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July-December 2012
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ORIGINAL FICTION
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July–December 2012
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Original Fiction
20 Original Non-Fiction
51 Absolute Press
58 Paperback Fiction
61 Paperback Non-Fiction
64 Index
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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: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408814826
Francesca Brill is a screenwriter and film maker. The Harbour is her first book. She lives in London.
PUB DATE: JULY 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Ada’s Rules Alice Randall A warm, funny and soulfully wise novel about falling back in love with the life you have Ada Howard, the preacher’s wife, has a whole lot of people to take care of. It’s no wonder she can’t find time to take care of herself. And her husband’s been so busy lately she’s suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him… Then an invitation to her college reunion arrives, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. Ada starts laying down some rules to lose the hundred or so pounds gained since her college days, and so begins an unforgettable journey on the way to less weight and more love…
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Alice Randall is the author of New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, and Rebel Yell. She is also an award-winning songwriter. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville with her husband. She recently lost quite a few pounds following her own rules.
ISBN: 9781408831779 PUB DATE: JULY 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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Abdication Juliet Nicolson Downtown Abbey meets The King’s Speech in this novel of a King and country torn between private desire and public duty on the eve of the Second World War After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Amid widespread unemployment and poverty, Mosley’s fascist New Party seems to be on the rise…This is a novel of secrets, of hidden truths, undeclared loves, unspoken sympathies and covert complicities—biggest and most dangerous of them all, the truth about the new King’s relationship with a married woman, and the silent horror that few in Britain dare voice: the increasing inevitability of another world war... A critically acclaimed historian, Juliet Nicolson is the author of The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911 and The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War. She lives in Sussex.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831793 PUB DATE: JULY 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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 It is summer, and as tourists, drawn by the legend of a priceless missing artifact, disembark on the sun-drenched quay of Mithros, the languid calm of the island is broken by the unorthodox arrival of a stranger who has been thrown overboard in the bay. Lacking money or identification, he is forced for a while to remain on Mithros. But is he truly a stranger? The arrival of the investigator Hermes Diaktoros, intrigued himself by the island’s fabled bull, coincides with the violent and mysterious death of the stranger. As Hermes sets about solving the crime, it soon becomes clear that the bull of Mithros may only be the least of the island’s shadowy mysteries. 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.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408819388 PUB DATE: JULY 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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The Happy Numbers of Julius Miles Jim Keeble For fans of About a Boy, this terrific, warm, and funny novel is about fathers and sons, relationships and living in a modern world Julius Miles is a mathematical genius, but he is hefty of frame, awkward with the opposite sex and struggling to bring his existence into balance. When he stumbles across the girl next door naked and dead on her Victorian tiles, he starts to unravel the one equation that’s eluded him: that of his own life. And so it is that with the most unlikely of assistants—a transsexual Cupid with a penchant for drugs—he embarks on a quest to find the truth about love, death, family and how, ultimately, you make your numbers happy. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781846881817 PUB DATE: JULY 2012 IMPRINT: ALMA BOOKS
This is Jim Keeble’s long-awaited third novel after My Fat Brother and The A-Z of Us. He has also worked as a screenwriter for Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, John Landis and Kenneth Branagh. He has written dramas for ITV and the BBC, and he is currently writing pilot episodes for three new TV series of his own for BBC, ITV and Sky. He lives in East London.
The Yellow Emperor’s Cure Kunal Basu ‘A deeply satisfying tale mixing history, cultural clashes, violence and love’ Kirkus Lisbon, 1898: Antonio Maria, surgeon and notorious playboy, returns home after a long absence to learn his beloved father has syphilis, the scourge of both rich and poor. Determined to find a cure, Antonio sets sail for Peking, to study under a renowned doctor. But Antonio falls in love with his assistant, the elusive Fumi. Inviting comparisons with Michael Ondaatje, this haunting tale conjures a man discovering the love that will force him to question everything that has come before. Kunal Basu was born in Calcutta and has traveled widely. He is the author of The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturist, and Racists, and a book of short stories, The Japanese Wife. He teaches at Oxford University. PRICE: $35.00 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: DEMY HARDBACK ISBN: 9780715642870 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: DUCKWORTH
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A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar Suzanne Joinson An extraordinary novel about the stories that bind us to our past, set in present-day London and 1920s Kashgar 1923: Evangeline English, lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie and their zealous leader Millicent at the ancient city of Kashgar to establish a mission. As they encounter resistance and calamity, Eva commences work on her Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar...In present-day London, Frieda opens her door to find a man sleeping on the landing. Tayeb, a Yemeni refugee, has arrived in Frieda’s life just as she learns that she is next-of-kin to a stranger, a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises. The two wanderers embark on a journey that is as great, and as unexpected, as Eva’s. Suzanne Joinson works for the British Council, and regularly travels widely across the Middle East, North Africa, China and Europe. In 2007 she won the New Writing Ventures Award for Creative Non-Fiction for ‘Laila Ahmed’. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and lives by the sea on the South Coast of England.
PRICE: $27.99 NZ$35.00 FORMAT: DEMY PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408825204 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
The Uninvited Liz Jensen From the prizewinning and bestselling author of The Rapture, comes Liz Jensen’s most thrilling novel to date A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. When anthropologist Hesketh Lock travels to Taiwan to investigate sabotage in the timber industry, he has no reason to connect the events there with the incidents back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son. Until shocking events in Taiwan and a global epidemic of child violence force him to reassess his life, his career and his role as a father. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: DEMY PB WITH FLAPS
Liz Jensen is the bestselling author of seven previous novels, including Ark Baby, shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, War Crimes for the Home, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax and, most recently, the Channel 4 TV Book Club Best Read, The Rapture. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries.
ISBN: 9781408821152 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS
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The Scent of Lemon Leaves Clara Sánchez The international bestseller and winner of the Premio Nadal Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life. She befriends an elderly Norwegian couple who provide her with stimulating company and take the place of the grandparents she never had. However, when she meets Julián, a former concentrationcamp inmate who has just returned to Europe from Argentina, she discovers that all is not what it seems and finds herself involved in a perilous quest for the truth. As well as being a powerful account of self-discovery and an exploration of history and redemption, The Scent of Lemon Leaves is a sophisticated and nail-biting page-turner by one of Spain’s most accomplished authors.
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Clara Sánchez is the author of eight novels. She is a newspaper columnist for top-selling Spanish newspaper El País.
FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781846881855 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: ALMA BOOKS
The Paris Correspondent Alan S. Cowell Glamour and danger—the existence of a foreign correspondent is brought vividly to life in this engrossing novel by a renowned New York Times reporter Ed Clancy and Joe Shelby are old-school reporters for The Paris Star, an English-language newspaper based in Paris. Survivors of missions to Beirut, Kosovo, Mogadishu and beyond, they are taken by surprise by the Internet age and the twenty-four-hour news cycle. As The Paris Star struggles to survive in this new world order, old rivalries and ruined passions rear their heads and professional intrigue boils over. Alan S. Cowell brilliantly captures the changing world of a foreign correspondent in this not-to-be-missed novel.
PRICE: $19.99 NZ$24.99 FORMAT: B-FORMAT PAPERBACK ISBN: 9780715641484
Alan S. Cowell is senior correspondent for NYTimes.com based in Paris. He is also the author of The Terminal Spy: The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko. He has won the George Polk award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting. This is his first novel.
PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: DUCKWORTH
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Zoo Time Howard Jacobson The blistering new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010 Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. Their provocative presence fills Guy’s head with stories so wild he can’t concentrate to write them. Not that anyone reads anymore, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, however, is writing her own novel. Guy dreads the consequences… Our funniest writer at his brilliant best, Zoo Time is a novel about love—love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. His novels include The Mighty Walzer, Kalooki Nights, The Act of Love and The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831823 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
The Geneva Trap A Liz Carlyle Novel
Stella Rimington In the latest high-octane thriller from Stella Rimington, MI5’s Liz Carlyle finds her past catching up with her… When a Russian spy approaches MI5 with information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. At a tracking station in Nevada, US Navy officers watch in horror as one of their unmanned drones plummets out of the sky. Is this a Russian plot to disable the West’s defences? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and her team hunt for a mole inside the MOD, the trail leads them into a labyrinth of international intrigue, in a race to stop the Cold War heating up once again… Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and six Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408819654 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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Elza’s Kitchen Marc Fitten The bestselling author of Valeria’s Last Stand brings us a delicious fable of passion lost and found in a restaurant kitchen Elza has her own little restaurant in the Hungarian city of Delibab, cooking quality versions of her country’s classics and serving them with a smile. But lately Elza’s smile has become tired and her affair with her sous-chef an irritant. With her country in a state of transition from communism to capitalism, Elza embarks on her own change as she decides to woo The Critic, one of the harshest, most powerful restaurant columnists in Europe—and along the way she finds that true joy—and love—can be hidden in the most surprising of places.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408821329 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012
Marc Fitten lived in Hungary from 1993 to 1998. His debut novel, Valeria’s Last Stand, was published in ten countries, held a spot on the Der Spiegel’s Bestsellers list for seven weeks and was an Amazon Best of the Month book for May 2009. He has published writing in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. He lives and writes in Atlanta.
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Rook Jane Rusbridge A mesmerising story of family, legacy and the hidden histories of the Bayeux Tapestry by the author of The Devil’s Music Nora, a cellist, returns home to the Sussex coast with memories she must banish in order to survive: a charismatic teacher; a mistake she cannot unmake. Her mother Ada is waiting: a fragile, bitter woman who distils for herself a glamorous past as she smokes French cigarettes in her unkempt garden. A documentary maker has arrived in the village to shoot a film about King Cnut and his illegitimate daughter, whose body lies beneath the flagstones of Bosham church. As he digs up tales of ancient battles, Ada and Nora find themselves face to face with their own carefully buried secrets. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: DEMY PB WITH FLAPS ISBN: 9781408817957 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS
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Jane Rusbridge is the author of The Devil’s Music. She lives near the coast in West Sussex with her husband, a farmer, and the youngest of their five children. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Chichester, where she was the recipient of the Philip Lebrun Prize for Creative Writing and is Associate Lecturer in English.
