through one Yorkshire valley and four generations of a mining family
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he close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson’s great-grandmother Winnie’s ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the family’s attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat. Against a backdrop of underground explosions, strikes and pit closures, these are unflinching, deeply personal stories of battles between the sexes in a man’s world sustained by strong women; of growing up, and the power of love and imagination to transform lives. Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller, The Farm, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 200, a 200 Richard & Judy Book Club choice and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Richard Benson lives in London.
A Curious Career Lynn Barber A razor-sharp, frank and funny memoir by Britain’s greatest and most ferocious interviewer, and author of An Education, Lynn Barber
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rom her early career at Penthouse – where she interviewed voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies – to profiling eminent subjects including Gore Vidal, Lady Gaga, James Stewart and Dirk Bogarde – Lynn Barber has always been at the forefront of the interviewing life. This glorious memoir, a sequel of sorts to her acclaimed An Education, is full of anecdotes (the one-day interview with Salvador Dali that, at Dali’s invitation, ended up running into four) and bursting with transcripts of career highlights; the infamous interview with a spectacularly rude Marianne Faithfull; the Rafael Nadal piece which resulted in a barrage of Twitter abuse. In her inimitable frank and witty voice, A Curious Career opens a fascinating window on to an extraordinary life, the inner worlds of people in the limelight, and on the world of journalism itself.
Lynn Barber has won six British Press Awards. She read English Literature at Oxford, worked for Penthouse magazine, the Sunday Express, Independent on Sunday, Vanity Fair, Observer, and now works for the Sunday Times. Her books include two collections of interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber. Her memoir, An Education, was made into a major film starring Carey Mulligan. She lives in north London. @lynnbaba
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Packing Up Brigid Keenan Brigid Keenan, trailing spouse and the author of the bestselling memoir Diplomatic Baggage, continues her wonderful life story
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rigid Keenan is nearing the end of her career as a diplomatic wife, or ‘trailing spouse’. Now in Kazakhstan, where the local delicacy is horse meat and Brigid’s mere presence in one market place leads to a full-scale riot from which she requires a police escort to escape. But as the prospect of retirement looms for her husband, AW, Brigid finds herself on the cusp of a whole new world – this time navigating the planning of both her daughters’ weddings, getting a crash course in grandmotherhood, helping to organising the first ever Palestine Festival of Literature and coping with her cancer diagnosis. But packing up doesn’t mean packing in, and Brigid discovers that moving home and retiring harmoniously could just be her biggest challenge yet …
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Brigid Keenan is an author and journalist. She has worked as an editor on Nova magazine, the Observer and the Sunday Times. She has published two fashion histories as well as Travels in Kashmir, Damascus and the bestselling Diplomatic Baggage, and is a founding board member of the Palestine Festival of Literature. She lives in Pimlico, London, and Somerset.
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The Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink John F. Mariani A classic American reference book revised and updated after more than a decade, for a new generation of foodies
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irst published in 1, John Mariani’s Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink has long been the go-to book on all things culinary. Last updated in the late 10s, it is now back in a handsome, fully illustrated, revised and expanded edition that updates readers on more than a decade of culinary evolution and innovation. Whether high or low food culture, there’s no question that American food has changed radically in the last fourteen years. No gastronomic encyclopedia would be complete without recipes, so Mariani has included five hundred classics. An American Larousse Gastronomique, this completely up-to-date encyclopedia will be a welcome acquisition for a new generation of food lovers. John Mariani began his career as a journalist at New York magazine in 1. Since then, he has become one of America’s premier food writers. He is a columnist for Esquire and Bloomberg News, was nominated three times for the James Beard Journalism Award, and is the author of several highly regarded books on food.
Curing & Smoking River Cottage Handbook No.13
Steven Lamb In the thirteenth River Cottage Handbook, Steven Lamb shows how to cure and smoke your own meat, fish and cheese
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magine your own dry-cured streaky bacon sizzling in the breakfast frying-pan. With the right guidance, anyone can preserve fresh produce, whether living on a country farm or in an urban flat. Curing & Smoking begins with a breakdown of the necessary kit and explanation of the processes involved, then goes on to provide comprehensive guidance for each preservation method. Delicious recipes include chorizo Scotch eggs, salt beef, hot smoked mackerel and home-made gravadlax. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this book is the go-to guide for anyone who wants to smoke, brine or air-dry their way to a happier kitchen. Steven Lamb has been involved with River Cottage since the very beginning, hosting events, living at HQ as the resident smallholder, and appearing regularly in the TV series and online. Working closely with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and head chef Gill Meller, he represents River Cottage in the UK and abroad. He teaches at the cookery school, where he specialises in curing and smoking meat. @lambposts
SuperDiet Gurpareet Bains SuperDiet is a fusion of the most successful health and dietary trends in recent times, plus the magic of superspices
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ecome slim and healthy with this informative and unique cookbook that ensures continued weight-loss and extending lifespan. Specialist nutritional chef Gurpareet Bains’ fantastic plan brings together a combination of detox, exercise and superspices to suppress appetite and encourage fat metabolism, as well as feasts of healthy and filling high-antioxidant foods. In this collection of over 100 recipes, Gurpareet reconstructs some of the nation’s favourite dishes as easy-tomake, healthy, low-calorie, disease-fighting meals. At the heart of each scientific recipe are superspices in medicinal quantities, and each dish is accompanied by antioxidant, calorie, GI & GL counts. Gurpareet Bains is a chef and nutritionist, as well as being the world’s leading expert on Indian Superfood – a culinary concept that acknowledges the finding that nearly a quarter of the top antioxidant-rich foods available to us are, in fact, spices.
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Pie! Genevieve Taylor 100 great pie recipes are collected in this essential book dedicated to simple, everyday eating
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omforting, frugal and delicious – pies both savoury and sweet are loved by all. In this practical recipe book, Genevieve explores the many varieties of the humble pie, in all its naughty and nutritious forms. Taking inspiration from across the globe, Pie! brings you up to speed with the best ways to enjoy this tasty classic dish. There are choices for family favourites, frugal suppers, weekend feasts, handsized pies and sweet treats. Whether crispy or soft, hugged or topped by pastry, or for main course or dessert, here are 100 recipes in an essential collection that you’ll return to all year round. Genevieve Taylor is an expert food writer, food stylist and home economist. Author of five excellent books and the food blog ‘The Urban Kitchen’, Genevieve splits her time between food writing and creating beautiful food for photography.
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MasterChef: the Masters Have you ever wondered what chefs love to cook when they are in their own kitchen? Away from the intensity and heat of restaurant service, what food makes them happiest on a weekend off? 30 globally renowned chefs have each shared three recipes for their favourite weekend treats in this special MasterChef collection of food at home.
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his unprecedented and innovative cookbook is distinctive in style and substance, a piece of genuinely interactive and multi-platform publishing that promises a complete digital and print experience and encourages fans to take their own photos of the chef dishes they recreate at home to share online.
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Huge names in the culinary world each share three favourite recipes for food they love to cook at home. Chefs included are likely to be as follows. Please note these are not yet confirmed: Jason Atherton, Raymond Blanc, Heston Blumenthal, Anthony Bourdain, David Chang, Alain Ducasse, Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot, Andrew Fairlie, Pierre Gagnaire, Peter Gilmore, Peter Gordon, Fergus Henderson, Pierre Hermé, Thomas Keller, Tom Kerridge, Atul Kochhar, Jamie Oliver, Yotam Ottolenghi. @masterchefuk
International Night A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World
Mark Kurlansky & Talia Kurlansky From New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky, a culinary trip across the world for parents and children featuring over 250 recipes
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nce a week in the Kurlansky’s New York home, Mark Kurlansky spins a globe and wherever his daughter’s finger lands becomes the theme of their dinner. Their tradition of ‘international nights’ has inspired this collection of the recipes, stories and insights he has collected over more than thirty years of travelling the world writing about food, culture and history. With beautiful pen-and-ink drawings throughout, International Night contains cultural titbits and exotic, tantalising and utterly delicious recipes for parents and children to cook together from countries across the globe. Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster and The Eastern Stars, among many other books. He was awarded the 2011 National Parenting Publications Gold Award for World Without Fish, the 200 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of the Year in 200, the 1 James Beard Award for Food Writing and the 1 Glenfiddich Award, both for Cod. He lives in New York City. Visit his website at www.markkurlansky.com.
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The Benares Cookbook Atul Kochhar
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tul Kochhar’s sublime world-class cuisine is showcased in this beautiful book of recipes from his Michelin-starred kitchen. More than 0 signature dishes reflect Atul’s combination of top class British produce with modern Indian style. An unforgettable meal might start with a cocktail such as Atul’s favourite Passion Fruit Chutney Martini, include the warming heat from Tandoori Macchi, and be sweetened by a Rose and Raspberry Bhapa Doi Pistachio Burfi. This is a true celebration of the ultimate fusion chef ’s expert gastronomy – a cookbook to treasure and use to conjure the masterly Michelin spirit in your home. Atul Kochhar is one of the finest Indian chefs in the UK, renowned for the vibrancy of his food and the subtlety of his spice mixes. He was one of the first two Indian chefs to be awarded a Michelin star. His innovative food has taken him through two series of the BBC’s Great British Menu and he also appears regularly on Saturday Kitchen. @atulkochhar / @benaresofficial / www.benaresrestaurant.com
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The Mumsnet Cookbook Claire McDonald & Lucy McDonald Delicious and foolproof family recipes for every occasion, tried and tested by mums
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t can be hard work feeding a family, but the 120 tasty, hassle-free recipes in The Mumsnet Cookbook will change that. From one-pot wonders to party food, they have all been fully recommended by real-life mums and come with heaps of helpful advice and nutritional information. Just as appetising for grownups as for children, these fresh, contemporary recipes include kid-friendly curry, great balls of broccoli (a sure-fire way to get your kids eating greens) and double-baked apple and blackberry crumble. With a sprinkling of wit, a foreword from Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts, and beautiful colour photography throughout, this sassy book will add excitement and fun to family cooking. Mumsnet is widely regarded as the UK’s leading online community for parents, receiving over million visits per month. Food is one of the most popular sections, with over 00,000 page views per month. Sisters Lucy and Claire McDonald are bloggers, mothers and journalists. They share an award-winning family food blog and an immensely popular YouTube Channel.
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The Vimto Cookbook Paul Hartley
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popular drink brand for nearly a century, the fruit drink Vimto is the basis of 40 fresh and fun recipes in this quirky cookbook. Recipes for tasty treats including lollies, sweets, bakes and roasts, are accompanied by a nostalgic look at the identity, history and advertising that have made this iconic British drink so popular. Paul Hartley, author of The Marmite Cookbook, among many popular storecupboard cookbooks, brings his brilliant touch to a novel ingredient in this inspiring book – the perfect gift for soft drink fans.
