Recipes for Love and Murder: A Tannie Maria Mystery Sally Andrew This dark and delicious new crime series blends The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency with the Inspector Montalbano series to create the perfect satisfying read RECIPE FOR MURDER 1 stocky man who abuses his wife 1 small tender wife 1 medium-sized tough woman in love with the wife 1 double-barreled shotgun 1 small Karoo town marinated in secrets 3 bottles of Klipdrift brandy 3 little ducks 1 bottle of pomegranate juice 1 handful of chilli peppers 1 mild gardener 1 fire poker 1 red-hot New Yorker 7 Seventh day Adventists (prepared for The End of the World) 1 hard-boiled investigative journalist 1 soft amateur detective 2 cool policemen 1 lamb 1 handful of red herrings and suspects mixed together Pinch of greed Throw all the ingredients into a big pot, and simmer slowly, stirring with a wooden spoon for a few years. Add the ducks, chillies and brandy towards the end and turn up the heat.
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2 July 2015 Hardback / 9781782116455 / £12.99 Trade Paperback / 9781782116462 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782116479 / £11.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,SA,neEU
Sally Andrew says: ‘I live most of the year in a mud-brick house on a nature reserve near Ladismith in the Klein Karoo with my man and other wildlife (including a giant eland and a secretive leopard).’ Drawing on her own experience, Recipes for Love and Murder is her first novel.
The Seed Collectors Scarlett Thomas
The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y Three generations. Two secrets. One family tree. Aunt Oleander is dead. In the Garden of England her extended family gather to remember her, to tell stories and to rekindle old memories. To each of her nearest and dearest Oleander has left a precious seed pod. But along with it comes a family secret that could open the hardest of hearts but also break the closest ties . . . A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world’s most daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of George Elliot’s Middlemarch, The Seed Collectors is a ‘treasurehouse of detail’ revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human.
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2 July 2015 Hardback / 9781847679208 / £14.99 Trade Paperback / 9781847679215 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782111801 / £12.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS
‘A great storyteller’ - Financial Times Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include Bright Young Things, PopCo, The End of Mr.Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.
Mr. Holmes Mitch Cullen
Now a major motion picture starring Ian McKellan and directed by Bill Condon ‘Why’d she come here? Why’d she come to you?’ A cloud passed over the sun, casting a long shadow across the gardens.
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“Hope, I suspect,” said Holmes. “It seems I am known for discovering answers when events appear desperate.” It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know.
2 July 2015 Hardback / 9781782113256 / £8.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS
‘Extremely Touching’ - Independent Mitch Cullin is the author of six books, including the novel Tideland, the film adaptation of which was directed by Terry Gilliam, and the novel-in-verse, Branches. He lives in California’s San Gabriel Valley, and as a teenager was featured in USA Today in 1984 as one of the foremost Holmes fans in the world.
The Radleys Matt Haig
Paperback reissue of his TV Book Club classic, from the author of The Humans and Reasons to Stay Alive
Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and selfdenial. Loads of self-denial. But all hell is about to break loose. When teenage daughter Clara gets attacked on the way home from a party, she and her brother Rowan finally discover why they can’t sleep, can’t eat a Thai salad without fear of asphyxiation and can’t go outside unless they’re smothered in Factor 50.
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With a visit from their lethally louche uncle Will and an increasingly suspicious police force, life in Bishopthorpe is about to change. Drastically.
2 July 2015 B Format Paperback / 9781782116882 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781847679161 / £7.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS,C,AN
‘I just loved The Radleys’ - Jo Brand Matt Haig is the author of five novels, including the bestselling The Last Family in England, which has been optioned by Brad Pitt’s production company, The Radleys, which was selected for Channel 4’s TV Book Club and was voted the winner of the series in 2011 and, his most recent, The Humans, which is a World Book Night 2014 title. His works have been translated into over twenty languages, and he has also written award-winning books for children. He lives in York and London.