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Shadow of the Rock A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery
Thomas Mogford The first in an exciting new crime series set in Gibraltar and Morocco, featuring lawyer Spike Sanguinetti A humid summer night in Gibraltar. Lawyer Spike Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old school friend waiting on his doorstep. Solomon Hassan has been accused of murdering a Spanish girl in Tangiers, and the Moroccan authorities want him back. As Spike travels to Tangiers to try and delay the extradition, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous game of secrets, corruption and murder. Thomas Mogford read Modern Languages at Oxford University and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from City University, London. An early work of Thomas’s featuring Spike Sanguinetti reached the semifinals of the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and was referred to by Publishers Weekly as ‘an exotic, addictive mystery’. He works as a translator and reporter for ITV Sport.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408824160 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Inter Rail Alessandro Gallenzi Sliding Doors meets Bill Bryson When Francesco decides to embark on his first trip outside his native Italy, he leaves behind a difficult relationship with his father and the narrow vistas of a small provincial town. All he brings with him are a change of clothes, a map of Europe and the desire to discover new places, new people and, perhaps, a new life. But a chance encounter in Munich takes him off course, on an incredible journey that will see him fall in love in Sweden, lose all his money in Amsterdam, pan-handle in the streets of London, win big in Monte Carlo and get caught up in an international imbroglio. Born out of the author’s own experiences as a young InterRail traveller, this modern picaresque novel is a celebration of a Europe without boundaries, the joy of being young and the infinite, unpredictable paths we can go down during our lives.
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Alessandro Gallenzi is the founder of Hesperus Press, Alma Books and Oneworld Classics. As well as being a literary publisher, he is a translator, a poet, a playwright and a novelist. He lives in Richmond.
ISBN: 9781846882081 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: ALMA BOOKS
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John Saturnall’s Feast Lawrence Norfolk From the award-winning and bestselling author of Lemprière’s Dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk is back with an astounding new historical novel 1625. John Sandall and his mother are running for their lives. In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants ‘witchcraft.’ Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla’s Wood, John’s mother opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. Its exquisite dishes will be John’s legacy. John Saturnall’s Feast charts one man’s life through kitchens and bedchambers, battlefields and ancient magical woods, a rich, complex and mesmerising story of seventeenth century life, love and war.
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Lawrence Norfolk is the internationally bestselling author of three literary historical novels which have been translated into thirty-four languages. He is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and has been shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Award, among others. Lawrence Norfolk lives in London with his wife and two children.
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Wilderness Lance Weller A dazzling epic of the American Civil War about the legacy of conflict and the possibility of redemption Thirty years after the Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman embarks on one final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. As he travels through the foothills, he endures violence at the hands of thugs who are after his beloved dog, and is haunted by memories of the war. But good people have touched his life too—the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants; an escaped slave who nursed him back to life. Through it all, Abel holds on to his humanity, finding way stations of kindness along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: DEMY PB WITH FLAPS ISBN: 9781408829202 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS
Lance Weller has published short fiction in several literary journals. He won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Washington native, he has hiked and camped extensively in the landscape he describes. He lives in Gig Harbor, Washington, with his wife and several dogs.
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The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics Gideon Defoe Following on from the blockbuster Sony/Aardman movie, the Pirate Captain and his crew return in a daring and eldritch new adventure Whilst visiting their bank manager on the shores of Lake Geneva, the pirates encounter the literary giants of their age: the swaggering Lord Byron, the oddly shifty Percy Shelley—and his beautiful fiancée, Mary. They embark upon a journey that leads them into the bowels of Oxford and the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. Along the way the Pirate Captain must confront some important questions, namely: what is the secret behind his belly tattoo? Is ‘Zombuloid, the corpse-beast’ a better name for a monster than ‘Gorgo: Half-man, half-seaweed’? And, most importantly, what happens when a pirate falls in love? Gideon Defoe was born in 1975 and lives in London. He is also the author of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon. You could be forgiven for thinking he is a bit of a one-trick pony.
PRICE: $19.99 NZ$24.99 FORMAT: A-FORMAT HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408802229 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Umbrella Will Self A major new novel by the author of Great Apes, How the Dead Live and The Book of Dave At Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner encounters Audrey Dearth, a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890. Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica epidemic at the end of the First World War and has slept through most of the twentieth century. Realising that the old woman is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum, Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life—with wholly unforeseen consequences. Radical in its conception, uncompromising in its style, Umbrella is Will Self’s most imaginative and challenging novel to date. Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002 and The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008. He lives in South London.
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Homer The Odyssey Adapted by Seymour Chwast Design legend Seymour Chwast lends his diabolically witty, devilishly expressive style to one of the western world’s most celebrated classics… Seymour Chwast has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Now he turns to one of the best-known stories in history. Featuring a bold black, white, and blue interior design throughout, imbued with his own sly humour, Chwast brings us a dazzling new vision of one of the epic journeys.
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Seymour Chwast is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence on contemporary visual communications. Chwast has illustrated more than thirty books for children and has created two previous graphic adaptations of classic works: Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. He lives in New York City.
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Isabel’s Skin Peter Benson A slick gothic tale by prize-winning novelist Peter Benson David Morris lives the quiet life of a book-valuer for a London auction house, travelling every day to his office in the Strand. When he is asked to make a trip to rural Somerset to value the library of the recently deceased Lord Buff-Orpington, the sense of trepidation he feels as he heads into the country is confirmed the moment he reaches his destination, the dark and impoverished village of Ashbrittle. These feelings turn to dread when he meets the enigmatic Professor Richard Hunt and catches a glimpse of a screaming woman he keeps prisoner in his house. Peter Benson’s new novel is a work of atmosphere and unease which creates a world of inhuman anxiety and suspense.
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Peter Benson’s first novel, The Levels, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. This was followed by A Lesser Dependency, winner of the Encore award, The Other Occupant, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and three more novels: Odo’s Hanging, Riptide and A Private Moon. He lives in Exeter.
ISBN: 9781846882067 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: ALMA BOOKS
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I, Hogarth Michael Dean The artist’s life through the artist’s eyes... From a childhood spent in a debtor’s prison to his death in the arms of his wife, I, Hogarth follows the life of painter William Hogarth as he makes a name for himself and as he fights for artists with his Copyright Act. Through his lifelong marriage to Jane Thornhill, his inability to have children, his time as one of England’s best portrait painters, his old age and unfortunate dip into politics, and ultimately his death, I, Hogarth is the artist’s life through the artist’s eyes. Michael Dean is the author of Magic City, THORN, and Chomsky—A Beginner’s Guide.
PRICE: $32.99 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: ROYAL HARDBACK ISBN: 9780715643860 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: DUCKWORTH
White Truffles in Winter N. M. Kelby A breathtaking novel about the world’s greatest chef and his unruly heart White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions—kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry—Escoffier was also torn between two women: the famous, beautiful and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife, the independent and sublime poet Delphine Daffis. In the last year of Escoffier’s life, in the middle of writing his memoirs, he has returned to Delphine, who requests a dish in her name as he has honored Bernhardt, Queen Victoria, and many others. N. M.Kelby (Nicole Mary Kelby) is the critically acclaimed author of In the Company of Angels, Whale Season and A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts.
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San Miguel T. C. Boyle A vivid, sweeping historical novel of hard lives pitched against the elements from master of American fiction, the bestselling T. C. Boyle The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the island on New Year’s Day, 1888. Marantha looks at the cliffs falling into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life. Before long the constant wind and sheep-ravaged wasteland shatter her illusions; her husband promised paradise. As he obsessively resolves to stay—and becomes increasingly distant from her and her daughter, Edith—Maratha’s blighted lungs grow weaker in the dampness.
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Forty-two years later another family—and another bride—will arrive on San Miguel. But the unyielding island is haunted by its history; by stories of isolation, the desires of stubborn men, and the unbearable burden of love.
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T. C. Boyle’s novels include World’s End, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, TheTortilla Curtain, the New York Times bestseller, The Women and, most recently, When the Killing’s Done. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and he is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in California.
Finding Casey Jo-Ann Mapson A heart-warming story of love, family and the bond between sisters, from the author of Solomon’s Oak Glory Vigil, newly married and unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband Joseph have just moved to in Santa Fe. Their adopted daughter Juniper is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, from the day eight years earlier when her sister Casey disappeared—before she’d ever met Glory and Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo only a few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she thought she’d finally buried.
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Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of ten previous novels, including Solomon’s Oak, winner of the American Library Association’s 2011 RUSA Award for Women’s Fiction, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo, and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their four dogs.
ISBN: 9781408829264 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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The Infinite Tides Christian Kiefer An elegant, moving and deeply resonant debut novel about an astronaut’s return to earth and the losses he must confront Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran’s return to earth. He comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and his house empty of furniture. His role as a mathematical and engineering genius doesn’t help him to understand this alien silence, but a friendship with a neighbouring Ukrainian immigrant slowly helps him connect to the world around him. This nuanced portrait of two lives lived under the weight of gravity in modern America is deeply moving, tragicomic and ultimately redemptive. Christian Kiefer earned a PhD in American literature from the University of California, Davis, and is on the English faculty of American River College in Sacramento. He is also an accomplished songwriter and instrumentalist, known as a solo recording artist and as a collaborator with some of the leading lights of the indie rock scene.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: DEMY PB WITH FLAPS ISBN: 9781408828038 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS
A Fatal Debt John Gapper A gripping whodunit set in the financial world When Ben, a talented British psychiatrist working in New York, first meets Harry, the former chief executive of a failed Wall Street bank, he diagnoses him as suicidally depressed and admits him to hospital. But when pressure is brought by his superiors to discharge Harry, Ben must keep him under observation, and is slowly drawn into the financier’s gilded world, where nothing is what it first seems. After a colleague of Harry’s dies amid revelations of fraud, Ben realises he has made a terrible error that threatens both his career and his life. John Gapper is chief business commentator and associate editor of the Financial Times and a regular on the BBC and CNN. He has written extensively on Wall Street and the financial crisis, the future of the media and corporate crises such as the BP oil spill. His previous books include All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings and How to Be a Rogue Trader.
