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THE LONDON PROBLEM What Britain Gets Wrong About Its Capital City
Jack Brown £7.99 APRIL 2021 LONDON PBK, A-FORMAT | 136 pages p: 978-1-913368-14-2 e: 978-1-913368-15-9 s e r i e s : Haus Curiosities
‘This book’s message is clear, that Britain is about to need London’s strengths more than ever’ —Simon Jenkins The United Kingdom has never had an easy relationship with its capital. Far and away the wealthiest and most populous city in the country, London is the political, financial, and cultural centre of the UK. The city’s insatiable growth and perceived political dominance have caused national leaders grave concern for hundreds of years, so the recent resurgence in anti-London sentiment and plans to rebalance power away from the capital should come as no surprise. But will it be different this time? Published on the eve of the delayed mayoral elections and in the midst of the greatest financial downturn in generations, The London Problem asks whether it is fair to see the capital’s relentless growth and stranglehold on commerce and culture as smothering the advancement of the UK’s other cities and regions. Jack Brown is a lecturer in London Studies at King’s College London, and senior researcher at Centre for London. He is the author of No. 10: The Geography of Power at Downing Street (2019).
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UNWRITTEN RULE How to Fix the British Constitution
Stephen Green, