International Highlights: July - December 2021 by Faber

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

July–December

2021

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The new novel from the best-selling, award-winning author of NORMAL PEOPLE.

SECOND PLACE

Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young – but life is

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They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart, 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?

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The Country of Others LEÏLA SLIMANI

Harsh Times MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

After the Liberation of France, Mathilde follows the solider she has fallen in love with to his home in Morocco. Suffocated by the Moroccan climate, loneliness, the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner and the lack of money Mathilde grows restless. Relations between the settlers and the natives are increasingly tense, and her husband finds himself caught in the crossfire: his desire to protect his wife and daughters at odds with their own desire for freedom as the increasing violence of Morocco’s own struggle for independence grows daily . . .

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.

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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.

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Burntcoat SARAH HALL

The Night Always Comes WILLY VLAUTIN

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 even darker world.

Between looking after her brother, working two jobs and college classes, Lynette is dangerously tired. Every penny she’s earned for years, she’s put into savings. She and her mother are weeks away from signing the papers on a mortgage for the house they rent. Owning property will be the gateway into a freedom Lynette’s never had. But, when the plan is derailed, Lynette must decide how much she’s willing to put on the line for her family. Set over two days and two nights, this is the story of one woman’s attempt to survive in our world of opportunism, greed and gentrification.

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The Woman in the Purple Skirt NATSUKO IMAMURA The Woman in the Purple Skirt seems to live in a world of her own. She glides through crowded streets without acknowledging any reaction her presence elicits. Each afternoon, she sits on the same park bench, eating a pastry and ignoring the local children. Someone is following her, always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes; what she eats; whom she speaks to. But this invisible observer isn’t a stalker – no, it’s much more complicated than that. Clever, bewildering and darkly comic – the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.

A Crooked Tree UNA MANNION Rage. That’s the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen’s mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her other children, she accelerates away, leaving Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades. What would you do as you watch your little sister getting smaller in the rear view window? How far would you be willing to go to help her? This moment is the beginning of a summer that will change everything. B PB | £8.99 03/06/2021 | 9780571357970

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Mayflies ANDREW O'HAGAN 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 blow-out weekend in Manchester against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news . . .

Peaces HELEN OYEYEMI

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Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they become 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.

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The Bride of Almond Tree ROBERT HILLMAN

Godspeed NICKOLAS BUTLER Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best friends since childhood. Having founded their own construction company they yearn to build a legacy, something to leave behind to their families. So when Gretchen Connors, a mysterious millionaire from California, approaches them with a formidable project, the three friends convince themselves it’s the job which will secure their future. But what is Gretchen hiding from them? As the lines between ambition and greed prove to be more slippery than the three friends ever imagined, how far will they push themselves to chase their dream? B PB | £8.99 9780571351114

Welsey Cunningham grew up running barefoot through the orchards of Almond Tree, dreaming that one day he'd build a house of his own. Now in his twenties, returning from the Second World War, Wes finds his home town changed. Even Beth Hardy – his headstrong, fiercely intelligent and beautiful neighbour – is no longer the woman he once knew. Their dreams and desires may be at odds, but there is something they don’t yet know. Wes and Beth need each other, neither will be able to survive what life has in store without the other. B PBO | £8.99 01/07/2021 | 9780571366422

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PAPERBACKS Reality, and Other Stories JOHN LANCHESTER

The Feast MARGARET KENNEDY

Household gizmos with a mind of their own.

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.

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. A hotel is buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Over the course of a week before the landslide, we are introduced to these holidaymakers in all their eccentric glory: the selfish aristocrat and her bullying offspring; slothful hotelier; snooping housekeeper; jilted chambermaid; bohemian authoress with her chauffeur toyboy; bereaved couple; poverty-stricken family; cranky canon and his terrified daughter. As guests of all classes and backgrounds are thrown together, friendships form, romances blossom, sins are revealed, and the cliff cracks widen . . .

