Seasonal Catalogue: July - December 2021 by Faber

new books autumn 2021

CONTENTS FICTION & CRIME 2 FICTION & CRIME 20 PAPERBACKS NON-FICTION 26 NON-FICTION 50 PAPERBACKS CLASSICAL MUSIC

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CHILDREN’S 82

fiction & crime autumn 2021

FICTION & CRIME

SALLY ROONEY is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People. She was the winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017. Normal People was the Waterstones Book of the Year, winner of the Costa Novel Award and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney

The Country of Others Leïla Slimani

The new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.

This enrapturing new novel, from international sensation Leïla Slimani, is the heart-rending tale of her own French Moroccan origins – and a major new work of historical fiction.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young – but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world? ‘The literary phenomenon of the decade.’ Guardian

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‘Rooney has given us a spellbinding twenty-first-century love story, and asserted herself as one of the major young writers in the English-speaking world.’ TLS 4

1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here is unrecognisable to this brave and passionate young woman. Her life is now that of a farmer’s wife – with all the sacrifices and vexations that brings. Suffocated by the heat, by her loneliness on the farm and by the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner, Mathilde grows increasingly restless. As Morocco’s struggle for independence intensifies, Mathilde and her husband find themselves caught in the crossfire.

LEÏLA SLIMANI is the first Moroccan woman to be awarded France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.

This story of two nations at war, two cultures at loggerheads and one family torn apart is as tenderly observed as it is devastatingly true. ‘Slimani writes devastatingly perceptive character studies.’ New York Times Book Review

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FICTION & CRIME

SARAH HALL has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize twice; she is the winner of the Edge Hill and Portico prizes and the East Anglian Book Award. She is the only author to be four times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, which she won in 2013 and in 2020.

FICTION & CRIME

Burntcoat Sarah Hall

Small Things Like These Claire Keegan

An electrifying novel of passion, connection and transformation – from ‘a writer of showstopping genius’ (Guardian).

An exquisite, winter tale of courage – and its cost – set in Catholic Ireland.

You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors. In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days. Downstairs, the studio remains lit – a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world.

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces his busiest season. Early one morning, he makes a delivery to the local convent – and confronts the darkness and complicit silences of a town controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.

CLAIRE KEEGAN was brought up on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Foster was named by The Times as one of the top fifty novels to be published in the twenty-first century. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

‘[Claire Keegan] creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.’ Hilary Mantel

‘An edgy, sensuous, and immediate writer of striking power and grace.’ Sunday Times 07/10/2021

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FICTION & CRIME

SARA GRAN is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including the Claire de Witt series. She also writes for film and TV, including Southland and Chance, and has published in the New York Times, the New Orleans Times Picayune, and USA Today.

Come Closer Sara Gran

Wild Pets Amber Medland

Discover this cult classic, available in the UK for the first time in many years, and step into a world of the dark, bizarre and unexplained . . .

A visceral, elegant literary debut that tells one of the oldest stories in the world – first love – with joyous insouciance and wicked verve.

It wasn’t like everything went wrong all at once.

Wild Pets follows three graduates entering the real world in a time of Trump and #MeToo. Iris goes to New York to write, Ezra’s band starts making waves and Nance becomes involved with an older academic. They fall in and out of bed with each other, while losing themselves in substances and late nights. Confronting adulthood with high wit and low behaviour, they seem to have everything going for them. So why are they still swimming desperately against the tide?

Strange noises in the apartment. Impulsive behaviour. Intense dreams. There was no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary was going on. Shoplifting. Fighting. Blackouts. There must be a reasonable explanation for all this.

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‘It will scare the pants off you. It is a perfect horror novel.’ Paul Tremblay

AMBER MEDLAND read English Literature and has an MPhil in American Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge. She has an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in New York. She was born in 1990 and lives in London.

A bold, honest novel that serves as a litmus test for a generation, Wild Pets is about the fragility of mental health, power imbalances in friendship and sex, and creative ambition fused with destruction – and the lingering power of first loves. ‘A new, millennial bright spark.’ Andrew O’Hagan 01/07/2021 HB | 9780571358694 | 240pp | £14.99

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FICTION & CRIME

ROBERT HILLMAN has written a number of books including his 2004 memoir The Boy in the Green Suit, which won the Australian National Biography Award, and The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, published by Faber in 2019. He lives in Melbourne.

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The Bride of Almond Tree Robert Hillman

Godspeed Nickolas Butler

Luxuriate in an orchard’s shade, for a tale of love and loneliness.

Part morality tale, part mystery, a searing story of friendship, family and temptation.

Welsey Cunningham grew up running barefoot through the orchards of Almond Tree, dreaming that one day he’d build a house of his own. The Second World War interrupted those fantasies.

My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true – then it probably is.

Now in his twenties, returning from combat, Wes finds his home town changed. Even Beth Hardy – his headstrong, fiercely intelligent and beautiful neighbour – is no longer the woman he once knew.

Bart, Teddy and Cole founded their own construction company because they yearned to build a legacy. When Gretchen Connors, a mysterious millionaire lawyer, approaches them with a stunning, almost formidable project in the mountains above their town, the three friends convince themselves it’s the job that will secure their future.

Their dreams and desires may be at odds, but there is something they don’t yet know. Wes and Beth need each other, desperately: neither will be able to survive what life has in store without the other.

But the house Gretchen wants has to be completed to a nearimpossible deadline. What is she hiding from them? When does ambition turn into greed? And what might be the true cost of their dreams?

‘An emotional, beautiful, bittersweet story that was captivating and delightful.’ Five Star reader review of The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

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‘A page-turning, race-against-the-clock novel about fatal obsession, love, violence, addiction, and faith. After you turn the last page it’ll stay with you for a long, long time.’ C. J. Box

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NICKOLAS BUTLER is the author of three novels, including the international bestseller Shotgun Lovesongs and Little Faith, which won the Edward Stanford Travel Award for Best Novel 2020. Butler, who attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, currently lives in Wisconsin with his wife and their two children.

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FICTION & CRIME

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 eight novels, including Admission, The Devil and Webster and The Undoing, now a major series on HBO and Sky Atlantic.

The Plot Jean Hanff Korelitz

Dream Girl Laura Lippman

This season’s gripping page-turner from the author of The Undoing, the major series on HBO and Sky Atlantic.

From the New York Times bestselling author, a psychological thriller about a writer whose dream girl may just have come back to haunt him.

When a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, Jake (himself a failed novelist), helps himself to its plot. The resulting book is a phenomenal success. But what if somebody out there knows? Somebody does. And if Jake can’t figure out who he’s dealing with, he risks something far worse than the loss of his career. ‘Brilliant.’ Metro on The Undoing

Gerry Andersen has been having trouble sleeping. He’s unwell – bed-bound – and has only his night nurse and his PA for company. But what’s really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the ‘real’ Aubrey. But that can’t be. Aubrey’s just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago. Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived? ‘Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now.’ Gillian Flynn

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LAURA LIPPMAN’s novels have won many crime fiction prizes, including the Edgar, Anthony and Agatha awards. Sunburn (2018) was nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. Her most recent novel, Lady in the Lake (2019), featured in numerous Best of the Year lists.

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FICTION & CRIME

JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of eighteen novels, including Snow, The Book of Evidence, The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and the Quirke Series of crime novels under the pen name Benjamin Black. Other major prizes he has won include the Franz Kafka Prize, the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award. He lives in Dublin.

April in Spain John Banville

Harsh Times Mario Vargas Llosa

A sweltering mystery from the Booker Prize winner, his follow-up to the bestselling Snow.

The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning master of fiction – the true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s.

On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax – despite the beaches, the cafes and his disarmingly lovely wife. So when he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at the bar Las Arcadas, it’s hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Because this young woman can’t be April Latimer. April Latimer was murdered by her brother, in a scandal that shook one of Ireland’s foremost political dynasties. Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke makes a call back home and Detective Inspector St John Strafford is soon dispatched to Spain. But he’s not the only one en route: as a terrifying hitman hunts down his prey, they are all set for a brutal showdown. Praise for Snow:

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Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, a fiction which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power had encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting Cold War interests, the echoes of which are still felt today.

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. He has also won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s most distinguished literary honour. His many works include Sabers and Utopias, The Discreet Hero, The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

‘Vargas Llosa has remarkable gifts. He demonstrates the superabundant vitality of the Latin American imagination in its most challenging form.’ Sunday Times

‘Stylish. Engrossing . . . Banville has taken a classic crime construct and produced a subtle, incisive novel that is superb to the last drop.’ Independent

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FICTION & CRIME

HELEN OYEYEMI is the author of six previous novels, including Mr Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird and Gingerbread, and the short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. In 2013, Helen was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

Peaces Helen Oyeyemi

The Missing Hours Julia Dahl

‘A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.’ Ali Smith

A twenty-first-century psychological thriller about toxic masculinity, social media and a woman who won’t be beaten.

Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As they roll along, Otto and Xavier discover that each carriage is more curious and fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the journey, hurtling them all into their past for clues. This is a brilliant, wise, strange and, above all, beautiful novel by a major British novelist. ‘As with the best writers, she never seems afraid to try new things, to break different boundaries, to cross lines previously left untouched.’ Daisy Johnson

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She doesn’t remember. He won’t let her forget. When Claudia Castro wakes up in her dorm room on the first day of spring break, she knows immediately that something isn’t right. Nausea, pounding headache, missing phone: all signs of a wild night out. But Claudia can’t remember a thing.

JULIA DAHL is the author of the acclaimed Rebekah Roberts series: Invisible City (2014), which won the Macavity, Barry and Shamus awards, and was a finalist for an Edgar Award and a Mary Higgins Clark award; Run You Down (2015); and Conviction (2017). She teaches journalism at NYU.

Two days later, a video goes viral and is the talk of campus. A video of Claudia. The footage is obviously meant to humiliate her – who wouldn’t be embarrassed of a video like that? But whoever filmed this video, whoever sent it, has misjudged this situation. Because Claudia isn’t ashamed – she’s angry and she’s determined not to be the victim. ‘An absolutely crackling, unputdownable mystery. I loved it.’ Gillian Flynn on Invisible City

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FABER EDITIONS

Rooted in history, Faber Editions are books for the future. Spanning the twentieth century, these distinctive voices share a radical literary spirit and speak to new generations.

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Palace of the Peacock Wilson Harris

Mrs Caliban Rachel Ingalls Introduced by Irenosen Okojie

Introduced by Jamaica Kincaid

Dorothy is a lonely suburban housewife – until an escaped sea monster arrives in her kitchen, and her passionate affair with Larry the frogman goes beyond her wildest dreams.

When a riverboat crew embarks on a voyage through the rainforest, their destination soon becomes the mysterious Palace of the Peacock.

An amphibious cult classic, Mrs Caliban is a feat of surrealist magic that has inspired readers for decades.

A modernist fever dream, epic prose poem, modern myth: Wilson Harris’s masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years.

‘A perfect novel.’ New Yorker

‘One of the great originals.’ Guardian

Rachel Ingalls was born in Boston in 1940 and settled in England in 1965. Over half a century, she wrote eleven acclaimed story collections and novellas. She died in 2019.

Sir Wilson Harris was born in 1921 in British Guiana. He worked as a rainforest surveyor before moving to London in 1959, where he wrote twenty-six prize-winning novels. He died in 2018.

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fiction & crime paperbacks autumn 2021

FICTION & CRIME PAPERBACKS

Mayflies Andrew O’Hagan

Snow John Banville

In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently.

The bestselling first book of the new 1950s crime series. ‘The body is in the library,’ Colonel Osborne said. ‘Come this way.’ Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House – the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family – Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate.

Thirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news. ‘What a stunning novel . . . A requiem for youth and friendship.’ Graham Norton ‘Funny, passionate, heartbreaking.’ Tracey Thorn

‘Superb.’ The Times

‘Starts as a celebration of wild youth and music but then turns into something tender and heartbreaking about friendship and time. I loved it.’ David Nicholls

‘Outstanding.’ Irish Independent ‘Exquisite.’ Daily Mail

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Reality, and Other Stories John Lanchester

The Dead of Winter Nicola Upson

Household gizmos with a mind of their own.

December 1938: storm clouds hover once again over Europe.

The wrong kind of cold calls.

Writer Josephine Tey and Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose gather their friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths interrupt the festivities.

And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments – stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.

Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, can Josephine and Archie prevent the murderer from striking again? ‘Unforgettable . . . There is a truly brilliant twist, and oodles of excitement.’ The Times

‘These entertainments are brisk, vinegar-sharp satires that horrify and amuse in equal measure.’ Guardian

‘The ninth novel in Upson’s fine series . . . An absorbing plot.’ Sunday Times

‘Eight deliciously eerie tales of ghostly goings-on . . . Pure pleasure.’ Mail on Sunday ‘A Tales of the Unexpected for the digital age.’ i newspaper 07/10/2021

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FICTION & CRIME PAPERBACKS

WILLIAM GOLDING

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Discover William Golding beyond Lord of the Flies: three experimental modern classics by the radical Nobel Laureate, with striking new artwork and high-profile introductions. The Inheritors Introduced by Ben Okri Neanderthals on the cusp of a new age.

‘A tour de force . . . Genius.’ Daily Telegraph

Devotion Madeline Stevens

Erasure Percival Everett

Ella is lonely, hungry and broke.

Hilarious yet moving, serious yet satirical, a masterful novel of one man’s experience of what it means to be black, or not black enough, in twenty-first-century America. Reissued with an introduction by Brandon Taylor, Bookershortlisted author of Real Life.

Lonnie is rich, talented and beautiful – with a doting husband and son to match. When Ella is hired by Lonnie as a nanny, she quickly becomes mesmerised by Lonnie’s girlish affection and her disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage. But soon dangerous resentments grow. ‘A page-turner . . . rife with obsession, jealousy, lust, and betrayal.’ New York Journal of Books

‘Truly brilliant.’ Los Angeles Review of Books

The Guyana Quartet Wilson Harris 9780571362325

British Guiana: a colony haunted by slavery and murder, in which men chart mysterious quests along rainforest rivers. Reissued to mark Sir Wilson Harris’s centenary, The Guyana Quartet is a blazing modern epic, as revolutionary as it was over half a century ago.

‘A classic.’ The Times

‘A towering figure . . . Breathtaking.’ Guardian

‘A remarkable novel.’ Wall Street Journal

‘The Guyanese William Blake.’ Angela Carter

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Pincher Martin Introduced by Marlon James A shipwrecked sailor’s psychic disintegration. ‘Wizardry of the first order.’ Observer

The Spire Introduced by Benjamin Myers One medieval man’s obsession. ‘A kind of miracle.’ Guardian

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non-fiction autumn 2021

NON-FICTION

AKWAEKE EMEZI is a writer and video artist based in liminal spaces. Their novels include the critically acclaimed debut Freshwater and the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji. Emezi’s writing has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, BuzzFeed and The Cut, among other publications.

Dear Senthuran A Black spirit memoir

Akwaeke Emezi A book that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self. In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family – both biological and chosen – and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities. Through heartbreak, chronic pain, intimacy with death, becoming a beast, this is embodiment as a non-human: outside the boundaries imposed by expectations and legibility. This book is an account of the gruelling work of realignment and remaking necessary to carve out a future for oneself. The result is a Black spirit memoir: a powerful, raw unfolding of identity. ‘Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self.’ Vanity Fair

Black Teacher Beryl Gilroy Introduced by Bernardine Evaristo, this unforgettable memoir by a pioneering Caribbean woman in post-war Britain is a rediscovered classic. Working amid the East End’s bomb sites. Serving as a lady’s maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Raising children in English suburbia. Becoming one of the first black headteachers in Britain. Beryl Gilroy’s new life wasn’t what she had expected. In 1952, she moved from British Guiana to London to pursue her dream of teaching, only to face a racist post-war society – but her belief in the power of education to promote diversity resulted in a historic career.

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award-winning writer of fiction, children’s books and essays. She died in 2001.

Her inspirational memoir is as entertaining and unflinching as it was almost fifty years ago – a testament to how one woman’s spirit, humour and dignity transcended her era. ‘Fresh and vital . . . Full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion . . . A hugely important memoir.’ Bernardine Evaristo

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Born in 1924 in British Guiana, BERYL GILROY trained as a teacher before moving to London to study in 1952. In spite of the colour bar, she rose to become one of Britain’s first black headteachers and an

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Dr JENNIFER OTTER BICKERDIKE is a cultural historian and author. She has appeared on BBC Radio 6, BBC 4, Channel 4 and ITV and has written for the Guardian. She is the author of several books, including the bestselling Why Vinyl Matters. Originally from Santa Cruz, California, she now lives in London.

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You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone The Biography of Nico

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike A myth-shattering biography of one of rock’s most underestimated creative forces. Over the course of her life, Nico was an ever-evolving myth, an enigma that escaped definition. Though she is remembered for contributions to The Velvet Underground & Nico, she is often overlooked, while fellow Velvets Lou Reed and John Cale are hailed as icons. Defying the sexist casting of Nico’s life as the tragedy of a beautiful woman losing her youth and fame, You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone cements her legacy as one of the most vital artists of her time, inspiring a generation of luminaries including Björk, Morrissey and Iggy Pop. Containing over one hundred new interviews and rare archival material, this is the Nico biography we have been waiting for. ‘What I have in common with Nico is the understanding of her furious frustration at not being recognised.’ Marianne Faithfull

Some Answers Without Questions Lavinia Greenlaw From the prizewinning poet and writer, a concise, elegant, feminist polemic. The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is a rigorous and lyrical work of self-investigation. Lavinia Greenlaw sets out to explore the impulse to say something, to write or sing and finds herself confronting matters of presence and absence, anger and speechlessness, authority and permission. The result is important and timely, a spirited and vital exploration of what enables anyone – but a woman and an artist, in particular – to speak even when not invited to do so. Some Answers Without Questions arises from decades of answering questions that don’t really matter – and not being asked the ones that do.

LAVINIA GREENLAW has published three novels and six collections of poetry. Her two books of non-fiction are The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. Her writing has appeared in frieze, the London Review of Books and the New Yorker, among other publications.

