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In Darkness Nick Lake The audacious and astounding story of a boy and a revolutionary leader, and a bridge across the centuries of Haitian history Trapped beneath the rubble of the Haitian earthquake of 2010, a teenage boy is terrified and alone. A child of the slums, Shorty has been drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule his broken city, a world that turns dreams into dust and boys into killers. But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that fires his resolve to find his twin sister, stolen from him seven years ago. In darkness the line between the present and the past begins to blur and, as Shorty fights for life, his struggle becomes part of a two-hundred-year-old story – a story of courage and betrayal, freedom and hope. For Shorty may not be quite as alone as he believes…
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408824184 EBOOK: 9781408824191
Nick lake is the Editorial director for Fiction at HarperCollins Children’s Books and is the author of The Secret Ministry of Frost and Blood Ninja. In Darkness is his first book for adults and older teen readers. He discovered Haitian culture as part of his Master’s degree and has since been fascinated by it. He lives near Oxford.
PuB dATE: 05 JANuAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: A.P. WATT TErrITOry: WE EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408819975 PrICE: £11.99
Jack Holmes and His Friend Edmund White A dazzling, perceptive and beautifully sculpted exploration of sexuality and sensibility from one of the foremost writers of our time ‘On every page there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that holds and reattracts the eye’ Martin Amis Jack Holmes is in love. Sadly for him, his feelings are not returned, at least not in the way he would like them to be. It doesn’t look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for: the other men he takes to bed never stay for long. Jack will introduce his friend Will to the woman he will marry, and against the charged backdrop of sixties New york – literary and intense, before gay liberation – the lives of Jack and Will intertwine, and as their loves come and go, they will always be, at the very least, friends. PrICE: £18.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408805794 EBOOK: 9781408824610 PuB dATE: 05 JANuAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: rCW TErrITOry: COMM/uKEXCuSA EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408815175 PrICE: £11.99
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Edmund White is the author of A Boy’s Own Story, My Lives, The Flâneur, Hotel de Dream and, most recently, the memoir City Boy. He is an officer of the French Order of Arts and letters and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in New york City and teaches at Princeton university.
Diving Belles Lucy Wood A luminous and startling debut collection from a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction Along Cornwall’s coast, from time to time, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and a certain kind of magic floats to the surface… Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Trees can make wishes come true – if you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants. On a windy beach, a small boy and his grandmother keep despair at bay with an old white door. In these stories, hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, wreckers’ lamps and baying hounds as Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Exeter university. She grew up in Cornwall. Diving Belles is her first work.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408816851 EBOOK: 9781408816868 PuB dATE: 19 JANuAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: CurTIS BrOWN TErrITOry: COMM/Eu,OM
The Prisoner of Paradise Romesh Gunesekera A fresh and beguiling story of slavery, freedom, identity and forbidden love from the Booker-shortlisted author of Reef lucy gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand plantation house. under the surface of this beautiful island paradise, poised between India and Africa, there is unease, and lucy cannot help but feel discomfited by the restrictions she sees around her, and by the strangely attractive don lambodar, a young translator from Ceylon. It is 1825: the age of slavery is coming to its messy end, and word is lapping against the shores of the island of a charismatic new Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty. For lucy, for don, for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is coming... romesh gunesekera is the author of four novels: Reef, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the guardian Fiction Prize, The Sandglass, winner of the BBC Asia Award, Heaven’s Edge, shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, and The Match. He has also written two short story collections: Monkfish Moon and O Colleccionador de Especiarias. He grew up in Sri lanka and the Philippines and now lives in london.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408804261 EBOOK: 9781408825679 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: A.M. HEATH TErrITOry: COMM/uKEXCAN,OM EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408825662 PrICE: £11.99
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Hinterland Caroline Brothers ‘A heart-wrenching story of two young brothers on a long, hard road; a story that all of us should read’ Barbara Trapido It is night, and two boys are crossing a river. Aryan and his brother Kabir are driven by little more than the courage of an enormous gamble: that Europe will offer them a future they can no longer wait for in Afghanistan. Whether trapped in greece, lost in Italy, or imagining England whilst huddled in the sand dunes in France, the boys take risks they cannot estimate with strangers they shouldn’t trust. Hinterland is a novel about hope in the aftermath of trauma, about how far two boys will go to fight for their lives; as the adult world rushes in, it sends up a flare for those displaced children who are out there, even now, on the road.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408817759 EBOOK: 9781408818749
Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a Phd in history from university College london and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and latin America. She currently lives in Paris where she writes for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. She has published a book, War and Photography, and also writes short stories. Hinterland is her first novel.
PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408821619 PrICE: £11.99
The Golden Scales Parker Bilal A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring… Makana is a former police inspector who fled from his native Sudan seven years ago and now lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo. Out of the blue he is called in by the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, the owner of a star-studded football team. Their most valuable player has just vanished, and Adil romario’s disappearance threatens to bring down not only Hanafi’s private empire but the entire country. Thrust into a dangerous and glittering world, Makana encounters Muslim extremists, russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter. His search stirs up painful memories, leading him back into the sights of an old and dangerous enemy…
PrICE: £11.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408824894 EBOOK: 9781408824900 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: A.M. HEATH TErrITOry: WE
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Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Born in london, he has lived at various times in the uK, Sudan, Cairo and denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.
This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You
Jon McGregor An extraordinary collection of stories from the critically acclaimed author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A young woman is almost killed when a sugar-beet crashes through her windscreen. A father is arrested when he tries to watch his daughter’s school nativity play. A pair of itinerant labourers sit by a lake, talking about shovels and sex, while fighter-planes fly low overhead. Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of familiar places made strange – of lives where much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won. PrICE: £14.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK
Jon Mcgregor is the author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to Begin and Even the Dogs. He is the winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now lives in Nottingham.
ISBN: 9781408809266 EBOOK: 9781408811290 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: THE WylIE AgENCy lTd TErrITOry: WE
Painter of Silence Georgina Harding An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the second World War, and the story of an utterly original friendship Iasi, romania, the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital. He is deaf and mute but a young nurse called Safta knows him from the past, and brings paper and pencils so that he might draw. gradually, memories appear on the page: the man is Augustin, the cook’s son at the manor house at Poiana where Safta was the privileged daughter. Born six months apart, they had a connection that bypassed words, but while Augustin’s world stayed the same size Safta’s expanded to embrace languages, society – and a fleeting love one long hot summer. But then came war, and in its wake a brutal Stalinist regime, and nothing would remain the same. georgina Harding is the author of two acclaimed novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave and The Spy Game, a BBC Book at Bedtime that was shortlisted for the Encore Prize. Her first book was a work of non-fiction, In Another Europe, recording a journey across romania during the worst times of the Ceausescu regime. She lives in london and Essex.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408821121 EBOOK: 9781408824474 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408824467 PrICE: £11.99
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Homesick Roshi Fernando A stunning, prize-winning debut which traces the fine lines of politics, tradition and community It is New year’s Eve, 1982, and the whole gang is at Victor and Nandini’s house. The Godfather is on repeat upstairs. Baila music is blaring from the record player in the lounge. Poppadoms are frying in the kitchen. And Preethi, tipsy on youth and friendship and covert cigarettes out the window, just wants to belong. But what does that mean, to belong? From that New year’s party to a family funeral, via ghetto blasters and growing pains, through 7/7 and the world according to Charlie Chaplin, life in all of its complexity happens to Preethi, Nil, lolly, rohan, and their tightly knotted Sri lankan families in south london.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408826409
roshi Fernando was born in london of Sri lankan parents. She won the 2009 Impress Prize for New Writers, was shortlisted for the 2011 Sunday Times EFg Private Bank Award, was given a special commendation by the judges of the Manchester Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Fish Prize. roshi Fernando lives in gloucestershire.
EBOOK: 9781408826430 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: A.M. HEATH TErrITOry: COMM/uKEXCAN,OM EArly EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408826362 PrICE: £11.99 PuB dATE: 05 JANuAry 2012
Waiting for Sunrise William Boyd ‘William Boyd is English fiction’s master storyteller’ Independent Vienna, 1913. lysander rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist, dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. Their subsequent affair is both passionate and particularly destructive. Moving from Vienna to london’s West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force. PrICE: £18.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408817742 EBOOK: 9781408828458 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: CurTIS BrOWN TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408818589 PrICE: £12.99
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William Boyd is the author of ten novels, including An Ice-Cream War, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the year and a richard & Judy selection; and, most recently, the bestselling Ordinary Thunderstorms. He lives in london and France.
We All Fall Down Michael Harvey Chicago cop-turned-PI Michael Kelly is racing to save his city from a deadly new foe: a biological weapon unleashed underground When a light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, it releases a pathogen that could kill millions. While the mayor postures, people begin to die, especially on the city’s grim west side. Finally, the government acts, sealing off entire sections of the city – but are they keeping people out or in? Meanwhile, Michael Kelly’s hunt for the people who poisoned his city takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago’s west side gangs and the even more frightening world of black biology – an elite discipline emerging from the nation’s premier labs, where scientists play god and will stop at nothing to preserve their secrecy. Michael Harvey is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor and The Third Rail, and is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won numerous awards including multiple Emmy Awards, two Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award nomination. He lives in Chicago.
PrICE: £11.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408809242 EBOOK: 9781408811443 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: ABNEr STEIN TErrITOry: COMM/uKEXCAN,OM
Throwing Sparks Abdo Khal Winner of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Translated from the Arabic by Maia Tabet and Michael K. Scott
‘Abdo Khal shines a light on life at the bottom of the heap, in Saudi’s often forgotten villages’ Guardian A palace in Jeddah is believed to be a place of paradise where everything becomes possible. But the palace is not what it seems. Having proved himself through his early sexual exploits, the young narrator Tarek Fadel has been appointed to the palace as its new executioner. His entry to palace society is facilitated by his old mentor, Eissa, who maintains a public image that is very different from the private hell that he presides over. To the outside world Eissa is the employer of the downtrodden and the disabled, but those on the inside know the terrors he is capable of. PrICE: £11.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK
Born in Saudi Arabia in 1962, Abdo Khal studied political science and began his career as a preacher before becoming a primary school teacher. He turned to writing as a way of attacking the corruption of the wealthy in the Arab world. Khal describes his novels as being about ‘sex, politics and religion... the things that make up people’s lives’.
ISBN: 9789992179093 PuB dATE: 19 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WOEXArABIC&ITAlIAN
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Life! Death! Prizes! Stephen May Poignant, funny, and with echoes of Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers and Jimmy McGovern, this is a story of grief, resilience and brotherly love Billy’s mother is dead. He knows – because he reads about it in magazines – that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother’s death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy is both mother and father to Oscar, despite what his aunt, the social services and Oscar’s own prodigal father all think is best. The boys’ new world is built out of chaos and fierce love, but as Billy’s obsession with his mother’s missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that really matters…
PrICE: £11.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408819135
Stephen May’s first novel Tag was published by a small Welsh press and won the reader’s Choice at the Welsh Book of the year 2009. Stephen May also writes for television and theatre. He now lives and works in West yorkshire.
EBOOK: 9781408819142 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
The Light of Amsterdam David Park ‘David Park writes prose of gravity and grace’ Joseph O’Connor, Guardian It is december in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a university art teacher, goes on a pilgrimage to the city of his youth with troubled teenage son Jack; middle-aged couple Marion and richard take a break from running their garden centre to celebrate Marion’s birthday; and Karen, a single mother struggling to make ends meet, joins her daughter’s hen party. As these people brush against each other in the squares, museums and parks of Amsterdam, their lives are transfigured as they encounter the complexities of love in a city that challenges what has gone before. Tender and humane, and elevating the ordinary to something timeless and important, The Light of Amsterdam is a novel of compassion and rare dignity.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408821367 EBOOK: 9781408824924 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408825280 PrICE: £11.99
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david Park has written seven books, most recently the acclaimed The Truth Commissioner, winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. He has also won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for literature, the American Ireland Fund literary Award and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the year award, twice. He lives in County down, Northern Ireland with his wife and two children.
The Namesake Conor Fitzgerald ‘Fills the gap left by Michael Dibdin’ Sunday Times Commissioner Alec Blume is back in the third mystery by Fitzgerald, set in the criminal underbelly of Rome When magistrate Matteo Arconti’s namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the courthouse in Piazza Clodio, it’s a clear warning to the authorities in rome – a message of defiance and intimidation. Commissioner Alec Blume knows it’s a reference to his other case – that of a mafia boss operating at a frustratingly untouchable distance in germany. Handing control of the investigation to now live-in and not-so-secret partner Caterina Mattiola, Blume takes a back seat. But while Caterina questions the Milanese widow, Blume has an underhand idea of his own to lure the arrogant mafioso out of his hiding place… PrICE: £11.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK
Conor Fitzgerald is the author of The Dogs of Rome and The Fatal Touch. He has lived in Ireland, the uK, the united States and Italy and has worked as an arts editor and founded a successful translation company. He is married with two children and lives in rome. The Namesake is the third in his series of Italian crime novels.
ISBN: 9781408824498 EBOOK: 9781408828023 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WE
Ignorance Michèle Roberts A mesmerising exploration of guilt, faith, desire and judgment set in wartime France, by Booker-shortlisted author Michèle Roberts Jeanne and Marie-Angèle grow up in the Catholic village of Ste Madeleine. Marie-Angèle is the daughter of the grocer, inflated with ideas of her rightful place in society; Jeanne’s mother washes clothes for a living and used to be a Jew. When war arrives, the village must play its part in a game for which no one knows the rules – not the dubious hero who embroils Marie-Angèle in the black market, nor the artist living alone with his red canvases. In these uncertain times, the enemy may be hiding in your garden shed and the truth can be buried under a pyramid of recriminations. Ignorance brings to life a people at war in a way that is at once lyrical and shocking. Michèle roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC radio 4 Book of the Week. Half-English and half-French, Michèle roberts lives in london.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408816004 EBOOK: 9781408818824 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: AITKEN AlEXANdEr TErrITOry: WE
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I am an Executioner Rajesh Parameswaran A glittering, savage and elegant first collection that introduces an astonishing new international literary talent A Bengal tiger wakes up one morning realising he is ravenously in love. A pompous railway supervisor in a small Indian village bites off more than he can chew when a peculiar new clerk arrives on his doorstep. In another place and in another time, a secret agent who spends her days watching the front door of an unknown quarry discovers something she isn’t meant to. And a small and famous country’s only executioner claims his conscience is as clean as his heavy, washed stones. In these stories, reality loops in Borgesian twists and dazzles with cinematic exuberance; frayed photographs take on a life of their own while elephants wish only to die with dignity.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408817766 EBOOK: 9781408821176
rajesh Parameswaran’s short stories have appeared in Granta and McSweeney’s among others. The Strange Career of Doctor Raju Gopalarajan was one of three stories for which McSweeney’s won the National Magazine Award in 2007, and it was included in Best American Magazine Writing. He lives in New york.
PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: ABNEr STEIN TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM EArly EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408825747 PrICE: £11.99 PuB dATE: 12 APrIl 2012
The Grantchester Mysteries: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death James Runcie The first in a series of six detective novels which move from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953 to the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981, introducing an unforgettable new hero
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408825952 EBOOK: 9781408828465
Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of grantchester, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with eyes the colour of hazelnuts, he is both an unconventional clergyman and a reluctant detective. Working in association with his friend, Inspector geordie Keating, Sidney is able to go where the Police cannot, eliciting surprising revelations and confessions from his parishioners; whether it involves the apparent suicide of a local solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New year’s Eve dinner party, or the unexplained death of a jazz promoter’s daughter. Alongside his inquiries, Sidney also manages to find time to enjoy cricket, warm beer, hot jazz, and the company an attractive, lively young woman called Amanda.
PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408826416 PrICE: £11.99
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James runcie is the Artistic director of the Bath literature Festival and author of four novels, including Canvey Island and East Fortune. He is also an award-winning film-maker. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two daughters.
The Trapeze Artist Will Davis An exceptional, break-out, coming-of-age novel from the talented Betty Trask Award-winning writer, Will Davis The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision – a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, of the sweat, passions and tempers of circus life, and above all, the joyous longing to break free, and to swing higher and higher... Will davis is the author of two novels, My Side of the Story, which won the Betty Trask Prize 2007, and Dream Machine. He has trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse (rope), tissu (silks) and static trapeze. He lives in london. PrICE: £14.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408823040 EBOOK: 9781408825198 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
The Harbour Francesca Brill A stunning and utterly captivating debut about war, love and culpability set in 1940s Hong Kong and New York Hong Kong, 1940. For Stevie Steiber, a reckless young journalist, days at the Happy Valley race-course slip into dangerous, hedonistic nights. Major Harry Field, charged by Her Majesty’s government with investigating suspicious activity in the colony, is intrigued by the recent arrival of Wu Jishang, a Chinese sophisticated publisher who owns a controversial political magazine. But it is Stevie, Jishang’s close colleague and lover, who really fascinates him. As the British community continues to party, seemingly blind to the cataclysm that is almost upon them, the spy and the journalist are obsessively drawn into a dark passion. And when the Japanese army seizes the island, they are faced with terrifying challenges – how far will they go to protect each other? What price survival?
PrICE: £11.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408814826 EBOOK: 9781408828441
Francesca Brill is a screenwriter and film maker. The Harbour is her first book. She lives in london.
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Canada Richard Ford Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford’s greatest novel to date. A fastpaced, haunting and visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity. First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.
PrICE: £18.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9780747598602 EBOOK: 9781408828410
In 1956, del Parsons’ family came to a stop in great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva – shy, artistic – was alienated from their father’s small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that del’s parents decided to rob the bank. They weren’t reckless people. In the days following the arrest, del is saved before the authorities think to arrive. driving across Montana his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But as del discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of a border.
PuB dATE: 07 JuNE 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: rCW TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408815168 PrICE: £12.99
richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published six novels and four collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, A Multitude of Sins and, most recently, The Lay of the Land. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.
The Forrests Emily Perkins An extraordinary literary novel that charts a life from cradle to grave – this is prize-winning author Emily Perkins’s greatest work to date dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New york City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, dorothy is swept along by time. In a narrative that shifts and moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests sings with colour and memory and speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing and loneliness, about heat, youth, and how life can change if ‘you’re lucky enough to be around for it’.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408809235 EBOOK: 9781608197538 PuB dATE: 07 JuNE 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: A.P WATT TErrITOry: WEXCAN EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408818916 PrICE: £11.99
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Emily Perkins is the author of Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories which won the geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John llewellyn rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go, The New Girl and, most recently, Novel About My Wife, winner of the Believer Award. Emily Perkins lives in New Zealand.
Gideon Defoe The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics Hot on the heels of the Aardman movie, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, the Pirate Captain and his hapless crew are back! With their assets reduced to two cabin boys and a barrel of old weevils, and their many-jowelled bank manager breathing down their necks, the crew respond to an advertisement in the Lake Geneva Gazette. They meet Percy Shelley, his winsome fiancée Mary and the dashing, damsel-loving lord Byron. Together they set sail in search of treasure, with only the Captain’s mysterious belly tattoo and Charles Babbage’s brilliant mathematical brain to help them. But what will they find in the castle of ruthven in romania? Will the Pirate Captain’s patented seduction techniques work on Mary? And could Byron actually be a vampire? He certainly hopes so. PrICE: £9.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408802229 EBOOK: 9781408811306 PuB dATE: 07 JuNE 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: JANKlOW & NESBIT lTd TErrITOry: COMM/Eu,OM
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists Now a major motion picture from Aardman Animations and Sony It is 1837, and for the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain and his rag-tag pirate crew, life on the high seas has gotten a little dull. With nothing to do but twiddle their hooks and lounge aimlessly on tropical beaches, the Captain decides it’s time they had an adventure. A surprisingly successful boat raid leads them to the young Charles darwin, in desperate need of their help. And so the pirates set forth for london in a bid to save the scientist from the evil machinations of a diabolical Bishop. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, the Elephant Man – and have an exciting trip to the zoo. PrICE: £6.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408824955 EBOOK: 9781408828144 PuB dATE: 5 JANuAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: JANKlOW & NESBIT lTd TErrITOry: WEXuSA
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gideon defoe was born in 1975 and lives in london. He is also the author of The Pirates! series.
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The Bull of Mithros Anne Zouroudi Hermes Diaktoros, the inimitable Greek Detective, returns in a tale of sun-drenched islands, cold-blooded killing and slow-burning revenge years ago, the robbery of a philanthropist left the island of Mithros reeling and a man dead. The crimes seem destined to go unpunished until, as Hermes diaktoros arrives to learn more about the missing Bull of Mithros, a stranger is thrown overboard and forced to remain for a while on the island. But is he truly a stranger? To some, his face seems familiar; and when he dies in suspicious circumstances it suggests someone has acted as judge and jury for those longago offences. Hermes sets about solving the puzzle of who is guilty and who is innocent; what part has been played by the fabled bull, and who has fallen prey to the sin of sloth.
PrICE: £11.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408819388 EBOOK: 9781408819395
Anne Zouroudi was born in England and has lived in the greek islands. Her attachment to greece remains strong, and the country is the inspiration for much of her writing. She now lives in the derbyshire Peak district with her son. She is the author of five other Mysteries of the Greek Detective.
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War Against the Taliban Why It All Went Wrong in Afghanistan
Sandy Gall Drawing on interviews with Afghan politicians, business men, soldiers, diplomats and civilians, Sandy Gall lifts the lid on the modern war in Afghanistan Afghanistan’s strategically significant lands have long been fought over. Today, as a new generation risks all in this inhospitable territory, an ever-rising death toll forces us to re-examine the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being run. Examining the issues of equipment shortages, the extent to which the drug trade has corrupted the country, and assessing the accusation of endemic, systemic failure within the MOd, gall addresses the challenges – political, religious, military – that face those now fighting on the most dangerous frontier in the world. PrICE: £20.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408809051 EBOOK: 9781408824290 PuB dATE: 02 JANuAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: dINAH WIENEr lTd TErrITOry: WE
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Sandy gall started his career with reuters in 1953 but is best known as the former face of the ITN’s News at Ten. He has reported from many of the world’s hot spots, and has reported from Afghanistan since 1982. Sandy gall has produced documentaries, written several books and founded a charity, Sandy gall’s Afghanistan Appeal, which treats disabled Afghans.
Turtles in Our Wake Sandra Clayton When you’re always on the move, by the time you’ve remembered the French for ‘parsley’ you’re already in Spain Most people, sometime, long to escape – from the weather, the commute, the routine. Sailing off in a forty-foot boat called Voyager comes at a price, however. For david and Sandra Clayton it meant selling their house and possessions with all the memories and emotions attached to them. But the result proved life-enhancing. With her eye for detail and vivid descriptions, Sandra carries the reader with her through some of the Mediterranean’s loveliest islands. uncovered through the tranquil anchorages, ancient harbours and the people they meet is a fascination with the sea and its wildlife. As well as raising questions about the things we value and the nature of happiness, this book also reveals the growing inter-dependence of two people alone at sea. Initially a reluctant sailor, Sandra Clayton fell in love with sailing and the sea, and the urge to write it down became irresistible. Writing has been her pastime or her job for most of her life. Her previous book in this series, Dolphins Under My Bed charts Voyager’s progress from England down the Atlantic coast into the warm waters of The Balearic Islands.
PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408152829 EBOOK: 9781408159361 PuB dATE: 05 JANuAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
Arab Women in Arab News Old Stereotypes and New Media Amal Mohammed Al-Malki, David Kaufer and Suguru Ishizaki When Arab women are portrayed in western media, they are typically veiled and voiceless, their words spoken for them in captions and voice-overs. But where do Arab women stand in current Arab news? Are the western stereotypes reinforced or countered? For the first time, this book provides systematic answers to these and other questions. using empirical, text-mining and close reading techniques, it sheds light on a range of concepts through which Arab women can be canvassed, all couched in a lively and accessible exchange between leading experts on gender and human rights. Amal Mohammed Al-Malki is Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon university Qatar. Her research interests include the negotiation of identity between the Muslim world and the West, media representations of Arab women and postcolonial literature.
PrICE: £25.00 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9789992179116
david Kaufer is Professor and Former Head of the department of English at Carnegie Mellon. He is the author and co-author of six books and more than 100 articles.
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Suguru Ishizaki is Associate Professor of rhetoric and Communication design in the department of English at Carnegie Mellon. ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 15
Cairo My City, Our Revolution
Ahdaf Soueif The story of a revolution that surged through a nation, and the memory of the country it rose from Ahdaf Soueif – novelist, commentator, activist – was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian revolution of 2011 erupted on January 25th, she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir Square home for eighteen days. She reported for the world’s media and did – like everyone else – whatever she could. With a map of stories drawn from private history and public record, Soueif charts the history of her city and the story of a revolution both intimately hers and collectively Egyptian.
PrICE: £14.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9780747549628 PuB dATE: 19 JANuAry 2012
Adhaf Soueif is the author of five books including the bestselling novel The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Mezzaterra: Notes from the Common Ground, a collection of essays positioned at the intersection of culture and politics. She is the founder of the Palestine Festival of literature, PalFest, and writes regularly for the Guardian in the uK and al-Shorouk in Egypt.
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Rivers of Britain Estuaries, Tideways, Havens, Lochs, Firths and Kyles
Stuart Fisher A beautifully illustrated guide to the rivers of Britain, bringing to life their history, folklore and attractions
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Teeming with wildlife, steeped in history, boasting bridges, docks, stunning architecture and a multitude of attractions, Britain’s rivers are the country’s essential arteries, connecting the inland with the sea. Covering Britain’s best known tidal rivers – the Avon, Severn, dee, Mersey and Thames – as well as industrial and lesser known waterways, this is much more than a guidebook. Fascinating detail on history and folklore is combined with practical information on places of interest, riverside pubs and nearby towns, all illustrated with handy maps and beautiful photography. This captivating guide gives a unique insight into the lifeblood of our country.
ISBN: 9781408146569 EBOOK: 9781408159316 PuB dATE: 19 JANuAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
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As the editor of Canoeist magazine, Stuart Fisher has written monthly guides to the waterways of Britain for many years, always researched from the water; sometimes using a kayak to reach abandoned or isolated stretches. His sister publication to this book – The Canals of Britain – is an ongoing bestseller.
Make Love Like a Prairie Vole Six Steps to Passionate, Plentiful and Monogamous Sex
Andrew G. Marshall A practical guide to lovemaking within a long-term relationship The prairie voles of the American Midwestern plains are the unlikely role models for this new guide to love. A paragon of fidelity, they mate for life, care for pups together and regularly indulge in lengthy lovemaking or snuggling sessions. Because of this, they are studied by neuroscientists whose work investigates the biochemical pathways of love shared by all animal species, including humans. Marital therapist Andrew g. Marshall combines their scientific research with his twenty-five years’ professional experience to create a programme that will lead to passionate lovemaking and a healthy, fulfilling relationship that will stand the test of time. PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK
Andrew g. Marshall is the author of I Love You But I’m Not In Love With You, How Can I Ever Trust You Again? and the Seven Steps series of practical relationship manuals. His books have been translated into over fifteen different languages. He writes for the Mail on Sunday, The Times, the Guardian and Psychologies magazine. He lives in West Sussex.
ISBN: 9781408814550 EBOOK: 9781408825129 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: THE SAylE AgENCy TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM
Every Grain of Rice Fuchsia Dunlop A ground-breaking introduction to Chinese home cooking
Fuchsia dunlop is a food writer specialising in Chinese cuisine. She speaks, reads and writes fluent Mandarin, and has trained as a chef in the Sichuanese capital, Chengdu. Fuchsia is the prize-winning author of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China and two highly acclaimed Chinese cookery books, Sichuan Cookery and Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook. She lives in london.
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Fuchsia dunlop has been acclaimed as the West’s greatest writer on Chinese food. Every Grain of Rice offers traditional dishes that are adaptable, healthy and startlingly tasty. This is not an imitation of restaurant-style food – it’s authentic home cooking. recipes include meat, vegetable and fish dishes like stir-fried water spinach with garlic, spicy beef and celery salad, and steamed sea bass with ginger and spring onion. Fuchsia also offers a comprehensive how-to of basic techniques, allowing you to develop your own approach to this varied cuisine. Stunningly packaged, this is the go-to book for beginners and connoisseurs alike.