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The wrong kind of cold calls. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real.

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Devotion MADELINE STEVENS

Mrs Caliban RACHEL INGALLS

Ella is lonely, hungry and broke.

Dorothy is a lonely suburban housewife. One day, the radio announces that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research, but little did she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular yet gentle, vegetarian and excellent at housework, Larry the frogman is a revelation: and their passionate affair goes beyond their wildest dreams.

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.

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An amphibious cult classic, Rachel Ingalls’ surrealist vision is still as magical as it was four decades ago.

Come Closer SARA GRAN

Erasure PERCIVAL EVERETT

Amanda’s well-ordered life begins to unravel as her desires devolve into something dark, bizarre, and unexplained . . . Strange noises can always be explained away. Everybody has lustful, violent dreams now and again. You didn’t mean to crush out that lit cigarette on your husband’s arm . . . did you?

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.

Now is the time to discover this cult classic from acclaimed writer Sara Gran.

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Reissued with an introduction by Brandon Taylor, Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life.

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Dream Girl LAURA LIPPMAN Famous author Gerry Anderson never quite lived up to his hit debut, Dream Girl, a novel whose popularity and infamy has only benefitted over the years from speculation around who the novel’s heroine, Aubrey, may have been based on. Now Gerry is receiving strange letters and phone calls – is someone actually claiming to be the ‘real’ Aubrey? Can Gerry see past the everblurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived? TPB | £12.99 24/06/2021 | 9780571360987

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April in Spain JOHN BANVILLE On the coast of San Sebastian, Dublin pathologist Quirke is shocked to glimpse a familiar face – because April Latimer was murdered by her brother, years ago – the conclusion to an unspeakable scandal that shook one of Ireland’s foremost political dynasties.

The Plot JEAN HANFF KORELITZ

Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke makes a call back home and soon Detective St John Strafford is dispatched to Spain. But he’s not the only one en route: as a relentless hitman hunts down his latest prey, they are all set for a brutal showdown.

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?

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This season’s gripping page-turner from the author of The Undoing.

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.

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When Ghosts Come Home WILEY CASH

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A sheriff struggling for re-election and haunted by his past. A mystery plane which crash-lands on his island. A daughter returning home to hide from her troubles. An FBI pilot sent to help.

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As the mystery of the abandoned plane and the dead body stokes longsimmering racial tensions, a moment of reckoning draws ever closer for the town of Oak Island. When Ghosts Come Home is the thrilling new pageturner from prize-winning novelist Wiley Cash.

‘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. B PB | £8.99 07/10/2021 | 9780571362707

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PAPERBACKS Every Vow You Break PETER SWANSON After a whirlwind, fairytale romance, Abigail Baskin marries freshly-minted Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb. For their honeymoon, he whisks her away to an exclusive retreat at a friend’s resort off the Maine coast on Heart Pond Island. But once there, Abigail’s perfect new life threatens to crash down around her as she recognises one of their fellow guests as the good looking, charismatic stranger who weeks earlier had seduced her at her own Bachelorette party . . .

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The Girl She Was ALAFAIR BURKE Fourteen years ago, Hope was found thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. She called herself Hope and started a new life, but never recovered her memory. Now she’s missing. The only lead is a drop of blood with an ominous connection to an infamous murderer in Kansas. In pursuit of answers, three women search for the truth beneath longburied secrets. And when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they’ve ever known. B PBO | £8.99 02/09/2021 | 9780571345595

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The Dead of Winter NICOLA UPSON

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December 1938: Storm clouds hover once again over Europe. 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. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, can Josephine and Archie prevent the murderer from striking again? B PB | £8.99 04/11/2021 | 9780571353255

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The Joy of Small Things HANNAH JANE PARKINSON Whether it’s wearing a big, fluff y dressing gown (‘like bathing in marshmallow’) or red lipstick (‘the makeup equivalent of walking into the party, shoulders back, chest out’), the joy of pockets or regional accents, Hannah Jane Parkinson celebrates small everyday sources of cheer. Selected from her Guardian column these gorgeous vignettes help us to see the pleasures life has to offer. This book is a balm for anyone having an unsteady time.

