JANUARY–JUNE 2023
Canongate is an independent based in Edinburgh and London with a long history of eclectic and innovative publishing. We’re proud to amplify some of the most vital and exciting voices from around the world: our authors have won every major book prize going and, for our part, we won Independent Publisher of the Year in 2021 and we’ve twice been named Publisher of the 2023Year.will be our 50th year, and this spring list is as exciting as any we’ve ever published, featuring luminous debuts, revelatory non-fiction, captivating page-turners and more. Keep up to date: canongate.co.uk/newsletter@canongatebooks
CONTENTS David Robson 1 The Expectation Effect Margareta Magnusson 2 The Swedish Art of Ageing Well Daniel H. Pink 3 The Power of Regret Patience Agbabi 4 The Circle Breakers Rick Rubin 5 The Creative Act Osman Yousefzada 7 The Go-Between Margie Orford 8 The Eye of the Beholder Sally Adee 9 We Are Electric James Canton 10 Grounded Amy Liptrot 11 The Instant Alex Preston 12 Winchelsea Louise Welsh 13 The Second Cut Mark Hodkinson 14 No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy Ayòbámi Adébáyò 15 A Spell of Good Things Erica Berry 17 Wolfish Alice Vincent 19 Why Women Grow Benedict Allen 20 Explorer Anna Fleming 21 Time on Rock Gu Byeong-mo 22 The Old Woman With the Knife Chika Unigwe 23 The Middle Daughter Keggie Carew 24 Beastly Jackie Kohnstamm 25 The Memory Keeper Catherine Prasifka 27 None of This Is Serious Rebecca Miller 28 Total Chitra Ramaswamy 29 Homelands Alan Parks 30 May God Forgive Tan Twan Eng 31 The House of Doors Kerri ní Dochartaigh 33 Cacophony of Bone Geoff Dyer 34 The Last Days of Roger Federer Noo Saro-Wiwa 35 Black Ghosts David Hewson 36 The Medici Murders Tim Clare 37 Coward Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan 38 Faith, Hope and Carnage Octavia Bright 39 This Ragged Grace Josie Long 41 Because I don’t know what you mean and what you don’t Jess Kidd 43 The Night Ship Dr Julia Shaw 44 Bi
The Effect
How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life
‘mind-changing science . . . One of Robson’s many strengths as a chronicler of science is to take what might seem familiar and show – to his own evident excitement, as well – just how much deeper the rabbit hole goes . . . Compelling’ Oliver burkeman, Guardian People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer.
DAVID ROBSON The scientific solution to influencing your life positively, from the award-winning author of The Intelligence Trap
David Robson is an award-winning science journalist. His first book, The Intelligence Trap, has been translated into 15 languages. Previously an editor and senior journalist at BBC Future, Robson is now a freelance journalist; his writing has appeared in The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Atlantic, Washington Post and more. twitter d_a_robson link
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Expectation
David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge research happening right now that suggests our expectations shape our experience. Of course, you can’t just think yourself thinner, happier or fitter, but using this book you can reframe many different facets of your life. These easy-to-use skills will help you on your way to becoming the person you want to be, living the life you want to live.
Lucky charms really do improve an athlete’s performance. Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still improve your health. Welcome to The Expectation Effect.
The Swedish Art of Ageing Well Life wisdom from someone who will (probably) die before you MARGARETA MAGNUSSON
This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings.
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Döstädning – soon to be a major TV series by the producers of Queer Eye and narrated by Amy Poehler – this is a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and ageing joyfully ‘A thought-provoking guide for how to take life in with clear-eyed humour – whatever age we are. Definitely read this funny, very wise book before you die’ Daniel Klein, bestselling author of Travels with Epicurus
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Wear stripes. Eat chocolate. Don’t leave empty-handed. But also embrace change, let go of what doesn’t matter and take care of something or someone other than yourself.
The Swedish Art of Ageing Well is a gentle and welcome reminder that, no matter your age, there are always fresh discoveries ahead and pleasures to be enjoyed every day. Also by margareta magnusson Döstädning £9.99 (9781786891105)
Margareta Magnusson was born in Gothenburg in Sweden on New Year’s Eve, somewhere between 80 and 100 years ago. She has worked for many years as an artist and has had her work exhibited as far afield as Singapore and Hong Kong. She has five children and is the author of Döstädning: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
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Drawing on the largest sampling of attitudes about regret ever conducted from his own World Regret Survey, Pink identifies the four core regrets that most people have. With his signature blend of big ideas and practical takeaways, captivating stories and crisp humour, he argues that by understanding what people regret the most, we can understand what they value the most. We can transform our regrets into a positive force for working smarter and living better.
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DANIEL H. PINK
Daniel H. Pink is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Drive, To Sell Is Human and When. His books have sold millions of copies, have been translated into forty-two languages and have won multiple awards. Pink and his family live in Washington, D.C. twitter DanielPink link danpink.com
‘Dan Pink trains his intellect and wit on a deeply important subject that we’ve all experienced but few have explored . . . Whatever regrets you might have in your life, reading this book won’t be one of them’ Susan Cain Everybody has regrets. They’re a fundamental part of our lives. In The Power of Regret, Pink explains how we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose.
Also by Daniel H. Pink When £10.99 (9781782119913) Drive £10.99 (9781786891709) To Sell Is Human £10.99 (9781786891716)
The Power of Regret How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
From the internationally bestselling author of When, Drive and To Sell Is Human, a new book about the transforming power of that crucial and misunderstood emotion: regret
To Elle’s surprise, he needs her help. Someone has threatened to reveal The Gift to the media. If that happens, everyone will know that Leaplings can leap through time; no Leapling will be safe. Meanwhile, Millennia’s power at the head of The Vicious Circle grows. Will Elle work for a villain to save her secret community? Can she and The Infinites crush The Vicious Circle for good? Now with a new cover illustration by Thy Bui.