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The Perfect Punter A Year of Losing Everything and Trying to Win it All Back
Dave Farrar An entertaining and informative behind-the-scenes look at the world of sports gambling
PrICE: £9.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408140819 EBOOK: 9781408164914 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012
dave Farrar was like most other gamblers. Fairly low stakes and fascinated by sport, he loved taking on the bookies. And he’d got to a point where he’d started to win more than he lost. He’d started to believe that he had gambling worked out. But then it all went wrong. He decided to win it all back – but this time, he was going to do it right. delving into the detail of every sporting event he’d lost money on, he was going to make sure that, whenever he placed a bet in the future, he would know more about it than anyone else, including the bookmakers. He would travel around the world taking in major sporting events, such as the uS Masters golf and South Africa’s FIFA World Cup. He would meet experts in each field who could help him get to the bottom of every event so he might work out what would happen next. He was determined to learn as much about the sporting process as he possibly could, and emerge from the other side of the journey having won back every penny that he’d lost.
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dave Farrar commentates on football for ESPN and was the chief football commentator on Eurosport for 10 years. His journalism covers a wide range of sports, with a regular focus on betting.
Bird Sense What It’s like to Be a Bird
Tim Birkhead A lively bird book for the general reader that attractively blends personal experience, entertaining stories and cutting-edge science What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding through the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings and improvises? Bird Sense answers these questions and many more by describing the senses that enable birds to interpret their environment, find food and form relationships. Our affinity with birds is often said to be the result of shared senses, but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? And what about a homing pigeon’s ability to detect the earth’s magnetic field? Or a flamingo’s to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away? PrICE: £16.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408820131 EBOOK: 9781408828717 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012
Tim Birkhead is a professor at the university of Sheffield and a Fellow of the royal Society of london. Among his other books are The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds, The Red Canary, which won the Consul Cremer Prize, and The Wisdom of Birds. He lives in Sheffield.
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Good in a Crisis A Memoir
Margaret Overton Honest, hopeful, hilarious – the smartest account of a woman and the calamities of mid-life since Nora Ephron’s Heartburn during the four years of physician Margaret Overton’s acrimonious divorce, she dated indiscriminately, determined to find her soul mate and live happily ever after. While dating one of many Mr Wrongs, she discovered that she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it during sex. ‘Nearly dying is not the same as actually dying. you write your own obituary, and then go back to work the next day.’ Margaret realised that she was a caregiver who had refused to care for herself. So she set out on a course to take control of her future and finally become independent of men. And then she met Henry. The last man she would date. Margaret Overton is an anaesthesiologist with an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Chicago, and Good in a Crisis is her first book.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408824351 EBOOK: 9781408824368 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: ICM TErrITOry: WE
The Lost History of 1914 Reconsidering World War I
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Jack Beatty Anticipating the centenary of World War I, a brilliant new history of the year it began that examines the war and its causes through new eyes In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, challenging the long-dominant assumption that the conflict was inevitable. Beatty presents the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand not as the catalyst of a war that would have broken out in any event over some other crisis, but rather as ‘its all-but unique precipitant.’ His deeply insightful book – as elegantly written as it is thought-provoking – lights a lost world about to be shaken to its foundations by what was perhaps the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century.
PrICE: £20.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408827963 EBOOK: 9781408827970 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WE
Jack Beatty is a news analyst for On Point, the public affairs program on American National Public radio, and the author of The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America, and Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900. He lives in New Hampshire.
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El Narco The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels
Ioan Grillo The gripping account of the out-of-control drug wars that have brought chaos to Mexico, and are now spilling over into the United States As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade in Mexico, the body count – 23,000 dead in five years – and the sheer horror beggar the imagination. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan grillo tells the story of the ultraviolent criminal organisations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. El Narco is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers and also a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power, tracing the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present eminence as rulers of criminal empires. PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408824337 EBOOK: 9781408824559
Ioan grillo has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines and TV stations in the uS and uK. Educated in Britain, he reports for Time Magazine and regularly appears on radio and TV, commenting on Mexican crime and other issues.
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A Card From Angela Carter Susannah Clapp A unique portrait of Angela Carter by her friend and literary executor Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from the shortlists of any Booker Prize led to the foundation of the Orange Prize. February 2012 will be the twentieth anniversary of her death but no biographical work has yet appeared. Susannah Clapp and Angela Carter were friends for many years. The postcards that Carter sent to her form a paper trail through her life and evoke her anarchic intelligence, her fierce politics, the richness of her language, her ribaldry, and the great swoops of her imagination. They also say a little of her life. Intimate, funny, unexpected, this is a miniature portrait of a unique artist.
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Susannah Clapp is the author of With Chatwin, an acclaimed portrait of Bruce Chatwin. She helped to found the London Review of Books, has written for the Sunday Times, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Yorker, the Observer and the Independent on Sunday. She is a regular contributor to radio 3’s Nightwaves, and has been the theatre critic of the Observer since 1997.
Survival of the Beautiful Art, Science and Evolution
David Rothenberg A brilliant investigation of why nature is beautiful and how art has influenced science The theory of evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so beautiful. And the beauty of nature is not arbitrary, even if random mutation has played a role in evolution. What can we learn from the amazing range of animal aesthetic behaviour about animals, and about ourselves? Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary examination of the interplay between beauty, art and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from darwin’s observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher david rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have an innate appreciation for beauty – and why nature is, indeed, beautiful. PrICE: £14.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK
david rothenberg is Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of Thousand Mile Song and Why Birds Sing. As a musician he has performed at the royal Opera House and the Bath Festival. His recent recordings include One Dark Night I Left My Silent House and You Can’t Get There From Here, a duet with Scanner.
ISBN: 9781408828823 EBOOK: 9781408828885 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
The Dreyfus Affair The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History
Piers Paul Read A masterful epic of the scandal that divided France, from historian, biographer and prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read In 1894, Captain Alfred dreyfus, a rising star in the French artillery, was sentenced to life imprisonment on devil’s Island for treason. His wrongful conviction stunned the world and unleashed violent anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what would play out in the century to come. The ensuing struggle between a minority seeking justice and a military establishment determined to save face is a story rife with heroes and villains, courage and cowardice, dissimulation and deceit. Today, amid charged debates over national and religious identity across the globe, it throws into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. PrICE: £20.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK
Piers Paul read is an acclaimed novelist, historian and biographer. His non fiction books include Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (which was adapted into the 1993 film Alive), Monk Dawson, winner of the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, A Season in the West, awarded a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and his authorised biography of the actor Alec guinness. Piers Paul read lives in london.
ISBN: 9781408801390 EBOOK: 9781408829035 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: AITKEN AlEXANdEr TErrITOry: WE
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Titanic on Trial The Night the Titanic Sank, Told Through the Testimonies of her Passengers and Crew
Nic Compton A unique and compelling insight into what really happened the night the Titanic sank, told entirely through the voices of the survivors
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After the sinking of the Titanic, inquiries into the loss of the 1,517 lives were held in the uK and uS, and the 1,000 or more pages of transcripts represent the most complete account of the disaster. In this book, for the first time, these transcripts have been specially edited and arranged chronologically, bringing to life the night of the sinking solely through the testimonies of those who survived it. The witnesses are transformed into characters in a much bigger story and the events are described from the perspectives of people in every part of the ship. Capturing the disbelief, chaos and terror of that fateful night, this unique book gives the story back to the people who were there.
ISBN: 9781408140284 EBOOK: 9781408159187 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
Nic Compton has written for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Independent, Yachting Monthly and Yachting World. He was the editor of The Official Book of the America’s Cup Jubilee and is the author of six other books, including Sailing Solo and Voices from the Sea.
Antarctica An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent
Gabrielle Walker A natural history of the continent that has attracted explorers and scientists for more than a hundred years but which also holds the key to all our futures
PrICE: £20.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408811108
There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but none, until now, has managed to capture the whole story. Antarctica weaves all the significant threads – from exploration and survival, through astronomy and the science of ice cores, to what it feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people back there again and again – into an intricate tapestry. It is only when the weave is complete that the underlying truths of the continent emerge. Antarctica may be the most alien place on Earth – truly like walking on another planet – and yet, in its silence, its agelessness and its mysteries lie the secrets of our past, and of our future.
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gabrielle Walker has a Phd in chemistry from Cambridge university and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. She is a consultant to New Scientist, and writes for many publications. In 2009 she presented BBC radio 4’s Planet Earth under Threat and in 2011, Thin Air, a series about the earth’s atmosphere. She lives in london.
Everybody, Everyday Alex Mackay Exciting everyday food that everybody can cook, from Delia’s favourite teacher Alex Mackay believes that cooking is an adventure and that good food should be for everyone – the trick is to know a few basic recipes inside-out and to reinvent them so they never grow tired. Everybody, Everyday consists of eighteen adaptable ‘hero’ recipes, each of which has six delicious variations. So, once you know how to bake salmon fillets, it’s a short step to baked salmon with fennel, olives, warm balsamic and tomato dressing or any one of five other options. With Alex’s expert guidance, everyday cooking is both easy and tasty. let the adventure begin! PrICE: £20.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK
Alex Mackay worked as a chef at Michelin-starred restaurants in France, Italy and the uK. Having run raymond Blanc’s cookery school and founded an internationally acclaimed cookery school in Provence, he now teaches alongside delia Smith. His first book Cooking in Provence was a winner at the gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Alex lives near Oxford with his wife and two sons.
ISBN: 9781408810934 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
Gin & Juice The Victorian Guide to Parenting
Alan Tyers & Beach At last, harassed modern-day parents may profit from the wisdom of an era when Britain led the world in matters of industry, empire and childrearing… learn the importance of routine from gina Fjord-Mettöd, How to Have It All from Queen Victoria (mother of nine and Empress of India), and, of course, all about the medicinal benefits of Victorian Superfoods such as gin and Trifle. Profusely illustrated throughout, including advertisements for Bob the Empire Builder toys (‘Can We Annex It? yes we can!’) and the amazing steam-powered breast pump (no fatalities since April), Gin & Juice will make parents everywhere wish it were 1896. Tyers and Beach met at Sir John Paul getty’s private cricket ground. Tyers was, briefly, 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 and beyond.
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City A Guidebook for the Armchair Traveller
P. D. Smith An imaginative guide to what makes cities tick – from the first builders 7000 years ago, to today’s sprawling megacities – presented in a superbly illustrated guidebook
PrICE: £25.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408801918 EBOOK: 9781408811207
For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population – 3.3 billion people – are now living in cities. Two hundred years ago only 3 per cent of us were urbanites. lavishly illustrated and drawing on a wide range of examples from across the world and throughout time, City contains sections on history and development, customs and language, districts and transport, work and money, monuments and markets, communications and nightlife, supplemented by fascinating mini-essays on anything and everything from Babel, Tenochtitlán and Ellis Island to Beijing, Mumbai and New york, and from boulevards, suburbs, shanty towns and favelas, to skylines, urban legends and sacred sites.
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P. d. Smith is an independent researcher and writer. He has taught at university College london and has contributed to the Guardian and other national publications including The Times, Independent and the Times Literary Supplement. His books include Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon. He lives in Winchester.
Sweet Peas for Summer How to Create a Garden in a Year
Laetitia Maklouf ‘Laetitia Maklouf is a delightfully fresh new voice in the horticultural world that is completely authentic and convincing. Jill Mead’s photographs are superb’ Monty Don
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For a decade laetitia did all her gardening in window boxes, a balcony and across every surface inside her flat. Finally, she moved into a house with her first garden. Sweet Peas for Summer is a beginner’s guide to creating a garden in a year from scratch. Irreverent, practical and funny, laetitia explains how to plan, plant and maintain a garden in ten easy steps. Beautifully illustrated throughout, there are plant recipes for each month, planting plans for every personality type and plenty of time left over for lounging on the lawn.
ISBN: 9781408814864 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
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laetitia Maklouf studied horticulture at the Chelsea Physic garden and lives in london. She’s the gardening expert on Alan Titchmarsh’s ITV series Love Your Garden and her first book – The Virgin Gardener – was a Sunday Times and Telegraph gardening Book of the year..
Herbs River Cottage Handbook No.10
Nikki Duffy In the tenth River Cottage Handbook, Nikki Duffy shows how to grow and cook with herbs Herbs are the most liberating and confidence-boosting of ingredients, easy to grow and key to cooking with flair and inventiveness. Nikki duffy gives a general introduction to choosing and using your own, as well as a catalogue of herbs, each with grow-your-own notes, flavour descriptions and mini-recipes. Among the forty varieties are basil, chives, coriander, fennel, marigold, mint, oregano, rocket, rosemary, thyme and wild garlic. On top of this, there are sixty wonderful, adaptable recipes that make the most of having home-grown herbs. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and full-colour photographs, Herbs is a new kitchen essential. PrICE: £14.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK
Formerly deputy Editor of the award-winning magazine Waitrose Food Illustrated, Nikki duffy also wrote a weekly food column in the Guardian. She worked for three years as the river Cottage Food Editor and is now a freelance food writer.
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Urban Waterways A Window onto the Waterways of England’s Towns and Cities
Derek Pratt This fascinating photographic collection unlocks the famous highlights and hidden delights of Britain’s urban waterways during the last fifty years Britain’s canals have undergone a revival, and the newly transformed waterways have become destinations in their own right. With the lavish colour photography for which he is renowned, Britain’s ‘biographer photographer’ derek Pratt explores all the major cities and towns linked by waterways, bringing to life the canals and their environs with stunning images and quirky, intriguing captions. derek journeys from north to south, from Manchester, Stoke on Trent and Birmingham to london, Oxford and Bristol, and along the way he reveals a treasure trove of information about these industrial landscapes, the commercial history of the waterways, their subsequent decline and recent revitalization.
PrICE: £19.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408140277 PuB dATE: 15 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
derek Pratt is a professional photographer and specialist writer on inland waterways. His photo library contains a large collection compiled over a period of 45 years, and he is the author of several books and articles on the subject, including the bestselling Waterways Past and Present, The Thames and London’s Waterways, all published by Adlard Coles Nautical.
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Luck Ed Smith To what extent do we control our own destiny? A fresh reappraisal of the nature of success, privilege and opportunity, fairness and innate ability, from acclaimed writer Ed Smith For Ed Smith, as an aspiring cricketer, luck was for other people. like his childhood hero, geoff Boycott, the young Ed believed that the successful sportsman made his own luck by an application of will power and the elimination of error. But when a freak accident at lord’s prematurely ended his cricketing career, it changed everything, prompting him to look at his own life through the prism of luck. Tracing the history of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, from the ancient greeks to the present day – in religion, in banking, in politics – he argues that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent now as it ever has been.