The First Bad Man Miranda July
‘A book that must be read, a book that must be purchased – in duplicate – one for you, one for a friend’ A.M. Homes The first novel by the filmmaker, artist and bestselling author Miranda July confirms her as a spectacularly original, iconic, and important voice today, and a writer for all time. The First Bad Man is dazzling and unforgettable. ‘Astounding . . . she will make you laugh, cringe and recognise yourself in a woman you never planned to be . . . Never has a novel spoken so deeply to my sexuality, my spirituality, my secret self. I know I am not alone’ LENA DUNHAM
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‘Miranda July’s heroine in this unforgettable novel is one of the most original, most confounding and strangely sympathetic characters . . . This novel is almost impossible to put down, and confirms July as a novelist of the first order’ DAVE EGGERS
2 July 2015 Paperback / 9781782115076 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782115052 / £8.49 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH
‘Hilarious . . . A wry, smart companion on any day’ - New York Times Book Review Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer. Her collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s and The New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction.
Endgame
Ahmet Altan A thrilling new voice in international fiction, in the vein of Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak A man retires to a sun-baked Turkish town for a quiet life. But he finds a world of suspicion, paranoia, and violence. The town has made a murderer of him. The question is, who did he kill? ‘I don’t remember pulling the trigger; I only heard the gunshot. And then I saw a mouth opening, as if to speak, a face contorted, one hand in the air . . . And then a body falling . . .’
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Led by a deeply untrustworthy narrator, Ahmet Altan’s international bestseller pulls us into a world of desire, ambition and death. A detective story turned on its head, Endgame is sensual, compelling and laced with a dreamlike logic reminiscent of Paul Auster. Endgame heralds Ahmet Altan as one of the most exciting literary voices to have emerged in years.
6 August 2015 Trade Paperback / 9781782112594 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782112600 / £11.99 Rights Held: WxEinC Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey’s most significant authors and journalists. Born in 1950, Ahmet graduated from the Economics Department of Istanbul University. His first novel, Four Seasons of Autumn, won the Grand Award of the Akademi Publishing House. He is also author of Trace on the Water, Dangerous Tales, which became a bestseller and sold over two hundred thousand copies and Like a Sword Wound, which won the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize and sold five hundred thousand copies. In 2009, along with Roberto Saviano, he was awarded the prestigious ‘Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media’ by the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig. In 2011, he received the International Hrant Dink Award, awarded for work against discrimination, racism and violence. Alexander Dawe (translator) was born in New York and now lives and works in Istanbul. He received a PEN translation fund to translate the collected short stories of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. He worked with Maureen Freely on a new translation of Tanpinar’s novel The Time Regulation Institute (published by Penguin in the US).
Twilight of the Eastern Gods Ismail Kadare
One of the earliest novels from Man Booker International Prize-winner Ismail Kadare, now in paperback 1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book – could those simple pages really be so dangerous? Based on Ismail Kadare’s own experience, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a portrait of a city, a story of youthful disenchantment and a reminder of the incredible importance of the written word. 6 August 2015 Paperback / 9780857866196 / £8.99 Ebook / 9780857868909 / £8.49 Rights Held: W/ExUS,C
‘Compelling, absorbing, deeply personal’ - New Statesman Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare is Albania’s best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he was awarded the first Man Booker International Prize for ‘a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact’. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. David Bellos (translator) is director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University and the author of Is That A Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation. He won the FrenchAmerican Foundation’s Translation Prize for his version of Georges Perec’s Life A User’s Manual, and the Goncourt Prize for Biography for Georges Perec. A Life in Words. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare’s novels as well as works by Romain Gary, Georges Simenon, Daniel Anselme and Georges Perec.