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Hard Twisted C. Joseph Greaves A true saga of innocence and evil, survival and redemption, set in the Depression-era American West In May 1934, outside Hugo, Oklahoma, Dillard Garrett and his thirteen-year-old daughter Lucile are befriended by a charismatic drifter by the name of Clint Palmer. Palmer lures them to Texas, where Dillard mysteriously disappears and Lucile begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer’s captive on a crime spree—culminating in the notorious Greenville, Texas ‘skeleton murder’ trial of 1935. Hard Twisted is an epic tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes and historic figures—and all rooted in the story of a young girl’s coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: DEMY PB WITH FLAPS ISBN: 9781408829240 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012
C. Joseph Greaves is a former L.A. trial lawyer now based in Santa Fe. He was inspired to write Hard Twisted following his discovery of two human skulls in a remote Utah canyon. The novel went on to be named Best Historical Novel of 2010 in the South West Writers international writing contest.
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The Sound of Things Falling Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Juan Gabriel Vásquez The brilliant dark new novel by the author of The Informers and the winner of Spain’s prestigious 2011 Alfaguara Prize No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in the billiard halls of Bogotá than young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio’s fascination with his new friend’s life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious cassette in an unmarked envelope. Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner; Yammara’s investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare. Vásquez is one of the leading novelists of his generation: The Sound of Things Falling is his finest novel to date. PRICE: $35.00 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: DEMY HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408825792 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He is the author of The Informers—short-listed for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (IFFP) and published in twelve languages—and The Secret History of Costaguana. Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.
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On 1 May 2012 Bloomsbury launches a new imprint:
Last year Bloomsbury celebrated its 25th birthday. From the beginning our aim was to publish the finest of international fiction and we now have a list filled with distinguished writers. So that Bloomsbury can continue to discover and grow exciting new voices, we have decided to launch Bloomsbury Circus. The books in Bloomsbury Circus will be mostly fiction, unashamedly literary, always fresh and sometimes surprising. In this digital age we are determined to make our books look more desirable and collectible than ever. Bloomsbury Circus books will be published as unusually-sized trade paperbacks with photographic covers, wide flaps and colour printing inside the cover. A circus, like a square or an avenue, is, of course, a place. Bloomsbury Circus will be a place of fine writing from many different countries. There will be exciting debuts and brilliant new novels from established writers. There will be ambitious writing and high-wire acts, too. There will be much to entertain, amaze and enjoy. Roll up, roll up...
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978 1 4088 0923 5 · May 2012
978 1 4088 2304 0 · June 2012
978 1 4088 2115 2 · August 2012
978 1 4088 1795 7 · September 2012
978 1 4088 2920 2 · October 2012
978 1 4088 2803 8 · November 2012
978 1 4088 2924 0 · December 2012
978 1 4088 2805 2 · January 2013
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At Home on the Range Margaret Yardley Potter & Elizabeth Gilbert A beautifully-written, witty, heartfelt cookbook from 1947 with an introduction from Elizabeth Gilbert, the author’s great-granddaughter
PRICE: $35.00 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408832288 PUB DATE: MAY 2012
Whilst moving house Elizabeth Gilbert stumbled upon boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother’s attic for decades. Among the dusty hardbacks was a gem called At Home on the Range by Gilbert’s great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter—a workaday cookbook devoted to seeking out epicurean adventures that was far ahead of its time. Stressing the importance of sourcing food locally and eating well, At Home on the Range is a humorous and eminently useable volume with original family recipes that reveals where Elizabeth Gilbert inherited her love of food and warm, infectious prose.
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Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love (now a major motion picture), its follow-up, Committed, and The Last American Man (nominated for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book). She lives in New Jersey.
Woolgathering Patti Smith The National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith, revisits her early years in this glittering memoir In this small, luminous memoir, Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self—and its ‘clear, unspeakable joy’—with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on New York’s MacDougal Street, the street of cafés. Woolgathering was completed on Patti Smith’s 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymond Foye’s Hanuman Books. Twenty years later, Bloomsbury is proud to present it in a much augmented edition, featuring a new introduction, new pieces as well as material that was omitted from the book’s first printing, including new photographs and illustrations. PRICE: $19.99 NZ$24.99 FORMAT: A-FORMAT HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408832301 PUB DATE: MAY 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
A writer, performer and visual artist, Patti Smith has exhibited her drawings and photographs internationally. She has recorded thirteen albums, launched by the seminal Horses in 1975. Her many books include Witt, Babel, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence and Just Kids, which won the National Book Award in 2010. Patti Smith lives in New York City.
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Everybody, Everyday Alex Mackay ‘Alex is an amazing cook and an inspirational writer, if you love cooking and want to learn from the best, this book is a must’ Justin North, Becasse 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: $39.99 NZ$49.99
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.
FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408810934 PUB DATE: JULY 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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 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.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831892 PUB DATE: JULY 2012
Ian Robertson is the author of Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your Brain’s Untapped Potential. He lives in Dublin.
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Eat and Run My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Scott Jurek An inspirational memoir by Scott Jurek, one of the finest ultrarunners in the world and a key figure in the international bestseller Born to Run Scott Jurek has been a dominant force in the gruelling sport of ultrarunning for more than a decade. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead in the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile jaunt over the Gold Rush trails of America’s Sierra Nevada. He went on to win that race seven years in a row. In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career as an elite athlete, and about the vegan diet that is key to his success. Full of stories of endurance and competition as well as practical advice and some of his original recipes, Eat and Run will motivate people to go the distance. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408833384 PUB DATE: JULY 2012
Scott Jurek is a world-renowned ultramarathon champion. He is known and admired for his earth-conscious lifestyle and is also a highly soughtafter motivational speaker, physical therapist, coach and chef.
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The Good Life The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World
Cheryl Mendelson An engaging and provocative look at the idea of a good life The Good Life is a deeply reasoned but entertaining polemic about how the notion of morality has been co-opted by the political right, as the culture increasingly embraces the shallow charms of celebrity, and lives comfortably with the notion that we are all driven, more or less, by greed and the desire for power over others. Mendelson, who is for gay rights, sexual equality, labour unions, and the strong regulation of business and finance, is decidedly conservative when it comes to personal morality. Provocative, inspiring, and deeply grounded, The Good Life shows that while the moral life is a hard road, the more of us who recognise that it is out there to be attempted, the better our culture will be. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408833674
Cheryl Mendelson is the author of the bestselling Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, as well as three novels. She lives in New York City.
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Team Spirit Life and leadership on one of the world’s toughest yacht races
Brendan Hall Brendan Hall was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the Clipper Race, yet his win was no accident. His no-holds-barred account is revealing and instructive, with valuable lessons in leadership and management—and never giving up Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge, and a young skipper’s determined journey to victory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge—a 35,000—mile circumnavigation of the globe—contested by amateur crews. Brendan Hall began sailing at the age of four in his home waters off Brisbane, and was 27 years old when the 2009/10 Clipper Race began. He transformed a motley crew of 18 amateur sailors into a race-winning sailing machine, as well as battling hurricane conditions and gear failure, and rescued two other yachts in the North Pacific Ocean.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408157237 PUB DATE: JULY 2012 IMPRINT: ADLARD COLES
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.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408181560
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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The Fate of the Species Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It
Fred Guterl A fascinating, sometimes terrifying look into the possible futures of the human species—and how we can survive
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK
The sixth ‘mass extinction event’ in the history of planet Earth is currently under way, with over two hundred species dying off every day. But for all our talk about sea levels and biotechnology, do we really know what our future will actually look like? Will our immune systems be attacked by so-called super bugs, always evolving, and more easily spread than ever? Will the disappearance of numerous species cripple the biosphere? And if it does, what happens then? This provocative, gripping book, explores these and other looming scenarios in vivid detail—the way they might really happen—and then proffers the means to avoid them.
ISBN: 9781608192588 PUB DATE: JULY 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Fred Guterl is executive editor of Scientific American. He has worked for Newsweek, appeared on CNN, and the Today Show to discuss popular issues in science. He lives in New Jersey.
The Great Survivors How Monarchy Made It Into the Twenty-first Century
Peter Conradi From the bestselling author of The King’s Speech At a time when Western society appears to be demanding more equality and democracy, people’s fascination with monarchies shows no signs of waning. In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europe’s royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind the pomp of the ceremonial garb and the grandeur of official functions. Taking the reader on a journey between past and present, into a world populated by great celebrities such as Wallis Simpson, Grace Kelly and Princess Diana, The Great Survivors provides a keyhole glimpse into their world, their lives and their secrets. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781846882159 PUB DATE: JULY 2012
Peter Conradi is an author and journalist. He works for the Sunday Times and his last book was The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy, made into a successful movie starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
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Every Grain of Rice Simple Chinese Home Cooking
Fuchsia Dunlop ‘Delicious and authentic Chinese food made clear, easy and accessible. Brilliant’ Jamie Oliver Every Grain of Rice offers traditional dishes that are adaptable, healthy and startlingly tasty. This is not an imitation of restaurantstyle food—it’s authentic home cooking. Fuchsia Dunlop 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. 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 The Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook. She lives in London.
PRICE: $55.00 NZ$69.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408802526 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Abbey Road The Best Studio in the World ‘If you believe, as I do, that a house has atmosphere, and is capable of absorbing the personalities and emotions of its inhabitants, you will have no difficulty in appreciating the unique quality of Abbey Road’ Sir George Martin Celebrate the world’s most famous recording studio with this incredible photographic collection. The creative home to artists including Glenn Miller, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Lady Gaga, Abbey Road Studios has been the home for thousands of inspirational albums, film scores and recordings, and continues to be the most innovative recording, postproduction and re-mastering complex in the world. With an introduction by Sir George Martin, this delightful book features a wealth of exclusive material from the Abbey Road Studios archives; including rare and previously unseen photographs from the studio’s 80 year history, landmark recordings and pioneering advances in recording technology. A must-have for anyone who values music and how it’s made.
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Marilyn The Passion and the Paradox
Lois Banner A revelatory new biography of Marilyn Monroe by a leading feminist scholar, containing never-before-seen pictures. Published on the 50th anniversary of her death
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Marilyn Monroe died on 5th August 1962. Since then, the appetite for information about Monroe has proved insatiable. Lois Banner’s new biography is revelatory. Banner had access to material no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, uncovering the sexual abuse she suffered and her bisexuality. She is also the first biographer to read Monroe’s psychiatric records, revealing a woman deeply rooted in paradox. No biographer before has attempted to analyse—much less realise— most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has.
