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here is nothing as strong as the pull of a well-stocked bookshop. Each branch of Daunt Books is a local shop but the selection is anything but, transport-
ing readers to every corner of the world. It’s no wonder so many visitors find it easy to leave time and locality completely behind. This year our publishing list is inspired by the pull of place and allows our readers to be more intrepid than ever before, travelling from Scotland to Syria, France to Japan, in books ranging from rediscovered classics to work from new voices. 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish celebrates a long life in Manhattan by walking its chilly streets on New Year’s Eve, while in A Broken Mirror, a grand villa on the outskirts of Barcelona is the setting for an epic family saga. Iraqi-American Haris Abadi is compelled to join the Free Syrian Army at any cost in Elliot Ackerman’s timely new novel, and in The Gastronomical Me, M.F.K. Fisher discovers a new way of eating and living in France. Rio returns to her hometown in Japan to confront the secrets of her past in Pull Me Under and non-fiction legend John McPhee relocates his family to a tiny Hebridean island in The Crofter and the Laird. And, finally, in A Cat, A Man, and Two Women three characters are pulled across Tokyo by a rather exceptional cat. Happy reading!
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A Broken Mirror Mercè Rodoreda
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The Crofter and the Laird John McPhee
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Dark at the Crossing Elliot Ackerman
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The Gastronomical Me M.F.K. Fisher
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Kathleen Rooney
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Pull Me Under Kelly Luce
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A Cat, A Man, and Two Women Junichiro Tanizaki
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The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover Sybille Bedford
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London Perceived V.S. Pritchett
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Limited Edition Short Story Series
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Backlist
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Contact Information
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About Daunt Books Publishing
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The Crofter and the Laird
Mercè Rodoreda
John McPhee
translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer
‘McPhee is a grand master of narrative non-fiction.’ – Guardian
A haunting classic of modern Catalan literature from one of Spain’s most prestigious writers
In 1969, John McPhee moved his family from New Jersey across the Atlantic to live in the land of his forefathers, the island of Colonsay – seventeen square miles of dew and damp twenty-five miles off the coast of Scotland. They rented a crofthouse, his children enrolled at the local school, and soon they were accepted into this tightly circumscribed community of 138 people.
Extending from the prosperous Barcelona of the 1870s to the advent of the Franco dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War, A Broken Mirror traces three generations of a burgeoning aristocratic family at the turn of the 19th century. PUBLICATION DATE
February 2017 – £9.99 304 pages B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-88-7 Fiction BCN ex. Can
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When Salvador Valldaura first meets Teresa Goday he is seduced by her velvety eyes and contagious laughter. Valldaura, a wealthy diplomat, and Teresa, a widowed fishmonger’s daughter, marry and move into a grand, sprawling villa on the outskirts of Barcelona. In that house, their family flourishes and fractures across a century of change: from Teresa’s second husband and her secret, illegitimate son Masdéu, to daughter Sofia and Sofia’s playboy husband Eladi, and son, Ramon, tormented by a heinous act from his childhood and unknowingly in love with his half-sister, as well as several generations of servants, ghosts – and even a rodent. Through a kaleidoscope of perspectives and turning upon events both intimate and historic, A Broken Mirror tells the story of a splintering matriarchal dynasty founded on love, lies, secrets, and betrayals.