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The Incomplete Tim Key: About 300 of his Poetical Gems and What-nots Tim Key A hilarious collection of poetry and prose from one of the UK’s most exciting young comedians This is Key’s most comprehensive collection of poeticals put together to date. The sheer weight of the book is testament to this comprehensivality. Of course it is lighter than something like a Braun fridge or a fat guy. But as a book, you will note, it’s of a nice weight. It’s full of poems by Key (awardwinning) primarily about love, sex, dreams, death and fruit (strawberries, beans etc). The publishing of the book in no way ties in with things like ‘demand’ or ‘clamour’ but is more a result of Key having a full English breakfast with the right person at the right time. Key is not the sort of person to take offence if you don’t buy his book but instead replace it on its shelf or lazily slot it between a couple of DBC Pierres or dump it by a pot plant next to the till. Key’s just happy that someone has bothered to touch it. That is enough for Key.
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6 August 2015 Paperback / 9781782116790 / £9.99 Ebook / 9780857861207 / £9.49 Rights Held: World
‘He’s a genius plain and simple’
- Time Out Tim Key is now 38 (old) and wears dark, lager-stained suits and ties for his poetry. He came through Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe and Newswipe and now has a Late Night Poetry Programme on the radio, which he is paid for. In 2009 he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for his poetical recital The Slutcracker and has filmed some of his verse in black and white to overwhelming critical approval. In 2014 he took the role of Sidekick Simon in Alpha Papa and sometimes does bits of telly and/or writes a column for the Independent. Most importantly, his Instagram account – timkeypoet – is starting to gather momentum.
Black Mass
Dick Lehr & Gerard O’Neill Film tie-in paperback for the True Crime Classic. Now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sienna Miller and Kevin Bacon Two boys – John Connolly and James ‘Whitey’ Bulger – grew up together on the tough streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the mid-1970s, they met again. By then Connolly had become a major figure in the FBI’s Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. Connolly had an idea, a scheme that might bring Bulger into the FBI fold and nudge himself into the Bureau’s big leagues. But Bulger had other plans.
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Black Mass is the chilling true story of what happened between them – a dark deal that spiraled out of control, leading to drug dealing, racketeering, and murder. A gripping, epic true story of violence, doublecross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the worst scandals in FBI history.
6 August 2015 B Format Paperback / 9781782116240 / £8.99 Export Paperback / 9781782116264 / £6.99 Ebook / 9781782116257 / £6.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,Sing,H,Mys,neE
‘A work of rare lucidity, high drama, journalistic integrity and plain courage’ - James Carroll, author of An American Requiem Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill are former reporters with the Boston Globe, and co-authors of Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss. O’Neill has won the Pulitzer, Hancock and Loeb Prizes. Lehr, a Pulitzer finalist, has also won the Hancock and Loeb awards. He currently is a professor of journalism at Boston University, where he is a co-director of an investigative reporting clinic.
Welcome to Just a Minute: A Celebration of Britain’s Best-Loved Radio Comedy Nicholas Parsons The paperback outing of the very first Just a Minute book, written by the show’s long-standing and much adored chairman Chairman Nicholas Parsons, Graham Norton, Sue Perkins, Jenny Eclair and Gyles Brandreth share their memories of the show. In this first ever official companion, Nicholas Parsons tells the fascinating story of the much-loved panel game. Over the decades, the greats of British comedy have entertained listeners with performances that have come to define our comic heritage – from Kenneth Williams’ outrageously funny ‘battles’ with Sheila Hancock, Clement Freud’s acerbic wit and Derek Nimmo’s tall tales to Paul Merton’s imaginative flights of fancy, Julian Clary’s flagrant innuendos and Pam Ayres’ poetic humour. Welcome to Just a Minute! is an entertaining journey through British comedy history and a master class in comic timing, verbal dexterity and sharp one-liners.
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6 August 2015 Paperback / 9781782112495/ £9.99 Ebook / 9781782112488 / £9.49 Rights Held: World
‘A joyous compendium of facts, fun and stories’ - Paul Merton Nicholas Parsons was born in Grantham in 1923. He first came to prominence in the late 50s in the comedy partnership with Arthur Haynes. As well as presenting Just a Minute, he is known for hosting Sale of the Century and for his chat show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which has run for the past thirteen years. He was awarded an OBE for his services to Drama and Broadcasting in 2003 and an CBE for his charitable work in 2014.