PrICE: £14.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408815472 EBOOK: 9781408817681 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2012
Author and journalist Ed Smith is a former international cricketer who has represented England, Cambridge university, Kent and Middlesex. His previous books include Playing Hard Ball, On and Off the Field and the acclaimed What Sport Tells Us About Life. He is a features writer for The Times, a columnist for GQ, writes for the Spectator and appears regularly on television and the Today Programme. Ed Smith lives in london.
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The Ten Commandments And How They Shaped Our World
David Bodanis The story of the ancient code of behaviour that has transcended religion to influence governments, judicial systems, family dynamics and human rights throughout the world for 3,000 years
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The Ten Commandments first arose around the time of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt as the blueprint for a self-governing society of a recently liberated but fragmented people. Although widely overlooked in modern times, they lie at the root of the contemporary world and still shape our most fundamental habits. Among them are louis XIV’s ‘divine right of kings’, medieval jurists’ concept of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ and Abraham lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The Ten Commandments is not a book about religion, but about how the concepts that aform the basis of those famous guidelines underpin the history of human civilisation – East and West, religious and secular.
ISBN: 9781408825037 EBOOK: 9781408826102 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BrOCKMAN, INC TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408826096 PrICE: £12.99
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david Bodanis lectured at the university of Oxford for many years, where he designed and taught the university’s main survey of social studies. He is author of the bestselling E=mc2 and other history and popular science books. He lives in london.
Top Secret Title: To Be Released Ben Macintyre Ben Macintyre, bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, is back… Agent Zigzag – the bestselling story of wartime double-agent Eddie Chapman – was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the year, was a BBC radio 4 Book of the Week and one of twenty World Book Night books. Operation Mincemeat – the thrilling true story of the most successful wartime deception ever attempted – was a number one bestseller in hardback and paperback, a Richard & Judy Book Club title and shortlisted for the galaxy British Book Award for Non-Fiction. A major documentary of Operation Mincemeat, presented by Ben Macintyre, was aired on BBC2 in 2010. Now Ben Macintyre is back with another extraordinary wartime story.
PrICE: £16.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408819906
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New york, Paris and Washington. In 2011 he was the chair of judges for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Ben Macintyre is the author of eight previous books including Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincement. He lives in london with his wife and three children.
EBOOK: 9781408821404 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: Ed VICTOr TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408819913 PrICE: £12.99
Intel Wars The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror
Matthew M. Aid A shocking, revelatory account of how U.S. intelligence has failed in the War on Terror – and how it can recover Winston Churchill once said that ‘Americans will always do the right thing ... once they have exhausted all the alternatives.’ When it comes to America’s intelligence programs post-9/11, Churchill might be considered an optimist. Hundreds of newly declassified documents and leaked Pentagon and State department cables show that the u.S. and her NATO allies are making the same mistakes American political and military leaders have bee n making for generations. Written by preeminent intelligence historian Matthew Aid, Intel Wars has all-new stories from deep sources on not just Afghanistan but the myriad failures of u.S. intelligence and security programs in the past decade. Matthew Aid tells the startling story of a massive American failure, and how they can get things back on track.
PrICE: £19.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781608194810
Matthew Aid is the author of The Secret Sentry: the definitive history of the National Security Agency, and a leading intelligence historian and expert on the NSA, and a regular commentator on intelligence matters for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the National Journal, the Associated Press, CBS News, National Public Radio (NPr) and many others.
EBOOK: 9781608194995 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: rICK BrOAdHEAd & ASSOCIATES TErrITOry: WE EXPOrT CuSTOMErS rEFEr TO BuSA
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How to Bake Paul Hollywood The last word in baking from the nation’s favourite baker 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 has filled this book with easy-to-follow, reliable, utterly delicious recipes. 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 recipes and luscious photography from Peter Cassidy, How to Bake is the answer to every baker’s prayers.
PrICE: £25.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK
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.
ISBN: 9781408819494 PuB dATE: 13 SEPTEMBEr 2012
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Hedge Britannia Hugh Barker Celebrating the history and the glory of the British hedgerow Over the centuries we have proved ourselves to be a nation of hedge-growers, marking our boundaries with hedges or trimming our topiaries into fantastical shapes. Hedge Britannia offers a witty insight into the history of hedges and how they relate to our culture, not just our landscape. Hugh Barker travels the breadth of Britain to find the country’s best hedges, getting lost in a labyrinthine maze, peering up at the world’s tallest hedge and meeting fellow enthusiasts – like the man who lovingly cultivated his hedge into an enormous whale. Full of facts and tales, this is a charming portrait of our national character through our most eccentric national characteristics. Hugh Barker is a hedge fanatic who lives in North london, surrounded by a small hedge that he can call his own. PrICE: £16.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408801864 EBOOK: 9781408825075 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: CONVIllE & WAlSH TErrITOry: WE
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Cooking for Real Life Joanna Weinberg Flexible and inspirational recipes for cooks with families It’s all in the title: this book is about cooking for real life, for those who need to feed their household quickly, with pleasure and variety. Since life often throws up surprises, Joanna Weinberg explains how to cater for impromptu gatherings as well as cooking for your nearest and dearest. Among the delicious recipes – which offer new flavour combinations using familiar ingredients – are smoky butternut and sage soup; twice-baked cottage pie; tomato, goats cheese and mint salad and molten chocolate pots. Every home cook needs fresh ideas for seasonal, achievable recipes. They need Cooking for Real Life. Joanna Weinberg is a weekly columnist for The Times and the author of Relish. She lives in london with her husband and two children.
PrICE: £25.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408801802 PuB dATE: 12 APrIl 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
Experiment Eleven Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of a Wonder Drug
Peter Pringle A wonder drug, a disputed Nobel Prize, and a patent that shaped modern medicine… In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young American Phd student working in professor Selman Waksman’s lab, was searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. On his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, at that time the leading killer among the world’s infectious diseases. As director of Schatz’s research, Waksman took credit for the discovery, belittled Schatz’s work, and secretly enriched himself with royalties from the streptomycin patent filed by Merck, the pharmaceutical company. For the first time, acclaimed author and journalist Peter Pringle unravels the intrigue behind one of the most important discoveries in the history of medicine.
PrICE: £18.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408814017
Peter Pringle is a veteran British foreign correspondent and the author of several nonfiction books, including the bestselling Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They? and the New York Times notable, Food, Inc. He has been on staff at the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent and written for the New York Times and the Washington Post. He lives in New york City.
EBOOK: 9781408826065 PuB dATE: 12 APrIl 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: INKWEll MANAgEMENT TErrITOry: WE
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Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War America’s First Couple and the Second War of Independence
Hugh Howard On its bicentennial, a new history of the War of 1812 – and how the last of the Founding Fathers steered a young American nation through the trial that marked its emergence as a world power
PrICE: £25.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781608190713
On August 24, 1814, President James Madison overlooked the burning ruins of the uS Capitol, as well as what had been his home, the first White House. The British army had laid waste to the young nation’s capital city, but how could Madison bring America back from the brink of defeat? In Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War, acclaimed historian Hugh Howard presents a gripping narrative of the war that brought America’s founding era to a close. Centered around the First Couple – James, the last of the Founding Fathers, and dolley, an unsung heroine, this original history rediscovers a distant conflict that marked a critical turning point in American history.
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Hugh Howard’s books include The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art, Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson; the definitive Thomas Jefferson, Architect; his memoir House-Dreams; and the classic Houses of the Founding Fathers. He lives in upstate New york.
Don’ts for Weddings Anonymous Following the success of Don’ts for Husbands and Don’ts for Wives a brand new old collection of advice for couples from courtship to the honeymoon. On The Question: “don’t rush but chose an auspicious moment, A man who tries to propose when a servant is expected to arrive with a scuttle of coals is not likely to meet with much favour.”
PrICE: £2.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408170847 PuB dATE: 05 MAy 2012
On the Engagement: “don’t allow awkward pauses to break the conversation because your thoughts and eyes are hungrily trying to follow your lover, who is manfully assisting the hostess.” On Planning The Event: “don’t forget that elderly bridesmaids in youthful frocks and girlish hats are ridiculous to the unthinking, and pathetic to those who look below the surface.”
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Filled with helpful old-fashioned tips, Don’ts for Weddings is an ideal gift for bride, groom and anyone else involved with the planning of a “modern” wedding.
Darwin’s Ghosts In Search of the First Evolutionists
Rebecca Stott Historian and novelist Rebecca Stott goes in search of Darwin’s predecessors, those who first speculated on nature’s ways, and uncovers the history of his profoundly dangerous idea… Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. It accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn’t his. yet when he tried to trace his intellectual forebears, he found that history had already forgotten them... rediscovering Aristotle on the shores of lesbos and leonardo da Vinci fossil hunting in the Tuscan hills, this is a masterful retelling of the collective daring of a few like-minded men, whose early theories flew in the face of prevailing political and religious orthodoxies and laid the foundations for darwin’s revolutionary idea. PrICE: £20.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK
rebecca Stott is Professor of English literature and Creative Writing at the university of East Anglia and an Affiliated Scholar at the department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge university. She is the author of eleven books including three non-fiction books and two novels, most recently the bestselling Ghostwalk, shortlisted for the Jelf First Novel Award and the Society of Authors First Book Award. She appears regularly on TV and radio. rebecca Stott lives in Cambridge.
ISBN: 9781408809082 EBOOK: 9781408826997 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: FAITH EVANS ASSOCIATES TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM
A Political Killing The Only Assassination of a British Prime Minister
Andro Linklater On the two hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Spencer Perceval – the only British Prime Minister to have suffered that fate – the riveting, untold story of the murder, the murderer and the repercussions of his act On 11 May 1812, the British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot dead at close range in the lobby of the Houses of Parliament. A week later, after the briefest of trials, his assailant, John Bellingham – a lone madman with a burning sense of injustice who made no effort to deny the murder – was hanged. However, under Andro linklater’s forensic eye, a more complex picture emerges: at a time of global economic disaster, amid intense political argument over trade, security and personal liberty heightened by the Napoleonic Wars and tension with the united States whose commerce was being badly damaged by Perceval’s stance on the slave trade, did Bellingham really act alone when he assassinated the wildly unpopular Perceval?
PrICE: £18.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408828403 EBOOK: 9781408828878 PuB dATE:10 MAy 2012
Andro linklater is the author of Measuring America, The Fabric of America and An Artist of Treason. He lives in England.
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The Man Within my Head Pico Iyer From one of our most astute observers, a haunting and unexpected investigation of the many voices he carries inside himself Ever since he first read graham greene’s work as a young traveller, Pico Iyer has been fascinated by the writer’s restlessness and interest in questions of faith and belonging. From Cuba to Vietnam – to Berkhamsted – Pico Iyer has found reminders of greene’s life, fallen into scenes that might have been written by greene, written stories that recall greene. yet as Iyer traces this obsession, another phantom image begins to emerge, one that he had long banished: that of his father, who comes to seem a deeper, more mysterious presence under his skin. PrICE: £14.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408828755 EBOOK: 9781408829028 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012
Pico Iyer is the author of seven works of non-fiction and two novels. A writer for Time since 1982, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the TLS, the New York Review of Books, Granta, the Financial Times, and many other magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. He lives in California and Japan.
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Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale The new book from Kate Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and number one bestseller On a winter’s evening in 1850, Isabella robinson set out for a party in Edinburgh’s New Town. The rich widow lady drysdale was a vivacious hostess, the centre of an energetic intellectual scene. In the high, airy drawing rooms Isabella was at once enchanted by lady drysdale’s handsome son-in-law, Edward lane. He was ‘fascinating’, she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man’s charms… In a compelling story of romance, fidelity, fantasy and the bounds of privacy, Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife’s longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality. PrICE: £16.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408812419 EBOOK: 9781408812532 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: rCW TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408815632 PrICE: £12.99
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Kate Summerscale was born in 1965. She is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay and The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. She has judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in london with her son.
The Return of a King Shah Shuja and the First Battle for Afghanistan
William Dalrymple From prize-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple, a masterful retelling of Britain’s greatest imperial disaster – the definitive history of the first Afghan war In 1842, crudely armed Afghan tribesmen routed an entire army of the most powerful nation of the world, inflicting upon the British their greatest military humiliation. The outlines of this first entanglement are well known; less understood are the parallels with the current deepening crisis in Afghanistan: the extraordinary similarities between what NATO faces today in Kabul and Kandahar, and that faced by the British in the same cities, fighting the same tribes, nearly two centuries ago. drawing on an array of previously untranslated Afghan, Indian and russian sources, this is a powerful and important history of colonial ambition and cultural collision; a parable of folly and hubris for our times.
PrICE: £20.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408818305
William dalrymple’s books include In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, White Mughals, The Last Mughals and Nine Lives. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times young British Writer of the year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the year Prize, the duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian literature and been longlisted three times for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives outside delhi.
EBOOK: 9781408828434 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WOXuSA EXPOrT TPB ISBN: 9781408822876 PrICE: £12.99
The Secret Olympian The Inside Story of the Olympic Experience
Anon The truth about what the athletes go through before, during and after the Games – in all its mind-boggling weirdness Here, for the first time, in all its shocking, funny and downright bizarre glory, is the truth of the Olympic experience. The Secret Olympian talks to scores of competitors from around the world – past and present, from Munich 1960 right through to london 2012 – all with a tale to tell. It is an unimaginable world: from the pre-Olympic holding camp with its practical jokes, resentment and fighting, and freaky physiological regimes, through the post-competition release in the Olympic village that leads to excessive drinking, eating, partying and sex and finally to the hysteria of homecoming celebrations and the comedown that follows as athletes try to adjust to life after the games.The Secret Olympian reveals what really goes on behind the scenes.
PrICE: £9.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408154922
The anonymous author is a former Olympian with friends and contacts in many countries’ Olympic squads.
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What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
John Mullan From ‘Why is it dangerous to go the seaside?’ to ‘Which important Austen characters never speak?’, the answers to twenty apparently trivial questions reveal essential hidden truths about Jane Austen’s fictional world
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In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate and understand Jane Austen’s world by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by the novels, Mullan explores the rituals and conventions of Austen’s world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and sheer daring as a novelist. Inspired by an enthusiastic reader’s curiosity, based on a lifetime’s study and written with flair, What Matters in Jane Austen? will appeal to all those who love and enjoy Jane Austen’s work and who would like to know it better.