J ANUARY 4 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £7.99 9781838855796 Ebook £6.39 9781838855802 Rights: W19 January 2023 Paperback Fiction 208pp Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, and her first novel for children, The Infinite, the first in the Leap Cycle series, won a Wales Book of the Year Award and was CBBC Book of the Month. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers and pepper soup, but, disappointingly, her leaping is less spectacular.
PATIENCE AGBABI Elle and her friends are back! This time, they’ll be leaping to the past, the present and the future to safeguard the secret of The Gift and destroy The Vicious Circle ‘Patience Agbabi has caused a wonderful supernova deep in the literary universe . . . Elle is curious, questioning and fearless. What an inspiration’ benjamin Zephaniah
The Circle Breakers
Fourteen-year-old Elle and her friends are going to a not-tobe-missed funfair. But a ride on the Ghost Train takes them further than they ever imagined. They end up in 1880, face to face with criminal mastermind The Grandfather!
Also by Patience Agbabi The Infinite £6.99 (9781786899651) The Time-Thief £6.99 (9781786899903)
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The Creative Act A Way of Being RICK RUBIN
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us ‘I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be.’
The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments – and lifetimes – of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.
Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn’t, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output; it’s about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone’s life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.
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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable.
Rick Rubin is a nine-time GRAMMYwinning producer, named one of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ by TIME and ‘The most successful producer in any genre’ by Rolling Stone. He has collaborated with artists from Tom Petty to Adele, Johnny Cash to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys to Slayer, Kanye West to The Strokes, System of a Down to Jay-Z. twitter RickRubin
Osman weaves in and out of these worlds, struggling with the dual burdens of racism and community expectations, as he is forced to realise it is no longer possible to exist in the spaces in between.
The Go-Between A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
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The adult world is seen through Osman’s eyes as a child. The stories Osman tells, some fantastical and humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from the Birmingham of Osman’s childhood to the banks of the river Kabul and the river Indus, and, eventually, to the London of his teenage years.
J ANUARY 7 b-fmt Pb £10.99 9781838859787 Ebook £8.79 9781786893536 Audiobook £20.99 9781786895806 Rights: W 26 January 2023 Paperback Non-fiction 368pp Osman Yousefzada was born in Birmingham to migrant parents who are illiterate in English and their mother tongue. He is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who studied at SOAS and Central Saint Martins, and went on to obtain an MPhil at Cambridge University. He has exhibited at international institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery, Dhaka Art Summit, V&A and more. He has been awarded the prestigious BFC New Generation award for three seasons. The Osman Yousefzada clothing line is worn by celebrities including Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Lupita Nyong’o, Thandiwe Newton, Gwen Stefani, Emma Watson, Freida Pinto and many more. He edits The Collective and has written for Vogue, the Guardian and the Observer.
J ANUARY 8EXPORT HIGHLIGHTPAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £9.99 9781838856878 Ebook £7.99 9781838856861 Audiobook £20.99 9781838856823 Rights: WxSA,SouthernEastAfrica 26 January 2023 Paperback Fiction 320pp Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist who has been dubbed the Queen of South African Crime Fiction. Her Clare Hart crime novels have been translated into ten languages and are being developed into a television series. She was born in London and grew up in Namibia. A Fulbright Scholar, she was educated in South Africa and the United States, has a doctorate in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and is an honorary fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She is president Emerita of PEN South Africa and was the patron of Rape Crisis Cape Town while she lived in South Africa. She now lives in London. twitter MargieOrford
The Eye of the Beholder
MARGIE ORFORD
When an art expert goes missing, three women fighting to regain control of their lives realise their future is about to become as dangerous as their past in this brutally compelling thriller
‘Subtle, chilling to the bone and very contemporary’ Peter James When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?
Cora carries secrets her daughter can’t know. Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. One act of violence sets the three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth. In a nail-biting thriller set between the scorched red soil of South Africa, the pitiless snowfields of Canada and the chilly lochsides of western Scotland, each woman must contend with the spectres of male violence, sexual abuse and the choices we each make to keep our souls.
‘A tale of love and abuse that is as powerful as it is elegant – and it grips like a vice, too’ Ian Rankin
In We Are Electric, award-winning science writer Sally Adee explores the history of bioelectricity: from Galvani’s epic eighteenth-century battle with the inventor of the battery, Alessandro Volta, to the medical charlatans claiming to use electricity to cure pretty much anything, to advances in the field helped along by the unusually massive axons of squid. Finally, she journeys into the future of the discipline, through today’s laboratories where we are starting to see real-world medical applications being developed.
SALLY ADEE Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body’s electrome
We Are Electric The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome
The bioelectric revolution starts here. You may be familiar with the idea of our body’s biome – the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health.
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In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientific understanding: discover your body’s electrome. Every cell in our bodies – bones, skin, nerves, muscle – has a voltage, like a tiny battery. This bioelectricity is why our brains can send signals to our bodies, why we develop the way we do in the womb and how our bodies know to heal themselves from injury. When bioelectricity goes awry, illness, deformity and cancer can result. But if we can control or correct this bioelectricity, the implications for our health are remarkable: an undo switch for cancer that could flip malignant cells back into healthy ones; the ability to regenerate cells, organs, even limbs; the chance to slow ageing and so much more.
James Canton takes us on a journey through England seeking to see through more ancient eyes, to understand what landscape meant to those who came before us. We visit stone circles, the West Kennet long barrow, a Crusader round church and sites of religious visions. We meet the Dagenham Idol and the intricately carved Lion Man figure. We find artefacts buried in farmers’ fields. There is history and meaning encoded into the lands and places we live in, if only we take the time to look. Our natural world has never been under more threat. If we relocate our sense of wonder, veneration and awe in the landscapes we live in, we might just be better at saving it.
Grounded A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors
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Dr James Canton is Director of Wild Writing at the University of Essex. He is the author of The Oak Papers (2020), Ancient Wonderings: Journeys into Prehistoric Britain (2017) and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape (2013), which was inspired by his rural wanderings in East Anglia. He has written for the Guardian, reviews for the TLS and Caught by the River, and is a regular on television and radio. twitter jamescanton instagram jrcanton1 link jamescanton.co.uk
JAMES CANTON Grounded is about healing our ruptured connection with our ancestors and with the land For thousands of years, our ancestors held a close connection with the landscapes they lived in. They imbued it with meaning: stone monuments, sacred groves, places of pilgrimage. In our modern world we have rather lost that enchantment and intimate knowledge of place.
Also by James Canton The Oak Papers £10.99 (9781838851514)
Amy Liptrot is the author of The Outrun, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. She writes columns and reviews for various magazines and newspapers including the Guardian and the Spectator, and recently presented the BBC Radio 4 series The New Anatomy of Melancholy The Outrun was awarded the Wainwright Prize and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. It was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club.
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The Sunday Times-bestselling book from the multi-award-winning author of The Outrun – on the ecology of love and heartbreak, the urban environment and the digital age
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The Instant
‘I loved this book, such an intimate portrayal of emotional landscapes and the pull of the moon – it’s one I’ll return to often’ Raynor Winn ‘Sensuous and full of promise’ Guardian Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. She rents a loftbed in a shared flat and starts to look for work – and for love – through the screen of her phone. The Instant tells of the momentous year that follows, encountering the city’s wildlife in the most unexpected places, tracing the cycles of the moon, the flight paths of migratory birds and surrendering to the addictive power of love and lust.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
The Outrun £9.99 (9781786894229)
Also by Amy Liptrot
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Winchelsea
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ALEX PRESTON In eighteenth-century Sussex, a young girl seeks revenge for the death of her father – an intoxicating historical novel from the acclaimed author of In Love and War AS READ ON bbC RADIO 4
‘Imagine Daphne du maurier crossed with Quentin Tarantino, and you will have some idea of just what a thrilling, bloody and heady ride this novel is’ Tom Holland
In a town where lawlessness prevails, Goody and her brother Francis must enter the cut-throat world of her father’s killers in order to find justice. Facing high seas and desperate villains, she discovers what life can be like without constraints or expectations, developing a taste for danger that makes her blood run fast. Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what will she become instead?
The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. But when she turns sixteen, her father is murdered by men he thought were friends.
LOUISE WELSH A stylish, atmospheric detective story with shades of the Gothic – from the author of the award-winning cult classic The Cutting Room ‘Superb’ The Times, Crime book of the month ‘A hardboiled gem’ Guardian ‘I doubt I’ll read a better book this year’ Val mcDermid Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead. Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs – is that the reason the police won’t investigate? And if Rilke doesn’t find out what happened to Jojo, who will?
Also by Louise Welsh The Cutting Room £8.99 (9781838850906) Naming the Bones £8.99 (9781847672568)
The Second Cut
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy Memoirs of a WorkingClass Reader MARK HODKINSON
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy is his story of growing up a working-class lad during the 1970s and 1980s. It’s about the schools, the music, the people – but pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors that led the way and shaped his life. It’s about a family who didn’t see the point of reading, and a troubled grandad who taught Mark the power of stories. It’s also a story of how writing and reading has changed over the last five decades.
F E b RUARY 14 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £10.99 9781838850012 Ebook £8.79 9781786899989 Audiobook £20.99 9781786899996 Rights: W 2 February 2023 Paperback Non-fiction 368pp Mark Hodkinson has written for The Times for two decades, three years as a columnist. He has also contributed to the Observer, Guardian, and others. He is the author of Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City, and Believe in the Sign, which was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. His novels include The Last Mad Surge of Youth, which was nominated as Q’s Novel of the Year, and That Summer Feeling. He owns Pomona Books and has published titles by Simon Armitage, Barry Hines, and many more. He also commissioned and edited the muchacclaimed biography J.D. Salinger: A Life, which was made into a film starring Nicholas Hoult. link markhodkinson.com
This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a workingclass lens ‘Deeply poignant . . . Powerful’ Sunday Times ‘mark Hodkinson is one of the great unsung heroes of literature’ benjamin myers
‘Transcends its subjects’ Observer Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by 3,500 titles – at the last count.
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Ayò.bámi Adébáyò. was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut novel, Stay with Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature, was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, the Wellcome Book Prize and the Kwani? Manuscript Prize. It has been translated into twenty languages and the French translation was awarded the Prix Les Afriques. Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, Stay with Me was a New York Times, Guardian, Chicago Tribune and NPR Best Book of the Year. link ayobamiadebayo.com twitter ayobamiadebayo
A Spell of Good Things
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AYÒ BÁMI ADÉBÁYÒ A spellbinding novel about family secrets and bonds, thwarted hope and the brutal realities of life in a society rife with inequality, from the Women’s Prizeshortlisted author Ayòbámi Adébáyò, the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Stay With Me, unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption. Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers and begging, dreaming of a big future. Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of family Whenfriends.a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola and Eniola’s lives become intertwined. In this breathtaking novel, Ayòbámi Adébáyò shines her light on Nigeria, on the gaping divide between the haves and the have-nots, and the shared humanity that lives in between. Also by Ayòbámi Adébáyò Stay With Me £9.99 (9781782119609)
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An original and probing debut work of non-fiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf ‘The space between humans and wolves is filled with stories, from fairy tales to family histories to our own fears and desires . . . Erica berry illuminates this tangled territory’ michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a decade, to get to the heart of what our stories about the wolf reveal about our relationships with one another and ourselves. The wolf is so often depicted as the male predator, preying on the vulnerable girl/woman who strays from the path; the she-wolf meanwhile depicts women who sit outside the accepted boundaries of feminine behaviour. Berry openly recounts her own uncomfortable and sometimes frightening experiences as a woman to try to understand how we navigate our fears when threat can seem constant. Through it all, Berry finds new expressions for courage and and survival: how to be a brave human and animal member of our fragile, often dangerous world.
Wolfish
The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom
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Erica Berry is a writer and teacher based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Winner of the Steinberg Essay Prize and the Kurt Brown Prize in Non-fiction, she has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she was a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. She has also received fellowships and funding from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Tin House and the Minnesota State Arts Board, among others. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times Magazine, Yale Review, WIRED, Outside, Catapult, Atlantic and elsewhere. This is her non-fiction debut. twitter ericajberry link ericaberry.com
ERICA BERRY
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Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
ALICE VINCENT A stunning meditation on why women are drawn to the soil, featuring contributions from Ali Smith, Hazel Gardiner and Cosey Fanni Tutti Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that. To understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibilities sit upon their shoulders. To recover the histories that have been lost among the soil. Why Women Grow is a much-needed exploration of why women turn to the earth, as gardeners, growers and custodians. This book emerged from a deeply rooted desire to share the stories of women who are silenced and overlooked. In doing so, Alice fosters connections with gardeners that unfurl into a tender exploration of women’s lives, their gardens and what the ground has offered them, with conversations spanning creation and loss, celebration and grief, power, protest, identity and renaissance.
Wise, curious and sensitive, Why Women Grow follows Alice in her search for answers, with inquisitive fronds reaching and curling around the intimate anecdotes of others. Also by Alice Vincent Rootbound £9.99 (9781786897725)
Alice Vincent is a journalist and the author of three books, including Rootbound: Rewilding a Life, which was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize and named as one of the books of 2020 by the Financial Times and the Independent. A self-taught gardener, Alice is a columnist for Gardens Illustrated and writes for titles including Vogue and the New Statesman. She has been documenting her gardening online since 2015 and has since launched a newsletter and podcast. She lives in South London. instagram noughticulture twitter alice_emily
Why Women Grow
BENEDICT ALLEN This enquiry into the explorer mindset is part meditation, part memoir, from one of ‘Britain’s greatest explorers’ (Telegraph) ‘A remarkable journey unfolds . . . [Allen] writes clean, honest prose, creating startling images of all he sees . . . an extraordinary story, painfully assembled and beautifully told’ Spectator What does it mean to be an explorer in the twentyfirst century? This is the story of what first led Benedict Allen to head for the farthest reaches of our planet – at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the remote communities who inhabited them. It is also the story of why, thirty years later, he is still exploring. Benedict decides to journey back to a clouded mountain in New Guinea to find an old friend called Korsai, and to fulfil a promise they made as young men. Explorer tells the story of what it means to be ‘lost’ and ‘found’.
mARCH 20 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £10.99 9781786896261 Ebook £8.79 9781786896254 Audiobook £25 9781786896247 Rights: W 2 March 2023 Paperback Non-fiction 288pp Benedict Allen read Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia and is a former member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, Patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation, the Tony Foundation and Save the Rhino Trust. Best known, perhaps, for having pioneered the ‘video selfie’ as a result of filming his solo expeditions for television, he is also editor of The Faber Book of Exploration twitter benedictallen link benedictallen.com Explorer
The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown
Time on Rock A Climber’s Route into the Mountains
mARCH 21 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £10.99 9781838851798 Ebook £8.79 9781838851774 Audiobook £25 9781838851781 Rights: W 2 March 2023 Paperback Non-fiction 272pp Anna Fleming is a regular contributor to Caught by the River and has also published her work in various journals, magazines and anthologies. As well as writing for the Guardian, she keeps a regular blog, The Granite Sea, in which she writes about her experiences of the natural world. Anna is a qualified Mountain Leader who has also worked for the Cairngorms National Park Authority and completed a PhD with the University of Leeds. She lives in Edinburgh. twitter annamfleming link thegranitesea.wordpress.com
ANNA FLEMING
A rock-climber’s eye view of the natural world, tracing a geological and personal journey across the British Isles SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE ‘Refreshing . . . she writes beautifully about landscape, and her passion for these ancient formations is physical and poetic’ Observer With great lyricism, Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing and the developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber, she shows us how placing hand and foot on rock becomes a profound new way into the Annalandscape.takes us from the gritstone rocks of the Peak District and Yorkshire to the gabbro pinnacles of the Cuillin, the slate of North Wales and the high plateau of the Cairngorms. Each landscape, and each type of rock, brings its own challenges and invites us into the history of a place.
mARCH 22EXPORT HIGHLIGHTPAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £9.99 9781838856458 Ebook £7.99 9781838856441 Audiobook £20.99 9781838856465 Rights: UKCWxC,neEU 2 March 2023 Paperback Fiction 288pp Gu Byeong-mo was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1976. She made her literary debut in 2009 when her novel Wizard Bakery won the second Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction. Her 2015 short-story collection Geugeosi namaneun anigireul received the Today’s Writer Award and Hwang Sun-won New Writers’ Award. This is her third novel, and the first to be translated into the English language. Chi-Young Kim is an award-winning literary translator and editor based in Los Angeles. A recipient of the Man Asian Literary Prize (2011), she has translated works by You-jeong Jeong, Sun-mi Hwang, Young-ha Kim, Kyung Ran Jo, J.M. Lee and Kyung-sook Shin, among others.
A whip-smart, taut and compelling novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body, and a meditation on loss and loneliness ‘Assassination, Gangnam style. A resonant K-noir treat’ Luke Jennings, author of the Killing Eve novels ‘The pull of this novel lies in its incredible story, filled with fascinating, flawed, funny, heartbreaking characters. It’s the experience of reading it that will stay with you’ The Times She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn’t mind leaving this world through an untimely death. Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. But while on an assassination job for the ‘disease control’ company she works for, Hornclaw makes an uncharacteristic error, causing a sequence of events that brings her past well and truly into the present. Threatened with sabotage by a young male upstart and battling new desires and urges when she least expects them, Hornclaw steels her resolve, demonstrating that no matter their age, the female of the species is always more deadly than the male.
The Old Woman With the Knife GU BYEONG-MO
The Middle Daughter
A PRIL 23 EXPORT HIGHLIGHT HARD b ACK Demy Octavo Hb £16.99 9781838857899 Ebook £13.59 9781838857912 Export TPb £14.99 9781838857905 Audiobook £20.99 9781838857929 Rights: UKCWxC,eEU6 April 2023 Hardback Fiction 304pp Chika Unigwe is Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College and the author of several celebrated works of fiction including On Black Sisters’ Street, which won the NLNG Prize for Literature worth $100,000, and most recently the short story collection Better Never than Late (2019). twitter chikaunigwe link chikaunigwe.com
CHIKA UNIGWE
The story of seventeen-year-old Nani who discovers womanhood through hardship before finding her freedom and independence Udodi’s death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness. When Nani is only seventeen, she loses her beloved sister and father. Misunderstood by the rest of her family, she is beguiled by an itinerant preacher, a handsome self-proclaimed ‘man of God’ who seems to offer all the answers. But instead of building a better future with him, Nani is forced too soon into a challenging womanhood with an oppressive husband. Will she find the courage to take charge of her own life and seek true happiness, and at what cost?
Beastly A New History of Animals and Us KEGGIE CAREW
Also by Keggie Carew Quicksand Tales £9.99 (9781786894083)
Keggie Carew has lived in West Cork, Barcelona, Texas, Auckland and London. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. Keggie lives in Wiltshire with her husband Jonathan. She is the author of Dadland, which won the 2016 COSTA biography award, and Quicksand Tales. link keggiecarew.co.uk twitter keggiec
In a Polish forest a young woman befriends a boar. An Englishman sets up home with two beavers in Saskatchewan. A zoologist watches a fish make a conscious decision. Darwin finds the evidence for evolution in the backyards of pigeon fanciers. The entire population of Croatia anxiously await the arrival of a single stork. A gorilla cracks a joke. Animals have shaped our lives, our land, our civilisation, and they will shape our future. Yet as our impact on the world and the animals we share it with increases, there has never been a greater urgency to understand this foundational relationship. Beastly is the 40,000-year story of animals and humans as it has never been captured before, seen eye-to-eye and claw-to-hand through those humans who have stepped into the myriad worlds of our animal relatives. Our relationship with animals has always been paradoxical, but the greatest paradox may yet be this: diversity of life can heal ecosystems. Animals – if given the chance – could save us.
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The Costa-winning author of Dadland invites us to reconnect with our wild world and see how we can still change our impact on the environment
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After growing up in London, Jackie Kohnstamm studied and taught in France. While lecturing in higher education she published short stories and articles and had plays produced on BBC radio and the stage. The Memory Keeper is her first book. She enjoys good food, gardening and hitting a winning shot at tennis. She lives in North London. Keeper A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family
The compelling story of Jackie Kohnstamm’s search for the truth about her grandparents’ deaths in the Holocaust Jackie Kohnstamm’s mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life. It was only after her uncle and aunt had died that Jackie inherited an archive of material relating to the family back in Germany. Jackie’s mother had managed to get out of Berlin in 1936 as the Nazi party’s anti-Jewish agenda became more and more apparent, following her brother and sister who had already escaped. But Jackie’s grandparents had remained. Here were the letters and documents her mother had always denied existed. Suddenly a door opened into the past, but how to take the first step through? Then one night, on a whim, Jackie typed her grandparents’ names into Google. What she found felt like a sign: four days earlier two Stolpersteine (literally ‘stumble stones’) had been laid in their names outside the house in Berlin where they had once lived. Someone had commissioned this memorial to her grandparents. Each listed their name, year of birth, date of deportation to Theresienstadt and date of their murder by the Nazis. Here, then, was the first step, and what followed was a remarkable story of loss, discovery and memory.
JACKIE KOHNSTAMM
The Memory
None of This Is Serious
AN IRISH TIMES bESTSELLER ‘Extraordinary’ Naoise Dolan ‘Seriously good’ Louise Nealon Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They’ve got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. Then, at a party, what was already unstable completely falls apart and Sophie finds herself obsessively scrolling social media, waiting for something (anything) to happen. None of This Is Serious is about the uncertainty and absurdity of being alive today. It’s about balancing the real world with the online, and the vulnerabilities in yourself, your relationships, your body. At its heart, this is a novel about the friendships strong enough to withstand anything.
A PRIL 27 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £9.99 9781838855536 Ebook £7.99 9781838855543 Audiobook £20.99 9781838855550 Rights: W/E 6 April 2023 Paperback Fiction 288pp Catherine Prasifka was born in Dublin in 1996. She studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin and has an MLitt in Fantasy from the University of Glasgow. She has competed in both the European Debating Championships and the World Championships. She is obsessed with learning about how stories work and has ruined nearly all of her favourite books and movies by overanalysing them. She works as a creative writing teacher in Dublin. None of This Is Serious is her first novel. twitter prasifcat
CATHERINE PRASIFKA A sharp and addictive modern debut set in Dublin, about female friendship and our obsession with being online
Also by Rebecca miller The Private Lives of Pippa Lee £8.99 (9781782119159) Jacob’s Folly £8.99 (9780857868992) Personal Velocity £8.99 (9781847673466)
A PRIL 28 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £9.99 9781838857691 Ebook £7.99 9781838857271 Rights: UKCWxC,neEU6 April 2023 Paperback Fiction 224pp Rebecca Miller is a writer and director. She is the author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club pick, which she also adapted for screen; Personal Velocity, her feature film of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; and Jacob’s Folly. Her film work includes Angela, The Ballad of Jack and Rose and Maggie’s Plan. Her work has been published in thirty-two languages.
Arresting and darkly prescient stories which deftly navigate the fault lines of relationships from the bestselling author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee ‘miller’s new collection shows her in many moods and modes, from wistful to comedic to speculative. What a pleasure!’ Jeffery Eugenides ‘Wit and coolly slaying wisdom are constant delights in these emotionally complex stories’ Observer A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten document in an old desk in need of restoration is overwhelming. And when Roxanne rescues her sister from an institution, she comes to realise how vulnerable they both are.
Total REBECCA MILLER
Deftly navigating the fault lines of relationships – new, established or remembered – Total is a powerful collection of brilliantly imaginative stories. From the comforting mundanities of motherhood to a technologically infected near future that mirrors our present with dark prescience, each life captured in this collection is unforgettable.
The History of a Friendship CHITRA RAMASWAMY
A book about history, friendship, family and what it means to belong, from the award-winning journalist
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‘An extravagant exploration of the imaginative possibilities of empathy, of how a friendship can build a bridge across differences in origins and age, how you can enter into another life, why you should, what happens when you do’ Rebecca Solnit ‘Remarkable’ The Times ‘Achingly beautiful’ Guardian
A PRIL 29 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £10.99 9781838852696 Ebook £8.79 9781838852672 Audiobook £25 9781838852689 Rights: W 6 April 2023 Paperback Non-fiction 368pp Chitra Ramaswamy is an awardwinning journalist and author. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi-ble and Message from the Skies. She is a TV critic for the Guardian, the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, a columnist for the National Trust for Scotland and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner, two young children and rescue dog. twitter Chitgrrl
This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution. This is a story of migration, racism, family, belonging, grief and resilience. It is about the state we’re in now and the ways in which we carry our pasts into our futures.
ALAN PARKS McCoy has twenty-four hours to find two kidnapped boys before they turn up dead, in this dark and gritty Harry McCoy thriller ‘1970s Glasgow hewn from flesh and drawn in blood’ Peter may Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the young men to prison, their van is rammed by a truck, and the men are grabbed and bundled into a car. The next day, the body of one of them is dumped in the city centre. A note has been sent to the newspapers: one down, two to go.
A PRIL 30 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £9.99 9781838856793 Ebook £4.79 9781838856762 Audiobook £20.99 9781838856779 Rights: W/ExUS 27 April 2023 Paperback Fiction 384pp Alan Parks worked in the music industry for over twenty years before turning to crime writing. His debut novel Bloody January was shortlisted for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, February’s Son was nominated for an Edgar Award, Bobby March Will Live Forever was picked as a The Times Best Book of the Year and The April Dead was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. He lives and works in Glasgow. May God Forgive is the fifth Harry McCoy thriller. twitter AlanJParks
Also by Alan Parks The April Dead £8.99 (9781786897237) Bobby March Will Live Forever £8.99 (9781786897183) February’s Son £8.99 (9781786894199)
May God Forgive
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The House of Doors
TAN TWAN ENG
The anticipated novel from the Bookershortlisted author, exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang
‘A master of cultural complexities’ Guardian It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert’s, comes to stay.
From Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors is a masterful novel of public morality and private truth a century ago. Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, Malaysia. His debut novel The Gift of Rain was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has been widely translated. The Garden of Evening Mists won the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award He divides his time between Kuala Lumpur and Cape Town. The House of Doors is his third novel. Also by Tan Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists £9.99 (9781786893895) The Gift of Rain £10.99 (9781838858346)
Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, illhealth and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more Lesley’s friendship with Willie grows, the more clearly she see him as he is – a man who has no choice but to mask his true self.
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A lyrical and captivating meditation on nature, time and the meaning of home from the acclaimed author of Thin Places Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year of many changes. The pandemic arrived and their isolated home became a place of enforced isolation. It was to be a year unlike any we had seen before. But the seasons still turned, the swallows came at their allotted time, the rhythms of the natural world went on unchecked. For Kerri there was to be one more change, a longed-for but un-hoped-for change.
Cacophony of Bone
Fragmentary in subject and form, fluid of language, this is an ode to a year, a place, and a love, that changed a life.
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mAY 33 EXPORT HIGHLIGHT HARD b ACK Demy Octavo Hb £16.99 9781838856281 Ebook £13.59 9781838856311 Export TPb £14.99 9781838856298 Audiobook £25 9781838859794 Rights: WxEinUS,C4 May 2023 Hardback Non-fiction 272pp Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in 1983, in Derry-Londonderry at the border between the North and South of Ireland. She has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, the BBC, Winter Papers and others. She is the author of Thin Places, which was highly commended by the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing in 2021.
Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of a year – a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life – from one winter, to the next. It is a telling of a changed life, in a changed world – and it is about all that does not change. All that which simply keeps on – living and breathing, nesting and dying – in spite of it all. When the pandemic came time seemed to shapeshift, so this is also a book about time. It is, too, a book about home, and what that can mean.
KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH
Also by Kerri ní Dochartaigh Thin Places £9.99 (9781786899644)
GEOFF DYER Could it be that our deepest desire is for it all to be over? A book about the end of days from the award-winning author of Out of Sheer Rage and Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It
Also by Geoff Dyer See/Saw £12.99 (9781838852115) Out of Sheer Rage £9.99 (9781782115137) The Missing of the Somme £10.99 (781782119265)
A bbC RADIO 4 bOOK OF THE WEEK ‘A book about late-life achievement by a master of dry humour’ Guardian ‘bulges with energy and sings with joy’ Sunday Times In this endlessly stimulating investigation into ‘things coming to an end, artists’ last works, time running out’, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who’ve mattered to him throughout his life. He examines Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan’s reinventions of old songs, Beethoven’s final quartets, Jean Rhys’s return from the dead (while still alive) and much more.
mAY 34 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £10.99 9781838855772 Ebook £8.79 9781838855758 Audiobook £25 9781838855765 Rights: UKCW,neEU 4 May 2023 Paperback Non-fiction 304pp Geoff Dyer is an award-winning author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Zona and, most recently, See/Saw. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
The Last Days of Roger Federer And Other Endings
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Black Ghosts Encounters with the Africans Changing China
Noo Saro-Wiwa goes in search of China’s ‘Black Ghosts’, African economic migrants in the People’s Republic, who live in separate communities and are vigorously involved in the trade between the continents. Her fascinating encounters include a Ghanaian cardiac surgeon, a drug dealer, a visa overstayer, a Nigerian popstar who sings in Chinese and men married to Chinese women who speak English with Nigerian accents.
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China today is both a land of opportunity for Africans, South Americans and other non-Westerners blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America, and an intersection of racism and prejudice.
NOO SARO-WIWA A travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of African economic migrants in the bustling People’s Republic
Noo Saro-Wiwa was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England. She attended King’s College London and Columbia University in New York and is an author and journalist. Her first book, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, was published in 2012. In the same year, it was named Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year, nominated by the Financial Times as one of the best travel books and included as one of the 10 Best Contemporary Books on Africa by the Guardian. It was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in 2013 and won the Albatros Travel Literature Prize in 2016. twitter noosarowiwa link noosarowiwa.com
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DAVID HEWSON Master storyteller David Hewson launches a major new series featuring retired archivist Arnold Glover Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today. 1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two hired killers. Today, Marmaduke Godolphin, British TV historian and a man even fewer will miss, is stabbed by a stiletto blade on the exact same spot, his body dropping into the canal. Can the story of the first murder explain the attack on Godolphin? The Carabinieri certainly think so. They recruit retired archivist Arnold Glover to unpick the mystery and to help solve the case. But the conspiracy against Godolphin runs deeper than anyone imagined.
Also by David Hewson The Garden of Angels £9.99 (9781838857707)
The Medici Murders
David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, Sunday Times and the Independent. He is the author of more than twenty-five novels, including his Rome-based Nic Costa series which has been published in fifteen languages, and his Amsterdam-based series featuring detective Pieter Vos. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the Danish TV series, The Killing. He lives near Canterbury in Kent. twitter david_hewson link davidhewson.com/blog/
mAY 37 PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £10.99 9781838853136 Ebook £8.79 9781838853112 Audiobook £25 9781838853129 Rights: W 4 May 2023 Paperback Non-fiction 448pp Tim Clare is an award-winning writer, poet and creative-writing podcaster. He is the author of We Can’t All Be Astronauts and the novels The Honours and The Ice House. He has performed his work at festivals and clubs across the world, on BBC TV and radio. Tim has also written for the Guardian, Times, Independent and Big Issue, and presents the creative-writing podcast Death Of 1,000 Cuts twitter timclarepoet link timclarepoet.co.uk
TIM CLARE Blending memoir, self-help and science, and offering practical help, Tim Clare asks us to rethink anxiety ‘A clever blend of memoir, science and useful advice . . . what really resonates is his honest account of his own panic attacks and what it is like to try to come off sertraline . . . a brave and moving book – one that offers lots of practical help‘ Independent, books of the month
Coward Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It
After a decade of living with panic attacks and anxiety, Tim Clare made a promise to himself – he would try everything he could to get better, every method and medicine. His year of treatments took him from SSRIs to hypnosis, running to extreme diets, ice baths to faecal transplants. At the end of it he discovers what helps him (and what doesn’t), and what might help others. Most of all, he comes to rethink anxiety and encourages all of us to do the same.
Also by Nick Cave Stranger Than Kindness £40 (9781838852245) The Sick Bag Song £9.99 (9781782117933) The Death of Bunny Munro £9.99 (9781782115335)
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Nick Cave has been performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Over the last few years his The Red Hand Files website and ‘Conversation with’ live events have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct relationships with his fans. Seán O’Hagan is an award-winning journalist who has interviewed many major artists, writers and musicians over the last four decades. He currently works as a feature writer for the Observer and is the photography critic for the Guardian.
NICK CAVE AND SEÁN O’HAGAN A meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more – from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick Cave
Faith, Hope and Carnage
THIS IS NOT A mEmOIR, THIS IS A CONVERSATION. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Seán O’Hagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.