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The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book ALEX BELLOS

Shadow State LUKE HARDING

Beneath the Night STUART CLARK

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 restaurant critic Jay Rayner answers these vital questions and many, many more.

A compendium of more than one hundred hugely entertaining puzzles celebrating the amazing diversity of the world of words and language, from the bestselling author of Can You Solve My Problems? Whether you are a crossword- solver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.

No terrorist group has deployed a nerve agent in a civilian area or used a radioactive mini-bomb in London. The Kremlin has done both. Shadow State is a gripping investigative account of how Russia’s spies helped elect Donald Trump, backed Brexit, murdered enemies and threatened the very basis of western democracy.

Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of satellites and space exploration, Stuart Clark explores a fascination shared across the world and throughout millennia.

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Tasting Notes from a Greedy Life

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Miss Dior JUSTINE PICARDIE A portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister, Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume. In Occupied Paris, Christian honed his couture skills in a fashion house while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance. She was captured and deported to the concentration camp of Ravensbrück. On release, barely recognisable to her brother, Catherine retreated into anonymity. 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. HB | £20.00 09/09/2021 | 9780571356522

Black Teacher BERYL GILROY Beryl Gilroy’s new life wasn’t what she had expected. In 1951, she moved from British Guiana to London to pursue her dream of teaching, only to face a racist post-war society – but her determination and belief in the power of education to promote diversity resulted in a pioneering career. She became one of the first black headteachers in Britain. Her inspirational autobiography 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. DEMY HB | £12.99 01/07/2021 | 9780571367733

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Burning Boy: Notes on Stephen Crane PAUL AUSTER Stephen Crane died in 1900, but he is not the last of the Victorians, he is the first of the Moderns. Paul Auster takes the reader on a vivid journey through the brief twenty-nine years of Crane’s life, analysing the major works with such enthusiasm that the reader immediately wants to read Crane’s work. Auster also brings to life the world of fin de siècle America as the 19th century ends and the 20th is beginning.

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir AKWAEKE EMEZI

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In this memoir, Akwaeke Emezi writes to the formative people in their life about their ongoing struggles around the idea of the self, and the core concepts of love, family, gender, home, faith, and success. The result is a powerful portrait of Emezi, interrogating how to transcend the boundaries and expectations imposed by traditional belief systems, and how to share the resulting self with the world, to allow it space even while it struggles to survive.

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Cyril & Sybil: Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews, Artists Together, 1920–1943

JENNY UGLOW In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, summing up the hectic interwar years. Cyril & Sybil traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams. This is a world of Futurists, Surrealists and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war. HB | £20.00 04/11/2021 | 9780571354153 01/05/2021 | B PB | £8.99 9780571351008

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The Greeks: A Global History RODERICK BEATON Looking for Trouble VIRGINIA COWLES As a pioneering female war correspondent Virginia Cowles 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 high 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 occupied; Moscow to see Stalin; London in the Blitz . . . Her incredible testimony will make you an eyewitness to history as you have never experienced it before.

The Greeks is the story of a culture that has contributed more than any other to the way we live today in the West, a story that covers the entire globe and four millennia. It is a story of scatterings and refuge, where innovations allowed the Greek culture of today to survive and flourish once more. This enrapturing story is also a lesson: that even the world’s most celebrated and ancient cultures were forever in flux, forged by currents of history, immigration and resource crises, an ever-changing blend of myriad, diverse cultures. HB | £25.00 04/11/2021 | 9780571353569

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Being You ANIL SETH 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? Charting the developments in our understanding of consciousness, and revealing radical breakthroughs that transform the way we think about the self, Being You puts forward a revolutionary framework of how we experience the world and our place within it. TPB | £14.99 02/09/2021 | 9780571337712

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The Devil You Know GWEN ADSHEAD with EILEEN HORNE

Allegorizings JAN MORRIS

How can we understand evil? Dr Gwen Adshead has spent thirty years providing therapy inside secure hospitals and prisons. Whatever her patient’s crime, from serial homicide to stalking, arson to child abuse, her aim is to help them to change their minds.