ISBN: 9781408820117 EBOOK: 9781408828731 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: A.P. WATT lTd TErrITOry: WE
John Mullan is a professor in the English department at uCl. He writes the Guardian’s weekly ‘Book Club’ column and frequently appears on BBC2’s Review Show. A judge of the ‘Best of the Booker Prize’ in 2008 and of the Man Booker Prize itself in 2009, he has lectured widely on Jane Austen in the uK and the uS. He lives in london.
POLPO Russell Norman Venetian dishes from London’s most buzzing restaurant
© laurie Fletcher
Hidden away in london’s edgy Soho district, Polpo is one of the most irrepressibly buzzing restaurants in town. In this understated bacaro, russell Norman serves up dishes from the back streets of Venice that are unfussy, innovative and exuberantly delicious. The 120 recipes in the book include pumpkin risotto; warm duck salad with beets and walnuts; crispy baby pizzas with zucchini, mint and chilli; linguine with clams; and ricotta and chocolate crumble. With luminescent photography by Jenny Zarins, capturing the unfrequented corners, the bustling bacari and the sublime waterways of Venice, Polpo is a dazzling tribute to Italy’s greatest hidden cuisine.
PrICE: £25.00 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408816790 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
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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 and Spuntino. He lives in london.
Foul Play The Dark Arts of Cheating in Sport
Mike Rowbottom An entertaining and insightful look at the age-old subject of cheating in all its absurdity What constitutes cheating and where do we draw the line? Are some sports cleaner than others? Is cheating in one sport the same as cheating in another or does each sport’s distinctive culture set different standards? Is there such a thing as a sport without sin? Or, indeed, a sporting competitor? This book is not a catalogue of past sporting misdemeanours so much as an investigation into the lengths to which some sports people have gone, and will go, to get the better of others. Packed with peculiar stories and excuses from across a wide range of sporting activities and cultures, Foul Play looks at cheating in sport in all its guises: from doping to match-fixing, from tampering with equipment to mind games. PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: TrAdE PAPErBACK
Mike rowbottom has written about sport for a number of national newspapers over the past 25 years. He has covered five summer Olympics and four winter Olympics, several Wimbledon tournaments and too many football matches to count, as well as many minor sports such as croquet, real tennis and arm wrestling.
ISBN: 9781408155790 EBOOK: 9781408160725 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
Deception: The Inside Story Of East-West Espionage
Edward Lucas TThe extraordinary triumphs, miscalculations, fatal errors and betrayals of spymasters – East and West From the capture of Sidney reilly, the ‘Ace of Spies’, by lenin’s Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the uSA of Anna Chapman, the ‘redhead under the Bed’, in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In deception Edward lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs and disasters of Western intelligence in the Cold War and the dangers of the modern era. Once the threat from Moscow was international communism; now it comes from the siloviki [check sp], russia’s ruthless ‘men of power’. PrICE: £18.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK
Edward lucas is a senior editor at the Economist. He has been covering eastern Europe since 1986, with postings in Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Vienna, and the Baltic states. He is the author of The New Cold War (2008), which has been published in more than 15 languages.
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The Breakfast Bible Seb Emina Everything you’ve ever needed to know about breakfast
© Miranda Cavanagh
When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books. The recipes range from the iconic full English to more exotic fare such as omelette à la Arnold Bennett and pães de queijo from South America. A crack team of eggsperts offer musings on hot topics such as the top ten songs to boil an egg to, Albert Camus’ relationship with eggs and the world’s most dangerous breakfasts. 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: 04 JuNE 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
The Winner Effect How Power Affects Your Brain
Ian Robertson One of the world’s most respected neuroscientists shows how success affects the brain – how it often leads to further success, but how it can also lead to danger
PrICE: £14.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781408824733
The ‘winner effect’ is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights against weak opponents is much more likely to win later bouts against stronger contenders. As Ian robertson reveals, it applies to humans, too. Success changes the chemistry of the brain, making you more focused, smarter, more confident and more aggressive. But the downside is that winning can become physically addictive. By understanding what the mental and physical changes are that take place in the brain of a ‘winner’, how they happen, and why they affect some people more than others, robertson explains what makes a winner – or a loser – and how we can understand better the behaviour of our business colleagues, employees, family and friends.
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Ian robertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College dublin. He has published over 250 scientific articles in leading journals and is the author of Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your Brain’s Untapped Potential. He is a regular keynote speaker at conferences on brain function throughout the world. He lives in dublin.
Le Road Trip A Traveler’s Journal of Love and France
Vivian Swift ‘J’adore Vivian Swift-my favorite travel writer, my favorite travel doodler. This book is a little secret pocket of treasure and intimacy. Enjoy every careful and carefree detail!’ Elizabeth Gilbert After marrying for the second time in 2005, Vivian Swift wanted to share her love of France with the love of her life. So she dusted off her travel gear and together she and her new husband embarked on a trip across France. Starting in Paris, they made their way through Normandy, Brittany, Bordeaux, the loire Valley, and Chartres before ending up back in the City of light. Along the way, Swift collected colourful stories and anecdotes, and she captured the journey with hundreds of her exquisite watercolors. Part scrapbook, part handbook, part meditation on why we travel, Le Road Trip is a thoroughly delightful exploration of what we can find when we leave home.
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Vivian Swift, author of When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler’s Journal of Staying Put, is a freelance writer and former assistant vice president of Christie’s Inc. When not traveling, she lives on the long Island Sound with her husband.
The Dirtiest Race in History Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Olympic 100m Final
Richard Moore The only book on the most infamous race in athletics history The men’s 100m final at the 1988 Olympics has been described as the dirtiest race ever – but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson’s blistering time, the race is infamous for its athletes’ positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and lewis, and the repercussions still felt almost a quarter of a century on. Containing remarkable new revelations, this book uses witness interviews – with Johnson, lewis and Smith among others – to reconstruct the build-up to the race, the race itself, and the fallout when news of Johnson’s positive test broke and he was forced into hiding. It also examines the rivalry of the two favourites going into it, and puts the race in a historical context, examining its continuing relevance on the sport today, where every new record elicits scepticism.
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richard Moore is an award-winning sports journalist with several books to his name including In Search of Robert Millar, Heroes, Villains and Velodromes and Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France.
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Trip of the Tongue Cross-Country Travels in Search of America’s Languages
Elizabeth Little A Bill Bryson-style journey across the landscape of American language and culture, including everything from Arabic (in Detroit) to Yiddish (in Baltimore) Though Americans speak English as a nation, it’s no secret that their country is far from uniform. Spanish, in particular, has long been touted as the language that will figure into its national future. yet billing America as a bilingual country is a gross misrepresentation. They speak Basque in Nevada, Hindi in San Jose, and gullah in South Carolina. And Elizabeth little’s home – Queens in New york – is among the most linguistically diverse places on the planet. Trip of the Tongue a road trip to find the cultural and linguistic soul of the country, on which little is a witty and endearing tour guide. PrICE: £18.99 FOrMAT: HArdBACK ISBN: 9781596916562 EBOOK: 9781608198290 PuB dATE: 07 JuNE 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: dIFIOrE & CO
Elizabeth little is the author of Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic. A Harvard graduate with a degree in Social Studies, she has formal training in Ancient greek, Classical Chinese, Standard Mandarin, French, and Italian. She is currently a freelance writer and editor and lives in los Angeles.
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A Difficult Woman The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
Alice Kessler-Harris A provocative revisionist biography of one of the most controversial women of the 20th century, by one of America’s most renowned women’s historians
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lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and one of the most successful female playwrights in Broadway history. yet the author of The Children’s Hour and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and a literary fabulist. In A Difficult Woman renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a reclamation of this combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. She has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway; A Difficult Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history.
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Alice Kessler-Harris is a professor of American History at Columbia university in New york City. She is one of America’s most renowned scholars, and the author of the classic history of working women, Out to Work. Her In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America won the Joan Kelly, Philip Taft, Herbert Hoover and Bancroft Prizes.
Pigeon English Stephen Kelman Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Newly arrived from ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninthfloor of a block of flats on a london housing estate. With equal fascination for the local gang – the dell Farm Crew – and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe. Stephen Kelman was born in luton in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Pigeon English is his first novel; he is currently working on his second.
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The Anatomy of a Moment Javier Cercas Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean ‘An almost Shakespearean account of soldiers, politicians, mixed motives and the lust for power’ Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Francos’ dictatorship, Colonel Tejero and a band of soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament, ordering the deputies to the floor. Only three members of Congress defied the order: Adolfo Suárez, the outgoing prime minister who had seen Spain through the ‘transition’, guttierez Mellado, a former Francoist general, and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Spanish Communist Party. The Anatomy of a Moment is both a dazzling work of history and remarkable as a work of literature, in which Cercas brilliantly examines a key moment in Spanish history, just as he did so successfully in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK
Javier Cercas is the author of Soldiers of Salamis and The Speed of Light. The translator Anne Mclean has twice won the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction: for Soldiers of Salamis (2004) and for The Armies (2009) by Evelio rosero.
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Invisible River Helena McEwen ‘An evocative reminder of how it feels to be young’ Shena Mackay, Guardian Evie has left her father and her childhood life in Cornwall to begin a new life at Art School in london. At first the great city provides a world of inspiration and her paintings are filled with colour and fantasy as she begins to escape within it. But this new life is shattered when her alcoholic father arrives and pulls her back into her past. As Evie struggles to carry on, her dreams and nightmares come together on the canvas of her young life and it is her new friends, the city she has fallen in love with, and most of all, her growing friendship with a talented young sculptor, that must hold her together.
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Helena McEwen grew up in Scotland and trained as an artist at Chelsea School of Art and Camberwell School of Art. She is the acclaimed author of The Big House and Ghost Girl. She lives in Scotland.
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Chapman’s Odyssey Paul Bailey ‘I love this beautiful book’ Ali Smith Harry Chapman is not well, and he doesn’t like hospitals. Superficially all is normal. But can he hear the voice of his mother? Perhaps her presence would be understandable enough, but what is Pip from Great Expectations doing here? Slowly, endearingly, the life of Harry Chapman appears before our eyes, through voices real and unreal: his father, fighting in the First World War; Babar and Céleste; Jane Austen’s Emma; and a man that wants to sell him T. S. Eliot’s teeth. Written with generosity and delicate observation, Chapman’s Odyssey is a superbly rendered act of storytelling and ventriloquism that is waspish, wise and deeply moving.
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Paul Bailey’s novels include At the Jerusalem, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers’ Award, Peter Smart’s Confessions and Gabriel’s Lament, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Award and the george Orwell Memorial Award, and has written and presented features for radio. Paul Bailey lives in london.
Brian Moore The Statement Beautifully reissued editions of classics by Brian Moore, three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize Condemned to death in absentia for crimes against humanity, Pierre Brossard has lived in the shadows for more than forty years. Now, at last, his past is threatening to catch up with him. A new breed of government officials is determined to break decades of silence and expose the crimes of Vichy. under the harsh glare of the Provençal sun, Brossard is forced to abandon the monastery where he has been hiding and turn to old friends for support – but can he really outrun his past? Brian Moore was born in Belfast and emigrated to Canada in 1948 before moving to California. The Doctor’s Wife, The Colour of Blood and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Six of his novels have been made into films: The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Cold Heaven, The Statement and Black Robe. Brian Moore died in 1999. PrICE: £7.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408826171 EBOOK: 9781408826379 PuB dATE: 07 NOVEMBEr 2011 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: PFd TErrITOry: COMM/uKEXuSA
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The Quiet Twin Dan Vyleta ‘A provoking thriller in which nobody is what they seem’ Daily Telegraph Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein’s dog has been brutally killed and he wants to know why. But these are uncharitable times and one must be careful where one probes... When an unexpected house call leads doctor Beer to the bedside of Zuzka, the professor’s niece, the young doctor finds himself embroiled in the enquiry. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her window and reveals a disturbing view of the neighbours across the courtyard. does one of them have blood on their hands? The Quiet Twin is an unforgettable journey into a cityscape of totalitarian dread and deception. dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to germany in the late 1960s. He holds a Phd in History from the university of Cambridge. His first novel, Pavel & I, was published to international acclaim. dan Vyleta lives and works in Canada. PrICE: £7.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408821688 EBOOK: 9781408811252 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: WrITErS HOuSE llC TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM
Underground Time Delphine de Vigan Translated from the French by George Miller ‘Elegantly constructed, sympathetic, compelling’ Guardian Every day Mathilde takes the Metro to the office of a large multinational where she works in the marketing department. And every day paramedic Thibault drives to the addresses he receives from his controller. Mathilde is unhappy at work – a while ago she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, and has bit by bit found herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is unhappy in love and spends his days driving around the city, well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day. Both feel themselves to be anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and pressured continuously by the loveless city. Surely a meeting must be inevitable. PrICE: £7.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408821749 EBOOK: 9781408824177 PuB dATE: 02 FEBruAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: EdITIONS JC lATTES TErrITOry: WE
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delphine de Vigan is the author of No and Me, which was a bestseller in France and is being made into a film. george Miller is the translator of No and Me and a regular translator for Le Monde diplomatique’s English-language edition.
Scissors, Paper, Stone Elizabeth Day ‘A moving, terrifyingly real account of how love can be bent out of all recognisable shape’ Observer As Charles redfern lies motionless in hospital, his wife Anne and daughter Charlotte are forced to confront their relationships with him – and with each other. Anne, once beautiful and clever, has paled beside her husband’s harsh brilliance. She mechanically attends endless rounds of drinks parties, trying to ignore the guilt that trails behind her like a shadow. Charlotte, battling with an inner darkness, is desperate to prevent her relationship with not-yet-divorced gabriel from disintegrating. Both women must face the full truth of Charles’s hold over them, and the uncertainty of a future without the figure that has dominated them for so long. Elizabeth day is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday and Elle, and who is now a feature writer for the Observer. She grew up in Northern Ireland and graduated with a double first in History from Cambridge. She lives in london. Scissors, Paper, Stone is her first novel.
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Other People’s Money Justin Cartwright ‘A treat from start to triumphant finish’ Observer The venerable private family-owned bank of Tubal & Co. is in trouble. It’s not the first time in its three-hundred-year history but it may well be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of important facts need to be kept hidden, not only from the public but also from Julian Trevelyan-Tubal’s deeply traditional father, Sir Harry, who is incapacitated in the family villa in Antibes. great families have all sorts of secrets and Justin Cartwright unwinds them beautifully in this gripping, satirical and acutely observed story of class, relationships and the eccentricities and weaknesses of the human condition. Justin Cartwright’s novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung and, most recently, To Heaven By Water. Justin Cartwright lives in london.
