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New Books January — June 2014

Contents

Contents Fiction

Guardian Faber

6 Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells 7 Richard Skinner, The Mirror 8 Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word 9 Willy Vlautin, The Free 10 Glenn Patterson, The Rest Just Follows 11 Lorrie Moore, Bark 12 Jean Hanff Korelitz, You Should Have Known 13 Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief 14 Sebastian Barry, The Temporary Gentleman 15 Robert Williams, Into the Trees 16 Samuel Beckett, Echo’s Bones 17 Andrew O’Hagan, The Illuminations 18 Akhil Sharma, Family Life 19 Miriam Teows, All My Puny Sorrows

48 49 50 51 52 53

Crime and Thrillers 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

James Carol, Broken Dolls Sam Eastland, The Beast in the Red Forest Peter Swanson, The Girl With A Clock for a Heart Thomas Enger, Scarred Eoin McNamee, Blue is the Night Chris Pavone, The Accident Laura Lippman, After I’m Gone John Gordon Sinclair, Blood Whispers Doug Johnstone, The Dead Beat

Non Fiction 32 Anita Elberse, Blockbusters 33 Gerard Lyons, The Consolations of Economics 34 Roderick Bailey, Target: Italy 35 Michael Broers, Napoleon 36 John Carey, The Unexpected Professor 38 Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime 39 Lewis Wolpert, Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man? 40 Michael Barry, Shadows on the Road 41 Adrian Tempany, And the Sun Shines Now 42 Alev Scott, Turkish Awakening 43 Will Atkins, The Moors 44 Count Arthur Strong, Through it All I’ve Always Laughed 46 John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin, 1,339 QI Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop

Tales from the Secret Footballer Paul Trevillion and Keith Hackett, You are the Ref Frank Keating, The Highlights David Leigh and Luke Harding, WikiLeaks Kirstie Clements, The Vogue Factor David Marsh, For Who the Bell Tolls

Poetry 56 Lavinia Greenlaw, A Double Sorrow 58 Ted Hughes, A Ted Hughes Bestiary 60 Hugo Williams, I Knew the Bride 61 Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Terror 62 August Kleinzahler, The Hotel Oneira 63 Gottfried Benn, Impromptus 64 The Forward Book of Poetry 2014 65 Tom Paulin, New Selected Poems 66 Simon Armitage, The Last Days of Troy 68 Sylvia Plath, Ariel 699 Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Drama 72 Brian Friel, Plays 3 73 Neil LaBute, Plays 1 74 Owen McCafferty, Plays 1 75 N. F. Simpson, Collected Plays 76 Alexander Ostrovsky and Samuel Adamson Larisa and the Merchants 76 Samuel Adamson, Gabriel 77 Will Adamsdale, The Victorian in the Wall 77 Samuel Adamson and Tori Amos, The Light Princess 78 Annie Baker, Circle Mirror Transformation 78 Anton Chekhov and John Donnelly, The Seagull 79 David Greig, The Events 79 Henrik Ibsen and DavidHarrower, Public Enemy 80 David Harrower, Ciara 80 Arthur Wing Pinero and Patrick Marber, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ 81 Peter Morgan, The Audience 81 Maxim Gorky and Andrew Upton, Children of the Sun

Music 84 Rupert Christiansen, The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera

Contents

Film 88 90 91 92 93

James Franco, Actors Anonymous Brett Martin, Difficult Men Sally Potter, Naked Cinema Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis Mike Figgis, Digital Film-making

Social 95 Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys 97 Mick Houghton, I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn 98 J. P. Bean, Singing from the Floor 99 Ian Curtis, So This is Permanence 100 Julian Cope, 131 101 Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins, The #MEATliquor Chronicles

Paperbacks 104 Lucy Caldwell, All the Beggars Riding 104 Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard 104 Giorgio Vasta, Time On My Hands 104 Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man’s Garden 105 Marjorie Celona, Y 105 Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies 105 Marcel Theroux, The Paperchase 105 Susie Steiner, Homecoming 106 Peter Murphy, Shall We Gather at the River 106 Amity Gaige, Schroder 106 Alissa Nutting, Tampa 106 James Hamilton-Paterson, Under the Radar 107 David Peace, Red or Dead 107 Deirdre Madden, Time Present and Time Past 107 Ruth Thomas, The Home Corner 108 Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway 108 Sam Eastland, The Red Moth 108 Alan Glynn, Graveland 108 P. D. James, Death in Holy Orders 109 Chris Ewan, Dead Line 109 Alafair Burke, If You Were Here 109 Adam Creed, Kill and Tell 109 Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners

110 Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards, Holloway 110 Paul Auster, Collected Prose 110 Simon Hoggart, House of Fun 111 Neil McKenna, Fanny and Stella 111 Judith Tebbutt, A Long Walk Home 111 Emma Brockes, She Left Me the Gun 111 Anne Putnam, Navel Gazing 112 Ronan Fanning, Fatal Path 112 George Packer, The Unwinding 112 Susan Brigden, Thomas Wyatt 112 Ronald Blythe, The Time by the Sea 113 Graham Farmelo, Churchill’s Bomb 113 Rod Ellingworth, Project Rainbow 113 Owen Sheers, Calon 113 Brian Glanville, The Story of the World Cup: 2014 114 Sylvia Plath, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, Poems 114 Tom Service, Music as Alchemy 114 Michael Smith, Unreal City 114 Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood, Birth School Metallica Death – Volume I 115 Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard 115 Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man’s Garden

Childrens 116 Julia Copus, Harry and Lil 120 T. S. Eliot, Macavity 121 Betty G. Birney, Bumper Book of Humphrey’s Tiny Tales 121 Karen McCombie, You, Me and Thing 122 Pip Jones, Squishy McFluff 124 Jennifer Gray, Chicken Mission: Murder Most Fowl 125 Jennifer Gray, Atticus Claw Goes Ashore 126 Michael Fry, The Odd Squad: Bully Bait 126 Michael Fry, The Odd Squad: Zero Tolerance 127 Philip Ardagh, The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens Trilogy 128 Betty G. Birney, Secrets According to Humphrey 128 Betty G. Birney, Humphrey’s World of Pets 129 T. S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats 130 Betsy Byars, The Midnight Fox 131 D. D. Everest, Archie Greene and the Magician’s Instruction 132 Francesca Simon, The Lost Gods

133 Jane Smiley, Star Horse 134 Natasha Farrant, The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: Finding Zach 135 Alexander Gordon Smith, Escape from Furnace: Death Sentence 135 Alexander Gordon Smith, Escape from Furnace: Fugitives 136 Erin Lange, Dead Ends 137 April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 138 Rebecca James, Sweet Damage 139 Alexia Casale, The Bone Dragon

Audio 142 Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red 142 Simon Gray, The Smoking Diaries 142 Simon Gray, The Year of the Jouncer 142 Simon Gray, The Last Cigarette 143 Simon Gray, Coda 143 Ricky Gervais, Flanimals 143 Harry Hill, Livin’ the Dreem 143 Giles Foden, The Last King of Scotland 144 Orhan Pamuk, Snow 144 Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul 144 Orhan Pamuk, Silent House 144 Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence 145 Mackenzie Crook, The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth 145 Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard

Digital 148 Richard Williams, The Animator’s Survival Guide 149 John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps

150 SOCIAL 151 ACADEMY 152 FABER FINDS 153 EXTRANET 156 BRAND 158 CONTACTS

Fiction

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Andrew Sean Greer

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells Andrew Sean Greer is the author of the novels: The Story of a Marriage, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, and The Path of Minor Planets, as well as the story collection How It Was for Me. He lives in San Francisco, California.

One Woman. Three Lives. Which will she choose? It is 1985, and Greta Wells wishes she lived in any time but this one: she has lost her twin brother to AIDS, her lover Nathan to another woman, and can not go on alone. To ease her sadness, her doctor suggests an unusual procedure, one that opens doors of insight into the relationships in her life, her conflicting affections, and the limitations put on a woman’s life. Throughout, Greta glimpses versions of war, history, herself, and the people she loves, and as the procedures come to an end, she realizes she must make a choice: one that will close every door but one, forever. 02/01/2014 978 0 571 295395 352pp Hardback £4.99

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‘The premise of this novel isn’t that a woman travels through time; it’s that “the impossible happens once to each of us”. What this wonderful novel teaches us is how magic works.’ John Irving

‘One of the most talented writers around.’ Michael Chabon

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Richard Skinner The Mirror Richard Skinner is the author of a previous novel, The Red Dancer, which was translated into seven languages. He has also published a collection of poetry, the light user scheme, and a writer’s handbook, Fiction Writing. A translation of The Velvet Gentleman was shortlisted in France for the Prix Livres & Musiques. He is Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy.

Erik Satie – composer, dandy, eccentric – is dead. Told to select one memory to take with him into the afterlife, he finds himself in limbo with a community of the deceased, looking back at his fifty-nine years for its most precious moments. Evenings of absinthe at the Chat Noir? Friendships with Debussy, Duchamp and Man Ray? What of his great musical triumphs and disasters? How will he choose his own legacy before silent whiteness descends? Venice, 1511. In the convent of Sant’ Alvise, Oliva is about to take the veil and become a bride of Christ. When her world is shaken – first, literally, by an earthquake, and then, spiritually, by forces that threaten to change the convent for ever – she begins to ask questions about her faith and her future. When she agrees to sit for Signor Avílo, the renowned portrait painter, he brings with him a diabolical object: a mirror. And reflections can be dangerous. Told with playful elegance, these are two utterly original tales of art and devotion, of religious and creative fervour. They contemplate the eternal in different ways – one examining a life only just beginning, tentatively; the other a life lived without compromise as it reaches its close.

02/01/2014 978 0 571 305070 300pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘Touching, elegiacally sad and beautifully written – Satie’s soul in words.’ Michael Finnissy

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Hanif Kureishi

The Last Word Hanif Kureishi grew up in Kent and studied philosophy at King’s College London. His novels include The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, The Black Album, Intimacy and Something to Tell You. His screenplays include My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, The Mother and, most recently, Le Weekend. He has also published several collections of short stories. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and been translated into thirty six languages.

The new novel from Hanif Kureishi: an outrageous, clever and very funny story of sex, lies, art and what defines a life. Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England – but now, in his early seventies, his reputation is fading, sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive tastes. Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to revitalise both Mamoon’s career and his bank balance. Harry greatly admires Mamoon’s work and wants to uncover the truth of the artist’s life. Harry’s publisher seeks a more naked truth, a salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate headlines. Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth altogether. Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but which of them will have the last word? The ensuing struggle for dominance raises issues of love and desire, loyalty and betrayal, and the frailties of age versus the recklessness of youth.

Hardback 06/02/2014 978 0 571 277520 £17.99 _ 352pp UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

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Hanif Kureishi has created a tale brimming with youthful exuberance, as hilarious as it is touching, where words have the power to forge a world.

‘No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.’ William Boyd

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Willy Vlautin

The Free Willy Vlautin is the prizewinning author of three acclaimed novels, The Motel Life (2005), Northline (2007) and Lean on Pete (2010), which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize. He is also the frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine, whose albums include Post to Wire and Thirteen Cities. Originally from Reno, he now lives in Portland, Oregon.

The life he knew before the bomb no longer existed. That Leroy Kervin was gone. Willy Vlautin’s stunning fourth novel opens with Leroy, a young, wounded Iraq veteran, waking to a rare moment of clarity, his senses flooded with the beauty of remembering who he is but the pain of realising it won’t last. When his attempt to end his half-life fails, he is taken to the local hospital where he is looked after by a nurse called Pauline, and visited by Freddie, the nightwatchman from his group home for disabled men. As the stories of these three wounded characters circle and cross each other, we come to learn more of their lives. The father who caused her mother to abandon them both, and who Pauline loves and loathes in equal measure, the daughters Freddie yearns to be reunited with and, in a mysterious and frightening adventure story, the girlfriend Leroy dreams of protecting. Evoking a world which is still trying to come to terms with the legacy of a forgotten war, populated by those who struggle to pay for basic health care, Vlautin also captures how it is the small acts of kindness that can make a difference between life and death, between imprisonment and liberty. Haunting and essential, The Free is an unforgettable read.

06/02/2014 978 0 571 300297 300pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘How good is contemporary US fiction? This good; catch-your-breath good.’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

‘This guy is a real discovery.’ Colm Tóibín

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Glenn Patterson The Rest Just Follows Glenn Patterson is the author of eight previous novels, the most recent of which, The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, was the 2012 One City One Book choice for Belfast. He is the co-writer of Good Vibrations (BBC Films/The Works), an award-winning movie based on the life of Belfast punk impresario Terri Hooley. He is currently at work on a novel set in the DeLorean motor plant in the early 1980s; a related screenplay has already been commissioned. He lives in Belfast.

1st September 1974. Craig Robinson is starting secondary school. Instinct tells him he needs to keep his head down. The last thing he needs, therefore, is someone carrying the name St John Nimmo to be sent to sit beside him, but that is what he gets. Across town Maxine Neill is starting at a new school of her own, convinced that she shouldn’t be there at all. She should be where Craig and St John are. Not that she has met either of them yet. Though meet them she will, and more. Their lives and hers – and the lives of the entire Nimmo family – become entwined as they go about the business of filling the spaces vacated by the generations that went before. It’s called growing up, never mind that most of the time it feels like making it up as they go along, and sometimes like fucking up completely. Around them meanwhile the world happens: to be specific Belfast at war happens, for good or occasionally very ill indeed. These are the circumstances life has contrived for them. What are they to do but deal with them?

20/02/2014 978 0 571 305223 304pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘Glenn Patterson is Northern Ireland’s prose laureate. His writing is as compelling as it is compassionate.’ Will Self

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Lorrie Moore

Bark Lorrie Moore, after serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of WisconsinMadison, has been named the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She has received numerous grants and awards, from among others: the Lannan Foundation, the National Books Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.

A literary moment and celebration – a new collection by one of America’s most beloved and admired short story writers; her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In ‘Debarking’, a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the US prepares to invade Iraq. In ‘Foes’, a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fundraising dinner in Georgetown. In ‘The Juniper Tree’, a teacher, visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend, is forced to sing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ in a kind of nightmare reunion. And in ‘Wings’, we watch the unravelling of two once-hopeful musicians, who neither held fast to their dreams, nor struck out along other paths. Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives, in Moore’s characteristic style that is always tender, never sentimental and often heartbreakingly funny.

Hardback 06/03/2014 978 0 571 273904 £16.99 _ 240pp UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

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‘The most irresistible contemporary American writer.’ Jonathan Lethem, New York Times

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Jean Hanff Korelitz

You Should Have Known Jean Hanff Korelitz was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of the novels A Jury Of Her Peers, The Sabbathday River, The White Rose and Admission, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for middle grade readers, and The Properties of Breath, a collection of poetry. A film version of Admission starring Tina Fey, Paul Rudd and Lily Tomlin was released in 2013. www.jeanhanffkorelitz.com

A smart, addictive and psychologically acute novel about what we think we know, what we should have known, and what we choose to ignore, for fans of Kate Atkinson, Gillian Flynn, Claire Messud and Louise Doughty. You knew right at the beginning. She knew he was never going to stop looking at other women. She knew he couldn’t save money. She knew he was contemptuous of her . . . But then she somehow let herself unknow what she knew. Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book called You Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don’t value their intuition about what men are really like, leading to serious trouble later on. But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out, and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, a missing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for herself and her child.

Hardback 06/03/2014 978 0 571 307517 £12.99 _ 384pp UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

‘Compulsively readable . . . A genuinely smart read with a human, beating heart.’ Entertainment Weekly on Admission

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Teju Cole

Every Day is for the Thief Teju Cole was brought up in Nigeria and moved to the USA in 1992. He is a writer, photographer and professional historian of early Netherlandish art. His novel Open City won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York City Book Award for Fiction and the Internationaler Literaturpreis, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in New York City.

A young man decides to visit Nigeria after years of absence. Ahead lies the difficult journey back to the family house and all its memories; meetings with childhood friends and above all, facing up to the paradox of Nigeria, whose present is as burdened by the past as it is facing a new future. Along the way, our narrator encounters life in Lagos. He is captivated by a woman reading on a danfo; attempts to check his email are frustrated by Yahoo boys; he is charmingly duped buying fuel. He admires the grace of an aunty, bereaved by armed robbers and is inspired by the new malls and cultural venues. The question is: should he stay or should he leave? But before the story can even begin, he has to queue for his visa. Every Day is for the Thief is a striking portrait of Nigeria in change. Through a series of cinematic portraits of everyday life in Lagos, Teju Cole provides a fresh approach to the returnee experience.

06/03/2014 978 0 571 307920 208pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘Powerful and unnerving . . . Cole has earned flattering comparisons to literary heavyweights like J. M. Coetzee, W. G. Sebald and Henry James, but Open City merits higher praise: it’s a profoundly original work, intellectually stimulating and possessing a style both engaging and seductive.’ Time on Open City

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Sebastian Barry The Temporary Gentleman Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won, among other awards, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

A stunning return from the prizewinning and best-selling author of The Secret Scripture. Jack McNulty is a ‘temporary gentleman’, an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world – as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer – trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heartbreaking portrait of one man’s life – of his demons and his lost love – The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack’s last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

Hardback 03/04/2014 978 0 571 276950 £16.99 _ 288pp UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

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‘Sebastian Barry’s fiction is unique and it is magnificent.’ Frank McCourt

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Robert Williams Into the Trees Robert Williams grew up in Clitheroe, Lancashire and currently lives in Manchester. His first novel, Luke and Jon, won a Betty Trask Award, was translated into six languages and called ‘a hugely impressive debut’ in the Daily Telegraph. His second novel, How the Trouble Started, was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Fiction. He has worked in a secondary school library, as a bookseller for Waterstones, and has written and released music under the name The Library Trust.