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Paul Hartley is, without doubt, the storecupboard guru. Author of The Marmite Cookbook, and many more, his books have challenged the received wisdom on the limitations of many indispensible condiments. Paul is a regular broadcaster and has appeared on BBC2’s Food Poker, the Radio 4 Food Programme, and UKTV Food’s Market Kitchen.
Noodle! MiMi Aye 100 delicious noodle recipes are collected in this essential book dedicated to simple, everyday eating.
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opular food blogger and veteran noodle eater MiMi Aye celebrates 100 wonderful noodle recipes for every occasion in this practical book. All types of the stringy staple are explored, from udon and soba to reshteh and rice vermicelli. Discover different soups, stir-fries, snacks and salads with flavours from across the world in this essential guide. Here are 100 recipes in a fantastic collection that you’ll return to all year round.
MiMi Aye is a food blogger and sometime Burmese chef. She is a regular on the food blogging scene, has contributed to Channel 4’s Gordon’s Great Escape programme, a recent BBC TV food quiz A Question of Taste, the Sunday Times the Guardian and BBC Good Food Magazine to name but a few.
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A Year at Otter Farm Mark Diacono Pioneering gardener Mark Diacono’s vivid account of living, growing and cooking on his adventurous British smallholding
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alsify, bamboo shoots, creeping Japanese raspberries, spicy Nepalese pepper and cool Eastern mint are just some of the delights that Mark cultivates at Otter Farm in East Devon. With a celebration of food at its heart, this book follows life on the smallholding month by month, charting the challenges and pleasures of rural living and providing practical guidance on how to grow exciting produce at home. Packed with luminous photography and over a hundred vibrantly delicious recipes, including wild garlic risotto, fennel sugarplums and quince doughnuts, this groundbreaking book reveals how the most exotic tastes can have their roots in British soil. Mark Diacono is a smallholder, environmental consultant, and the writer and photographer of A Taste of the Unexpected (the Guild of Food Writers’ Book of the Year 2011) and the award-winning River Cottage Handbooks Fruit and Veg Patch. For many years, he was head of the Garden Team at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage and he is a regular on the TV series.
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Social Suppers Jason Atherton
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aking inspiration from the divine dishes prepared at his top restaurants around the globe and translating them for the home kitchen, Jason Atherton brings the best of both worlds together in this collection of unique dinners. A tribute to Jason’s innovative attitude to food and his brilliant adaptable cooking, the 120 recipes include an array of meat, poultry, fish and vegetarian choices from New York, London, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sydney, with a delicious range of modern global flavours from West to East. Supper selections include sharing platters, simple small eats, informal plates and dinner party menus. Having worked under Pierre Koffmann, Nico Ladenis, and Marco Pierre White, Jason Atherton ran Verre and Maze for Gordon Ramsay before opening his own fine-dining empire. Jason is not only a world-class culinary alchemist, he is also featured in national newspapers, magazines and TV series, most recently starring as the host of Great British Menu and soon to be co-hosting with Lorraine Pascale on My Kitchen Rules.
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The Great Tamasha Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
James Astill ‘A fascinating study of sport and society’ The Times
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ricket is a unique national passion that’s at the heart of modern India. The explosive growth of the sport in the country is a remarkable tale that has transfixed the nation. As a business, it represents everything that is most dynamic and entrepreneurial about the country’s economic boom. As an unholy congregation of the rich and powerful, it reveals the corrupt, back-scratching and nepotistic way in which India is run. Examining the great optimism, industry and vulgar consumerism of India’s emerging middle-class – via rapid economic growth, outlandish corruption and crony capitalism – and reappraising contemporary Indian nationality, this is a truly original book. James Astill spent four years in New Delhi as South Asia Bureau Chief for the Economist. He is now their Political Editor. He has won four major journalism awards including America’s Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defence.
The Monuments The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest One-day Races
Peter Cossins An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary ‘classic’ races in world cycling
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he Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling’s one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called ‘Monuments’. Each provides the sport’s outstanding one-day performers with a chance to measure themselves against one another in the most challenging events in world cycling. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of Paris–Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win them. In The Monuments Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these extraordinary races and the riders they have immortalised. Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling for twenty years. He has covered sixteen editions of the Tour de France and spent three years as editor of Procycling magazine. He has also contributed to the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Express and the Sunday Herald; and in 2012 he collaborated with Tour de France winner Stephen Roche on his autobiography, Born to Ride. @petercossins
Elk Stopped Play and Other Tales And Other Wisden’s ‘Cricket Round the World’
Charlie Connelly A celebration of cricket’s furthest outposts and frontiers as documented annually in Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack
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lk Stopped Play is a carefully-chosen selection of stories from twenty years of ‘Cricket Round the World’, one of Wisden’s most-loved sections. Combining the highlights of two decades of the Almanack’s coverage of the game’s further reaches, as well as original material that places the stories in context and expands upon the incidents and personalities involved, it is an original and eccentric examination of the sport’s enduring worldwide appeal. From games staged on tiny, far-flung Pacific islands to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic, from cricketers dodging mortars in Baghdad to Indonesian mud wickets on converted buffalo paddocks, it is a fantastic addition to the Wisden bookshelf.
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Charlie Connelly is an award-winning broadcaster and the author of ten books, including the bestselling Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast. He has collected Wisden since receiving the 1 edition for his thirteenth birthday and lives in London. @charlieconnelly
Faster The Art, Science, Obsession and Luck Behind the World’s Fastest Cyclists
Michael Hutchinson A fascinating and funny investigation into cyclists’ incessant pursuit of speed by one of the sport’s top professionals
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or professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Winning just happens when you do everything right. In Faster, Michael Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster – training, nutrition, the right psychology – and explains how they work, and how what we know about them changes all the time. Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches and the boffins get up to behind the scenes, and about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us. Michael Hutchinson is a cyclist with more than 0 British championship titles to his name. He has represented Britain at the World Championships and Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games, and was previously a member of the allconquering GB track squad, training with the likes of Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins. He is the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly and a commentator for most major cycling events on Eurosport. @Doctor_Hutch
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The Little Wonder The Remarkable History of Wisden
Robert Winder ‘The best cricket book of the year by a long way … both thoroughly researched and highly entertaining’ The Times
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n 14 the English cricketer John Wisden, known as “The Little Wonder”, first published his eponymous book. That first edition is now a rare artwork worth around 10,000, and the Almanack has been published continuously ever since. The Little Wonder is the remarkable true story of the world’s most famous sports book.
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Robert Winder was Literary Editor of the Independent and Deputy Editor of Granta. He has written several books including Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey and Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. He is a team member of the Gaieties Cricket Club, whose chairman was the late Harold Pinter.
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2014 The 151st edition of the world’s most famous sports book, published every year since 1864
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This is Lawrence Booth’s third year as Editor of Wisden. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game. @WisdenAlmanack
Danish Dynamite The Story of Football’s Greatest Cult Team
Lars Eriksen, Mike Gibbons & Rob Smyth The story of the coolest international football team in history – the iconic 1980s Denmark national team – told for the first time
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eralding from a country with no real football history to speak of and a population of five million, the Denmark side of the 10s was one of the last truly iconic international football teams. Although they did not win a trophy, they claimed something much more important and enduring: glory, and in industrial quantities. The story of Danish Dynamite, as the team became known, is the story of a team of rock stars in a polyester Hummel kit, a team that had it all and blew it in spectacular style. Featuring interviews with the players themselves, this is a joyous celebration of one of the most life-affirming teams the world has ever seen. Rob Smyth works for the Guardian and has also written for Wisden, Intelligent Life, GQ Style, Sports Illustrated and the official Manchester United magazine. Lars Eriksen lives in Copenhagen where he writes about sport, culture and food for the Guardian and various other publications. Mike Gibbons has written for the Planet World Cup website, extracts of which have been republished in numerous books.
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The Pop-up Gym Jon Denoris
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itness trainer to a host of busy people including actors, TV presenters and politicians, Jon Denoris has created a series of exercises and routines which can be carried out almost anywhere: in the home, at work or outdoors. With minimal equipment needed, the exercises can even be done on holiday and adapted to work with stand-in equipment, making for a fitness programme you can take with you wherever you go. An easy-to-use, stylish package for people who want to be fit but have limited time, don’t want to go to a gym or spend a lot of money on equipment. Jon Denoris is a Masters level exercise scientist, celebrity fitness trainer and owner of fitness studio Club 1. He has coached over 1,000 one-to-one fitness sessions globally and is a widely sought after international fitness educator. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408196328 EBOOK: 9781472900593 PUB DATE: 24 APRIL 2014 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
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Reckless The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña
Alasdair Fotheringham The first biography of Luis Ocaña, one of the greatest cyclists of the twentieth century, whose rivalry with ‘The Cannibal’ Eddy Merckx is legendary
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uis Ocaña seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling’s greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx – ‘The Cannibal’. Their rivalry defined Ocaña’s entire career, yet he was the one rider capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. An enigmatic outsider to both the Spanish and French throughout his career – never truly accepted in either country – he died in mysterious circumstances aged just 4. An intriguing and complicated character both on and off his bike, Ocaña’s fierce determination, impetuosity and recklessness created some of the most beautiful and gripping episodes in the history of the sport. This is the first ever biography in English of ‘the Spanish Merckx’ who remains one of cycling’s most fascinating champions. Alasdair Fotheringham has been cycling correspondent for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday since 2001, and has covered the Tour de France and other major races since 12. He is a regular contributor to the Express and Reuters, as well as Cycle Sport and Cycling Weekly. The Eagle of Toledo, his biography of the Spanish cyclist Federico Martín Bahamontes, was published in 2012.
Wisden on the Great War The Lives of Cricket’s Fallen 1914-1918
Andrew Renshaw A lasting memorial to those from the cricketing world who fought and those who fell
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or the first time Wisden brings together all its wartime obituaries, as well as a Roll of Honour of those who died. Wisden on the Great War also features details on some of those who survived, as well as an additional (previously unpublished) 400 names of first-class cricketers decorated for gallantry, and a commentary about how each county was affected by wartime. As the centenary of the start of the conflict approaches, this book provides a timely acknowledgement of the players of our national game who fought and died for their country. Andrew Renshaw is a journalist and a former editor of local newspapers in Hampshire and Surrey. He has contributed to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, has collected Wisden for fifty years and was co-author of The Wisden Collector’s Guide (2011). He is a Vice-President of Hampshire CCC and President of Eversley Cricket Club in Hampshire, where he played for 2 years.
