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Ada’s Rules A Sexy Skinny Novel
Alice Randall A warm, funny and soulfully wise novel about falling back in love with the life you have Ada Howard, the preacher’s wife, has a whole lot of people to take care of. It’s no wonder she can’t find time to take care of herself. And her husband’s been so busy lately she’s suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him… Then an invitation to her college reunion arrives, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. Ada starts laying down some rules to lose the hundred or so pounds gained since her college days, and so begins an unforgettable journey on the way to less weight and more love… PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408827567 EBOOK: 9781408833070
Alice Randall is the author of New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, and Rebel Yell. She is also an award-winning songwriter. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville with her husband. She recently lost quite a few pounds following her own rules.
PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408831779 PRICE: £11.99
The Uninvited Liz Jensen From the prizewinning and bestselling author of TV Book Club pick, The Rapture, comes Liz Jensen’s most thrilling novel to date A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong.
PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback
When anthropologist Hesketh Lock travels to Taiwan to investigate sabotage in the timber industry, he has no reason to connect the events there with the incidents back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son. Until shocking events in Taiwan and a global epidemic of child violence force him to reassess his life, his career and his role as a father. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.
ISBN: 9781408821152 EBOOK: 9781408830062 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Aitken Alexander
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Liz Jensen is the bestselling author of seven previous novels, including Ark Baby, shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, War Crimes for the Home, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax and, most recently, the Channel 4 TV Book Club Best Read, The Rapture. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries.
A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar Suzanne Joinson An extraordinary novel about the stories that bind us to our past, set in present-day London and 1920s Kashgar 1923: Evangeline English, lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie and their zealous leader Millicent at the ancient city of Kashgar to establish a mission. As they encounter resistance and calamity, Eva commences work on her Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar… In presentday London, Frieda opens her door to find a man sleeping on the landing. Tayeb, a Yemeni refugee, has arrived in Frieda’s life just as she learns that she is next-of-kin to a stranger, a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises. The two wanderers embark on a journey that is as great, and as unexpected, as Eva’s.
PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback
Suzanne Joinson works for the British Council, and regularly travels widely across the Middle East, north Africa, China and Europe. In 2007 she won the new Writing Ventures Award for Creative non-Fiction for ‘Laila Ahmed’. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and lives by the sea on the South Coast of England.
ISBN: 9781408825143 EBOOK: 9781408830260 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408825204 PRICE: £11.99
The Geneva Trap A Liz Carlyle novel
Stella Rimington In the latest high-octane thriller from Stella Rimington, MI5’s Liz Carlyle finds her past catching up with her… When a Russian spy approaches MI5 with information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. At a tracking station in nevada, US navy officers watch in horror as one of their unmanned drones plummets out of the sky. Is this a Russian plot to disable the West’s defences? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and her team hunt for a mole inside the MOD, the trail leads them into a labyrinth of international intrigue, in a race to stop the Cold War heating up once again…
PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback
Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and six Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and norfolk.
ISBN: 9781408828663 EBOOK: 9781408819661 PUB DATE: July 19, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Capel & Land EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408819654 PRICE: £11.99
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Elza’s Kitchen Marc Fitten The bestselling author of Valeria’s Last Stand brings us a delicious fable of passion lost and found in a restaurant kitchen Elza has her own little restaurant in the Hungarian city of Delibab, cooking quality versions of her country's classics and serving them with a smile. But lately Elza's smile has become tired and her affair with her sous-chef an irritant. With her country in a state of transition from communism to capitalism, Elza embarks on her own change as she decides to woo The Critic, one of the harshest, most powerful restaurant columnists in Europe – and along the way she finds that true joy – and love – can be hidden in the most surprising of places. PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408821329 EBOOK: 9781408827680 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012
Marc Fitten lived in Hungary from 1993 to 1998. His debut novel, Valeria’s Last Stand, was published in ten countries, held a spot on the Der Spiegel’s Bestsellers list for seven weeks and was an Amazon Best of the Month book for May 2009. He has published writing in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. He lives and writes in Atlanta.
TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: William Morris Endeavor
Rook Jane Rusbridge A mesmerising story of family, legacy and the hidden histories of the Bayeux Tapestry by the author of The Devil’s Music nora, a cellist, returns home to the Sussex coast with memories she must banish in order to survive: a charismatic teacher; a mistake she cannot unmake. Her mother Ada is waiting: a fragile, bitter woman who distils for herself a glamorous past as she smokes French cigarettes in her unkempt garden. A documentary maker has arrived in the village to shoot a film about King Cnut and his illegitimate daughter, whose body lies beneath the flagstones of Bosham church. As he digs up tales of ancient battles, Ada and nora find themselves face to face with their own carefully buried secrets. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408817957 EBOOK: 9781408830147 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EU,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White
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Jane Rusbridge is the author of The Devil’s Music. She lives near the coast in West Sussex with her husband, a farmer, and the youngest of their five children. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Chichester, where she was the recipient of the Philip Lebrun Prize for Creative Writing and is Associate Lecturer in English.
Shadow of the Rock Thomas Mogford The first in an exciting new crime series set in Gibraltar and Morocco, featuring lawyer Spike Sanguinetti A humid summer night in Gibraltar. Lawyer Spike Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old school friend waiting on his doorstep. Solomon Hassan has been accused of murdering a Spanish girl in Tangiers, and the Moroccan authorities want him back. As Spike travels to Tangiers to try and delay the extradition, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous game of secrets, corruption and murder. 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 2008 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.
PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408824160 EBOOK: 9781408824481 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Umbrella Will Self A major new novel by the author of Great Apes, How the Dead Live and The Book of Dave At Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner encounters Audrey Dearth, a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890. Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica epidemic at the end of the First World War and has slept through most of the twentieth century. Realising that the old woman is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum, Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life – with wholly unforeseen consequences. Radical in its conception, uncompromising in its style, Umbrella is Will Self’s most imaginative and challenging novel to date. PRICE: £18.99
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002 and The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008. He lives in South London.
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408820148 PUB DATE: August 16, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Wylie Agency EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408832097 PRICE: £11.99
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Zoo Time Howard Jacobson The blistering new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010 novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. Their provocative presence fills Guy’s head with stories so wild he can’t concentrate to write them. not that anyone reads anymore, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, however, is writing her own novel. Guy dreads the consequences… PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408828687
Our funniest writer at his brilliant best, Zoo Time is a novel about love – love of women, love of literature, love of laughter.
EBOOK: 9781408829141 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408831823 PRICE: £11.99
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. His novels include The Mighty Walzer, Kalooki Nights, The Act of Love and The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics Gideon Defoe Following on from the blockbuster Sony/Aardman movie, the Pirate Captain and his crew return in a daring and eldritch new adventure
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Whilst visiting their bank manager on the shores of Lake Geneva, the pirates encounter the literary giants of their age: the swaggering Lord Byron, the oddly shifty Percy Shelley – and his beautiful fiancée, Mary. They embark upon a journey that leads them into the bowels of Oxford and the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. Along the way the Pirate Captain must confront some important questions, namely: what is the secret behind his belly tattoo? Is ‘Zombuloid, the corpse-beast’ a better name for a monster than ‘Gorgo: Half-man, halfseaweed’? And, most importantly, what happens when a pirate falls in love?
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408802229 EBOOK: 9781408811306 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EU,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Janklow & Nesbit
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Gideon Defoe was born in 1975 and lives in London. He is also the author of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon. You could be forgiven for thinking he is a bit of a one-trick pony.
John Saturnall’s Feast Lawrence Norfolk The award-winning and bestselling author of Lemprière’s Dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk, is back with a mesmerising story of seventeenth-century life, love and war The village of Buckland, 1625. A boy and his mother run for their lives. Behind them a mob chants of witchcraft. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla’s Wood, the mother opens her book and tells her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. But as exquisite dishes rise from the page, the ground beneath them freezes. That winter, the boy’s mother dies. Taken to Buckland Manor, John Sandall is put to work in the house’s vast subterranean kitchens where his talent raises him from the scullery to the great house above. A complex dish served to King Charles brings him before Lady Lucretia Fremantle, the headstrong daughter of the house. He must tempt her from her fast. But both encounters will imperil him. As the Civil War begins and the New Order’s fanatical soldiers march, John and Lucretia are thrown together into a passionate struggle for survival. To keep all he holds most dear, John must realise his mother’s vision. He must serve the Saturnall Feast
PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408805961 EBOOK: 9781408833292 PUB DATE: September 13, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UK
Lawrence Norfolk is the internationally bestselling author of three literary historical novels which have been translated into thirty-four languages. He is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and has been shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Award, among others. Lawrence Norfolk lives in London with his wife and two children.
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Blake Friedmann Agency EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408832479 PRICE: £12.99
The Infinite Tides Christian Kiefer An elegant, moving and deeply resonant debut novel about an astronaut’s return to earth and the losses he must confront Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran’s return to earth. He comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and his house empty of furniture. His role as a mathematical and engineering genius doesn’t help him to understand this alien silence, but a friendship with a neighbouring Ukrainian immigrant slowly helps him connect to the world around him. This nuanced portrait of two lives lived under the weight of gravity in modern America is deeply moving, tragicomic and ultimately redemptive. PRICE: £12.99
Christian Kiefer earned a PhD in American literature from the University of California, Davis, and is on the English faculty of American River College in Sacramento. He is also an accomplished songwriter and instrumentalist, known as a solo recording artist and as a collaborator with some of the leading lights of the indie rock scene.
FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408828038 EBOOK: 9781408829196 PUB DATE: September 13, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Markson Thoma Agency
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Finding Casey Jo-Ann Mapson A heart-warming story of love, family and the bond between sisters, from the author of Solomon’s Oak Glory Vigil, newly married and unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband Joseph have just moved to in Santa Fe. Their adopted daughter Juniper is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, from the day eight years earlier when her sister Casey disappeared – before she’d ever met Glory and Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo only a few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she thought she’d finally buried. PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408829264 EBOOK: 9781408829257
Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of ten previous novels, including Solomon’s Oak, winner of the American Library Association’s 2011 RUSA Award for Women’s Fiction, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo, and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, new Mexico, with her husband and their four dogs.
PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Gelfman Schneider
That Deadman Dance Kim Scott A stunning and prize-winning novel that reimagines the story of colonizer and colonized with fresh lyrical power and hopeful vision Throughout Bobby Wabalanginy’s young life the ships have been arriving, bringing European settlers to the south coast of Western Australia. Bobby, smart, resourceful and eager to please, is welcomed into a prosperous white family and finds himself falling in love with the daughter Christine. But then things begin to change. Livestock mysteriously starts to disappear; crops are destroyed; there are ‘accidents’ and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules, Bobby’s Elders decide they must respond in kind, and Bobby is inexorably drawn into a series of events that will for ever change the fate of his country. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408829288 EBOOK: 9781408829271 PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: WEXANZ TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Anderson Literary Management
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Kim Scott was born in 1957 to a white mother and Aboriginal father. He is the author of True Country, and Benang: From the Heart, which won the Miles Franklin Award. That Deadman Dance was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the South East Asia and Pacific Region. Scott lives in Western Australia with his wife and two children.
San Miguel T. C. Boyle A vivid, sweeping historical novel of hard lives pitched against the elements from master of American fiction, the bestselling T. C. Boyle The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the island on New Year’s Day, 1888. Marantha looks at the cliffs falling into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life. Before long the constant wind and sheep-ravaged wasteland shatter her illusions; her husband promised paradise. As he obsessively resolves to stay – and becomes increasingly distant from her and her daughter, Edith – Maratha’s blighted lungs grow weaker in the dampness. Forty-two years later another family – and another bride – will arrive on San Miguel. But the unyielding island is haunted by its history; by stories of isolation, the desires of stubborn men, and the unbearable burden of love.
PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback
T. C. Boyle’s novels include World’s End, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, The Tortilla Curtain, the New York Times bestseller, The Women and, most recently, When The Killing’s Done. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and he is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in California.
ISBN: 9781408830697 EBOOK: 9781408830710 PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Sheil Land Associates EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408830703 PRICE: £11.99
Wilderness Lance Weller A dazzling epic of the American Civil War about the legacy of conflict and the possibility of redemption Thirty years after the Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman embarks on one final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. As he travels through the foothills, he endures violence at the hands of thugs who are after his beloved dog, and is haunted by memories of the war. But good people have touched his life too – the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants; an escaped slave who nursed him back to life. Through it all, Abel holds on to his humanity, finding way stations of kindness along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path. PRICE: £12.99
Lance Weller has published short fiction in several literary journals. He won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Washington native, he has hiked and camped extensively in the landscape he describes. He lives in Gig Harbor, Washington, with his wife and several dogs.
FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408829202 EBOOK: 9781408833797 PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Blomsbury
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The Arch and the Butterfly Mohamed Achaari Joint winner of the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction – the Arab Booker 2011
PRICE: £9.99
Set in the author’s home country of Morocco, outside the ancient city of Marrakech, this is a moving novel of identity, extremism, culture and generational change. The narrator, Yousif, the son of a cross-cultural marriage between his father and German-born mother, is caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect the changing world he lives in. In the opening of the book, Yousif learns that his only son Yasin, whom he believed to be successfully pursuing an education at a prestigious college in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance. With his world already shattered, and finding himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Yousif questions everything including his own values and identity.
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9789992179055 PUB DATE: October 25, 2012 TERRITORY: WOEXItaly, Arabic TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short story writer, journalist, former Minister of Culture in Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. He has published a number of works of fiction and poetry, some of which has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. The Arch and The Butterfly is his second novel.
Hard Twisted C. Joseph Greaves A true saga of innocence and evil, survival and redemption, set in the Depression-era American West In May 1934, outside Hugo, Oklahoma, Dillard Garrett and his thirteen-year-old daughter Lucile are befriended by a charismatic drifter by the name of Clint Palmer. Palmer lures them to Texas, where Dillard mysteriously disappears and Lucile begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer’s captive on a crime spree – culminating in the notorious Greenville, Texas ‘skeleton murder’ trial of 1935. Hard Twisted is an epic tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes and historic figures – and all rooted in the story of a young girl’s coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408829240 EBOOK: 9781408829233 PUB DATE: November 08, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Black Agency
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C. Joseph Greaves is a former L.A. trial lawyer now based in Santa Fe. He was inspired to write Hard Twisted following his discovery of two human skulls in a remote Utah canyon. The novel went on to be named Best Historical novel of 2010 in the South West Writers international writing contest.
The Sound of Things Falling Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Juan Gabriel Vásquez The brilliant dark new novel by the author of The Informers and the winner of Spain’s prestigious 2011 Alfaguara Prize No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in the billiard halls of Bogotá than young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio’s fascination with his new friend’s life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious cassette in an unmarked envelope. Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner; Yammara’s investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare. Vásquez is one of the leading novelists of his generation: The Sound of Things Falling is his finest novel to date.
PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He is the author of The Informers – short-listed for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (IFFP) and published in twelve languages – and The Secret History of Costaguana.
ISBN: 9781408825792 EBOOK: 9781408834121 PUB DATE: November 08, 2012 TERRITORY: WE
Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Mercedes Casanovas Agencia Literaria
Traces Gamal Al Ghitani Written by one of Egypt's greatest living writers, also known throughout Europe Traces is an evocative examination of what remains of memories after forgetting has done its work. How do we keep track of people who were dear to us, the women we loved, the places we visited? How do we extract those moments spent on nothing? How to avert the passage of time? Reaching his sixties, the narrator decides to write down the fragments of his memories and explore the traces they have left behind. Taking us back through the neighbourhoods of old Cairo, Traces describes scenes from the narrator’s childhood, his encounters and travels, and the awakening of his senses. Gamal Al Ghitani is one of Egypt’s greatest writers. He was born in 1945 and educated as a tapestry maker in Cairo. He wrote his first work when he was sixteen and became a war reporter at the age of twenty-three. He has written thirteen novels and six collections of short stories and has been translated into various European languages.
PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408825792 PUB DATE: November 08, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Gamal Al Ghitani
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Big Ray Michael Kimball A short, potent novel of a son’s complicated feelings in the aftermath of his obese father’s death To his family, Big Ray’s obesity and his mean temper define him. When Big Ray dies, his son, Daniel, successfully puts his feelings aside until years later, when he reckons with the oversized presence in his memory. Told in over 500 brief entries, the complexity of this searing novel becomes more and more intricate as Daniel’s confession flits back and forth between the past and the present, between his father’s life and death, and between an abusive childhood and an adult comprehension. Big Ray is a staggering family story – at once humorous and insightful, brutal and tender, unusual and beautiful. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408828052 EBOOK: 9781408832165 PUB DATE: December 06, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Michael Kimball is the author of The Way the Family Got Away, Dear Everybody and How Much of Us There Was, and his novels have been translated into a dozen languages. His work has been featured on nPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ and in the Guardian, Vice, Bomb and New York Tyrant. He has also created a couple of documentary films.
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On 1 May 2012 Bloomsbury launches a new imprint:
Last year Bloomsbury celebrated its 25th birthday. From the beginning our aim was to publish the finest of international fiction and we now have a list filled with distinguished writers. So that Bloomsbury can continue to discover and grow exciting new voices, we have decided to launch Bloomsbury Circus. The books in Bloomsbury Circus will be mostly fiction, unashamedly literary, always fresh and sometimes surprising. In its first year there will be nine titles and the list will grow to up to four each month. In this digital age we are determined to make our books look more desirable and collectible than ever. Bloomsbury Circus books will be published as unusually-sized trade paperbacks with photographic covers, wide flaps and colour printing inside the cover. A circus, like a square or an avenue, is, of course, a place. Bloomsbury Circus will be a place of fine writing from many different countries. There will be exciting debuts and brilliant new novels from established writers. There will be ambitious writing and high-wire acts, too. There will be much to entertain, amaze and enjoy. Roll up, roll up...
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The Juice Vinous Veritas
Jay McInerney Acclaimed novelist and wine connoisseur Jay McInerney returns to the grapevine in this captivating new book, perfect for buffs and beginners alike
PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback
For more than a decade, Jay McInerney's vinous essays have been praised by restaurateurs, by esteemed critics and by the wider media. Here, with his trademark flair and expertise, McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of wine, painting a collage of the people and places that produce it all over the world, from historic past to the often confusing present. Stretching from France and South Africa to Australia and new Zealand, McInerney's tour is a comprehensive and thirst-inducing expedition that explores viticulture, investigates great champagne and delves into a vast array of styles, capturing the passion that so many people feel for the world of wine.
ISBN: 9781408833261 EBOOK: 9781408833278 PUB DATE: May 10, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN,EU&OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown
Jay McInerney writes a wine column for the Wall Street Journal and is a regular contributor to the Guardian and Corriere della Sera. He has written seven novels, including Bright Lights, Big City, cited by Time as one of the nine generation-defining novels of the twentieth century, two short story collections and two non-fiction books on wine, one of which was the acclaimed A Hedonist in the Cellar. He lives in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, new York.
Woolgathering Patti Smith The National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith, revisits her early years in this glittering memoir In this small, luminous memoir, Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self – and its ‘clear, unspeakable joy’ – with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on new York’s MacDougal Street, the street of cafés. Woolgathering was completed on Patti Smith’s 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymond Foye’s Hanuman Books. Twenty years later, Bloomsbury is proud to present it in a much augmented edition, featuring a new introduction, new pieces as well as material that was omitted from the book’s first printing, including new photographs and illustrations. PRICE: £10.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408832301 EBOOK: 9781408832318 PUB DATE: May 10, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Gernert Company
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A writer, performer and visual artist, Patti Smith has exhibited her drawings and photographs internationally. She has recorded thirteen albums, launched by the seminal Horses in 1975. Her many books include Witt, Babel, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence and Just Kids, which won the national Book Award in 2010. Patti Smith lives in new York City.
At Home on the Range Margaret Yardley Potter and Elizabeth Gilbert A beautifully-written, witty, heartfelt cookbook from 1947 with an introduction from Elizabeth Gilbert, the author’s great-granddaughter Whilst moving house Elizabeth Gilbert stumbled upon boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother’s attic for decades. Among the dusty hardbacks was a gem called At Home on the Range by Gilbert’s great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter – a workaday cookbook devoted to seeking out epicurean adventures that was far ahead of its time. Stressing the importance of sourcing food locally and eating well, At Home on the Range is a humorous and eminently useable volume with original family recipes that reveals where Elizabeth Gilbert inherited her love of food and warm, infectious prose. Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love (now a major motion picture), its follow-up, Committed, and The Last American Man (nominated for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book), as well as a novel and a short story collection. She lives in New Jersey.
PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408832288 EBOOK: 9781408832295 PUB DATE: June 04, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Wylie Agency EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: April 17, 2012
Mr Churchill’s Profession Statesman, Orator, Writer
Peter Clarke A fresh perspective on an iconic figure: this riveting examination of Churchill’s career as an author reveals the writer behind the statesman In 1953 Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Though he had become a professional writer before he became a politician, and would in the course of a lifetime publish numerous books and articles, Churchill’s political career has largely overshadowed his literary achievements. Tracing the writing of the magisterial work that would occupy Churchill, on and off, for a quarter of a century – the four-volume History of the EnglishSpeaking Peoples – Peter Clarke examines the lesser known of Churchill’s two intertwined careers to show that his writing underpinned his oratory and his politics, and thus presents a fascinating untold chapter in literary history.
PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408818879
Peter Clarke was formerly a professor of modern history and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900−2000 and most recently Keynes: The Twentieth Century’s Most Influential Economist. He lives with his wife, the Canadian writer Maria Tippett, in Cambridge, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia.
EBOOK: 9781408827222 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT PUB DATE: June 03, 2012
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POLPO A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts)
Russell Norman Venetian dishes from London’s hottest restaurant
PRICE: £25.00
Hidden away in London’s edgy Soho district, POLPO is one of the most irrepressibly buzzing restaurants in town. In this understated bàcaro, Russell Norman serves up dishes from the back streets of Venice that are unfussy, innovative and delicious. It’s cooking that is surprisingly easy – a case of assembling a few ingredients into something utterly delicious – and the book’s 150 recipes include baby pizzas with courgettes, mint and chilli; linguine with clams; and little tiramisù pots. This is a beautiful book with luminescent photography by Jenny Zarins, who captures the unfrequented corners, the bustling bàcari and the unforgettable, sublime waterways of Venice.
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408816790 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Russell Norman used to run some of the most venerated restaurants in London, including the Ivy, before turning his back on the high life, tattooing an octopus across his back and starting his own place in scruffy Soho. It was an instant hit and POLPO has been followed in quick succession by Polpetto, da Polpo, Spuntino and Mishkin’s. Russell Norman lives in London.
Eat and Run Scott Jurek with Steve Friedman My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness An inspirational memoir by Scott Jurek, one of the finest ultrarunners in the world and a key figure in the international bestseller Born to Run
PRICE: £12.99
Scott Jurek has been a dominant force in the gruelling sport of ultrarunning for more than a decade. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead in the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile jaunt over the Gold Rush trails of America’s Sierra Nevada. He went on to win that race seven years in a row. In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career as an elite athlete, and about the vegan diet that is key to his success. Full of stories of endurance and competition as well as practical advice and some of his original recipes, Eat and Run will motivate people to go the distance.
FORMAT: Trade paperback ISBN: 9781408833384 EBOOK: 9781408833391 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012
Scott Jurek is a world-renowned ultramarathon champion. He is known and admired for his earth-conscious lifestyle and is also a highly sought-after motivational speaker, physical therapist, coach and chef.
TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein
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Steve Friedman has been published in the New York Times, Esquire, and The Best American Sports Writing. He is the author of Lost on Treasure Island and Driving Lessons.
Little America The War within the War for Afghanistan
Rajiv Chandrasekaran The startling, behind-the-scenes story of the struggle between the US President and the US military to remake Afghanistan The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and ‘60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis – known locally as ‘Little America’ – and then the money ran out. Four decades later, Helmand was again the focus of US efforts, as waves of Marines descended on the region. Little America tells the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama’s watch. Has the war been worth the money and the bloodshed? Through vivid storytelling and on-the-ground reporting, Samuel Johnson Prize-winner Rajiv Chandrasekeran sets out to find the answer.
PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408830079
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor at the Washington Post. He previously served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, which won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in Washington, D.C.
EBOOK: 9781408831816 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Greene & Heaton EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408831809 PRICE: £12.99
Evil Knits 20 Projects that go Bump in the Night
Hannah Simpson Twenty evil projects, ranging from freak-show oddities to carnival curios This book includes instructions for knitting a voodoo doll, gravestones, ghosts, cymbalclashing moneys, freakshow finger puppets, creepy clowns, zombies and many more fiendish characters. The patterns included in the book assume a basic level of knitting skill including casting on and off, knit stitch, purl stitch, increases, decreases and knitting in the round. Each project has full and detailed instructions, but there are tips a-plenty on customising your evil knitted items to truly make each project your own, offering something for beginners and advanced knitters alike.
PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408147061 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: AUS/EU/NZ
Hannah Simpson’s first knitting project aged six, a misshapen and holey scarf, was terrifying for all the wrong reasons. She has since had lots of practice. A die-hard horror and science fiction fan, she combined her interests, leaving behind the traditional world of knitting to create armies of knitted zombies and classic horror characters, which have appeared in print worldwide.
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Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2013 ‘The one-and-only, indispensable guide to the world of writing' William Boyd This bestselling guide to all areas of the media, now in its 106th edition, has been completely revised and updated. With 100 articles written by successful authors and publishing insiders, it advises, guides and inspires writers and artists on how to get published. The 2013 edition includes new articles on, amongst other topics, memoir writing, apps, libraries and contains a wealth of practical information on a huge range of topics including copyright, finance, submitting a manuscript and marketing yourself and your writing. With nearly 4,500 entries in its up-to-date directory of media contacts, the Handbook is an in invaluable companion. PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408157497
Includes advice and inspiration from amongst others: William Dalrymple, Andrew Davies, Terry Pratchett, J. K. Rowling, Claire Tomalin, Joanna Trollope, Simon Winchester and experts across the publishing industry: agents, editors, marketing and technology gurus.
PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
How to Bake Paul Hollywood The last word in baking from the nation’s favourite baker
PRICE: £25.00
At last, the star of BBC2’s The Great British Bake Off reveals the secrets of his craft. Paul Hollywood is passionate about busting the myths that surround baking and this is his bible. Having taken you through the basic techniques, Paul explains how to make an abundance of breads and patisseries including white bread, wholemeal bloomer, soda bread, breakfast rolls, chapattis, croissants, strudel and chocolate cake. With 120 easy-to-follow, reliable, utterly delicious recipes and excellent photography from Peter Cassidy, How to Bake is the answer to every baker’s prayers.
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408819494 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Paul Hollywood shot to fame with his role as a judge on The Great British Bake Off. He worked as Head Baker at exclusive hotels including Cliveden and the Dorchester and he went on to launch The Paul Hollywood Artisan Bread Company, which now supplies Harrods among others.
RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds Second edition
Simon Harrap A compact and informative field guide which covers more than 200 of the most common birds found in Britain and features concise descriptions of each bird’s main characteristics including plumage, calls and song, confusion species, habitat, distribution and status, and behaviour. It includes detailed artworks highlighted by author Simon Harrap’s new text. This easy-to-use guide features 40 new species, colour distribution maps throughout and has a revised introduction. PRICE: £5.99
Simon Harrap is a well-known professional naturalist and birder. He has led birdwatching holidays for almost 20 years and is a regular contributor to birding magazines and journals. He is the author of Tits, Nuthatches and Treecreepers (Helm), and co-author of Where to Watch Birds in Britain (Helm) and Orchids of Britain and Ireland (A&C Black). He has recently set up a company with his wife to run nature breaks in Norfolk, his home county.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408174562 PUB DATE: July 19, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl Celia Lewis The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl covers the most familiar breeds of domestic ducks, geese, turkeys, peacocks, guineafowl and quail in Europe and North America, with concise text about each breed and illustrated with delightful paintings by the author. Introductory sections contain practical advice about poultry rearing and husbandry, and outline the differences between breeds, including the pros and cons of commercial and rare breeds, and selecting breeds for different kinds of meat.
PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408152645 PUB DATE: July 19, 2012
Celia Lewis is an accomplished artist and the author of the bestselling The Illustrated Guide to Chickens (A&C Black) and The Illustrated Guide to Pigs (A&C Black, July 2011).
TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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My First Coup d’Etat Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa
John Dramani Mahama An important literary debut from the Vice President of Ghana, a memoir that offers a shimmering microcosm of post-colonial Africa.
PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408832684
My First Coup d’Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence ‘lost decades’ of Africa. He was seven years old when rumours of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than a year. My First Coup d’Etat offers a look at the country that has long been considered Africa’s success story. Mahama’s is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his book works as fables, as history, as cultural and political analysis, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation.
EBOOK: 9781408832691 PUB DATE: July 19, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Emma Sweeney
His Excellency John Dramani Mahama is a writer, historian, communications expert, former member of Parliament and Minister of State, and sitting Vice President of the Republic of Ghana. He lives in Accra, Ghana.
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Abbey Road The Best Studio in the World ‘If you believe, as I do, that a house has atmosphere, and is capable of absorbing the personalities and emotions of its inhabitants, you will have no difficulty in appreciating the unique quality of Abbey Road’ Sir George Martin
PRICE: £50.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408832417 PUB DATE: July 19, 2012 EBOOK: 9781408832431 PUB DATE: June 21, 2013 SPECIAL EDITION: 9781408832424 PRICE::£250.00 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Celebrate the world’s most famous recording studio with this incredible photographic collection. The creative home to artists including Glenn Miller, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Lady Gaga, Abbey Road Studios has been the home for thousands of inspirational albums, film scores and recordings, and continues to be the most innovative recording, post-production and re-mastering complex in the world. With an introduction by Sir George Martin, this delightful book features a wealth of exclusive material from the Abbey Road Studios archives; including rare and previously unseen photographs from the studio’s 80 year history, landmark recordings and pioneering advances in recording technology. A must-have for anyone who values music and how it’s made.
A Very English Hero The Making of Frank Thompson
Peter J. Conradi An untold true story of love, idealism and courage in the Second World War Modest, handsome and a fine poet, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. Brother of E. P. Thompson and lover of Iris Murdoch, Frank was an intellectual idealist, a rare combination of brilliant mind and enormous heart. Of his wartime experiences Frank wrote prodigiously. His letters, diaries and poetry still read fresh and intimate today – and it’s from these that Peter J. Conradi brings vividly to life a brilliantly attractive and courageous personality. Aged just twenty-three, Frank was captured, tortured and executed in Bulgaria. A soldier of principle and integrity, he fought a poet’s war; a very English hero from a very different era.
PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback
Peter J. Conradi became interested in Frank Thompson while researching his critically acclaimed Iris Murdoch: A Life, The Authorised Biography. He is also the author of Going Buddhist and At the Bright Hem of God, as well as critical studies of Dostoevsky, Angus Wilson and John Fowles. He lives in London and Radnorshire where he gardens, walks, edits the Radnorshire Transactions and chairs the Bleddfa Trust. He was elected FRSL in 2011.
ISBN: 9781408802434 EBOOK: 9781408833315 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Beyond the Blue Horizon How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Brian Fagan A vibrant history of how humans transformed the seas into highways that connected distant cultures and shaped world civilisation We know about Columbus and Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold voyages. Beyond the Blue Horizon tells the story of the enduring quest to master the planet’s most mysterious terrain. How did early sailors unlock the secrets of the winds, tides and the stars? And how did seafaring evolve so that the forbidding seas were transformed from barriers into a nexus of commerce and cultural exchange? From bamboo rafts in the Java Sea to triremes in the Aegean, from Norse longboats in the Atlantic to sealskin kayaks in Alaska, Fagan crafts a captivating narrative of humanity’s urge to seek out distant shores.
PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408825068
Brian Fagan is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Elixir, Cro-Magnon, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming, and many other books, including Fish on Friday and The Little Ice Age.
EBOOK: 9781408833506 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY:WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Marilyn The Passion and The Paradox
Lois Banner A revelatory new biography of Marilyn Monroe by a leading feminist scholar, containing never-before-seen pictures. Published on the 50th anniversary of her death
PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback
Marilyn Monroe died on 5th August 1962. Since then, the appetite for information about Monroe has proved insatiable. Lois Banner’s new biography is revelatory. Banner had access to material no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, uncovering the sexual abuse she suffered and her bisexuality. She is also the first biographer to read Monroe’s psychiatric records, revealing a woman deeply rooted in paradox. No biographer before has attempted to analyse – much less realise – most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has.
ISBN: 9781408814109 EBOOK: 9781408833308 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: William Clark
Lois Banner was a founder of the field of women’s history and the first woman president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of ten books, including the acclaimed American Beauty and, most recently, MM − Personal. She is a professor of history and gender studies and lives in Southern California.
El Clásico: Barcelona v Real Madrid Football’s Greatest Rivalry
Richard Fitzpatrick An investigation into the intrigue, politics and culture of the hard-fought, long-running contest between two of the world’s biggest football clubs
PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408158791
Barcelona and Real Madrid: two of the most powerful and popular clubs in world football, and one of the world’s most bitter sporting rivalries. Going far beyond the boundaries of just sport alone, this battle is at the heart of Spanish life, taking in politics and culture and splitting a country in two. El Clásico investigates the intrigue, the larger-than-life characters, the key flashpoints and their consequences. Containing numerous interviews with key figures, this is a story with resonance around the sporting world, but it is also a tale of a country divided by a bitter rivalry.
EBOOK: 9781408171097 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath
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Richard Fitzpatrick is a Barcelona-based correspondent with a focus on sport, in particular La Liga, which he covers for radio and the Irish Times and Irish Examiner newspapers.
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The UFO Files The most authoritative book on the subject and the only one featuring material from the National Archives The UFO Files tells the story of over 100 years of UFO sightings, drawing on formerly secret government documents at the national Archives in London. David Clarke reveals an array of startling stories from possible UFO reports hidden among Met Office investigations of aerial phenomena in the 1920s to the conclusions of Project Condign, the secret British Intelligence UFO study completed in 2000. As well as covering Roswell and Britain’s own Rendlesham Forest mystery, Clarke raids the records for dramatic stories of abductions and close encounters, ghost aircraft and crop circles, and UFO reports by civilian aircrew and military personnel.
THE INSIDE STORY OF REAL-LIFE SIGHTINGS
PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408164891 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: WO
Dr David Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University. He has a long standing interest in UFOs and other aerial phenomena, and has worked with The national Archives in promoting UFO material recently released by the Ministry of Defence. He is an experienced journalist, researcher and consultant to a range of TV and radio programmes.
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
The Breakfast Bible Seb Emina Everything you’ve ever needed to know about breakfast When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books. A crack team of eggsperts have come up with recipes ranging from the iconic full English to more exotic fare such as omelette Arnold Bennett and pães de queijo from South America. Interspersed with these are notes on hot topics such as the top songs to boil an egg to, forgotten breakfast cereals of the 1980s and the analysis of Freud’s famous ‘breakfast dream’. With its beguiling mix of recipes, advice, illustrations and miscellany, The Breakfast Bible is, unquestionably, the most important book of the day. Seb Emina is the creator and editor of the London Review of Breakfasts blog, where he writes under the nom de plume of Malcolm Eggs. His writing has appeared in newspapers and books internationally. He lives in London.
PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408804810 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King The bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome tells the extraordinary story of The Last Supper, one of the great works of Western art For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it ‘the keystone of European art’, and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic ‘miracle’. Ross King’s Leonardo and the Last Supper is both a biography of one of the most famous works of art ever painted and a record of Leonardo da Vinci’s last five years in Milan. PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9780747599470 EBOOK: 9781408834275
Ross King is the highly praised author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives just outside Oxford.
PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408832103 PRICE: £12.99
The Food of Morocco Paula Wolfert The ultimate cookbook of Moroccan cuisine, irresistibly packaged
PRICE: £30.00
According to Claudia Roden, ‘there is no book on the food of Morocco as good as Paula Wolfert’s. She is captivating and seductive as well as a brilliant guide to one of the great cuisines of the world.’ Paula is internationally regarded as an authority on Moroccan cooking and The Food of Morocco is her definitive book on this colourful, sumptuous, flavourful cuisine. The classical repertoire, which she covers comprehensively, ranges from fragrant tagines (like lamb, courgette and thyme) to delicate pastries dipped in honey. With sensational photography, this is an absolute must-have for anyone who loves North Africa and its food.
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408827468 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS:Harper Collins USA
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Paula Wolfert is an expert on Mediterranean food and the multi-award-winning author of eight previous cookbooks. Her book Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2008. She lives in California.
Three Good Things Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall To tie in with the major 25-part Channel 4 TV series – recipes that put three good things together on a plate How often have you wished there was a magic formula to simplify cooking? Well, there is. While cooking, Hugh has noticed time and time again that three primary ingredients will often, when combined, set each other off and somehow make each ingredient taste more of itself. He has used this rule of three to create 200 recipes, both well-loved classics and brand new ideas, including rhubarb, yoghurt and granola; mussels, leeks and bacon; and peaches, cream and praline. With sumptuous photography from Simon Wheeler, this book will unlock a whole new world of fantastic food. Three Good Things. It really is that simple. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards and sold over a million copies. Hugh lives in Devon with his family.
PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408828588 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists: The Making of the Sony/Aardman Movie An exclusive behind-the-scenes guide to tie in with the DVD release of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists Packed with previously unseen material, including storyboards and designs for sets and key characters, this highly collectible full-colour book charts the journey from paper to screen: a five-year process for a crew of just 320 people – requiring 3,000 storyboard images, 19,456 square metres of foam board and 893 different mouths for the Pirate Captain alone. Also included are rare interviews with the directors and producers. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists: The Making of the Sony/Aardman Movie is a must-have for the many fans of the film, and for anyone interested in the methods and eccentricities of Aardman, our most quintessentially British animation studio.
PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408829899 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS:
THE MAKING OF THE SONY/AARDMAN MOVIE EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408832905 PRICE: £14.99
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Sarah Raven’s Wild Flowers Sarah Raven In a stunning new package, the beautiful reference book celebrating British wild flowers by award-winning garden writer Sarah Raven
PRICE: £30.00
Sarah Raven has travelled the length and breadth of the British isles to find 500 of our most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers. Divided into season and habitat for ease of reference, this lavish book covers a wide range of plants, both rare and common, including pulsatillas, fritillaries, bluebells, wild garlic, harebells, forget-me-nots, foxgloves, wood spurge, silverweed, shining crane’s-bill, deadly nightshade, orchids, wood-sorrel and snowdrops. There are glorious landscape photographs by Jonathan Buckley throughout, and one of his stunning plant portraits accompanies each of Sarah’s authoritative, captivating species descriptions. Informative and lovely, Sarah Raven’s Wild Flowers is a botanical marvel.
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408833759 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: WO
Sarah Raven has regularly appeared on BBC Gardeners’ World and runs a cookery and gardening school at Perch Hill in East Sussex. She is the prize-winning author of The Cutting Garden and The Garden Cookbook, among others.
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
I Kick Therefore I Am The Little Book of Premier League Wisdom
Beach & Tyers A small book of spoof self-help philosophy written by a Premier League footballer
PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Hardback
Ronnie Matthews is a Premier League legend who thinks that little bit bigger. In his career he has known the incredible highs of an England cap (sent off versus San Marino) and relationships with some of Big Brother’s most stunning contestants to the lows of a Turkish jail and a radio show with Ian Wright. Illustrated by Ronnie in a style he describes as ‘David James meets Athena poster’, I Kick Therefore I Am guides the reader through some of life’s biggest questions – death, religion, money, cars and Twitter – in an indispensable pocketsized book of wit and wisdom.
ISBN: 9781408832769 EBOOK: 9781408832776 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Tyers and Beach are a classic big man-small man author-illustrator partnership and are responsible for the acclaimed W. G. Grace Ate My Pedalo, CrickiLeaks and Gin and Juice: The Victorian Guide to Parenting.
Triple Jeopardy for the West Aggresive Secularism, Radical Islam and Multiculturalism
Michael Nazir-Ali Prominent evangelical churchman Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali gives his views on and solutions to the problems of aggressive secularism, radical Islamism and multiculturalism Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali considers the impact that aggressive secularism, radical Islamism and multiculturalism are having on the Western world, and particularly Britain. He argues that, in their rejection of the Judeo-Christian foundations which have shaped so much of the national narrative, these three seemingly diverse pressures are threatening British life. Considering their impact on society, religion, science and politics, he asserts that it would be foolish and premature to give up on the Christian foundations which may make the achievement of the equality, justice and freedom sought in these areas possible.
PRICE: £10.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781441113474
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali holds Pakistani as well as British citizenship and was the first nonwhite diocesan bishop in the Church of England. He has studied, researched and taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Karachi, Cambridge and Oxford. Before becoming Bishop of Rochester, he worked as a priest and as a bishop in Pakistan, and was General Secretary of the Church Mission Society. He is now the director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue.
EBOOK: 9781441103680 PUB DATE: September 06, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
A Prince Among Stones The Memoirs of Prince Rupert Loewenstein
Prince Rupert Loewenstein A wry, fascinating memoir revealing the complex relationship between an aristocratic financier and ‘the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world’ – the Rolling Stones In 1968 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. PRICE: £20.00
Born in Palma, Majorca in 1933, 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 1968 and managed the Rolling Stones’ finances until 2005.
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408808764 EBOOK: 9781408821220 PUB DATE: September 13, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408832790 PRICE: £12.99
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Phillip Gooden and Peter Lewis
IDIOMANTiCS The
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Phrases
Idiomantics The Weird World of Popular Phrases
Peter Gooden The ideal gift for word buffs, language fiends, and anyone who just enjoys a good yarn Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. Idioms are peculiar both in the sense of being particular or unique to the culture from which they originate, and in the sense of being downright odd. To cite three random examples – from American English, Dutch and Italian – what on Earth are a snow job, a monkey sandwich story, and Mr Punch’s secret? Fascinating and illuminating, Idiomantics explains all…this playful book looks at idioms around the world, looking at subjects such as fun and games, gastronomic delights and the daily grind.
PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: Hardrback ISBN: 9781408151440 EBOOK: 9781408157404
Peter Gooden is author of the acclaimed Who’s Whose? and Faux Pas, also published by Bloomsbury. He has written several novels and taught English at secondary level for many years. Peter Lewis is an experienced reference publisher.
PUB DATE: September 13, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
The Phantom Army of Alamein How Churchill’s Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel
Rick Stroud The unlikely story of the Camouflage Unit in the Battle of Alamein, told in full detail for the first time
PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408829103 EBOOK: 9781408834282
In 1940 a group of artists, filmmakers and set-painters were brought together to form the Camouflage Unit and use their storytelling skills to deceive the enemy. In August 1942 the unit was ordered by Montgomery to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein, and ‘Operation Bertram’ was born. In six weeks two divisions, with armour and supporting vehicles, were conjured from the sand, while real tanks and field guns vanished from sight. Rick Stroud tells, in more detail than ever before, the extraordinary story of how some of Britain’s most creative minds played a vital role in winning that crucial battle.
PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Rick Stroud is a film and television director, whose credits include Brideshead Revisited (associate producer) and Monarch of the Glen (lead director). He is the author of The Book of the Moon and co-author with Victor Gregg of Rifleman. He lives on a houseboat in Chelsea, London.
Decades 100 years of Style and Fashion
Cameron Silver A gorgeous, decade-by-decade showcase of the twentieth century’s most iconic and modern moments in fashion What have flappers got in common with punks? Which glittering couple let birds and monkeys roam free in their home? How did Sharon Stone’s T-shirt redefine haute couture? It’s all in Decades, a gorgeous volume that gives a totally new perspective on the history of fashion and what it took to be a style icon in the twentieth century. Cameron Silver’s pithy commentary is accompanied by 200 extraordinary archival photographs, each of which is startlingly current: it seems that the alchemy of dazzling clothing worn with poise and personality is a kind of magic that just doesn’t date.
PRICE: £40.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408806364 PUB DATE: September 27, 2012 TERRITORY: WE
Cameron Silver opened the exclusive Decades salon in Los Angeles in 1997 and he was named one of Time’s ‘25 most Influential Names in Fashion’ in 2002. Today he is a favourite pundit on television channels E! Entertainment and the Style Network, and a contributing editor at Departures, C and Harper’s Bazaar.
Spectrums Our Mind Boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity
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spectrums Our MinD-BOggling universe
David Blatner
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A new guide to the intricacies of the world around us Any broad range of characteristics can be defined as a spectrum. In his new book, David Blatner investigates spectrums including numbers, light, sound, temperature, distance and time. With humour and insight he shows how to understand the apparently inconceivable. Did you know that if the earth was the size of a grain of salt, our solar system would be 450 miles wide? Or that no matter how chilly it is outside, it’s physically impossible to reach to a temperature of absolute zero? Or that the colour magenta doesn’t really exist? If you know how to look, the world is an extraordinary place.
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PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408828632 EBOOK: 9781408832455 PUB DATE: October 11, 2012
David Blatner is the award-winning author of books including The Joy of Pi and The Flying Book. His books have been translated into more than ten languages. He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.
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Good Small Business Guide 2013 How to Start and Grow Your Own Business ‘Bursting with practical advice … essential reading’ BA Business Life Magazine There are 4.8 million small businesses in the UK, and they contribute approximately 48% of our national turnover. Over 500,000 people take the plunge and start up their own business every year; so if you’re thinking about it, you’re in good company. Offering help on all aspects of starting, running and growing a small business, the Guide covers: planning, setting up or acquiring a business, getting to grips with figures, marketing, selling online, and managing yourself and others. PRICE: £19.99
Looking for inspiration? Look no further.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408159590
Endorsed by the Federation of Small Businesses, the UK’s leading business organisation.
PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: WAEXUSA/CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Rabid Are You Crazy About Your Dog or Just Crazy?
Pamela Redmond Satran A funny, fun, fully illustrated look at over-the-top dogs and their owners
PRICE: £12.99
Dogs now dominate the $55-billion-a-year pet business in the US. Canine worship has escalated, with new options like doggie treadmills, dog swimming pools, caffeine-free doggie coffee, doggie massage, dog perfume, aromatherapy, hair colouring, and yes, doggie tattoos. Gone are the days when the most a dog could look forward to was a brisk walk: today’s spoilt pooches go to Doggie Daycare, eat brightly-frosted martini-shaped doggie treats, wear designer tutus and, when it’s time to settle down and think about puppies, they get married on the beach. With hilarious full-colour illustrations throughout, Rabid is a startling insight into the real world of dog-mania.
FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408832806 PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS:Trident Media Group
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Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of the New York Times bestselling humour book How Not to Act Old as well as seven novels and eight baby name books. She contributes to publications including the New York Times, Daily Beast, Glamour and More.
The Complete Nose to Tail A Kind of British Cooking
Fergus Henderson Fergus Henderson’s two classic Nose to Tail books in a single, covetable volume with new recipes and photography When in 1994 Fergus Henderson opened St. John, now one of the world’s most admired restaurants, his ethos of Nose to Tail eating changed the landscape of British cooking for good. Unsurprisingly, his two cookbooks gained a cult following. Now, for the first time, all these recipes (which range from Eccles cakes to roast whole suckling pig) will be published in a single book. With a dozen new recipes on top of the 250 existing ones, exceptional production values and more than 100 beautiful, witty photographs from Jason Lowe, The Complete Nose to Tail is not only comprehensive but completely irresistible.
PRICE: £35.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408809167
Fergus Henderson trained as an architect before becoming a chef. He opened the French House Dining Room in 1992 before two years later starting St. John, which is on the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. Fergus continues to develop projects in the principle of Nose to Tail Eating.
PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Lutyens & Rubinstein
The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2013 Steven Lynch A page-per-player guide to the world’s top 200 cricketers in the coming season With Tests and One Day Internationals now joined by Twenty20 games, there is more international cricket than ever. But how do you keep track of all the players? The 2013 edition of this already popular annual paperback contains crisply-written profiles of everyone expected to appear in a Test match in 2013. The 200 players featured all get a full-page treatment, with a photograph alongside a career summary in words, facts and figures. And to back up the profiles, there are quick-fire records for every country, and up-to-date statistics from www.cricinfo.com. The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2013 is the essential companion for every cricket lover ahead of a packed international season.
PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: Paperback
Deputy Editor of Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack since 2005 and Editor of Wisden on the Ashes, Steven Lynch is a leading cricket writer.
ISBN: 9781408172216 PUB DATE: October 22, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Ralph Steadman’s Extinct Boids Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy Cartoonist and national treasure Ralph Steadman’s unique take on a variety of extinct birds When the renowned cartoonist Ralph Steadman was asked to produce a piece for a recent exhibition of bird art, he got slightly carried away − an astonishing 100 paintings later and Ralph Steadman’s Extinct Boids was born. These remarkable pieces of art include Steadman’s unique interpretations of well-known birds such as the Great Auk and Dodo, along with less familiar members of the avian firmament−Snail-eating Coua, for example− and a handful of bizarre creations such as the Gob Swallow, the Nasty Tern and Needless Smut, all with a riot of colour and a slice of trademark Steadman humour.
PRICE: £30.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408173763 PUB DATE: October 25, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Danny Lewis
Ralph Steadman is a world-renowned cartoonist and caricaturist who first burst onto the national consciousness by providing the illustrations for Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Since the 1960s he has worked on projects as diverse as Private Eye and Punch, illustrations for collections of poetry by Ted Hughes, Alice in Wonderland and Animal Farm, and the Royal Mail – Steadman designed a set of stamps. His books include Gonzo – The Art (Harcourt Brace, 1998), Doodaaa: The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge (Bloomsbury, 2003) and The Joke’s Over (Heinemann, 2006).
David Bowie Style Danny Lewis David Bowie is renowned for his innovative styles; from androgynous leotards and spaceage jumpsuits to short-cut blazers and distressed frock coats. With an estimated 136 million album sales under his belt, and over a thousand international tour dates, Bowie has captured the attention of rock fans everywhere.
DaviDBowie Style
Crammed with fabulous photographs, this book is a stunning fashion retrospective of the iconic and well-loved rockstar. Apart from documenting five decades of Bowie’s style, it also explores influences that have shaped him, and his influence on others in turn.
PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback
David Bowie Style is a must for die-hard Bowie fans and fashion lovers.
ISBN: 9781408173763 PUB DATE: October 25, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Danny Lewis has worked as a writer and editor for many years, including stints in publishing houses in Switzerland and Australia. He has also spent a good deal of time in the underground music scene in London, running clubs and playing in bands, which has left him with an enduring love of rock music.
Hallo Sausages The Lyrics of Ian Dury
Jemima Dury The only complete collection of Ian Dury’s lyrics, illustrated with previously unseen material – with an exclusive CD of interviews with Ian Dury Famous for his funny, provocative, visceral lyrics, Ian Dury was a rock-and-roll poet and legendary force on the London music scene from 1970 onwards. With his band The Blockheads he had explosive hits like ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll’, ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’ and ‘Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part Three’. Here, for the first time, are his collected lyrics, some previously unseen, collated and warmly introduced by his daughter Jemima. In this fantastic package, renowned designer and artist Jake Tilson has reunited the words with the original (coffee-stained) scrawled notes, photographs and scraps that inspired them. ‘Hallo Sausages’ are the last words that Ian Dury ever wrote.
PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408812143 PUB DATE: October 25, 2012 TERRITORY: WO
Jemima Dury is the daughter of Ian Dury. She lives in Hastings.
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Sit Down and Cheer A History of Sport on TV
Martin Kelner Martin Kelner traces the relationship between sport and TV − the ultimate marriage of convenience The two circled each other warily for a while − sport anxious the sofa-bound might spurn the live product, TV reluctant in a limited-channel world to hand over too much screen time to flannelled fools and muddied oafs. But they got together, and stayed together, for the sake of the money, and now you cannot imagine one without the other. You have only to think of the recent sports stars who have left their muddy fields to don sequins, grab partners and tango their way across the stage in ultimate Saturday night television style, to see how far the two have come on their journey together. Insightful and very funny, this is an entertaining exploration of two major national pastimes and not to be missed.
PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 978140829234
Martin Kelner has written a weekly column about sport on TV for the last twelve years, most recently the popular Screen Break spot for the Guardian.
EBOOK: 9781408171073 PUB DATE: October 25, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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The War We Never Fought The British Establishment’s Surrender to Drugs
Peter Hitchens Peter Hitchens demolishes the arguments for liberalising legislation on drugs and offers a brilliant critique of the cannabis lobby and its intellectual and moral shallowness. We are told daily that the failed ‘War on Drugs’ should be abandoned. But Britain’s political, legal and police establishment long ago gave up any serious attempt to restrict drug-taking in this country. Public opinion was placated by statements about ‘evil drug dealers’ and futile seizures, while crucial laws were neutralized to the point of meaninglessness. Can it be that campaigners for further legal relaxation simply want the freedom to sell – and tax – these substances? PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781441173317 EBOOK: 9781441172068 PUB DATE: November 01, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, the Congo and China. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.
The Power of Silence Travels in a Forgotten World
Graham Turner In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise; but silence can change your life and this book explains why and how Silence is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by turning up the volume control.
PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781441182234 EBOOK: 9781441104632
Graham Turner explores the power that can be found in silence through interviewing monastics, religious leaders, composers, actors, psychotherapists, prisoners and peace workers about their experiences of practising silence. Ranging from Christian contemplation in the Egyptian desert to vipassana meditation in India, from the shared silence of Quaker meetings in Oxford to the profound stillness of the Alps, this is a powerful book about a great gap in modern human awareness.
PUB DATE: November 01, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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After gaining a first class degree at Oxford, Graham Turner worked for the Scotsman and The Sunday Times. He then became nationally recognised as the BBC’s first Economics Correspondent. Thereafter he worked for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph writing substantial features which had considerable national influence. He currently lives in Oxford.
Who Moved My Stilton? The Victorian Guide to Getting Ahead in Business
Beach & Tyers An uproarious guide to getting ahead in business… the Victorian way… from the irreverent authors of Gin & Juice Follow in the footsteps of the world’s first capitalists and discover how to build a commercial empire that will stand the test of time. Forged in the white heat of the industrial revolution, Who Moved My Stilton? reveals the practical skills that every modern professional needs to get ahead in the workplace, including: what to do when the customer is literally King, how to harness the opportunities provided by the Junior Apprentice system, and the use of opium in sales and marketing. This book will change the way you think about business (and cheese) forever.
PRICE: £10.00 FORMAT: Hardback
Tyers and Beach met at Sir John Paul Getty’s private cricket ground. Tyers was opening the batting; Beach was eyeing up the cake stand. A shared love of wordplay and ironic anachronism ensured their collaboration continued beyond the tea interval, onto the acclaimed W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo, Gin & Juice and beyond.
ISBN: 9781408824320 EBOOK: 9781408833063 PUB DATE: November 08, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Whitaker’s Almanack 2013 Quite simply, Whitaker’s Almanack 2013 is the perfect book for anyone interested in current affairs and general knowledge Whitaker's Almanack 2013 is the definitive reference guide. In its 145th edition, the book has been completely revised and updated, using the most authoritative sources available. The Almanack contains a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and an excellent introduction to world politics. It will save hours of research and cross-referencing between different sources.
PRICE: £50.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408172070 PUB DATE: November 08, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Whitaker’s Little Book of Knowledge A unique ready-reference of fascinating facts presented in a quirky yet authoritative way – a treasure-trove of trivia An authoritative, quirky trivia book containing thousands of general knowledge gems: from everything you learned at school to lists of contemporary ‘top-tens’, mini-biographies of famous artists and writers, plus condensed guides to works of art and literature. It also features humorous entries on forgotten treasures from different decades and a stand-alone sport chapter with guides to both well-known and obscure sports and short biographies of the world’s greatest sporting heroes. PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Hardback
Facts are both newly researched and drawn from the rich treasure-trove of the Whitaker’s Almanack archive, which dates back to 1868 – a unique ready-reference for every trivia buff.
ISBN: 9781408178300 EBOOK: 9781408178317 PUB DATE: November 08, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
50 Licks Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones
Bernard M. Corbett & Peter Fornatale An illustrated, anecdotal and history of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the 50th year – featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band
PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback
On July 12, 1962, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song debuted at the Marquee Club in London. They were the Rolling Stones and, half a century later, they are still one of the biggest bands in the world, playing sell-out arena shows around the world and beloved by millions. 50 Licks commemorates their unparalleled achievement in rock music. Based on a series of never-before-published interviews with the band and the people closest to them, and illustrated with photographs and artwork, 50 Licks will be the book to own in celebration of the Rolling Stones 50th anniversary.
ISBN: 9781408833827 EBOOK: 9781408833834 PUB DATE: November 22, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS:Bloomsbury
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Pete Fornatale is an award-winning broadcaster who has been a fixture on the New York radio scene for the past 40 years. Bernard M. Corbett is the author and co-author of fifteen books. He lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and is a lifelong Rolling Stones fan.
Abiding The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2013
Ben Quash Ben Quash explores a crucial and challenging concept in Jesus’ teaching One of the key contrasts drawn by Jesus in John’s Gospel is in the parable of the false shepherds, who run away, and The Good Shepherd who abides. Ben Quash shows that this one word is key to the fourth gospel. He demonstrates that abiding has the sense of full, personal commitment, conveying a quality of complete solidarity. The Shepherd is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for the flock and his own self is the generous guarantee. Quash explores the impact an understanding of what it truly means to abide can have on our church communities and ourselves. PRICE: £9.99
Ben Quash is Professor of Christian Theology and the Arts at King’s College London, UK.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781441151117 EBOOK: 9781441166111 PUB DATE: December 20, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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The British Larder A Cookbook for All Seasons
Madalene Bovini-Hamel Before opening her award-winning pub and restaurant, The British Larder, chef Madalene spent her time in many professional kitchens, including working with Gordon Ramsay. In this, her first book, one of the country’s most exciting new talents brings her passion for seasonal, locally-sourced produce to the fore, aiding her crusade to convert all who love food to thinking and eating seasonally. Madalene’s own sumptuous photographs of food created and styled by her own hands make The British Larder Cookbook a glowing testament to her immense talent and her admirable ethos.
PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback
Madalene has worked in some of the country’s finest restaurants, including Aubergine and Claridges (both Gordon Ramsay), and under Michel Roux Jr at Le Gavroche. In 2008 the British Larder website was created, gathering critical acclaim, followed in 2010 by The British Larder Pub & Restaurant in Suffolk, which won awards and the attention of every serious food critic.
ISBN: 9781906650711 PUB DATE: July 19, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Momofuku Milk Bar Christina Tosi An original collection of recipes giving bakers and lovers of all things sweet a brand new taste sensation
PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback
Chef and owner of Momofuku Milk Bar, Christina Tosi brings you a complete, genuinely original, anthology of sweet recipes that are incomparable. At a time when baking has found itself a new home in the hearts of the British public, this collection of recipes is perfect for cookie, pie and cake addicts who need their surgery fix. With a delightful foreword by dazzling chef David Chang, Momofuku Milk Bar is a perfect desert-filled complement to Chang’s Momofuku Cookbook. Christina’s collection is brimming with new taste sensations.
ISBN: 9781906650766 PUB DATE: May 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UK TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Clarkson Potter, USA
Christina Tosi is the chef and owner of Momofuku Milk Bar. She has recreated her incredible sweets in front of millions on The Martha Stewart Show. She founded the dessert programme at Momofuku, helping Momofuku Ko to earn its two Michelin stars and establishing Momofuku Ssäm at number 31 of the San Pellegrino Top 100 Restaurants list.
The Marvellous Miniature Marmite Cookbook Paul Hartley For all lovers and haters of the delicious/disgusting brown gold
PRICE:£5.99 FORMAT: Hardback
At long last The Marmite Cookbook’s little brother makes an appearance. Fifty incredibly simple ideas from using Marmite with pasta to roast potatoes are all contained within this small, deliciously packaged hardback. Whether you are a lover or a hater of this brown sticky syrup this is the perfectly cheap cookbook gift.
ISBN: 9781906650544 PUB DATE: September 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Paul Hartley is, without doubt, the store cupboard guru. He is the bestselling author of The Marmite Cookbook and The Little Book of Marmite Tips. His books have challenged the received wisdom on the limitations of many indispensable condiments.
The Square: The Cookbook Volume 1 (Savoury) Phillip Howard The first part of an extraordinary two-volume work from two-Michelin-star chef, Phil Howard Regarded amongst his peers as one of the world’s great culinary technicians, his lifetime of dedication and creativity have gone into writing a monumental two-volume work of culinary creativity and technical expertise. This first volume covers Howard’s savoury recipes, giving precise instructions on how to create food of top Michelin standard. Meticulous, detailed and fiercely intelligent, this is a book that will set the benchmark for works of the highest culinary ambition. Contains more than 100 in-depth savoury recipes, each beautifully recorded by award-winning photographer Jean Cazals, which showcase Howard’s incredible gift.
PRICE: £35.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781906650599 PUB DATE: September 27, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Phil Howard is a two-Michelin-star chef who has been at the helm of The Square restaurant for 20 years. He remains one of the most innovative and important chefs in the UK and far beyond. He won the 'Chef Award' at the 1998 Cateys at the age of just 31, some two years before his contemporary Gordon Ramsay.
Cinnamon Kitchen The Cookbook Vivek Singh A cookbook of modern Indian dishes from master Indian chef and award-winning author, Vivek Singh The Cinnamon Kitchen is the sibling of the great restaurant The Cinnamon Club, where chef Vivek Singh made his name and helped spearhead a new and exciting direction for Indian food. As Executive Chef, Vivek has brought his talents to create new and exciting dishes with fresh modern twists, and this cookbook is a collection of the very best of them. From Scottish Angus Fillet with Masala Potato Chips to Black Leg Chicken with Fresh Fenugreek, Singh marries ingredients and techniques from around the world with the traditions and flavours of Indian cuisine to create something truly unique and exciting.
PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781906650803 PUB DATE: September 27, 2012
Vivek Singh, Executive Head Chef of the world-famous Cinnamon Club and its sister venue, Cinnamon Kitchen, is an award-winning cookery book author and celebrity chef, and is justly regarded as one of the most innovative Indian chefs around. Vivek now appears regularly on television, including frequent stints on the BBC's flagship food programme, Saturday Kitchen.
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Atul’s Curries of the World Atul Kochhar A book of world curries from one of the world’s greatest exponents of the art, awardwinning, Michelin-starred chef, Atul Kochhar
PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback
A book for spice lovers of all cuisines. Atul explores curries of the world, looking to his native India, of course, but also to Asia and Africa, to the Americas, Europe and even the UK. Curry remains one of the world’s most popular dishes and Atul’s collection of mouth-watering dishes does more than enough to convince us why. Over 100 recipes show curry in all its fantastic forms. Inspiring, intoxicating spiced dishes that cover meat, fish and vegetable curries from all corners of the globe: this promises to be a book you will cook from again and again.
ISBN: 9781906650797 PUB DATE: October 25, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Atul Kochhar is one of the world’s leading Indian chefs and food writers, with a vast knowledge and passion for curry. The face of Indian cooking on British television, he has appeared on shows such as Saturday Kitchen and The Great British Menu. His Michelin-starred restaurant, Benares, is one of London’s flagship destinations to eat out.
Beyond Essence: New Recipes from Le Champignon Sauvage David Everitt-Matthias ‘He is the quiet superstar’ Jay Rayner PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781906650780 PUB DATE: November 22, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Everitt-Matthias is one of the world’s great chefs. Two award-winning and best-selling books already testify to his ability to transfer his gift for creating incredible food onto the page. Beyond Essence shows a marked evolution in his recipes, with inflections and techniques drawn from David’s ever-expanding knowledge, love of exciting ingredients and new movements from around the world, which he pairs perfectly with classic traditions. Marrying big flavours and an ability to make ingredients taste more of themselves than seems possible remain the hallmarks of his food. One of the must-have books of the year for chefs and keen amateurs. David Everitt-Matthias is the epitome of the ‘chef’s chef’. His 2-Michelin-star restaurant, Le Champignon Sauvage, goes from strength to strength. His first book, Essence (2006), was an instant commercial and critical success, winning the 2006 World Gourmand Award for ‘Most Innovative UK Cookbook’. His second book, Dessert (2009), won the World Gourmand Award runner-up prize for ‘Best World Cookery Book’.
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One Thousand and One Nights Hanan al-Shaykh ‘Magical … bursting with jinnis and mischief’ Donna Tartt, The Times One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife’s orgies, King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To survive Shahrazad spins a web of tales each night, leaving the King in suspense when morning comes, prolonging her life for another day. Retold by Hanan al-Shaykh, these mesmerising stories tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate.
PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408827765
Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the contemporary Arab world’s most acclaimed writers. She is the author of The Locust and the Bird and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues and Only in London, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in London.
EBOOK: 9781408826713 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Ghastly Business Louise Levene ‘She writes with such energy and panache … a delight’ Barbara Trapido 1929. A girl is strangled in a London alley, the mangled corpse of a peeping Tom is found in a railway tunnel and the details of the latest trunk murder are updated hourly in the evening papers. Into this world steps Dora Strang, doctor’s daughter and filing clerk to the country’s pre-eminent pathologist, Alfred Kemble. Thrilled by the post-mortems and court cases, Dora is further fascinated by Kemble himself, a glamorous and enigmatic war hero. But her job holds several surprises and as things take a distinctly ghastly turn the tabloid journalists sharpen their pencils in morbid anticipation… Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime. She is currently a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph but has also been a copywriter, a window dresser, a radio presenter, an office cleaner, a crossword editor, a college professor and a saleslady. She lives in London with her family.
PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408821909 EBOOK: 9781408818213 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: United Agents
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Fold Tom Campbell ‘Hornbyesque … hilarious’ Daily Mail nick, Doug, Vijay, Alan and Simon meet monthly at each other’s houses for a ‘friendly’ game of poker. Doug shows off his newly-minted wealth, Simon insists on serving only red wine and goats’ cheese, and nick makes increasingly desperate attempts to end his losing streak. While Vijay records every game on his spreadsheet, and Alan frets about his inability to get his wife pregnant, nick becomes obsessed with the idea of engineering Doug’s downfall. Aiming to triumph over his nemesis in poker as well as in life, he comes into troubling proximity to Sophia, Doug’s clever and beautiful wife.
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Tom Campbell read history at Edinburgh University. He lives in north London with his wife and three sons. Fold is his first novel.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408821879 EBOOK: 9781408808108 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Greene & Heaton
Raising Wrecker Summer Wood ‘A beautiful, big-hearted novel’ Now San Francisco, 1965, Lisa Fay gives birth to her son Wrecker. The city is tripping towards flower power, and young Lisa can barely manage to navigate without a child in tow. Three years later she’s in prison, and Wrecker, silent and furious, is sent to live with relatives in the wilds of Humboldt County. The presence of this nearly-broken boy turns a group of eccentrics into a real family; for the Appleseeds, life will never be the same again. Meanwhile one thought keeps Lisa alive in prison: one day, she’ll find her son and bring him home.
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Summer Wood is the author of Arroyo. She teaches writing for the University of new Mexico’s Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, and is also the director of the Young Writers’ Mentorship Program. She has lived with her family in new Mexico for the past twenty years.
Out Of It Selma Dabbagh ‘Driven, fast-paced, edgy … It brings a very welcome new voice and new consciousness to the Palestinian Story’ Ahdaf Soueif Gaza is being bombed. Rashid, a bright but disaffected young man, has just discovered that he’s got a scholarship to London: the escape route he’s been waiting for. Meanwhile, his twin sister, Iman – frustrated by atrocities and inaction around her – grabs recklessly at an opportunity to make a difference. Sabri, the oldest brother, works on a history of Palestine from his wheelchair as their mother pickles vegetables and feuds with their neighbours. Written with extraordinary humanity and humour, and moving from Gaza, to London and the Gulf, this book re-defines Palestine and its people. PRICE: £7.99
Selma Dabbagh is a prize-winning British Palestinian writer based in London. Her short stories have been included in a number of anthologies, including those published by Granta, the British Council and International PEN. She has appeared at many festivals speaking about her work. Out Of It is her first novel.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822036 EBOOK: 9781408824306 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still Malcolm Pryce ‘Surreal, absurd and very funny’ The Times Aberystwyth’s mayoral election is underway, and Louie Knight receives a visit from a stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man. Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for the notorious raid on the Coliseum cinema, but was then seen boarding a bus to Aberaeron. Did he evade the hangman’s noose? Or is it possible that he was resuscitated by aliens? As strange lights appear in the sky above Aberystwyth, Probert has been sighted once again. What does Raspiwtin want with him? And why does Louie’s investigation arouse interest from a dark-suited man in a black Buick? PRICE: £7.99
Malcolm Pryce has been, at various times, a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up, a deck hand, a copywriter and the world’s worst aluminium salesman. In 1998 he booked a passage on a banana boat bound for South America in order to write the first of his Louie Knight novels. This is the sixth book in the series.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408821954 EBOOK: 9781408811283 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UK,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Sayle Agency
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Ed King David Guterson ‘[A] compelling moral fable… beautiful writing’ The Times In 1962, when Walter Cousins sleeps with his British au pair, Diane Burroughs, he can have no sense of the magnitude of his error: this brief affair sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions, upending Sophocles’s immortal tale of fate, free will, and forbidden desire. At the centre is Ed King, an infant given up for adoption who becomes one of the world’s most powerful men. But beneath the gripping story of Ed’s seemingly inexorable rise to fame and fortune is a dark and unsettling destiny, one that approaches with ever-increasing suspense as the book reaches its shattering conclusion.
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David Guterson is the author of the novels Snow Falling on Cedars, East of the Mountains, Our Lady of the Forest and The Other; a collection of short stories, The Country Ahead Of Us, The Country Behind. Snow Falling on Cedars won the PEN/ Faulkner Award. David Guterson lives in Washington State.
