Catalogue Spring 2015 by Canongate

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Humans: An A-Z Matt Haig ‘Humans are mysterious, even to themselves, and it is this mystery that keeps them going. It is the mystery that makes love possible’ DO YOU A) Know a human? B) Love a human? C) Have trouble dealing with humans? IF YOU’VE ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU J A N U A R Y

Whether you are planning a high level of human interaction or just a casual visit to the planet, this user-guide to the human race will help you translate their sayings, understand exotic concepts such as ‘democracy’ and ‘sofas’, and make sense of their habits and bizarre customs. A phrase book, a dictionary and a survival guide, this book unravels all the oddness, idiosyncrasies and wonder of the species, allowing everyone to make the most of their time on Earth.

1 January 2015 A Format Paperback / 9781782115427 / £5.00 Ebook / 9781782114857 / £0.99 Rights Held: W

‘Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin’ - Jeanette Winterson Matt Haig is the author of five novels for adults, 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 The Humans, 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.

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Trying Not to Try Edward Slingerland

A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity – and why it’s essential to our wellbeing, both as individuals and as a society.

Why is it hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a comedian whose jokes fall flat or an athlete who chokes?

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What if, contrary to what we have long been told, spontaneity – not striving – is the answer to success?Through stories of mythical creatures and drunken cart riders, jazz musicians and Japanese motorcycle gangs, Slingerland effortlessly blends Eastern thought and cutting-edge science to show us how we can embody a spontaneous way of being and live more fulfilling lives.

1 January 2015 B format Paperback /9780857863485 / £9.99 Ebook / 9780857863492 / £9.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH

‘Entertaining and thought-provoking’ - Maria Konnikova Edward Slingerland is an internationally recognised expert in both early Chinese thought and the links between cognitive science and the humanities. He is Professor of Asian Studies, Associate Member in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Effortless Action (2003) and What Science Offers the Humanities (2008).

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The King

Kaber Abdolah The paperback outing of the international bestseller, from the author of The House of the Mosque

Once upon a time there was a Persian prince. The prince had many brothers, for his father had married over a thousand wives, but Prince Naser alone stood to inherit the kingdom.

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As the prince ascends to the throne we lurk in his shadow to overhear the whispered intrigues and plotting of bloody battles. The weight of the nation bears heavily on Shah Naser’s shoulders. Will this young king triumph or will he succumb to the forces that threaten to engulf him? Enter the court of the King of Persia . . .

8 January 2015 B Format Paperback / 9780857862969 / £8.99 Ebook / 9780857862983 / £8.99 A Format Paperback / 9780857862976 / £6.99 Rights Held: W/ExUS

‘Salman Rushdie’s Shame meets Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall’ - Financial Times Kader Abdolah (a pen name created in memoriam to friends who died under persecution by the current Iranian regime) was born in Iran in 1954. While a student of physics in Tehran, he joined a secret leftist party that fought against the dictatorship of the shah and the subsequent dictatorship of the ayatollahs. In 1988, he arrived in the Netherlands as a political refugee. Kader Abdolah is the author of several books, including the novels My Father’s Notebook and The House of the Mosque. He has received several awards, including the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres decoration in 2008.

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In Real Life Chris Killen

A hilarious, heart-breaking and decade-spanning portrait of a generation, from the author of The Bird Room

For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds apart. Call centres, charity shops and bedrooms that smell like cabbage were never part of the plan. The real world doesn’t look quite like any of them imagined. But when Lauren, in a moment of nostalgia, cracks open a long-forgotten Hotmail account, she comes face to face with the people these three friends used to be . . .

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For two of them it will mean a new beginning to an old love story. Hilarious and heart-breaking, In Real Life paints a searingly honest portrait of a generation and captures a world where human connection is easier than ever before but where relationships remain just as tricky.

15 January 2015 Demy Octavo Trade Paperback / 9781847672629 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782114444 / £12.99 Rights Held: W

‘Perfectly captures the awkward sadness of tiny things’ - Ben Brooks Chris Killen was born in 1981. His first novel, The Bird Room, was published by Canongate in 2009. He is one third of Metal Man, whose first feature film, Wizard’s Way, won the Best Comedy Feature award at London Independent Film Festival and the Discovery Award at LOCO. He currently lives in Manchester.

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Summer in the Shadow of Byron Andrew McConnell Stott From the award-winning author of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi comes ‘a rattlingly well-told peek into the lives of the original literary Brat Pack’ Sunday Express Villa Diodati. 1816 In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians would share their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity from which would emerge some of the masterworks of the Romantic period, including Frankenstein.

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But there were two other guests at the villa that summer, for whom the season would not be so rosy. With Byron came his young physician, John Polidori, a man with literary aspirations of his own. And joining Mary was her step-sister, the beautiful Claire Clairmont. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalise them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever. 15 January 2015 B Format Paperback / 9781847678720 / £12.99 Ebook / 9780857868947 / £12.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,eEU

‘A thrilling tale about the pursuit of love, sex and fame’ - Amanda Foreman Andrew McConnell Stott is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, a history of theatre and comedy told through the story of Britain’s greatest pantomime clown, published by Canongate in 2009, won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, the Sheridan Morley Award for Theatre Biography, and the George Freedley Memorial Award. It was a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’ and one of Guardian’s ‘Books of the Year’.

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Game Over? Neil Strauss

The Game was about how to get together. Game Over? is about how to stay together Neil Strauss became famous to millions around the world as the author of The Game, an account of how he transformed from a scrawny, insecure nerd into the ultraconfident, ultra-successful ‘pickup artist’ known as Style. The book made Strauss notorious among men and women alike. The experience conditioned him to view the world as a constant parade of women, sex and opportunity – with intimacy and longterm commitment taking a back seat. That is, until he met the woman who forced him to choose between herself and the parade.