The Authors XI A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon
The Authors Cricket Club ‘Most cricket authors are better at cricket than writing. Reversing this principle is a revelation’ Simon Barnes
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he Authors Cricket Club last played in 112, and include among their alumni such greats as PG Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and JM Barrie. A hundred years on from their last match, a team of modern-day authors has been assembled to continue the tradition in a nationwide tour in search of the perfect day’s cricket. Over the course of a summer they played over a dozen matches in some of England’s most spectacular and historic grounds. In the book, each player contributes a chapter about one of their fixtures, using a match report as a starting point for an essay on cricket and its appeal. The Authors XI is a thoughtful and engaging look at both the history of cricket and the state of the game today. The Authors Cricket Club has been revived by Charlie Campbell and Nicholas Hogg. The side includes brothers Tom and James Holland, William Fiennes and Alex Preston, professional-cricketer-turned-author Ed Smith, historians Matthew Parker and Thomas Penn and Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens.
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The Manager Inside the Minds of Football’s Leaders
Mike Carson An enlightening look at key leadership issues with the biggest names in football management
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ow do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around a team in crisis? These are all crucial challenges for any leader. And leadership roles don’t get much more challenging than in top-flight football. Mike Carson’s in-depth conversations with some of the game’s most successful managers – including Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsène Wenger, José Mourinho, Roberto Mancini, Harry Redknapp, Hope Powell and Roy Hodgson – reveal how managers handle their emotions, their failures, their team, the media, their employers and their lifestyle, in an abnormally high-pressure environment. For both football fans and business leaders, The Manager is an honest, accessible and absorbing examination of the managerial styles of high-profile characters, and a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the world of football management.
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Mike Carson worked for McKinsey & Co for five years and now runs his own management consulting business. He is a leadership expert and a Manchester City fan. The Manager is published with the support of the League Managers’ Association, Barclays and Deloitte. @themanager2013 SPORT 45
Foinavon The Story of the Grand National’s Biggest Upset
David Owen ‘Uncatchable – and now unputdownable. The grandeur of sport as authentic social history’ Frank Keating
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t was the upset to end all upsets. On April 1 at Liverpool’s Aintree racecourse, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos exceptional even by the Grand National’s standards and won the world’s toughest steeplechase. Foinavon, the dogged victor, and Susie, the white nanny goat who accompanied him everywhere, became instant celebrities. Foinavon’s victory has become part of British sporting folklore. Here, for the first time, Owen tells the real story and shows why the Grand National holds tens of millions of people spellbound, year after year, for ten minutes on a Saturday afternoon in early spring. David Owen is a former sports editor of the Financial Times, and has covered scores of major sports events around the world for the FT and other publications in a career spanning three decades. This is his first non-fiction book.
Thirty-One Nil The Amazing Story of World Cup Qualification
James Montague The story of the immense struggle to qualify for the 2014 Brazilian World Cup, Thirty-One Nil is a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of world football
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amed after the greatest victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualifiers have ever seen (Australia’s 1-0 victory over American Samoa), Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey in the qualifying campaign chasing a place at the World Cup Finals. From the endlessly humiliated San Marino to lowly Haiti; from war-torn Lebanon to the oppressed and fleet-footed players of Eritrea, James Montague gets intimately and often dangerously close to some of the world’s most extraordinary teams, and tells their exceptional stories. James Montague is a journalist and author who writes for the New York Times, CNN, GQ and World Soccer. His first book When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone won him Best New Writer at the 200 British Sports Book of the Year Awards and he was described in Sports Illustrated as ‘The Indiana Jones of soccer writing.’ @JamesPiotr
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Hunting the Hunters At War With the Whalers
Laurens de Groot A gripping account of one man’s war against the Japanese whaling fleet in the wild Southern Ocean
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aurens de Groot was a high-ranking detective in the Dutch police, specializing in organized crime and environmental pollution. Disillusioned with failed prosecutions and minimal sentences, he turned to direct action, not necessarily within the law. He joins Sea Shepherd, an international organization protecting marine wildlife, and finds himself in the middle of the war against the Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic whale sanctuary. As the Japanese hunt whales, Laurens and the Sea Shepherd crews hunt them. It’s war, with no quarter given, and this is an actionpacked and timely account of an extraordinary man and an important subject. Laurens de Groot, now 2, worked for Sea Shepherd for several years, travelling the world raising funds and spreading the word. He appeared on Jay Leno and Larry King in the US, and featured in Animal Planet’s Whale Wars series. He is currently fighting rhino poachers in South Africa, using his law enforcement experience to help improve anti-poaching efforts. @Laurens_deGroot
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Bailey Boat Cat Louise Kennedy Meet Bailey, the maritime moggy making waves with his devilish good looks, on-board escapades and feline philosophies of life aboard …
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ailey is a boat cat. He loves nothing more than gazing wistfully out of portholes, lounging on the sun deck wearing his cat lifejacket, climbing the mast and generally fulfilling his important boat-cat duties – and blogging about them at baileyboatcat.com. This book captures Bailey’s charm with lovable photos and pearls of ‘whisker wisdom’ from a cat’s eye view. Chatty, inquisitive and boasting an undeniable cute factor, Bailey explains (for the benefit of us slow-witted humans) the five steps of marine navigation, the importance of cubby holes, and just why cats are so much cleverer than dogs …
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Louise Kennedy began the Bailey Boat Cat blog in 2012, which continues to amass followers and fans on a weekly basis. She splits her time between a flat in Nice and her boat Nocturne, on which she, her partner and of course Bailey are planning to go full-time cruising from 2014. @baileyboatcat / www.baileyboatcat.com
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The New Sylva A Discourse on Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century
Gabriel Hemery & Sarah Simblet A sumptuous book about British trees, coinciding with the 350t anniversary of Evelyn’s Sylva
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n 14, horticulturist and diarist John Evelyn wrote Sylva, the world’s earliest forestry book, and the first book ever published by the Royal Society. Now, Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet have masterfully created The New Sylva, with detailed explanations of what trees really mean to us culturally, environmentally and economically, accompanied by forty-four detailed portraits of trees including oak, ash, juniper, willow, apple and pear. With 200 specially commissioned drawings, this beautiful book rediscovers the true value of our trees and forests. Dr Gabriel Hemery is a silvologist and advocate for sustainable forestry. He co-founded and is Chief Executive of the Sylva Foundation. He lives in Oxfordshire. Dr Sarah Simblet is an artist, writer and broadcaster. She teaches at the National Gallery, London and the University of Oxford. Sarah also lives in Oxfordshire. @newsylva / www.newsylva.com
The Naming of the Shrew John Wright A witty tribute to the history, construction and glory of the Latin names that classify our natural world
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atin names are frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel. Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus aquaticus, or the Oxford Ragwort been called Senecio squalidus – ‘dirty old man’? What were naturalists thinking when they called a genus of fish Batman? Why is zoology replete with names such as Chloris chloris chloris (the greenfinch), and Gorilla gorilla gorilla (a species of, well, gorilla)?
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The Naming of the Shrew will unveil these mysteries, exploring the history of Latin names, celebrating their poetic nature and revealing the baroque rules that govern their creation. John Wright is a passionate natural historian and the author of the River Cottage Handbooks Mushrooms, Edible Seashore, Hedgerow and Booze. He lectures on natural history, and he is a member of the British Mycological Society and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society. He lives in rural West Dorset with his wife and two teenage daughters.
Junkyard Planet Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Trade in American Trash
Adam Minter How can garbage turn into gold? What does recycling have to do with globalisation? Where does all that stuff we throw away go, anyway?
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hen you drop your Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Halfway around the world – where your trash becomes, literally, someone’s treasure. Junkyard Planet reveals how our refuse drives a 20 billion global industry that reaches every corner of the globe, with profound effects. From the bowels of giant facilities that process a jumbo jet’s worth of rubbish every day to the boardrooms of global companies who squeeze billions of dollars from stuff we leave at the curb, Minter traces the export of the world’s garbage – the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it and the environmental impact – in a tale that is both engaging and troubling. Adam Minter grew up in a family of scrap dealers in Minneapolis. He became a professional journalist and now serves as the Shanghai correspondent for Bloomberg World View, in addition to making regular contributions to the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He now lives in Shanghai and blogs at shanghaiscrap. com. Junkyard Planet is his first book. @AdamMinter / www.shanghaiscrap.com
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Finding the Space to Lead A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership
Janice Marturano Executives and leaders from all over the world have sought out Janice Marturano’s mindful leadership training. Finding the Space to Lead brings it to readers everywhere
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re you facing another crazily busy day? Sometimes ‘leader’ seems to mean ‘person who deals with problems nonstop’. What if you could hit the Pause button on your day and meet your challenges with a sense of space and clear focus? And what if you had a way not just of ‘getting things done’, but also ensuring that what gets done connects with your deepest values? In this clear, accessible guide, Janice Marturano, an executive with decades of experience in multinational corporations, shows us how to integrate the practice of mindfulness – meditation and self-awareness – with effective techniques of management and mentorship. Janice Marturano is the founder and director of the Institute for Mindful Leadership. She was formerly a vice president and deputy general counsel at General Mills and in 201 led the first mindful leadership workshop at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She writes for the Huffington Post, and has been profiled in Forbes, the Financial Times and the New York Times, among others. She lives in New Jersey. @JaniceMarturano
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Money Mania A Human History of Financial Speculation
Bob Swarup Twenty-five centuries of financial bubbles, investment manias and human folly explained, with rich historical detail and an insider’s financial acumen
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inancial crises are to us what natural disasters were to our ancient ancestors. From ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown of 200, their unpredictable nature and punishing aftermath have made them objects of mystery and morbid fascination. In this sweeping account, acclaimed commentator and financier Bob Swarup reveals the common human foibles that lead us into periodic bouts of self-destruction and amnesia. The story of why we speculate, panic and go bust is the story of what makes us human. In Money Mania, the reasons why financial crises seem to occur with such regularity and why we never seem to learn come to foolish, frantic, fascinating life. Bob Swarup is a respected investor and commentator on financial markets, investments and regulation. He studied at Cambridge University and Imperial College London. He has worked at financial institutions, hedge funds and private equity firms, worked closely with leading think tanks, advised policymakers and industry alike, and is an award-winning journalist. He lives in London.
Inside the Banking Crisis Hugh Pym The first inside account of the UK banking crisis – the story of what really happened behind closed doors in Downing Street and the City
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ince the Lehmans debacle and the bailout of Halifax/Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), there has been a Financial Services Authority report on the collapse of RBS but no equivalent enquiry into the drama at HBOS, and no comprehensive investigation into the whole banking crisis.