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 Canal Crisis, the Eichmann Trial, The Cuban Revolution and so much more.

The Devil You Know is about thinking the unthinkable and about putting words to the unspeakable. Above all, it is a vital and compassionate book about our shared humanity. TPB | £12.99 03/06/2021 | 9780571357611

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In Allegorizings, published posthumously as was her wish, Morris looks back over some of the key moments of her life, and sees a multitude of meanings. HB | £14.99 04/11/2021 | 9780571234134

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Professor Linda Scott describes both the shocking gender inequalities built into the global economy and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to turn these around and combat humankind’s most pressing social, financial and environmental problems – for everyone. Provocative, accessible and game-changing, The Double X Economy is at once an expert analysis and an urgent call to action. B PB | £10.99 05/08/2021 | 9780571337576

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Ten Days in Harlem SIMON HALL

Tom Stoppard HERMIONE LEE

Klopp ANTHONY QUINN

How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so good at revealing nature’s secrets? From electromagnetism to Einstein’s gravitational waves to Wolfgang Pauli’s elusive neutrino, acclaimed science writer Marcus Chown takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the major breakthroughs of modern physics.

Dive into this splendid collection of unusual questions and some unexpected answers that are sure to make your head spin on topics ranging from goosebumps to grapefruit, pizza to pirates and everything in-between.

Capturing the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro’s visit to New York. In this unforgettable slice of modern history, Simon Hall reveals how these ten days were a foundational moment in the trajectory of the Cold War, a turning point in the history of anti-colonial struggle, and a launching pad for the social, cultural and political tumult of the decade that followed.

With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and interviews Hermione Lee builds a meticulously researched portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Tracing his family’s escape from Czechoslovakia through his leap to fame with Rosencrantz, to marriages, fatherhood and world-wide travels. Making close readings of all his plays, this is the story of a complex, elusive and private man.

Journalist, novelist and life-long Liverpool fan, Anthony Quinn has written an inspiring and affectionate portrait of the incredible German manager, who came to Liverpool in late 2015. Closely following the football club’s title-clinching return, Quinn offers a uniquely revealing and personal take on this long-awaited triumph.

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Generously sprinkled with extra facts and questions from the Elves, Funny You Should Ask . . . is essential reading for the incurably curious.

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Faber & Faber TOBY FABER The names of T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney are synonymous with Faber & Faber, founded in 1929. But behind these literary talents was a tiny firm that had to battle the Great Depression, wartime paper shortages and dramatic financial crises to retain its independence. Published to celebrate Faber’s 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world’s great publishing houses, revealing the untold stories behind some of the greatest literature of the twentieth century. B PB | £10.99 01/07/2021 | 9780571339051

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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 and 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.

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Eruption PAUL BRANNIGAN Nina Simone’s Gum WARREN ELLIS From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. 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 remained with him ever since; a sacred totem, his creative muse.

Arriving in California in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother were ripe for the coming musical revolution. Minds blown by Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend, the brothers formed a band. Van Halen set a new bar for the rock’n’roll lifestyle and created an entirely new sound. But Eddie’s struggles played out in public: substance abuse, difficult relationships, and a long-running battle with cancer. Eruption explores the cultural, political, and social contexts that shaped an icon while turning up the volume on a life lived in the fast lane.

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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, on experiences. It is a celebration of artistic process, friendship, understanding and love.

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How to Write One Song JEFF TWEEDY

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One of the century’s most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing and offers a warm, accessible guide to writing your first song.