‘Everything Greenlaw touches glitters and resonates.’ Vogue ‘[Greenlaw’s] prose has a sharp honesty and she wields her erudition lightly.’ Sunday Times

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Why Solange Matters Stephanie Phillips

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters Tanya Pearson

Why Karen Carpenter Matters Karen Tongson

Launching Faber’s Music Matters series, Black feminist punk performer and journalist Stephanie Phillips chronicles the dramatic story of Solange Knowles, an incandescent artist who, despite being Beyonce’s sister, found international success on her own terms and became a beloved voice for the Black Lives Matter generation.

A remarkable feminist history, biography and memoir that features fragments from the five-decade career of iconic artist Marianne Faithfull. An avid fan, recovered addict and queer musician, Pearson explains Faithfull’s absence from male-dominated history and explores how Faithfull sculpted her own musical rebirth.

An intimate hybrid of memoir and biography exploring Karen Carpenter’s ability to transcend cultural differences despite the suburban, whitewashed mainstream culture usually associated with Carpenter’s legacy. Tongson excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of their sound and finds the beauty in Karen Carpenter’s all-too-short life.

STEPHANIE STEPHANIE PHILIPS STEPHANIE PHILIPS PHILIPS TANYATANYA PEARSON TANYA PEARSON PEARSON KARENKAREN TONGSON KAREN TONGSON TONGSON

The Magic Box Rob Young A companion to the groundbreaking Electric Eden; a riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its television and film. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures that were produced in Britain between the 1950s and 1980s – from Bagpuss to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited – contributed to a national conversation. It played out tensions between past and present, dramatised the fractures and inequalities in society and acted as a portal for ghostly visions and alternative histories.

ROB YOUNG is the author of Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music and All Gates Open: The Story of Can. A former editor of The Wire magazine, he has also written for Uncut, Guardian, Sight & Sound, Art Review and frieze. He lives in Oslo.

In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating personal journey into this influential, golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories. Praise for Electric Eden: ‘Phenomenal.’ Observer 06/05/2021

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Born in Salford, Manchester, in 1943, MIKE LEIGH has developed a unique method of creating films through controlled improvisations. Secrets & Lies won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1996. TopsyTurvy (1999) won two Oscars and Vera Drake (2004) won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh Mike Leigh A new, revised edition that brings the great director’s career up to date. Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals – Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema’s pre-eminent figures. In their commingling of bleakness and humour, Leigh’s films recreate the tragicomic world of people whose everyday lives are far from glamorous: a world in which ‘the done thing’ usually prevails, contrary to our inner hopes, wants or needs. Above all, Leigh is an accomplished storyteller. Within the pages of the book, Leigh speaks to Amy Raphael more openly than ever before of his life and inimitable working method, revealing himself as passionate and forthright, with a dry, playful Mancunian wit. ‘For anyone interested in theatre or film-making, it’s a must.’ The Spectator

We Travelled Essays and Poems

David Hare A powerful compilation of prose and poetry by one of the distinctive thinkers of our time. ‘I can’t remember if I had any plans for the twenty-first century. I was already fifty-two when it arrived. But events raced off in such unexpected directions that any possible ideas must have gone out the window. Many of us shared the sensation that history was speeding up.’

DAVID HARE’s first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then, he has written over thirty stage plays and twentyfive screenplays for film and television. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.

Recording dizzying changes in culture and politics, these elegant essays range in subject from the photographer Lee Miller to the Archbishop of Canterbury, from the actress Sarah Bernhardt to the rapist Jimmy Savile, from a celebration of Mad Men to a diagnosis of the incoherence of conservatism in the new century. The poems, in contrast, are private: tender meditations filled with love, memory, vulnerability and the melancholy of ageing. ‘Our best writer of contemporary drama.’ Sunday Times

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JAY RAYNER is an awardwinning writer, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known as the restaurant critic for the Observer. He is a regular on British television, where he is familiar as a judge on MasterChef and, since 2012, he has been the chair of BBC Radio 4’s food panel show The Kitchen Cabinet. He likes pig.

Chewing the Fat Tasting notes from a greedy life

Jay Rayner A droolworthy collection of foody columns from a man with a gargantuan appetite and glorious humour. Why are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired? Does bacon improve everything? And is gin really the devil’s work? In this rollicking collection of his hilarious columns, the award-winning writer and Observer restaurant critic Jay Rayner answers these vital questions and many, many more. They are glorious dispatches, seasoned in equal measure with both enthusiasm and bile, from decades at the very frontline of eating. Praise for Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights: ‘Pure, unfettered joy . . . Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights is the perfect book for anyone who loves their food.’ Stylist

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Being You Anil Seth This radical theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of humanity itself. Consciousness is the great unsolved mystery in our scientific understanding of the brain. Somewhere, somehow, inscribed in the brain is everything that makes you you. But how do we grasp what happens in the brain to turn mere electrical impulses into the vast range of perceptions, thoughts and emotions we feel? Anil Seth charts the developments in our understanding of consciousness, revealing radical breakthroughs that transform the way we think about the self. Drawing on original research and interdisciplinary collaborations, Being You puts forward a revolutionary framework of how we experience the world and our place within it. ‘Anil Seth thinks clearly and sharply on one of the hardest problems of science and philosophy, cutting through the weeds with a scientist’s mind and a storyteller’s skill.’ Adam Rutherford

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ANIL SETH is a leading British researcher in the field of consciousness science. He is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex and his writing has appeared in New Scientist, the Guardian and BBC magazine. @anilkseth

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JOHN McGAHERN was born in Dublin in 1934. He was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories and the recipient of numerous awards and honours.

FRANK SHOVLIN is Professor of Irish Literature in English at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He is working on the authorised biography of John McGahern.

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The Letters of John McGahern Edited by Frank Shovlin

Nina Simone’s Gum Warren Ellis

The collected letters of John McGahern, ‘arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett’. (Guardian)

From the award-winning musician and composer, the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum.

Consistently hailed as one of Ireland’s finest writers, the correspondence of John McGahern is an essential part of discovering and appreciating his literary lineage. This volume collects some of the witty, profound and unfailingly brilliant letters that he exchanged over the course of a well-travelled life with family, friends and literary luminaries such as Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Paul Muldoon.

In 1999, Nina Simone performed at Nick Cave’s Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage and took her used chewing gum. It’s remained with him ever since: a sacred totem, his creative muse.

Meticulously edited with dedicated attention to the links within McGahern’s body of work, The Letters of John McGahern is one of the major contributions to the study of Irish and British literature of the past thirty years, acting not just as a crucial insight into the life and works of a much-revered writer – but also a history of post-war Irish, British and American literary life. ‘One of the finest writers of the twentieth century.’ Hermione Lee

Twenty years later, worrying the gum would be damaged in transit to Nick Cave’s Stranger Than Kindness exhibition, Warren decided to have it cast in silver and gold, sparking a chain of events that no one could have predicted. Nina Simone’s Gum is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning we place on things and on experiences. It is a celebration of artistic process, friendship, understanding and love. ‘Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol’s piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.’ Nick Cave

WARREN ELLIS is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, most famous for his work as collaborator and bandmate of Nick Cave, in both the Bad Seeds and Grinderman and as a member of Dirty Three. Both solo and alongside Nick, he is also a multi-awardwinning film composer.

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JUSTINE PICARDIE is the contributing editor to Harper’s Bazaar. She has been a journalist for the Sunday Times, a columnist for the Telegraph, editor of the Observer magazine and features director of Vogue. She is the author of five books, including the critically acclaimed memoir If the Spirit Moves You and the bestselling Coco Chanel.

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Miss Dior A Story of Courage and Couture

Justine Picardie The untold story of a resistance hero that illuminates ideas of female strength and beauty and the work of one of the world’s most iconic designers. Miss Dior paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister, Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume. Picardie’s journey takes her to Occupied Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance – until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück. On release, barely recognisable to her brother, Catherine retreated into anonymity, ending her life caring for the roses that make up her signature scent. Picardie’s exploration of how a nation silenced this wartime trauma leads her deep into the secrets of her own family’s history, and the result is unforgettable. Fully illustrated, including exclusive images from the Dior archives.

The Joy of Small Things Hannah Jane Parkinson Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days. Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life, whether she is revelling in a fluffy dressing gown (‘like bathing in marshmallow’), finding calm in solo cinema trips, noticing the personalities of fonts (‘you’ll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice’), celebrating the pocket or feeling no guilt calling time on a book she isn’t enjoying. Parkinson’s funny and tender observations – selected from her immensely successful Guardian column – remind us of the everyday pleasures life has to offer. This book is a balm for anyone having an unsteady time. ‘A real soul-salve of a collection: beautifully written and full of gentle insight and warm wit. Keep it near you to dip into whenever you need to feel better about the world. A notso-small joy in itself.’ Nigella Lawson

HANNAH JANE PARKINSON is a comment and features journalist for the Guardian and Observer. She writes on politics, the arts, football and mental health. @ladyhaja

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Writer, broadcaster and cultural critic PAUL MORLEY has written about music, art and entertainment since the 1970s. The author of numerous books, his most recent publications are Nothing, Piece by Piece, The North, Earthbound, the Sunday Times-bestselling The Age of Bowie, The Awfully Big Adventure and A Sound Mind.