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This book is the definitive insider’s guide to the UK banking crisis; the drama and characters involved in the astonishing collapse of some of the major pillars of British banking and the continuing impact on the economy, informed by those directly involved at Downing Street and the Bank of England. Hugh Pym is Chief Economics Correspondent for BBC News and one of only a handful of broadcast correspondents to have covered the financial crisis from its origins in 200 to the present. He is author of What Happened? And Other Questions Everyone is Asking About The Credit Crunch and Gordon Brown: The First Year in Power (Bloomsbury) @BBCHughPym
A More Beautiful Question The Power of Inquiry to Spark Fresh Thinking and Breakthrough Ideas
Warren Berger To get the best answer – in business, in life – you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science
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t may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even to happiness it can unlock new business opportunities and reinvent industries, spark creative insights at many levels and provide a transformative new outlook on life. It is the ability to question – and to do so deeply, imaginatively and ‘beautifully’. By showing how to approach questioning with an open, curious mind, Berger offers an inspiring route to better solutions, fresh possibilities and greater success. Warren Berger is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Glimmer, a groundbreaking analysis of innovative thinking that was named one of Businessweek’s Best Innovation and Design Books of 200. His writing and research on questioning appears regularly in Fast Company and Harvard Business Review, and he has appeared on broadcast media. He lives in New York. www.AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com
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Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love Elizabeth A. Johnson A fascinating examination of the relationship between faith in God and ecological care within a crisis of biodiversity
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hat value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important. In Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love, Professor of Theology Elizabeth A. Johnson explores the notion that love of the natural world is an intrinsic element of faith in God and that far from being an add-on, ecological care is at the centre of moral life. Elizabeth A. Johnson is the Professor of Theology at Fordham University, New York. She is the author of many bestselling books, including Quest for the Living God which was banned by the Catholic Church.
Making Changes to Churches and Churchyards Faculty Jurisdiction Explained: A Guide to Law and Practice
Charles Mynors A much-needed guide to the complex legal and practical processes when carrying out works to churches and churchyards
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n Making Changes to Churches and Churchyards, Charles Mynors demystifies the process of carrying out works to churches and explores many of the detailed issues that may arise in practice whether the proposal is to move a shelf in the vestry or to embark on a major refurbishment of the whole church. This indispensable guide highlights issues to consider when contemplating changes and helps the reader to navigate the complex legal and practical processes involved in carrying out works to churches and churchyards.
The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care The essential guide for clergy, pastoral workers, and all those in caring professions for whom healing and spiritual growth is important
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he Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care provides a framework for reflection on pastoral care practice and identifies frontier learning in pastoral care research. The first section of the book sets out core principles underpinning the professional identity and practice of pastoral care. This generic discussion is followed by consideration of nine themes which figure prominently in research projects of graduate students undertaking pastoral care studies today: Addictions, Children’s well-being, and Migration; Ageing, Reconciliation/Forgiveness, Bullying and Harassment; Bereavement, Contemporary Spiritual Seeking, and Mental Health. Each theme is explored theoretically and practically in what is the essential guide to pastoral care. Bernadette Flanagan is Director of Research at All Hallows College, Dublin City University, Ireland.
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Sharon Thornton teaches Pastoral Theology at Andover Newton Theological School which is based near Boston, USA.
Teresa of Avila Doctor of the Soul
Peter Tyler On the fifth centenary of Teresa’s birth, a new study of her life and thought as a pioneer of the post-modern self
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n this strikingly original book, published to mark the fifth centenary of Teresa of Avila’s birth, Dr Peter Tyler takes the writings of the sixteenth century Spanish reformer and brings them into dialogue with some of the foremost thinkers who have shaped our contemporary notion of self. Starting with Freud and Kant, Tyler shows how the post-modern deconstruction of the self has allowed new possibilities for the spiritual to emerge once again as a vital force in our self-understanding. Inspired by Teresa of Avila, Tyler offers possibilities of spiritual freedom to the troubled, contemporary self. Dr Peter Tyler is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Pastoral Theology at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, UK.
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Women in Waiting Julia Ogilvy Julia Ogilvy interviews twelve of the most notable Christian women of our time, exploring their disappointments, ambitions and hopes for the future place of women in the Church
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s the Church of England has once again refused to admit women bishops, Julia Ogilvy has interviewed 12 of the most notable Christian women of our time. Discussing their ambitions, their disappointments and often the hurt they have experienced at the hands of a patriarchal organisation, Revd Lucy Winkett, Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, Sheila Watson, Vivienne Faull, Jane Williams, Dr Elaine Storkey, Professor Sarah Coakley, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Dr Alison Elliot, Revd Tamsin Merchant, Dr Katherine Jefferts Schori, and Rt Revd Chilton Knudsen explore the history and theology of the treatment of women in the church, and analyse the situation today. Julia Ogilvy is the daughter in law of Princess Alexandra of Kent. A former director of Garrards, and Managing Director of Hamilton and Inches, she was awarded the Scottish Business Achievement Award in 2001. She now devotes most of her time to charitable activities. This is her second book.
The New Asceticism Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God
Sarah Coakley A new, serious reflection on ascetical theology which cuts creatively across established ecclesiastical battle lines
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utting creatively across established ecclesiastical battle lines, Sarah Coakley draws both liberal and conservative camps into a new and serious reflection on ascetical theology. Each chapter concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology – the role of women in churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism – in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary wounds. The New Asceticism shows how desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention. Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK and was previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, USA. She was an assistant curate at Littlemore, Oxford, for seven years after her ordination in 2000 and is currently a minor canon of Ely Cathedral.
The Scottish Jewish Community Photographs by Judah Passow Introduction by Michael Mail A fascinating portrait in magnificent black and white photographs of the variety and vibrancy of the Scottish Jewish community today
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udah Passow, photographer of No Place Like Home (Bloomsbury), has created an equally brilliant portrait of Jewish people who live north of the border. In exploring the role that Jewish people have played in Scotland’s recent history, Passow’s journey has much emphasis, naturally, on Glasgow and Edinburgh but also takes us to surprising places like the Shetland Islands and Skye. This fascinating photographic essay shows Scotland’s Jews firmly rooted in their Jewish identity, but fervently patriotic Scots as well.
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Judah Passow is an award winning photographer whose work has been widely published by the leading American and European newspapers and magazines. He is a frequent lecturer on photojournalism at British universities.
Atheists The Origin of the Species
Nick Spencer An informative and expansive account of the emergence of atheism and its role in the 21st century
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his is the story not only of Hobbes and Darwin, but also of Thomas Aitkenhead hung for blasphemous atheism and the Marquis de Sade imprisoned for libertine atheism. Instead of treating atheism as a philosophical or scientific idea about the non-existence of God, Atheists: The Origin of the Species places the movement in its proper social and political context. Atheism in Europe developed in reaction to the Christianity that dominated the continent’s intellectual life; accordingly, Nick Spencer’s fascinating study is as much about social and political movements as it is scientific or philosophical ideas. Nick Spencer is Research Director of Theos, the public theology think tank, and the author of Freedom and Order: History, Politics and the English Bible, Darwin and God and God and Government. He is a frequent contributor to the national press.
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Scars Essays, Poems and Meditations on Affliction
Paul Murray OP A powerful reflection on human affliction in the stories of some remarkable individuals
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aul Murray is not only an academic, a preacher and published poet; he is also a superb pastor. During his ministry, he has dealt with some extraordinary people – not least a South African who was wrongly convicted of murder and hanged under Apartheid. Drawing on this remarkable experience, Scars is the account of men and women of all ages who have survived major crises or tragedies of one kind or another; these are not just accounts of triumphs and of tragedy – they are powerful meditations on something much more profound. Paul Murray OP is Irish by birth. He now works in Rome, Italy, where he teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Angelicum University.
The Talmud A Biography
Harry Freedman The story of the Talmud is the story of the Jewish people – a thrilling insight into the Jewish psyche and a devastating account of the history of anti-semitism
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n The Talmud: A Biography, authoritative Jewish scholar Harry Freedman recounts the engrossing story of the ancient scripture, which contains over a million words in thirty five volumes. A central text of Rabbinic Judaism, the Talmud covers topics as diverse as law, faith, medicine, magic, ethics, sex, humour and prayer. It has been banned, censored and burnt, guided monarchists and republicans, inspired poets and artists, and upheld by Protestants and Popes. Pored over for over 1,00 years, the Talmud’s story is a fascinating insight into the history of Judaism. Dr Harry Freedman is an entrepreneur, writer and academic with a PhD in Aramaic. He has published a number of books including Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture (OUP) and Gospels Veiled Agenda (O-Books). He is a frequent contributor to the Jewish Chronicle, New Law Journal, Jewish Quarterly and the Huffington Post.
Divine Discontent The Prophetic Voice of Thomas Merton
John Moses John Moses asks why Thomas Merton continues to fascinate us and explores the paradoxes and contemporary resonances of his life and work
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he 201 centenary of Thomas Merton’s birth provides an opportunity to reconsider both the international reputation and the relevance in today’s world of a man who still intrigues, perplexes and challenges – as a Trappist monk, as a writer, as a contemplative, as a social critic, and as an ecumenist. Merton’s extensive writings provide the basis of an examination of the various aspects of his story, but also enable an analysis of his abiding fascination and the discontents – human and divine – that dominated so much of his life. John Moses is Dean Emeritus of St. Paul’s Cathedral, a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Religion and Public Life and a tutor for the Oxford Continuing Education Theology Summer School. His books include One Equall Light on the life and writings of John Donne (Canterbury Press) and The Language of Love: Exploring Prayer (Canterbury Press).
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The Blue Guide to Grey Living Lionel Blue Rabbi Lionel Blue is loved by millions of Radio Four listeners for his homely wisdom and good humour, qualities in abundance in this guide
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abbi Lionel Blue addresses the growing grey brigade, for there are few counsellors to help them grow from late middle age into old age. This is an easily readable guide to the problems and paradoxes of old age which does not dodge the issues. With his characteristic humour and charm, Blue writes with extreme practicality of specialised forms of giving: giving up, giving away and giving back. As Parkinson’s has now entered into his own life, this is also an account of his own journey into old age. This is Rabbi Blue at his most sympathetic and very best. Rabbi Blue lives in North London. He appears frequently on the stage on college podiums and on the radio (occasionally on TV). He is a Fellow of Grey College, University of Durham and an honorary Doctor Of Divinity. He is currently also honorary Vice Chairman of the Movement for Reform Judaism.
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Tenth of December George Saunders ‘The best short story writer in English – not “one of ”, not “arguably”, but the Best’ Time
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nsettling and hilarious, this is the new collection from undisputed master of the short story, George Saunders. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx™ in some unusual drug trials and a young boy discovers that sometimes the voices fade and all you are left with is a frozen hill on a cold day in December …
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With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, Tenth of December sings with astonishing depth, charm and intensity, and establishes Saunders as one of our greatest living storytellers. At one point a geophysical engineer, MacArthur Fellowship winner George Saunders is an acclaimed writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children’s books. His work includes the story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a finalist for the 200 PEN/Hemingway Award, Pastoralia and In Persuasion Nation, one of only three finalists for The Story Prize in 200. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing course at Syracuse University, New York, where he lives with his family.
The Walking Laleh Khadivi ‘A brave and haunting book about displacement and identity’ Independent
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ran. 1. The mullahs have come to power and two young Kurdish brothers are forced to swear their loyalty to the new regime by taking part in a massacre. For Saladin, the younger, the decision to flee the town of their birth and go west is exciting; this is the direction of Hollywood, Los Angeles, America. But his euphoria is not enough for his brother Ali, who belongs, heart and soul, to his mountain town. As they continue their journey, Saladin realises that his dream of a better future can only be fulfilled alone. The second in a trilogy, The Walking is a haunting and beautifully-written story of exodus.
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Laleh Khadivi was born in Iran in 1. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, finally settling in Canada and the United States. Khadivi received an MFA, a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction and, in 200, the Whiting Writers’ Award. In 200 she published her first novel, The Age of Orphans. Laleh Khadivi lives in San Francisco.
Little Known Facts Christine Sneed ‘Juicy enough to appeal to our prurience but smart enough not to make us feel dirty afterward’ New York Times
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he people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature – his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives – long to experience the glow of his flame. For his grown-up children, Anna and Will, their father’s fame is a force they are both drawn to and repelled by, overshadowing every part of their lives. Little Known Facts is the compelling story of the fallout of fame and fortune for a family that can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst; a story of influence and affluence, of forging identity and happiness in a celebrityobsessed age. Christine Sneed’s story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, won AWP’s 200 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was named the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, and was chosen as the recipient of Ploughshares’s 2011 first-book prize. It was also long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and named one of the seven best books of the year by Time Out Chicago. She lives in Evanston, Illinois. @ChristineSneed
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Clay Melissa Harrison ‘Instantly beautiful in its calm and wise tone’ Robert Macfarlane
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ight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city’s overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, seventy-eight, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she loves. She’s writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world – though the two children live less than a mile apart. Jozef spends his days doing house clearances, his nights working in a takeaway. He can’t forget the farm he left behind in Poland, its woods and fields still a part of him, although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC he finds a kindred spirit: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost. Melissa Harrison lives in South London and is a freelance writer and photographer whose clients include the Guardian. She was the winner of the John Muir Trust’s ‘Wild Writing’ Award in 2010 and Clay is her first novel. @M_Z_Harrison
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The Hanging Lotte & Søren Hammer ‘Much praised by Nordic crime fiction aficionados … This serious, complex novel raises disturbing issues’ The Times
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n a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium, in a clear geometric pattern, are the bodies of five naked and disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are called in to investigate these horrific murders. When the sinister motivation behind the killings becomes apparent to the police, and is leaked to the press, Simonsen finds himself battling against public opinion, vigilante groups and even some of his own team in his mission to catch the killers.
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Lotte and Søren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte worked as a nurse after finishing her training in 1 and her brother Søren was a trained teacher and a lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. The Hanging is the first in a series of crime novels which are published in twenty countries.
The Remains of Love Zeruya Shalev ‘Brilliant … With uncanny precision and mastery, she charts the fluctuating consciousness of her three main characters’ Siri Hustvedt
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emda Horovitz is nearing the end of her life. As she lies in bed in Jerusalem, memories from the past flood her thoughts: her childhood in the kibbutz with her stern, pioneer parents; the lake that was her only solace; and her own two children, one whom she could never love enough and the other whom she loved too much. Dina and Avner now have families of their own, but their mother’s condition makes them examine their lives anew and brings about dramatic changes.
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The Remains of Love is the internationally-bestselling writer Zeruya Shalev’s electrifying new novel – a meditation on the state of modern Israel and a profound exploration of family, yearning, compromise and the insistent pull of the past. Zeruya Shalev is the author of five novels, a book of poetry and a children`s book. She has received many awards including the Corine Prize, the Amphi Award, the ACUM Prize twice and the French Wizo Prize. A feature film of Love Life, produced in Germany, was released in 200. Her books have been translated into twentyfive languages and in 2012 she was awarded the prestigious Welt-Literature Award. She lives in Jerusalem.
This Is Where I Am Karen Campbell ‘Will make you weep, laugh and rejoice, and restore your faith in humanity’ Harper’s Bazaar
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hen recently widowed Deborah Maxwell is assigned by the Scottish Refugee Council to act as mentor to Abdi Hassan, a Somali refugee, the two are drawn into an awkward friendship. They must spend a year together, meeting once a month in different parts of Glasgow. As recently-widowed Deborah opens Abdi’s eyes to her beloved city and its people, he teaches her about the importance of family – and of laying your ghosts to rest. All Abdi has brought with him is his four-yearold daughter, Rebecca, who lives in a silence no one can reach. Until, one day, she starts talking. And they discover why she had stopped … Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing Masters, and author of The Twilight Time, After The Fire, Shadowplay and Proof of Life. A former police officer, Karen Campbell won the Best New Scottish Writer Award in 200. She lives in Galloway, Scotland. @writerkcampbell
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This Magnificent Desolation Thomas O’Malley ‘A beautiful, floating novel. Thomas O’Malley writes with grace and style and bravery’ Colum McCann Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award
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uncan’s whole world is the orphanage where he lives. Aged ten, Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she claims him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a run-down bar through a haze of whisky and regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunneling crew. Thrown into this adult world of mysterious suffering, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio – from which tumble the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home – and dreams of one day finding his father. Thomas O’Malley is the author of the novel In the Province of Saints, selected as one of the best books of 200 by Booklist and the New York Public Library. He earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and teaches at Dartmouth College. Raised in Ireland and England, O’Malley currently lives in the Boston area.
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The World Was All Before Them Matthew Reynolds ‘Fascinating, strange and formally delightful’ Independent on Sunday
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hilip and Sue have moved to a small town for the circle of a year. Philip is a locum in a nearby GP surgery, and Sue works in an art gallery an hour’s commute away. On the surface, their life together is unremarkable, but around them and within them is a kaleidoscope of complex, intersecting worlds. As Philip struggles with his new patients – a child with ADHD and an elderly woman who insists on experiencing her body’s slow decline – and Sue stakes her career on a reckless impulse, they find themselves asking: how much do we really know about the place we live in, or ourselves? And, in the end, who can we rely on? Matthew Reynolds is the author of Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors. He has also written several books of literary criticism, including The Poetry of Translation and The Realms of Verse. He spent time in London, Cambridge, Pisa and Paris before settling in Oxford where he teaches in the university and is a fellow of St Anne’s College.
Mimi Lucy Ellmann ‘Bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf ’ Sunday Times ‘A true original’ Financial Times
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t’s Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. ‘Ya can’t sit there all day, buddy, looking up people’s skirts!’ chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet: Mimi. She then kindly conjures the miracle of a taxi. While recuperating with Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his life’s work, a List of Melancholy Things. But when he is invited to address his old school he enlists the services of a coach, and Mimi reappears. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love. And, as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air. Lucy Ellmann’s first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She has since written Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango?, Dot in the Universe, and Doctors & Nurses. Born in the United States, she now lives in Scotland.
The Innocence Game Michael Harvey Master crime writer Michael Harvey returns to the city of Chicago in this tense and fast-paced standalone thriller
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he first day of class for Ian Joyce and Sarah Gold starts like any other, until a fellow student, Jake Havens, pulls a wrinkled envelope from his jacket. Inside is a blood-stained scrap of shirt from a boy murdered fourteen years ago and an anonymous note taking credit for the killing. But the man convicted of the murder is already dead. As the case unravels, the bodies and questions begin to pile up. And as the search for a serial killer unfolds, the students realise they too are being hunted … Michael Harvey is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third Rail and We All Fall Down, and is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won numerous national and international awards. He lives in Chicago. @TheChicagoWay / www.michaelharveybooks.com
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Dogstar Rising Parker Bilal ‘Brilliant crime novel’ Sunday Times Must Reads
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t is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded street the unsolved murders of several homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred. Makana, who fled his native Sudan a decade ago has been hired to investigate threats that have been made to a hapless travel agent. But his case brings him into contact with Meera, a woman who knows what it is like to lose everything and who needs his help. When Makana witnesses a brutal killing he uncovers a web of intrigue, violence and old secrets, and attracts the attention of some very dangerous people. Parker Bilal is the pen-name of Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written seven critically acclaimed literary novels which have been shortlisted and awarded numerous prizes. His works include: In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier, and The Drift Latitudes. He lives in Barcelona.
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The City of Devi Manil Suri ‘A devilish, enjoyable carousel of a novel’ Guardian
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n the desolate streets of Mumbai, empty after threats of nuclear annihilation, Sarita can only think of one thing. She must buy the last pomegranate that remains in perhaps the entire city for her physicist husband Karun, who has been mysteriously missing for over a fortnight.