March 2017 – £9.99 160 pages B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-91-7 eISBN: 978-1-907970-92-4 Non-fiction BCN ex. Can
Intertwining history and legend, McPhee gives us a comprehensive portrait of this remote and misty land. He battles the fierce gales on the outer shoals of the Ardskenish Peninsula, listens to the crofters complain of the laird over drams in the island’s sole pub, and meets perhaps the last of the Great Highland bagpipers. A blend of anthropology and travelogue, The Crofter and the Laird presents us with a perfect mirror of daily life in the Highlands. McPhee writes with insight, sensitivity, and fondness for these hardy people – resulting in an account that’s as honest, humorous, and frank as the locals themselves. PRAISE
‘McPhee’s genius is that he can write about anything.’ – Robert Macfarlane
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‘One always has the sense with McPhee of a man at a pitch of pleasure in his work, a natural at it, finding out on behalf of the rest of us how some portion of the world works.’ – New York Times
‘Rodoreda has bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels.’ – Gabriel García Márquez
‘A small masterpiece of penetrating warmth and perception.’ – Time
‘Enchanting . . . A Nabokovian precision of observation.’ – Los Angeles Times KEY POINTS
• A classic of modern Catalan literature, artfully translated and published for the first time in the UK • A Spanish War and Peace by one of the most important Catalan novelists of the postwar period • For fans of Jenny Erpenbeck, Isabelle Allende, Elena Ferrante, and The Miniaturist
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• A classic work of non-fiction and a marvel of reportage • For readers who love travel and nature writing: for fans of H is for Hawk and The Shepherd’s Life • A favourite Daunt Books author: we published Coming into the Country in 2015 with our original foreword by Robert Macfarlane running in the Guardian and a glowing review in the TLS, and we released Oranges in 2016 with a new foreword by Richard Mabey, which was chosen as a New Statesman Book of the Year
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Dark at the Crossing Elliot Ackerman
From the author of the acclaimed Green on Blue, a timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension set on the Turkish border with Syria
Author Photo: Peter van Agtmael
PUBLICATION DATE
April 2017 – £9.99 272 pages B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-95-5 eISBN: 978-1-907970-96-2 Fiction BCN ex. Can
Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Iraqi who received US citizenship in exchange for translating during the war, he and his sister relocate to Michigan. His sister graduates university and becomes engaged, while Haris works menial jobs and grows increasingly restless. Instead of attending his sister’s wedding, he flies to Gaziantep to join the Free Army’s fight against Bashar al-Assad. But he’s caught and robbed trying to cross into Syria, and is taken in by a refugee couple – Amir, a former revolutionary, and Daphne, a sophisticated woman haunted by grief. After discovering they had to flee Syria without their young daughter and that Daphne is desperate to return, Haris’s choices become ever more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? Is he a true radical or simply an idealist? What is he really searching for? Dark at the Crossing is a trenchantly observed novel of raw urgency and compassion that explores loss, second chances, and why we choose to believe. ELLIOT ACKERMAN ,
author of the critically acclaimed novel Green on Blue, has covered the Syrian Civil War since 2013. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, and the New York Times, among other publications. A former US Marine, he served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. PRAISE
‘A timely and unsettling novel . . . A stark and multi-faceted portrait of the civil war in Syria.’ – Publishers Weekly KEY POINTS
• Elliot Ackerman’s first novel Green on Blue was published in 2016 to critical acclaim in both the UK and the US • High profile author: Elliot has remarkable expertise on the region, and his unique backstory will capture press and public interest • Will appeal to readers who loved The Sympathizer, Anatomy of a Soldier, and The Yellow Birds
‘Every bit as taut and harrowing as the place it depicts, a region where fifteen years of relentless war play out in filthy refugee camps and upscale shopping malls. A brilliant, admirably merciless novel of broken lives, broken places, and good intentions gone awry.’ – Ben Fountain
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The Gastronomical Me M.F.K. Fisher
with an introduction by Bee Wilson ‘The greatest food writer who has ever lived.’ – Simon Schama
Author Photo: The Schlesinger Library Women in History Collection PUBLICATION DATE
May 2017 – £9.99 258 pages B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-99-3 eISBN: 978-1-911547-00-6 Non-fiction BCN ex. Can
A classic of gastronomic writing that defined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger. In prose both convivial and confiding, M.F.K. Fisher traces the development of her appetite from her childhood in America to her arrival in Dijon as a young woman where she tasted French cooking for the first time, and embarked on a whole new way of eating, drinking, and living. Here are meals as seductions, educations, diplomacies, and communions, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions and in settings as diverse as a bedsit above a patisserie, a Swiss farm, and cruise liners across oceans. (1908-1992) was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of 27 books of food, memoir, and travel including Serve it Forth, With Bold Knife and Fork, and a recently rediscovered novel, The Theoretical Foot.
MARY FRANCES KENNEDY FISHER
PRAISE
‘Poet of the appetites.’ – John Updike ‘She is not just a great food writer. She is a great writer, full stop.’ – Rachel Cooke, Observer KEY POINTS
• Published with a new introduction by Bee Wilson • An iconic and hugely admired writer; The Gastronomical Me is her masterpiece and has never been published in the UK • For fans of Helena Atlee’s The Land Where Lemons Grow and the food writing of Elizabeth David, Nigel Slater, and Nigella Lawson
‘Unique among the classics of gastronomic writing . . . A book about adult loss, survival, and love.’ – New York Review of Books
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk Kathleen Rooney
Author Photo: Beth Rooney
PUBLICATION DATE
June 2017 – £9.99 300 pages B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-911547-01-3 eISBN: 978-1-911547-02-0 Fiction BCN ex. Can
‘Extraordinary . . . Rooney creates a glorious paean to a distant literary life and time – and an unabashed celebration of human connections that bridge past and future.’ – Publishers Weekly She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up from writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest-paid advertising woman in the country. Now it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85-years-old but just as sharp as ever, is on her way to a party. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, shopkeepers, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed – and has not. A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop. is the author of books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, and the Chicago Tribune. She works as a senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing in Chicago where she teaches, among other things, a workshop on The Writer as Urban Walker.
KATHLEEN ROONEY
PRAISE
‘Like taking a street-level tour through six decades of New York.’ – New York Times KEY POINTS
• A brilliant new writing talent, arriving with extraordinary US reviews • Based on the true story of Margaret Fishback, whose work for Macy’s department store led her to become the highest-paid female advertising copywriter in the world during the 1930s • For readers of Dorothy Parker, Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, and Lauren Elkin’s Flâneuse
‘Easily the best gadding-around-town novel since Dawn Powell and Dorothy Parker.’ – Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Pull Me Under Kelly Luce
‘A fierce and suspenseful exploration of the profoundly mysterious nature of identity, written with precise and spectacular beauty.’ – Laura van den Berg
Author Photo: Alex Jaynes
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September 2017 – £9.99 272 pages B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-911547-05-1 eISBN: 978-1-911547-06-8 Fiction BCN ex. Can
Chizuru Akitani is the twelve-year-old daughter of the famous violinist and Japanese Living National Treasure Hiro Akitani. Overweight and hafu (her mother is white), she is relentlessly tormented at school. When her mother dies suddenly and the cruelty at school only intensifies, Chizuru snaps in a moment of blind rage and fatally stabs a classmate in the neck. After seven years of institutionalization, Chizuru flees Japan for a new life in the United States. She renames herself Rio, graduates from nursing school, marries, and has a daughter, determined to keep her past a secret. But when a mysterious package arrives on her doorstep announcing the death of her father, she feels compelled to return to Japan for the first time in twenty years. Back in her homeland, long-kept secrets are suddenly unearthed and Rio’s dark past is thrust back into her life. Full of sensual descriptions of Japan, its culture, and its language, Pull Me Under is a riveting journey about home, identity, and the limits of forgiveness.
is the author of the prize-winning short-story collection Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail. She is a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a contributing editor for Electric Literature.
KELLY LUCE
PRAISE
‘The writing of Kelly Luce is beautifully stark and simple, and at the same time playful, earthy, and violent. Pull Me Under is a strange and very appealing novel, a journey to Japan and the primal scene of the main character’s self – which, like a volcano, may have already blown its top.’ – Rachel Kushner KEY POINTS
• An extraordinary new voice in fiction – published in the US by FSG with glowing reviews across the trade; Kelly Luce is a rising star • A literary thriller with a strong sense of place: for fans of Han Kang, Eileen, Hiromi Kawakami, and Laura van den Berg
‘A suspense novel with a female protagonist that gets more right about women than so many others in the past few years.’ – NPR
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A Cat, A Man, and Two Women Junichiro Tanizaki ‘Considering all I’ve sacrificed, is it too much to ask for one little cat in return?’
PUBLICATION DATE
November 2017 – £9.99 120 pages B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-911547-03-7 eISBN: 978-1-911547-04-4 Fiction BCN ex. Can
Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She’s lost her home, status, and respectability, but the only thing she longs for is Lily, the elegant tortoiseshell cat she shared with her husband. As Shinako pleads for Lily’s return, Shozo’s reluctance to part with the cat reveals his true affections, and the lengths he’ll go to hold onto the one he loves most. A small masterpiece, A Cat, A Man, and Two Women is a study of Japanese society and manners, and an oddball comedy about a love triangle in which the only real rival is feline. (1886-1965) is the author of The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, and In Praise of Shadows, and is widely considered to be the greatest Japanese writer of the twentieth century. JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI
PRAISE
‘A tour de force – catnip.’ – New York Times ‘One of the finest pieces of literature concerning cats ever written.’ – Choice ‘A really great writer . . . Tanizaki has got this warm, ticklishness to his strangeness.’ – David Mitchell KEY POINTS
• A little-known novel by one of Japan’s greatest writers, admired by John Updike, Haruki Murakami, and David Mitchell • For readers who loved The Guest Cat and Strange Weather in Tokyo • Published in a beautiful package for Christmas
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V.S. Pritchett
Sybille Bedford
‘He is alarmingly good . . . Pritchett’s essays are marvels.’ – James Wood
with an introduction by Thomas Grant The first full-scale literary trial in Britain’s history – recounted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille Bedford
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October 2016 – £5.99 96 pages A format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-97-9 eISBN: 978-1-907970-98-6 Non-fiction BCN ex. Can
When Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960, they were charged with the crime of publishing obscene material and made to defend the book’s literary merit in court. Thus began one of the most famous trials of the 20th century. There to take it all in was Sybille Bedford. With her trademark wit and flair, she presents us with a play-by-play of the trial: from the prosecution’s questioning of the novel’s thirteen ‘unvarying’ sex scenes and 66 swear words, to the dozens of witnesses who testified – including the Bishop of Woolwich and E. M. Forster. Bedford gives us a timeless and dramatic account that captures one of the most fascinating and absurd moments in both legal and publishing history, when attitudes and morals shifted forever. (1911-2006) is the author of several fiction and non-fiction works, including Pleasures and Landscapes, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error. SYBILLE BEDFORD
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November 2016 – £10.99 202 pages B format hardback ISBN: 978-1-907970-89-4 eISBN: 978-1-907970-90-0 Non-fiction BCN
In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience. He shows us the capital through the centuries – a panorama of history, art, and literature; a paradox of grandeur and grime, the bustling markets and tranquil parks, the palaces and pubs. At the heart of the book is an astute and affectionate portrait of the Londoner – enigmatic and enduring, with a remote but insistent respect for law, royalty, and ritual, a love of argument, a tolerance of eccentrics. London Perceived tells the surprising story of this great and historic city – Londoners will see their home anew, and visitors appreciate its small wonders. A loving tribute to London past and present. (1900-1997) lived in London for more than eighty years. During his prolific literary career he frequently contributed to the New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker, and was literary editor of the New Statesman and the Nation. V. S. PRITCHETT
PRAISE
‘A splendid book . . . I can imagine no better introduction to London.’ – New York Times
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‘Restrained outrage, cool observation and close attention . . . the account Bedford produced is a model of sinewed clarity.’ – The Times
‘He is one of the great pleasure-givers in our language.’ – Eudora Welty
‘One of Britain’s most stylish and accomplished writers.’ – Telegraph
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• One of the most famous trials in British history, for one of the most famous books in literature • Classic non-fiction writing at its best; will appeal to fans of Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories, John Preston’s A Very English Scandal, Hermione Lee, and Alexandra Harris
• V. S. Pritchett is a hidden treasure of English letters whose work will find a new audience • Timely and relevant after Brexit: celebrates multicultural London and London’s global influence • For readers of This is London by Ben Judah, Londoners by Craig Taylor, and Nairn’s London
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London Perceived
The Trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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Limited Edition Short Story Series
The Neva Star
The Tourists
Barcelona
The Inland Sea
C.D. Rose
Julianne Pachico
Philip Langeskov
KJ Orr
£3.99 A format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-81-8
£4.99 A format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-67-2
£4.99 A format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-48-1
£2.99 A format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-26-9
For their tenth wedding anniversary, Daniel had arranged for them to spend a weekend in Barcelona . . .