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From Manchester with Love The Life and Times of Tony Wilson AKA Anthony H. Wilson

Paul Morley The legendary music writer’s genre-defying biography of the Factory Records co-founder and Manchester icon. From Manchester with Love is the life, times, truth and lies of Tony Wilson: committed northerner, loudmouth, enthusiast, reporter, wind-up merchant, broadcasting revolutionary, documentary maker, music mogul, down-to-earth intellectual, fearless, flamboyant, affectionate, argumentative, foppish, impatient, stoner, trailblazer, critic, jealous, promiscuous, nonchalant, ruthless, show off, chaotic strategist, dynamic archivist, dodgy idealist, minor celebrity, comrade, scandal monger, flawed prophet, ironic propagandist, ecstatic nihilist, arch-English romantic, the bombastic bloody minded grudgeholding self-made man walking the tightrope between art and commercialism, atheism and the Catholic tradition, highbrow pretensions and lowbrow desires, the wildness of Joy Division and the Happy Mondays and the future imaginings of a mythedup Madchester. 42

Eruption Paul Brannigan Published to mark the first anniversary of this death, a searching, affectionate and in-depth look at the life and legends of Eddie Van Halen. Arriving in California as children in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. Minds blown by Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend, the brothers formed a band of their own. Van Halen set a new bar for the rock’n’roll lifestyle and created an entirely new sound. They became the quintessential Californian band of the 1980s. But Eddie’s struggles played out in public: substance abuse, difficult relationships and a longrunning battle with cancer.

A former editor of Kerrang!, PAUL BRANNIGAN is the author of the bestseller This Is a Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl and the co-author of the two-volume Metallica history, Birth School Metallica Death and Into the Black.

In Eruption, Paul Brannigan reaches beyond the boundaries of a conventional rock biography to explore the cultural, political and social contexts that shaped an icon while turning up the volume on a life lived in the fast lane. Praise for Birth School Metallica Death:

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‘Big and impressive and, like its subject, irresistible.’ Sunday Times

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PAUL AUSTER is the bestselling author of the New York Trilogy, The Invention of Solitude, Mr Vertigo, The Book of Illusions and Sunset Park, among many other works. His most recent novel, 4 3 2 1, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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Burning Boy Notes on Stephen Crane

Paul Auster One of the great American writers of our time examines the life and work of an American genius of an earlier era. American writer Stephen Crane died in 1900 at the age of twenty-eight. In his short, intense life, this burning boy wrote a masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, other novels, short stories and dispatches from the front of two wars. His adventurous life took him to the Wild West, Mexico, then to Cuba during the Spanish American War – dodging bullets, which killed those around him, and suffering shipwreck on his way home. His last eighteen months were spent in Britain, where he became a close friend of Joseph Conrad. Auster’s intention is to restore Crane to the pantheon of modernist twentieth-century authors such as Conrad. Through Auster’s skill as a novelist, Crane leaps off the page and into the reader’s heart.

Looking for Trouble Virginia Cowles This sensational 1941 memoir by a trailblazing war correspondent brings wartime Europe vividly to life, championed by Christina Lamb. Looking for Trouble sees the young Virginia Cowles doing just that. As one of the first women war correspondents, she reported on the frontline of wartime Europe – always in the right place at the right time. She was in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, flinging off her heels under shellfire; Prague for the Munich crisis; Italy to interview the ‘dapper’ Mussolini; Berlin when Germany invaded Poland (after taking tea with Hitler); Helsinki as the Russians threatened; Paris as the Germans approached; London in the Blitz . . .

VIRGINIA COWLES was born in Vermont in 1910. She became a roving war correspondent for the Sunday Times, reporting from Civil War Spain, wartime Europe and North Africa. She later wrote a play with Martha Gellhorn and numerous biographies. Cowles was killed in a car accident in 1983.

A tribute to Cowles’s storytelling magic and bravery in questing for the truth, her incredible testimony makes you an eyewitness to history as you have never experienced it before. ‘Excellent . . . Hard to put down.’ Caroline Moorehead ‘An extraordinary first-hand account.’ Anne Sebba

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RODERICK BEATON is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London. He is a three-time winner of the Runciman Award and his books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Cundill History Prize.

The Greeks Roderick Beaton

Allegorizings Jan Morris

The epic, fascinating history of one of the world’s great cultures.

Published one year on from her death, Jan Morris’s Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the twentieth century.

The Greeks: A Global History is the story of a culture that has contributed more than any other to the way we live today. The way we think, the way we learn, how we are entertained and how we are governed – all of this finds its roots in a small group of people who first emerged on the south-eastern edge of Europe over three thousand years ago. Covering the entire globe and four millennia, this enrapturing story shows how one of the world’s most celebrated cultures has been continuously forged by currents of history, migration and resource crises, redefining itself through interaction with many diverse peoples. In today’s age of rising nationalism, this epic, sweeping history becomes crucial reading. Praise for Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation:

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‘The best history of Greece around . . . Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for the rest of my life.’ Victoria Hislop 46

Almost nothing in life is only what it seems . . . Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Crisis, the Eichmann trial, the Cuban Revolution and so much more. Now, in Allegorizings, published posthumously as was her wish, Morris looks back over some of the key moments of her life. From her final travels to the USA and across Europe to later journeys on her beloved trains and ships, from the deaths of her old friends Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the enduring relationships in her own life and reflections on identity and nations, it bears testimony to her uniquely kind and inquisitive take on the world. ‘She was one of the most extraordinary, inspiring, kindest people I ever had the luck to meet. Please read her.’ Robert Macfarlane 47

JAN MORRIS was born in 1926, of a Welsh father and an English mother. She spent the last years of her life with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, the Pax Britannica trilogy and Conundrum. She was also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. 04/11/2021 HB | 9780571234134 | 204pp | £14.99 Ebook | 9780571370696 UK C/Wealth + Can, EU

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JENNY UGLOW’s books include prize-winning biographies of Edward Lear, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth and Sarah Losh. Her most recent book, Mr Lear, won the Hawthornden Prize and was a Daily Telegraph, Times, Evening Standard, TLS and Spectator Book of the Year.

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Cyril & Sybil Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews, Artists Together, 1920-1943

Jenny Uglow From one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a dynamic artistic partnership. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time they looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight. Cyril & Sybil traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war.

Black British Lives Matter Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder A specially commissioned anthology including contributions from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler, David Adjaye, Diane Evans, Leroy Logan and Doreen Lawrence. This book is the response of Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder to the international outcry at the death of George Floyd. Black British Lives Matter discusses why and how Black lives matter – not just for Black people, but for society as a whole. Fifteen prominent Black figures explain the importance of Black lives in various aspects of British life, drawing from their personal experiences. They include an architect, a lawyer, a historian, a therapist, a teacher, an athlete, a father, the mother of Stephen Lawrence and the policeman whose life is the subject of one of the episodes in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series. This book complements Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder’s Access All Areas pamphlet, urging more diversity in the media.

Sir LENNY HENRY is one of Britain’s most celebrated comedians as well as a writer, radio DJ, TV presenter, cofounder of Comic Relief and award-winning actor.

MARCUS RYDER has over twenty-five years of experience working in the media and is a leader on the issue of diversity in the media.

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‘Wonderfully sharp and sympathetic . . . Uglow is a perfect biographer.’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

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Shadow State Luke Harding

Tom Stoppard Hermione Lee

Shadow State is a riveting and alarming investigation into the methods Russia has used to wage an increasingly bold war in the UK and beyond. Uncovering fake news, cyber intrusions and dirty money, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding shows how Vladimir Putin helped elect Donald Trump, backed Brexit and now threatens the very basis of Western democracy itself.

Shot through with Stoppard’s voice, Lee’s gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, interviews and long conversations with Stoppard himself to trace his family’s escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia through his leap to fame with Rosencrantz, to marriages, fatherhood and worldwide travels. Making close readings of all his plays, it’s the story of a very public, private man.

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‘A prodigious achievement . . . Stoppard’s life will not need writing again.’ John Carey, Sunday Times

‘Luke Harding is one of the best reporters in the world.’ Roberto Saviano

‘Unputdownable.’ Roy Foster, TLS, Books of the Year ‘What a life! What a narrator! Insightful, thoughtful and witty: just like the plays.’ Sue Prideaux, New Statesman, Books of the Year

‘Raises fresh questions about the way the UK government has handled claims of Kremlin interference.’ Financial Times 01/07/2021 PB | 9781783352067 | 336pp | £9.99 UK C/Wealth ex Can open EU

‘If you doubt that hostile foreign powers were happy to assist Britain into decline, I recommend Shadow State.’ Observer

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Klopp Anthony Quinn

Sweet Dreams Dylan Jones

A fan’s inspiring, affectionate and uniquely revealing love letter to Liverpool’s charismatic manager.

The New Romantics visually defined the 1980s; catalysed the Second British Invasion; and created arguably one of the most bohemian environments of the late twentieth century. Through testimony from the people who lived it, Dylan Jones charts the rise of one of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the sixties.