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies Susan Elderkin & Ella Berthoud
A quirky popular reference book for literature lovers weary in brain and body and in need of a novel cure . . .
This is a medical handbook, with a difference. Whether you have a stubbed toe or a severe case of the blues, within these pages you’ll find a cure in the form of a novel to help ease your pain. You’ll also find advice on how to tackle common reading ailments – such as what to do when you feel overwhelmed by the number of books in the world, or you have a tendency to give up halfway through. When read at the right moment, a novel can change your life, and The Novel Cure is an enchanting reminder of that power.
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3 September 2015 Paperback / 9780857864215 / £9.99 Ebook / 9780857864260 / £9.49 Rights Held: WxEinUS,C,AN,I
‘It’s the sort of book you choose for a friend & end up wanting to keep.’ - RACHEL JOYCE Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin met as English Literature students at Cambridge University, where they gave novels to each other whenever one of them needed a boost. Ella went on to study fine art and become a painter and art teacher. Susan became a novelist and in 2003 was listed by Granta as one of the Twenty Best of Young British Novelists. She also teaches creative writing and writes travel pieces and book reviews for various newspapers. In 2008 they set up a bibliotherapy service through The School of Life. The Novel Cure is their first book together.
The Well
Catherine Chanter A Huffington Post ‘Debut to watch in 2015’ ‘One summer was all it took before our dream started to curl at the edges and stain like picked primroses. One night is enough to swallow a lifetime of lives.’ When Ruth Ardingly and her family first drive up from London in their grimeencrusted car and view The Well, they are enchanted. The farm that appears to offer everything the family are searching for. An opportunity for Ruth. An escape for Mark. A home for their grandson Lucien.
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But The Well’s unique glory comes at a terrible price. As The Well envelops them, Ruth’s paradise becomes a prison, Mark’s dream a recurring nightmare, and Lucien’s playground a grave. Sometimes the very thing you wish for is the worst thing that can happen . . .
3 September 2015 Paperback / 9781782114666 / £7.99 Ebook 9781782114659 / £7.49 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,eEU
‘I loved this book!’ - JESSIE BURTON, author of The Miniaturist Catherine Chanter was born and raised in the West Country. She has written for Radio Four and has had short stories and poetry published in a wide range of anthologies and publications. She won the Yeovil Poetry Prize in 2010. Catherine has a Masters, with distinction, in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. The Well is her first novel and won the 2013 Lucy Cavendish Prize for Unpublished Fiction.
The China Factory Mary Costello
The critically acclaimed story collection from the author of Academy Street Love, loss, betrayal. Grief, guilt, longing. The act of grace or forgiveness that can suddenly transform and redeem lives. In these twelve haunting stories Mary Costello carefully examines the passions and perils of everyday life with startling insight, casting a light on the darkest corners of the human heart.
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An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever; a young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife; a wife who miscalculated the guarantees of marriage embarks upon an online affair. And in the title story a teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor.
3 September 2015 Paperback / 9781782116011 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782116028 / £8.49 Rights Held: UKCWxAN,C
‘Quote to come’ - Cool Guy Mary Costello grew up in County Galway. Her collection of short stories, The China Factory, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. Her stories have been published in various anthologies and broadcast on radio. She lives in Dublin. Join the discussion on Twitter #AcademyStreet
The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber Faber’s first novel in twelve years out in paperback
‘I am with you always, even unto the end of the world...’
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Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything – his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart.
3 September 2015 Paperback / 9781782114086 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782114093 / £8.49 Rights Held: WxEinUS, C
‘I didn’t so much read The Book of Strange New Things as inhabit it’ - David Mitchell Michel Faber has written eight other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fire Gospel and The Fahrenheit Twins. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the Scottish Highlands.