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The choice forced Strauss deep into his past, to confront the childhood that shaped the man that he became. It sent him into extremes of behaviour that exposed just how conflicted his life had become. He was forced to ask the question: is monogamy natural? To answer it he toured the world’s polyamorous communities, explored celibacy, visited sex addiction clinics and quizzed every permutation of relationship. It made him question everything he knew about himself, and about the way men and women live with and without each other. He would never be the same again.

15 January 2015 Hardback / 9781782110941/ £18.99 Ebook / 9781782110965 / £14.99 Trade Paperback / 9781782110958 / £14.99 Rights Held: UKCWxAN,C,neSing,neH,neE

‘A narrative of daredevil sexuality’ - Guardian

Neil Strauss is the author of the international bestsellers The Game, Rules Of The Game, Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead and Emergency. He is also the co-author of three New York Times bestsellers – Jenna Jameson’s How To Make Love Like A Porn Star, Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt and Marilyn Manson’s The Long Hard Road of Hell – as well as Dave Navarro’s Don’t Try This At Home, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. A writer for Rolling Stone, Strauss lives in Los Angeles.

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Guantánamo Diary Mohamedou Ould Slahi Edited by Larry Siems An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a stillimprisoned Guantánamo detainee Since 2002, Mohamedou 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. Published now for the first time, Guantánamo Diary is a document of immense historical importance. 20 January 2015 Royal Octavo Hardback / 9781782112846 / £20 Royal Trade Paperback / 9781782116066 / £14.99 Ebook / 9781782112860 / £14.99 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 in Germany. In the early 1990s, he interrupted his studies and went to Afghanistan to join al-Qaida units fighting (with American support) the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. He returned to Germany in 1992, completing his engineering degree. He went back to Mauritania in 2000. In November 2001, he turned himself in to Mauritanian authorities at their request. At the direction of the United States government, he was rendered to Jordan, then to Afghanistan and finally to Guantánamo, where he has been a prisoner since August 2002. The United States government has never charged him with a crime. Larry Siems is director of the Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center, and the author of The Torture Report. He lives in New York.

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A Fortunate Man John Berger

Berger’s exploration of what it means to heal republished nearly fifty years on

With a new introduction by novelist and GP, Gavin Francis. In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man – his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.

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In A Fortunate Man, Berger’s text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the rural community for which he became the hub. Drawing on psychology, biography and medicine A Fortunate Man is a portrait of sacrifice. It is also a profound exploration of what it means to be a doctor, to serve a community and to heal. 5 February 2015 Demy Octavo Hardback / 9781782115014 / £14.99 Ebook /9781782115021 / £12.99 Rights Held: UKCW,neEU

‘A masterpiece’ - Geoff Dyer

John Berger was born in London in 1926. His seminal Ways of Seeing was one of the most influential books on art in the 20th century. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding, King, and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G. Jean Mohr is a Swiss documentary photographer. He has produced 26 books of photography, five with his literary collaborator John Berger and one with Edward Said.

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My Dear Bessie

Chris Barker and Bessie Moore Edited and introduced by Simon Garfield The wartime correspondence which first warmed people’s hearts in Simon Garfield’s To the Letter, now available for readers to follow their wonderful and life-changing journey In September 1943, postal clerk Chris Barker wrote to a colleague named Bessie Moore. His letter was innocent enough, but Bessie’s response was unexpectedly enthusiastic. By their third exchange, it was clear to both of them they had ignited a passion that would not easily be extinguished. F E B R U A R Y

But there were complications, such as not actually seeing each other. When he first wrote, Barker was serving as a signalman in North Africa during the war. Their romance through the mail would have to survive three years of obstacles, including ruined cities, enemy capture, disdain from friends and the army censor. The couple exchanged more than five hundred letters, some steamy, others stoic or illuminating. This book distils the most alluring, compelling and heartwarming. It’s all here: bombs, lust, comical misunderstandings and yearning – brought to life with deft and elegant language that poets would struggle to emulate. My Dear Bessie is a moving love story, a remarkable account of life during the war and above all a unique example of the power of letters to transform ordinary lives.

5 February 2015 B format Paperback / 9781782115670 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782115687 / £8.99 Rights Held: W

‘An immensely affecting set of letters’ - Financial Times

Chris Barker worked at the Post Office before serving as a signalman in North Africa during World War Two. Bessie Moore was Chris’s colleague at the Post Office, and worked at the Foreign Office, using her training in Morse code to translate intercepted German radio messages. Simon Garfield is the author of fourteen acclaimed books, including To the Letter, On the Map, and Just My Type. His edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive, Our Hidden Lives, We Are At War and Private Battles, were bestsellers.

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Five Came Back Mark Harris

A fascinating and lively history of Hollywood and WWII

Before the Second World War the Hollywood box office was booming, but the business was accused of being too foreign, too Jewish, too ‘un-American’. Then the war changed everything. With Pearl Harbor came the opportunity for Hollywood to prove its critics wrong.

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America’s most legendary directors played a huge role in the war effort: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Between them they shaped the public perception of almost every major moment of the war. With characteristic insight and expert knowledge Harris tells the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood.

5 February 2015 Demy Octavo Paperback / 9781847678560 / £14.99 Ebook / 9781782112884 / £14.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH

‘Tough-minded . . . and irresistibly readable’ - New York Times

For fifteen years, Mark Harris worked as a writer and an editor covering movies, television, and books for Entertainment Weekly. He is the author of Scenes From a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. A graduate of Yale University, he lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner.

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Redeployment Phil Klay

One of the hottest US debuts of 2014 out in paperback

How do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend?

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How does it feel to see fear in your wife’s eyes? How does it feel to come home? Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.

5 February 2015 B format Paperback / 9780857864246 / £8.99 Ebook / 9780857864253 / £8.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH

‘Achingly beautiful’ - Financial Times

Phil Klay is a veteran of the US Marine Corps and served in Iraq. His work has featured in the New York Times and Granta. This is his first book and it has been shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize 2014.