‘Immensely readable.’ Hannah Jane Parkinson, Observer ‘Informative and emotive.’ This Is Anfield ‘Highly enjoyable.’ Blake Morrison, Guardian

‘Excellent.’ Guardian ‘Hugely enjoyable.’ Irish Times ‘Fascinating.’ New Statesman

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Breakthrough Marcus Chown

This is the story of one of the world’s greatest publishers, capturing the excitement, hopes and fears of the people who published and wrote the books that line our shelves today. Compiled from intimate letters, diaries and materials from the archive, this is both a vibrant history and a hymn to the role of literature in all our lives.

Marcus Chown takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka! breakthroughs of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space–time, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Breakthrough reveals science’s greatest mystery: its astonishing predictive power.

‘A striking drama.’ Sunday Times ‘Never less than fascinating.’ Daily Telegraph

‘An excellent popular science book.’ Dara Ó Briain

‘A quirky history of the firm that has an unrivalled author roster . . . paint[s] a vivid picture.’ New Statesman

‘A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.’ Anna Burns, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman ‘One of the best-written books about physics I have ever come across.’ Popular Science

Beneath the Night Stuart Clark

Ten Days in Harlem Simon Hall

A history of humanity told through our relationship with stars and the night sky. From the Stone Age to the space age, Stuart Clark explores a fascination shared across the world, one that has unequivocally shaped us as civilisations and as individuals, housing our hopes and fears. In the stars, we can see our past – and, ultimately, our fate.

Charting the Cuban leader’s shock arrival to rapturous reception, his relationships with world leaders, Black freedom fighters and countercultural luminaries, and his landmark antiimperial address to the UN General Assembly, Simon Hall revolutionises our understanding of the cultural and political tumult of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro’s visit to New York.

‘Excellent . . . this book makes you rethink the traditional story of the history of astronomy . . . effortlessly readable.’ BBC Sky at Night ‘Enthralling.’ Bookseller

‘With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall’s book is a rare pleasure to read.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Literary Review ‘[An] enjoyable account . . . Hall delivers his entertaining tale with brio.’ Peter Carty, i newspaper

Two Besides An Ordinary Woman and The Shrine

Alan Bennett Introduced by Nicholas Hytner ‘Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I’ve added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise. They just about end up on top and go on, but without quite knowing how. Still, they’re in good company, and at least they’ve made it into print.’ Alan Bennett As seen on BBC1 and at the Bridge Theatre, London. ‘Each one a masterclass in writing.’ Guardian ‘Mesmerising.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Our greatest living writer.’ Clive Davis, The Times

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LAWRENCE DURRELL REISSUES

Richard Williams’s The Animator’s Survival Kit is the indispensable tool for professional animators and students of animation. This series of short guides presents the Survival Kit’s most essential chapters in small, easy-to-carry – and easy-to-study – editions.

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Lose yourself in classic portraits of Corfu and beyond by the king of travel writing Lawrence Durrell, immortalised in The Durrells in Corfu. ‘Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.’ Richard Holmes ‘Among the best books ever written.’ New York Times

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The books of Hanif Kureishi, one of Britain’s most acclaimed writers, feature a bold new look across the backlist, for a fresh new readership.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC

RICHARD STOKES, Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music, has written acclaimed books on English, French, German and Spanish song, and his translations for the operatic stage include Wozzeck, Lulu, Parsifal and La voix humaine. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2012.

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The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf Life, Letters, Lieder

Richard Stokes A unique volume containing for the first time, and in parallel translation, all the poems Hugo Wolf set to music. This remarkable volume gathers together every poem Wolf set to music – piano-accompanied, a cappella, choral and orchestral. Alongside the original texts are translations by leading Lieder expert Richard Stokes, who also provides illuminating commentaries. The thirty-three poets set by Wolf are each given their own chapter: a brief essay on the poet is followed by a note on Wolf’s connection with the writer, extracts from letters that throw light on the songs and convey his mood at the time of composition, and the texts and translations. Short biographies of Wolf’s correspondents flesh out the extraordinary life of this genius. With a foreword by Ian Bostridge, The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf will be an essential volume for all lovers of Lieder. Praise for The Book of Lieder by Richard Stokes: ‘Indispensable . . . Any Lieder freak will appreciate the gift of this weighty volume.’ Liverpool Daily Post

The Bach Cello Suites A Companion Steven Isserlis A unique companion to J. S. Bach’s iconic Cello Suites. Bach’s Six Suites for solo cello are among the most cherished works in musical literature. Neglected for some 200 years after their composition, they have acquired an aura which draws audiences worldwide. Bach takes us on a spiritual journey like no other, from joy to tragedy, to jubilation, even triumph. Award-winning international cellist Steven Isserlis goes deep into that emotional journey, bringing to bear all his experience of performance. His book is a rewarding companion for all, from the casual listener to the performing musician. With penetrating insight, Isserlis takes the reader into the world of the Suites, enhancing the experience of hearing some of the greatest works ever composed. ‘Outstandingly good . . . This recording [of Bach’s Cello Suites] can sit proudly on the shelf alongside the great recordings of Casals and Rostropovich. In fact, I may find myself picking it up as the favourite.’ BBC Radio Three CD Review, Disc of the Week

Acclaimed worldwide for his profound musicianship and technical mastery, STEVEN ISSERLIS enjoys a unique and multi-faceted career as soloist, chamber musician and educator. He appears regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and gives recitals every season in major musical centres. His recent Hyperion recording of the Bach Cello Suites met with universal critical acclaim.

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Fryderyk Chopin Alan Walker The most comprehensive biography of the great composer to appear in English in more than a century. An intimate look into a dramatic life, this definitive account illuminates Chopin and his music with unprecedented clarity, bringing to life one of the nineteenth century’s most confounding, beloved and legendary artists. ‘A masterpiece, indispensable to specialists and general music lovers alike.’ Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year ‘Authoritative, exhaustive and eminently readable.’ Gramophone ‘A stunning achievement.’ Stuart Isacoff, Literary Review 05/08/2021 PB | 9780571348565 | 768pp | £20.00 UK C/Wealth ex Can open EU

Mstislav Rostropovich Elizabeth Wilson Mstislav Rostropovich, recognised as one of the world’s finest cellists and musicians, also taught several generations of the brightest Russian talents – Jacqueline du Pré, Natalya Gutman, Karine Georgian and many others. This fascinating and definitive book vividly charts the pivotal points in Rostropovich’s career and the philosophy behind his teaching at the Moscow Conservatoire, and includes new material for this paperback edition. ‘Required reading for every performer and music teacher.’ Financial Times ‘Eminently readable, often moving.’ Literary Review ‘Bubbles with effervescence . . . A volume which should be on every musician’s shelf.’ Irish Times 02/09/2021 PB | 9780571363360 | 416pp | £20.00 World ex USA

Schumann Judith Chernaik The groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Chernaik sheds new light on the ways in which the various crises Schumann suffered entered his music, and vividly brings his extraordinary artistic achievement to life in all its rich complexity. ‘An eloquent biography . . . Schumann’s personality emerges vividly.’ Jessica Duchen, BBC Music Magazine ‘A most touching and moving story, beautifully told.’ Daily Mail, Book of the Week ‘The most readable and penetrating biography of this wonderful composer.’ Stephen Walsh, Oldie

A New Heaven Choral Conversations with Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Harry Christophers Every year since the millennium, The Sixteen have undertaken a Choral Pilgrimage, bringing a programme of a cappella vocal music to around thirty cathedrals the length and breadth of the country to great popular and critical acclaim. Here Harry Christophers and Sara MohrPietsch embark on a series of conversations that look back on the group’s four decades and to the future. ‘Essential and absorbing reading for anyone interested in choral singing.’ Christopher Dingle, BBC Music Magazine

Mozart Jan Swafford The stunning, definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history. ‘A biography of Mozart that is so vivid, you feel you could shake hands with him.’ Sunday Times ‘[An] outstanding biography . . . accessible and authoritative . . . beautifully written and full of astute critical judgements and incisive notes on the works.’ The Economist ‘Impassioned and informed . . . Swafford’s exuberance is infectious, prompting the reader to revisit works both famous and obscure.’ Alex Ross, New Yorker

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poetry autumn 2021

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NIDHI ZAK/ARIA EIPE was born in India and now lives in Ireland. She is the founder of the P[l]ay It Forward Fellowships for underrepresented writers, an advisory board member of Ledbury Poetry Critics Ireland and the recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award in Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Auguries of a Minor God Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

A Year in the New Life Jack Underwood

The debut collection of poetry from a virtuosic, compassionate new voice.

This new book of poems finds fresh ways of navigating a time of continual surprise and uncertainty.

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe’s spellbinding collection explores love and the wounds it makes. Its first half is composed of five sections, corresponding to the five arrows of Kāma, the Hindu God of Love, Desire and Memory. Each arrow has its own effect on some body – a very real, contemporary body – and its particular journey of love. The second is a long narrative poem, ‘A is for ‫[ برعلا‬Arabs]’, which follows a different kind of journey: a family of refugees who have fled to the West from conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. With an extraordinary structure, yoking abecedarian and Fibonacci sequences, it is a skilful and intimate account of migration and exile, of home and belonging.