Guantánamo Diary Mohamedou Ould Slahi
An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a stillimprisoned Guantánamo detainee Since 2002, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered to be released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go.
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Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir – terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. Guantánamo Diary is a document of immense historical importance 03 September 2015 Trade Paperback / 9781782112853 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782112860 / £12.49 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH
‘A vision of hell, beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka’ - JOHN LE CARRÉ Mohamedou Slahi was born in Mauritania. At eighteen, he won a scholarship to study engineering in Germany. In the early 1990s, he went to Afghanistan to join al-Qaida units fighting (with American support) the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. At the direction of the United States government, he has been a prisoner in Guantánamo since August 2002. The United States government has never charged him with a crime. Larry Siems (editor) directed the Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center, and is the author of The Torture Report. He lives in New York.
The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt Edited by Simon Garfield Virginia Woolf meets Caitlin Moran - the extraordinary journals chronicling one ordinary woman’s whole life, edited and introduced by Simon Garfield The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt presents the intimate, honest and heartwarming journals that chronicle the life of an extraordinary woman. Through her reflections on everything from her father’s remarriage to the complexities of teenage school friendships, disastrous love affairs and more, Jean’s incredible personality – funny, wise, a spirited feminist and a wonderful writer – shines through and is guaranteed to steal hearts. As Jean’s words propel you back in time, these journals becomes a slice of living, breathing history and a unique chronicle of Britain through the twentieth century.
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17 September 2015 Hardback / 9781782115700 / £20.00 Ebook / 9781782115717 / £16.99 Rights Held: World
Jean Lucey Pratt was born in 1909 in Wembley, Middlesex and lived much of her life in a small cottage on the edge of Burnham Beeches in Berkshire. She started writing in a diary at 15, and kept track of her life in the most lyrical of ways, until just a few days before her death in 1986. Simon Garfield is the author of fourteen acclaimed books of non-fiction including To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and The Wrestling. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive, Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles, were bestsellers, and his study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. He lives in London and St Ives, Cornwall.
Letters of Note,Volume II: More Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
edited by Shaun Usher The follow-up to the international bestseller and publishing phenomenon Letters of Note
More Letters of Note is the much-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Letters of Note. Once again editor Shaun Usher turns his hand to letters, showcasing over one hundred entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name – an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people.
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3 September 2015 Hardback / 9781782114543 / £30.00 Ebook / 9781782114550 / £19.99 Rights Held: World
‘My book of the year’ - Stephen Fry, on Letters of Note Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blog www.lettersofnote.com. His chosen career as a curator of correspondence is particularly interesting given that he regularly receives – and more often than not doesn’t reply to – abuse from exasperated friends due to his apparent inability to return their calls, emails, and, on very rare occasions, letters. Shaun lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina, and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note and Lists of Note.
Gilliamesque Terry Gilliam
Full colour memoir by the legendary director, animator and Python, Terry Gilliam From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of 60’s and 70’s counter-culture in New York, LA, and London, Terry Gilliam’s life has been as vivid, entertaining and unorthodox as one of his films.
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Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – not to mention cofounder of Monty Python’s Flying Circus – recalls his life so far. Packed with never-before-seen artwork, photographs and commentary, Gilliamesque blends the visual and the verbal with scabrous wit and fascinating insights. Gilliam’s ‘pre-posthumous memoir’ also features a cast of amazing supporting characters – George Harrison, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger and all of the fellow Pythons – as well as cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of modern times, from Woody Allen to Frank Zappa, Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb, Richard Nixon to Hunter S. Thompson. Gilliam’s encounters with the great and the not-so-good are revealing, funny and hugely entertaining. This book is an unrestrained look into a unique creative mind and an incomparable portrait of late twentieth-century popular culture.