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Marika Cobbold Drowning Rose ‘Wonderful ... Cobbold handles profound and delicate themes with a ceramicist’s lightness of touch’ Daily Mail Eliza Cummings, a ceramics restorer at the V&A Museum, is leaving work when she receives a phone call. Standing in the haze of the Christmas lights she hears a voice which draws her back twenty-five years – to the tragic death of her best friend. But why does rose’s father want her to visit him? And why is he killing her with kindness when they both know he blames her for what happened? grief and guilt cast terrible shadows, but as the scene shifts from london to the Swedish countryside – and back in time to Eliza’s school days – we learn that generosity and friendship can smooth over even the most broken lives, and that some secrets can’t be kept hidden…
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Marika Cobbold was born in Sweden and is the author of six previous novels: Guppies for Tea, selected for the WH Smith First Novels Promotion and shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the year Award; The Purveyor of Enchantment; A Rival Creation; Frozen Music, Shooting Butterflies and, most recently, Aphrodite’s Workshop for Reluctant Lovers. Marika Cobbold lives in london.
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When the Killing’s Done T.C. Boyle ‘A life-and-death story of evolution of evolution, shipwrecks and dominion over the earth’ Barbara Kingsolver The island of Anacapa is overrun with black rats. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is campaigning to exterminate them once and for all, but her systematic plan is in danger of sabotage. dave laJoy and Anise reed, notorious environmental activists, are recognisable from a distance by his dreadlocks and her flame-red cyclone of hair. The three are at loggerheads from the start. But when Alma’s sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on the island of Santa Cruz – where Anise was brought up by her rancher mother – the stakes are raised, and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real… T.C. Boyle’s novels include World’s End, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, The Tortilla Curtain, Riven Rock, A Friend of the Earth, Drop City (which was a finalist for the National Book Awards), The Inner Circle and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Women. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. T.C. Boyle lives in California.
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The Coincidence Engine Sam Leith ‘A superbly entertaining brain-twister’ The Times A hurricane sweeps off the gulf of Mexico and, in Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans. An eccentric mathematician – last heard of investigating the physics of free will and ranting about the devil – vanishes in the French Pyrenees, and the thuggish operatives of a multinational arms conglomerate are closing in on Alex Smart, a harmless Cambridge postgraduate who just wants to propose to his American girlfriend. At the directorate of the Extremely Improbable, the red Queen begins to take an interest. What ensues is a chaotic chase across an imaginary America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity, and a very large number of unhealthy but delicious snacks. The Coincidence Engine exists. And it has started to work. Sam leith was, until recently, the literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph. He now writes for many leading publications including the Guardian and the Evening Standard. His previous books, Dead Pets and Sods Law, have been published to critical acclaim. The Coincidence Engine is his first novel. Sam leith lives in london.
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Lucky Break Esther Freud ‘A terrifically absorbing book, as authentic an evocation of the acting experience as you’re ever likely to read’ Observer It is their first day at drama Arts, and the huddled circle of students – dan, serious and driven, Nell, already convinced that she is going to fail, well-meaning Hettie and careless, glamorous Charlie – is told in no uncertain terms that here, unlike at any other drama school, they will be taught to Act. They will be Trained, not to perform, but to truly Be. But what comes next? Through semi derelict homes, sleazy directors, desperate competition, dreary tours, unobtainable agents, rocky relationships and endless tempting jobs, Esther Freud’s dazzling new novel uncovers a world of ruthless ambition and uncertain alliances.
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Esther Freud was born in london in 1963. She trained as an actress before writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky, which was shortlisted for the John llewellyn rhys Prize and made into a feature film. Her other novels are Peerless Flats, Summer at Gaglow, The Wild, The Sea House and Love Falls.
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The Coward’s Tale Vanessa Gebbie ‘Compulsively readable. She writes with such warmth and kindness and her poetic writing is meticulous in its apt and close observation’ Marie Strachan
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The boy laddy Merridew, sent to stay with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a small Welsh mining community where he begins an unlikely friendship with old Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, the local beggar-storyteller. Ianto is watchman over the legacy of the collapse of Kindly light Pit, a disaster that happened years ago, but which still echoes through the lives of many in the town. Men like Icarus Evans, Half Harris, and Tutt Bevan – not forgetting the enigmatic Ianto Passchendale Jenkins himself, whose stories of loyalty and betrayal, loss and love form an unforgettable, spellbinding tapestry.
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Vanessa gebbie is the author of two collections of stories and contributing editor of a creative writing text book. She has won numerous awards (including prizes at Bridport, Fish and the Willesden Herald) for her short fiction. An extract from The Coward’s Tale won the Daily Telegraph ‘Novel in a year’ Competition. Vanessa is Welsh and lives in Sussex.
The Fatal Touch Conor Fitzgerald ‘Fills the gap left by Michael Dibdin’ Sunday Times In the early hours of a Saturday morning, the body of an elderly tramp is found in Piazza de’ renzi. It looks like just another in an unpleasant string of recent attacks in the area. That is, until Commissioner Blume learns that the dead man was in fact a highly skilled forger and owner of the galleria Orpiment. And Blume’s conviction that this was no mugging-gone-wrong is only strengthened by the interest of Colonel Farinelli, former director of the Art Forgery and Heritage division of the Carabinieri, who, whilst hindering Blume’s own enquiries, seems to know more about the artist than he’s letting on... Conor Fitzgerald has lived in Ireland, the uK, the united States and Italy. He has worked as an arts editor, produced a current affairs journal for foreign embassies, and founded a successful translation company. He is married with two children and lives in rome. PrICE: £7.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408821732 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WE EBOOK: 9781408817186
The Maid Kimberly Cutter ‘Gallopingly evocative adventure’ Guardian The tale of Joan of Arc, the peasant who believed she had been chosen by god to lead an army against the English, has captivated our imagination for centuries. But the story of Jeanne, the girl, whose sister was murdered, who fled from a violent father and a forced marriage, who taught herself to ride, fight and lead, and who found the courage to convince first one, then ten, then thousands to follow her, is at once thrilling, unexpected and heart-breaking. rich with intrigue, betrayal, love and valour, The Maid is a novel about the power and burden of faith, and the exhilarating and devastating consequences of fame. Kimberly Cutter has written for Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Men’s Vogue, New York Magazine, and the Daily Telegraph. From 2000 to 2004, she was the West Coast Editor for W Magazine. In 1998, she received her master’s degree in fiction writing from the university of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She lives in New york.
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Dreams of Joy Lisa See ‘A story with characters who enter a reader’s life, take up residence, and illuminate the myriad decisions and stories that make up human history’ Los Angeles Times 1957, Chinatown, los Angeles. Eighteen-year-old Joy louie is in crisis. Her father Sam has killed himself, and she has just discovered that he and her mother Pearl are not her real parents: her real mother is Pearl`s glamorous sister May, and her real father is famed Chinese artist Z.g. li. Angry and confused, Joy leaves home for the only place she can still believe in: Mao`s China. She is hotly pursued by Pearl, who arrives in Shanghai, the city of her childhood, to try to bring her own child home, just as Mao launches the great leap Forward… Pearl`s fate, together with Joy`s and the whole nation`s, hangs in the balance.
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lisa See is the author of six previous novels, including the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shanghai Girls and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. She is also the author of the memoir On Gold Mountain. She lives in los Angeles
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Law and Peace Tim Kevan ‘Bursting with invention. What a cast of characters Tim Kevan has assembled – drawn so acutely that I almost worry they might be real’ Jeremy Vine As the newest tenant in chambers, BabyBarista must face down old enemies, try to win compensation for a group of ASBO-attracting pensioners and unravel the complicated knots of his love life – not to mention his mother’s finances. When SlipperySlope, an unscrupulous solicitor, offers him a quick way out of his financial difficulties, he soon becomes embroiled in blackmail, dodgy sharedealing and the dark arts of litigation. With his old adversary TopFirst out for revenge, and the chance to be awarded a coveted ‘red bag’ at stake, BabyB must use all the tricks of his trade to win the day…
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Tim Kevan practised as a barrister in london for ten years and now writes the BabyBarista blog for the guardian. He is the author of Law and Disorder, the co-author of Why Lawyers Should Surf (with dr Michelle Tempest) and the co-founder of two businesses: CPd Webinars and law Brief Publishing. He lives in Braunton, North devon and enjoys surfing.
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller ‘A ravishingly vivid and convincing version of one of the most legendary of love stories’ Emma Donoghue Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to Phthia to live in the shadow of King Peleus and his strong, beautiful son, Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something far deeper – despite the displeasure of Achilles’s mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear. Madeline Miller has a BA and MA from Brown university in latin and Ancient greek, and has been teaching both for the past nine years. She has also studied at the yale School of drama, specialising in adapting classical tales to a modern audience. The Song of Achilles is her first novel.
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The Last Gift Abdulrazak Gurnah ‘Gurnah is a master storyteller ... A subtle and moving tale of a family coming to terms with itself: one to read at leisure and absorb at length’ Aminatta Forna, Financial Times Abbas has never told anyone about his past – before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he and his wife Maryam settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to. His children have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Now they come reluctantly home, to the dark silences of their father and the fretful capability of their mother, who began life as a foundling and has never thought to find herself, until now.
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Abdulrazak gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and teaches at the university of Kent. He is the author of seven novels which include Paradise (shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prizes), By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the rFI Temoin du monde prize) and Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize).
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You Joanna Briscoe ‘Dangerously addictive: life was put firmly on hold while I raced to finish it’ Maggie O’Farrell Cecilia is obsessively in love with her teacher, the older, married Mr. dahl. She plots and speculates, yet she never guesses that what she dreams of could actually happen. Is it her imagination, or is the high-minded Mr. dahl responding to her? Meanwhile, Cecilia’s mother dora discovers that there is more to the countryside idyll, and indeed to her own marriage, than she assumed, when she finds herself fascinated by the very last, the very worst person she could fall for: the elegant and dangerous Elisabeth dahl. Now, twenty years later, Cecilia is coming home, to finally face dora and her dangerous past.
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Joanna Briscoe is the author of Mothers and Other Lovers, Skin and the highly acclaimed Sleep with Me, which was published in eleven countries and adapted for ITV drama by Andrew davies. She is currently a literary critic for the Guardian, and has contributed to all the major newspapers. She lives in london with her family.
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Pao Kerry Young ‘A blindingly good read in parts, both for its mesmeric story-telling and the quality of its prose’ Observer Jamaica, 1938. yang Pao is fourteen years old when he arrives with his mother and brother from China. They are taken in by Zhang, the ‘godfather’ of Kingston’s Chinatown, who initiates Pao into the racketeering business. Pao grows into a powerful man – albeit one who struggles with his conscience. When gloria Campbell, a black prostitute, comes to him for help, they begin a relationship, although Pao knows he must eventually marry someone more ‘suitable’. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of characters, this is a tale of race, class and creed, love and ambition, and a country in the throes of tumultuous change.
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Kerry young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and Chinese-African mother. She came to England in 1965 at the age of ten. Kerry’s father, a businessman who operated within Kingston’s shadow economy, provided the inspiration for Pao. Kerry young has written extensively on issues relating to youth work, including The Art of Youth Work. She lives in leicestershire.
State of Wonder © Melissa Ann Pinney
Ann Patchett ‘An absorbing novel, intelligent yet magical, that will keep you wondering until the very last page’ Sunday Telegraph deep in the Brazilian rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. But dr Annick Swenson’s work is shrouded in mystery – especially from her investors. When Anders Eckman, a mild-mannered lab researcher, is sent to investigate, a curt letter reporting his death is all that returns. Now Marina Singh, Anders’s colleague and once a student of dr Swenson, must retrace her friend’s perilous steps and uncover the secrets hidden among the remotest tribes of the rainforest. little does she know that, in this ancient corner of the jungle, she will face challenges beyond her wildest imagination.
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Ann Patchett is the author of five previous novels, including Run and Bel Canto, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She writes for the New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, the Paris Review and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Rip Tide Stella Rimington To catch an enemy with nothing to lose, Liz Carlyle must venture into treacherous waters
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 five liz Carlyle novels. She lives in london and Norfolk.
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When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at london’s Thames House. MI5’s liz Carlyle must establish how a well-to-do young British Muslim could end up armed and onboard a pirate skiff in the Indian Ocean. After an undercover operative turns up dead in Athens it looks like piracy may be the least of the Service’s problems. liz and her team must use their wits to unravel the connections between Pakistan, greece and Somalia – and they don’t have long, as trouble is brewing closer to home: the kind of explosive trouble MI5 could do without …
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The Whispers of Nemesis Anne Zouroudi ‘Anne Zouroudi writes beautifully – her books have all the sparkle and light of the island landscapes in which she sets them’ Alexander McCall Smith As winter snow falls on the tiny village of Vrisi, a coffin is unearthed and broken open. But the remains inside have undergone a macabre transformation, news of which spreads through the village like forest fire. Then, by the shrine of St Fanourios, a body is found, buried under the fallen snow. There’s talk of witchcraft and the devil’s work – but the truth may be far stranger than the villagers’ wildest imaginings. Hermes diaktoros, drawn to the mountains by a wish to see an old and dear friend, finds himself embroiled in the mysteries of Vrisi, as well as the enigmatic last will and testament of greece’s most admired modern poet.
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Anne Zouroudi was born in England and has lived in the greek islands. She is the author of four other Mysteries of the Greek Detective: The Messenger of Athens (shortlisted for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Breakthrough Authors and longlisted for the desmond Elliot Prize), The Taint of Midas, The Doctor of Thessaly and The Lady of Sorrows.
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The Woman in the Mirror How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like with Who You Are
Cynthia M. Bulik Nationally recognized psychologist and eating disorders specialist helps women escape the body image trap Many of us are uncomfortable in our own skin. Society has taught us, as women, to mistakenly conflate body-esteem and self-esteem – but they are not the same thing. Body-esteem refers to how we feel about our physical appearance, whereas self-esteem refers to how we evaluate who we are inside, as people. In The Woman in the Mirror, psychologist Cynthia Bulik reprograms our relationship with ourselves and our bodies; by guiding us away from our damaging confusion of body and self, she gives us the tools to reclaim our self-confidence… And to begin to love ourselves for who we are. PrICE: £11.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408828045 PuB dATE: 05 JANuAry 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
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Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.d., is the William and Jeanne Jordan distinguished Professor of eating disorders in the university of North Carolina School of Medicine, professor of nutrition at the gillings School of global Public Health, and director of the uNC Eating disorders Program. She has been featured or quoted in Vogue, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the co-author of Runaway Eating (with Nadine Taylor).