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You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone JENNIFER OTTER-BICKERDIKE

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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, her artistry and influence are often overlooked. 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 Bjork, Morrissey and Iggy Pop. Containing new interviews and rare archival material, this is the Nico biography we have been waiting for.

Sweet Dreams DYLAN JONES

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The New Romantics visually defined the 1980s; and was 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.

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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.

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Fryderyk Chopin ALAN WALKER

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Animation Mini Series RICHARD E. WILLIAMS

Schumann JUDITH CHERNAIK

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, easyto-carry – and easy-to-study – editions.

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 he suffered entered his music, and vividly brings Schumann’s extraordinary artistic achievement to life in all its rich complexity. TPB | £14.99 07/10/2021 | 9780571331277

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Mozart JAN SWAFFORD

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The stunning, definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history. The life and the myth of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart have held the world in thrall since the years of his early childhood celebrity – he was an inexplicable force of nature. Swafford brings him indelibly and movingly to life in this landmark new portrait.

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Faber Poetry

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Rapping Princess HANNAH LEE A completely original rhyming picture book that celebrates daring to be different, featuring Shiloh, the rapping princess. 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! PB | £6.99 05/08/2021 | 9780571361151

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Foregrounding the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of the mythological intensity of tribal life and a deeply rooted cultural history.

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Drawing on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures, all set in tightly realised domestic settings that are invigorated with a contemporary relevance, humour and torment, and a distinctive, transcendent music.

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The Book Cat POLLY FABER

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 is a classic wartime tale of a cat who made his home at the office and decided he’d never leave. Based on real life anecdotes about Morgan, a very clever cat, who was a familiar face at the offices of Faber & Faber. Morgan becomes a pastmaster at editing under T. S. Eliot’s tutelage, but when the bombing begins, he finds himself chief billeting officer, responsible for the safety of all the kittens who must be evacuated out of London. HB | £12.99 05/08/2021 | 9780571357888

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Auguries of a Minor God NIDHI ZAK/ARIA EIPE A spellbinding collection exploring 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

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Love, Desire and Memory. The second is a long narrative poem, ‘A is for ‫[ العرب‬Arabs]’, 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 it is a skilful and intimate account of migration and exile, of home and belonging. B PB | £10.99 01/07/2021 | 9780571365562

The Longer the Wait, the Bigger the Hug EOIN MCLAUGHLIN Everyone’s favourite (socially distanced) characters return to help us through this challenging period. 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 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. PB | £6.99 01/07/2021 | 9780571370405

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All American Boys: The Illustrated Edition JASON REYNOLDS

Bad Panda SWAPNA HADDOW

stop beating me. ’ I just wanted to live.

This bestselling novel about police brutality – now fully illustrated by Akhran Girmay. Mistaken for a shoplifter, Rashad’s refusal to ‘stand still’ by a cop, results in a heavy beating. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the pavement?

Everyone thinks that Lin is the cutest panda in the world. So much so that they ship her off to the local zoo, away from her beloved brother, to be ogled at by the masses. But Lin HATES being cute, and now she will do everything in her power to prove that she’s the baddest, meanest, most un-cute animal in the zoo . . .

Two teenagers – one black, one white – grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.

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Our Beautiful Game LOU KUENZLER 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, they were creating all-female sides and 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'. But Lily Parr, Alice Woods and their teammates were proudly playing their beloved, exciting and skilful game. This is the incredible story of these amazing women.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four GEORGE ORWELL

Explorers at Pirate Island ALEX BELL

Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, this is the classic dystopian tale of an oppressive government.

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 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. But even if they do make it to Pirate Island, can they fool the Collector and get into an impenetrable fort?

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The classic story of a society that controls your every move and thought and a man, Winston, who comes to realise the oppression he is living under. B PB | £8.99 05/08/2021 | 9780571355884

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