FORMAT: ROYAL HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408814109 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Lois Banner was a founder of the field of women’s history and the first woman president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of ten books, including the acclaimed American Beauty and, most recently, MM—Personal. She is a professor of history and gender studies and lives in Southern California.
Little America The War Within the War for Afghanistan
Rajiv Chandrasekaran The startling, behind-the-scenes story of the struggle between the US President and the US military to remake Afghanistan The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and ‘60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis—known locally as ‘Little America’—and then the money ran out. Four decades later, Helmand was again the focus of US efforts, as waves of Marines descended on the region. Little America tells the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama’s watch. Has the war been worth the money and the bloodshed? Through vivid storytelling and on-theground reporting, Samuel Johnson Prize-winner Rajiv Chandrasekeran sets out to find the answer. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: DEMY PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831809 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor at the Washington Post. He served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Beyond the Blue Horizon How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Brian Fagan A vibrant history of how humans transformed the seas into highways that connected distant cultures and shaped world civilisation We know about Columbus and Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold voyages. Beyond the Blue Horizon tells the story of the enduring quest to master the planet’s most mysterious terrain. How did early sailors unlock the secrets of the winds, tides and the stars? And how did seafaring evolve so that the forbidding seas were transformed from barriers into a nexus of commerce and cultural exchange? From bamboo rafts in the Java Sea to triremes in the Aegean, from Norse longboats in the Atlantic to sealskin kayaks in Alaska, Fagan crafts a captivating narrative of humanity’s urge to seek out distant shores.
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Brian Fagan is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Elixir, Cro-Magnon, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming, and many other books, including Fish on Friday and The Little Ice Age.
ISBN: 9781408833544 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
POLPO A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts)
Russell Norman Venetian dishes from London’s hottest restaurant Hidden away in London’s edgy Soho district, POLPO is one of the most irrepressibly buzzing restaurants in town. In this understated bàcaro, Russell Norman serves up dishes from the back streets of Venice that are unfussy, innovative and delicious. It’s cooking that is surprisingly easy—a case of assembling a few ingredients into something utterly delicious—and the book’s 150 recipes include baby pizzas with courgettes, mint and chilli; linguine with clams; and little tiramisù pots. This is a beautiful book with luminescent photography by Jenny Zarins, who captures the unfrequented corners, the bustling bàcari and the unforgettable, sublime waterways of Venice. PRICE: $55.00 NZ$69.99
Russell Norman used to run some of the most venerated restaurants in London, including the Ivy, before turning his back on the high life, tattooing an octopus across his back and starting his own place in scruffy Soho. It was an instant hit and POLPO has been followed in quick succession by Polpetto, da Polpo, Spuntino and Mishkin’s. He lives in London.
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Fire in the Belly The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
Cynthia Carr The first full biography of legendary East Village artist and gay activist David Wojnarowicz, whose work continues to provoke twenty years after his death
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In December 2010, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington made headlines when it responded to protests from the Catholic League by voluntarily censoring an excerpt of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly from its show on American portraiture. Why a work of art could stir such emotions is at the heart of Cynthia Carr’s Fire in the Belly, the first biography of a beleaguered art-world figure who became one of the most important voices of his generation. Carr’s brilliant biography traces the untold story of this controversial and seminal figure at a pivotal moment in American culture.
FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781596915336 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Cynthia Carr was a columnist and arts reporter for the Village Voice. She is also the author of Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. She lives in New York.
A Fine Brother The Life of Captain Flora Sandes
Louise Miller The first authorised biography of the only British woman to enlist as a soldier in World War I
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The only woman to serve as a soldier in the First World War, the Englishwoman Flora Sandes became a hero and media sensation when she fought for the Serbian Army and pursued a distinguished career in its ranks as officer. This account charts her incredible story, from her tomboyish childhood in genteel Victorian England, her mission to Serbia as a Red Cross volunteer and subsequent military enrolment, her celebrity lecture tours of Europe, her marriage to a fellow officer and her survival of a Gestapo prison during the Second World War to her final years in Suffolk. Flora Sandes is brought to life and restored to her rightful place in history—compiled with the help of her family, and using hitherto unused private papers and photographs.
ISBN: 9781846881848 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012
This is Louise Miller’s first book.
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China in Ten Words Yu Hua People, Leader, Reading, Writing, Lu Xun, Disparity, Revolution, Grassroots, Copycat, Bamboozle From one of China’s most acclaimed writers this unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades sharply illuminates the country’s meteoric economic and social transformation. In ‘Disparity’ Yu Hua illustrates the mind-boggling economic gaps that separate citizens of the country. In ‘Copycat’ he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in ‘Bamboozle’ he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud and chicanery that are becoming a way of life at every level of society. China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world’s most populous yet most often misunderstood nation.
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In 2002, Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the James Joyce Award. His novel Brothers was short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize and awarded France’s Prix Courrier International. To Live was awarded Italy’s Premio Grinzane Cavour. He lives in Beijing.
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Elvis in Vegas Paul Lichter Go back to a magical time in Las Vegas when Elvis set up court and reigned as King From Elvis’s first appearance there at the age of twenty-one, to his marriage to Priscilla in 1967 at the Aladdin Hotel, to the annual ‘Elvis Festivals’ of the 1970s, Las Vegas witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of his life. With hundreds of never-before-seen photographs, this will become the must-have of any Elvis aficionado’s collection. It includes compiled setlists, news clippings, and interviews that fully tell the story of when the King came to Vegas.
PRICE: $39.99 NZ$49.99 FORMAT:HARDBACK ISBN: 9780715641729 PUB DATE: AUGUST 2012 IMPRINT: DUCKWORTH
Paul Lichter is considered an authority on all things Elvis. He attended over 850 of Elvis’s concerts and has published more than twenty bestselling books on his life and his music. He also runs ElvisUnique.com, featuring Elvis rarities and collectibles.
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Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2013 ‘The one-and-only, indispensable guide to the world of writing’ William Boyd This bestselling guide to all areas of the media, now in its 106th edition, has been completely revised and updated. With 100 articles written by successful authors and publishing insiders, it advises, guides and inspires writers and artists on how to get published. The 2013 edition includes new articles on, amongst other topics, memoir writing, apps, libraries and contains a wealth of practical information on a huge range of topics including copyright, finance, submitting a manuscript and marketing yourself and your writing. With nearly 4,500 entries in its up-to-date directory of media contacts, the Handbook is an in invaluable companion.
PRICE: $39.99 NZ$49.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408157497
Includes advice and inspiration from amongst others: William Dalrymple, Andrew Davies, Terry Pratchett, J. K. Rowling, Claire Tomalin, Joanna Trollope, Simon Winchester and experts across the publishing industry: agents, editors, marketing and technology gurus.
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The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl Celia Lewis
PRICE: $35.00 NZ$39.99
The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl covers the most familiar breeds of domestic ducks, geese, turkeys, peacocks, guineafowl and quail in Europe and North America, with concise text about each breed and illustrated with delightful paintings by the author. Introductory sections contain practical advice about poultry rearing and husbandry, and outline the differences between breeds, including the pros and cons of commercial and rare breeds, and selecting breeds for different kinds of meat.
FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408152645 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012
Celia Lewis is an accomplished artist and the author of the bestselling Illustrated Guide to Chickens and The Illustrated Guide to Pigs.
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My First Coup d’Etat Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa
John Dramani Mahama An important literary debut from the Vice President of Ghana, a memoir that offers a shimmering microcosm of post-colonial Africa My First Coup d’Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence ‘lost decades’ of Africa. He was seven years old when rumours of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than a year. My First Coup d’Etat offers a look at the country that has long been considered Africa’s success story. Mahama’s is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his book works as fables, as history, as cultural and political analysis, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408832684
His Excellency John Dramani Mahama is a writer, historian, communications expert, former member of Parliament and Minister of State, and sitting Vice President of the Republic of Ghana. He lives in Accra, Ghana.
PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty-one Crucial Puzzles Solved
John Mullan For all those who love and enjoy Jane Austen’s work and who would like to know it better From ‘Why is it dangerous to go the seaside?’ to ‘Which important Austen characters never speak?’, the answers to apparently trivial questions reveal essential hidden truths about Jane Austen’s fictional world. 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. Inspired by an enthusiastic reader’s curiosity, based on a lifetime’s study and written with flair. John Mullan 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 in 2009, he has lectured widely on Jane Austen in the UK and the US. He lives in London.
PRICE: $32.99 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: DEMY HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408820117 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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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 this is his bible. Having taken you through the basic techniques, Paul explains how to make an abundance of breads and patisseries including white bread, wholemeal bloomer, soda bread, breakfast rolls, chapattis, croissants, strudel and chocolate cake. With 120 easy-to-follow, reliable, utterly delicious recipes and excellent photography from Peter Cassidy, How to Bake is the answer to every baker’s prayers. PRICE: $45.00 NZ$55.00 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408819494 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012
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.
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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
PRICE: $39.99 NZ$49.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK
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: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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.
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El Clásico Barcelona v Real Madrid: Football’s Greatest Rivalry
Richard Fitzpatrick An investigation into the intrigue, politics and culture of the hard-fought, long-running contest between two of the world’s biggest football clubs Barcelona and Real Madrid: two of the most powerful and popular clubs in world football, and one of the world’s most bitter sporting rivalries. Going far beyond the boundaries of just sport alone, this battle is at the heart of Spanish life, taking in politics and culture and splitting a country in two. El Clásico investigates the intrigue, the larger-than-life characters, the key flashpoints and their consequences. Containing numerous interviews with key figures, this is a story with resonance around the sporting world, but it is also a tale of a country divided by a bitter rivalry. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99
Richard Fitzpatrick is a Barcelona-based correspondent with a focus on sport, in particular La Liga, which he covers for radio and the Irish Times and Irish Examiner newspapers.
FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408158791 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
How the Dog Became the Dog From Wolves to our Best Friends
Mark Derr ‘The most important book written on the subject since Konrad Lorenz wrote Man Meets Dog in 1949. This book will fascinate anyone who has ever loved a dog’ Scottie Westfall That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog illustrates how the dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soulmate. Mark Derr is the author of Dog’s Best Friend and A Dog’s History of America. He writes regularly for Atlantic Monthly, Natural History, Smithsonian and the New York Times. He lives in Miami Beach, Florida.