Poser A Mother’s Life in Twenty Three Yoga Poses
Claire Dederer ‘Funny, smart and inspiring’ Elizabeth Gilbert Ten years ago, Claire dederer reluctantly joined her first yoga class and embarked on an eye-opening adventure. She tackled poses such as Triangle, lotus and the dreaded Crow, and at the same time explored the forces that shaped her generation. As the unsettled children of women’s lib, whose mothers ran away to live the transcendental dream, they grew up determined to be good, good, good. But now, halfway into Half Moon pose with another baby on the way and her marriage feeling the strain, dederer found herself asking: do we need to be so good? And why did she have to learn to do a perfect Handstand anyway? Claire dederer is an essayist, critic, and reporter. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, Real Simple, the Nation, New York Magazine, Slate, and Salon, as well as newspapers across the u.S. She is a longtime contributor to the New York Times. She lives on an island near Seattle with her husband and their two children.
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The Sun Hasn’t Fallen From the Sky Alison Gangel ‘A gleaming gem of a memoir’ Daily Express Seven-year-old Ailsa dunn’s parents are made for each other... But when alcohol intrudes, violence becomes the norm – and the ground shifts beneath Ailsa’s small feet. Ailsa and her big sister Morag are sent away to Mcgregor’s Orphan Homes, where the rules are strict and Auntie Vera’s discipline is an ever-present threat. Visits from Ma and da dwindle and bitter resignation follows but, lifechanging for Ailsa, an inspirational teacher and the chance discovery of a rare musical talent give her the opportunity to take her future into own hands. This is a vibrant portrait of two sisters growing up together in 1970s glasgow as their family falls apart. Alison gangel was born and brought up in glasgow and teaches English at a comprehensive school in gateshead. She has lived in Newcastle-upon-Tyne for over twenty years. The Sun Hasn’t Fallen from the Sky is her first book.
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Your Voice in My Head A Memoir
Emma Forrest ‘Emma Forrest is an incredibly gifted writer, who crafted the living daylights out of every sentence in this unforgettable memoir’ Elizabeth Gilbert Emma Forrest was twenty-two when she realised that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. lonely, in a cycle of self-harm and damaging relationships, she found herself in the chair of an effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist – a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the vibrant and dangerous tide of herself after she tried to end her life. A modern day fairy tale, Your Voice in My Head is a dazzling and devastating memoir, clear-eyed and shot through with wit. In her unique voice, Emma Forrest explores depression and mania, but also the beauty of love – and the heartbreak of loss. PrICE: £7.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822067 EBOOK: 9781408817452 PuB dATE: 19 JANuAry 2012
Emma Forrest is the author of the novels Namedropper, Thin Skin and Cherries in the Snow, and editor of the non-fiction anthology Damage Control. She was born and brought up in london and now lives in los Angeles, where she is a screenwriter.
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Amy Chua ‘Millions of British children could use a Tiger Mother in their tank’ Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph EXPOrT PBK ISBN: 9781408828984 PrICE: £7.99
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it’s about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how you can be humbled by a thirteen-year-old. Amy Chua is the John M. duff Professor of law at yale law School. Her two previous titles were bestsellers and have been translated into eight languages. Amy Chua is frequently on radio and television and her writings have appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Financial Times. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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The Great Disruption How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy
Paul Gilding ‘This is the most important ‘environmental’ book to have been published for many years’ Chris Rose, CampaignStrategy.org Human civilisation and the economy have now grown so large that we have passed the limits of the planet to support any further growth in the current model. The science is clear. We have entered a period of great crisis and change, a synchronised, related crash of the economy and the ecosystem, with food shortages, climate catastrophes, massive economic change and global geopolitical instability. As Paul gilding argues, we need to get ready for it now because we can manage our way through it, but only if we acknowledge it is coming and are clear on the way forward. We will have to dig deep to realise our greatest potential – human ingenuity – which can take us through the coming crisis and out the other side to a stronger, safer and more advanced civilisation.
PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822180 EBOOK: 9781408817513
Paul gilding is an advocate for sustainability and climate change who has been the global head of greenpeace and run consultancies with global corporations and community-based NgOs. Born and bred in Australia, he now lives with his family in the uSA.
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I Shall Not Hate A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Izzeldin Abuelaish ‘I urge everybody to read this wonderful book’ Daily Telegraph Heart-breaking yet also hopeful, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor’s inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty in a Palestinian refugee camp, but determined to treat his patients in gaza and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin. It was his response to the death of three of his daughters in the Israeli incursion into gaza in January 2009 that made news and won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Izzeldin Abuelaish calls for the people of the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be ‘the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis’.
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Izzeldin Abeulaish lives with his family in Toronto, where he is an associate professor at the dalla lana School of Public Health at the university of Toronto.
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River Cottage Every Day Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall As seen on Channel 4, the most accessible, recipe-led River Cottage book yet
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Putting food on the table for the family 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 young singles and couples for that matter. Breakfast, baking, lunchboxes, quick suppers, healthy snacks, eating on the move and weekend cooking for the week ahead – all these, and more, will be covered in River Cottage Every Day. 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.’
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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 and, in the uS, the James Beard Cookbook of the year. Hugh lives in dorset with his family.
The Mumsnet Rules Natasha Joffe & Justine Roberts ‘If Gina Ford makes you want to hurl plates at the wall, The Mumsnet Rules might just be what you’re looking for’ Evening Standard If it is true that a baby is born every minute, it is also the case that a nugget of parenting advice is handed out at least twice in that minute. And that all of it eventually finds its way to the message boards of Mumsnet.com.The Mumsnet Rules shapes this collective wisdom into commonsense ‘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, The Mumsnet Rules equips every new parent with the insight that usually only comes with hindsight. PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822265 EBOOK: 9781408815557 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: JANKlOW & NESBIT TErrITOry: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM
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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.
Exorcising Hitler The Occupation and Denazification of Germany
Frederick Taylor ‘Popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Nazis and wants to know what happened next’ Richard J Evans, New Statesman during the 1930s, embittered by one lost war and scarred by mass unemployment, germany was swept away by the dark cult of National Socialism. Within less than a generation, its great cities lay in ruins and its shattered industries and cultural heritage seemed utterly beyond saving. In Exorcising Hitler, Frederick Taylor tells the story of what came after – the hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the vast displacement of peoples in central and eastern Europe, the attitudes of the conquerors, the competition between Soviet russia and the West, the hunger and near starvation of a once proud people, and the attempt to expunge Nazism from all aspects of german life. Exorcising Hitler is an engrossing account of a period that laid the foundations of a modern democratic germany and has never before been written about in such detail.
PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822128 EBOOK: 9781408824511 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012
Frederick Taylor is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers, Dresden and The Berlin Wall and the editor and translator of The Goebbels Diaries. He lives in Cornwall.
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Ghosts By Daylight A Memoir of War and Love
Janine di Giovanni ‘Janine di Giovanni lays down her memoir with touching and deeply honest humility’ Elizabeth Gilbert This is the moving story of two young reporters who meet in a besieged city surrounded by bombs, death and destruction, and fall in love. years later – after endless phone calls, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, and countless wars – they arrive in Paris one rainy January to begin a new life together. But having met in another lifetime – in another world – ordinary, civilian life doesn’t come easily. And the difficult journey that follows, through their mix of joy and terror at becoming parents, their battle with alcoholism, post-traumatic stress, and di giovanni’s determination to find a home and security in the world, leads to an understanding of love, marriage and redemption. PrICE: £7.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK
Janine di giovanni worked for many years as a senior foreign correspondent for The Times and has won four major journalistic awards. She is the author of four books, including Madness Visible and is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, and to many American and British publications. Two television documentaries have been made about her work, and a feature film is in development for Ghosts by Daylight. She lives in Paris.
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The Home Handbook Quick and Easy Ways to Keep Your Home Tidy, Clean and Beautiful
Rachel Simhon ‘Reveals the ingenious short-cuts everyone should know’ Daily Mail When did we lose the knack of looking after our own homes? We have become dependent on 5-in-1 chemical cleaners; we can’t seem to wield a Hoover anymore; and descaling the kettle is a task to be indefinitely delayed. Somewhere along the way we have lost the domestic tradition that was simple, quick and effective. The Home Handbook seeks to redress the balance and celebrates the art of caring for your home in the most environmentally-friendly, fuss-free way.
PrICE: £12.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408825570
rachel Simhon has worked as a journalist for, among others, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. She is currently working on Tatler. She spent two years in Abu dhabi and now lives in london with her husband, who is the tidiest person in the world.
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The Morville Year Katherine Swift ‘Beautifully written, constantly illuminating … one you will want to keep close at hand and revisit frequently’ Spectator The Morville Hours won widespread praise from critics and readers alike for the crisp beauty of Katherine Swift’s prose as she described the creation and development of her garden at the dower House at Morville in Shropshire. Now Swift returns to Morville to describe a year in the life of her garden. From the green shoots of March, through the intoxicating simple pleasures of the first smell of freshly-mown grass and May flower festivals, to high summer, the fruits of autumn and the stark beauty of winter, Swift takes the reader on a journey that will appeal to gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Those who loved The Morville Hours will again fall under Katherine’s spell, while those who haven’t yet visited the enchanting garden will delight in discovering it for the first time. PrICE: £9.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822135 EBOOK: 9781408811177 PuB dATE: 01 MArCH 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
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Katherine Swift worked as a rare book librarian in Oxford and dublin before becoming a full-time gardener and writer in 1988. She was for four years gardening columnist of The Times, and has written widely in the gardening press. She lives in Morville.
Spanish Gold Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean
David Cordingly ‘David Cordingly is a brilliant historian: authoritative but easy to read, with an eye for the story yet with a touch light enough to let the facts speak for themselves’ Daily Telegraph Today most of us know what we know about pirates from classics like Treasure Island and the films starring Johnny depp and Keira Knightley. But who were the real pirates of the Caribbean and where did they come from? In his meticulously researched new book, david Cordingly reveals the truth to have been at least as fascinating and gripping as the legends. When the War of the Spanish Succession ended in 1713, thousands of soldiers lost their livelihoods and there followed an explosion of piracy across the Caribbean, and nowhere was the problem more severe than in the Bahamas. The man selected ‘to drive the pirates from their lodgement’ was Captain Woodes rogers, who had made his name and fortune leading a successful voyage round the world, in which he rescued Alexander Selkirk (the model for defoe’s robinson Crusoe) and captured a galleon worth a cool £9 million in today’s money. This is his and the pirates’ extraordinary story.
PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822166 EBOOK: 9781408817599 PuB dATE: 29 MArCH 2011 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: rOgErS, COlErIdgE & WHITE lTd
david Cordingly is the author of the best-selling Life among the Pirates, Heroines and Harlots, Billy Ruffian and Cochrane, the Dauntless.
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No Regrets The Life of Edith Piaf
Carolyn Burke ‘Fascinating … Burke vividly depicts the rollercoaster of Piaf’s life’ Mail on Sunday Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. Her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. This mesmerising, definitive new biography illuminates her childhood singing in the streets of Paris, the drama of her performances in French music-halls, her friendships with such figures as Jean Cocteau, Maurice Chevalier and Marlene dietrich, but also her life’s many tragedies. Carolyn Burke gives us Edith Piaf in her own time and place, illuminating through sympathetic readings of sources hitherto unavailable both the charm and the pathos of the ‘little Sparrow’ who enchanted generations and continues to enthral us today.
PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822159
Carolyn Burke was born in Australia. The author of Becoming Modern, The Life of Mina Loy, and a biography of the legendary photographer, lee Miller, she lives in Santa Cruz, California and spends as much time as she can in Paris.
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The English Lakes Ian Thompson ‘Every ten years a new generation needs a history of the Lake District – and this looks like being the one for the next ten years’ Hunter Davies
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With more than 20 million visitors each year, the lake district retains its fascination for people from all over Britain and abroad. Ian Thompson, who grew up in nearby Barrow-in-Furness and went fell-walking from an early age, is wellequipped to reveal the area’s allure. He tells how it was the chance combination of a fascination with the Alps and the outbreak of the Napoleonic wars that provided the spark for a national obsession. And in brief elegant chapters he shows how Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and de Quincey transformed the perception of the region from one of ‘horrid mountains’ to ‘vales of peace’. later the work of J. M. W. Turner, John ruskin, Beatrix Potter, Arthur ransome and Alfred Wainwright, the great populariser of fell-walking, all in their different ways contributed to making the region what it is today. Crammed with fascinating detail and illustrated with Thompson’s own superb colour photography and more than 80 other colour illustrations, The English Lakes is sheer delight.
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Ian Thompson teaches postgraduate landscape Architecture at Newcastle university and is the author of the Sun King’s Garden.
Among the Fans From Ashes to the Arrows, a Year of Watching the Watchers
Patrick Collins The first book published by Wisden Sports Writing – a new imprint designed to showcase brilliant writing and bring to sport the qualities that have made Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack famous since 1864.
PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408158838
After nearly half a century in the world’s press boxes Patrick Collins took his eye off the ball, stepped away from his colleagues, and joined the throng: the people who pay the money. For a year, he relished sharing the experiences of the varied crowds at sporting events great and small: England’s always hopeful, always frustrated, football supporters; the panama-hatted brigade at county cricket; the sodden, delirious golf-lovers at the ryder Cup; and the hey-look-at-me darts fans. He penetrates strange, semi-private subcultures like point-to-point and speedway. The result is a fresh, original, wonderfully readable and very funny book, written with a unique blend of charm and insight and humanity.
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Patrick Collins has been Chief Sport Writer of the Mail on Sunday since the newspaper was launched in 1982. He has covered most of the world’s great sporting events, including ten football World Cups and nine Summer Olympic games. He has been named Sports Journalist of the year on five occasions in the British Sports Journalism awards.