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Peanuts Guides to Life Charles M. Schulz

The latest in a series of beautiful small-format themed gift books, featuring the much-loved Peanuts characters

F E B R U A R Y The Peanuts Guide to Love The Peanuts gang offer their wisdom on love in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. From Woodstock falling in love with a worm to Charlie Brown’s obsession with the Little Red-Headed Girl, from Snoopy’s yearning for that girl beagle to Lucy’s unwavering (and unrequited) affection for Schroeder, the beguiling Peanuts gang know a thing or two about love. 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.

The Peanuts Guide to Happiness The Peanuts gang offer their wisdom on happiness in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. For the beguiling Peanuts gang, happiness is many things – a warm blanket, a snowy day, a full supper dish, but most of all happiness is being one of the gang. The millions of faithful Charles Schulz fans and those who fondly remember our bestloved beagle and his friends will cherish this latest title in our Peanuts Guide to Life series.

5 February 2015 Hardback / 9781782113737/ £7.99 Ebook / 9781782113744/ £7.99 Rights Held: TBC

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‘An American treasure’ - 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.

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The First Bad Man Miranda July

The first novel from award-winning filmmaker, artist and bestselling author Miranda July

Here is Cheryl, a tightly wound, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other peoples’ babies. Cheryl is also obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women’s self-defense nonprofit organisation where she works. She believes they’ve been making love for many lifetimes, though they have yet to consummate it in this one.

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When Cheryl’s bosses ask if their twentyone-year-old daughter, Clee, can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl’s eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee – the selfish, cruel blond bombshell – who bullies Cheryl into reality and, unexpectedly, provides her the love of a lifetime.

19 February 2015 Royal Octavo Paperback/ 9781782115045 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782115052 / £12.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH

‘Astounding’ - Lena Dunham

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. July’s fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s and The New Yorker. Her collection No One Belongs Here More Than You won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. The nonfictional It Chooses You was published in 2011.

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The Well

Catherine Chanter Sometimes the very thing you wish for is the worst thing that can happen . . . ‘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 by a jewel of a place, a 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. The locals suspect foul play in its verdant fields and drooping fruit trees, and Ruth becomes increasingly isolated as she struggles to explain why her land flourishes whilst her neighbours’ produce withers and dies. Fearful of envious locals and suspicious of those who seem to be offering help, Ruth is less and less sure who she can trust. As The Well envelops them, Ruth’s paradise becomes a prison, Mark’s dream a recurring nightmare, and Lucien’s playground a grave.

5 March 2015 Royal Hardback / 9781782113607 / £12.99 Trade Paperback / 9781782116073 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782114659 / £12.99 Rights Held: UKCW, neEU

‘Astoundingly assured’ - Allison Pearson

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.

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My Biggest Lie Luke Brown

‘Smart, zingy and extremely funny, this is a real treat’ Paul Murray

Liam has it all. The job, the girl, the life. But after an ill-advised night out he loses everything, packs his bags and flees to Buenos Aires. There he hopes to write the world’s longest and truest love letter to the one person who still matters to him.

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5 March 2015 B format Paperback / 9781782110408 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782110385 / £8.99 Rights Held: W

‘Wickedly funny and razor sharp’ - Catherine O’Flynn

Luke Brown was born and grew up in Lancashire and now lives in London. My Biggest Lie is his first novel.

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Capital

Rana Dasgupta Delhi’s transformation into a twenty-first century metropolis is an intoxicating, at times terrifying story – with repercussions for the future not only in India but everywhere

When Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the twenty-first century, he had no intention of staying for long, but the city beguiled him – he ‘fell in love and in hate with it’ – and fifteen years later, Delhi is still his home.

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Over these fifteen years, he has watched as the tumult of destruction and creation which accompanies India’s economic boom changed the face of the city. In Capital, he explores the life-changing consequences for Delhi’s people, meeting with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts. These encounters present us with the first literary portrait of one of the twenty-first century’s fastest-growing megalopolises.

5 March 2015 B format Paperback / 9780857860040 / £9.99 Ebook / 9780857868916 / £9.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,I,eEU,neH

‘Lyrical and haunting’ - New York Times

Rana Dasgupta won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book for his debut novel Solo. His collection of urban folktales, Tokyo Cancelled, was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Capital is his first work of non-fiction. Born in Canterbury in 1971, he now lives in Delhi.

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Gone are the Leaves Anne Donovan

A breath-taking story of love and loss set against the stunning backdrop of medieval Scotland, from the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Buddha Da Feilamort can remember very little of his childhood before he became a choir boy in the home of the Laird and his French wife. Feilamort has one of the finest voices in the land. It is a gift he believes will protect him. Deirdre has lived in the castle all her short life. Apprentice to her mother, she embroiders the robes for one of Scotland’s finest families. She can capture, with just a few delicate stitches, the ripeness of a bramble or the glint of bronze on a fallen leaf. But with her mother pushing her to choose between a man she does not love and a closed world of prayer and solitude, Deirdre must decide for herself what her life will become. When the time comes for Feilamort to make an awful decision, his choice catapults himself and Deirdre head-first into adulthood. As the two friends learn more about Feilamort’s forgotten childhood, it becomes clear that someone close is intent on keeping it hidden. Full of wonder and intrigue, and told with the grace and charm for which Anne Donovan is so beloved, Gone Are the Leaves is the enchanting story of one boy’s lost past and his uncertain future.

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5 March 2015 B format Paperback / 9781782112631 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782112648/ £8.99 Rights Held: W

‘Utterly mesmerising and moving’ - Eve Harris

Anne Donovan is the author of the prize-winning novel Buddha Da, Being Emily and the short-story collection, Hieroglyphics. Buddha Da was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It received a Scottish Arts Council Award and won the Le Prince Maurice Award in Mauritius in 2004. She lives in Glasgow.

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Geoff Dyer ‘Dyer is a master of the close-up, a hawk-eyed spotter of small coincidences’ Independent on Sunday Another Great Day at Sea Demy Octavo Paperback / 9781782113362 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782113355/ £8.99 5 March 2015 In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer’s stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever have hoped. In Dyer’s hands, the warship becomes a microcosm for a stocktaking of modern Western life: religion, drugs, chauvinism, farting, gyms, steaks, prayer, parental death, relationships and how to have a beach party with 5000 people on a giant floating hunk of steel. Piercingly perceptive and gloriously funny, this is a unique book about work, war and entering other worlds.