EBOOK: 9781408825136 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UK, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Sheil Land Associates OME ISBN: 9781408826126 PRICE: £5.99
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In Magnus Mills ‘Magnus Mills is Britain’s most original writer’ The Times Far away, in the ancient Empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are falling apart. The imperial orchestra is presided over by a conductor who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure that the cabinet can take tea in the library as the sun sets, the Astronomer Royal is only able to use the imperial telescope when he can find a sixpence to put in its slot, and everyone lives on tick. But while the kingdom drifts, awaiting the return of the absentee emperor, a ‘cruel bird’ is getting closer. PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408821978 EBOOK: 9781408824542 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White
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Magnus Mills is the author of six novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1999. He lives in London.
Rupert Thomson Dreams of Leaving A new edition of Dreams of Leaving published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its first publication, with a new introduction ‘One of the most haunting, resonant and clever parables about England you’ll ever read’ Guardian
New Egypt is a village somewhere in the South of England. A village that nobody has ever left. Peach, the sadistic chief of police, makes sure of that. Then, one misty morning, a young couple secretly set their baby son Moses afloat on the river, in a basket made of rushes. Years later, Moses is living above a nightclub, mixing with drug-dealers, thieves and topless waitresses. He knows nothing about his past but it is catching up with him nevertheless, and it threatens to put his life in danger. Terror, magic and farce all have a part to play as the worlds of Peach and Moses slowly converge. Rupert Thomson is the author of eight novels. His books have been shortlisted for awards including the Writer’s Guild Fiction Prize for Air and Fire and the Guardian Prize for Fiction. He lives in Barcelona with his wife and daughter.
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The Dead Witness A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
Edited by Michael Sims ‘A masterful collection of Victorian detective stories … pure chocolate box indulgence’ The Times
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The Dead Witness is the first known detective story by a woman, a suspenseful clue-strewn manhunt. This forgotten treasure sets the tone for the whole anthology as surprises appear from every direction. Holmes himself is here of course, in the first two chapters of A Study in Scarlet, the first Holmes case, in which he meets Watson. Authors range from Dickens to the forgotten author who helped inspire Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the first real detective story. This unique collection reveals the fascinating stories that would inspire the most popular fiction of the twentieth century.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822005 EBOOK: 9780802779625 PUB DATE: September 27, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Sanford J.
Michael Sims is the author and editor of the acclaimed Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories and The Story of Charlotte’s Web. He is also editor of the Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime; The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime; Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief; and The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel. Michael Sims lives in western Pennsylvania.
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Falling Sideways Thomas E. Kennedy ‘The finest novel I have read in many years … immensely compelling and beautifully written’ Alain de Botton The Tank, a high-profile firm in Copenhagen, has just announced a period of downsizing, and no one is safe. Top executive Frederick Breathwaite is trying to ensure a career foothold for his son Jes. Harald Jaeger, who harbours illicit passions for the Tank’s married financial officer, has managed to catch the nefarious CEO’s eye – as a possible replacement for Breathwaite. Meanwhile, the CEO’s son Adam should be following in his father’s footsteps but has fallen for his au pair. And in a nearby shoe repair shop, Jes, who despises corporate life, is pursuing a very different kind of future… PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822012 EBOOK: 9781408826195 PUB DATE: November 08, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Sobel Weber Associates
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Thomas E. Kennedy was born in New York. He is the author of eight novels, and has won numerous awards including the Eric Hoffer Award, the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Prize. He teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and is the father of two grown children. He has lived in Copenhagen for over two decades.
Purgatory Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne
Tomás Eloy Martínez ‘Elusive and resonant, satirical, surreal and moving’ Daily Mail Simón Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, finds him in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday. Testimonies confirmed that Simón had been one of the thousands of victims of Argentina’s military regime, executed for being a ‘subversive’; yet this man is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. And just as Simón’s disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that were such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia’s refusal to accept his death mirrors the country’s unwillingness to face its reality. PRICE: £7.99
Tomás Eloy Martínez was born in Argentina in 1934. During the military dictatorship, he lived in exile in Venezuela where he wrote his first three books, all of which were republished in Argentina in 1983, in the first months of democracy. The Tango Singer was shortlisted for the 2005 International Man Booker Prize.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822029 EBOOK: 9781408824450 PUB DATE: November 08, 2012 TERRITORY: WE
Frank Wynne is the translator of Michel Houellebecq's Atomised and of Marcel Figueras's Kamchatka, which won the 2012 Valle Inclan Translation Prize.
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The Yellow Duster Sisters A Wartime Childhood
Susan Kennaway ‘A moving memoir of two sisters evacuated during the Second World War’ Daily Mail 1939. Nine year old Susie and her sister Gyll live in Watford, and all week look forward to their Saturday shopping expedition to Woolworths. But as war breaks out in Europe, the girls are evacuated to Africa. Feeling abandoned and alone, the sisters find their new life miserable as their guardians force them to wear patched-up clothes and be in bed by six o’clock. The sisters dream of escape and of returning to idyllic England. Yet when they finally arrive home, the changes that await them make for a very different life than the one they had longed for… PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822371 EBOOK: 9781408813898
Susan Kennaway was born in Watford in 1930. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and later at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. She now lives in France where she restores porcelain. Susan Kennaway is the author of The Kennaway Papers, about her first husband, the writer James Kennaway. The Yellow Duster Sisters is her second book.
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A Year in the Village of Eternity Timeless Tales From the Italian Table
Tracey Lawson ‘More than a good read, it’s an inspiration’ Daily Mail
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Campodimele, Italy, has always attracted the interest of scientists: people here live extraordinarily long lives. What is it about this place that makes it ‘the Village of Eternity’? Tracey Lawson sets off to find out and immerses herself in the seasonal lifestyle of this vibrant mountain community. Along the way, villagers share with her over one hundred recipes handed down through the generations, including baby artichoke salad, fig jam and aubergines stuffed with olives, tomatoes and parsley. Brimming with tradition and flavour, A Year in the Village of Eternity unearths the secrets of living longer and, most importantly, living well.
EBOOK: 9781408818114 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Tracey Lawson discovered the joys of Italy’s cuisine and lifestyle while teaching English in Tuscany. She spent ten years as a news and features writer, covering foreign and domestic stories for British newspapers, and edited the food pages of the Scotsman for eighteen months. A Year in the Village of Eternity is her first book.
Street Fight in Naples A City’s Unseen History
Peter Robb ‘Remarkable … the distant past as something almost palpably present … a bravura performance’ Sunday Times Naples is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. In 1503, Naples was the Mediterranean capital of Spain’s world empire and the base for the Christian struggle with Islam. It was a European metropolis, an extraordinary concentration of military power, lavish consumption and poverty. It was to Naples in 1606 that Michelangelo Merisi fled after a fatal street fight, and there released a great age in European art – until everything erupted in a revolt by the dispossessed, and the people of an occupied city brought Europe into the modern world.
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Peter Robb’s first book, Midnight in Sicily, was an international bestseller and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-fiction. M won the same prize, and the National Biography Award. It was also a bestseller in the US and a New York Times Notable Book. A Death in Brazil was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.
ISBN: 9781408822326 EBOOK: 9781408818732 PUB DATE: July 05, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXAUS/CAN/ NZ,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Wylie Agency
Indigo In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World
Catherine E. McKinley ‘A vivid snapshot of the cultures she encountered in Africa’ Washington Post Indigo uncovers the rich history of the precious dye: its relationship to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its profound influence on fashion, and its spiritual significance. But it is also chronicles a personal quest: Catherine McKinley’s ancestors include a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan, several generations of Jewish ‘rag traders’, Massachusetts textile factory owners, and African slaves who were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo. Her journey takes her to nine West African countries, and is resplendent with powerful lessons of heritage and history which shape the way she understands her world at home. PRICE: £8.99
Catherine McKinley is the author of The Book of Sarahs. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she has taught Creative Non-fiction, and a former Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, West Africa, where she began her research on indigo. She lives in New York City.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822364 EBOOK: 9781408817858 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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The Cypress Tree Kamin Mohammadi ‘A memoir to inspire’ Aminatta Forna Kamin Mohammadi was nine when her family fled Iran during the 1979 revolution. She was twenty-seven before she returned, drawn inexorably back by memories of her grandmother’s house, with its traditional inner courtyard and walls steeped in history. This is Kamin’s account of her journey home, to rediscover her Iranian self and to discover the story of her family: a sprawling clan that sprang from humble roots to bloom during the affluent, Biba-clad 1960s, only to be shaken by the horrors of the Iran-Iraq War, the heartbreak of exile, and toughened by the struggle for democracy that continues today.
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Kamin Mohammadi was born in Iran in 1969 and exiled to the UK in 1979. She is a journalist, travel writer and broadcaster who has writes for British and international press including The Times, the Financial Times, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire and the Guardian, as well as co-authoring The Lonely Planet Guide to Iran. She lives between London and Italy.
EBOOK: 9781408834299 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Greene & Heaton
Medical Muses Hysteria in Nineteenth-century Paris
Asti Hustvedt ‘A fascinating and beautifully written book’ Guardian
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In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. Treatments included hypnosis, piercing and the evocation of demons, and despite the controversy they created, the experiments became a fascinating and fashionable public spectacle. Medical Muses tells the stories of the women institutionalised in the Salpêtrière. Theirs is a tale of science and ideology, medicine and the occult, of hypnotism, sadism, love and theatre. Combining hospital records, municipal archives, memoirs and letters, Medical Muses sheds new light on a crucial moment in psychiatric history.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822357 EBOOK: 9781408824535 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Wylie Agency
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Asti Hustvedt is an independent scholar who has written extensively on hysteria and literature. She has a PhD in French literature from New York University and is the editor of The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France. She lives in New York City.
It Happened on the Way to War A Marine’s Path to Peace
Rye Barcott ‘Timely, relevant, and critically important’ Huffington Post In 2000 prospective Marine Rye Barcott moved to the Kibera slum of nairobi, Kenya, seeking to understand ethnic violence. Immersing himself in local culture, he saw how young people survived in unimaginable poverty. With the help of locals Tabitha Atieno Festo and Salim Mohamed, he built an nGO that would develop a generation of leaders from one of Africa’s largest slums. Their organization, Carolina for Kibera (CFK), was honoured by Time magazine as a ‘Hero of Global Health.’ CFK’s greatest lesson is that with proper support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create breath-taking change.
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Rye Barcott co-founded the CFK while he was an undergraduate at the University of north Carolina. In 2006 he was named a Person of the Week and Person of the Year for dual services to Kibera and the Marine Corps by ABC World News. He is currently a member of the World Learning Board of Trustees and a TED Fellow.
EBOOK: 9781408833681 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
Ghosts of Empire Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World
Kwasi Kwarteng ‘Smart, witty and personable … A cracking debut from a very accomplished historian’ Daily Telegraph The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today’s international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British imperialism, have arisen and continue to baffle politicians and diplomats. This powerful new book addresses the realities of the British Empire from its inception to its demise, skewering fantasies of its glory and cataloguing both the inadequacies of its ideals and the short-termism of its actions. PRICE: £8.99
Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and was recently elected as the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. Ghosts of Empire is his first book.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408829004 EBOOK: 9781408822906 PUB DATE: August 02, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Capel & Land
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There’s a Golden Sky How Twenty Years of the Premier League Have Changed Football Forever
Ian Ridley ‘A rare insight into some of the stories behind the headlines’ Irish Examiner In its first 20 years the Premier League has moved football from a state of unprecedented crisis against a backdrop of recession, strikes and hooliganism to a global sport of unimaginable riches. To mark this anniversary Ian Ridley takes stock of a phenomenon that has changed English football and English society forever. Taking in the game at all levels and across the country, There’s A Golden Sky is a full picture of the game today with all its glitz and glamour, rags and riches. Ridley seeks to discover if the soul of the game still exists. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408832745 EBOOK: 9781408165362 PUB DATE: August 16, 2012
Ian Ridley is the author of eight football books including the bestselling Addicted, with Tony Adams. He is a football columnist for the Mail on Sunday and has also written for the Observer, Guardian and Independent on Sunday. He was Sports Journalist of the Year in 2007.