PRICE: $35.00 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9780715643013 PUB DATE: SEPTEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: DUCKWORTH
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Three Good Things Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall To tie in with the major 25-part TV series—recipes that put three good things together on a plate How often have you wished there was a magic formula to simplify cooking? Well, there is. While cooking, Hugh has noticed time and time again that three primary ingredients will often, when combined, set each other off and somehow make each ingredient taste more of itself. He has used this rule of three to create 200 recipes, both wellloved classics and brand new ideas, including rhubarb, yoghurt and granola; mussels, leeks and bacon; and peaches, cream and praline. With sumptuous photography from Simon Wheeler, this book will unlock a whole new world of fantastic food. Three Good Things. It really is that simple. PRICE: $55.00 NZ$69.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408828588 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards and sold over a million copies. Hugh lives in Devon with his family.
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The Food of Morocco Paula Wolfert The ultimate cookbook of Moroccan cuisine, irresistibly packaged
PRICE: $55.00 NZ$69.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK
According to Claudia Roden, ‘there is no book on the food of Morocco as good as Paula Wolfert’s. She is captivating and seductive as well as a brilliant guide to one of the great cuisines of the world.’ Paula is internationally regarded as an authority on Moroccan cooking and The Food of Morocco is her definitive book on this colourful, sumptuous, flavourful cuisine. The classical repertoire, which she covers comprehensively, ranges from fragrant tagines (like lamb, courgette and thyme) to delicate pastries dipped in honey. With sensational photography, this is an absolute must-have for anyone who loves North Africa and its food.
ISBN: 9781408827468 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Paula Wolfert is an expert on Mediterranean food and the multi-awardwinning author of eight previous cookbooks. Her book Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco was inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2008. She lives in California.
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A Prince Among Stones The Memoirs of Prince Rupert Loewenstein
Prince Rupert Loewenstein A wry, fascinating memoir revealing the complex relationship between an aristocratic financier and ‘the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world’ In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn’t understand why the Rolling Stones had no money. The man he asked to help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of rock’n’roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as ‘a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny’, usually enthralled but often bemused and exasperated.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK
Born in Palma, Majorca in 1933, Prince Rupert Loewenstein, of an offshoot of the Bavarian royal house of Wittelsbach, studied medieval history at Magdalen College, Oxford before joining the American stockbrokers Bache & Co. While a director of the merchant bank Leopold Joseph & Sons, he was introduced to Mick Jagger in 1968 and managed the Rolling Stones’ finances until 2005.
ISBN: 9781408832790 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Idiomantics The Weird and Wonderful World of Popular Phrases
Phillip Gooden & Peter Lewis The ideal gift for word buffs, language fiends, and anyone who just enjoys a good yarn Idiomantics is a unique exploration of the world of idiomatic phrases. Idioms are peculiar both in the sense of being particular or unique to the culture from which they originate, and in the sense of being downright odd. To cite three random examples—from American English, Dutch and Italian—what on Earth are a snow job, a monkey sandwich story, and Mr Punch’s secret? Fascinating and illuminating, Idiomantics explains all...this playful book looks at idioms around the world, looking at subjects such as fun and games, gastronomic delights and the daily grind. Phillip Gooden is author of the acclaimed Who’s Whose? and Faux Pas, also published by Bloomsbury. He has written several novels and taught English at secondary level for many years. Peter Lewis is an experienced reference publisher.
PRICE: $22.99 NZ$28.99 FORMAT: B-FORMAT HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408151440 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURUY
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Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King The bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome tells the extraordinary story of The Last Supper, one of the great works of Western art For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it ‘the keystone of European art’, and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic ‘miracle’. Ross King’s Leonardo and the Last Supper is both a biography of one of the most famous works of art ever painted and a record of Leonardo da Vinci’s last five years in Milan.
PRICE: $39.99 NZ$49.99
Ross King is the highly praised author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives just outside Oxford.
FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9780747599470 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
The Pirates! Band of Misfits: The Making of the Sony/ Aardman Movie An exclusive behind-the-scenes guide to tie in with the DVD release of The Pirates! Band of Misfits Packed with previously unseen material, including storyboards and designs for sets and key characters, this highly collectible full-colour book charts the journey from paper to screen: a five-year process for a crew of just 320 people—requiring 3,000 storyboard images, 19,456 square metres of foam board and 893 different mouths for the Pirate Captain alone. Also included are rare interviews with the directors and producers.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK
The Pirates! Band of Misfits: The Making of the Sony/Aardman Movie is a must-have for the many fans of the film, and for anyone interested in the methods and eccentricities of Aardman, our most quintessentially British animation studio.
ISBN: 9781408832905 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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Evil Knits 20 Projects that go Bump in the Night
Hannah Simpson Twenty evil projects, ranging from freak-show oddities to carnival curios This book includes instructions for knitting a voodoo doll, gravestones, ghosts, cymbal-clashing moneys, freakshow finger puppets, creepy clowns, zombies and many more fiendish characters. The patterns included in the book assume a basic level of knitting skill including casting on and off, knit stitch, purl stitch, increases, decreases and knitting in the round. Each project has full and detailed instructions, but there are tips a-plenty on customising your evil knitted items to truly make each project your own, offering something for beginners and advanced knitters alike.
PRICE: $19.99 NZ$24.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408147061 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: A&C BLACK
Hannah Simpson’s first knitting project aged six, a misshapen and holey scarf, was terrifying for all the wrong reasons. She has since had lots of practice. A die-hard horror and science fiction fan, she combined her interests, leaving behind the traditional world of knitting to create armies of knitted zombies and classic horror characters, which have appeared in print worldwide.
I Kick Therefore I Am The Little Book of Premier League Wisdom
Tyers & Beach A small book of spoof self-help philosophy written by a Premier League footballer Ronnie Matthews is a Premier League legend who thinks that little bit bigger. In his career he has known the incredible highs of an England cap (sent off versus San Marino) and relationships with some of Big Brother’s most stunning contestants to the lows of a Turkish jail and a radio show with Ian Wright. Illustrated by Ronnie in a style he describes as ‘David James meets Athena poster’, I Kick Therefore I Am guides the reader through some of life’s biggest questions—death, religion, money, cars and Twitter—in an indispensable pocket-sized book of wit and wisdom.
PRICE: $17.99 NZ$22.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK
Tyers and Beach are a classic big man-small man author-illustrator partnership and are responsible for the acclaimed W. G. Grace Ate My Pedalo, CrickiLeaks and Gin and Juice: The Victorian Guide to Parenting.
ISBN: 9781408832769 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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Edward Gorey
Saint Melissa the Mottled A hilarious, irreverent, and never-before-seen work available for the first time
PRICE: $16.99 NZ$21.99
Saint Melissa was canonised not for her performance of healing miracles and martyrdom, but despite (or because of?) her Miracles of Destruction-rough-and-tumble hijinks and dabbles in the supernatural. She caused the arm of the cricket-mad eleven-year-old Duke of Dimgreen to permanently wither. She intoxicated Lady Isabel with a harmless punch of fruit juices. She called a battalion of seagulls to attack the children in her charge and then accepted reward for fighting them off.
FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781608198856 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Instead of the skills proper young ladies studied, Saint Melissa was adept at the bringing on of migraines, the refinement of lust, and the involutions of penmanship and calligrams. And, as Gorey notes, ‘letters she wrote are still to be delivered, traps she set are still to be sprung, pronouncements she devised are still to be promulgated, objects she hid are still to be found’.
A Halloween Treat A brand new Gorey gem for Halloween—and a collection of his ghosts, ghouls, spectres, and spooks
PRICE: $16.99 NZ$21.99
In A Halloween Treat, kids and cats go trick or treating, and gather loot that might be tricks—or perhaps the best treat imaginable: their very own monsters. Turn the book over to its back cover to read from the other direction, and you’ll delve into a collection of Gorey’s ghosts, curated from his extensive oeuvre. Charmingly spooky, these ghastly phantasms come in all shapes and sizes—the perfect thing to curl up with on a chilling Halloween night.
FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781608196166 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
A Halloween Treat was published in Family Circle in the late 1980s and hasn’t resurfaced since. This is that story’s first appearance in book form.
Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000) was a truly prodigious and original artist. His masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humour have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world.
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The Universal Sense How Hearing Shapes the Mind
Seth S. Horowitz, PhD A fascinating exploration of how our sense of hearing manipulates the way we think, consume, sleep, and feel Every day, we are beset by millions of sounds—ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of an air conditioner, as well as more pronounced sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. But how do we process what we hear every day? Starting with the basics of the biology, neuroscientist and musician Seth Horowitz explains how sound affects us, and in turn, how we’ve learned to manipulate sound: into music, commercial jingles, car horns, and modern inventions like cochlear implants, ultrasound scans and the mosquito ringtone. This book gives new insight into what the sounds of our world have to do with the way we think, feel and interact.
PRICE: $27.99 NZ$35.00 FORMAT: HARDBACK
Seth S. Horowitz, PhD, is an assistant research professor in the departments of neuroscience and psychology at Brown University. He is the co-founder of NeuroPop, the first sound design and consulting firm to use neurosensory and psychophysical algorithms in music, sound design, and sonic branding. He lives in Rhode Island.
ISBN: 9781608190904 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Volcker The Triumph of Persistence
William L. Silber The biography of a true financial hero who saved America’s financial system from collapse—based on complete access to Volcker’s papers and candid first-hand testimony from the man himself Five American presidents, three Democrats and two Republicans, spanning nearly half a century, have called on Paul A. Volcker to serve the government and the people of the United States. But this is more than just the story of a financial icon. It is the story of a battle for fiscal responsibility in America. Volcker demonstrated that a determined central banker can prevail by resisting the political pressure to abandon monetary restraint. Volcker’s toughness and independence laid the foundation for a generation of economic stability. Silber delivers a gripping Volcker’s-eye-view of the three greatest financial crises since the Great Depression.
PRICE: $35.00 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781608190706 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012
William L. Silber is one of America’s most respected experts on finance and banking.
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Legends of the Samurai Hiroaki Sato ‘A welcome antidote to the one-dimensional image of the samurai...a revealing, entertaining, and often surprising portrait of pre-modern Japan’s heroic warrior elite’ Mangajin Over the decades the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, from the films of Kurasawa in the 1950s to recent critical successes such as Zatoichi and 13 Assassins. Legends of the Samurai reveals both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors and chronicling the changing ethos of the Japanese warrior from the samurai’s historical origins to his rise to political power.