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Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence B format Paperback / 9781782115137/ £9.99 Ebook / 9780857863393 / £9.99 5 March 2015 Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer’s footsteps; in Mexico he cannot get beyond a druginduced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach . . . And yet, incredibly, this attempt to write a ‘sober academic study’ reveals the hold Lawrence and his work still exert on us today. Out of Sheer Rage is a complete one-off, a richly comic study of the combination of bad temper, procrastination and the uncanny power of obliquity.

‘A national treasure’ - Zadie Smith Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ’s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and a finalist in 1998. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

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Geoff Dyer ‘Dyer is a master of the close-up, a hawk-eyed spotter of small coincidences’ Independent on Sunday Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi B format Paperback / 9781782115144 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781847675750/ £7.99 5 March 2015 Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. A New York Times notable book of the year. Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He’s expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He’s not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. So begins a story of erotic love and spiritual learning that will reach its conclusion amidst the ghats of Varanasi.

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Working the Room B format Paperback / 9781782115113 / £10.99 Ebook / 9781847679666/ £9.99 5 March 2015 Alive with insight, wit and Dyer’s characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces – ‘On Being an Only Child’, ‘Sacked’ and ‘Reader’s Block’, among other gems. Dyer’s breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in – and seeing – the world today.

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Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray Alasdair Gray An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray’s stories gathered over the last sixty two years

The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones published together for the first time. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray’s recent twentyfirst-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.

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5 March 2015 Demy Octavo Paperback / 9780857865618 / £19.99 Ebook / 9780857865625 / £14.99 Rights Held:W

‘A born storyteller’ - Guardian

Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray’s first novel, Lanark: A Life in Four Books, was published by Canongate, he has published twenty books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, ‘Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.’

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Get in Trouble Kelly Link

‘Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. ’ Erin Morgenstern

Fantastic, fantastical and utterly incomparable, Kelly Link’s new collection explores everything from the essence of ghosts to the nature of love. And hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins, bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of Oz, superheroes, the pyramids . . .

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With each story she weaves, Link takes readers deep into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed universe. Strange, dark and wry, Get in Trouble reveals Kelly Link at the height of her creative powers and stretches the boundaries of what fiction can do.

5 March 2015 Demy Octavo Hardback /9781782113836/ £14.99 Ebook / 9781782113843 / £9.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,neEU,neH

‘Richly imagined, intellectually teasing. . . ’ - Sarah Waters

Kelly Link’s first short-story collection, Stranger Things Happen, was a Salon and Village Voice book of the year. Her second, Magic for Beginners, was a Time book of the year. She is also the author of Pretty Monsters, a collection for young adults. She edited the anthology Trampoline, co-edits the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and runs Small Beer Press with her partner, Gavin J. Grant.

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Gods of the Morning John Lister-Kaye

A lyrical celebration of British birds that tracks a year in the wild from respected naturalist and conservationist Sir John Lister-Kaye For more than three decades, John ListerKaye has been enraptured by the seasonal metamorphosis at Aigas, the worldrenowned Highlands field centre. Over the years, the glen’s wildlife has come to infiltrate his soul, whether it is a warbling blackcap’s cascading refrains, whooper swans hauling winter along with them, pine martens causing havoc in the hen run, loyal resident tawny owls defending their territory from adolescents, or a regal roe buck strutting in the broom and gorse, suddenly gilded by a fiery ray of sunlight.

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John Lister-Kaye has come to understand intimately the movements of these creatures, but increasingly unpredictable weather patterns have caused sometimes subtle, sometimes seismic shifts in their behaviour. Gods of the Morning follows a year through the turning of the seasons, exploring the habits of the Highland animals, and in particular the birds – his gods of the morning. Gods of the Morning is a celebration of the British landscape and the birds that come and go through the year, a reminder of the relationship we have lost with the seasons and a call to look afresh at the natural world around us.

5 March 2015 Demy Hardback / 9781782114154 / £14.99 Ebook / 9781782114161 / £14.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS

‘One of the most joyful, inspirational naturalists I know’ - Kate Humble Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Britain’s best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is the author of nine books on wildlife and the environment, including At the Water’s Edge. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation. He lives with his family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre.

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Complete Peanuts Charles M. Schulz

The latest in Canongate’s highly collectible and highly praised series The Complete Peanuts 1987-1988: Volume 19 5 March 2015 Hardback / 9781782115168/ £16.99 Rights Held: UK,Ire,AN,SA

The Complete Peanuts 1989-1990: Volume 20 5 March 2015 Hardback / 9781782115175/ £16.99 Rights Held: UK,Ire,AN,SA

The latest in Canongate’s highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Gary Trudeau

The latest in Canongate’s highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Lemony Snicket

Romance is in the air. Charlie Brown’s attempt at flirting in class sends him to the school nurse, while Linus is thwarted in his attempt to woo ‘Lydia’ of the many names. Other storylines include Snoopy’s sojourn in the hospital for a hockey-related knee injury, Sally’s bumpy career as a playwright, and Snoopy’s ‘kiss-and-tell’ book.

In this volume, Peanuts celebrates its 40th birthday! Charlie Brown and Marcie spend quality time together at sleepaway camp, while Peppermint Patty simmers in summer school. Linus ramps up his Great Pumpkin proselytizing with the ‘Great Pumpkin Movement’ – complete with literature to pass out door to door. Marcie begins to crack under the pressure of being a good student. Charlie Brown even gets the girl – but she thinks his name is Brownie Charles!

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‘A great artist and philosopher’ - 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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Reasons to Stay Alive Matt Haig Warm, witty, honest and human, this book is a manifesto for staying alive, whatever your demons ‘I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.