From prize-winning author Robert Williams, a novel about love and fear, family and security, and the search for sanctuary in the middle of chaos. Harriet won’t stop crying. Her parents, Ann and Thomas, are being driven close to insanity and only one thing will help. Mysteriously, their infant daughter will only calm when she’s under the ancient trees of Bleasdale forest. They sell their town-house and set up home in an isolated barn. Secluded deep in the forest, they are finally approaching peace – until one night a group of men comes through the trees, ready to upend their lives and threaten everything they’ve built. Into the Trees is the story of four dispossessed people drawn to the forest in search of something they lack and finding their lives intertwining in ways they could never have imagined. In hugely evocative and lyrical writing, Robert Williams lays bare their emotional lives, set against the intense and mysterious backdrop of the forest. Compelling and haunting, Into the Trees is a magisterial novel.

03/04/2014 978 0 571 308170 256pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘A gifted writer . . . It will be intriguing to see where his imagination and strong descriptive talent take him next.’ Guardian

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Samuel Beckett Echo’s Bones Edited by Mark Nixon

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. He made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote his most famous play, En attendant Godot, in 1948 but it wasn’t published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.

‘Echo’s Bones’ was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the ‘recessional’ or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, More Pricks Than Kicks, published in 1934. The story was written at the request of the publisher, but was held back from inclusion in the published volume. ‘Echo’s Bones’ has remained unpublished to this day, and the present edition will situate the work in terms of its biographical context, its intertextual references, and as a vital link in the evolution of Beckett’s early work. The editor, Mark Nixon, is director of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading.

03/04/2014 978 0 571 246380 112pp Hardback £16.99

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Andrew O’Hagan

The Illuminations Andrew O’Hagan is one of his generation’s most exciting and most serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize. He was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? The Illuminations, Andrew O’Hagan’s fifth novel, is a beautiful, deeply charged story about love and memory, about modern war and the complications of fact. Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was, in her youth, a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne’s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

Hardback 01/05/2014 978 0 571 273645 £16.99 _ 350pp UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

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‘O’Hagan is an exceptional writer . . . Humanity shines through his prose, and he has the gift of making you care about his characters.’ The Times

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Akhil Sharma

Family Life Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize collections. He was named one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young American Novelists’ in 2007.

Ajay, eight years old, spends his afternoons playing cricket in the streets of Delhi with his brother Birju, four years older. They are about to leave for a shiny new life in America. Ajay anticipates, breathlessly, a world of jet-packs and chewing-gum. This promised land of impossible riches and dazzling new technology is also a land that views Ajay with suspicion and hostility; one where he must rely on his big brother to tackle classroom bullies. Birju, confident, popular, is the repository of the family’s hopes, and he spends every waking minute studying for the exams that will mean entry to the Bronx High School of Science, and reflected glory for them all. When a terrible accident makes a mockery of that dream, the family splinters. The boys’ mother restlessly seeks the help of pundits from the temple, while their father retreats into silent despair – and the bottle. Now Ajay must find the strength of character to navigate this brave new American world, and the sorrows at home, on his own terms. By turns blackly funny, touching, raw and devastating, Family Life is a vivid and wrenching portrait of sibling relationships and the impact of tragedy on one family from a boy’s eye view.

05/06/2014 978 0 571 224531 Trade Paperback £10.99 256pp

‘Sharma is a rare master at charting the frailties and failures, the cruelties and rages, the altering moods and contradictions, whims and perversities of a tragic cast of characters. But this most unsentimental writer, with his skull-and-bones honesty, leaves the reader, finally and surprisingly, moved.’ Kiran Desai

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Miriam Toews

All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She has published four novels and a memoir of her father, has been longlisted for the Orange Prize and is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Governor General’s Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. She lives in Totonto.

A riveting new novel from the award-winning author of A Complicated Kindness. Yolanda is conflicted. Her sister Elf has battled depression for her whole adult life, and is in a psychiatric ward under permanent observation after attempting suicide – again. Yolanda has always looked up to Elf as her talented and beautiful older sister. She loves her with a fierce passion and wants to believe in the possibility of a future together, one in which Elf gets better. But as Elf steps further out of reach Yolanda has to decide: if the person you love is tired of living, is it kinder to let them go? All My Puny Sorrows (a line from a Coleridge poem) is written out of Miriam Toews’s personal experience and is, in some ways, a grown-up version of A Complicated Kindness, the novel that catapulted Toews to her bestselling status in Canada. This story allows Toews’s beguiling narrative voice – her easy, snappy, darkly comic intimacy – to sing through. It is funny, original and light-hearted in its handling of the biggest question of all.

05/06/2014 978 0 571 305285 288pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘A fresh, quirky fictional voice.’ Nick Hornby

Original Section Crime & Thrillers

James Carol

Broken Dolls James Carol is the creator of the eccentric genius Jefferson Winter, a former FBI profiler who travels the world hunting serial criminals. When he’s not writing, James spends his time training horses and riders. An accomplished guitarist, he relaxes by writing and recording music. James lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and two children. Broken Dolls is the first Jefferson Winter novel. For more information visit www.james-carol.com

Introducing Jefferson Winter. A serial criminal. An ex-FBI profiler with a past. A missing woman. Not everyone who’s broken can be fixed. Death is easy Four victims, all young women, all tortured and then lobotomised. None of them able to tell the police the name of their attacker. None of them able to live normal lives again. Just broken dolls, played with then discarded. Living is hard Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter is no ordinary investigator. The son of one of America’s most renowned serial killers, Winter has spent his life trying to distance himself from his father’s legacy. But are they more similar than he can admit? Failure is worse When another young woman goes missing, Winter has to race against the clock to identify the attacker and find the latest victim, before it’s too late.

16/01/2014 978 0 571 302734 Paperback Original 400pp £7.99

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Sam Eastland

The Beast in the Red Forest Sam Eastland is the pen name for Paul Watkins. He lives in the US and the UK and is the grandson of a London police detective. Eye of the Red Tsar, the first in the Inspector Pekkala series, was followed by The Red Coffin, Siberian Red and The Red Moth.

The fifth novel featuring Inspector Pekkala, in which he faces his deadliest foe. A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala’s charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin’s orders, Pekkala’s assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap. A new enemy has emerged from the fog of war, more deadly than any Kirov or Pekkala have ever faced before. Pursuing the legend of a half-human creature, said to roam the landscape of this war within a war, each step brings Kirov closer to the truth about Pekkala’s disappearance.

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Meanwhile, Pekkala’s nemesis is also closing in for the kill.

‘Stalin’s Russia was always going to be a heady setting for a crime series, and Sam Eastland has mined it expertly with his Inspector Pekkala novels . . . [Eastland] has created speculative fiction of the finest type and proved that Pekkala is one ghost with a few lives left to live.’ Independent on Sunday

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Peter Swanson

The Girl with a Clock for a Heart Peter Swanson’s stories and poems have appeared in such journals as The Atlantic, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Measure, Mysterical-E, Soundings East, The Vocabula Review and Yankee Magazine. He has earned degrees in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.

An electrifying debut from this year’s most exciting new writer. . . . it was like I had a secret disease, or there was this clock inside of me, ticking like a heart, and at any moment an alarm would go off . . . George Foss never thought he’d see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack’s Tavern. When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college freshman from Sweetgum, Florida. She and George became inseparable in their first fall semester, so George was devastated when he got the news that she had committed suicide over Christmas break. But, as he stood in the living room of the girl’s grieving parents, he realized the girl in the photo on their mantelpiece – the one who had committed suicide – was not his girlfriend. Later, he discovered the true identity of the girl he had loved - and of the things she may have done to escape her past. Now, twenty years later, she’s back, and she’s telling George that he’s the only one who can help her . . . In his electrifying debut, Peter Swanson evokes the spirit of Body Heat and Double Indemnity, in a thriller about love, loss and those memories we hold closest to our hearts.

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‘The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride and an absolute blast from start to finish.’ Dennis Lehane

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Thomas Enger

Scarred Thomas Enger is the author of two previous Henning Juul novels, most recently Pierced, which was described in Shotsmag as ‘excellent, another superbly compelling read by Thomas Enger’. As well as writing, he also composes music. He lives in Oslo and is currently at work on the fourth novel of the series.

For fans of Borgen, The Killing and the Wallander series, a thrilling novel of murder and political scandal in Oslo. An elderly woman is found dead in a nursing home. Bjarne Brogeland, who heads up the investigation, soon realises that they are on the trail of a meticulous killer who has developed a keen taste for revenge. A killer who has only just begun . . . Trine Juul-Osmundsen, Norway’s Secretary of State and Henning Juul’s sister, is accused of sexually harassing a young male politician. As the allegations cause a media frenzy, Trine receives an anonymous threat telling her to resign. If she doesn’t, the truth about what she really did that night will be revealed. Scarred reporter Henning Juul, finds himself torn between the two highprofile cases. He wants to help his estranged sister, but as he digs into their past, he discovers memories that haunt them both, and as the two cases collide, both their worlds threaten to fall apart. Scarred is the third novel in the acclaimed Henning Juul series, following Burned and Pierced, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Petrona Award.

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‘Enger is one of the most unusual and intense talents in the field.’ Barry Forshaw, Independent

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Eoin McNamee

Blue is the Night Eoin McNamee’s novels include Resurrection Man, later made into a film, The Blue Tango, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Orchid Blue, described by John Burnside in the Guardian as ‘not only a political novel of the highest order but also that rare phenomenon, a genuinely tragic work of art.’ He lives in Sligo.

In this faithless city the story was all. Set in post-war Belfast, Blue is the Night is an extraordinary novel of ghosts, murder, guilt, madness and corruption. April 1949 and a young woman is murdered. Attorney General Lance Curran wants to take the case – wants to see the accused hang for it – but there are influential others who don’t see things so plainly, who are hell-bent on perverting the course of justice. As Curran struggles against these forces and his own conscience, he also has to face the challenges of home, with an unstable wife and an adolescent daughter. In the third of his hugely acclaimed ‘Blue’ series (The Blue Tango was longlisted for the Booker back in 2001 and Orchid Blue was an Irish Times Thriller of the Year in 2010) tracking the life and trials of the controversial real-life figure of Lance Curran, and his daughter Patricia. Eoin McNamee produces another blistering fictional take on the scars of the past, and a haunting persepective on the fate of the doomed Curran women.

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For fans of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, In Cold Blood, The Black Dahlia, Shutter Island, The Red Riding Quartet, The Twelve and The Fall.

‘Heartstopping, brilliant . . . McNamee works the line between crime and literature.’ Christopher Fowler, Independent

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Chris Pavone

The Accident Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Cornell, and was an editor at book-publishing houses in New York for fifteen years. His 2012 debut, The Expats, described by the Sunday Times as ‘a captivating, sophisticated thriller’ was an international best seller and won the Edgar Award for best first novel.

From the author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller The Expats, comes a riveting time-bomb of a thriller. In New York City, literary agent Isabel Reed frantically turns the pages of a manuscript into the early hours. This manuscript – printed out, hand-delivered, totally anonymous – is full of shocking revelations and disturbing truths, things which could compromise national security. Is this what she’s been waiting for her entire career: a book that will help her move on from a painful past, a book that could save her beloved industry . . . a book that will change the world? In Copenhagen, Hayden Gray, a veteran station chief, wary of the CIA’s obsession with the Middle East, has been steadfastly monitoring the dangers that abound in Europe. Even if his bosses aren’t paying attention, he’s determined to stay vigilant. And he’s also on the trail of this manuscript – and the secrets that lie at its heart. For him, quite simply, it must never see the light of day. As Isabel and Hayden try to outwit each other, the nameless author watches on from afar. With no-one quite sure who holds all the cards, the stakes couldn’t be higher: in just twenty-four hours careers could be ruined, devastating secrets could be unearthed, and innocent people could die.

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‘Expertly and intricately plotted, with a story spiralling into disaster and a satisfyingly huge amount of double-crossing.’ Observer, Thriller of the Month (The Expats)

Gripping, sophisticated, and impossible to put down, The

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Laura Lippman

After I’m Gone Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Since the publication of What the Dead Know, each of her hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller list. A recent recipient of the first-ever Mayor’s Prize, she lives in Baltimore, New Orleans and New York City with her family.

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman returns with a classic story of murder and mystery, in which one man’s disappearance echoes through the lives of his wife, daughters – and mistress. When Felix Brewer meets nineteenyear-old Bernadette ‘Bambi’ Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative if not always legal businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. But on the Fourth of July, 1976, Bambi’s world implodes when Felix, newly convicted and facing prison, mysteriously vanishes. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband – or his money – might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie. When Julie herself disappears ten years to the day that Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she’s left to join her old lover – until her remains are found in a secluded wooded park. Now, twenty-six years after Julie went missing, Roberto ‘Sandy’ Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. What he discovers is a tangled web of bitterness, jealousy, resentment and greed stretching over the three decades and three generations that connect these five very different women. Somewhere between the secrets and lies connecting past and present, Sandy could find the explosive truth . . . 26

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‘Laura Lippman delivers it all – suspenseful stories, characters so real . . . genuine emotion. I love her books.’ Harlan Coben

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John Gordon Sinclair

Blood Whispers John Gordon Sinclair was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He moved to London in the early Eighties and now lives in Surrey with his wife, Shauna, and their two children. John’s first film won him a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to a Leading film Role. His first outing in London’s West End won him an Olivier award for Best Actor. Seventy Times Seven, his first novel, was published in 2012 and was described by Barry Norman as ‘a remarkable first novel’ and as ‘an impressive debut . . . Fast and bloody’ by The Times.

Truth is, it’s all lies. Teresa Gow is under arrest for a string of offences ranging from prostitution to attempted murder. Lawyer Keira Lynch wants the charges dropped and her client taken into protective custody. The CIA and a Serbian drug trafficker by the name of Fisnik Abazi, want Teresa dead. Keira’s cool head and laid-back approach has earned her the respect of most of the big-time players on the Glasgow crime scene. She doesn’t tell lies, she ‘stylises the truth’, and they trust her with their darkest secrets. In a room full of murder suspects, Keira will finger the culprit every time. They put her uncanny ability down to luck, but there’s a more sinister explanation. Keira has a dark secret of her own – when she was seven years old she killed a man. It takes one to know one. In a deadly game where nothing is what it seems and no one is who they say they are, Keira Lynch finds herself facing the biggest challenge of her life. The question is not will she kill again, but when . . .

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‘Superb characterisation, pounding narrative and a story that twists and tuns like a dervish. Finn and Danny just grip from the outset and it’s a stunning journey of nerve-wrench adrenaline. Just a superlative thriller and one of the finest debuts of the decade.’ Ken Bruen on Seventy Times Seven

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Doug Johnstone

The Dead Beat Doug Johnstone is the author of five novels, most recently the acclaimed Gone Again. He is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter and musician, and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh.

If you’re so special, why aren’t you dead? Meet Martha. It’s the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh’s The Standard. But all’s not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own. Put straight onto the obituaries page, she takes a call from a former employee who seems to commit suicide while on the phone, something which echoes her own troubled past. Setting in motion a frantic race around modern-day Edinburgh, The Dead Beat traces Martha’s search for answers to the dark mystery of her parents’ past. Soundtracked by and interspersed with a series of gigs from the alternative music scene of her parents’ generation in the early ‘90s, Doug Johnstone’s latest pageturner is a wild ride of a thriller, and a perfect successor to his #1 Kindle bestseller, Hit and Run.

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‘Johnstone’s books go from strength to strength . . . His talent lies not only in his ability to write an excellent story extremely well, but also in the way he weaves it into your head . . . Pure Dead Brilliant!’ Eurocrime

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Anita Elberse

Blockbusters Why Big Hits – and Big Risks – are the Future of the Entertainment Business Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, is one of the youngest female professors to be awarded tenure in the school’s history. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Variety, and Fortune. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros, Marvel Enterprises and Manchester United – along with such stars as Jay-Z and Lady Gaga? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? Anita Elberse, Harvard Business School’s expert on the entertainment industry, has done pioneering research on the worlds of media and sports for more than a decade. Now, in this groundbreaking book, she explains a powerful truth about the fiercely competitive world of entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products – the movies, television shows, songs and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market – is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, she reveals why entertainment executives often spend outrageous amounts of money in search of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Full of inside stories emerging from her unprecedented access to some of the world’s most successful entertainment brands, Blockbusters is destined to become required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the entertainment industry really works – and how to navigate today’s high-stakes business world at large.

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Gerard Lyons

The Consolations of Economics How We Will All Benefit from the New World Order

Gerard Lyons is an expert on the world economy, macro-economic policy and financial markets. He spent twenty-seven years in the City and meeting politicians, policymakers and investors across the globe. Now he is Chief Economic Adviser to Boris Johnson. He is widely credited with accurate forecasts before the financial crisis, and in 2010 and 2011 Bloomberg ranked him number one global forecaster (out of over 360). He has testified to the US Senate, US Congress, spoken at the EU-China Summit in Beijing, and at the IMF and other global meetings. He has been a regular on international TV and written press columns across the globe. He is married with three children and lives in Kent.

The good news from the frontline of economic thinking. Gerard Lyons is a leading international economist who spent nearly thirty years working in the City. He is now the chief economic adviser to the Mayor of London. In this surprising take on the changing global economy, he explains why we’re better off than we think. Over the last quarter-century he has been ahead of the game in predicting the major economic trends that we now take as a given. Now he predicts that in the next twenty years the world economy will enjoy one of its strongest periods of growth ever. While the West’s share in the global economic cake may be relatively smaller, it will be a bigger amount of cake than before. Life expectancy, income and educational standards will rise. The trend in China and India will be up – despite set-backs along the way. The Consolations of Economics is a lucid and accessible expert’s attempt to look objectively at the changing global economy – what is happening and what it means. He shows how we can embrace change, rather than hide from it. The results are fascinating, refreshing – and unusually cheering.

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‘One of the most influential analysts of the global economy’ The Times

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Roderick Bailey Target: Italy The Secret War Against Mussolini 1940–1943

Roderick Bailey is a historian at the University of Oxford and a specialist in the study of resistance and clandestine warfare. His first book, The Wildest Province, based on his PhD, was an acclaimed account of SOE exploits in the Axis-occupied Balkans. In 2012 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to write the official history of SOE’s war on Fascist Italy. A graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, he has also served in Afghanistan with the British Army.

The unknown story of the cloakand-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini’s Italy in the Second World War. Drawing on long-classified documents, Target: Italy is the official history of the war waged by Britain’s Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Italy. Told for the very first time, it is a compelling tale of desperate daring and sacrifice, uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia. It climaxes in one of the most extraordinary clandestine episodes of the war: the delicate and dramatic dealings between the Allies and the Italians that led to Italy’s surrender in 1943. This is the first full account of SOE’s clandestine efforts to strike at Fascist Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany. It is also the first in-depth history of SOE’s attempts at causing trouble inside an enemy country as opposed to an enemy-occupied one. As such, it stands as a sobering study of the terrible dangers that foreign agencies can encounter when trying to encourage resistance to secure, if unpopular, authoritarian regimes.

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Michael Broers

Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at Oxford University. He is the author of, among other books about revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814, winner of the Grand Prix Napoléon prize, 2006, and of Napoleon’s Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions.

This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of his correspondence, compiled by the Fondation Napoléon in Paris to replace the sanitised edition issued under the Second French Empire by his nephew, Napoleon III. All previous lives of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. Michael Broers’s biography draws on the thoughts of Napoleon himself as his incomparable life unfolded. It reveals a man of intense emotion, but also of iron self-discipline; of acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Tracing his life from its dangerous Corsican roots, through his rejection of his early identity, and the military encounters of his early career, it tells the story of the sheer determination, ruthlessness and careful calculation that won him the precarious mastery of Europe by 1807. After the epic battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland, France was the dominant land power on the continent. Here is the first life in which Napoleon speaks in his own voice, but not always as he wanted the world to hear him.

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John Carey

The Unexpected Professor An Oxford Life John Carey, English professor at Oxford, controversial commentator, book critic and beekeeper, reflects on a life immersed in literature, from grammar school beginnings to the Oxford establishment. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him – an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford’s oldest English Literature professorship.

He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his inspiring meetings with writers and poets – Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney – and his forty-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times. This is a book about the joys of reading – in effect, an informal introduction to the great works of English literature. But it is also about war and family, and how an unexpected background can give you the insight and the courage to say the unexpected thing.

‘In a perfect world, intellectuals would be original, logical, funny and full of common sense. That is, they would be like John Carey.’ Julie Burchill

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John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts? and a life of William Golding.

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Original Section Computing

Vikram Chandra Geek Sublime A Life in Letters and Code

A great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding? Vikram Chandra is the awardwinning author of two acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories – and has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his extraordinary new book he looks at the connection between these two worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? And is it a coincidence that Chandra is drawn to two seemingly opposing ways of thinking? Exploring these questions, Chandra creates an idiosyncratic history of coding – exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the male machismo of geeks, the striking presence of an ‘Indian Mafia’ in Silicon Valley and the writings of Abhinavagupta, the 10th – 11th century Kashmiri thinker. Part literary essay part technology story and part memoir, Geek Sublime is a book of sweeping ideas. It is a heady and utterly original work.

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Born in New Delhi, India, in 1961, Vikram Chandra now divides his time between Bombay and Washington D.C., where he teaches at George Washington University. He is a graduate of Pomona College, Los Angeles and Columbia University Film School in New York. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. His debut novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, was awarded the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Published Book. His collection of stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, was published in 1997 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Eurasia region. It was also shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was included in the New York Times Book Review’s ‘Notable Books of the Year’, and also in both the Guardian and Independent’s ‘Books of the Year’ round-ups. His most recent novel, Sacred Games, was published in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Encore Awards.

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Lewis Wolpert

Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man The Evolution of Sex and Gender Lewis Wolpert is an Emeritus Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology at University College, London. He is the author of, among others, The Unnatural Nature of Science and Malignant Sadness, which was described by Anthony Storr as ‘the most objective short account of all the various approaches to depression’. His most recent book, You’re Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old, was published in 2011.

A lively and engaging contribution to the sex and gender debate, from Lewis Wolpert, acclaimed author, broadcaster and developmental biologist. Why are there two sexes? How different are they and why? Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Or should the question be: why can’t a man be more like a woman? Controversy rages around sex and gender, but just what are the differences and how are they determined? Lewis Wolpert has tackled depression, religion and old age from developmental biologist’s perspective. Now he enters the gender debate, starting with his argument that men are fundamentally modified females – if the genes present at fertilisation did not do their job properly, we would all be women – and journeying through MRI techniques, the nature of sexual attraction, ‘neurosexism’ and whether men are just better at maths. With fresh and persuasive research and with his customary intelligence and curiosity, Lewis Wolpert sets out to make his mark on this subversive topic – and makes some surprising discoveries along the way.

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‘Lewis Wolpert is an attractive writer, vigorous, knowledgeable, stylish and opinionated.’ Times Literary Supplement

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Michael Barry

Shadows on the Road The Highs and Lows of Life in the Peleton

Michael Barry had a fourteenyear career as professional cyclist, riding for several of the top professional teams, including American Postal and, most recently, Team Sky. A three-time Olympian, he performed in all of the premiere races and finished all of the Grand Tours including the Tour de France. He has written for numerous publications including the New York Times, The Times, and the Toronto Star, written two books, Inside the Postal Bus and Le Métier, and co-authored a third, Fitness Cycling.

A beautiful, moving and explosive account of life in the peloton. In 2012, veteran cyclist Michael Barry announced his retirement from the sport after a celebrated fourteenyear career. Weeks later he testified against his former team mate Lance Armstrong, as part of the USADA investigation. In a stunning piece of writing, Barry explores the dreams and passion of a young, idealistic cycling fan from Toronto – what it was like to ride as a teammate alongside such giants of the sport as Lance Armstrong, Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome, and how those dreams were tainted early on in his career by a sport in crisis. But it’s also the story of his eleven years riding clean, before and after his time in the notorious American Postal Team. What was it like to head for Europe at such a young age, and what was it like to escape the environment of doping, to try and start again, all the time aware that past actions might one day catch up with him? Offering a unique and elegiac insight into the life and mind of a professional sportsman – the pressures, sacrifices, fears, crashes, injuries and neuroses – Shadows on the Road is a classic, must-read book for cycling and sports fans alike.

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Adrian Tempany And the Sun Shines Now How Hillsborough and the Premier League changed Modern Britain Adrian Tempany is a Liverpool supporter and a journalist who has written for the Observer and the Financial Times.

On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people traumatised, and English football in ruins. And the Sun Shines Now is not a book about Hillsborough. It is a book about what arrived in the wake of unquestionably the most controversial tragedy in the post-war era of Britain’s history. The Taylor Report. Italia 90. Gazza’s tears. All seater stadia. Murdoch. Sky. Nick Hornby. The Premier League. The transformation of a game that once connected club to community to individual into a global business so rapacious the true fans have been forgotten, disenfranchised. In powerful, polemical prose, against a backbone of rigorous research and interview, Adrian Tempany deconstructs the past quarter-century of English football and examines its place in the world. How did Hillsborough and the death of 96 Liverpool fans come to change the national game beyond recognition? And is there any hope that clubs can reconnect with a new generation of fans when you consider the startling statistic that the average age of a season-ticket holder here is 41, compared to Germany’s 21.

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Perhaps the most honest account of the relationship between football and the state yet written, And the Sun Shines Now is a brutal assessment of the modern game.

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Alev Scott

Turkish Awakening Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish mother and British father, and educated at North London Collegiate School and New College, Oxford, where she studied Classics. After graduating in 2009, she worked in London as an assistant director in theatre and opera before moving to Istanbul in January 2011, where she taught Latin at the Bosphorus University and now works as a freelance journalist for the British press.

The eruption of protests in Turkey in June laid bare the tensions accrued over a decade of economically successful but increasingly autocratic rule by the religious Justice and Development Party. Until recently, middle class Turks unhappy with Prime Minister Erdogan’s strongman style of leadership have grumbled quietly while Turkey has grown in status and prestige on the international scene. Now they have awoken and are determined to have their grievances heard. Alev Scott’s book explores the shifts in Turkish society in recent years, and the roots of the indelible patriotism that characterizes every Turk, whatever their politics. From the European buzz of Istanbul to the strife-torn villages of the South East, Turkey is a country going through rapid change. Mass migration, urbanisation and a growing awareness of human rights have changed the social, economic and physical landscapes of a powerful country. The book delves into the Turkish psyche and looks ahead at the immediate future of a country the whole world is watching.

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Will Atkins

The Moors The Landscape That Makes Britain

Will Atkins grew up in rural Hampshire, where he spent his childhood exploring the tract of moorland on his doorstep. After studying photography and art history, he went on to work in poetry and art publishing, before becoming Editorial Director at Pan Macmillan UK, where he edited and published prize-winning fiction. He now works as a freelance editor and consultant, and spends his time exploring Britain’s moorlands. He lives in North London.

In The Moors Will Atkins travels across the moors of Britain, from Cornwall to the Scottish Borders, discovering how they have shaped our people, culture and industry. His journey takes him across the threshold between town and city, ancient and modern, public and private, cultivated and the wild – and, above all, along the faultline between two great forces that have forged modern Britain: our rural heritage and the Industrial Revolution. The Moors is an account of a deeply personal journey into this distinctive and sometimes terrifying landscape, taking the reader from south to north, from the tamest moor to the wildest. It is both travelogue and natural history an exploration of the position of moorland in our literature, history and psyche and a book of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past and present – gamekeepers and ramblers, shepherds and huntsmen, miners and archaeologists, publicans and priests, meteorologists and drystone wallers, environmentalists and developers.

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Count Arthur Strong

Through it All I’ve Always Laughed Memoirs of Count Arthur Strong Count Arthur Strong tells the story of his extraordinary journey from his humble early years as the only son of a contortionist in wartime Doncaster to the dizzy heights and excesses of fame as one of the shining lights of popular entertainment. Count Arthur Strong is a show business legend, after-dinner speaker and a leading authority on Ancient Egypt, having been stationed there during his national service. He has countless friends in the showbiz world. People like Barry Cryer, the white-haired one with glasses off ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t Got A Clue’ and ‘Joker’s Wild’. This is the first volume, of what he believes may

be a 6-volume collection, of his memoirs. He has a few select dates still available for anything (except window cleaning) and is represented (if you can call it that) by Richard Daws at Komedia Entertainment. (Or if you want to go directly through me and pay cash, I can do that as well.) (In fact I prefer that.) Thank you.

Available in hardback and audio read by Count Arthur.

‘Character comedy at its absolute finest.’ Telegraph

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John Lloyd, 1,339 QI Facts John Mitchinson to Make Your Jaw Drop and James Harkin Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, the QI team returns with a second fat stack of facts to astonish and enlighten. Like the universe itself, QI is expanding rapidly. The much-loved BBC TV show returns for its 11th series (K) in September, along with a sixth series of QI’s sister radio show The Museum of Curiosity. There is also a brand new website at qi.com; Twitter’s @qikipedia with 500K followers; 12 books and 300 newspaper columns to choose from, and an iPhone app.

Pigs suffer from anorexia. Wagner always wore pink silk underwear. Rugby School’s first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie. Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit. J.K. Rowling doesn’t have a middle name. Only 5% of the world’s population has ever been on an aeroplane.

What drives all this expansion? The jaw-dropping fact. Facts are the DNA of QI and this book is stuffed full of them. But, like its predecessor, it’s no mere list. It is arranged in such a way that new connections and patterns form as you read. Because, as Aldous Huxley reminded us: ‘Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies.’ It’s what you get them to say that counts.

‘Fascinating . . . The answers to the questions you never even thought to ask.’ Daily Mail praise for 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

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John Lloyd is a broadcaster. He devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio and Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder for television. John Mitchinson is from the world of books and has published the Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. The smash-hit BBC 1 panel game QI first aired on the BBC in September 2003 with John Lloyd producing and John Mitchinson in charge of the research. There are now more than 100 editions of the programme. James Harkin, QI’s Senior Researcher, has a maths and physics degree, a dark past as an accountant for a chain of pubs and is nicknamed ‘Turbo’ for his phenomenal work rate.

07/11/2013 978 0 571 308941 368pp Hardback £9.99

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Tales from the Secret Footballer

The Secret Footballer told the truth about the beautiful game. Now, his friends and teammates tell their story . . . In his bestselling book, the Secret Footballer shocked the world with his no-holds-barred account of life as a professional footballer. His identity was never revealed. This time around, he gathers together the best, most explosive stories he has heard during his career. These are tales of banter, violence, teams and tactics; of yachts, champagne and girls. They belong to a side of football that most players wish to keep private – some take place on the pitch, but most are a long way from the glare of the TV cameras. But they have one thing in common: they all happened. The names of those involved are protected, but few will be able to resist trying to guess their true identities.

07/11/2013 9781783350087 300pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘A recklessly honest read that pairs guilty-pleasure gossip with a moral compass, as TSF is force-fed a lifestyle that comes with being a Premier League footballer.’ Loaded

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Paul Trevillion and Keith Hackett

You are the Ref 360 Dilemmas for Football Fans

Paul Trevillion is the author of over twenty books. He is perhaps best known for his work on Roy of the Rovers in the 1960s, and his work is avidly collected by sporting professionals and fans alike.

As a player runs in and takes a penalty in blustery conditions, a plastic bag caught by gust of wind, wraps itself around his face. The keeper, in hysterics, makes no attempt to stop the ball. It rolls into the net. What is your decision?

Keith Stuart Hackett is an English former football referee, who began refereeing in local leagues in the Sheffield, Yorkshire, area in 1960. He is the former head of Premier League referees and has been collaborating with Paul Trevillion since the 1970s.

You are the Ref – the cult classic comic strip – puts some of the toughest, most intricate and unusual referee judgements to the reader, asking: what would you do? Written by former international referee Keith Hackett, and illustrated with stunning portraits of stars from all eras, You are the Ref: 360 Dilemmas for Football Fans includes the best new strips from the last four years, plus brand new art inspired by the World Cup 2014. Following the hugely popular You Are the Umpire and You Are the Ref, this second collection is full of extra trivia and facts, it allows youngsters and old pros alike to test their knowledge and to get to grips with the nuances of the game.

01/05/2014 9781783350216 128pp Hardback £14.99

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‘Should be required reading for fans and players alike.’ Independent on You Are the Ref

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Frank Keating

The Highlights The Best of Frank Keating

Frank Keating was undoubtedly the most original and best-loved sports writer of his generation. His work adorned the Guardian for four decades from 1973 until shortly before his death in early 2013.

In his heyday Keating’s fizzing wordplay and sheer joie de vivre thrilled readers. They saw him not just as a journalist but as a fan who shared their own delight in sport for its own sake and in the stars who made it watchable. He also had a special rapport with many of the greats such as Barry John and Ian Botham. From the 1970s to the 1990s he attended nearly all the great sporting events. Later he became a nostalgist with a matchless gift for bringing the past to life. But his happy, rosy, sunlit view of sport was always subject to magnificent outbreaks of literary bad temper, especially when confronted by committee-room idiots and officious gatemen. The Highlights includes much of his best writing in the Guardian on a huge range of sport plus extracts from his work elsewhere, including The Observer, The Oldie and The Spectator – and from his books, including the autobiography HalfTime Whistle and his classic account of the 1980–81 England tour of the Caribbean, Another Bloody Day in Paradise. Edited by his friend and colleague Matthew Engel, The Highlights will be a lasting record of the work of a very special writer.

17/04/2014 9781783350193 320pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘A giant of sports journalism.’ Independent

‘He was an infectious writer, he was unique.’ Ian Botham

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David Leigh and WikiLeaks Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy Luke Harding WikiLeaks has been written by a team of top Guardian journalists, led by David Leigh, the paper’s investigations editor, whose work was behind the jailing of Jonathan Aitken and the exposure of secret payments by arms company BAE, and Luke Harding, the paper’s award-winning foreign correspondent.

A new edition of the ultimate book on the WikiLeaks scandal. Published to coincide with the forthcoming film, The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, this edition contains new material. It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world’s greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in North Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Internet messiah or cyberterrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? In this newly updated edition, award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding follow the story as it takes on everweirder twists and turns. In London, Assange went to ground in the back bedroom of the Ecuadorian embassy. Meanwhile, in a courtroom near Washington, the fate of the US army whistleblower Bradley Manning hung in the balance. And in Hawaii, a young man named Edward Snowden, working as a contractor for the National Security Agency, was about to take WikiLeaks into even darker territory.

03/10/2013 9781783350179 306pp Paperback £9.99

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‘A behind-the-scenes adrenalin rush of secret meetings, encrypted websites and passwords written on hotel napkins.’ Metro

‘Excellent.’ Sunday Times

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Kirstie Clements The Vogue Factor The Inside Story of Fashion’s Most Illustrious Magazine

Kirstie Clements began working at Australian Vogue in 1985, rising to editor in 1999, a position she held until 2012. She co-authored In Vogue: 50 Years of Australian Style with Lee Tulloch. She was a columnist with the Australian Sunday Telegraph from 2010–2012 and a judge on Australia’s Next Top Model. She is married with seventeen-yearold twins.

Kirstie Clements was Editor-in-Chief of Australian Vogue for thirteen years. Her readership was at an alltime high when, in May 2012, she was unceremoniously sacked. The Vogue Factor is her candid account of life at the heart of the fashion industry, from photo shoots and celebrity interviews to the ugly truth behind the glamour – infighting, back-stabbing and the dangerous pursuit of beauty. This is the behind-the-scenes story of a celebrated career in fashion, from receptionist to the editor’s chair. It’s a life of dazzling parties, outrageous fashion and exotic travel that most people can only dream of. But behind the glossy photos is a hidden world of chaos and pressure, where girls as young as twelve starve themselves to fit into a sample size. Kirstie Clements’ eye-opening account of life in fashion’s fast lane has hit headlines all over the globe. Both a celebration and a critique of this extraordinary industry, The Vogue Factor is this season’s musthave.

04/07/2013 9781783350148 240pp Trade Paperback £12.99

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‘Her book has thrown a hand-grenade into a business which prickles at the slightest criticism . . . The revelations are even more devastating since they come from an impeccably-styled catwalk regular.’ Independent

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David Marsh

For Who the Bell Tolls One Man’s Quest for Grammatical Perfection

David Marsh is the production editor of the Guardian, which he joined in 1996. He edits the newspaper’s style guide and Mind Your Language blog. He learned about grammar and spelling at Poynton County Primary School, Cheshire, and later attended King’s School, Macclesfield, Sheffield University, and University College London. He started his career at the Kent Messenger Group and edited the Redditch Indicator and Bromley & Bexley Leader (both, sadly, defunct) before joining the Independent (which is still going). He also worked for the Financial Times – the result, he believes, of mistaken identity. He lives in Berkshire.

Why didn’t the Ghostbusters ask ‘Whom you gonna call’? Is it all right or alright to boldly split infinitives? What is the loveliest word in the English language? This is a book that explains the grammar you need to know and the grammar you don’t. For anyone who’s ever wondered how to choose between ‘which’ and ‘that’, whether you complement or compliment someone, and what is the difference between ‘Let’s eat, grandma!’ and ‘Let’s eat grandma!’, this is the ultimate guide to grammatical perfection. Drawing on a diverse range of sources from Shakespeare to The Simpsons, from Red Hot Chili Peppers to Yoda, David Marsh explains how grammar need not be difficult and can even be fun. Adherence to ‘rules’ that have no real basis gets in the way of fluent, unambiguous communication. There’s advice on how to improve sloppy syntax, choose the right word and avoid wobbly spelling. Clear, honest use of English has many enemies: politicians, business people, rail companies, estate agents, academics . . . and some journalists. This book will help you fight back.

03/10/2013 9781783350124 300pp Hardback £12.99

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An engaging, entertaining and, above all, very funny guide to the mysteries of English grammar.

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Lavinia Greenlaw

A Double Sorrow Troilus and Criseyde When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow, Lavinia Greenlaw’s new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs. Set against the Siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will be universally condemned and looks instead to

a temporary measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promising Troilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks she soon realises the impossibility of her promise to Troilus, and in despair succumbs to another. Lavinia Greenlaw’s pinpoint retelling of this heart-wrenching tale is neither a translation nor strictly a ‘version’ of Chaucer’s work, but instead creates something new: a sequence of glimpses from the medieval poem that refine the psychological drama of the classical story through a process of detonation or amplification of image and phrase into original poems. In a series of skilfully crafted sevenline vignettes, the author creates a zoetrope that serves to illuminate the intensity with which these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shattering read, contemporary and timeless, that builds into an unforgettable telling of this most heartbreaking of love stories.

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Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London where she has lived for most of her life. She studied seventeenthcentury art at the Courtauld Institute, and was awarded a NESTA fellowship to pursue her interest in vision, travel and perception. Her poetry includes Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has also published novels and works of non-fiction which include The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. She has won a number of prizes and held residencies at the Science Museum and the Royal Society of Medicine. Her work for BBC radio includes programmes about the Arctic, the Baltic, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop.

06/02/2014 978 0 571 284542 128pp Hardback ÂŁ14.99

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Ted Hughes Selected by Alice Oswald

A Ted Hughes Bestiary Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions – between them and us – but Hughes’s poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald’s selection is arranged chronologically, with an eye to different books and styles, but equally to those poems that embody animals, rather than just describe them. Some poems are here because, although not strictly speaking animal, they become so in the process of writing; and in keeping with the bestiary tradition there are plenty of imaginary animals – all concentratedly going about their business.

The resulting selection is subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughes’s achievement, while offering room to overlooked poems, and to ‘those that have the wildest tunes’.

‘In Poetry in the Making, Hughes said that he thought of his poems as animals, meaning that he wanted them to have “a vivid life of their own”. There is something very distilled and self-defining about his animal poems, which is why, out of the mass of his collected verse, it has seemed a good idea to gather this Bestiary.’ Alice Oswald

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Ted Hughes (1930â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

03/04/2014 978 0 571 301430 160pp Hardback ÂŁ12.99

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Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to ‘slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer’ (The Times). I Knew the Bride is Williams’s eleventh collection of poems, and his first since West End Final was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for poetry in 2009. This new volume bears – and lays bare – those qualities that have become so characteristic of his work: his unflinching survey of his childhood and adult life alike, alighting on moments of vivacity from his upbringing in a theatrical family in the 1940s and ’50s (the title poem a touching tribute to his late sister) through to the romantic peaks and pains of his adult years. Straight-talking, self-deprecating and funny, these recklessly accountable inspections are set against a Williams-esk miscellany of day-to-day backdrops that readers have come to treasure: of record collections, kitchen sinks, shopping bicycles, hotels, bedrooms. But I Knew the Bride is no mere rehearsal of old lives lived; instead it takes the author and his readers into startling new terrain in a series of brave, painful and profoundly moving poems ‘From the Dialysis Ward’, in which the author records his own ongoing hospital treatment with a fearless vulnerability that makes this collection of poems a courageous and inspiring read.

I Knew the Bride Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. Billy’s Rain won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999. His Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002 and his last collection, Dear Room, was published in 2006. He writes a freelance column for the TLS and lives in London.

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‘Possibly the most original poet of his generation in England.’ Edna Longley

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Toby Martinez de las Rivas

Terror Toby Martinez de las Rivas was born in 1978. He grew up in Somerset, then moved to the north-east of England after studying history and archaeology at Durham where he began writing. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and the Andrew Waterhouse Award from New Writing North in 2008. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines and in a pamphlet as a participant in the Faber New Poets scheme.

In Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas leads us on a high-wire act in pursuit of a new kind of communication. By turns political, social, theological, historical and personal, the poems in this debut collection work closely with the reader, asking questions of us and encouraging us never to settle for inadequate answers. Toby Martinez de las Rivas writes with a flare and a rigour associated with some of his guiding lights: Christopher Smart, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Barry MacSweeney, Geoffrey Hill. Seeking a language which might console us, a language with which we might commune in our most intimate and terrifying moments – be these in love, in doubt, in a prayer for an unborn child, or an exploration of the kind of world we might wish to live in – Terror is a thrilling and powerful debut.

06/02/2014 978 0 571 296828 80pp Paperback £9.99

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August Kleinzahler

The Hotel Oneira August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of many books of poems and a prose memoir, Cutty, One Rock. The Strange Hours Travelers Keep won the International Griffin Poetry Prize (2004), Sleeping It Off in Rapid City the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in San Francisco.

A thrilling new collection from one of the most original poets of his generation. Kleinzahler’s poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether the voice embodied is that of ‘an adult male of late middle age, // about to weep among the avocados and citrus fruits / in a vast, overlit room next to a bosomy Cuban grandma’ as in ‘Whitney Houston’ or that of the title character in ‘Hootie Bill Do Polonius’ who is bidding ‘adios compadre // To a most galuptious scene Kid’, Kleinzahler locates and exhibits in his poetry the human heart at the core of lived experience. This is a poet searching for – and finding – a cadence capable of describing life as it is lived today. Kleinzahler’s poetry is, as noted in the judges’ citation for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize (which he won for his collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep), ‘ferociously on the move, between locations, between forms, between registers.’ The Hotel Oneira finds Kleinzahler at his shape-shifting, acrobatic best, unearthing the ‘moments of grace’ buried amongst the detritus of our hectic, modern lives.

05/12/2013 978 0 571 305599 64pp Hardback £12.99

‘His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy, with a jazzy backbeat. His personality combines Allen Ginsberg’s goofball charm and Norman Mailer’s inveterate pugnacity.’ New York Times

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Gottfried Benn Translated by Michael Hofmann

Impromptus Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent’s Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the PEN/Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001). Ashes for Breakfast – his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein – appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published in 2008.

The first poem in Gottfried Benn’s first book, Morgue (1912) – written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after, or so the poet claimed – with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set him on his celebrated path. And indeed, mortality, flowers and powerful aesthetic collisions typify much of Benn’s subsequent work. Over decades, as he suffered the vicissitudes of an often hostile fate – the death of his mother from untreated cancer; the death of his first wife Edith in 1922; his brief but disastrous attempt to ingratiate himself with the Nazis in 1933, followed by their persecution of him; the suicide of his second wife Herta in 1945, afraid she would fall into the hands of the Russians – the harsh, sometimes callous voice of the poems relented, softened and mellowed. The later Benn – from which Impromptus is chiefly drawn, many of the poems translated into English for the first time – is deeply affecting: the routines and sorrows and meditations of an intelligent, pessimistic and experienced man. Written in what T. S. Eliot called the ‘third voice’ of poetry, the low un-upholstered monologue of the poet talking to himself, these poems are slender ribbons of speech on the naked edge of song and silence.

16/01/2014 978 0 571 289264 128pp Hardback £14.99

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The Forward Book of Poetry 2014

The Forward Book of Poetry showcases the best of contemporary poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of 2013’s hotly contested Forward Poetry Prizes. The anthology – the 22nd of its kind – is introduced by Jeanette Winterson. If you buy only one poetry book this year, this deserves to be it.

03/10/2013 978 0 571 304974 144pp Paperback £8.99

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‘The best way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.’ Daily Telegraph

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Tom Paulin

Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin has been an unmissable writer on the contemporary poetry scene. This selection of his work draws on nearly four decades of poetry and translation, updating and expanding upon the Selected Poems 1972–1990, and showcasing the microscopic detail and reinvention of the ordinary with which Paulin writes of place, culture and memory. The Ireland of Paulin’s childhood is explored both from a personal and a historical perspective to form a complex picture of a country in turmoil and in recovery. But Paulin’s concerns are as international as they are local, as reflected in his long-standing appetite for European writers, histories and languages. Dialectic and lyrical, original and exploratory, ambitious and provocative, Tom Paulin is one of the defining voices of his generation: brilliantly varied and utterly compelling, as apparent from this New Selected Poems.

New Selected Poems Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published eight collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972–1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style and, most recently, Crusoe’s Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most recent collection of poems is The Road to Inver (2004). Well known for his appearances on the BBC’s Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.

01/05/2014 978 0 571 307982 160pp Hardback £14.99

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‘Paulin often creates the illusion that the poem is being made up as he goes along. Spontaneity is difficult to pull off in poetry but it is a Paulin forté. The casualness is only possible because of the absolute control of form, each poem a windbreak for his words . . .’ Kate Kellaway

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Simon Armitage The Last Days of Troy Simon Armitage is rightly celebrated as one of the country’s most original and engaging poets; but he is also an adaptor and translator of some of our most important epics, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur and Homer’s Odyssey. The latter, originally a commission for BBC Radio, rendered the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from this most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War memorably to life.

The Last Days of Troy, a retelling of The Iliad, is a prequel of kinds, tells the tale of the Trojan War itself in a vivid new dramatic adaptation that is published to coincide with the Royal Exchange’s stage performance in April 2014.

‘Armitage has given an ageless story new vigour, and has done it with style, wit and elegance.’ Philip Womack, Literary Review on Homer’s Odyssey.

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Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published ten collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (2001), Seeing Stars (2010) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). A broadcaster and presenter, he also writes extensively for television and radio, is the author of two novels, the bestselling memoir All Points North (1998) and Walking Home (2012), his poetic journey along the Pennine Way. In 2010 he received a CBE for services to poetry.

01/05/2014 978 0 571 310678 240pp Hardback ÂŁ14.99

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Sylvia Plath

Ariel

A beautiful hardback commemorative edition to celebrate the 50th year of The Bell Jar. The poems in this book, including many of her best known, such as ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Daddy’ and ‘Fever 103°’, were all written between the publication in 1960 of Sylvia Plath’s first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. Ariel is universally recognised as one of the most significant volumes of the last hundred years, and one which confirmed Plath’s reputation as one of the most extraordinary, daring and original poets of the twentieth century.

07/11/2013 978 0 571 310128 96pp Hardback £12.99

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‘The great appeal of Ariel and its constellated lyrics is the feeling of irresistible given-ness. There inheres in the poetry a sense of surprised arrival, of astonished being . . . [The poems] are, in Lowell’s words, events rather than the record of events, and as such represent the triumph of Sylvia Plath’s romantic ambition to bring expressive power and full achieved selfhood into congruence.’ Seamus Heaney

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Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

A beautiful hardback commemorative edition to celebrate the 50th year of publication. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel is partially based on Plath’s own life and has become a modern classic. The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and a razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

07/11/2013 978 0 571 308408 240pp Hardback £12.99

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‘A near-perfect work of art.’ Joyce Carol Oates

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Brian Friel

Introduced by Christopher Murray

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Three Sisters; A Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay; Performances; The Home Place; Hedda Gabler

Brian Friel was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, in 1929. His plays include Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Translations, Faith Healer, Making History, Dancing at Lughnasa and The Home Place.

This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leoš Janácek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel’s exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country.

‘A minor work the way Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice or Beckett’s Endgame is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning . . . for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.’ Sunday Times on Performances

‘A rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friel’s masterly Translations while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov . . . Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.’ Guardian on The Home Place

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‘Across the gulf of the twentieth century one great playwright is talking to another . . . neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, a ‘new version’, but something altogether larger.’ Irish Times on Hedda Gabler

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Neil LaBute

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Filthy Talk for Troubled Times; The Mercy Seat; Some Girls; This is How It Goes; A Second of Pleasure; Helter Skelter

‘The common thread running though his work is a dual appreciation for the necessity and the futility of human goodness. Scratch past the acerbic surface of his dialogue and you’ll find a disillusioned heart, still trying to hope against hope.’

Neil LaBute received his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University and was the recipient of a literary fellowship to study at the Royal Court Theatre, London. He also attended the Sundance Institute’s Playwrights Lab and is the Playwright-in-Residence with MCC Theatre in New York City. His films include In the Company of Men (New York Critics’ Circle Award for Best First Feature and the Filmmaker Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things, a film adaptation of his play of the same title, The Wicker Man, Lakeview Terrace and Death at a Funeral.

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Spanning his career over the last two decades, this collection brings together plays by Neil LaBute that take an unflinching look at the turbulent relationships between men and women. Filthy Talk for Troubled Times is one of his earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them. The Mercy Seat examines a couple who, on the day after a world-changing atrocity, toy with exploiting it to start a new life. Some Girl(s) follows a young writer’s panicked retreat from his imminent wedding as he seeks out old girlfriends and opens new wounds, while in This Is How It Goes the breakdown of a seemingly successful marriage is complicated by submerged bigotry. The collection also includes two short plays about relationships in crisis – A Second of Pleasure and Helter Skelter – which are in equal part tender and chilling. Together these plays form a complex and compelling portrait of the sexes – sometimes warring, sometimes loving, but never fully at peace.

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‘There is no playwright on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil LaBute . . . the work of a master.’ The New Yorker on The Mercy Seat

‘A masterclass in what magicians call misdirection. A subtle, troubling drama.’ Daily Telegraph on This is How It Goes

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Owen McCafferty

Introduced by the author with a foreword by Dr. Mark Phelan

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The Waiting List; Shoot the Crow; Mojo Mickybo; Closing Time; Scenes from the Big Picture

Born in 1961, Owen McCafferty lives with his wife, three children and granddaughter in Belfast. His work for the stage includes Shoot the Crow (Druid, Galway, 1997; Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2003), Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh, Belfast, 1998), Closing Time (National Theatre, London, 2002), Cold Comfort (Primecut Productions, Belfast, 2002), Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre, London, 2003), Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Warehouse, 2005), a version of Sophocles’ Antigone (Primecut Productions, Belfast, 2008) and The Absence of Women (Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 2010). He has won the MeyerWhitworth, John Whiting and Evening Standard Awards for New Playwriting.

Owen McCafferty’s first collection brings together five plays set in the author’s home city of Belfast.

‘Tragicomedy of character and circumstance that makes McCafferty look like a ribald Northern Irish Chekhov.’ Guardian on Shoot the Crow

‘An epic that attempts to put the whole of human life on stage – birth, death, love, sex, work, families – the whole damn thing . . . McCafferty offers us a wise and compassionate view of the human heart.’ Telegraph on Scenes from the Big Picture

‘The existence of a writer as good as McCafferty induces a perverse, paradoxical hope.’ Guardian on Closing Time

‘A razor sharp evocation of time and place.’ Irish Times on Mojo Mickybo

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N. F. Simpson

Introduced by William Gaskill

Collected Plays

A Resounding Tinkle; The Hole; Gladly Otherwise; One Way Pendulum; The Cresta Run; Was He Anyone?; If So, Then Yes

‘Simpson makes his lunatic jokes by ringing endless changes on the bromides, non sequiturs and anti-climaxes with which human communication is so unhappily fraught.’

Born in 1919, N. F. Simpson’s works include A Resounding Tinkle (1957), The Hole (1957) and One Way Pendulum (1959), all of which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London. A Resounding Tinkle was revived in a sell-out production at the Donmar Warehouse in 2007. His last play If So, Then Yes premiered in 2010. Simpson wrote extensively for the BBC and ITV, including the hit Elementary, My Dear Watson, featuring John Cleese. In 2008, the BFI screened a season devoted to his work for film and television. N. F. Simpson died in 2011.

Financial Times,1958, on A Resounding Tinkle

‘Simpson at his very best – the language and arrangement, formal, exact, full of vibration. It’s highly comic, exhilarating.’ Harold Pinter, Observer, on The Hole

‘The pure linguistic anarchy of a man who thinks that words are designed exclusively to make idiots of us all.’ Evening Standard on The Form

‘This play is a wonder – funny, beguiling, utterly original, unexpectedly profound and written by a playwright of 91.’ Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 2010, on If So Then Yes

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‘I am ready to burn my boats and pronounce N. F. Simpson the most gifted comic writer the English stage has discovered since the war.’ Kenneth Tynan, 1958

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Samuel Adamson Gabriel

This is noisily Protestant England – the England of William and Mary’s Glorious Revolution at the end of a century of civil strife. This is London in the 1690s, the monster city tamed into awe by our only Orpheus: Henry Purcell.

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‘Gabriel leaves you giddy with pleasure.’ Daily Telegraph

‘An unclassifiable delight.’ Independent

Samuel Adamson’s Gabriel premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, in July 2013 with Alison Balsom, one of the world’s finest trumpeters, performing the music of Purcell and Handel.

Alexander Ostrovsky in a version by Samuel Adamson Larisa and the Merchants

‘A piece that gloriously defies definition . . . an exceptional evening.’ Guardian

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In a trading town on the banks of the river, penniless Larisa is desperate to marry. But in this brutal world of transactions, the merchants want a bargain. Samuel Adamson’s version of Alexander Ostrovsky’s rarely seen, darkly funny play premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in May 2013.

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‘In this new version by Samuel Adamson, the play’s savage vilification of corruption among Russia’s merchant class finds its echo in the skulduggery of modern commerce; its themes of greed, exploitation and social division assume a sharp contemporary relevance.’ The Times

‘In this full-bodied new version, Ostrovsky’s black comedy is brought swiftly up to date.’ Daily Telegraph

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Samuel Adamson and Tori Amos The Light Princess

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Once, in opposing kingdoms lived a princess and a prince who had lost their mothers. Althea, unable to cry, became light with grief and floated, and so was locked away. Digby, so heavy-hearted that he could never smile, one day declares war. Althea, forced out of hiding, escapes, only to encounter the solemn prince on contested land and the warring heirs begin a passionate affair. But for Althea to find real love, she must first face her own deepest fears. The Light Princess brings together iconic singer-songwriter Tori Amos with playwright Samuel Adamson. It premieres at the National Theatre, London, in October 2013

Will Adamsdale The Victorian in the Wall

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Latte-land. Grand Design knockthroughs, organic everything. A work-shy writer discovers a Victorian man living in the wall of his flat. Everyone’s pretty surprised. Adjustments need to be made. Will Adamsdale’s The Victorian in the Wall premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 2013.

‘Define it as social satire, romantic comedy or surrealist fantasy with rackety songs. Or just enjoy.’ The Times

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‘Strange, original and often blissfully funny.’ Evening Standard

‘Deeply charming . . . Immensely enjoyable.’ Independent

‘It is not often that theatrical absurdism is coupled with such palpable warmth of heart, and I recommend this beguilingly original show highly.’ Daily Telegraph

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Annie Baker Circle Mirror Transformation

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Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at a community centre class to try and find some meaning in their lives. Circle Mirror Transformation won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the 2010 Obie Award for Best New American Play. Voted one of the top ten plays of 2009 by the New York Times, Time Out and the New Yorker, it premiered in the UK as part of the Royal Court’s Theatre Local strand in July 2013.

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‘A quirky, entertaining and quietly poignant piece.’ Daily Telegraph

‘A disarming surprise . . . shifting from the preposterous to the poignant, the tender to the silly, with a sharply observant but uncensorious spirit.’ Independent

‘Baker’s writing is compassionate, cinematic (in an understated sort of way) and wonderfully, wonderfully droll.’ Time Out

Anton Chekhov in a version by John Donnelly The Seagull

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– Idea for a story. A beautiful young girl lives by a lake all her life. She loves this lake. She’s happy and free, like that bird was once. Then a man comes along and for no reason at all . . . what do you think he does?

‘An extraordinary take on Chekhov’s play: layered, feisty, gorgeously melancholic and frequently droll.’

– He destroys her.

‘John Donnelly’s startlingly modern version of Chekhov’s masterpiece offers just the right balance of cheekiness and reverence.’

John Donnelly’s version of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull premiered in a Headlong and The Nuffield, Southampton co-production in April 2013.

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‘An adaptation that does that rare thing – succeeding in making you look at a familiar play afresh.’ The Stage

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David Greig The Events

I have been thinking I might go berserk. When Claire, a priest, survives an atrocity she sets out on a quest to answer the most difficult question of all: ‘Why?’ It’s a journey that takes her to the edge of reason, science, politics and faith. David Greig’s daring new play explores our destructive desire to fathom the unfathomable and asks how far forgiveness can stretch in the face of brutality.

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The Events was commissioned and first produced by Actors Touring Company in a coproduction with the Young Vic Theatre, Schauspielhaus Wein and Brageteatret. It premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2013.

‘A mighty play . . . that dares to stare into the darkness within us all and search for a pinprick of light.’ Guardian

‘Probably the finest, most important thing he has written.’ Daily Telegraph

Henrik Ibsen in a version by David Harrower Public Enemy

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When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the waters of a new public spa are toxic, he expects gratitude and glory. Instead, his revelation makes him the most hated man in town. Henrik Ibsen’s timeless story of corruption and courage opened in David Harrower’s version at the Young Vic, London, in May 2013.

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‘A pared-down, confrontational version by David Harrower . . . Ibsen has rarely felt so liberated.’ Daily Mail

‘Harrower’s astute new script, not gaudily phrased but politically idiomatic, cleverly questions democracy itself, and the danger of X Factor politics.’ Observer

‘Harrower’s punchy new translation.’ Daily Telegraph

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David Harrower Ciara

Ciara’s father Mick kept her as his hidden treasure, making sure his only daughter was shielded from what he did and the men and women with whom he associated. Now Mick is dead and his legacy must be faced. As Ciara seeks to further the reputation of her art gallery, her world starts to fragment. Marked by the deep contradictions of her father, the art world and Glasgow, the city that made them all, she stands on a threshold. By confronting the past, her future blows wide open.

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‘A complex and rewarding dramatic monologue by the aptly named David Harrower . . . Compelling quality drama.’ Independent

Ciara by David Harrower premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2013.

Arthur Wing Pinero in a version by Patrick Marber Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ An Original Comedietta

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The 1860’s. Rose Trelawny is the brightest young star at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre. But she’s prepared to give it all up for the love of her gentleman suitor. Set amongst theatrical folk and the non-theatricals they seek to please and provoke, Arthur Wing Pinero’s comedy premiered in 1898. This version, with additions and revisions by Patrick Marber, premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2013.

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‘Edited by that excellent playwright Patrick Marber . . . The biggest compliment I can pay him is that it is almost impossible to detect where Pinero leaves off and Marber briefly takes over.’ Daily Telegraph

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Peter Morgan The Audience

For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve prime ministers in a confidential weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. The Audience breaks the silence and imagines a series of pivotal meetings with the Queen, from Chruchill to Cameron. The Audience by Peter Morgan premiered at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in March 2013.

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‘You might expect satire, caricature and easy political ironies. But this is something rarer: funny and truthful, goodhearted, spiky, full of surprises. I loved every minute . . . there are stunning political moments . . . It’s all fiction, of course, and often painfully funny, yet is expresses large and serious truths.’ The Times

Maxim Gorky in a version by Andrew Upton Children of the Sun

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Protasov, more or less oblivious to the cholera epidemic and the starving mob at his gates, wants only to immerse himself in chemical experiments to perfect mankind. While Nanny fusses round, Protasov’s admiring circle spar over culture and the cosmos, blind to their impending annihilation.

‘A rare and brilliantly mordant revival . . . Upton’s adaptation, with its calculated anachronisms, keeps jolting us out of the complacency of galleried hindsight.’

Maxim Gorky’s darkly comic play of 1905 premiered in Andrew Upton’s version at the National Theatre, London, in April 2013.

‘Upton captures Gorky’s comedy and his jagged rhythms, and there’s real complexity in the characterisation.’

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Rupert Christiansen

The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen’s perennially popular Pocket Guide has been extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Adès and George Benjamin. Whether you are a first-timer at La Bohème or a seasoned Wagnerian, every opera-goer can benefit from a little background information, and this book aims to provide just that. Accessible and easy-to-use, it contains entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar.

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A brief overview of the history of opera

‘Can be recommended unreservedly to readers from teens upwards coming more or less new to opera and will also provide intelligently enjoyable reminders for those further along the path with just a few minutes to spare before curtain up.’ Opera Magazine

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Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at Cambridge and Columbia universities. As well as several books of cultural history, he has written about opera for many publications, including the Spectator, the Observer, Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Since 1966 he has been opera critic of the Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster. He also sits on the editorial board of Opera Magazine and the jury for the Birgit Nilsson Prize. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.

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James Franco

Actors Anonymous A Novel We of Actors Anonymous are more than fifty men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. In this volume we relate our experiences in dealing with existence, modern society and identity, in order to find suitable ways of acting and being in the world. Thus begins Actors Anonymous a dark, genre-bending work that is an audacious examination of celebrity, acting, and the making of fictions. Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous’s 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, Actors Anonymous is a series of stories told in many forms: a McDonald’s

drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying out accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; a hospital volunteer who puts a camera in the hands of a patient obsessed with horror films; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written by a famous actor, who may have killed his father and has gone missing. The book is unsettling, funny and personal with profound insights into the nature and purpose of acting. Franco mercilessly turns his ‘James Franco’ persona inside out while, at the same time, providing fascinating meditations on his art, along with nightmarish tales of excess.

‘Hollywood has always been a private club,’ he writes. ‘I open the gates. I say welcome. I say, look inside.’

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James Franco grew up in the northern California town of Palo Alto. He is an actor, director, screenwriter and artist. His film appearances include Milk, Pineapple Express, the Spider-Man trilogy, Howl, Oz the Great and Powerful, Spring Breakers and This Is The End. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance in 127 Hours. On television, he starred in the critically acclaimed series Freaks and Geeks and won the Golden Globe award for his portrayal of James Dean in the bio pic of the actor’s life. He has written and directed the films, The Broken Tower and an adaptation of Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Franco has presented his visual art at galleries in America and Europe, including Psycho Nacirema at London’s Pace Gallery. His writing has appeared in Esquire, the Wall Street Journal and McSweeney’s. He has an MFA from Brooklyn College and has studied in the creative writing MFA programme at Columbia and the film MFA programme at New York University. He is completing a PHD at Yale University. 02/01/2014 978 0 571 311699 350pp Trade Paperback £16.99

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Brett Martin

Difficult Men From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad Brett Martin is a correspondent for GQ and a 2012 James Beard Journalism Award winner. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Food and Wine, and multiple anthologies. He is a frequent contributor to This American Life. He is the author of The Sopranos: The Book (2007).

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began to undergo an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows on the cable channels dramatically stretched television’s narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and artistic ambition – shows such as The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield, and more tackled issues of life and death, love and sexuality, addiction, race, violence, and existential boredom. Television shows became the place to go to see stories of the triumph and betrayals of the American Dream at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Difficult Men features extensive interviews with all the major players including David Chase (The Sopranos), David Simon and Ed Burns (The Wire), Matthew Weiner and Jon Hamm (Mad Men), David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood), and Alan Ball (Six Feet Under).

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Brett Martin takes us behind the scenes of our favourite shows, delivering a wealth of never-beforeheard stories and revealing how cable TV has emerged from the shadow of film to become a truly significant and influential part of our culture.

‘One of the smartest books about American television ever written.’ David Thomson

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Sally Potter

Naked Cinema Working with Actors

Sally Potter is the awardwinning writer/director of The Goldiggers, Orlando, The Tango Lesson, The Man Who Cried, Yes, Rage, and Ginger and Rosa.

Sally Potter has been renowned for her rapport with actors, and for the luminous performances she works with them to produce. Now she strips bare the art and craft of directing actors for the camera, from casting a film to the moment of first screening when the work goes public. A brilliant writer for the screen, here Potter shows herself to be expert at translating the experience of film directing to the page. She addresses us in prose that is both unsentimental and inspired, tracing the energies that pass between actor, director and audience; shaping for the reader the acts of transmission and imagination, performance and witness, the sum of which make up a film.

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Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Inside Llewyn Davis Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are the writer/directors of The Big Lebowski, Fargo (for which they won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award) and No Country for Old Men (for which they won Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film Academy Awards).

The award-wining film from the makers of Fargo and No Country for Old Men. Inside Llewyn Davis chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a disaffected girlfriend, his father’s dementia, the suicide of his musical partner, and the loss of his friend’s cat . . . Suffused with the music of the time, the film is an emotional journey inside the soul of Llewyn Davis. The movie won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival.

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Mike Figgis

Digital Film-making Revised Edition

Mike Figgis is the renowned film-maker and musician whose career began with the People Show in the 1970s. His film credits include Stormy Monday, Internal Affairs, Miss Julie, Timecode and Hotel and Suspension of Disbelief. He received Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay for Leaving Las Vegas. His photographs have been displayed at galleries throughout the world, and he has created installations for gallery spaces.

The classic text on digital filmmaking now updated to include the newest technology. In this indispensable guide to digital film-making, leading film-maker, Mike Figgis, offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital technology so as to get the best from it. He outlines the equipment and its uses, and provides an authoritative guide to the shooting process â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from working with actors to lighting, framing, and camera movement. He further dispenses wisdom on the editing process and the use of sound and music, all the while establishing a sound aesthetic basis for the digital format. This handbook is essential whether your goal is to make no-budget movies, or simply to put your video camera to more use than just holidays and weddings.

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Viv Albertine

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in the hugely influential female punk band The Slits. A confidante of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Viv was a key player in British punk culture. Alongside The Slits, she collaborated with numerous musicians, including Adrian Sherwood, before marking out a career in television and film production. After a hiatus of twenty-five years, Viv’s first solo album, The Vermillion Border, was released in 2012 to great critical acclaim.

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. (Viv’s mum, to Viv, in the mid ’70s.) Viv Albertine is one of a handful of original punks who changed music, and the discourse around it, forever. In Clothes . . . Music . . . Boys a story hitherto dominated by male voices is recast through the eyes of one of the most glamorous, uncompromising and iconic figures of the time. After forming the Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious in 1976, Viv joined The Slits and made musical history as one of the first generation of punk bands. Here is the story of what it was like to be a girl at the height of punk: the sex, the drugs, the guys, the tours, the hard lessons learnt and those not considered. From Madonna to Lady Gaga, fashion to feminism, Viv Albertine has influenced a range of exceptional artists. Here, before and beyond the break-up of The Slits in 1982, is the full story of a life lived unscripted, with foolishness, bravery and great emotional honesty. A memoir full of raw and uncompromising anecdote and opinion, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys is an unflinching account of a life lived on the frontiers of experience, by a true pioneer.