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Jaz – young, cocky and handsome – is looking for his own lover. ‘The Jazter’, as he calls himself, is a Muslim, but his true religion has steadfastly been sex with men. Traversing the surreal landscape, always under the pervasive influence of the Bollywood cinema megahit Superdevi that some blame for sparking religious fanaticism, both Sarita and Jaz find themselves drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, supposed saviour of the city. Manil Suri is the author of The Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva. He has been translated into twenty-seven languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN Faulkner and WHSmith awards, and has won the McKittrick and the Barnes & Noble Discover prizes. He was born in Bombay and is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
The Hired Man Aminatta Forna ‘Unsettling and supremely masterful’ Independent New novel from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers’ Prizewinning author
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part from his two hunting dogs, Duro Kolak lives alone. His small but comfortable hut is beyond the boundaries of Gost, a quiet Croatian town, and a short distance from the Pavic house. The blue, crumbling house has lain empty for years after the departure of an old friend and current enemy, Kresimir, and Anka, Kresimir’s sister. When an English family moves in, Duro becomes invaluable to them by undertaking repairs to the house and helping them explore the quiet town. But as plaster on the front wall is pulled away to reveal a beautiful mosaic bird, the ancient passions and well-buried memories of Gost’s residents begin to surface. Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and Britain and also spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the awardwinning author of two novels, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, both shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She has also written short stories and essays and presented arts magazine and documentary programmes. Aminatta Forna lives in London. @aminattaforna
My Notorious Life Kate Manning ‘A glorious, grotty version of Call the Midwife set in the backstreets of 19t-century New York’ Metro
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Home Fires Elizabeth Day ‘A compelling study of grief ’ Daily Telegraph
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ax Weston leaves home at twenty-one for his first army posting in Africa. He never comes back. His parents Caroline and Andrew are devastated. As Caroline is borne away on a private ocean of grief their marriage begins to suffer. Then Andrew’s mother, Elsa, arrives, ninety-eight and no longer able to look after herself. Caroline has never felt good enough for the elegant, cuttingly courteous Elsa; now, suddenly, she has the upper hand. As Elsa lies in the spare room, her disintegrating mind throws up fragments of her own 120s childhood – under the shadow of her father, a soldier who came back from the Great War a different man. Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone which won a Betty Trask Award. She is also an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and who is now a feature writer for the Observer. She grew up in Northern Ireland and lives in London. @elizabday
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Gloria Kerry Young ‘Absorbing, uplifting’ Mail on Sunday
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amaica, 1. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life for ever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As the city convulses with political change, Gloria’s desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of illrepute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own. Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening which she must reconcile with the realities of her life and her love of Jamaica. PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408843369 EBOOK: 9781408822890 PUB DATE: 10 APRIL 2014 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and a mother of mixed Chinese-African heritage. She came to England in 1. She lives in Leicestershire. Her first novel, Pao, was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
The Gamal Ciarán Collins ‘A delight to read’ Guardian
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eet Charlie. People think he’s crazy. People think he’s stupid. People think he’s innocent … He’s the Gamal. Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinéad and James and the bad things that happened. But where is the beginning? Is it when Sinéad first spoke up for him at school? Or when Sinéad and James followed the music and found each other? Or, that terrible night, when something unspeakable happened after closing time and someone chose to turn a blind eye? Charlie has promised Dr Quinn he’ll write 1,000 words a day, but it’s hard to know which words to write. And which secrets to tell …
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Ciarán Collins was born in County Cork in 1. He teaches English and Irish in a school in West Cork. The Gamal is his first novel. @CiaranCollins77
The Bone Season Samantha Shannon ‘A hugely inventive talent and an imagination with seven league boots’ Susan Hill
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0. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant, and in her world – the world of Scion – she commits high treason simply by breathing. It is raining the day her life changes forever. Attacked, kidnapped and transported to Oxford, a city that has been kept secret for two hundred years, she meets Warden, a Rephaite with dark honey skin and heavy-lidded yellow eyes. He is the single most beautiful and terrible thing she has every laid eyes on – and he will become her keeper. Born in 11, Samantha Shannon was brought up in West London, where she started writing at the age of fifteen. She has recently graduated from St. Anne’s College, Oxford. The Bone Season is the first in a projected series of seven novels. It has been sold in twenty-one countries and film rights have been optioned by The Imaginarium, led by Andy Serkis. Follow Samantha on Twitter: @say_shannon and on her blog: www.samantha-shannon.blogspot.com
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Sign of the Cross A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery
Thomas Mogford ‘Will leave the reader eagerly anticipating the next instalment of Sanguinetti’s exciting life’ Roddy Brooks, Irish Examiner
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pike Sanguinetti’s uncle and aunt are found dead. Leaving the courtroom behind, Spike travels to Malta for the funerals. The more he learns about his relatives’ violent deaths, the more he is troubled by one thing: what could have prompted a mild-mannered art historian to stab his wife before turning the knife upon himself? Reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Zahra, Spike embarks on a trail that leads from the island’s squalid immigrant camps to the ornate palazzos of the legendary Knights of St John. In Malta, it seems, brutality, greed and danger lie nearer to the surface than might first appear. Thomas Mogford read Modern Languages at Oxford University and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from City University, London. An early work of Thomas’s featuring Spike Sanguinetti reached the semi-finals of the 200 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and was referred to by Publishers Weekly as ‘an exotic, addictive mystery’. He works as a translator and reporter for ITV Sport. @ThomasMogford
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TransAtlantic Colum McCann Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize ‘A marvellously engrossing journey, studded with ideas and lyrical treats’ The Times
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n 11 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. In 14 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. And in 1 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. Can we cross from the new world to the old? Stitching these stories intricately together in an outstanding act of literary bravura, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives. Colum McCann, from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of six novels and two collections of stories. His most recent novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and several other international awards. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in New York.
She Rises Kate Worsley ‘A rollicking tale of love and adventure … This is a fresh take on historical fiction, enjoyably witty and playful’ The Times
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40. Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has long been warned of the lure of the sea – after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work as a maid in the naval port of Harwich, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Luke has been press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. Aching for the girl he left behind, he must learn fast if he is to survive. Louise and Luke’s new worlds are dangerous and exciting, and when they collide the consequences are astonishing.
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Kate Worsley studied English at University College London and has written for the Guardian, the Independent and the Sunday Telegraph. She graduated from an MA in Creative Writing (Novels) at City University in 2010 where she was mentored by Sarah Waters. She lives by the sea in Essex. @KHWorsley
The Wall William Sutcliffe ‘A haunting fable celebrating the healing power of nature’ Guardian
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oshua is thirteen. He lives in the isolated town of Amarias. At the edge of the town is a high wall, guarded by soldiers. Joshua has been taught that The Wall is the only thing keeping him and his people safe. One day, Joshua stumbles across a tunnel which leads towards this forbidden territory. He’s heard plenty of stories about the other side, but nothing has prepared him for what he finds … The Wall is a political fable in a setting which closely mirrors the West Bank. It is a novel about a boy, a settler child, discovering that his world may not be as it seems; that his people may be aggressors rather than victims; and that if he wants to honour his dead father, he must stand up and forge his own sense of right and wrong. William Sutcliffe was born in London in 11. He is the author of five previous novels – the international bestseller Are You Experienced?, The Love Hexagon, New Boy, Bad Influence and, most recently, Whatever Makes You Happy. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
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Helium Jaspreet Singh ‘Inventive, melancholy, and unflinchingly courageous’ Siddhartha Deb
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n November 1st 14, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip with his mentor and chemistry teacher, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight. Years later the student, Raj, is compelled to find his professor’s widow, the beautiful Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, Nelly comes up against a nation in denial, Raj faces the truth about his father’s role in the Sikh massacre and they both find the path leads back to the train station. In Helium, Jaspreet Singh crafts an affecting and important story of a largely untouched moment in Indian memory. Jaspreet Singh is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a former research scientist. His story collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, won the 2004 Quebec First Book Prize. Chef, his first novel, received the Alberta Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for four awards including the 200 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Born in India, he moved to Canada in 10.
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The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize ‘Probably the most influential writer of fiction in America’ Financial Times
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rothers Subhash and Udayan are close in age and utterly inseparable as children in Calcutta. Yet, as the years pass – as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam, as riots sweep across India and the Communist movement begin to take root – Udayan’s increasingly radical beliefs will transform the futures of those dearest to him: his newly married, pregnant wife, his brother and their parents. For all of them, the repercussions of his actions will reverberate across continents and seep through the generations that follow.
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Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of three previous works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake and, most recently, Unaccustomed Earth. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012.
And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini ‘Hosseini pulls off his usual – impressive – trick of breaking your heart and leaving you smiling’ Daily Telegraph
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haled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world. His novels have sold over million copies in more than seventy countries. Now Hosseini returns with a book that is broader in scope and setting than anything he’s ever written before. A multi-generational family story revolving around brothers and sisters, it is an emotional, provocative and unforgettable novel about how we love, how we take care of one another and how the choices we make resonate through generations. With profound wisdom, insight and compassion, Hosseini demonstrates once again his deeply felt understanding of the bonds that define us and shape our lives – and of what it means to be human. Khaled Hosseini is the author of bestsellers The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. The Kite Runner was made into a major film in 200. A Thousand Splendid Suns was a Richard & Judy Book Club choice. Hosseini is a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and lives in northern California.
Constance Patrick McGrath ‘A tour de force … Many of McGrath’s glorious phrases made me catch my breath’ Julie Myerson, New York Times
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he aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan when she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior, at a literary party. A few weeks later, he proposes marriage and Constance accepts, moving into his dark, book-filled apartment. But Constance is tortured by a bitter past. When her father makes a devastating revelation, Constance’s fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely. Sidney can only watch and wait, doubting his own moral strength. Constance’s consolation is the friendship of Sidney’s boy Howard, a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself … Patrick McGrath is the author of seven previous novels including Asylum, Martha Peake, Port Mungo and Trauma, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. He has also published Ghost Town, a volume of novellas about New York. Spider was made into a film in 2002 by director David Cronenberg. Patrick McGrath lives in London and New York.
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Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night James Runcie ‘Runcie is emerging as Grantchester’s answer to Alexander McCall Smith’ Spectator
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. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest and part-time detective, is back. Accompanied by his Labrador and the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King’s College Chapel, a case of arson at a glamour photographer’s studio and the poisoning of Grantchester’s finest spin bowler. Alongside his sleuthing, Sidney has other problems. Can he decide between the glamorous socialite Amanda Kendall and Hildegard Staunton, the beguiling German widow? To make up his mind Sidney takes a trip abroad, only to find himself trapped in a web of international espionage just as the Berlin Wall is going up. James Runcie is the Head of Literature at The Southbank Centre, an award-winning film-maker, and the author of five novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow Of Death, the first of ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012. He lives in London and Edinburgh. @james_runcie
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The Feast of Artemis Anne Zouroudi Hermes Diaktoros returns in the seventh gripping, sun-drenched instalment of The Mysteries of the Greek Detective
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he olive harvest is drawing to a close in the town of Dendra, and when Hermes Diaktoros arrives for the celebratory festival he expects an indulgent day of food and wine. But as young men leap a blazing bonfire in feats of daring, one is badly burned. Did he fall, or was he pushed? Then, as Hermes learns of a deep-running feud between two families, one of their patriarchs dies. Determined to find out why, Hermes follows a bitter trail through the olive groves to reveal a motive for murder, and uncovers a dark deed brought to light by the sin of gluttony.