24 September 2015 Hardback / 9781782111061 / £30 Ebook / 9781782111078/ £16.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS
Terry Gilliam is a director, screenwriter, animator, actor, and member of Monty Python. He is well known for directing films that have achieved cult status, including Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and is ranked among the top film directors of the 20th Century. He has won many awards and prizes and has lost even more.
The Brain
David Eagleman The accessible and definitive overview of this most sophisticated organ, by bestselling neuroscientist David Eagleman The Brain is a celebration of the wonder and complexity of the human brain. It explores the extent to which we have control over our own brains, how we perceive reality, how the brain wraps itself around new inputs, how neurons take over from each other and what the possibilities are with regards to sensory substitution, amongst other things. With interviews with experts, an impressive array of case studies and some incredible visual content, The Brain will educate and entertain, with David making even the most complicated neuroscience accessible, as only he can. There will also be plenty of emotional colour too through ordinary people’s extraordinary stories.
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1 October 2015 Hardback / 9781782116585/ £25.00 Trade Paperback / 9781782116608 / £17.99 Ebook / 9781782116592 / £14.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS,C
‘The hottest thing in neuroscience’ - The Times David Eagleman is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, where
he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. His scientific research is published in journals from Science to Nature, and his neuroscience books include Rewire: The Shape-Shifting Brain and Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia. He is also the author of Incognito: The Secrets Lives of the Brain and the international fiction bestseller, Sum.
The Movie Doctors
Simon Mayo & Mark Kermode In their first book together, the nation’s ‘go to’ experts on all things film, don their surgical scrubs to cure your cinema dilemmas and movie ailments The surgery is now open . . . Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode, the nation’s ‘go to’ experts on all things film, are branching out. In The Movie Doctors – a brand new stage show and book – Simon and Mark will bring a unique blend of deep movie knowledge, schoolboy humour and old married couple-style bickering in their new guise as doctors armed and ready to prescribe movie cures for their patients’ cinema dilemmas and diagnose movie ailments. Offering a new platform for Mark and Simon to talk (OK, bicker) about all aspects of the world of film, The Movie Doctors will be the ideal present for any movie fan.
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1 October 2015 Hardback / 9781782116622 / £25.00 Ebook / 9781782116639 / £16.99 Rights Held: World
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode are co-presenters on the Sony award-winning Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. Simon Mayo is one of Britain’s best-loved radio presenters. He has worked on BBC radio since 1981 and is the presenter of Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, which features the Book Club Show. Mark Kermode is the UK’s most trusted film critic, for the Observer, the BBC News Channel’s Review Show and BBC2’s Culture Show. He is the author of three best-selling books and has also written and presented several documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC.
The Bumper Book of Peanuts Charles M. Schulz A newly created bumper collection of the very best strips from the golden age of Peanuts
Charles Schulz’s Peanuts strips and characters are loved internationally, appealing to fans young and old since they first appeared in the 1950s. The Bumper Book of Peanuts takes fans back to the golden age of Peanuts, gathering the very best of the strips from the 70s and 80s. Packed with strips featuring Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved gang, this beautifully produced bumper collection is sure to delight Peanuts fans of all generations.
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1 October 2015 Hardback / 9781782116417 / £20.00 Ebook / 9781782116424 / £15.99 Rights Held: UK,Ire,AN,SA
‘At the pinnacle . . . there was Charles Schulz’ - Seattle Times Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
Beatlebone Kevin Barry
The second novel from the IMPAC-winning and Costa-shortlisted, Kevin Barry
Beatlebone is a wild quest tale, following John Lennon’s trip to Ireland in 1978. Fleeing the demands of public life, and a third request to appear on The Muppet Show, Lennon heads to the west coast of Ireland in search of answers to life’s most pressing questions. Lennon becomes a modern Don Quixote in this bold, lyrical, mordant, funny and incredibly rewarding novel.
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29 October 2015 Hardback / 9781782116134 / £12.99 Trade Paperback / 9781782116141 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782116158 / £11.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU
‘Always brilliant’ - Roddy Doyle on Kevin Barry Kevin Barry is the author of the novel City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohane he was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author’s Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature and the IMPAC Prize.
Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales: The Pied Piper of Hamelin The inimitable Russell Brand brings his trademark humour to the classic children’s tale, in this paperback edition fully illustrated by Chris Riddell ‘Once upon a time, a mysterious time that exists through a window in your mind, a time that seemed, to those present, exactly like now does to us, except their teeth weren’t so clean and more things were wooden, there was a town called Hamelin . . .’ In the first in his series of Trickster Tales, Russell Brand retells the classic children’s story The Pied Piper of Hamelin. You’ll be enchanted and revolted in equal measure by the host of characters you meet along the way: the anarchic rats, the arrogant townspeople, sharp-eyed Sam and of course the Pied Piper himself, all brought to life in Brand’s inimitable style and with the illustrations of Costa Award-winner Chris Riddell. 1 October 2015 Paperback / 9781782116035 / £9.99 Ebook / 9781782114574 / £9.49 Rights Held: WxEinUS,C
‘Russell Brand’s new book is a must-buy’ - OK Magazine Comedian Russell Brand is an international phenomenon. As well as starring in movies such as Get Me to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Despicable Me, he is also the author of six books including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir My Booky Wook and Revolution. In 2011 Brand was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award at the British Comedy Awards. He toured his most recent stand-up show The Messiah Complex worldwide. He regularly writes for the Guardian and recently guest-edited an issue of the New Statesman. Illustrator Chris Riddell has worked as a political cartoonist for the Economist, the Independent and the Observer and has achieved international success through his collaboration with Paul Stewart (The Edge Chronicles). He has illustrated an exceptional range of books and is winner of many illustration awards, including the UNESCO Prize and the Greenaway Medal and also writes and creates his own books, such as the highly-acclaimed Ottoline and the Costa prize winning Goth Girl.
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Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales: The Emperor’s New Clothes Russell Brand remixes this classic tale of a royal dressing down
In this second in his series of Trickster Tales, Russell Brand retells the classic children’s story The Emperor’s New Clothes, brought to life in Brand’s inimitable style and with the illustrations of Costa Award-winner Chris Riddell.
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1 October 2015 Hardback / 9781782114598 / £14.99 Ebook / 9781782114604 / £12.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS,C
‘Brand’s genuinely original, sparky prose delivers . . . It’s damn good fun’ - Big Issue Comedian Russell Brand is an international phenomenon. As well as starring in movies such as Get Me to the Greek, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Despicable Me, he is also the author of six books including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir My Booky Wook and Revolution. In 2011 Brand was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award at the British Comedy Awards. He toured his most recent stand-up show The Messiah Complex worldwide. He regularly writes for the Guardian and recently guest-edited an issue of the New Statesman. Illustrator Chris Riddell has worked as a political cartoonist for the Economist, the Independent and the Observer and has achieved international success through his collaboration with Paul Stewart (The Edge Chronicles). He has illustrated an exceptional range of books and is winner of many illustration awards, including the UNESCO Prize and the Greenaway Medal and also writes and creates his own books, such as the highly-acclaimed Ottoline and the Costa prize winning Goth Girl.
Tails from the Booth Lynn Terry The internet sensation, now in a funny and heartwarming book packed with over one hundred images of dogs of all breeds, posing in photo booths When Lynn Terry put two dogs in a photo booth for a charity calendar for the local animal shelter, she didn’t think much of it. But as soon as she saw the uncanny results she realised she’d stumbled across something special. And when she released a selection of the images online in February 2014 the internet wholeheartedly agreed.
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Tails from the Booth brings together over one hundred images of dogs from a variety of breeds, all poised and ready for the camera – proud and showing off, caught-off guard and looking bored, or lovingly licking each other. The shots are laugh-out-loud, playful and moving. Tails from the Booth charmingly and unforgettably celebrates the eclectic personalities of the pets we love so much in all their sweetness and mischief.