On the far side the lake is divided from the hills by a slash of soft pink that arrived with the dawn.
A haunting and exquisitely written tale about love, sacrifice, and how the road not taken sometimes takes you instead.
A deeply touching tale of brotherhood, bravery, and the wild dreams of childhood.
Of the crew of seventy, sixty-seven have disappeared. There are three sailors left on board. They are all called Sergei. A boat is moored in Naples. It’s been there for three years. Three sailors remain on board. If they get off, they’ll lose their pay; so they stay. A playful yet haunting tale.
He doesn’t see us but we’re watching. A local dignitary is hosting a lavish party at his country house on the outskirts of Cali, Colombia. But as the sun begins to go down, a sense of unease settles over the cheerful revelry. An eerily atmospheric and foreboding tale.
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Oranges
Ways to Disappear
John McPhee
Idra Novey
with a foreword by Richard Mabey
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-86-3 eISBN: 987-1-907970-87-0
£8.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-82-5 eISBN: 987-1-907970-83-2
Jack & Rochelle
A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance
Jack and Rochelle Sutin edited by Lawrence Sutin
‘A boisterously funny literary thriller . . . vibrant, inventive and profound.’ – Bookanista
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-70-2 eISBN: 987-1-907970-71-9 ‘A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and danger.’ – USA Today
The Men’s Club
Marie
Green on Blue
Leonard Michaels
Madeleine Bourdouxhe
Elliot Ackerman
‘A classic of reportage . . . a meeting point of zest, colour, fruit, sweetness and acid.’ – Julian Barnes
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-84-9 eISBN: 987-1-907970-85-6 ‘Terrific . . . Buy it for the man in your life and then retire to a safe distance.’ – Spectator
translated by Faith Evans
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-76-4 eISBN: 987-1-907970-77-1 ‘A wonderful rediscovery . . . the most French novel I’ve ever read.’ – Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-79-5 eISBN: 987-1-907970-80-1 ‘Utterly absorbing.’ – Khaled Hosseini
Villa Triste
Ice-Candy Man
Light Box
Patrick Modiano
Bapsi Sidhwa
KJ Orr
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-93-1 eISBN: 987-1-907970-94-8
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-63-4 eISBN: 987-1-907970-64-1
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-74-0 eISBN: 987-1-907970-75-7
‘A masterpiece of insidious intent … Extraordinary.’ – Telegraph
‘A ground-breaking writer whose works have lost none of their freshness, humour, or heart.’ – Kamila Shamsie
WINNER OF THE 2016 BBC SHORT STORY AWARD
‘A near perfect example of how the short story works.’ – BBC Judging Panel
His Monkey Wife John Collier £9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-78-8 ‘From the first sentence, the reader is aware that he is in the presence of a magician.’ – Paul Theroux
One Point Two Billion Mahesh Rao £9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-33-7 eISBN: 987-1-907970-35-1 ‘Witty, moving, and powerful . . . combines atmospheric evocations of place with surgical examinations of emotion.’ – Anuradha Roy, Guardian
The Smoke is Rising Mahesh Rao £9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-30-6 eISBN: 987-1-907970-32-0 ‘Both hilarious and disquieting.’