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Hiroaki Sato is a poet, translator, journalist and the former President of the Haiku Society of America. The winner of the PEN translation prize for From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, he also translated the ancient treatise on Japanese swordsmanship, The Sword and the Mind. He lives in New York City.
ISBN: 9780715643631 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: DUCKWORTH
Why did nobody tell me? Home Truths Every Parent Needs to Know
Natasha Joffe & Justine Roberts Provocative, funny, indispensable, inimitable, and a triumph of commonsense over hysteria, this is the book parents everywhere have been crying out for Does the thought of waiting at the school gate make you more nervous than your five-year-old? Do you find yourself sometimes tempted to just let your children fight to the death? And does flicking through childcare books leave you feeling mostly bewildered and blamed? This book is what you have been waiting for...
PRICE: $19.99 NZ$24.99 FORMAT: B-FORMAT PAPERBACK
From tantrums to teenagers, parasites to parties, competitive parenting to choosing the right school, Why Did Nobody Tell Me? will arm you with the insight that usually only comes with hindsight (as well as teaching you how to make a very classy Easter bonnet out of a KFC bucket).
ISBN: 9781408822265 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Created by two new mothers, Justine Roberts and Carrie Longton, Mumsnet is widely regarded as the UK’s leading online parenting community.
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David Bowie Style Danny Lewis David Bowie is renowned for his innovative styles; from androgynous leotards and space-age jumpsuits to shortcut blazers and distressed frock coats. With an estimated 136 million album sales under his belt, and over a thousand international tour dates, Bowie has captured the attention of rock fans everywhere Crammed with fabulous photographs, this book is a stunning fashion retrospective of the iconic and well-loved rockstar. Apart from documenting five decades of Bowie’s style, it also explores influences that have shaped him, and his influence on others in turn. David Bowie Style is a must for die-hard Bowie fans and fashion lovers. PRICE: $39.99 NZ$49.99
Danny Lewis has worked as a writer and editor for many years, including stints in publishing houses in Switzerland and Australia. He has also spent a good deal of time in the underground music scene in London, running clubs and playing in bands, which has left him with an enduring love of rock music.
FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408173763 PUB DATE: OCTOBER 2012 IMPRINT: A&C BLACK
Decades 100 Years of Style and Fashion
Cameron Silver A gorgeous, decade-by-decade showcase of the twentieth century’s most iconic and modern moments in fashion What have flappers got in common with punks? Which glittering couple let birds and monkeys roam free in their home? How did Sharon Stone’s T-shirt redefine haute couture? It’s all in Decades, a gorgeous volume that gives a totally new perspective on the history of fashion and what it took to be a style icon in the twentieth century. Cameron Silver’s pithy commentary is accompanied by 200 extraordinary archival photographs, each of which is startlingly current: it seems that the alchemy of dazzling clothing worn with poise and personality is a kind of magic that just doesn’t date.
PRICE: $79.99 NZ$89.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408806364
Cameron Silver opened the exclusive Decades salon in Los Angeles in 1997 and he was named one of Time’s ‘25 most Influential Names in Fashion’ in 2002. Today he is a favourite pundit on television channels E! Entertainment and the Style Network, and a contributing editor at Departures, C and Harper’s Bazaar.
PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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The Complete Nose to Tail A Kind of British Cooking
Fergus Henderson Fergus Henderson’s two classic Nose to Tail books in a single, covetable volume with new recipes and photography
PRICE: $79.99 NZ$89.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK
When in 1994 Fergus Henderson opened St. John, now one of the world’s most admired restaurants, his ethos of Nose to Tail eating changed the landscape of British cooking for good. Unsurprisingly, his two cookbooks gained a cult following. Now, for the first time, all these recipes (which range from Eccles cakes to roast whole suckling pig) will be published in a single book. With a dozen new recipes on top of the 250 existing ones, exceptional production values and more than 100 beautiful, witty photographs from Jason Lowe, The Complete Nose to Tail is not only comprehensive but completely irresistible.
ISBN: 9781408809167 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Fergus Henderson trained as an architect before becoming a chef. He opened the French House Dining Room in 1992 before two years later starting St. John, which is on the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. Fergus continues to develop projects in the principle of Nose to Tail Eating.
The Phantom Army of Alamein How Churchill’s Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel
Rick Stroud The unlikely story of the Camouflage Unit in the Battle of Alamein, told in full detail for the first time In 1940 a group of artists, filmmakers and set-painters were brought together to form the Camouflage Unit and use their storytelling skills to deceive the enemy. In August 1942 the unit was ordered by Montgomery to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein, and ‘Operation Bertram’ was born. In six weeks two divisions, with armour and supporting vehicles, were conjured from the sand, while real tanks and field guns vanished from sight. Rick Stroud tells, in more detail than ever before, the extraordinary story of how some of Britain’s most creative minds played a vital role in winning that crucial battle. PRICE: $35.00 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: ROYAL HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408829103 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Rick Stroud is a film and television director, whose credits include Brideshead Revisited and Monarch of the Glen. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and co-author with Victor Gregg of Rifleman. He lives on a houseboat in Chelsea, London.
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Unbored The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun
Elizabeth Foy Larsen, Joshua Glenn & Tony Leone The most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published Vibrantly designed, lavishly illustrated, Unbored is crammed with activities that are not only fun but also designed to get kids engaged with the wider world. Just as they begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages using those tech skills to be creative, try new things and change the world. And it encourages parents to participate. Unbored is exciting to read, easy to use and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humour. Kids will just think it’s awesome.
PRICE: $27.99 $35.00 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781608196418 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
Contributors include Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE magazine; Colin Beavan, the No Impact Man; Douglas Rushkoff, renowned media theorist; Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG; John Edgar Park, a CG supervisor at DisneyToon Studios; and Jean Railla, founder of GetCrafty.com and Etsy consultant.
Rabid Are You Crazy About Your Dog or Just Crazy?
Pamela Redmond Satran A funny, fun, fully illustrated look at over-the-top dogs and their owners Dogs now dominate the $55-billion-a-year pet business in the US. Canine worship has escalated, with new options like doggie treadmills, dog swimming pools, caffeine-free doggie coffee, doggie massage, dog perfume, aromatherapy, hair colouring, and yes, doggie tattoos. Gone are the days when the most a dog could look forward to was a brisk walk: today’s spoilt pooches go to Doggie Daycare, eat brightlyfrosted martini-shaped doggie treats, wear designer tutus and, when it’s time to settle down and think about puppies, they get married on the beach. With hilarious full-colour illustrations throughout, Rabid is a startling insight into the real world of dog-mania.
PRICE: $22.99 NZ$28.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK
Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of the New York Times bestselling humour book How Not to Act Old as well as seven novels and eight baby name books. She contributes to publications including the New York Times, Daily Beast, Glamour and More.
ISBN: 9781408832806 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY
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Spectrums Our Mindboggling Universe From Infinitesimal to Infinity
David Blatner A guide to the intricacies of the world around us
PRICE: $35.00 NZ$39.99 FORMAT: ROYAL HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408828632 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012
Any broad range of characteristics can be defined as a spectrum. In his new book, David Blatner investigates spectrums including numbers, light, sound, temperature, distance and time. With humour and insight he shows how to understand the apparently inconceivable. Did you know that if the earth was the size of a grain of salt, our solar system would be 450 miles wide? Or that no matter how chilly it is outside, it’s physically impossible to reach to a temperature of absolute zero? Or that the colour magenta doesn’t really exist? If you know how to look, the world is an extraordinary place.
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David Blatner is the award-winning author of books including The Joy of Pi and The Flying Book. His books have been translated into more than ten languages. He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.
Mirror Earth The Search for Our Planet’s Twin
Michael D. Lemonick The dramatic race to be the first to find an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining life as we know it… In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. More than 500 planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support life. Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Mirror Earth unveils these exoplaneteers as they call themselves, passionate quest. Unlike those in other races, the competing scientists actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth’s twin. Mirror Earth is poised to narrate this historic event as the discovery is made. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9780802779007 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: WALKER BOOKS
Michael Lemonick has written more than fifty Time magazine cover stories on science, medicine and the environment. He also has been published in Discover, New Scientist, Newsweek, National Geographic, Wired, and Scientific American. He is the author of four books, most recently Echo of the Big Bang and The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos.
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A to Z of Hollywood Style Sinty Stemp Learn the secrets of style from the stars A to Z of Hollywood Style brings together style advice from the good, the bad and the beautiful to explore the allure of some of the world’s best-loved film stars: Alfred Hitchcock on elegance, Sophia Loren on sex appeal and Edith Head explaining exactly how to make a woman more beautiful. This book includes the opinions of critics, designers and film directors, as well as the actors themselves. Sinty Stemp is the author of Jean Muir: Beyond Fashion and co-author of The Glamour of Bellville Sassoon. She previously worked with the British fashion designer Jean Muir and has lectured widely on Muir. PRICE: $24.99 NZ$29.99 FORMAT: A-FORMAT HARDCOVER ISBN: 9781851777112 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: V&A
Hollywood Costume Deborah Nadoolman Landis This landmark book celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer’s contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered ‘costume’, Hollywood Costume reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about people and it is the art of the costume designer who helps create those characters. This book looks at this process of transformation by analyzing some of the finest and most eclectic costumes from the most beloved films of the last 100 years including The Tramp, Ben Hur, Cleopatra, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ocean’s Eleven, Sherlock Holmes and Avatar.
PRICE: $69.99 NZ$85.00 FORMAT: HARDCOVER ISBN: 9781851777099
Deborah Nadoolman Landis is the Academy Award nominated costume designer of Coming to America. Her other costume credits include The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
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Prairie Fever Peter Pagnamenta How British aristocrats laid claim to the American West From the 1830s onward, a succession of well-born Britons headed west to the great American wilderness to find adventure and fulfillment. But as the British blue bloods became big American landowners, they found themselves attacked and reviled as land vultures and accused of attempting a new colonisation. In a final denouement, Congress moved against the foreigners and passed a law to stop them from buying land. I n fascinating and often comic detail, Peter Pagnamenta shows the enthusiasm of the British for new horizons in the age of empire, set against the rise of a modern nation that would soon eclipse them. PRICE: $39.99 NZ$49.99 FORMAT: ROYAL HARDBACK ISBN: 9780715643723
Historian Peter Pagnamenta has produced many documentaries for the BBC including the award-winning People’s Century. He is a former editor of Panorama, the flagship weekly current affairs programme.