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I hate depression. I am scared of it. Terrified, in fact. But at the same time, it has made me who I am. And if – for me – it is the price of feeling life, it’s a price always worth paying’ Reasons to Stay Alive is a book about making the most of your time on earth. Matt Haig, aged 24, found himself staring at a cliff-edge about to jump off. This book is the story of why he didn’t, how he recovered and learned to live with anxiety and depression. It’s also an upbeat, joyous and funny exploration of how to live better, love better, read better, and feel more.

5 March 2015 A format Trade Paperback / 9781782115083 / £9.99 Ebook / 9781782115090 / £9.99 Rights Held: W

‘Uses words like a tin-opener’ - Jeanette Winterson

Matt Haig is the author of five novels for adults, 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 The Humans, 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.

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The Honours Tim Clare

Northern Lights meets Neil Gaiman in this box of delights . . . It is 1935 and war is looming in Great Britain. Alderberen Hall is a sprawling country estate shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the elite society that has taken in her mother and unstable father. As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine uncovers a world more dark and dangerous than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeeper Mr Garforth, Delphine must learn the bloody lessons of war and find the soldier in herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing in the woods. The Honours is a dark, glittering and dangerously un-put-down-able novel which mixes dazzlingly lyrical writing with seatof-the-pants storytelling. In his debut novel, Tim Clare invites you to enter a thrilling and fantastical world unlike any other.

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2 April 2015 Demy Trade Paperback / 9781782114765/ £12.99 Ebook / 9781782114772 / £12.99 Rights Held: W

‘An astonishing imaginative feat’ - Nathan Filer

Tim Clare is a performance poet based in the UK. He was born in 1981, and grew up in Portishead, in South-West England. He heads up Homework, a regular poetry night in Bethnal Green and has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. As a stand-up poet, Tim has performed nationwide including at the Edinburgh Fringe and countless festivals. He has appeared on TV, radio and has written for the Guardian, The Times, The Independent and The Big Issue amongst others. This is his debut novel.

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Academy Street Mary Costello

The heart-breaking and filmic debut novel by critically acclaimed Irish writer, Mary Costello

Mary Costello’s debut novel follows Tess from her childhood in rural Ireland in the 1940s to old age in modern day New York. Played out against the backdrop of American life over four decades, Academy Street resonates with the rhythms of memory and of home, as well as those of America’s greatest city. It tells an intimate story about love, loss and longing, and the perpetual ache for a home that is more than physical.

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Joyous and heart-breaking, sparse and sweeping, this is a novel which spans four decades without ever wasting a word. In Academy Street, Mary Costello takes the reader on a journey that shows us just how random, cruel and incredible life can be.

2 April 2015 B format Paperback / 9781782114208 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782114192/ £8.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,neEU,neH

‘Understated, graceful and, ultimately, devastating’ - Donal Ryan Mary Costello, originally from Galway, lives in Dublin. Her early stories were published in New Irish Writing and she was short listed for a Hennessy Award. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled The China Factory, was published in 2012 by Stinging Fly Press. The collection was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award (UK) and short listed for the Irish Book Awards. Her stories have been broadcast by BBC and RTE (Ireland) radio.

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Sous Chef: 24 Hours in the Kitchen Michael Gibney ‘A terrific nuts and bolts account of the real business of cooking as told from the trenches’ - Anthony Bourdain ‘Put a new pan down. Season the bass. Always from a height. The bass goes in. A monk looks done. Give it the cake tester. It’s barely warm. Another minute. To the pass with it. A pan is too hot. The oil smells scorched. Start again. Burner at full tilt. Now for the mussels. They jump in the oil. Aromas flourish. On with more gambas. On with more pans. On with more burners. Scrape down the plancha. Towel your brow. Printers buzz. A new pick. Six more fish. Your legs are tired. Tickets blur.’ Sous Chef takes you behind the swinging doors of a busy restaurant kitchen, allowing you to inhabit this normally hidden world, in real time. Follow chef from the moment he opens the kitchen in the morning as he guides you through the meticulous preparation, the camaraderie in the hours leading up to service and the adrenalinrush as the orders start coming in. Thrilling, addictive and bursting with obsessive detail, Sous Chef will leave you breathless and awestruck - walking into a restaurant will never be the same again.

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2 April 2015 B format Paperback / 9781782112549 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782112556 / £8.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU

‘Tender and profane’

- New York Times Book Review Michael Gibney began working in restaurants at sixteen and assumed his first Sous Chef position at twenty-two. Over the course of his career, he worked alongside cooks and chefs from Noma, Mugaritz, El Bulli, the Fat Duck, Alinea, Per Se, Daniel, Jean Georges, Eleven Madison Park, Le Bernardin, Bouley, Ducasse, Corton, wd~50 and Momofuku among others. Gibney holds a BFA in painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Gun, Baby, Gun Iain Overton A fast-paced, fascinating and hard-hitting investigation of the gun’s lifespan In some places, it’s easier to get a gun than a glass of water. There are 875 million guns across the globe today. 12 billion bullets are produced every year. In some places, there are more guns than people to shoot them. In Africa, an AK47 can be bought for as little as $50. A P R I L

On a shocking and eye-opening journey that takes him to over two-dozen countries, from Cape Town to Tokyo and Phnom Penh, from mass graves to shooting ranges, auction houses to arms shows, award-winning investigative journalist Iain Overton unearths shocking and hard truths about the terrible realities of gun violence. Meeting people affected by guns from all walks of life – porn starlets appearing as snipers in XXX films, Salvadorian gangland killers or South African doctors soaked in the blood of gunshot victims – he begins to understand our complex and unique relationship with firearms. And finds that their impact is longreaching and often hidden. Yet it doesn’t just involve the dead, the wounded, the suicidal and the mourning. It involves us all. The pain caused by a gunshot does not end with the pulling of the trigger. That’s just the start.