The book examines questions of faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years. Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true visionary.
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This Ragged Grace
A beautiful, brave, ideas-rich, open and electric reckoning – with addiction, loss, self and hope in your twenties and thirties I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn’t make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though, of course, in some ways it was. It’s only the death drive, my dear, Freud would likely tell me, if I lay my body down on his carpet covered couch. Everybody needs a little oblivion. Besides, what is the fantasy of the knight on a white charger if not an abandonment wish?
As Octavia moves between London, the island of Stromboli, New York, Cornwall and Margate, each place offers something new but ultimately always delivers the same message: that wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
A desire to be rescued from your own life by a story. But if addiction is rooted in the will to forget, recovery is an act of remembering – a slow reconnection with the parts of yourself that slipped out of reach while you hungered for escape.
This Ragged Grace tells the story of Octavia’s journey to recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel story of her father’s descent into Alzheimer’s. Each of the seven chapters explores the feelings and experiences of the corresponding year of recovery, tracing the shift in emotion and understanding that comes with the deepening connection to this new way of life. Over the course of this seven-year period, life continues to unfold. Paths are abandoned, people fall ill, waters get choppy, seemingly impossible things are navigated without the old fixes.
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Octavia Bright is a writer and broadcaster. She co-hosts Literary Friction, the literary podcast and NTS Radio show, with Carrie Plitt. Recommended by the New York Times, Guardian, BBC Culture, Electric Literature, Sunday Times and others, it has run for ten years and since 2016 has had over 1.4 million downloads. She has also presented programmes for BBC R4 including Open Book, and hosts literary events for bookshops, publishers and festivals. Her writing has been published in The White Review, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Wasafiri, Somesuch Stories and the Sunday Times, amongst others. She has a PhD from the Spanish department at UCL. twitter octaviabright_ instagram octavia.bright
A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal
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The frank, funny fiction debut of Josie Long, superstar comedian and broadcaster From a comic storyteller extraordinaire comes this zingy collection of contemporary short stories. Each takes a different stance on love – be that romance, sex, friendship, motherhood, family life – all set against the travails we recognise from this current age of anxiety. There’s a ghost story (or two), meditations on peer pressure and grooming and the inner conversations we have about what others think about us, the nightmare of overbearing parents, the joy of random acts of kindness, and wonderings about the paths not taken.
‘Irrepressible, whimsical, yet fiercely political’ Independent
Because I don’t know what you mean and what you don’t
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PRAISE FOR JOSIE LONG
‘Warm, friendly, impishly funny – and bubbling with passion’ Guardian
Josie Long is a writer and a stand-up comedian. She won the Best Newcomer award at Edinburgh Fringe in 2006 and has been nominated three times for Best Show. She is from Kent, was born in 1982 and studied English at Oxford University. She currently lives in Glasgow.
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JESS KIDD An epic and imaginative historical novel, based on the true story of the wrecked Batavia – from the Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author ‘Lyrical, haunting, a beautiful and elegant fictional interpretation of history, I loved it’ Kate mosse 1628. Embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called Mayken boards the Batavia, the most impressive sea vessel of the age. During the long voyage, Mayken must find her place in the ship’s busy world, and she soon uncovers shadowy secrets above and below deck. 1989. Gil, a boy mourning the death of his mother, is placed in the care of his irritable and reclusive grandfather. Their home is a shack on a tiny fishing island off the Australian coast, notable only for its reefs and wrecked boats. This is no place for a child struggling with a dark past and Gil’s actions soon get him noticed by the wrong people. Also by Jess Kidd Things in Jars £8.99 (9781786893772) Himself £8.99 (9781786899835) The Hoarder £8.99 (9781786899842)
The Night Ship
J UNE 43 EXPORT HIGHLIGHT PAPER b ACK b-fmt Pb £9.99 9781838856540 Ebook £7.99 9781838856526 Audiobook £20.99 9781838856533 Rights: UKCWxC,AN,eEU 1 June 2023 Paperback Fiction 384pp Jess Kidd was brought up in London as part of a large family from County Mayo. She is the author of three acclaimed novels for adults, Himself, The Hoarder and Things in Jars, and a book for children, Everyday Magic. In 2017, Kidd won the Costa Short Story Award and in 2020 she was picked by The Times as one of the best emerging Irish writers. twitter JessKiddHerself link jesskidd.com
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Dr Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist at University College London, and part of Queer Politics at Princeton University which works for LGBT+ equality, democracy and civil rights. She is actively involved in bisexual research, and is the founder of the international Bisexual Research Group. Dr Shaw also has a hit BBC podcast, Bad People, where together with her co-host she uses research to examine some of society’s most pressing issues. She is the author of The Memory Illusion, which was published in 20 languages, and Making Evil, which was a bestseller in Canada and Germany. She lives in London.
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Also by Julia Shaw Making Evil £9.99 (9781786891327)
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1 June 2023 Paperback Non-fiction
‘Well-researched, cogent and compelling . . . [Shaw] has achieved what she set out to do: delivered a book that does justice to the important history of bisexuality, bringing the colourful world of bisexual scholarship “out of the shadows”‘ Independent Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality explores all that we know about the world’s largest sexual minority. It is a personal journey that starts with Dr Julia Shaw’s own openly bisexual identity, and celebrates the resilience and beautiful diversity of the bi community. From the hunt for a bi gene, to the relationship between bisexuality and consensual non-monogamy, to asylum seekers who need to prove their bisexuality in a court of law, there is more to explore than most have ever realised.
DR JULIA SHAW A provocative and eye-opening book on the science and history of bisexuality, from the internationally bestselling author and co-host of BBC podcast Bad People
The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
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