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Mick Houghton

I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn The Sandy Denny Story

Sandy emerged from the folk scene of the sixties – a world of largerthan-life characters such as Alex Campbell, Jackson C. Frank, Anne Briggs and Australian singer Trevor Lucas, whom she married in 1973. Their story is at the core of Sandy’s later life and work, and is told with the assistance of more than sixty of her friends, fellow musicians and contemporaries, one of whom, to paraphrase McCartney on Lennon, observed that she sang like an angel but was no angel.

I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singersongwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs. Sandy Denny laid down the marker for folk-rock when she joined Fairport Convention in 1968, but her music went far beyond this during the seventies. After leaving Fairport she formed Fotheringay, whose influential eponymous album was released in 1970, before collaborating on a historic one-off recording with Led Zeppelin – the only other vocalist to record with Zeppelin in their entire career – and releasing four solo albums across the course of the decade. Her tragic and untimely death came in 1978.

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Mick Houghton began writing about music during the seventies, for such publications as Circus, Zigzag, Let It Rock, Sounds and Time Out before stumbling into a job as a PR at Warner Bros in 1979. Within a year he had set up the independent Brassneck Publicity, where he’s looked after an extraordinary array of people ever since. Over the years he’s been closely associated with Echo and the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, The Undertones, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, The KLF, Spiritualized, Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson. He began writing again in 2001, first for Mojo and later for Uncut. As one of the Grammy-nominated compilers/producers of the boxed set Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra, 1963–1973, he went on to write Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman’s Visionary Record Label, published in 2010.

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Singing from the Floor J. P. Bean is the author of several non-fiction titles, including The Sheffield Gang Wars and the authorised biography of Joe Cocker. He has published short stories, and has written for radio and television. The first folk club he attended was the Barley Mow, Sheffield, in 1966.

In smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, where the stage was little more than a scrap of carpet and sound systems were unheard of, an acoustic revolution took place in Britain in the 1950s and ’60s. This was the folk revival, where a generation of musicians, among much drink and raucous cheer, would rediscover the native songs of their own tradition, as well as the folk and blues coming from across the Atlantic by artists such as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie and Big Bill Broonzy. Singing from the Floor is the story of this remarkable movement, faithfully captured J. P. Bean in the voices of those who formed it by. We hear from luminaries such as Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy, Peggy Seeger and Ralph McTell, alongside figures such as Billy Connolly, Jasper Carrott and Mike Harding, who all started their careers on the folk circuit. The book charts the revival’s improvised beginnings and its ties to the CND movement, through the heyday of the ’60s and ’70s, when every university, town and many villages across the country boasted a folk club, to the fallow years of the ’80s and ’90s. The book finishes on a high note, with the recent resurgence of interest in folk, through such artists as the Lakemans, Sam Lee and Eliza Carthy. It is a joyous, boisterous and hugely entertaining book, and an essential document of our recent history stretching into the past.

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‘Singing from the Floor portrays an important movement in vernacular culture in the voices of the people who made it happen – and that’s not an easy task especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol. J. P. Bean has captured this moment before it is lost forever, and has made it live again on the page.’ Jarvis Cocker

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Ian Curtis

Edited by Jon Savage

So This is Permanence Lyrics and Notebooks with a foreward by Deborah Curtis Ian Curtis was born in Stretford, Lancashire, and grew up in Macclesfield. He met his Joy Division bandmates Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook at a Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in 1976. Later joined by drummer Stephen Morris, Joy Division released two seminal post-punk albums: Unknown Pleasures (1979) and the posthumous Closer (1980).

So This is Permanence, edited by Jon Savage, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. The songs of Joy Division, infused with the energy of punk but seeped in a resigned longing, were born of Manchester in the late seventies – a once flourishing industrial city in decline. They were the songs too of Ian Curtis’s inner tragedies, as he battled depression, epilepsy and debilitating stage fright. Ian Curtis committed suicide in 1980, on the eve of the band’s first American tour. Interspersed with the lyrics are previously unpublished facsimile pages of Ian’s notebooks, which throw his highly emotive lyrics into fascinating relief and cast light on the creative process of this singularly poetic songwriter. 03/04/2014 978 0 571 309559 192pp Hardback £14.99

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Julian Cope

131 Julian Cope is a visionary musician, antiquarian and musicologist. His work with the Teardrop Explodes and as a solo artist marks him as one of British music’s great innovators. His studies The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic European have established him as an authority on ancient history and his joyful surveys Krautrocksampler and Japrocksampler have become required musical reading. He has also penned two successful volumes of autobiography, Head On and Repossessed, and continues to perform, solo and with his band, the Black Sheep.

Welcome to Sardinia: my hell, my home, my prison, my meditation these past sixteen years. What a place to die. But that’s precisely why I was back. When drugged-up time traveller and ’80s musical burn out Rock Section and his fellow English hooligans get kidnapped during Italia ’90, there are ruinous implications. But now Rock has returned to Sardinia one final time to settle some scores and uncover the truth. He believes only Dutch cult leader Judge Barry Hertzog, still incarcerated on the island for the crime, can provide the answers. But through prescription drugs, the persistence of his driver Anna and a quest for the hidden ancient doorways strewn around Sardinia’s only highway, the 131, Rock will discover that a greater truth awaits him. Judgement, consequences, hoodwinking on a grand scale, Gnosticism versus agnosticism . . . 131 is a Gnostic whodunit that pursues readers’ memories of all previous fiction into a peat bog and impales them with seven-foot-long pikes.

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Yianni Papoutsis The #MEATliquor Chronicles Chapter and Verse and Scott Collins Yianni Papoustis: Carnivore.

This is not a cook book. Do not try this at home.

Scott Collins: Alive (just).

There are many ways to cook a burger, to mix a drink, to serve some fries. Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins, the men behind #MEATliquor, #MEATeasy and several other meaty ventures, share their unique experiences on the wildest frontiers of burger culture in this their first (and perhaps only) book,The #MEATliquor Chronicles. ‘My name is Legion, for we are Many’, was the famous response delivered to Jesus by a not-sofamous demon. From New Cross to Marylebone to their newest venture in Hoxton Market, Yianni and Scott have blazed a demonic trail through the burger world over the past three years bringing followers and naysayers in their wake. Starting out with the adventures they had in the original #MEATwagon, back in 2009, The #MEATliquor Chronicles lays disrespectful waste to the accepted notion of what a cook book associated with a famous restaurant can and might be. Yes, there are recipe; and yes you can faithfully learn how to reproduce the infamous #MEATliquor ‘Grog’. But this is a book with a story. And pictures. With a mission to offend. And Yianni and Scott have welcomed DBC Pierre inhouse to help them reconstruct the improbable, implausible and downright nasty things that have happened to them on their journey from South London reprobates to haute cuisine enfants terribles.

20/03/2014 978 0 571 302994 256pp Hardback £25.00

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‘It’s no secret that the fat in a #MEATliquor burger melts at a lower temperature because their cattle lie down with virgins.’ DBC Pierre

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Paperback Section Fiction 06/02/2014 978 0 571 270569 272pp Paperback £7.99 World All Languages

Lucy Caldwell All the Beggars Riding

‘The taut, finely crafted, percussive prose of Lara’s narrative, her evocative descriptions and ability to wrench the heart recall Maggie O’Farrell at her finest.’ Daily Mail

02/01/2014 978 0 571 278640 368pp Paperback £7.99 World excluding USA

Louise Doughty Apple Tree Yard ‘A chilling novel, in part because of the unsparing light it shines on our ability to deceive ourselves. Doughty has a particular gift for unsettling stories, for making us ask difficult questions of ourselves, our own relationships and choices . . . entirely compelling.’ Observer

07/08/2014 978 0 571 272211 300pp Paperback £8.99 World English Language

Giorgio Vasta Time On My Hands

‘Without question one of the most important novels to emerge from Italy in the past ten years.’ Times Literary Supplement

06/02/2014 978 0 571 287949 400pp Paperback £7.99 UK C/W EU ex Can, India etc

Nadeem Aslam The Blind Man’s Garden ‘Once or twice a year, a book stuns me . . . The Blind Man’s Garden has done just that. My expectations were high: Aslam has won a clutch of prizes. But the power of this extraordinary novel is still jarring.’ Independent on Sunday

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Marjorie Celona Y

02/01/2014 978 0 571 305476 368pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

‘Almost everyone in this novel is telling stories, lying, finding narratives of why they did what they did, and why there are who they are. Y is a beautiful, moving book that explores what it takes to belong.’ Evie Wyld, Guardian

Marcel Theroux Strange Bodies ‘Bold and wonderfully weird . . . reads like an intelligent, witty flirtation between serious literature and science fiction . . . The perfect literary thriller for the internet age . . . I couldn’t put it down.’

06/03/2014 978 0 571 279807 352pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

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Marcel Theroux The Paperchase

06/03/2014 978 0 571 296866 256pp Paperback £8.99 UK and Commonwealth

‘A smartly written, atmospheric novel.’ Independent

Susie Steiner Homecoming ‘Susie Steiner’s debut novel is kitchen-sink drama meets The Archers – a powerful, visceral portrait of the ties that bind, and those that break . . . a truly exceptional study of human flaws and frailties.’

06/03/2014 978 0 571 296644 320pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

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Section Paperback Fiction 03/04/2014 978 0 571 286768 240pp Paperback £7.99 UK, Commonwealth and EU exclusive

Peter Murphy Shall We Gather at the River ‘[Murphy] writes well about the voodoo effect of music . . . his Southern Gothic style – a cross between Flannery O’Connor and Flann O’Brien – is peculiarly well suited to depicting the smalltown madness of 1980s Ireland.’ Times Literary Supplement

03/04/2014 978 0 571 296729 224pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

Amity Gaige Schroder ‘I found it difficult to put this book down, even when it brought me to tears . . . a devastating work that resonates for a long time after the final page.’ Sunday Business Post

03/04/2014 978 0 571 303335 272pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

Alissa Nutting Tampa

‘Brave and beautifully written; a provocative look at a taboo subject.’ Irvine Welsh

01/05/2014 978 0 571 274017 256pp Paperback £7.99 World All Languages

James Hamilton-Paterson Under the Radar A Novel

‘Amid the shadowy le Carré-esque atmosphere of betrayal and double-dealing, Under the Radar is fascinating to read and superbly written. Hamilton-Paterson is among our finest prose stylists, and we are fortunate to have him.’ Financial Times

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Ruth Thomas The Home Corner

01/05/2014 978 0 571 230624 242pp Paperback £7.99 UK, Commonwealth and EU exclusive

‘Ruth Thomas is a brilliant chronicler and observer of the hum-drumness of everyday life and this is a wonderfully funny and poignant story about how unsettling the transition from childhood to adulthood can be.’ Daily Mail

David Peace Red or Dead

05/06/2014 978 0 571 280667 800pp Paperback £7.99 World all languages excluding Japanese

‘Red or Dead is a masterpiece. David Peace already has a considerable reputation but this massive, painstaking account of the career of Bill Shankly towers above his previous work.’ Frank Cottrell Boyce, Observer

Deirdre Madden Time Present and Time Past

05/06/2014 978 0 571 290871 208pp Paperback £8.99 World English Language

‘Madden adds a consummately crafted novel to an already formidable body of work . . . a deeply moving portrait of domestic and family life.’ Sunday Telegraph

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Paperback Crime & Thiller 05/06/2014 978 0 571 259243 288pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

Sara Gran Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway Sara Gran is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, including Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Come Closer and Dope. She also writes for film and TV (including TNT’s Southland) and has published in The New York Times, The New Orleans Times Picayune, and USA Today.

02/01/2014 978 0 571 278480 400pp Paperback £7.99 World All Languages

Sam Eastland The Red Moth

‘For those who like their tales told in the John Buchan style, with a shot of vodka downed and a fully loaded Webley at the ready’ Independent on Sunday

06/03/2014 978 0 571 275472 320pp Paperback £7.99 UK, Commonwealth and EU exclusive

Alan Glynn Graveland

‘On the one hand an invigorating slice of conspiracy noir, Graveland is simultaneously a heartbreaking account of the human cost of corporate greed.’ Irish Times

06/03/2014 978 0 571 307326 400pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

P. D. James Death in Holy Orders

Coming to Faber for the first time in paperback.

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Chris Ewan Dead Line

03/04/2014 978 0 571 287987 320pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

‘Ewan has become a master storyteller.’ Ann Cleeves

Alafair Burke If You Were Here

03/04/2014 978 0 571 302291 400pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

‘You know you’re in good hands.’ Gillian Flynn, O Magazine Summer Pick

Adam Creed Kill and Tell

01/05/2014 978 0 571 275021 352pp Paperback £6.99 UK, Commonwealth and EU exclusive

‘Creed writes with a gritty realism that doesn’t let go.’ Simon Beckett

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Paperback Section Essays 16/01/2014 978 0 571 218486 528pp Paperback £14.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

Paul Auster Collected Prose

Paul Auster’s Collected Prose is an essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters.

01/05/2014 978 0 571 309597 256pp Paperback £9.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

Flannery O’Connor Mystery and Manners

‘Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et’ Pull Quote Details, A Publication

Paperback Nature Writing 01/05/2014 978 0 571 310661 048pp Paperback £9.99 UK, Commonwealth and EU exclusive

Paperback Humour 01/05/2014 9781783350285 352pp Paperback £8.99 UK and Commonwealth

Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood & Dan Richards Holloway ‘An impressionistic piece of landscape writing, Holloway evokes the sense that time is densely layered in these secret lanes; many people have trodden here, and their ghosts are still apparent in the deep tree-shaded paths’ Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times

Simon Hoggart House of Fun 20 Glorious Years in Parliament

Includes new material. ‘A light hearted alternative political history of the past two decades’ Chris Mullin.’ New Statesman

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Judith Tebbutt A Long Walk Home One Woman’s Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss – and Survival

02/01/2014 978 0 571 303069 204pp Paperback £8.99 World All Languages

‘Not only is it an action-packed account of a kidnapping and hostage situation, it is also the story of how the author triumphed psychologically against terror, semi-starvation and isolation . . . Fast-paced though the action is, it is the psychological story that compels.’ Sian Griffiths, Sunday Times

Anne Putnam Navel Gazing One Woman’s Quest for a Size Normal

02/01/2014 978 0 571 284450 256pp Paperback £8.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

‘Brilliant, brave and moving, and I would recommend it to anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and hated what they see.’ The Times

Emma Brockes She Left Me the Gun My Mother’s Life Before Me

‘She Left Me the Gun is quite simply an extraordinary book . . . In the hands of a writer as gifted as Emma Brockes, it’s basically the perfect memoir: a riveting, authentic tale elegantly told.’

06/02/2014 978 0 571 275854 304pp Paperback £7.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

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Neil McKenna Fanny and Stella The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

16/01/2014 978 0 571 231911 288pp Paperback £8.99 World All Languages

‘McKenna has done a tremendous job of recreating Victorian London’s gay subculture . . . a cracking read.’ Sunday Times

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Paperback Biography & Memoir 03/04/2014 978 0 571 235858 720pp Trade Paperback £14.99 World English Language

Susan Brigden Thomas Wyatt The Heart’s Forest

‘Monumental . . . the result of many years’ work, [and] the richest and most exhaustive study on Wyatt to date.’ Guardian

05/06/2014 978 0 571 290956 224pp Paperback £8.99 World All Languages

Ronald Blythe The Time by the Sea Aldeburgh 1955–1958

‘This delightful memoir, by the author of Akenfield, is something special . . . a small masterpiece . . . beautifully written and full of memorable insights into an extraordinary place at a unique time.’ Paperback Humour 06/03/2014 978 0 571 251292 320pp Paperback £9.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

Richard Morrison, The Times

George Packer The Unwinding

‘Packer [is] among the best non-fiction writers in America . . . In its sensibility, The Unwinding is closer to a novel than a work of non-fiction. It is all the more powerful for it.’ Financial Times

03/04/2014 978 0 571 297405 368pp Paperback £10.99 World All Languages

Ronan Fanning Fatal Path ‘Magnificent book . . . beautifully written, compellingly argued, gleaming with clarity . . . it comes to two conclusions more convincingly than any other historian, nationalist or unionist, that I have read.’ Belfast Telegraph

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Graham Farmelo Churchill’s Bomb

01/05/2014 978 0 571 249794 250pp Paperback £9.99 World ex USA

Churchill’s Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister’s life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain’s policy on atomic weapons, from the author of the Costa Award-winning The Strangest Man. Paperback Sport

Brian Glanville The Story of the World Cup: 2014 ‘It’s continually being revised and updated and it is very, very good for knowing what happened in each World Cup, at each match. It’s the gold standard of sports writing. ... This book does emote and is not just a reference book. It’s got match reports and polemic and its purpose is to be a reference book, but it gives more of a perspective, more vision.’

16/01/2014 978 0 571 274505 480pp Trade Paperback £14.99

David Baddiel

Owen Sheers Calon A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby

‘Stirring . . . thrilling . . . after finishing this riveting hymn to the comradeship and claustrophobia of the Welsh team ethic, even English readers could catch themselves cheering on the Dragon.’