Jack Underwood’s debut collection, Happiness (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: ‘conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular’ (Guardian). Such qualities are on accomplished display in this anticipated new collection, as the poems mature and move on to a wide range of preoccupations, including imminent societal collapse and current riots; the limits of masculinity and complexities of fatherhood; as well as uncanny, often amusing scenarios, such as serving drinks to a gathering of fifteen babies or group kissing in Empathy Class. Throughout, incongruous and domestic subjects realign in skewed lyrics and thought experiments, all presented with a generosity and tenderness that makes the poet so unmistakable – and indispensable for the strange times in which we live.

‘Dazzling, incantatory future poetry.’ Jeet Thayil 01/07/2021 PB | 9780571365562 | 80pp | £10.99

‘Eipe is an ardent soul. Her work is youthful and wise, signalling a profound interest in destruction, stillness, healing, joy.’ Anne Enright

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‘A delicate, playful back-and-forth of sincerity and flippancy . . . terribly funny and very moving.’ London Magazine on Happiness

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JACK UNDERWOOD’s debut collection of poems, Happiness (Faber, 2015), won the Somerset Maugham Award. Underwood is a senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His nonfiction book Not Even This, about parenthood, uncertainty, and poetic language and knowledge, will be published by Corsair in 2021.

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SAMUEL BECKETT (1906– 1989) was born in Dublin. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

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The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett Editors: James Knowlson (Krapp’s Last Tape) S. E. Gontarski (The Shorter Plays) The final two volumes of the series reproducing Beckett’s theatrical notebooks in colour-facsimile paperback editions. Krapp’s Last Tape and The Shorter Plays (including Play, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Footfalls, That Time and What Where) join Waiting for Godot and Endgame to complete this four-volume series of Samuel Beckett’s theatrical notebooks, appearing in affordable paperback editions. Each volume shows, by means of colour facsimile, transcription and commentary, the extensive revisions and detailed notes made by Beckett during revivals of his plays. An invaluable resource for directors, students and general admirers who want to know more about the creative process of this era-defining writer.

Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being Ted Hughes Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus – reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum. This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works – dramatic and poetic – as a single, tightly integrated, evolving organism. Hughes supports his thesis with erudition and a painstakingly close analysis of language, plots and characters. A multitude of dazzling insights is generated in the process, and our entire understanding of Shakespeare, his art and imagination, is radically transformed. ‘[This] huge study of Shakespeare, more than ten years in the making, is an unprecedented act of critical witness.’ London Review of Books

‘A major event which casts fascinating light on the thought processes of a great writer.’ Katharine Worth, Review of English Studies

TED HUGHES (1930–1998) won instant acclaim with his first book, The Hawk in the Rain (1957), and a glittering literary career culminated four decades later with the Whitbread Book of the Year award for Tales from Ovid (1997) and then again for Birthday Letters (1998). He served fourteen years as Poet Laureate and in 1998 was appointed to the Order of Merit.

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VALERIE ELIOT died in 2012. She won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcripts of the Original Drafts (1971) and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1 (1988).

JOHN HAFFENDEN is Senior Research Fellow, IES, University of London. His publications include a biography of John Berryman; editions of the works of William Empson, including the Complete Poems (2000); and an award-winning twovolume biography of Empson (2005, 2006). 02/09/2021 HB | 9780571362813 | 1008pp | £60.00 Ebook | 9780571362820

The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 9: 1939–1941 T. S. Eliot Eliot sheds his ‘usually reticent self’ to compose these entertaining and revealing letters. This volume covers the production of Eliot’s play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett and Virginia Woolf. Four Quartets, Eliot’s culminating masterpiece, is discussed in detail.

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Simon Armitage, Emily Berry, William Blake, Mary Jean Chan, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Clare, Wendy Cope, Julia Copus, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Matthew Francis, Seamus Heaney, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ted Hughes, John Keats, Zaffar Kunial, Philip Larkin, Lachlan Mackinnon, Marianne Moore, Andrew Motion, Bernard O’Donohue, Sylvia Plath, Maurice Riordan, Sam Riviere, Christina Rossetti, Edward Thomas, Jack Underwood, Derek Walcott, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats.

The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list. Illustrated throughout with vintage and contemporary book jackets, the diary has a sturdy cover and an elastic closure. The Liberty Faber Poetry Diary is covered with Liberty London fabric.

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‘The editing and annotation of these letters is at the level that the subject deserves – there can be no higher praise.’ Evening Standard

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The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 Various

Poems of the Decade An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2011–2020

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The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers an overview of the literary horizon to seasoned poetry lovers and new readers alike.

This landmark anthology celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a space for fresh powerful language, feeling and thought. With poems by Raymond Antrobus, Simon Armitage, Fiona Benson, Liz Berry, Caroline Bird, Vahni Capildeo, Alice Oswald and Claudia Rankine.

‘These annual anthologies of the poems in the running for the Forward Prizes remain the best way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.’ Daily Telegraph

‘The Forward Prizes for Poetry have established themselves as central to the literary landscape of modern Britain – a benevolent act of imagination which has paid off richly.’ Andrew Marr

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The Owl and the Nightingale Simon Armitage A witty and enchanting illustrated edition of the medieval debate poem, in a new version by the Poet Laureate. Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fiery verbal contest between the two eponymous birds, which moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and ridiculous. The disputed issues still resonate – concerning identity, cultural habits, class distinctions and the right to be heard. Excerpts were featured in the BBC Radio 4 podcast The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed. Including the lively illustrations of Clive Hicks-Jenkins, this is a book for the whole household to read and enjoy. ‘Like the Gawain poet, Armitage is some storyteller.’ Guardian

SIMON ARMITAGE is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His most recent collection of poetry is Magnetic Field (2020). From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.

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MAURICE RIORDAN was born in Co. Cork. His first book, A Word from the Loki (1995), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, as was his most recent, The Water Stealer (2013). He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam and a former editor of The Poetry Review (2013–17).

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The Shoulder Tap Maurice Riordan

Howdie-Skelp Paul Muldoon

The poet’s fifth collection of poems is both a dark art and an illuminating interrogation of contemporary anxiety and desire.

The hard-hitting new poetry collection from ‘Ireland’s most ingenious poet’ (Telegraph).

Maurice Riordan’s keenly anticipated new collection continues his agile exploration of time, both in its depredations and rewards, while also bringing a sceptical, enquiring intelligence to bear on the anxieties and vanities of our age. Here we have disquieting songs of a mutable self; a projected online deathbed confession; the soul haranguing the body; while encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Old English. These poems pulse with mischief and macabre humour, making for a pungent and haunting read. With this book, Riordan – a poet whose subtle, rippling influence is felt by all in his wake – affirms the Guardian’s assessment of The Water Stealer (2013) as ‘strong, wise and enduring’.

A ‘howdie-skelp’ is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It’s a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Paul Muldoon’s striking new collection include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an ‘affront’ to good taste. Paul Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture, but to hold, compellingly, our attention. ‘Beneath all the linguistic bravura it is still Paul Muldoon’s ability to sing with feeling that deserves the highest praise.’ TLS

‘The poetry in The Water Stealer storms, rattles and glitters on the pages, as Maurice Riordan channels the unmistakable natural energy he finds in the language of real people and things.’ PN Review 76

PAUL MULDOON is the author of thirteen previous collections of poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has since 1987 lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.

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Three newly acquired debut collections from three of our superlative poets.

When My Brother Was an Aztec Natalie Diaz Natalie Diaz’s arresting first collection foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of the mythological intensity of tribal life and a deeply rooted cultural history. As in Postcolonial Love Poem, the poet both revels and reveals through her distinctive use of language and imagery, bringing to life every intimate and communal encounter. ‘A fast-paced tour of Mojave life. In darkly humorous poems, Diaz illuminates far corners of the heart.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Diaz’s debut is a formidable, impressive collection.’ Rumpus ‘Her work is a kind of confession, but also an assertion.’ Spectator

Dancing in Odessa Ilya Kaminsky

Far District Ishion Hutchinson

The Fall at Home Don Paterson

The Poem Don Paterson

Wing Matthew Francis

Described as ‘a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city’ (LA Times), the poems of this prize-winning debut by the author of Deaf Republic draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance, humour and torment, and a distinctive, transcendent music.

This transporting debut, from the author of House of Lords and Commons, is structured as the spiritual journey of a poet–speaker caught between two cultures. As childhood memory is grafted to the world of imagination – shaped by books, art, music and travel – the two come together to develop a new vision of what ‘home’ might offer.

This edition gathers the best of the prize-winning poet’s ‘clever, addictive and funny’ (Guardian) aphorisms. Writing with the same blend of high seriousness, black humour and lyric precision that define his poetry, Paterson has made a book to carry everywhere and open anywhere, to lighten or darken the moment – but always to administer a jolt to the idling mind.

Part polemic, part technical treatise and part meditation, The Poem is an ambitious contemporary ars poetica. Paterson looks at the writing, transmission and reading of poetry with wit and scholarly flair, drawing together linguistics, literary analysis, metaphysics, psychology and cognitive science in a thorough exploration of how and why poems are composed.

This innovative and inspiring collection of poetry celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation. Francis’s name ‘deserves to be broadcast loudly’ (Observer).