16 April 2015 Royal Octavo Hardback / 9781782113423 / £18.99 Ebook / 9781782113447 / £12.99 Trade Paperback / 9781782113430 / £12.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS,C

Iain Overton is Director of Investigations at the charity Action on Armed Violence and an investigative journalist who has worked in over eighty countries around the world, reporting from killing zones in Iraq, Somalia and Colombia. As a filmmaker he has made films for the BBC, ITN and Al Jazeera and has worked with the Guardian, the Independent and The Sunday Times. As founding editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, he oversaw collaborations with major news organisations, including Wikileaks. He won two Amnesty International Media Awards among many others.

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Under Wildwood Colin Meloy The second book in Canongate’s acclaimed Wildwood trilogy

Ever since Prue McKeel rescued her brother from the wicked Dowager Governess and returned home from the Impassable Wilderness, life has been pretty dull. But when dark assassins, a dangerous businessman and a freezing winter all threaten the residents of Wildwood, Prue is drawn back in to their world. Together, she and her friend Curtis will face their greatest challenge yet: to save themselves and the lives of their friends, and to bring unity to a divided country.

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2 April 2015 B format Paperback / 9780857863287 / £9.99 Ebook / 9780857863294 / £9.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,neEU,neH

‘Once I stepped inside I never wanted to leave’ - Lemony Snicket

Colin Meloy once wrote Ray Bradbury a letter, informing him that he ‘considered himself an author too’. He was ten. Since then, Colin has gone on to be singer/songwriter for The Decemberists, where he channels his weird ideas into songs. With the Wildwood Chronicles, he is channeling them into novels. As a child, Carson Ellis loved exploring the woods, drawing and nursing wounded animals back to health. As an adult, little has changed – except she is now the acclaimed illustrator of several books for children, including Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead, Dillweed’s Revenge by Florence Parry Heide, and The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. Colin and Carson live with their sons, Hank and Milo, in Portland, Oregon, quite near the Impassable Wilderness.

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Wildwood Imperium Colin Meloy The third and final installment in the Wildwood trilogy A young girl’s midnight séance awakens a long-slumbering malevolent spirit . . . A band of runaway orphans allies with an underground collective of saboteurs and plans a daring rescue of their friends, imprisoned in the belly of an industrial wasteland . . .

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Two old friends draw closer to their goal of bringing together a pair of exiled toy makers in order to reanimate a mechanical boy prince . . . As the fate of Wildwood hangs in the balance. The third book in the Wildwood Chronicles is a rich, moving, and dazzling story, by turns funny and profound. Both Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis are at the height of their gifts with Wildwood Imperium. 2 April 2015 B format Paperback / 9780857863300 / £9.99 Ebook / 9780857863324 / £9.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,AN,neEU,neH

‘A beautiful object and a beautiful read’ - Jonathan Safran Foer

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A Girl and Her Greens April Bloomfield

A new vegetable-focused cookbook from the Spotted Pig’s April Bloomfield

At first blush, it’s a shock. A vegetablefocused cookbook from April Bloomfield, the mistress of meat, the queen of the burger, the overlord of offal? Well, yes. The same customers who revere her facility for pig’s trotters and bone marrow, yearn just as intensely for her Caesar salad as they do for her legendary burger. And it just so happens that April’s affection for pristine leaves of Swiss chard and bunches of radishes nearly surpasses her passion for lamb shoulder and suckling pigs.

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2 April 2015 Hardback / 9781782111702 / £25 Ebook /9781782111719 / £14.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH

‘This chick cooks like a ninja’ - Jamie Oliver

April Bloomfield was born in Birmingham. She is the executive chef and co-owner with Ken Friedman of the Michelin-starred the Spotted Pig, the Breslin and the John Dory restaurants in New York. She has worked at the River Cafe in London and Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA among other celebrated restaurants. She is also the author of A Girl and Her Pig.

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Caitlin Doughty

A fascinating look at the funeral industry and how we deal with death and our dead from a young, feisty, funny and fearless mortician From her very first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-yearold Caitlin Doughty threw herself into the gruesome daily tasks of her curious new profession. From caring for bodies of all shapes and sizes, picking up corpses from the hospital morgue, sweeping ashes from the cremation machines (sometimes onto her clothes) and learning to deal with mourning families, Caitlin comes face to face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about – death. But as she started to wonder about the lives of those she cremated, and found herself confounded by people’s erratic reactions to death, Caitlin’s feelings began to evolve in unexpected ways. Now a licensed mortician, Caitlin tells the story of her fumbling apprenticeship with the dead. Exploring our death rituals – and those of other cultures – she pleads the case for healthier attitudes around death and dying. Full of bizarre encounters, gallows humour and vivid characters (both living and very dead), this eye-opening account makes this otherwise terrifying subject urgent and fascinating.

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16 April 2015 Demy Octavo Paperback / 9781782111030 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782111047 / £12.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH

‘America’s (kinda dark) sweetheart’ - Huffington Post

Caitlin Doughty was born and raised in Hawaii. She moved to California after gaining a degree in Medieval History from the University of Chicago. She is now a licensed funeral director living and working in LA. She is also a writer, performer and film-maker and is the creator of ‘The Order of the Good Death’, an online community of artists, actors, poets, musicians and directors who are committed to staring down their death fears through art.

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How to Start a Revolution

Nadya Tolokonnikova & Masha Alyokhina A manifesto from the two founding members of the most internationally recognised and supported protest group of our time: Pussy Riot Pussy Riot activists Masha Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova are the embodiments of freedom of speech and the fight against political and judicial corruption. They were arrested in February 2012 after their international headline-grabbing guerrilla performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. During their time in prison, they considered the lessons of their experiences, and what started out as specific to Putin and Russia has matured into an ideology that has become more universal.

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This is their manifesto. Written to inspire, educate and motivate, it addresses issues that are pertinent to us all: - When does tolerance become collaboration, conformism and complicity? - How do you instigate change? - What does it means to risk one’s life and freedom for a just cause? Apathy, and the belief that the individual is powerless in the face of the government, are the greatest enemies of the people. But there is always a choice: to do nothing, or participate in the spectacle and disavow it by means of disruption. How To Start a Revolution gives us the tools we need to harness the power of our message, offering fascinating insights behind the masks and into the minds of these incredible women.