29 October 2015 Hardback / 9781782116042 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782116059 / £11.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH
‘Oh-so-cute’ Independent Lynn Terry has worked in photography for over twenty years, and has been focusing on animal photography since 2006. She has worked with many local animal shelters to help bring attention to adoptable dogs. Inspired by her interest in vintage photo book shots featuring people, she began a photo booth series of dogs for a local pit bull rescue group. She then custom-built a more suitable photo booth for dogs. This book is the result of many enjoyable hours capturing the fascinating and endearing interaction between the dogs.
Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet . . . and Other Adventures Simon Tofield
Simon’s Cat is back and he’s about to face every feline’s worst nightmare . . . a trip to the vet In the last five years, Simon’s Cat has become a global phenomenon. Star of thirty-nine films, which have been watched over 500 million times, and winner of a dozen major industry awards, Simon’s Cat has captured the hearts of a worldwide audience. In this brand new book we see Simon’s Cat face any feline’s most dreaded scenario – he’s off to the vet. And he’s not at all happy about it. Sharing its theme with the first ever full colour Simon’s Cat feature animation, funded by a record-breaking IndieGoGo campaign and due to be released alongside publication, Simon’s Cat: Off to the Vet will be packed with over 240 pages of hilarious new gags featuring our favourite furry friend and his companions – both old and new.
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29 October 2015 Hardback / 9781782115878/ £14.99 Ebook / 9781782115885 / £12.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS
‘What sets Tofield’s cartoons apart are the truly comic moments of pure cat-ness’
- Irish Times Simon Tofield is an award-winning animator and cartoonist. He has had a lifelong interest in animals, beginning as a child, when his uncle gave him a plastic pond which quickly filled with wildlife. Simon was given his first cat when he was nine and now has four rescue cats, who are the mischievous inspiration for his work.
The Complete Peanuts Charles M. Schulz The latest in Canongate’s highly collectible and highly praised series In The Complete Peanuts: 1995-1996, Charlie Brown starts taking dancing classes . . . and is asked to the sweetheart ball! The World Famous Attorney handles some tough cases . . . Rerun wants Snoopy to come out and play . . . and Linus hears coyotes howling at night. The Complete Peanuts: 1997-1998 is the 24th volume of the perennial, best-selling series that collects every single one of the 18,000plus Peanuts newspaper comic strips created by Charles M. Schulz, from its debut in 1950 to its end in 2000. As the gang are well into its final decade, even the most devoted Peanuts fan will be surprised by revisiting Schulz’s final years of work.
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5 November 2015 1995-1996 Hardback / 9781782115205/ £16.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH 1997-1998 Hardback / 9781782115212 / £16.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH
‘An artist, philosopher, and keen observer of human life’ - Bill Clinton Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
The Peanuts Guide to Christmas Charles M. Schulz The latest in a series of beautiful small-format themed gift books, featuring the much-loved Peanuts characters Christmas has come to the world of Peanuts and the beguiling gang are celebrating (and commiserating) in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. The millions of faithful Charles Schulz fans and those who fondly remember our best-loved beagle and his friends will cherish this latest title in our Peanuts Guide to Life series.
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3 December 2015 Hardback / 9781782113676 / £7.99 Ebook / 9781782113683 / £7.49 Rights Held: UK IRE ANZ SA +(SIHTUT)
‘Peanuts: a real way of life’ - John Waters Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
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Homicide by David Simon Paperback / 9781782116301 / £9.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,eEU,neH
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Fup by Jim Dodge Paperback / 9781782116356 / £8.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,neEU
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How To Be a Grrrl by Lucy Van Pelt and Charles Schulz Paperback / 9781782113614 / £7.99 Ebook / 9781782113638 / £7.49 Rights Held: UKCWxAN,SA
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