06/02/2014 978 0 571 297306 208pp Paperback £8.99 UK, Commonwealth and EU exclusive

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Rod Ellingworth Project Rainbow How British Cycling Reached the Top of the World

05/06/2014 978 0 571 303519 360pp Paperback £8.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, EU exclusive

‘A master psychologist – cycling’s answer to Brian Clough.’ Mark Cavendish

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Paperback Section Music 05/06/2014 978 0 571 240487 288pp Paperback £9.99 World All Languages

Tom Service Music as Alchemy Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras

‘A book of great intelligence and vivacious reportage, easily enjoyed and digested.’ Rupert Christiansen, Literary Review

Paperback Poetry 06/03/2014 978 0 571 290444 160pp Paperback £8.99 World All Languages

Sylvia Plath, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy Poems Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentiethcentury poetry. This edition, selected by the Poet Loureate Carol Ann Duffy, is essential reading.

Paperback Social 05/06/2014 978 0 571 294152 400pp Paperback £9.99 UK, Commonwealth and EU exclusive

Paul Brannigan & Ian Winwood Birth School Metallica Death – Volume I

The Metallica story – from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world’s biggest stadia. The essential story of one of the world’s biggest bands.

03/04/2014 978 0 571 235810 128pp Paperback £7.99 World English Language

Michael Smith Unreal City The narrator of Unreal City is a flâneur fallen on hard times, a creative bewildered by the slick speed of the digital age, watching as the sculptors and painters and bon viveurs begin to slip away and the advertising hipsters take over old stomping grounds.

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02/01/2014 978 0 571 310173 368pp Paperback £6.99 World excluding USA

Observer

06/02/2014 978 0 571 287932 400pp Paperback £6.99 UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada and India, EU exclusive

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Section Picture Books

Julia Copus

Illustrated by Eunyoung Seo

Harry & Lil

The tale of a hog in the fog

Faber poet Julia Copus has turned her hand to picture books – to stunning effect! The tale of a hog lost in the fog – and of his friend Candy Stripe Lil – is sure to delight adults and children alike.

A beautifully crafted rhyming text, full of humour, mystery and charm, with a wonderful reveal at the end. A picture book for 3–5-year-olds.

Lil is expecting Harry the Hog for tea, but there’s a swirling fog outside and Harry is nowhere to be seen. Lil sets off to find her friend. Luckily she meets Deer, Sheep and Crow along the way, who all join in the hunt to find the hog in the fog.

This is the story of Candy Stripe Lil and Harry the Hog who lived over the hill . . . and a foggy March day, roundabout three, when Lil had invited Harry for tea.

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Julia Copus was born in London, near to the Young Vic theatre, and now lives in Somerset. She has won First Prize in the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (2010), and has been shortlisted for both the Costa and the T. S. Eliot prize. She also writes for radio; her first play, Eenie Meenie Macka Racka, was awarded the BBC’s Alfred Bradley prize. She is a Lector for the Royal Literary Fund, and in 2008 was made an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter. Harry & Lil is her first picture book.

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Eunyoung Seo is an illustrator based in Korea. She worked as a graphic designer for eight years in Korea before moving to Edinburgh to study illustration. She graduated with an MA in Illustration from The University of Edinburgh in 2012. Harry & Lil is her first picture book.

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T. S. Eliot

Illustrated by Arthur Robins

Macavity

The Mystery Cat

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

This 75th anniversary edition of the classic T. S. Eliot poem is showcased in a standalone volume for the first time, with glorious new illustrations from Arthur Robins. Arthur Robins brings out all the mischievousness and irresistible humour of this poem, that has become one of the most recognised and best-loved songs in the Cats musical canon.

Arthur Robins is a renowned cartoonist and illustrator of books including What Use Is a Moose? and Bertie Was a Watchdog.

A picture book for 3–5-year-olds, full of humour, word play and fun. Hardback 01/05/2014 978 0 571 312122 £12.99 _ _

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Macavity’s a Mystery Cat, he’s called the Hidden Paw – For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law. He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair: For when they reach the scene of crime – Macavity’s not there!

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Betty G. Birney Bumper Book of Humphrey’s Tiny Tales

16/01/2014 978 0 571 310494 368pp Paperback £6.99

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Four Tiny Tales in one GREATGREAT-GREAT gift edition – including a brand new story! Featuring My Pet Show Panic!, My Summer Fair Surprise!, My CreepyCrawly Camping Adventure! and NEW-NEW-NEW story My MixedUp Magic Trick!, younger Humphrey fans will love this bind-up edition of the bestselling books. It’s Careers Day in Room 26 in My Mixed-Up Magic Trick!. GoldenMiranda wants to be a magician but Lower-Your-Voice A.J. says girls can’t be magicians. But when Miranda’s presentation goes wrong, it’s up to Humphrey to save the day from a mixed-up magic trick . . .

Karen McCombie You, Me and Thing The Great Expanding Guinea Pig and Beware of the Snowblobs!

02/01/2014 978 0 571 310555 304pp Paperback £6.99

Two new books in one featuring magic, mix-ups and muddles! Join Ruby, Jackson and Thing on not one but two great adventures in this brilliant bumper book. See what havoc Thing causes when Ruby and Jackson sneak it along on a trip to the petting zoo in The Great Expanding Guinea Pig. And in a seasonal spectacular, Thing helps Ruby and Jackson defeat some nasty bullies in Beware of the Snowblobs! The next instalments in this gorgeously funny series for girls and boys age 7+ from readers’ favourite Karen McCombie, with artwork from star illustrator Alex T. Smith.

Betty G. Birney worked at Disneyland and the Disney Studios, has written many children’s television shows and is the author of over forty books, including the bestselling The World According to Humphrey, which won the Richard and Judy Children’s Book Club Award, Friendship According to Humphrey, Mysteries According to Humphrey and Christmas According to Humphrey, and seven books in the Humphrey’s Tiny Tales series. Her work has won many awards, including an Emmy and three Humanitas Prizes. She lives in America with her husband.

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Karen McCombie is the bestselling author of numerous children’s and teenage books, including the series Ally’s World, Stella Etc., Indie Kidd and novels An Urgent Message of Wowness and The Raspberry Rules. Before becoming an author she worked for teen magazines such as J17 and Sugar. Originally from Scotland, she lives in London with her husband, young daughter and assorted cats, who all give her inspiration for her books, whether they like it or not.

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Pip Jones

Illustrated by Ella Okstad

Squishy McFluff The Invisible Cat! Brilliant new series for 4–6-year-old readers in hilarious rhyming text with adorable illustrations. Told in full colour throughout, this is the perfect stepping stone from picture books to older fiction.

text is perfect for reading aloud, and Ella Okstad’s gorgeous illustrations will help more confident readers learn to read by themselves for the first time.

When Ava discovers an imaginary cat in the cabbage patch, she knows she’s found a new best friend. Together, Ava and Squishy McFluff get up to all kinds of mischief . . . Bright new talent and Greenhouse Funny Prize winner Pip Jones gives a hilarious, quirky twist to everyday experiences. For all young animal lovers and mischief makers! Warm and humorous, the jaunty rhyming

Can you see him? My kitten? Close your eyes tight. His fur is so soft and all silvery white. Imagine him quick! Have you imagined enough? Oh, good, you can see him! It’s Squishy McFluff!

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Pip Jones is a freelance journalist. Squishy McFluff won the inaugural Greenhouse Funny Prize in 2012 and Pip is delighted to bring him to the page at Faber. Pip lives in London with her husband, two daughters and a real imaginary cat. Ella Okstad graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in 2000 and returned to her native Norway where she now illustrates children’s books for both Norwegian and UK publishers. Squishy is her first imaginary cat.

06/02/2014 978 0 571 302505 80pp Paperback £5.99

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Jennifer Gray

Chicken Mission Murder Most Fowl

Hilarious, hen-sational new adventure series by the author of the bestselling Atticus Claw series. With black-and-white line artwork, perfect for 7+ readers. Young chicken Amy Cluckbucket dreams of escaping from Perrin’s farm to a life of chicken adventure. One day Amy receives a summons to the Kung Foo School for Poultry in Tibet where she learns she is to become part of an elite chicken squad whose mission is to defeat evil predators. It sounds like a dream come true! Accompanied by fellow squad members, Boo and Ruth, Amy travels to Chicken HQ to meet her mentor, Professor Rooster. Through a series of egg-citing adventures and hilarious mishaps, the three young chickens learn the value of friendship, teamwork and karate! But are they ready to beat their mortal enemy – Thadeus E. Fox?

01/05/2014 978 0 571 298273 128pp Paperback £5.99

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Praise for Atticus Claw:

‘Attractively witty . . . great animal characters . . . Perfect for fans of madcap animal adventures.’ Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4kids.co.uk

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Jennifer Gray

Atticus Claw Goes Ashore Jennifer Gray is a barrister so she knows how to spot a cat burglar when she sees one, especially when he’s a large tabby with a chewed ear and a handkerchief round his neck that says Atticus Claw. And now she’s got a new series about chickens on a mission out too! Jennifer’s other work includes the Guinea Pigs Online series for younger readers. She lives in London and Scotland with her husband and four children.

The bestselling animal with cat-titude is back! Atticus is on beach-tidying duty when he finds a message in a bottle from Fishhook Frank. Fishhook is marooned on a desert island, but he promises Atticus treasure in exchange for his rescue. The treasure in question is the Casket of Desires, which contains a sleeping mermaid who has the power to grant any wish. But it is hidden in the deepest, darkest part of the ocean, protected by the most hideous, fearsome sea-creatures known to pirate lore. Atticus sets out to rescue Fishhook Frank, but it’s not all plain sailing. Captain Black Beard-Jumper is also on the lookout for the Casket, and he’ll curse anyone who gets in his way . . . The fourth in the brilliant new series from rising star Jennifer Gray. Perfect for 7+ readers looking for adventure, humour and pirates!

06/03/2014 978 0 571 305315 224pp Paperback £5.99

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‘A hilarious story of criminal cats, malicious magpies and a police inspector called Cheddar.’ Scotsman

‘Purrrfect . . . A fast and funny mystery.’ Red House

‘Exciting . . . a fun-filled read.’ Booktrust

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Michael Fry The Odd Squad Bully Bait

16/01/2014 978 0 571 304950 224pp Paperback £5.99

Hilarious debut from renowned cartoonist for ages 8–11 about beating bullies. For fans of Wimpy Kid and Barry Loser. Nick is stuffed in his locker. Again. It’s not so bad. Lockers are roomier than you’d think. Especially when you’re the shortest kid on the planet, which is exactly why Bully-Boy Roy stuffed him in there in the first place: he fits.

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Michael Fry is an American cartoonist, online media entrepreneur and screenwriter. His comic strip Over the Hedge is syndicated nationally and his work has appeared in many print and online publications. Bully Bait is his first book for children.

The school counsellor says Roy has issues. The only issue Nick can see is that Roy is a mutant troll. Nick’s friends Molly and Karl think the troll needs to be defeated. Together, they are THE ODD SQUAD.

Michael Fry The Odd Squad Zero Tolerance

05/06/2014 978 0 571 309078 224pp Paperback £5.99

The second in the series from Michael Fry’s hilarious Odd Squad of bully-beaters, perfect for ages 7+ and any struggling reader with Michael’s zany comic-strip artwork. After taming the school’s biggest bully, Nick, Molly and Karl expect to bask in Safety Patrol glory. But without a bully to set straight, all they’re left with is helping sixth graders cross the hall and reminding everyone that Jell-o meat stains. Enter new kid Simone, who shakes up the team and soon Nick is facing trouble. Explusion-level trouble. He needs help, and fast.

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Philip Ardagh

The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens Trilogy Philip Ardagh, whose very first Grubtown Tale won him the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, is author of numerous books including the award-winning Eddie Dickens adventures, currently published in over thirty languages. He wrote BBC radio’s first truly interactive radio drama, collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his first children’s book and is a ‘regularly irregular’ reviewer of children’s books for the Guardian. Married with a son, he divides his time between Tunbridge Wells and Grubtown, where he cultivates his impressive beard.

Philip Ardagh’s The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens Trilogy brought together for the first time. Eddie Dickens finds himself far from home in the heathery highlands of Scotland for some Further Adventures embracing a whole host of new characters and firm favourites such as Malcolm the stuffed stoat. Including Dubious Deeds, Horrendous Habits, The Final Curtain, fans of Philip Ardagh will gobble up this great gift edition.

03/04/2014 978 0 571 310531 512pp Paperback £8.99

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‘Wonderful.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Philip Ardagh is a national treasure.’ Independent

‘Hilarious.’ Financial Times

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06/02/2014 978 0 571 282494 176pp Paperback £5.99

Betty G. Birney Secrets According to Humphrey

Everyone’s favourite hamster has another adventure in Room 26 and beyond! The next in the bestselling ‘According to Humphrey’ series, Humphrey and his friends in Room 26 learn about ancient Egypt. Mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and plenty of SHH-SHH-SHH secrets abound! Will Humphrey be able to solve the mysteries of the pharaohs . . .?

Betty G. Birney Humphrey’s World of Pets

06/03/2014 978 0 571 270279 240pp £5.99 Paperback

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Betty G. Birney worked at Disneyland and the Disney Studios, has written many children’s television shows and is the author of over forty books, including nine ‘According to Humphrey’ titles, starting with the bestselling The World According to Humphrey, which won the Richard and Judy Children’s Book Club Award, and seven ‘Humphrey’s Tiny Tales’ books. Her work has won many awards, including an Emmy and three Humanitas Prizes. She lives in America with her husband.

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The perfect gift for pet-lovers. Everyone’s favourite hamster, Humphrey, tells us everything we need to know about the world of pets in this non-fiction book – from fantastic facts and pet-care tips to Humphrey’s animal Hall of Fame. From award-winning author Betty G. Birney.

‘Humphrey, a delightful, irresistable character, is big hearted observant and creative, and his experiences range from comedic to touching.’ Booktrust

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T. S. Eliot

Illustrated by Rebecca Ashdown

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Brand new edition of the classic poetry collection which inspired the musical Cats! To celebrate Old Possum’s 75th anniversary we have commissioned lively new illustrations from Rebecca Ashdown for T. S. Eliot’s original book of Practical Cats. Featuring Macavity, the Mystery Cat; Mr Mistofelees, the Original Conjuring Cat; Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer and all the gang, this is a must for every child’s bookshelf and is a great companion to the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage show.

Rebecca Ashdown grew up in Chichester, West Sussex, by the sea. She studied illustration at Norwich and Westminster then completed an MA in Communication Design at Central St Martins which led to work in graphic design and filmmaking. Rebecca has recently returned to traditional illustration.

06/02/2014 978 0 571 311866 128pp £5.99 Paperback

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The cat himself knows and will never confess . . .

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Betsy Byars

The Midnight Fox Betsy Byars was born in North Carolina, USA. Her father worked in a cotton mill, and Betsy went to school in a cotton-mill village. Her early aspirations were to work with animals, but then she married an engineering lecturer and moved to Illinois. Housebound with young children, Betsy began writing articles for newspapers and magazines. As the children started to read, so she began to write stories for them. Using her children’s experience, and memories from her own childhood, she produced many children’s books. She now lives in South Carolina.

This atmospheric and heartfelt story is one of Betsy Byars’ best-loved classics, and a classroom favourite. Tom, a town boy, is horrified when his parents tell him he has to stay on Aunt Millie’s farm while they are away. He finds country life every bit as strange and uncomfortable as he feared. But soon, he discovers a rare black fox with green eyes, living with her cubs in the forest. Suddenly, the summer is full of excitement. That is, until Uncle Fred decides to go after the fox – will Tom save her and her family in time?

01/05/2014 978 0 571 310333 208pp £6.99 Paperback

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‘And then, this afternoon,’ Uncle Fred said to me, ‘you and I’ll go after the fox.’

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D. D. Everest

Archie Greene and the Magician’s Instruction D. D. Everest is a successful journalist and author who has written a number of adult non-fiction books. Archie Greene and the Magician’s Instruction is his first book for children. Des lives with his family in a rambling Victorian house in the Ashdown Forest.

A phenomenal magical fantasy to rival Harry Potter, by an astonishing debut author. Rights have sold in frenzied auctions across the world. A story for 8–11 year old readers, accompanied by stunning black-andwhite line artwork. Archie Greene receives a mysterious present on his birthday. Buried inside an ancient wooden box he finds an old book, written in a language he doesn’t recognize. With the book comes a Summoning – Archie must travel to Oxford to return the book to the Secret Library. Soon Archie will meet family that he never knew he had, and discover the world of the Book People – a community devoted to finding and preserving magical books. But the magical book under Archie’s protection is dangerous, and dark spirits hunt it out. With the help of his cousins Bramble and Thistle, Archie must do everything he can to uncover the book’s hidden powers and save the Book People from evil.

01/05/2014 978 0 571 309054 240pp Hardback £8.99

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Welcome to a wonderful, magical world where bookshelves are enchanted, librarians are sorcerers and spells come to life!

‘The interest from around the world has been incredible . . . You hear about this sort of thing happening but you never imagine it might happen to your book.’ D. D. Everest on selling his book around the world at auction.

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Francesca Simon

The Lost Gods Francesca Simon is universally known for the staggeringly popular Horrid Henry series. These books and CDs have sold over 15 million copies in the UK alone and are published in twentyseven countries. Francesca lives in North London with her family.