7 May 2015 Royal Octavo Hardback / 9781782115236/ £14.99 Trade Paperback / 9781782115250 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782115243 / £12.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU,neH

‘Brave young women, who refuse to let their voices be silenced’ - Hillary Clinton Masha Alyokhina was born in 1988, and studied at Moscow’s Institute of Journalism and Creative Writing. Nadya Tolokonnikova was born in 1989, and studied philosophy at Moscow State University. Together they co-founded the Russian feminist punk rock protest group, Pussy Riot, now perhaps the most internationally recognised and supported opposition movement of our time. As a result of their performances in Russia, they were put on trial as enemies of the state. They received a two year prison sentence, where the idea for this book was born.

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Not My Father’s Son Alan Cumming The acclaimed actor shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career Alan Cumming grew up in the grip of a man who held his family hostage, someone who meted out violence with a frightening ease, who waged a silent war with himself that sometimes spilled over onto everyone around him. That man was Alan’s father, Alex Cumming. But he was not the only mystery. Alan’s maternal grandfather, Tommy Darling, had disappeared to the Far East after the Second World War. The last time Alan’s mother saw her father she was eight years old. When she was thirteen, the family was informed that he had died in an accidental shooting. Curious to explore this second mystery, Alan committed to filming an episode of the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? Then, his father, with whom Alan and his brother had not spoken for more than a decade, called. He had a secret he had to share, one that would shock his son to his very core and set in motion a journey that would change Alan’s life forever.

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7 May 2015 B format Paperback / 9781782115465 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782115458 / £8.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU

At times suspenseful, at times deeply moving, but always brave and honest, Not My Father’s Son is a powerful story about embracing the best aspects of the past and triumphantly pushing the darkness aside.

‘I was completely sucked in’ - Neil Gaiman

Alan Cumming is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, producer and director. He recently starred in an acclaimed one-man staging of Macbeth on Broadway, and appears on the Emmy Award-winning television show The Good Wife. He won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the Emcee in the Broadway musical Cabaret, a role he has reprised in 2014. He hosts PBS Masterpiece Mystery and has appeared in numerous films, including Spy Kids, Titus, X2: X-Men United, The Anniversary Party, Any Day Now and Eyes Wide Shut. He is also the author of a novel, Tommy’s Tale.

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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...’ From the author of Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White, the first novel from Michel Faber in twelve years is a wildly original tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart.

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Peter Leigh is a husband, a Christian, and now a missionary. As The Book of Strange New Things opens, he is set to embark on a journey that will be the biggest test of his faith yet.

7 May 2015 B format Paperback / 9781782114086 / £8.99 Ebook / 9781782114093 / £8.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS,C Photo Credit: Eva Youren

‘Maniacally gripping’ - 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.

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Things We Have in Common Tasha Kavanagh Yasmin would give anything to have a friend. And do anything to keep them.

The first time I saw you, you were standing at the far end of the playing field. You were looking down at your brown straggly dog, your mouth going slack as your eyes clocked her. Alice Taylor. M A Y

I was no different. I’d catch myself gazing at the back of her head in class, at her thick fair hair swaying between her shoulder blades. If you’d glanced just once across the field, you’d have seen me standing in the middle on my own looking straight at you, and you’d have gone back through the trees to the path quick, tugging your dog after you. You’d have known you’d given yourself away, even if only to me. But you didn’t. You only had eyes for Alice.

7 May 2015 Demy Hardback / 9781782115946/ £12.99 Demy Trade Paperback / 9781782115953 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782115960 / £12.99 Rights Held: W/E Tasha Kavanagh worked in film editing for ten years, on features including Twelve Monkeys, Seven Years in Tibet and The Talented Mr Ripley. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. She has had nine picture books published, as well as one for 7-9 year olds, all under her maiden name, Tasha Pym. She is forty-five, lives in Hertfordshire with her family. Things We Have in Common is her first novel.

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Trickster Tales The Pied Piper of Hamelin Russell Brand

Illustrated by Chris Riddell The inimitable Russell Brand brings his trademark humour to this classic children’s tale

‘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 people’s teeth weren’t so clean and more things were wooden, there was a town called Hamelin . . .’

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Welcome to Russell Brand’s Hamelin. A pompous and ugly town, where the grownups are all stuck up their own backsides and their greedy, bum-scratching offspring are usually squirrelling up their own noses. When a badass band of anarchic rats descends on this bombastic bunch, wreaking havoc all over Hamelin, there’s only one man for the job: the wise and wily Pied Piper.

4 June 2015 Paperback / 9781782116035 / £6.99 Ebook / 9781782114574 / £6.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS,C An actor, comedian, radio host and writer, 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 four books including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir My Booky Wook. 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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Young Winstone Ray Winstone From the boxing clubs and street-markets of 1970s East London to Hollywood’s red carpets – the knockout autobiography by one of Britain’s best-loved actors Ray Winstone’s amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters – violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast – has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate saltof-the-earth diamond geezer?

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The answer lies in the East End of his youth. Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author’s trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, Young Winstone offers a fascinating social history of East London, as well as a school of hard knocks coming-of-age story with a powerful emotional punch. 4 June 2015 B Format Paperback / 9781782112457 / £7.99 Ebook / 9781782112440 / £7.99 Rights Held: W

Ray Winstone was born in Hackney Hospital in February 1957, and spent the early years of his life playing on the bombsites of Plaistow. At eight, his family moved to Enfield, where Ray was constantly looking for ways to get back to the East End – from ‘banging up’ on his dad’s market stalls, to winning 80 out of 88 bouts as a three-time schoolboy boxing champion for Bethnal Green’s famous Repton club. He was asked to leave a series of educational establishments (including nursery school), before finally graduating with first-class honours from the university of life.

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The Seed Collectors Scarlett Thomas The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y

The Seed Collectors is a fiercely contemporary tale of one extended family, a seed pod that contains the key to enlightenment (or death), some tennis matches, a number of orgasms, a funeral and a copy of a book that is different for every reader who picks it up. This is Scarlett Thomas’ most accomplished novel yet.