‘A remarkable debut, one that affords a rare and exhilarating pleasure: the sense of being at the start of something marvelous.’ Boston Review ‘He is one of those rarest finds in this or any century, a writer who establishes what poetry can be.’ New York Times

‘Hutchinson’s is an adjective-rich, sealit, gorgeous, postWalcott voice in poetry’s transnational conversation.’ Guardian ‘A marvellous book of generous, giving poems.’ Yusef Komunyakaa ‘Hutchinson’s poetry is also remarkable for its moments of quiet, lyrical beauty.’ Literary Review

‘This is sustaining, brilliant poetry.’ PN Review

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‘A bracing combination of the profound, the comic and the often hilariously self-revealing.’ Spectator ‘Paterson’s delicious dour nuggets of bitter wisdom are precise and grimly hilarious.’ Irish Times Books of the Year

‘A tremendous achievement.’ TLS ‘The perfect polymath to write a book on how we read poetry.’ Scotsman ‘An intimidatingly exhaustive virtuoso performance.’ Irish Times

‘Both sly and profound.’ Scotsman Books of the Year

‘In total command of his craft.’ TLS ‘Nature does not go out of fashion and we need poetry of this quality more than ever.’ Guardian Best Books of 2020 ‘Outstanding. Poignant, sensitive, intricate, witty, it captures both panorama and microcosm.’ The Tablet

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The Poems of Basil Bunting Basil Bunting

The Poems of Dorothy Molloy Dorothy Molloy

Sylvia Plath: Drawings Sylvia Plath

The first critical edition of the complete poems from one of the most important British poets of the twentieth century. Don Share annotates Bunting’s often complex and allusive verse with illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. This important work offers an edition commensurate with the achievement of this neglected modernist master.

This volume gathers Molloy’s entire body of published work alongside a generous selection of unpublished, archival material. The Irish poet was a star in the making before her untimely death just before the arrival of her debut collection, Hare Soup, in 2004. The poems bear witness to an electrifying voice, marked by a distinctive mix of dark humour and vitality.

Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration but, while her poetry is celebrated around the world, her drawings are little known. This flapped paperback edition brings together her exquisite sketches from 1955 to 1957, the period she spent on a Fulbright scholarship in Cambridge, when she married Ted Hughes and travelled with him to Paris and Spain.

‘Patiently and splendidly edited.’ The Times Book of the Year ‘Nearly everything that could be considered to have a bearing on the poems is there.’ TLS ‘Share’s judicious annotations . . . illuminate the poem’s embroidery of references.’ New Yorker

‘Thrilling and engaging.’ TLS ‘Rescues jewels that would otherwise be lost . . . this new book brings her back to us.’ Irish Times ‘Remarkably accomplished.’ Guardian

‘These drawings give us a whole new Sylvia Plath – sprightly, witty and fun.’ Guardian ‘The delicacy and precision of her execution will come as no surprise to fans of Plath’s writing; her mastery of the medium may.’ Paris Review

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HANNAH LEE lives in London. My Hair was her debut picture book, which was highly commended for the FAB Prize and shortlisted for the BookTrust Storytime Prize and Diverse Book Awards.

Rapping Princess Hannah Lee and Allen Fatimaharan

Santa’s New Sleigh Caroline Crowe and Jess Pauwels

A rhyming picture book that celebrates daring to be different, featuring Shiloh, the rapping princess.

Fabulous festive picture book from the creators of the bestselling Santa’s New Beard – the perfect stockingfiller!

ALLEN FATIMAHARAN grew up in Sri Lanka, India and France. Now living in the UK, he works as an illustrator. My Hair was his first picture book.

I know that sounds too big but here’s the thing: her mother and father were the Queen and King.

Here is a story that everyone should know. It’s the tale of a princess named Shiloh. She lived in a kingdom, not far from yours, in a grand house with a swimming pool and fourteen floors.

Being a princess is a tough job for someone so small. It’s even harder when you’ve a problem you can’t solve at all. You see, every princess in the kingdom could sing. Yet Shiloh’s voice could do no such thing . . . Shiloh might not be able to sing like her sisters, but she has other talents, and sometimes it’s about embracing your differences and celebrating them!

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Christmas Eve was here at last, The countdown clock was ticking fast . . . But yikes! When Santa turned the key (The reindeer need some help you see) The engine didn’t start, it spluttered, ‘That isn’t right’, the elves all muttered . . . When Santa’s sleigh stops working on Christmas Eve the elves all rally round to help. Maybe they could use a slingshot? Or the owls could help? How about polar bears?

CAROLINE CROWE worked as a journalist for many years, before writing books for children. When she isn’t thinking up words that rhyme with pants (there aren’t that many), she enjoys eating salt and vinegar crisps.

JESS PAUWELS is a graphic designer and illustrator of children’s books. She lives in Brussels.

Will they be able to sort the sleigh out before it is too late? Things are not looking good until one small elf has a bright idea! Festive and fun, this is destined to become a seasonal favourite.

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POLLY DUNBAR is one of the best-known British illustrators today. Polly’s bestselling book, Penguin, won numerous awards. She lives in Suffolk.

EOIN MCLAUGHLIN was born in Ireland and now lives in Surrey. The Hug was his debut picture book. He also wrote Secret Agent Elephant and The Case of the Missing Cake.

While We Can’t Hug Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar

The Longer the Wait, the Bigger the Hug Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar

The bestselling picture book by the creators of The Hug is now available in board book form!

Everyone’s favourite (socially distanced) characters return to help us through this challenging period.

Hedgehog and Tortoise were the best of friends. They wanted to give each other a great, big hug. But they weren’t allowed to touch.

Spring had arrived.

‘Don’t worry,’ said Owl. ‘There are lots of ways to show someone you love them.’ So the two friends wave to each other, blow kisses, sing songs, dance around and write letters. And even though they can’t hug and they can’t touch, they both know that they are loved. An inspired picture book that sensitively handles emotionally distancing (and any enforced period of separation.) ‘A touching tale.’ The Sunday Times ‘A real winner.’ Irish Independent ‘Important.’ The Times

But Tortoise was nowhere to be found. Hedgehog is waiting for his friend Tortoise to wake up. But where is he and when will he wake? Hedgehog’s friends are all very lovely, but they just aren’t as much fun at the beach, or at hide and seek, or at holding hands, or at hugs. Tortoise begins to stir – the one boulder that Hedgehog didn’t think he could lift to turn . . . Tortoise has been dreaming of Hedgehog. And the hug that follows is their best yet! A charming and touching new tale from the creators of the bestselling While We Can’t Hug!

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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in 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.

The Naming of Cats T. S. Eliot and Arthur Robins

The Book Cat Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy

The perfect, witty gift for new cat owners of all ages.

Starring the real Cat Morgan, who inspired Eliot’s poem, this is a classic tale of a cat who became chief billeting officer for the capitals’ kittens during the second world war.

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter

‘A fabulous way to introduce younger readers to poetry.’ Huffington Post (Skimbleshanks)

Written by Polly Faber, granddaughter of Geoffrey Faber who knew the real Cat Morgan and wrote about him in his diaries, the story is based on real life anecdotes. Morgan was a familiar face at the publishers – both in the editing room, and on the roof, looking out for passing German bombers! But he soon finds himself chief billeting officer, responsible for the safety of all the kittens who must be evacuated out of London.

‘Ideal for reading aloud. The colourful and cartoonlike drawings have plenty of detail and added humour.’ Scotsman

A thoroughly satisfying story, full of peril and high drama, and exquisitely illustrated by one of the best classic illustrators in the business (alongside Chris Mould!).

When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. ARTHUR ROBINS is a renowned cartoonist and illustrator of over sixty books. He is also a big fan of cats, particularly his own.

This witty poem has been treated to a new small hardback gift format – perfect for gifting to one of the very many new pet owners.

04/11/2021

POLLY FABER lives in London with her husband, two sons and two cats. Her books include Picking Pickle and the Mango and Bambang series with Clara.

CLARA VULLIAMY is the illustrator and author of the Dixie O’Day series, for which she collaborated with her mother, Shirley Hughes, the Dotty Detective and Marshmallow Pie series.

05/08/2021

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SWAPNA HADDOW is the award-winning author of the Dave Pigeon books. Swapna loves writing about boisterous animals and madcap adventures. She lives in New Zealand.

SHEENA DEMPSEY is a children’s author and illustrator. She loves to draw animals, from dirty rats to mean cats and heroic pigeons. She lives in Kent.

Bad Panda Swapna Haddow and Sheena Dempsey

Sasha and the Wolf Ann Jungman and Gaia Bordicchia

Brand-new series about a panda who’s fed up of being labelled cute. Exceptionally funny, from the duo that brought us Dave Pigeon.

A brilliant bind-up of the rediscovered classics about Sasha and Ferdy the wolf and their adventures on the steppes of Russia.

Are you sick of being utterly adorable? Tired of being cuddled and hugged? Fed up of having your head confused for your bottom because you just so happen to be SOOOOPER-DOOOOOPER fluffy?

Long ago and far away, on the great snow-covered steppe of Russia . . .