Funnier than ever, the second novel in Francesca Simon’s Mortal Gods series, for readers age 8+, accompanied by Adam Stower’s breathtaking black-and-white line artwork. Freya was an ordinary schoolgirl . . . until the Norse gods stormed into her life. Woden, Thor and Freyja are lost gods down from Asgard. And they need Freya’s help in the small matter of saving the world from the frost giants. But as soon as the gods arrive on earth, they start to get distracted by fame, fortune – and football! Can Freya get the gods to focus on the impending epic battle and save the world from certain doom? A hilarious action adventure that will thrill fans of Percy Jackson and The History Keepers. 01/05/2014 978 1 846 685668 400pp Paperback £5.99

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Jane Smiley

Star Horse Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles and grew up in St Louis, Missouri. In 1992 she won the Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres, for which she also won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Her other novels include Moo (1995), Horse Heaven (2000), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Good Faith (2003) and Ten Days in the Hills (2007). Her most recent novel is Private Life (2010). In 2006 Jane Smiley was awarded the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature.

Another heartwarming read from Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, for girls age 9+, following Abby and her horses. Gee Whiz is a striking horse, and only part of that is because of his size. He is tall, but also graceful. He keeps his eye on things, not as if he’s suspicious, but as if he’s curious. Abby is curious, too, about just how little of the world she has seen compared to those around her. Her brother receives a draft notice to Vietnam, her best friends return from their boarding school, and the wise, lovable Brother Abner opens her eyes with tales of his many years spent travelling. Then, her beloved horses Jack and True Blue are both offered opportunites to broaden their horizons away from the ranch. Will she let them go, with hopes that she might one day do the same? 15/05/2014 978 0 571 299522 320pp Paperback £6.99

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‘Wonderful storytelling.’ Hilary McKay

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Natasha Farrant The Diaires of Bluebell Gadsby: Finding Zach Natasha Farrant has worked in children’s publishing for almost twenty years, running her own literary scouting agency for the past ten. She is the author of the Carnegie longlisted and Branford Boase shortlisted YA historical novel The Things We Did For Love, as well as two successful adult novels. She grew up in London where she still lives with her husband, their two daughters and a large tortoiseshell cat. She is the eldest of four siblings and has never dyed her hair pink.

The second heartfelt instalment in this beautifully-crafted, sassy new series that will make you laugh and cry. The first book has been published to rave reviews and rights deals around the world are testimony to the warmth and resonance of Natasha’s writing. Just when Bluebell thought her crazy family were behaving normally, her parents make an announcement that could turn everything upside down. If only Zoran, their au pair, would come back to live with them. Unfortunately he’s too busy teaching guitar to his new protégé, Zachary Smith. Blue is jealous at first, until Zach starts helping her little sister with a secret project and becomes a regular visitor at the Gadsby house. Then Zach goes missing. Blue needs her family to pull together if they’re going to find him . . .

01/07/2010 978 0 571 297979 288pp Paperback £6.99

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Praise for The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby series:

‘Funny and moving.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Written with subtlety, wit and insight.’ Sunday Times

‘Tender, sensitive and astute . . . with something of Hilary McKay . . . utterly charming.’ Booktrust

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02/01/2014 978 0 571 308309 304pp Paperback £6.99

Alexander Gordon Smith Escape from Furnace 3: Death Sentence

The gripping third instalment in an epic series about Furnace, a terrifying underground prison for teenagers. Will Alex ever escape? Action-packed fantasy, gritty and gruesome – the perfect reads for thrill-hungry 11+ readers. With striking new covers that really bring these chilling stories to life. Down here, monsters are made. I’m changing – something evil is being pumped into my veins. How can I escape when the darkness is inside me?

Alexander Gordon Smith Escape from Furnace 4: Fugitive

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Alexander Gordon Smith is the author of the Escape from Furnace series, as well as The Inventors (shortlisted for the Wow Factor competition), The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls and The Fury: the Director’s Cut. He has also written a number of non-fiction books, as well as hundreds of articles for various magazines. He is the founder of Egg Box Publishing, an independent press that promotes talented new writers and poets. He co-owns a production company, Fear Driven Films and lives in Norwich.

02/01/2014 978 0 571 308316 320pp Paperback £6.99

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The gripping fourth instalment in an epic series about Furnace – a terrifying, underground prison for teenagers. We broke out of Furnace but we’re still not free. The city is in lockdown – roads sealed, police everywhere. And there are worse things here: creatures of death sent to bring the world to its knees.

Praise for the Escape from Furnace series:

‘Adrenaline-packed.’ The Times

‘Sign me up for a life sentence.’ Darren Shan

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Erin Lange

Dead Ends Erin Lange writes facts by day and fiction by night. As a TV producer, she is inspired by real-world issues. She grew up in the cornfields of northern Illinois, along the Mississippi River, but now lives in the sunshine of Arizona. Her debut novel, Butter, was published to enormous critical acclaim. Dead Ends is her second novel.

One of the most exciting books to publish this year, from the author compared to John Green and R.J. Palacio. Dane and Billy D couldn’t be more different. Dane is clever and popular, but he’s also a violent rebel. Billy D has Down syndrome and hangs out with teachers in his lunch break. But Billy and Dane have more in common than they think. Both their fathers are missing. Maybe they’ll just have to suck up their differences and get on with helping each other.

Find Erin on Facebook www. facebook.com/ErinJadeLange and Twitter @erinjadelange. Find out more about Butter at www.butterslastmeal.com/

A powerful, funny coming-of-age novel about an incredible friendship – played out through the journey of a lifetime. A story to rival Wonder and A Fault in Our Stars by the author of critically-acclaimed Butter.

06/02/2014 978 0 571 308828 352pp Hardback £7.99

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Praise for Erin Lange’s debut:

‘Bold and striking, Butter is a powerful and courageous novel that is certain to leave readers with plenty to think about’ Booktrust

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April Genevieve Between the Devil and Tucholke the Deep Blue Sea April Genevieve Tucholke loves classic movies, redheaded villains, big kitchens, and discussing murder at the dinner table.

Faded Gatsby glamour and thrilling gothic horror meet in this gorgeous, terrifying and languorous YA romance.

She and her husband live in Oregon at the edge of the forest. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is April’s debut novel.

Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White’s sleepy, seaside town . . . until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violet’s crumbling estate, and it’s not long after that strange, dark and deadly goings on leave Violet wondering about the boy living in her garden. Is River just a crooked-smiling liar with pretty eyes and a mysterious past? Violet’s grandmother always warned her about the Devil, but she never said he could be a dark-haired boy who likes coffee and who kisses you in a cemetery . . . Violet’s already so knee-deep in love, she can’t see straight. And that’s just how River likes it. For fans of The Great Gatsby, Rebecca and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

06/03/2014 978 0 571 307906 368pp Paperback £7.99

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You stop fearing the devil when you’re holding his hand . . . ‘Lavishly rendered, darkly romantic, and beautifully unsettling – Tucholke’s debut isn’t a book you’ll soon forget.’ Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series

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Rebecca James Sweet Damage Rebecca James was born in Sydney in 1970. She grew up in numerous different places throughout Australia – including Bourke, Sydney, Wellington and Bathurst. Her first book, Beautiful Malice, was an international bestseller.

When Tim Ellison finds a cheap room to rent in the perfect location in Sydney it looks like a huge stroke of luck. In fact the room comes with a condition, and the owner of the house, the mysterious Anna London, is unfriendly and withdrawn. When strange and terrifying things start happening in the house at night, Tim wonders if taking the room is a mistake. But then his feelings for Anna start to change, and when her past comes back with a vengeance, Tim is caught right in the middle of it. A thrilling, rollercoaster of a story – read it with the lights on!

03/04/2014 978 0 571 255290 288pp Paperback £6.99

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I still dream about Anna London’s house. In my dreams it’s as if the house itself has sinister intentions. But in real life it wasn’t the house that was responsible for what happened. It was the people who did the damage . . .

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Alexia Casale

The Bone Dragon A British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia is an editor, teacher and writing consultant. After studying psychology then educational technology at Cambridge, she moved to New York to work on a Tony-awardwinning Broadway show before completing a PhD and teaching qualification. In between, she worked as a West End script-critic, box-office manager for a music festival and executive editor of a human rights journal. The Bone Dragon is her debut novel. Alexia has always wanted a Dragon; luckily, she has her very own rib in a pot . . .

Evie’s shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the courage to tell her adoptive parents, and the physical traces of her past are fixed – the only remaining signs are a scar on her side and a fragment of bone taken home from the hospital, which her uncle helps her to carve into a dragon. Soon this ivory talisman begins to come to life at night, offering wisdom and encouragement in roaming dreams of smoke and moonlight that come to feel ever more real. As Evie grows stronger there remains one problem her new parents can’t fix for her: revenge must be taken. And it seems that the Dragon is the one to take it. This subtly unsettling novel is told from the viewpoint of a fourteenyear-old girl damaged by a past she can’t talk about, in a hypnotic narrative that, while giving increasing insight, also becomes increasingly unreliable. A blend of psychological thriller and fairytale, The Bone Dragon explores the fragile boundaries between real life and fantasy, and the darkest corners of the human mind. A sensitive and extraordinary first novel announces a new literary talent set to join the likes of Meg Rosoff, John Boyne and Siobhan Dowd, now in paperback.

03/04/2014 978 0 571 295623 240pp Paperback £6.99

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‘A beautifully crafted narrative that constantly confounds expectactions.’ Financial Times

‘Loved The Bone Dragon, gentle, wonderful and hard to put down.’ Wendy Cooling

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06/09/2012 Fiction Unabridged Read by John Lee 978 0 857 869159 (download) £17.99 (inc. VAT) UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada

Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red ‘Fabulous, baffling, exciting . . . Utterly unlike the Western traditional historical thriller . . . It is a wonderful novel, dreamy, passionate and august, exotic in the most original and exciting way.’ Philip Hensher, Spectator

13/12/2012 Non fiction Abridged Read by Simon Gray 978 1 782 110200 (download) £10.99 (inc. VAT) World

Simon Gray The Smoking Diaries Volume 1

‘The great hidden treasure of English comedy.’ Craig Brown

13/12/2012 Non Fiction Abridged Read by Simon Gray 9781782110217 (download) £10.99 (inc. VAT) World Download

Simon Gray The Year of the Jouncer The Smoking Diaries, Volume 2

‘Thrilling . . . I’m a besotted fan’ Lynn Barber, Observer

13/12/2012 Non Fiction Abridged Read by Simon Gray 9781782110224 (download) £10.99 (inc. VAT) World Download

Simon Gray The Last Cigarette The Smoking Diaries, Volume 3

‘A new volume of diaries from Simon Gray is always a rare treat.’ Evening Standard

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Simon Gray Coda The Smoking Diaries, Volume 4

13/12/2012 Non Fiction Abridged Read by Simon Gray 9781782110200 (download) £10.99 (inc. VAT) World Download

‘The funniest book I’ve read all year.’ Julian Barnes

Ricky Gervais Flanimals The Story So Far

07/03/2013 Children’s Abridged Read by Ricky Gervais 9781782110927 (download) £4.99 (inc. VAT) World

‘This wonderful collection of spectacularly ugly creatures is guaranteed to add sparkle to bedtime stories everywhere.’ Express Magazine

Harry Hill Livin’ the Dreem

07/03/2013 Non Fiction Abridged Read by Harry Hill 9781782110910 (download) £10.99 (inc. VAT) World

‘No one skewers the glorious silliness of British popular culture like Harry Hill.’ The Times

Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland

28/05/2013 Fiction Abridged Read by Forbes Masson 9781782112211 (download) £10.99 (inc. VAT) UK and Commonwealth exc. Canada

‘A gripping tale of tropical corruption . . . This is a wonderful read, beautifully written, every description drenched with a sense of Africa.’ Spectator

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15/08/2013 Fiction Unabridged Read by John Lee 9781782112327 (download) £16.99 (inc. VAT) UK and Commonwealth exc. Canada

Orhan Pamuk Snow ‘Profound and frequently brilliant . . . Illuminate[s] the confrontation between secular and extremist Islamic worlds better than any work of nonfiction I can think of.’ New Statesman

15/08/2013 Non Fiction Unabridged Read by John Lee 9781782112334 (download) £14.99 (inc. VAT) UK and Commonwealth exc. Canada

Orhan Pamuk Istanbul ‘An extraordinary and transcendentally beautiful book . . . It is a long time since I have read a book of such crystalline originality, or one that moved me so much.’ Katie Hickman

15/08/2013 Fiction Unabridged Read by John Lee, Emrhys Cooper, Jonathan Cowley, John Lee, Juliet Mills, Steve West 9781782112341 (download) £15.99 (inc. VAT) UK and Commonwealth exc. Canada

Orhan Pamuk Silent House ‘Confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of the greatest and most prophetic of political novelists.’ Guardian Books of the Year

15/08/2013 Fiction Unabridged Read by John Lee 9781782112358 (download) £17.99 (inc. VAT) UK and Commonwealth exc. Canada

Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence ‘Sharply observant . . . with fascinating insights into a society tugged between East and West.’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

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Mackenzie Crook The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth

07/11/2013 Children’s Unabridged Read by Mackenzie Crook 9781782112716 (download) £11.99 (inc. VAT) World

‘[A] little gem of vivid imagination, gentle humour and moral message.’ Daily Mail on The Windvale Sprites

Louise Doughty Apple Tree Yard

02/01/2014 Fiction Unabridged Read by Juliet Stevenson 9781782112969 (download) £14.99 (inc. VAT) World

‘A superb novel. Grownup, genuinely suspenseful, wonderfully well-constructed, intelligent and provocative. I really didn’t want to finish it. And I don’t say that very often.’ Julie Myerson

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Richard Williams The Animator’s Survival Kit

World-renowned animator and triple-Oscar-winner Richard Williams presents The Animator’s Survival Kit for iPad. Taking the globally bestselling Kit to a whole new dimension, this app provides the underlying principles that every animator needs. Aspiring or professional, digital, classical or stop motion, animators can now engage with Williams and his work like never before. Watch unreleased films or interact with over a hundred animated examples – learn from the legend himself.

16/04/2013 App for iPad £24.49

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Features: The complete ‘Expanded Edition’ of The Animator’s Survival Kit Over 100 animated examples from The Animator’s Survival Kit Animated DVD box set, scrubbable frame-by-frame ‘Onion-skinning’ functionality on selected animated examples, showing previous and following frames live

Richard Williams is best known as the Director of Animation and designer of the new characters for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for which he won two Academy Awards, including a Special Achievement Award. Canadian-born Williams has won three US Academy Awards, three British Academy Awards, and an Emmy among 246 international awards – starting with his first film The Little Island in 1958. Williams has also animated title sequences for Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, What’s New Pussycat, Casino Royale and linking sequences for The Charge of the Light Brigade, as well as countless prize-winning commercials. In 1990 he was voted by his peers as ‘The Animator’s Animator’, and in 1995 he started giving the Richard Williams Animation Masterclass for professionals and students worldwide.

Previously unreleased animations by Richard Williams, including a nineminute film, Circus Drawings New pieces-to-camera from Richard Williams to put the app in context.

‘A sublime and spellbinding app . . . It epitomizes everything an eBook-app crossbreed should be. It uses the full capabilities of the iPad’s processing power and screen to deliver a visually stunning, entertaining and enthralling masterpiece.’ The Next Web, Pick of the Day, 29 April 2013

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John Buchan

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. He wrote many of his most successful novels, including The Thirty-Nine Steps, while serving as an MP in the UK parliament.

Prepare to experience the original man-on-the-run thriller like never before. It’s London, 1914, and Richard Hannay is framed for a murder he did not commit. Now he must escape the capital and stay alive long enough to solve the riddle of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Immerse yourself in the world of this incredible story featuring: Hundreds of hand-painted digital environments and context from 1910s Britain Classic stop-frame animation and original silent film music Original soundtrack and theatrical voice performances Developed by The Story Mechanics as the first of a new form of entertainment, The Thirty-Nine Steps unites book and game to bring to life a classic spy adventure.

01/04/2013 App for iPad, PC and OSX Prices vary across format

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‘The most impressive example of interactive storytelling I’ve seen.’ Observer

‘Immersive and atmospheric, it shows how progressive digital storytelling is becoming on the digital frontier.’ The Times

‘Step into the world of espionage as the literary classic is transformed into something truly special.’ Cubed3

‘A visual and aural feast for interactive novel fans.’ 148Apps.com

‘A wonderful adaptation that pays the highest respects to its source material.’ Gamezebo

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FABER FINDS

Bringing Great Writing Back Into Print Dedicated to republishing outstanding books that have slipped out of circulation, Faber Finds now boasts over 1000 titles In 2014 the slate of Finds reissues will be as richly diverse as ever, including the complete works of ‘the mistress of psychological suspense’, Celia Fremlin; Eric Hobsbawm’s The Jazz Scene, his early pseudonymously-published declaration of love for the great American art form; historian Paul Strathern’s award-winning fictional recreation of the life of Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Abyssinia; Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy’s entertaining histories of British nannies and public schools, plus his life of Gerard Brenan, The Interior Castle; works of history from two winners of the Wolfson Prize, Susan Brigden (London and the Reformation) and Patricia Hollis (Jennie Lee: A Life); the Collected Poems of Alan Brownjohn; and a wide-ranging retrospective of the welltravelled novels and non-fiction of James Hamilton-Paterson. faberfinds.co.uk faberfindsblog.co.uk @FaberFinds

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