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4 June 2015 Demy Octavo Hardback / 9781847679208 / £14.99 Trade Paperback / 9781847679215 / £12.99 Ebook / 9781782111801 / £12.99 Rights Held: WxEinUS

‘The mesmerising power of 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.

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Animals Emma Jane Unsworth Sometimes friendship is the only true love story ‘There’s no ceremony for friendship, is there? If you go ahead with this wedding then you realise that what you’re actually saying is that your friendship with me is not meaningful and durable. That,’ she sipped her wine victoriously, ‘is the logical conclusion.’

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‘Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.’ Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up mean growing apart?

4 June 2015 B format Paperback / 9781782112136 / £7.99 Ebook / 9781782112143 / £7.99 Rights Held: W/ExC

‘If it’s not an instant cult classic I’m leaving the cult’ - Nathan Filer

Emma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything, (Hidden Gem, 2011) and was shortlisted for the 2012 Portico Prize. Her short story ‘I Arrive First’ was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012 (Salt). She lives in Manchester.

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Complete Peanuts Charles M. Schulz

In these collections, the world-famous newspaper comic strip enters its final decade The Complete Peanuts 1991-1992: Volume 21 4 June 2015 Hardback / 9781782115182 / £16.99 Rights Held: UK,Ire,AN,SA

The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994: Volume 22 4 June 2015 Hardback / 9781782115199 / £16.99 Rights Held: UK,Ire,AN,SA

The latest in Canongate’s highly collectible and highly praised series, with an introduction by Tom Tomorrow

The latest in Canongate’s highly collectible and highly praised series

In this collection, the world-famous newspaper comic strip starring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and the gang enters its final decade. The Complete Peanuts: 1991-1992 is the 21st volume of the perennial, best-selling series that collects every single one of the 18,000-plus Peanuts newspaper comic strips created by Charles M. Schulz, from its debut in 1950 to its end in 2000. In this volume, the series enters its homestretch as the strip enters its final decade: Schulz’s cartooning has never looked more confident, and his sense of humour is unrestrained.

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Schulz’s cartooning has never been more expressive, and his sense of humour never more unencumbered by formula or tradition in his last decade of work. In one sequence, the gang waits . . . and waits . . . for a school bus that never comes. Another shockingly showcases Charlie Brown hitting a game-winning home run - off Roy Hobbs’s great-granddaughter? Then, Linus lobbies the White House to nominate Snoopy for a Supreme Court seat (it would go to Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Woodstock discovers his long-lost grandfather’s diary, detailing a hard life in captivity (birdcage). Snoopy lands in the hospital with pneumonia, and all three of his brothers – Andy, Spike, and Olaf – come pay their respects.

‘A great artist and philosopher’ - 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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Heal Thyself: The Science of Thinking Yourself Better Dr Jo Marchant A ground-breaking popular science and self-help guide revealing why, and how, science is beginning to take the healing powers of the mind seriously

Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after being narrowly missed by a car? Or felt turned on just from hearing your partner’s voice? If so, then you’ve experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your physical body. The human body is wired so that information from your mental state constantly helps your body to respond appropriately to the environment. So why is the idea that our minds have ‘healing powers’ so often dismissed and avoided by scientists? Yet the tide is turning. Researchers from a range of fields are now uncovering evidence that subjective thoughts, emotions and beliefs can have very real effects on our health. Why is the placebo effect such a widespread phenomenon? And how does meditation – often used by athletes – enhance physical performance? These are some of the questions award-winning scientist Dr Jo Marchant sets out to answer. Drawing on the latest research at the forefront of science, she explores ground-breaking work in the field – from hypnotic illusion where a subject’s body begins to reject their own arm, to the finding that different genes are switched on in lonely people compared to non-lonely people. Piecing together this wave of studies adds up to a compelling case that our minds play a crucial role in helping us recover from – and stay free from – disease.

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Dr Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist based in London. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London, and an MSc in Science Communication (with a dissertation in evidence-based medicine) from Imperial College London. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and at Nature and her articles have appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Observer Review and New Scientist. Her radio and TV appearances include BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week and Today programmes, CNN and National Geographic. She has lectured around the world. Her book Decoding the Heavens was shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

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Jerry Lee Lewis: his own story Rick Bragg Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, in the legend’s own words

Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Louisiana and Mississippi; gave rockand-roll its devil’s edge with hit records like ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On’ and ‘Great Balls of Fire’; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; married his thirteen-year-old second cousin, the third of seven wives; ran a decade’s-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, at least twice; and survived it all to be hailed as one of the greatest music icons. This is the fascinating authorised biography of this musical genius in his own words. For the very first time, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story reveals the truth behind the Last Man Standing of the rock-and-roll era. From encounters with legends including Johnny Cash, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and more, to hair first-person accounts of Jerry’s lifelong rivalries with Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry for the title of king of rockand-roll, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg traces the incredible story of a young man who used his piano to drive the world into a music revolution.

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4 June 2015 B format Paperback / 9780857861597 / £8.99 Ebook / 9780857861603 / £8.99 Rights Held: UKCWxC,neEU

‘... the best book on rock and roll I have ever read’ - Ron Rash

In 1986, Jerry Lee Lewis was the first person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has had 14 no.1 hits and 42 top 20 singles and 22 top 20 albums and has won a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Lewis is the last surviving member of the Million Dollar Quartet which included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. Rick Bragg is an American journalist. He joined the New York Times in 1994 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996. Bragg is the author of five books: All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man, The Prince of Frogtown, I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story and The Most They Ever Had. He is now professor on the journalism programme at the University of Alabama’s College of Communications and Information Sciences.

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The Paris Review Issue 211, Winter 2014 9781782114802 £12.99 Issue 212, Spring 2015 9781782114819 £12.99 Issue 213, Summer 2015 9781782114826 £12.99 Issue 214, Autumn 2015 9781782114833 £12.99

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