Lin: If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you’re in the right book. Everyone thinks that Lin is the cutest panda in the world. So much so that they ship her off to the local zoo to be ogled at by the masses. But Lin HATES being cute, and she will do everything in her power to prove that she’s the baddest, meanest animal in the zoo . . . Dave Pigeon series:

01/07/2021 PB | 9780571352418 | 160pp | £5.99 Ebook | 9780571352425

Sasha has always been taught that wolves are dangerous, but when he finds himself lost in the snow with Ferdy, a wolfcub, he discovers they are not so different. But how can he persuade his village that the wolves can be their friends? Sasha is excited about the railway coming to their village. But Ferdy is afraid that it will bring new people who do not know that the wolves and humans have learnt to live together. With winter coming, how will Ferdy’s pack survive if they have to hide away?

ANN JUNGMAN lives in London. Before becoming an author, Ann trained as a lawyer and taught at a primary school. She has published over a hundred books including the Vlad the Drac series.

GAIA BORDICCHIA studied Illustration at IED in Milan and has worked on many books since, including The Amazing Animal Atlas.

Gaia Bordicchia’s gorgeous illustrations whisk readers away to a Russian winter long long ago . . .

WINNER – Greenhouse Funny Prize, Fantastic Book Awards.

04/11/2021

SHORTLISTED – Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, Alligator’s Mouth Award, Crystal Kite Award.

PB | 9780571337071 | 192pp | £6.99 Ebook | 9780571337088

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Stunning reissues with covers by Daniela Terrazzini coming in 2021 and 2022!

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LOU KUENZLER grew up on a windy sheep farm in Devon. She is the author of numerous books for children, including My Digger is Bigger, Eat Your People, the Shrinking Violet series, the Princess DisGrace series, the Bella Broomstick series and Not Yet, Zebra. She lives in London with her family.

Our Beautiful Game Lou Kuenzler

The Week at World’s End Emma Carroll

A stand-out novel inspired by the incredible true stories of female football legends Lily Parr and Alice Woods.

The hotly anticipated new standalone from the Queen of Historical Fiction, Emma Carroll.

A hundred years before the Lionesses, Lily Parr, Alice Woods and their teammates were proudly playing football.

1962, the seven days of the Cuban Missile Crisis . . .

As men were sent to fight in the war, women and girls took their place in munitions factories. Football became a favourite pastime and, before long, there were all-female sides playing public matches to sell-out crowds, overshadowing the men’s football. Despite drawing crowds of 50,000, women’s football was outlawed by the Football Association in 1921, who deemed it ‘unsuitable for females’. ‘Full of excitement, action and adventure.’ Books for Keeps on Finding Black Beauty

What would you do if you found a body in the coal shed? The day Vie finds a girl hiding in the coal shed, her uneventful life on World’s End Close suddenly takes a new turn. The runaway, Anna, claims she’s being poisoned. She needs Vie and her best friend Ray to help . . . But with the adults all behaving so strangely, what chance do three children have against poisoners amidst the threat of a third world war?

EMMA CARROLL has written the highly-acclaimed Frost Hollow Hall, The Girl Who Walked on Air, In Darkling Wood, The Snow Sister, Strange Star, Letters from the Lighthouse, Secrets of a Sun King, When we were Warriors and The Somerset Tsunami. She lives in Somerset with her husband and two terriers.

This enthralling, heartwarming thriller is the perfect novel for our tumultuous times. ‘Emma Carroll . . . rightfully owns the title “Queen of Historical Fiction”.’ BookTrust ‘The Hilary Mantel of children’s fiction.’ The Telegraph

01/07/2021

02/09/2021

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KIERAN LARWOOD lives on the Isle of Wight. He worked as a teacher but he now writes fulltime although, if anybody was watching, they might think he just daydreams a lot.

DAVID WYATT is an illustrator living in Devon. He has illustrated tales by authors such as Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Fabulous covers by Fernando Juarez

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Uki and the Ghostburrow Kieran Larwood and David Wyatt

Explorers at Pirate Island Alex Bell and Tomislav Tomić

From bestselling author and winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, this is the sixth adventure set in the world of Podkin One-Ear.

The explorers journey deep into the Bubble Ocean on their quest to stop the Collector, but time is running out . . .

After capturing Charice, there is only one spirit left for Uki to find: Mortix, the most dangerous of all. With his friends Jori, Cole and Kree, Uki heads to Eisenfell – the greatest city in Hulstland – only to find that Mortix has taken control of Emperor Ash and is plotting to conquer the whole Five Realms with her terrifying army.

Half-mermaid Ursula Jellyfin has always longed for adventure, and this time the stakes are higher than ever. The Collector is holding a group of children prisoner on Pirate Island, and it’s up to Ursula and her friends Jai, Max and Genie to set them free. Armed with a magical mermaid trident, and with new recruit Zara the pirate fairy on board, their mission is filled with danger. The explorers must face zombie skeletons, make a daring rescue from a whirlpool and travel through a dinosaur graveyard. But can they fool the Collector and get in to an impenetrable fort?

Uki must dodge the Endwatch, the Shrikes, Clan Septys and the guards and find a way to complete his quest before all is lost. ‘Storytelling perfection.’ Sophie Anderson ‘Superb.’ Max Porter

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Fast-paced, magical storytelling in a breathtaking underwater world. Alex Bell’s inventiveness and attention to detail is a joy to read.

ALEX BELL has published many books including Frozen Charlotte, a Zoella Book Club pick and the bestselling The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club series. She loves Disney villains and Christmas, and spends most of her spare time catering to the whims of her Siamese cat.

TOMISLAV TOMIĆ started to publish his illustrations during his college days. He is best known for his intricate linework and fantasy imagery, and lives and works in Croatia.

‘A fantastic frosty adventure.’ Sunday Express 07/10/2021

‘Wintry, atmospheric, highly imaginative fantasy.’ Metro

04/11/2021 PB | 9780571359738 | 352pp | £7.99

HB | 9780571342853 | 320pp | £12.99

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JASON REYNOLDS and BRENDAN KIELY are New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors. All American Boys won a Coretta Scott King Author Honour and a Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature.

AKHRAN GIRMAY is a FAB Prize winning illustrator who lives in Bristol.

All American Boys: The Illustrated Edition Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely and Akhran Girmay The New York Times bestselling novel about police brutality in the US – now fully illustrated by Akhran Girmay. I just wanted him to stop beating me. I just wanted to live. After a violent act that leaves their community and, ultimately, the country divided, Rashad and Quinn – one Black boy, one White boy – face the truth that racism and prejudice are all around us. And there’s a future at stake, a future where no one will have deal with police brutality. They just have to risk everything they’ve ever known to speak out.

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, this is the classic dystopian tale of oppressive government. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Now with a stunningly sinister, iconic cover by Nathan Burton. ‘The book of the twentieth century . . . haunts us with an ever-darker relevance.’ Independent

GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) is one of the world’s most influential writers, the visionary author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as a number of non-fiction classics. By the time of his death in 1950, he was worldrenowned as both a journalist and author.

‘Enthralling and indispensable for understanding modern history.’ New York Review of Books

With evocative black and white illustrations from FAB Prize winner Akhran Girmay. ‘Timely and thought-provoking.’ New York Times ‘Deeply moving.’ Kirkus

05/08/2021

07/10/2021

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats T. S. Eliot Illustrated by Júlia Sardà

Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs Christopher Reid Illustrated by Sara Ogilvie

T. S. Eliot’s best-selling collection of practical cat poems has been one of the most successful poetry collections ever. In the 80th year of Old Possum’s Cats, we published the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged, written by Costa winner Christopher Reid. This wonderfully witty and varied collection is now illustrated in full-colour by the brilliant Sara Ogilvie, and is perfect for younger readers to appreciate. A book that will be enjoyed by generations to come, ideal for reading together!

The naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey – All of them sensible everyday names . . . So begins one of the best-known poetry collections of all time. The practical cats need no introduction, but this stunning new full-colour version, illustrated by Júlia Sardà, showcases the cats exquisitely in a wonderfully stylish new edition. Whether you are a cat or a dog person, you will be enchanted and impressed by Júlia’s stunning interpretation. THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (1888-1965) was born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

JÚLIA SARDÀ is an illustrator from Barcelona. After her studies, Júlia started working for Disney/ Pixar and then moved on to freelancing. Ranging from concept art for video games to children’s illustration, Júlia has worked for a wide range of publishers throughout Europe and the UK.

CHRISTOPHER REID is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009). For his first collection of poems for children, All Sorts, he received the Signal Award 2000. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber, where T. S. Eliot once worked.

Of my own Consequential Dogs As counterparts to Eliot’s mogs. Mine are a rough and ready bunch: You wouldn’t take them out to lunch At some snoot-uppity restaurant, Or introduce them to an Aunt You hope might leave you heaps of money;

SARA OGILVIE is an awardwinning illustrator. She has illustrated a number of bestselling titles including The Detective Dog and Dogs Don’t Do Ballet. In addition, Sara lectures at her local university and continues to create work that is exhibited worldwide. Sara lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.

03/09/20

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I’ve rounded up a rowdy assembly

But if they strike you as friendly, funny, Full of bounce and fond of a romp, Forgetful of poetic pomp, I trust you’ll take them as you find them And, at the very least, not mind them.

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