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The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2013 edited by Steven Lynch A page-per-player guide to the world’s top 200 cricketers in the coming season
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With Tests and One Day Internationals now joined by Twenty20 games, there is more international cricket than ever. But how do you keep track of all the players? The 2013 edition of this already popular annual paperback contains crisply-written profiles of everyone expected to appear in a Test match in 2013. The 200 players featured all get a full-page treatment, with a photograph alongside a career summary in words, facts and figures. And to back up the profiles, there are quick-fire records for every country, and up-to-date statistics from www.cricinfo.com. The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2013 is the essential companion for every cricket lover ahead of a packed international season.
ISBN: 9781408172216 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: WISDEN
Deputy Editor of Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack since 2005 and Editor of Wisden on the Ashes, Steven Lynch is a leading cricket writer.
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50 Licks Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones
Peter Fornatale with Bernard M. Corbett An illustrated, anecdotal and history of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the 50th year—featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band On July 12, 1962, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song debuted at the Marquee Club in London. They were the Rolling Stones and, half a century later, they are still one of the biggest bands in the world, playing sell-out arena shows around the world and beloved by millions. 50 Licks commemorates their unparalleled achievement in rock music. Based on a series of neverbefore-published interviews with the band and the people closest to them, and illustrated with photographs and artwork, 50 Licks will be the book to own in celebration of the Rolling Stones 50th anniversary.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408833827
Pete Fornatale is an award-winning broadcaster who has been a fixture on the New York radio scene for the past 40 years. Bernard M. Corbett is the author and co-author of fifteen books. He lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and is a lifelong Rolling Stones fan.
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Who Moved My Stilton? The Victorian Guide to Getting Ahead in Business
Tyers & Beach An uproarious guide to getting ahead in business...the Victorian way… from the irreverent authors of Gin & Juice Follow in the footsteps of the world’s first capitalists and discover how to build a commercial empire that will stand the test of time. Forged in the white heat of the industrial revolution, Who Moved My Stilton? reveals the practical skills that every modern professional needs to get ahead in the workplace, including: what to do when the customer is literally King, how to harness the opportunities provided by the Junior Apprentice system, and the use of opium in sales and marketing. This book will change the way you think about business (and cheese) forever. PRICE: $19.99 NZ$24.99
Tyers and Beach met at Sir John Paul Getty’s private cricket ground. Tyers was opening the batting; Beach was eyeing up the cake stand. A shared love of wordplay and ironic anachronism ensured their collaboration continued beyond the tea interval, onto the acclaimed W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo, Gin & Juice and beyond.
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Whitaker’s Almanac 2013 Quite simply, the perfect book for anyone interested in current affairs and general knowledge Whitaker’s Almanack 2013 is the definitive reference guide. In its 145th edition, the book has been completely revised and updated, using the most authoritative sources available. The Almanack contains a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and an excellent introduction to world politics. It will save hours of research and cross-referencing between different sources.
PRICE: $99.00 NZ$130.00 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408172070 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: YEARBOOKS
Whitaker’s Little Book of Knowledge A unique ready-reference of fascinating facts presented in a quirky yet authoritative way—a treasure-trove of trivia! An authoritative, quirky trivia book containing thousands of general knowledge gems: from everything you learned at school to lists of contemporary ‘top-tens’, mini-biographies of famous artists and writers, plus condensed guides to works of art and literature. It also features humorous entries on forgotten treasures from different decades and a stand-alone sport chapter with guides to both wellknown and obscure sports and short biographies of the world’s greatest sporting heroes. Facts are both newly researched and drawn from the rich treasuretrove of the Whitaker’s Almanack archive, which dates back to 1868— a unique ready-reference for every trivia buff. PRICE: $24.99 NZ$29.99 FORMAT: A-FORMAT HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408178300 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: YEARBOOKS
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Ralph Steadman’s Extinct Boids Ralph Steadman & Ceri Levy Cartoonist and national treasure Ralph Steadman’s unique take on a variety of extinct birds. When the renowned cartoonist Ralph Steadman was asked to produce a piece for a recent exhibition of bird art, he got slightly carried away— an astonishing 100 paintings later and Ralph Steadman’s Extinct Boids was born. These remarkable pieces of art include Steadman’s unique interpretations of well-known birds such as the Great Auk and Dodo, along with less familiar members of the avian firmament−Snail-eating Coua, for example−and a handful of bizarre creations such as the Gob Swallow, the Nasty Tern and Needless Smut, all with a riot of colour and a slice of trademark Steadman humour. PRICE: $59.99 NZ$75.00
Ralph Steadman is a world-renowned cartoonist and caricaturist who first burst onto the scene by providing the illustrations for Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Since the 1960s he has worked on projects as diverse as Private Eye and Punch, illustrations for collections of poetry by Ted Hughes, Alice in Wonderland and Animal Farm. His books include Gonzo—The Art, Doodaaa: The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge and The Joke’s Over.
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Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa A Biography through Images
Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi A unique insight into the people and places that inspired the author of The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s masterpiece, The Leopard, captured Sicilian traditional society in a period of transition when faced with modernity and political upheaval. Written by Lampedusa’s nephew and heir, this new illustrated biography—which includes a wealth of unpublished pictures from Lampedusa’s private albums in Casa Butera and documents from his family archive, as well as a foreword by Lampedusa biographer David Gilmour—explores all the people and places that were dear to the great Sicilian master and are essential for a fuller understanding of his work. Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi is the nephew of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the famous author of The Leopard, editor of the Lampedusa corpus and executor of his estate. He has also written various art-history books on Sicily including Villas in Palermo and Sicilian Castles and Monasteries.
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The War We Never Fought The British Establishment’s Surrender to Drugs
Peter Hitchens Peter Hitchens demolishes the arguments for liberalising legislation on drugs and offers a brilliant critique of the cannabis lobby and its intellectual and moral shallowness We are told daily that the failed ‘War on Drugs’ should be abandoned. But Britain’s political, legal and police establishment long ago gave up any serious attempt to restrict drug-taking in this country. Public opinion was placated by statements about ‘evil drug dealers’ and futile seizures, while crucial laws were neutralized to the point of meaninglessness. Can it be that campaigners for further legal relaxation simply want the freedom to sell—and tax—these substances? PRICE: $39.99 NZ$49.99 FORMAT: DEMY HARDBACK ISBN: 9781441173317 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: CONTINUUM
Peter Hitchens is a journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington, DC. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday. He won the journalism category in the 2010 George Orwell Prize for this correspondence.
The Power of Silence Travels in a Forgotten World
Graham Turner In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise; but silence can change your life and this book explains why and how Silence is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by turning up the volume control. Graham Turner explores the power that can be found in silence through interviewing monastics, religious leaders, composers, actors, psychotherapists, prisoners and peace workers about their experiences of practising silence. Ranging from Christian contemplation in the Egyptian desert to vipassana meditation in India, from the shared silence of Quaker meetings in Oxford to the profound stillness of the Alps, this is a powerful book about a great gap in modern human awareness. PRICE: $39.99 NZ$49.99 FORMAT: ROYAL HARDBACK ISBN: 9781441182234 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: CONTINUUM
After gaining a first class degree at Oxford, Graham Turner worked for The Scotsman and The Sunday Times. He then became nationally recognised as the BBC’s first Economics Correspondent. Thereafter he worked for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He lives in Oxford.
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Gravity Why What Goes Up Must Come Down
Brian Clegg How the weakest force in the Universe shapes our lives Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton managed to predict the force of gravity but couldn’t explain how it worked at a distance. Then Einstein picked up on the simple premise that gravity and acceleration are interchangeable to devise his mind-bending general relativity. Not only did this explain how gravity worked but it predicted everything from black holes to gravity’s effect on time. Whether it’s the reality of anti-gravity or the unexpected discovery that a ball and a laser beam drop at the same rate, gravity is the force that fascinates. Brian Clegg is the author of How to Build a Time Machine. He holds a physics degree from the University of Cambridge and has written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous magazines. He lives in Wiltshire, England.
PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9780715644072 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: DUCKWORTH
Momofuku Milkbar Christina Tosi An original collection of recipes giving bakers and lovers of all things sweet a brand new taste sensation Chef and owner of Momofuku Milk Bar, Christina Tosi brings you a complete, genuinely original, anthology of sweet recipes that are incomparable. At a time when baking has found itself a new home in our hearts, this collection of recipes is perfect for cookie, pie and cake addicts who need their surgery fix. With a delightful foreword by dazzling chef David Chang, Momofuku Milk Bar is a perfect desertfilled complement to Chang’s Momofuku Cookbook. Christina’s collection is brimming with new taste sensations. PRICE: $49.99 NZ$59.99
Christina Tosi is the chef and owner of Momofuku Milk Bar. She has recreated her incredible sweets in front of millions on The Martha Stewart Show. She founded the dessert programme at Momofuku, helping Momofuku Ko to earn its two Michelin stars and establishing Momofuku Ssäm at number 31 of the San Pellegrino Top 100 Restaurants list.
FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781906650780 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2011 IMPRINT: ABSOLUTE PRESS
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The Square The Cookbook Volume 1: Savoury
Phil Howard The first part of an extraordinary two-volume work from two-Michelin-star chef, Phil Howard
PRICE: $69.99 NZ$85.00 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781906650599 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: ABSOLUTE PRESS
Regarded amongst his peers as one of the world’s great culinary technicians, his lifetime of dedication and creativity have gone into writing a monumental two-volume work of culinary creativity and technical expertise. This first volume covers Howard’s savoury recipes, giving precise instructions on how to create food of top Michelin standard. Meticulous, detailed and fiercely intelligent, this is a book that will set the benchmark for works of the highest culinary ambition. Contains more than 100 in-depth savoury recipes, each beautifully recorded by award-winning photographer Jean Cazals, which showcase Howard’s incredible gift. Phil Howard is a two-Michelin-star chef who has been at the helm of The Square restaurant for 20 years. He remains one of the most innovative and important chefs in the UK and far beyond. He won the ‘Chef Award’ at the 1998 Cateys at the age of just 31, some two years before his contemporary Gordon Ramsay.