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Anne Zouroudi was born in England and has lived in the Greek islands. She now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District with her son. She is the author of six other Mysteries of the Greek Detective novels including The Messenger of Athens, which was shortlisted for the ITV Crime Thriller Award for Breakthrough Authors and longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize. @annezouroudi
Hell-Bent Obsession, Pain and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Bikram Yoga
Benjamin Lorr ‘A wonderful, inspiring, maddening, complicated, edifying journey’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
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orr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found Bikram yoga reinventing his life. He was content to slim down and tone up until a run-in with a competitive yoga champion convinced him to take his practice to the next level. So begins a journey into the strange, amazing world of competitive yoga. Populated by athletic prodigies, wide-eyed celebrities, medical miracles and predatory hucksters, Hell-Bent follows Lorr as he grapples with his new obsession: researching the health claims and history, humanising its maniacal guru, and eventually competing for glory at the national championship. Benjamin Lorr graduated from Columbia University with a degree in creative writing. He is certified to teach Bikram Yoga and lives in New York. @BenjaminLorr
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Cairo Ahdaf Soueif ‘Bursts of lyricism, poetry and love illuminate the factual account and political commentary, and it works beautifully’ Independent
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hen thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square after the eruption of the revolution on January 2, 2011, Ahdaf Soueif was among them. In this deeply felt narrative, she writes of the passion, confusion, and violence that filled Cairo for eighteen days before the triumphant overturning of the corrupt Mubarak regime. And contrasted against the revolution, Soueif recalls the many memories she has of growing up in Egypt. A uniquely illuminating picture, this updated edition considers Egypt’s most recent turns, from the elections to the dissolution of Parliament to the first hundred days of Muhammad Morsi’s presidency over a nation reborn. Ahdaf Soueif is the author of five books including the bestselling novel The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Mezzaterra: Notes from the Common Ground, a collection of essays positioned at the intersection of culture and politics. She is the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, and writes regularly for the Guardian in the UK and al-Shorouk in Egypt. @asoueif
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Let Me Tell You a Story A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
Renata Calverley ‘It is impossible not to be moved by the plight of this child … A worthy addition to the holocaust memoir’ Vanessa Curtis, Jewish Chronicle
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oland, 1. Three-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the night and bundled into the basement. No one explains to her what war is.
June, 142. Soldiers burst into their apartment carrying guns and the family is taken to the Ghetto. Her mother and grandmother are forced to work at the factory until, one day, they do not return. Five-years-old, Renata is left utterly alone until she is smuggled out under the skirt of her former nanny. Forced into hiding, twists of fate save her life, but it is stories that become her salvation. Born in Poland, Renata Calverley moved to the UK aged nine. After gaining an Honours Degree in English Literature and American Studies from Nottingham University, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the London University Institute of Education and a Diploma in Creative Writing, she taught English for thirty-five years. Renata Calverley lives in Oxford with her husband.
Return of a King The Battle for Afghanistan
William Dalrymple ‘This sorry saga has been recounted many times, but never […] as well as by Dalyrmple. He is a master storyteller’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times
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n 141, the Afghan people called for jihad against the British occupying forces, and the country exploded into violent rebellion. In the greatest military humiliation ever suffered by the West in the East, an eighteen-thousand strong army of the most powerful military nation in the world was utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen.
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Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan war, a disastrous entanglement which has important lessons for today. Using newly discovered Afghan, Indian and Russian sources to bring to life unforgettable characters on all sides, this masterful retelling of Britain’s greatest imperial disaster is an important parable of neo-colonial ambition and cultural collision for our times. William Dalrymple is the author of the prize-winning and bestselling books In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi. @DalrympleWill
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Vow A Memoir of Marriage (and Other Affairs)
Wendy Plump ‘Vow will change your marriage’ Daily Telegraph
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here are so many ways to find out. From a cell phone. From a bank account. From some weird supermarket encounter. One morning, Wendy Plump’s neighbour came over to tell her that her husband was having an affair. The news hit her with an almost audible click. It was not a shock. Actually, it explained quite a lot. What she was not prepared for however was the revelation that he had an eight-monthold son living within a mile of their family home. In this compelling memoir, Wendy Plump looks at the ordeal of Finding Out, and she explores the wreckage of her relationship head-on – from the view of both the betrayer and the betrayed. Wendy Plump has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for over twenty years. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and won several New Jersey Press Association Awards. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, with her sons. @wendyplump
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The Red Canary The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal
Tim Birkhead The compelling quest to turn the green canary red
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he creation of Dolly the sheep in the 10s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 120s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Though his experiments failed, they paved the way for others to succeed when it was recognised that the canary needed to be both a product of nature and nurture. This highly original narrative, of huge contemporary relevance, reveals how the obsession with turning the wild canary from green to red heralded the exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation. Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. He has written for the Independent, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife. Among his other books are Promiscuity, Great Auk Islands, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds which won the McColvin medal, and most recently, Bird Sense. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.
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A Prince Among Stones That Business with The Rolling Stones and Other Adventures
Prince Rupert Loewenstein ‘One of the funniest rock books I’ve read’ New Statesman
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n 1 Mick Jagger couldn’t understand why the Rolling Stones had no money. The man he asked to help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of rock’n’roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as ‘a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny’, usually enthralled but often bemused and exasperated. Coolly impartial, dryly humorous, this is a refreshingly different take on the rock’n’roll world from within its inner sanctum. Born in Palma, Majorca in 1, Prince Rupert Loewenstein, of an offshoot of the Bavarian royal house of Wittelsbach, studied medieval history at Magdalen College, Oxford before joining the American stockbrokers Bache & Co. While a director of the merchant bank Leopold Joseph & Sons, he was introduced to Mick Jagger in 1 and managed the Rolling Stones’ finances until 200.
The Lost History of 1914 How the Great War Was Not Inevitable
Jack Beatty ‘A generous, stimulating book’ Spectator
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n The Lost History of 114, Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, challenging the long-dominant assumption that the conflict was inevitable. Beatty presents the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand not as the catalyst of a war that would have broken out in any event over some other crisis, but rather as ‘its all-but unique precipitant.’ His deeply insightful book – as elegantly written as it is thought-provoking – lights a lost world about to be shaken to its foundations by what was perhaps the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century.
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Jack Beatty is a news analyst for “On Point,” the public affairs program on American National Public Radio, and the author of The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America, and Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900. He lives in New Hampshire.
MOB Rule Lessons Learned by a Mother Of Boys
Hannah Evans ‘A funny and informative bible for anyone in a similar position’ Angels & Urchins
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annah Evans has three small boys. In her world, farting is so much more interesting than phonics and dam-building trumps damsels in distress any day. It’s a world of mud – and just occasionally blood – sweat and tears. It is also a world of indescribable joy. MOB Rule is the funny, honest and eye-opening account of Hannah’s experiences as a Mother of Boys. Supplemented by recipes, quizzes, mnemonics and mysteries, it is the indispensable book for anyone who has ever found themselves adrift on a sea of testosterone, wondering when the lifeboat is going to show up. Hannah Evans has previously explored the world of the MOB in a number of articles, most notably in the Guardian. She lives with her husband and three boys in Devon. @followthemob
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The Love-charm of Bombs Restless Lives in the Second World War
Lara Feigel ‘Intelligently written, seamlessly presented’ Daily Telegraph
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t the height of the Blitz, Graham Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one ‘like a love-charm’. For Greene – and for Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green, Rose Macaulay and Hilde Spiel – this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs. Volunteering as ambulance drivers and firefighters, these were the successors to the soldier poets of the First World War and their story has never been told. Now Lara Feigel uses letters, diaries, fiction and war records to create a haunting chronicle that starts by following the five writers through a single night of September 140. Dr Lara Feigel is a Lecturer in English and the Medical Humanities at King’s College London. She is the author of Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930-1945 and the editor (with Alexandra Harris) of Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside and (with John Sutherland) of the New Selected Journals of Stephen Spender. She has also written pieces for various publications, including the Guardian, Prospect and History Today. She lives in West Hampstead, London.
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The God Argument The Case Against Religion and for Humanism
A. C. Grayling ‘A lucid, informative and admirably accessible account of the atheist-secularhumanist position’ New Statesman
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here has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in support of religious belief, and does so in full consciousness of the reasons people have for subscribing to religion, and the needs they seek to satisfy by doing so. And because it takes account of all the issues, its solutions carry great weight. The Case against Religion is the definitive examination of the issue, and a statement of the humanist outlook that recommends itself as the ethics of the genuinely reflective person. A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, a regular contributor to the newspapers, a frequent and popular contributor to radio and TV, and the author of many books including The Meaning of Things and Liberty in the Age of Terror
Maggie & Me Damian Barr ‘Full to the brim with poignancy, humour, brutality and energetic and sometimes shimmering prose’ Independent
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t’s 14. An IRA bomb blows up the Grand Hotel in Brighton and a secret explodes Damian Barr’s family in Glasgow. With a Catholic Mum and Protestant Dad, his childhood was always split but now Damian faces a terrifyingly abusive stepfather and a creepily glamorous stepmother. The blonde bogeywoman on the BBC snatched his school milk and now she’s after the Ravenscraig Steelworks where his Dad works. Then the threat of AIDS adds fear to the confusion of falling in love with his best friend, John …
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Maggie & Me is an inspiring memoir about surviving the 10s and becoming an individual in spite of – and maybe because of – the Iron Lady. Damian Barr has been a journalist for The Times for ten years, writes plays for Radio 4 and features for titles including the Independent, Telegraph, Guardian and Granta. He is the author of Get It Together: A Guide to Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis, featured on Richard & Judy, and host of the Shoreditch House Literary Salon. He lives in Brighton. @Damian_Barr
Saul Bellow’s Heart A Son’s Memoir
Greg Bellow ‘Salutary and amusing to see an idol from his bad side’ Rose Tremain, The Times
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reg Bellow’s bond with his famous-writer father was grounded in a tenderness, social optimism, and light-hearted humour rarely attributed to a man more often remembered for being quick to anger and schooled in rational argument. This intimate memoir gives voice both to the ‘Young Saul’ – the rebellious, irreverent and ambitious young writer, and dedicated father – and to the ‘Old Saul’, the writer known to the wider world, whose edges hardened as his social views turned pessimistic. The change taxed the relationship between Bellow and his son so sorely that Greg feared it might not survive. Gregory Bellow, PhD, was a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist for forty years and remains a member of the Core Faculty of The Sanville Institute. He lives in Redwood City, California.
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Cities Are Good for You The Genius of the Metropolis
Leo Hollis ‘Fascinating and thoroughly researched’ Financial Times
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he twenty-first century will be the age of the city. Over 0% of the world’s population currently live in urban centres and this percentage is set to increase. From the slums of Mumbai to recycling centres in Stockholm, secret dinner parties in Paris and bus-rides in Bogotá, Leo Hollis blends research and anecdote to explore why cities can never be ‘rational’ places; how we can walk in a crowd without bumping into people; how ants and slime mould can make us rethink congestion; and, above all, how living in the city can make us fitter, richer, smarter, greener, more creative – and perhaps even happier. Leo Hollis is a writer and historian. He studied history of the University of East Anglia. He now works as an editor at Verso and is the critically acclaimed author of The Phoenix: St Paul’s Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London and The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings. He lives in West Hampstead.