– Spectator
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Fierce Attachments
The Crow Eaters
Duveen
Park Notes
Vivian Gornick
Bapsi Sidhwa
S.N. Behrman
Sarah Pickstone
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-65-8 eISBN: 987-1-907970-66-5
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-61-0 eISBN: 987-1-907970-62-7
£16.99 228 x 166mm hardback ISBN: 978-1-907970-38-2 eISBN: 978-1-907970-39-9
‘A brilliant book, a classic of its kind.’ – Rachel Cooke, Observer
‘One of the great comic novels of the 20th century.’ – Hanif Kureishi
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-57-3 eISBN: 987-1-907970-58-0 ‘A masterful, deeply enjoyable work.’ – David Remnick, The New Yorker
Coming into the Country
The Isle of Youth
La Femme de Gilles
A Good Place to Die
John McPhee
£10.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-72-6 eISBN: 987-1-907970-73-3 ‘Both a memorial for, and testimony to, the awesome complexity of America’s “ultimate wilderness”.’ – Robert Macfarlane
Laura van den Berg £9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-68-9 eISBN: 987-1-907970-69-6 ‘Absolutely captivating.’ – Vanity Fair
Sylvia
Dom Casmurro
Leonard Michaels
Machado de Assis
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-55-9 eISBN: 987-1-907970-56-6
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-50-4 eISBN: 987-1-907970-51-1
‘Terrifying, beautiful and addictive.’ – Ian McEwan
‘A work of breathtaking versatility.’ – TLS
Madeleine Bourdouxhe translated by Faith Evans
‘Beautifully crafted ruminations on Regent’s Park.’ – Observer
James Buchan
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-53-5 eISBN: 987-1-907970-54-2
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-44-3 eISBN: 987-1-907970-45-0
‘A little masterpiece.’ – Sunday Times Culture
‘James Buchan writes like a dream . . . This novel is a rare achievement.’ – The Times
The London Scene
Miss Lonelyhearts
Virginia Woolf
£7.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-46-7 eISBN: 987-1-907970-47-4
£10.99 182 x 166mm hardback ISBN: 978-1-907970-42-9 eISBN: 987-1-907970-43-6 ‘An amalgam of intelligence and beauty that few, if any, guidebooks provide.’ – Francine Prose
Nathanael West
‘Rendered with scalpel-precision . . . A mercilessly unsympathetic novel on the theme of sympathy.’ – Jonathan Lethem
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Improper Stories Saki £8.00 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-00-9 eISBN: 987-1-907970-16-0
The Invention of Memory Simon Loftus
£10.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-52-8 eISBN: 987-1-907970-15-3
Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn
Mendelssohn is on the Roof
Paul Watkins
Jiri Weil £9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-01-6 eISBN: 978-1-907970-17-7
‘Like a perfect martini but with absinthe stirred in . . . heady, delicious and dangerous.’ – Stephen Fry
‘A powerfully evocative mixture of biography and legend.’ – Financial Times
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-08-5 eISBN: 987-1-907970-24-5 ‘Few contemporary novelists have the ability to grab readers by the throat with such intense storytelling power and not release them until the final page has been turned.’ – Sunday Times
American Drolleries
Cassandra
Peking Picnic
Life With a Star
Mark Twain
Christa Wolf
Ann Bridge
Jiri Weil
£8.00 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-04-7 eISBN: 987-1-907970-20-7
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-11-5 eISBN: 987-1-907970-27-6
‘Twain is still the liveliest, sharpest, most humane observational satirist and wit.’ – A. A. Gill
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-59-7 eISBN: 987-1-907970-60-3
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-06-1 eISBN: 987-1-907970-22-1
‘Fierce and feverish poetry . . . Filled with passionate and startling insight into human nature.’ – Madeline Miller
‘Beautiful, grave, humorous, exciting, and wise.’ – Observer
‘One of the finest novels of the century.’ – Independent
The Matriarch
The Architects
Illyrian Spring
G.B. Stern
Stefan Heym
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-28-3 eISBN: 987-1-907970-29-0
£9.99 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-09-2 eISBN: 987-1-907970-13-9 ‘Totally absorbing . . . Stefan Heym is, by any measure, a literary phenomenon.’ – TLS
Ann Bridge
A Dance of Folly and Pleasure
‘A feminist classic whose time has come.’ – Linda Grant
£9.99 182 x 166mm hardback ISBN: 978-1-907970-07-8 eISBN: 987-1-907970-23-8 ‘Reading it is like taking a holiday – although it is a serious sentimental education too.’ – Kate Kellaway
‘Comic, sardonic and deeply moving.’ – Simon Mawer
O. Henry £8.00 B format paperback ISBN: 978-1-907970-10-8 eISBN: 987-1-907970-25-2 ‘As fresh and alive as the day they were written.’ – John Steinbeck
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