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Leningrad Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941−44
Anna Reid ‘Impeccably researched, well-paced and beautifully written’ Financial Times
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When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city’s centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid describes a city’s descent into hell: the breakdown of electricity and water supply; subzero temperatures; the consumption of pets, joiner’s glue and face cream; the dead left unburied where they fell – but also the extraordinary endurance, bravery and self-sacrifice, despite the cruelty and indifference of the Kremlin.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822418 EBOOK: 9781408824702 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCW
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Anna Reid read law at Oxford and Russian History at SSEES (UCL). She was the Economist ’s Ukraine correspondent (1993−95) and later (2003−07) ran the foreign affairs programme at the think-tank Policy Exchange. She lives in west London.
Why Did Nobody Tell Me? Home Truths Every Parent Needs to Know
Natasha Joffe & Justine Roberts ‘Very funny … An etiquette guide for families in the 21st century world’ Financial Times Why Did Nobody Tell Me? shapes the collective wisdom that finds its way to the message boards of Mumsnet.com into common sense ‘rules’ that stretch from the cradle to the grave (or to the gates of secondary school, which for many of us is nearly the same thing). From education, emotional development and childcare to nitty-gritty but more ephemeral issues not covered anywhere else, Why Did Nobody Tell Me? equips every new parent with the insight that usually only comes with hindsight. Created in 2000 by two new mothers, Mumsnet is widely regarded as the UK’s leading online parenting community. It has nearly two million monthly visitors and 850,000 unique monthly users, and its members are loyal, active and passionate about the site. Fans of Mumsnet include India Knight, David Cameron and the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, to name but a few.
PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822265 EBOOK: 9781408811276 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Janklow & Nesbit
Disordered World Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century Translated from the French by George Miller
Amin Maalouf ‘Stimulating and provocative’ Sunday Times In this brilliant exploration of the post 9/11 world, Amin Maalouf attempts to understand how we have come adrift. Instead of viewing the current disorder as a ‘clash of civilisations’ Maalouf sees it as the ‘exhaustion of two civilisations’, a period in which humanity has reached its threshold of ‘moral incompetence’. Disordered World is a plea by one of the major writers of our time for intelligence, tolerance and a sense of urgency in order that we develop an adult vision of our patrimony, our beliefs, our differences and the future of the planet which is our common home.
PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822449
Amin Maalouf was born in Lebanon in 1949. A leading intellectual, novelist, essayist and memoirist, his work has been translated into more than forty languages and he has won many prestigious prizes.
EBOOK: 9781408822678 PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein
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Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It Howard Jacobson ‘In these offerings Jacobson achieves his desired goal of entertainment. Entertainment through excellence’ Sunday Telegraph The winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Howard Jacobson, brims with life in this collection of his most acclaimed journalism. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law’s ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and desolation of Wagner’s tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the thunder and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences weave together to create a hilarious, heartbreaking and uniquely human collection. This book is not just a series of parts, but an irresistible, unputdownable sum. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822425 EBOOK: 9781408819111
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson’s novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights, Who’s Sorry Now? (both longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and, most recently, the Man Booker Prize winner The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
PUB DATE: August 30, 2012 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown
River Cottage Every Day Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall ‘For anyone wanting to feed the family really well … this is great’ The Times Books of the Year
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Putting food on the table for families quickly and economically doesn’t mean you have to compromise on quality. This book shows how Hugh’s approach to food can be adapted to suit any growing, working family, or busy singles and couples for that matter. As Hugh says: ‘I have honed the River Cottage approach to food over a decade now, and I believe passionately that it is relevant to everybody, every day. I intend to tempt and charm you towards a better life with food – with a set of simply irresistible recipes that just happen to be seasonal and ethical.’
FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408804339 EBOOK: 9781408815557 PUB DATE: September 13, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy, the Andre Simon Food Book of the Year, the Michael Smith Award and, in the US, the James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Hugh lives in Devon.
Kitchen Secrets Raymond Blanc ‘This is not one of those sterile coffee-table books, but something you really want to cook from’ Sunday Times Raymond Blanc is a revered culinary legend, whose love of delicious food is life-long. Years of experience have given him a rich store of knowledge and the skill to create fantastic dishes that work time after time. He reveals his best cooking secrets in sixteen chapters: meat, fish, shellfish, game, summer fruits, summer greens, herbs, winter vegetables, bread, eggs, tomatoes, apples, spices, charcuterie, pastries, puddings and chocolate. With over 100 recipes, each accompanied by Raymond’s solicitous commentary and tips, this is a musthave for anybody who loves French cuisine and wants to cook with finesse.
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Totally self-taught, Raymond Blanc is one of Britain’s best-respected chefs. His hotelrestaurant Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons near Oxford has been awarded two Michelin stars for the past twenty-six years and in 2007 he was awarded an OBE for services to culinary excellence.
ISBN: 9781408822111 PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury
A More Perfect Heaven How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos
Dava Sobel ‘An engrossing account of Copernicus and his cosmic revolution’ Independent In the 1520s a Polish cleric named nicolaus Copernicus developed a revolutionary theory which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the centre of our universe. The secret existence of this manuscript tantalised scientists everywhere in Europe. Then in 1539 a young German mathematician Rheticus travelled to meet Copernicus in the hope of setting eyes on it. Dava Sobel tells the story of a new concept of the heavens, and how Rheticus persuaded the cautious Copernicus to allow him to take the precious but dangerous manuscript out into a world that it would change for ever. PRICE: £8.99
Dava Sobel is the acclaimed author of the bestselling titles Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Illustrated Longitude, and The Planets. She lives in East Hampton, new York.
FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822388 EBOOK: 9781408824658 PUB DATE: October 11, 2012 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Inkwell Management
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I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies
Mourid Barghouti ‘A particularly sophisticated insight into the plight of Palestinians … Beautiful’ Independent on Sunday
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In 2003 Mourid Barghouti returned to Ramallah to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family, and the homeland he was exiled from following the Six-Day War in 1967. I Was Born There, I Was Born Here traces Barghouti’s own life in recent years and the past; early life in Palestine, expulsion from Cairo, exile to Budapest, marriage to one of Egypt’s leading writers and critics, Radwa Ashour, and the birth of Tamim. Beautifully translated by prize-winning Humphrey Davies, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is destined, like its predecessor I Saw Ramallah, to become a classic.
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Mourid Barghouti was born in 1944 near Ramallah. He has published thirteen books of poetry in Arabic and was awarded the Palestine Award for Poetry in 2000. He lives in Cairo with his wife, Radwa Ashour. Humphrey Davies is the acclaimed translator of The Yacoubian Builidng by Alaa al-Aswany and The Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury.
Boy Soldiers of the Great War Richard van Emden The heartbreaking story of the boys who fought in the First World War – completely revised in this new edition
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The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I. In Boy Soldiers of the Great War, Richard van Emden, having amassed a unique collection of personal testimonies and unpublished diaries and letters, brings to life their stories of heroism and sacrifice.
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Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written twelve books on the subject including The Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy (both top ten bestsellers) and most recently The Quick and the Dead. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War.
The Man of Numbers Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution
Keith Devlin ‘The story is extraordinary’ Observer In 1202, Leonardo of Pisa finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Leonardo (better known today as Fibonacci), learned the Hindu number system when he travelled to north Africa. The book he created was Liber abaci, the ‘Book of Calculation’, and the revolution that followed its publication was enormous. Yet despite the ubiquity of his discoveries, Fibonacci remains an enigma. The Man of Numbers recreates the life and enduring legacy of an overlooked genius, and in the process makes clear how central numbers and mathematics are to our daily lives.
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Keith Devlin is a Senior Researcher and Executive Director at Stanford University. He is also a Consulting Professor in the Department of Mathematics. He is the author of more than twenty-eight books, including The Math Gene. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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Index 50 Licks 38 Air and Fire 47 A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In 46 A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar 3 A More Perfect Heaven 57 A Prince Among Stones 29 A Very English Hero 23 A Year in the Village of Eternity 50 Abbey Road 22 Abiding 39 Ada’s Rules 2 Arch and the Butterfly, The 10 At Home On The Range 17 Atul’s Curries of the World 42 Beyond Essence: Recipes from Le Champignon Sauvage 42 Beyond the Blue Horizon 23 Big Ray 12 Bill Veeck 60 Boy Soldiers of the Great War 58 Breakfast Bible, The 25 British Larder, The 39 Book of Revelation, The 47 Cinnamon Kitchen Cookbook, The 41 Complete Nose to Tail, The 33 Cypress Tree, The 52 David Bowie Style 34 Day Aberystwyth Stood Still, The 45 Dead Witness, The 48 Death of a Murderer 47 Decades 31 Disordered World 55 Divided Kingdom 47 Dogs Make Us Human 60 Dreams of Leaving 47 Eat and Run 18 Ed King 46 El Clasico: Barcelona v Real Madrid 24 Elza's Kitchen 4 Evil Knits 19
Falling Sideways 48 Fate of the Species, The 61 Fever Season 60 Finding Casey 8 Fire in the Belly 60 Five Gates of Hell, The 47 Fold 44 Food of Morocco, The 26 Geneva Trap, The 3 Ghastly Business 43 Ghosts of Empire 53 Good Life, The 61 Good Small Business Guide 2013 32 Great Divergence, The 60 Hallo Sausages 35 Hard Twisted 10 How to Bake 20 How to Cook Like a Man 61 Idiomantics 30 I Kick, Therefore I am 28 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here 58 Illegal Procedure 60 Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl, The 21 Indigo 51 Infinite Tides, The 6 Insult, The 47 Island Cup 60 It Happened on the Way to War 53 John Saturnall's Feast 7 Juice, The 16 Kitchen Secrets 57 Leningrad 54 Leonardo and the Last Supper 26 Little America 19 Man of Numbers, The 59 Marvellous Miniature Marmite Cookbook, The 40 Medical Muses 52 Momofuku Milk Bar 40 More Powerful Than Dynamite 60
Most Memorable Games in Patriot History, The 60 Mr Churchill's Profession 17 My First Coup d'Etat 22 Odyssey,The 61 One Thousand and One Nights 43 Our Divided Political Heart 60 Out Of It 45 Phantom Army of Alamein, The 30 Pinstripe Empire 60 Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists: The Making of the Sony/Aardman Movie,The 27 Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics,The 6 POLPO 18 Power of Silence, The 36 Purgatory 49
UFO Files, The 25 Umbrella 5 Unaccoutanble 60 Uninvited, The 2
War We Never Fought, The 36 Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It 56 Whitaker's Almanack 2013 37 Whitaker's Little Book of Knowledge 38 Who Moved My Stilton? 37 Why Did Nobody Tell Me? 55 Wilderness 9 Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2013, The 33 Woolgathering 16 Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2013 20 Yellow Duster Sisters, The 50
Rabid 32 Raising Wrecker 44 Ralph Steadman's Extinct Boids 34 Revelations 24 River Cottage Every Day 56 Rolling My Eyes 29 Rook 4 RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds 21 Saint Melissa the Mottled 61 San Miguel 9 Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers 28 Shadow of the Rock 5 Shadow Scholar, The 61 Sit Down and Cheer 35 Soft 47 Sound of Things Falling, The 11 Spectrums 31 Square: The Cookbook Volume 1 (Savoury), The 41 Street Fight in Naples 51 That Deadman Dance 8 There's a Golden Sky 54 This Love Is Not for Cowards 60 Three Good Things 27 Traces 11 Triple Jeopardy for the West 29
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