[ sic ] Joshua Cody ‘Writing this rawly self-conscious has no business captivating you, let alone moving you. That it manages to do it anyway is a testament to Mr. Cody’s talent, honesty, and singularity’ Jonathan Franzen Joshua Cody was about to receive his Phd when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. Facing a bone marrow transplant and full radiation after the news that his first course of chemotherapy has failed, he charts his struggle: the fury, the tendency to self-destruction, the ruthless grasping for life, for sensation – the beautiful Ariel who gives him cocaine and a blowjob in a Manhattan restaurant following his first treatment; the detailed Bulgarian morphine fantasy complete with a bride called Valentina while, in reality, hospital staff are pinning him to his bed… A literary, mesmerizing, hallucinatory and often uncomfortable glimpse into a young man’s battle against the disease; a celebration of art, language, music and life. PrICE: £7.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK
Joshua Cody received his bachelor’s degree in music composition from Northwestern university, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia university. He is a composer living in New york City. This is his first book.
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Pedalare! Pedalare! A History of Italian Cycling
John Foot ‘If you read only one sporting book this year, make it Pedalare! Pedalare! … Absorbing, compelling and brilliant’ Evening Standard Cycling was a sport so important in Italy that it marked a generation, sparked fears of civil war, changed the way Italian was spoken, led to legal reform and even prompted the Pope himself to praise a cyclist from his balcony in St Peters in rome. It was a sport so popular that it created the geography of Italy in the minds of her citizens, and some have said that it was cycling, not political change, that united Italy. Pedalare! Pedalare! is the first complete history of Italian cycling to be published in English, from the inaugural giro d’Italia in 1909, through the rise of fascism and World War Two, to the present. Concluding with an examination of doping, which in Foot’s view has helped to destroy what was at one time the most popular sport of all, Pedalare! Pedalare! is an engrossing history of a national passion.
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John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History in the department of Italian, university College london. He is the author of the successful Calcio: A History of Italian Football.
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Goodbye Sarajevo A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival
Atka Reid & Hana Schofield ‘A testament to the human spirit and the kindness of strangers’ Independent May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when she is put on a uN evacuation bus fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo by her older sister Atka. Thinking they will be apart for a short time, they make a promise to each other to be brave. But as the Bosnian war escalates and months go by without contact, their promise becomes deeply significant. Hana is forced to cope as a refugee in Croatia, while Atka and their younger siblings battle for survival in a city overwhelmed by crime and destruction. Then, when Atka manages to find work as a translator, events take an unexpected, and life-changing, turn. PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408827758 EBOOK: 9781408814703 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: dAVId gOdWIN
Born in Sarajevo in the 1970s, sisters Atka reid and Hana Schofield lived through the Bosnian war. Hana spent two years as a refugee in Croatia while Atka stayed behind and worked as a reporter and interpreter. They were reunited with their family in New Zealand where they each pursue diverse educational and professional careers. Both live with their families in Christchurch.
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Babysitting George Celia Walden ‘Funny, moving and shot-through with a clear-eyed, unsentimental humanity’ Tony Parsons 2003. Celia Walden, a young reporter, is told by her editor to travel to Malta, track down a legendary footballer and keep him from the press. george Best, an alcoholic with his personal life in chaos, isn’t, however, the easiest man to find. But the unlikely friendship that develops between george and Celia reveals an intelligent and complex human being. Babysitting george is a tender account of a unique relationship between a young woman and a dying star, which questions the exploitative nature of fame and tabloid journalism, the horrors of addiction and the humane, implausible friendships that can change one’s life forever.
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Celia Walden is the Senior Feature Writer for the Daily Telegraph, having spent the previous two years on the Mail on Sunday. She is a regular on national television, from Sky News to Daybreak. Her first novel, Harm’s Way, was published in 2008. Celia Walden lives in london.
The Rain Tree Mirabel Osler ‘Quirky, touching, wayward, sensuous ... An unforgettable journey of the senses. Irresistible’ Sir Roy Strong The Rain Tree is a beautifully written celebration of a life well lived. A host of vivid characters are here: Mirabel’s free-spirited mother Phyllis; Stella Bowen, Phyllis’s lifelong friend; and their neighbour Ezra Pound, who introduced them to the london literati, notably Ford Madox Ford. Turning closer to the present we encounter Michael, Mirabel’s late husband, their childhood meeting, their delight in their children and beloved Shropshire garden. Mirabel Osler’s meditation on the profound pleasures of writing, gardens, travel and food is both graceful and deeply affecting. Mirabel Osler is the critically acclaimed author of A Breath from Elsewhere and the classic A Gentle Plea for Chaos. She lives in Shropshire. PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822210 EBOOK: 9781408818800 PuB dATE: 10 MAy 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: BlOOMSBury TErrITOry: WO
Merchants of Doubt How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Erik M. Conway ‘Brilliantly reported and written with brutal clarity’ Huffington Post Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly – some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is “not settled” denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. “doubt is our product,” wrote one tobacco executive. These “experts” supplied it. Naomi Oreskes is a professor of history and science studies at the university of California, San diego. Her essay “Beyond the Ivory Tower” was a milestone in the fight against global warming denial. Erik M. Conway is the resident historian at NASA’s Jet Propulsion laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.
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Mysterious Wisdom The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer
Rachel Campbell-Johnston ‘A fine and sympathetic study of one of England’s greatest artists’ Peter Ackroyd
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greatly influenced by poets such as William Blake, artist Samuel Palmer created worlds of deep-shaded lanes, soaring church spires and thatched villages that spoke to a new generation which was struggling to reconcile the radical developments of modernism with their own British identity. In Palmer, they discovered a painter of the English landscape who had interpreted his native scenery with defiant truth. Although his exceptional talent was underappreciated during his lifetime, Palmers unique style and technique has influenced numerous artists in our contemporary era. Mysterious Wisdom reveals the true Palmer for the first time, giving us a compelling and detailed exploration of this extraordinary man.
ISBN: 9781408822227 EBOOK: 9781408818848 PuB dATE: 07 JuNE 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: CAPEl & lANd lTd TErrITOry: WEXCuSA
rachel Campbell Johnston started working for The Times ten years ago, first as the deputy literary editor and then as an obituarist and leader writer, before moving on to her current position as the art and poetry critic. She has a Phd in English literature. rachel Campbell Johnson lives in london.
The Quick and the Dead Fallen Soldiers and their Families in the Great War
Richard van Emden The first history of the families who were left behind while their husbands and fathers fought and died in the First World War. At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. Few people remained unscathed. The Quick and the Dead pays tribute to the families who were left to suffer at home while their husband, fathers and sons went off to fight, and the generations that followed. Through a unique collection of more than fifty interviews, private diaries and a remarkable collection of unpublished letters written by the soldiers to their families back home, The Quick and the Dead is a history of those who are commonly forgotten and neglected when the fallen are remembered on Armistice day. PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822456 EBOOK: 9781408824566 PuB dATE: 07 JuNE 2012 TrANSlATION rIgHTS: COllINS lITErAry AgENCy TErrITOry: WEXuSA
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richard van Emden is the author of many books including The Last Fighting Tommy. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including the award winning roses of No Man’s land and Britain’s Boy Soldiers and A Poem for Harry. He lives in richmond.
The Age of Deception Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
Mohamed ElBaradei What happened behind the scenes in the run-up to the Iraq war and what threat nuclear weapons pose to our future. When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next director general, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which dr ElBaradei stepped – featuring Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Kim Jong-Il’s North Korea, Muammar al-gaddafi’s libya, and the Islamic republic of Iran, and the forthright Bush White House – gave ample opportunity for highstakes and high-profile decision-making. But no one could have predicted that ElBaradei would be ‘the man in the middle’ of so many nuclear conflicts over such a long period of time. And after he and the IAEA were jointly awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, his role as middle-man only gained intensity. This is dr ElBaradei’s account from the eye of the nuclear storm of what really happened then and what’s at stake now.
PrICE: £8.99 FOrMAT: PAPErBACK ISBN: 9781408822241 EBOOK: 9781408824429 PuB dATE: 07 JuNE 2012
Mohamad ElBaradei was the director general of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) from december 1997 to November 2009. He lives in Egypt.
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The House in France A Memoir
Gully Wells ‘A superbly entertaining memoir full of delicious anecdote, witty portraiture, and unexpected pathos’ Zoë Heller Six years after her mother’s death, gully Wells returns to la Migoua, the house in Provence which belonged to her mother – the glamorous, clever and furiously rude American journalist, dee Wells. Surrounded by decades of clutter, gully is taken back to childhood memories, to her mother’s life, to her adored stepfather – the celebrated philosopher, A. J. Ayer – to studying in Oxford and her relationship with Martin Amis, and to vibrant memories of growing up in sixties london surrounded by figures such as Bobby Kennedy, Mary Quant, Isaiah Berlin and Bertrand russell. Always returning to Provence, gully tells the incredible story of her beloved mother’s life, of growing up in an extraordinary family and of the spirit of a cherished house.
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gully Wells was born in Paris, brought up in london, educated at Oxford, and moved to New york in 1979. She is the Features Editor of Condé Nast Traveler magazine and writes for them regularly from all over the world. She is married, has two children, and lives in Brooklyn. This is her first book.
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The Marvellous Miniature Marmite Cookbook
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Index Age of Deception, The 65 Among the Fans 60 Anatomy of a Moment ,The 39 Anglican Theology Antarctica 22 Arab Women in Arab News 15 Avoiding Armageddon 70 Babysitting George 62 Barbarism 70 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother 54 Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People 70 Bird Sense 18 Breakfast Bible, The 36 British Larder Cookbook, The 72 Buckley 66 Bull of Mithos 14 Cairo 16 Canada 12 Capital Spice 73 Card from Angela Carter, A 20 Chapman’s Odyssey 40 City 23 Climategate to Cancun 68 Coincidence Engine, The 45 Continuum Guide to Christian Spirituality 70 Cooking for Real Life 28 Coward’s Tale, The 46 Darwin’s Ghosts 31 Deception 35 Defeating Hitler 69 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945 69 Difficult Woman, A 38 Dirtiest Race in History, The 37 Diving Belles 3 Doctor’s Wife, The 41 Don’t Shoot 66 Don’ts for Weddings 30 Dreams of Joy 48 Dreyfus Affair, The 21 Drowning Rose 44 Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 70 El Narco 20 Eleanor de Montfort 69 English Lakes, The 60 Every Grain Of Rice 17 Everybody, Everyday 23 Exorcising Hitler 57 Experiment Eleven 29
Face of God,The 68 Fatal Touch, The 47 First English Revolution, The 70 Forrests, The 12 Foul Play 35 Frozen Music 44 Funky Party 72 Future of Blasphemy, The 69 Ghosts By Daylight 57 Gin & Juice 23 God Save the Queen 68 Golden Scales, The 4 Goodbye Sarajevo 62 Good in a Crisis 19 Grantchester Mysteries, The 10 Great Disruption, The 55 Harbour, The 11 Healing Agony 69 Hedge Britania 29 Herbs 25 Hinterland 4 Home Handbook, The 58 Homesick 6 House in France, The 65 How to Bake 28 I am an Executioner 10 I Am Mary Dunne 41 I Shall Not Hate 55 Ignorance 9 Illuminati 70 In Darkness 2 In Search of the City on a Hill 70 In the Grip of Light 70 Indomitable Will 70 Intel Wars 27 Invisible River 40 Jack Holmes and His Friend 2 Jerry Lee Lewis 69 Jock Dalrymple 69 Kazakhstan 68 Last Gift, The 49 Law and Peace 48 Le Road Trip 37 Life! Death! Prizes! 8 Light Of Amsterdam,The 8 Little Book of Allotment Tips, The 73 Little Book of Baking Tips, The 73 Little Book of Fly Fishing Tips, The 73 Little Book of Ice Cream Tips, The 73
Little Richard 69 Long Shadow of Antiquity, The 70 Lost History of 1914, The 19 Luck 26 Lucky Break 46 Magician’s Wife, The 41 Maid, The 47 Make Love Like a Prairie Vole 17 Man Within My Head, The 32 Many Not The Few, The 68 Marvellous Miniature Marmite Cookbook, The 72 Medieval Intrigue 69 Meditation for People under Pressure 68 Merchants of Doubt 63 Morville Year, The 58 Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War 30 Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace 32 Mumsnet Rules, The 56 Mysterious Wisdom 64 Namesake, The 9 New Asceticism, The 69 No Regrets 59 No Other lLife 41 Other People’s Money 43 Painter of Silence 5 Pao 50 Pedalare! Pedalare! 61 Perfect Punter, The 18 Pigeon English 39 Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists, The 13 Pirates! in an Adventure with Moby Dick, The 13 Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon, The 13 Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists,The 13 Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics,The 13 Political killing, A 31 Polpo 34 Poser 53 Prisoner of Paradise 3 Purveyor of Enchantment, The 44 Quick and the Dead,The 64 Quiet Twin, The 42 Rain Tree,The 63 Reflections of German Jewry 70 Return of a King,The 33 Rip Tide 51 Rival Creation, A 44 River Cottage Every Day 56 Rivers of Britain 16 Royal Service 68
Rule of Thumb 70 Sacred Landscapes in Ancient Egypt 70 Scissors, Paper, Stone 43 Secret Life of Pronouns, The 66 Secret Olympian,The 33 Short History of Flu, A 68 [sic] 61 Simulating War 69 Sinister Resonance 69 Song of Achilles, The 49 Soup! 72 Spanish Gold 59 State of Wonder 51 Statement, The 41 Sun Hasn’t Fallen From the Sky, The 53 Sunday Word, The 69 Survival of the Beautiful 21 Sweet Peas for Summer 24 Take the Plunge 68 Talking Heads’ Fear of Music 70 Ten Commandments, The 26 The Dirtiest Race in History Tudors, The 69 This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You 5 Throwing Sparks 7 Titanic on Trial 22 Top Secret Title (Ben Macintyre) 27 Trapeze Artist, The 11 Trip of the Tongue 38 Tudors, The 69 Turtles in Our Wake 15 Underground Time 42 Urban Waterways 25 Waiting For Sunrise 6 War Against the Taliban, The 14 War We Never Fought, The 68 Way in the Wilderness 69 We All Fall Down 7 What Matters in Austen 34 What’s the Economy for Anyway? 66 When the Killing’s Done 45 Whispers of Nemesis, The 52 Winner Effect, The 36 Woman in the Mirror, The 52 Word Events 69 Wordcrime 69 You 50 Your Voice in My Head 54
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