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The New Middle East The World After the Arab Spring
Paul Danahar ‘Far and away the best book I’ve read on the effects of the Arab Spring’ John Simpson
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he entire political landscape of the Middle East is evolving. Autocratic regimes that once ruled over millions with a deathly iron fist have imploded, leaving turmoil in their wake. Through populist action a nascent order is emerging. Together the countries engulfed by the Arab Spring – Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria – are embarking on a shaky journey from dictatorship to democracy. A quieter, but equally profound, revolution is also underway in Israel where religious and secular tensions are threatening the fabric of society. Together these countries will shape a new Middle East and forge a different narrative of power. The New Middle East importantly explains how and why. Paul Danahar is the BBC’s Middle East Bureau Chief and ran the organisation’s entire news coverage of the Arab Spring. He is the Chairman of the Middle East Foreign Press Association and was awarded an MBE for his work in Baghdad during the American-led invasion. He is one of a few journalists to have worked in Iraq, Iran and North Korea, which make up the so-called ‘Axis of Evil’. Follow him @pdanahar.
Harley Loco A Memoir of Hard Living, Haircutting and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
Rayya Elias ‘This book is to be gulped whole’ Stylist
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hen she was seven, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in Syria, settling in a suburb of Detroit. Bullied in school, she rebelled early and moved to New York City to become a musician at the height of the punk movement. Her uncommon talent for cutting hair kept her afloat in a world of adventure, creative inspiration and temptation. But as her obsessive love affairs with women and men went wrong and her occasional drug use turned to addiction, she spiralled into the darkness of heroin and cocaine. Soon she found herself living rough on the streets – between visits to jail. Rayya Elias was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 10 and moved to the United States in 1. She is a musician, hairdresser and filmmaker and she also sells real estate to make some extra scratch. She lives in New York City and Little York, New Jersey and has been clean since August , 1. @rayyaelias
Elizabeth’s Bedfellows An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court
Anna Whitelock ‘An intimate history of the court and a brilliant history of intimacy’ Mail on Sunday
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t the heart of Elizabeth I’s court lay her bedchamber, closely guarded by the women who helped her dress, washed her clothing, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Witnesses to the face beneath the make-up, and rumoured dalliances with, among others, Robert Dudley, Elizabeth’s bedfellows were the guardians of truth about her health, chastity and fertility. For such was the political significance of the queen’s body: it represented the very state itself. The revealing history of the politics of intimacy uncovers the feminised world of Elizabethan politics, the fragility of royal favour and the price of disloyalty. Anna Whitelock’s bestselling debut, Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen, was published to critical acclaim in 200. She is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She regular appears on television and radio and has written for the Guardian, BBC History, Sunday Telegraph and the New York Times. She lives in Cambridge.
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King’s Cross Kid A London Childhood between the Wars
Victor Gregg ‘Vivid … Richly infused with great warmth, mischief and humour’ Juliet Gardiner
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inety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King’s Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life is so hard that the Salvation Army arrange for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood begin. Then, after years of being in street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship in survival. Victor Gregg was born in London in 11 and joined the army in 1, serving first in the Rifle Brigade and then in the Parachute Regiment. He is the co-author of Rifleman, and he survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 14 and now lives in Winchester.
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The North (And Almost Everything In It)
Paul Morley ‘Breathtaking tour de force … As bold, broad and sweeping as the north itself, and just as quirky’ Mail on Sunday
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ince he was seven, Morley has always thought of himself as a northerner. What that meant, he wasn’t entirely sure, but, like millions of others, he knew it to be an absolute, indisputable truth. Decades later, Morley sets out to discover and re-imagine the north through stories of his own past, from his Dad spreading margarine on Weetabix to the Stockport airplane disaster, and those of the region, from Tristram Shandy to Bernard Manning, from Wordsworth’s musings on the Lakes to the construction of Blackpool tower. Beautiful and ambitious, The North is a masterful blend of memoir and social history. Critic, broadcaster and music theorist Paul Morley grew up in Stockport, Cheshire. He is the author of a number of influential books on music as well as an acclaimed memoir, Nothing. Paul has written for numerous publications including the New Statesman, the Sunday Telegraph, NME, the Observer and the Financial Times and appears regularly on BBC2’s The Review Show.
The Cooked Seed Anchee Min ‘Extraordinary’ New York Times
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ifteen years after the publication of the international bestseller Red Azelea, Anchee Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to America, arriving without language, money or a clear path. It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces. She also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will save her and root her, finally, in the new country.
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Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1. At seventeen she was sent to a labour collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao’s Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 14. Her first memoir, Red Azalea was published in twenty-seven countries. She has since published six novels, including the Richard & Judy choice Empress Orchid and, most recently, Pearl of China.
Anne Frank The Biography
Melissa Müller ‘Sensitive, serious and scrupulous’ Sunday Telegraph
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racing Anne Frank’s life from an early childhood in an assimilated family to her adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam, Melissa Müller’s biography, originally published in 1, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen. This updated edition includes the five missing pages from Anne Frank’s diary, a number of new photographs, and brings to light many fascinating facts surrounding the Franks. As well as an epilogue from Miep Gies, who hid them for two years, it features new theories and the startling discovery that the family applied for visas to the US. This authoritative account of Anne Frank’s short but extraordinary life has been meticulously revised over seven years. Melissa Müller is an Austrian-born journalist and author, whose other books include Until the Final Hour, which describes the experiences of Hitler’s last private secretary, and was a major source for the movie Downfall. Her original edition of Anne Frank: The Biography, informed the Emmy Award-winning adaptation, Anne Frank.
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If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother Julia Sweeney ‘A funny, affectionate memoir about being an unconventional parent’ Daily Mail
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ne day, comedian and writer Julia Sweeney took a flight to China to adopt Mulan – a one-and-a-half-year-old girl every bit as feisty as the Disney character (whom she was not named for). If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother is the story of this quirky mother-daughter pair who eventually became – in a hilariously unexpected way – a mother-daughter-father trio, from their eventful journey home to the USA to the arrival of their smelly dog and The Conversation in which Mulan worked out how men do it with other men. Julia Sweeney turns her considerable talent for comic performance to the story of her own voyage to motherhood and marriage, and the result is a classic of its kind. Julia Sweeney was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 10 to 14. She has also written and performed in several critically acclaimed one-woman shows, including God Said Ha!, In the Family Way and Letting Go of God. She lives outside of Chicago, Illinois. If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother is her first book.
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Index A
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Alex Through The Looking-Glass 20 And the Mountains Echoed 0 Anne Frank Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love 2 Art of Losing, The Atheists Authors XI, The 4
D-Day Documents 21 Danish Dynamite 4 Disinherited, The 21 Divine Discontent Dogstar Rising Double V, The 4
Hanging, The 0 Harley Loco 0 Helium Hell-Bent Hired Man, The 4 History of the Rain Hollow Mountain Home Fires Hope Against Hope 4 Hotel Florida 20 Hunting the Hunters 4
B Bailey Boat Cat 4 Before We Met 2 Beloved Strangers 2 Benares Cookbook, The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care, The Blue Guide to Grey Living, The Bone Season, The Bricks and Mortals 2 Buckley 4
C Cairo Capital Wars 1 Cities Are Good for You City of Devi, The 4 Clay Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A Constance 1 Cooked Seed, The 2 Crooked Maid, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, The 4 Curing & Smoking 4 Curious Career, A 2
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E Eleanor Marx 22 Elizabeth’s Bedfellows 1 Elk Stopped Play and Other Tales 41 Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, The 4
F Farmageddon 1 Faster 41 Feast of Artemis, The 2 Feathered River Across the Sky, A Finding the Space to Lead 4 Fire In The Belly 4 First World War 1 Flying Shoes Focus 14 Foinavon 4 Following Girls, The From a Distance
G Gamal, The Ghost Runner, The 4 Giraffe’s Neck, The Gloria God Argument, The God in Every Stone, A God Is an Astronaut 12 Graphic Art of the Underground, The 2 Great Tamasha, The 40 Great War, 114–1, The 2
I If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother Impulse Society, The 2 Innocence Game, The Inside a Pearl 0 Inside the Banking Crisis 0 International Night
J Jefferson and Hamilton 4 Junkyard Planet 4
K King’s Cross Kid 1
L Lagoon, The 24 Last Ape Standing Let Me Tell You a Story 4 Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim 22 Little Known Facts Little Wonder, The 42 Lost History of 114, The Love-charm of Bombs, The Lowland, The 0
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Maggie & Me Making Changes to Churches and Churchyards 2 Manager, The 4 MasterChef: the Masters Mimi 2 Mirror Earth 4 MOB Rule Money Mania 0 Monopolists, The Monuments, The 40 More Beautiful Question, A 1 More Powerful Than Dynamite Mumsnet Cookbook, The Music Night at the Apollo 1 My Notorious Life by Madame X
Rape of Europa, The 2 Reckless 44 Red Canary, The Remains of Love, The 0 Respect Yourself 1 Return of a King 4 Rogue Elephant 1 Romany and Tom 2
Valley, The 2 Vimto Cookbook, The Visitors, The 1 Vow
N Naming of the Shrew, The 4 New Asceticism, The 4 New History of Life, A 1 New Middle East, The 0 New Sylva, The 4 Nile, The 1 No Country 10 Noodle! North, The 2
O One Good Egg Outlaws 12 Overwhelmed 0 Owning the Earth 14
P Packing Up Pie! Poets’ Wives, The 4 Poison Spring 2 Pop-up Gym, The 4 Prince Among Stones, A Prince’s Boy, The 11
S Saul Bellow’s Heart Scars Scottish Jewish Community, The Searchers, The 2 She Rises Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night 1 Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil 10 Sign of the Cross Sixth Extinction, The 1 Social Suppers SuperDiet
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W Wake Up Happy Every Day Walking, The Wall, The War and Gold 2 Wars of Reconstruction, The 4 What Was Promised When Mr Dog Bites 2 White Beech 1 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2014 42 Wisden on the Great War 44 Wives of Los Alamos, The Women in Waiting 4 Women of the World 24 World Was All Before Them, The 2
Y Year at Otter Farm, A Year of Meteors 4
Talmud, The Tenth of December Teresa of Avila Terms & Conditions Thirty-One Nil 4 This Is Where I Am 1 This Magnificent Desolation 1 TransAtlantic Triple Package, The 1 True and Splendid History of The Harristown Sisters, The 11 Two Turtle Doves 1
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