Cinnamon Kitchen The Cookbook
Vivek Singh A cookbook of modern Indian dishes from master Indian chef and award-winning author, Vivek Singh
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The Cinnamon Kitchen is the sibling of the great restaurant The Cinnamon Club, where chef Vivek Singh made his name and helped spearhead a new and exciting direction for Indian food. As Executive Chef, Vivek has brought his talents to create new and exciting dishes, with fresh modern twists, and this cookbook is a collection of the very best of them. From Scottish Angus Fillet with Masala Potato Chips to Black Leg Chicken with Fresh Fenugreek, Singh marries ingredients and techniques from around the world with the traditions and flavours of Indian cuisine to create something truly unique and exciting.
ISBN: 9781906650803 PUB DATE: NOVEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: ABSOLUTE PRESS
Vivek Singh is Executive Head Chef of the world-famous Cinnamon Club and its sister venue, Cinnamon Kitchen. Vivek is an award-winning cookery book author and celebrity chef, and is justly regarded as one of the most innovative Indian chefs around.
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Atul’s Curries of the World Atul Kochhar A book of world curries from one of the world’s greatest exponents of the art, award-winning, Michelin-starred chef, Atul Kochhar A book for spice lovers of all cuisines. Atul explores curries of the world, looking to his native India, of course, but also to Asia and Africa, to the Americas and Europe. Curry remains one of the world’s most popular dishes and Atul’s collection of mouth-watering dishes does more than enough to convince us why. Over 100 recipes show curry in all its fantastic forms. Inspiring, intoxicating spiced dishes that cover meat, fish and vegetable curries from all corners of the globe: this promises to be a book you will cook from again and again.
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Atul Kochhar is one of the world’s leading Indian chefs and food writers, with a vast knowledge and passion for curry. The face of Indian cooking on British television, his Michelin-starred restaurant, Benares, is one of London’s flagship destinations to eat out.
ISBN: 9781906650797 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: ABSOLUTE PRESS
Beyond Essence New Recipes from Le Champignon Sauvage
David Everitt-Matthias ‘He is the quiet superstar’ Jay Kayner Everitt-Matthias is one of the world’s great chefs. Two award-winning and bestselling books already testify to his ability to transfer his gift for creating incredible food onto the page. Beyond Essence shows a marked evolution in his recipes, with inflections and techniques drawn from David’s ever-expanding knowledge, love of exciting ingredients and new movements from around the world, which he pairs perfectly with classic traditions. Marrying big flavours and an ability to make ingredients taste more of themselves than seems possible remain the hallmarks of his food. One of the must-have books of the year for chefs and keen amateurs.
PRICE: $49.99 NZ$59.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781906650780 PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2012 IMPRINT: ABSOLUTE PRESS
David Everitt-Matthias is the epitome of the ‘chef’s chef’. His 2-Michelinstar restaurant, Le Champignon Sauvage, goes from strength to strength. His first book, Essence, won a World Gourmand Award. His second book, Dessert, won the World Gourmand Award runner-up prize for ‘Best World Cookery Book’.
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Bloomsbury commenced supplying Continuum in April 2012. Continuum publish across film & media, history, linguistics, philosophy, politics, education and much more. We’ve highlighted some forthcoming releases for you below.
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Rudin Ivan Turgenev New translation of one of the most celebrated novels by the author of Fathers and Children Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence, eloquence and conviction immediately make a powerful impression. As he stays on longer than intended, Rudin exerts a strong influence on the younger generation, and gradually Darya’s daughter, Natalya, falls in love with him. But circumstances soon show whether Rudin has the courage to act on his beliefs, and whether he can live up to the image he has created for himself. Ivan Turgenev (1818–83) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His masterpiece, Fathers and Children, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
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Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline New, revised edition of Céline’s masterpiece First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person, the novel is based on the author’s own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA—where he worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit—and later as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Céline’s disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives it its force.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) was one of the most controversial novelists of the twentieth century, a writer who mixed realism with imaginative fantasy and an iconoclast who shocked many of his readers.
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Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau The only edition in print of one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century French literature On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes it. Later, in another part of town, the man is spotted again, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat. Exercises in Style retells this apparently unremarkable tale ninety-nine times, employing a variety of styles, ranging from sonnet to cockney to mathematical formula. Too funny to be merely a pedantic thesis, this virtuoso set of themes and variations is a linguistic rustremover, a guide to literary forms and a demonstration of imagery and inventiveness. PRICE: $19.99 NZ$24.99 FORMAT: HARDCOVER ISBN: 9781847492418
Raymond Queneau (1903–76) was a poet, novelist, editor, scholar and mathematician. He is best remembered for Exercises in Style and Zazie in the Metro.
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London Bridge Louis-Ferdinand Céline A major work by one of France’s most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War Picking up where its predecessor, Guignol’s Band, left off, Céline’s semi-autobiographical narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition); his uneasy relationship with London’s pimps and whores and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard; and, most scandalously, his affair with a baronet’s fourteen-year-old daughter, an English angel whose descent into vice is suspiciously smooth.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) was one of the most controversial novelists of the twentieth century, a writer who mixed realism with imaginative fantasy and an iconoclast who shocked many of his readers.
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The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri A new verse translation by acclaimed prize-winning translator J. G. Nichols Dante’s dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption—and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints—is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. Born in Florence, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is considered to be the father of Italian poetry and one of the greatest influences in world literature. His masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is the zenith of medieval knowledge and a paragon of poetic imagination. Its first part, Inferno, remains one of the most popular books of all time. PRICE: $29.99 NZ$36.99 FORMAT: HARDCOVER ISBN: 9781847492463 IMPRINT: ALMA CLASSICS
Supernatural Short Stories Charles Dickens The only single-volume edition in print of Charles Dickens’s tales of the supernatural Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection gathers them together in one volume, providing an invaluable insight into the author’s storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence. A literary phenomenon in his lifetime and renowned as much for his journalism and public speaking as for his novels, Charles Dickens (1812– 70) now ranks as the most important Victorian writer and one of the most influential and popular authors in the English language. His memorable and vividly rendered characters and his combination of humour, trenchant satire and compassion have left an indelible mark on our collective imagination.
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Index 50 Licks 47 A Cruel Bird Came Into the Nest and Looked In 60 A Fatal Debt 15 A Fine Brother 28 A Halloween Treat 38 A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar 5 A More Perfect Heaven 63 A New History of Documentary Film 54 A Prince Among Stones 35 A to Z of Hollywood Style 45 A Year in the Villiage of Eternity 62 Abbey Road 25 Abdication 3 Across the Bridge 59 Ada’s Rules 2 Age of Deception 61 At Home on the Range 20 Atul’s Curries of the World 53 Beyond Essence 53 Beyond the Blue Horizon 27 Blooms of Darkness 60 Bull of Mithros, The 3 China in Ten Words 29 Cinnamon Kitchen 52 Complete Nose to Tail, The 42 Cypress Tree, The 62 David Bowie Style 41 Dead Witness, The 60 Decades 41 Defeating Hitler 54 Dirtiest Race in History, The 23 Discourse Analysis 54 Divine Comedy, The 57 Dreams of Joy 58 Drowning Rose 58 Eat and Run 22 Ed King 60 El Clásico 33 Elza’s Kitchen 8 Elvis in Vegas 29 Ethics 54 Every Grain of Rice 25 Everybody, Everyday 21 Evil Knits 37 Exercises in Style 56 Falling Sideways 60 Fate of the Species, The 24 Finding Casey 14 Fire in the Belly 28 Food of Morocco, The 34
Geneva Trap, The 7 Ghosts by Daylight 61 Good Life, The 22 Gravity 51 Great Disruption, The 61 Great Survivors, The 24 Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 49 Happy Numbers of Julius Miles, The 4 Harbour, The 2 Hard Twisted 16 Hollywood Costume 45 House in France, The 61 How to Bake 32 How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay 62 How the Dog Became the Dog 33 I, Hogarth 13 I Kick Therefore I Am 37 Idiomantics 35 Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese, The 30 Indigo 63 Infinite Tides, The 15 Inter Rail 9 Isabel’s Skin 12 It Happended on the Way to War 62 John Saturnall’s Feast 10 Journey to the End of the Night 55 Kitchen Secrets 63 Legends of the Samurai 40 Leningrad 63 Leonardo and the Last Supper 36 Little America 26 London Bridge 56 Man of Numbers, The 63 Marilyn 26 Medical Muses 62 Merchants of Doubt 61 Mirror Earth 44 Momofuku Milkbar 51 Moral Lives of Animals, The 61 My First Coup d’Etat 31 Odyssey, The 12 One Thousand and One Nights 59 Pao 58 Paris Correspondent, The 6 Phantom Army of Alamein, The 42 Pimp Your Lesson! 54 Pirates! Band of Misfits: The Making of, The 36 Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics, The 11 POLPO 27 Power of Silence, The 50 Prairie Fever 46
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Rabid 43 Raising Wrecker 60 Ralph Steadman’s Extinct Boids 49 Rook 8 Rudin 55 Saint Melissa the Mottled 38 San Miguel 14 Scent of Lemon Leaves, The 6 Shadow of the Rock 9 Shakespeare for Young People 54 [Sic] 63 Song of Achilles, The 59 Sound of Things Falling, The 16 Spectrums 44 Square, The 52 State of Wonder 58 Storyteller of Marrakesh, The 58 Supernatural Short Stories 57 Sweet Peas for Summer 32 Team Spirit 23 Three Good Things 34 Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke 59 Umbrella 11 Unbored 43 Uninvited, The 5 Universal Sense, The 39 Villa Pacifica 59 Volcker 39 War We Never Fought, The 50 What Matters in Jane Austen? 31 Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It 62 Whisper of Nemesis 58 Whitakers Almanac 2013 48 Whitakers Little Book of Knowledge 48 White Truffles in Winter 13 Who Moved My Stilton? 47 Why did nobody tell me? 40 Wilderness 10 Winner Effect, The 21 Wisden Guide International Cricket 2013, The 46 Woolgathering 20 Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2013 30 Yellow Emperor’s Cure, The 4 You 59 Zoo Time 7
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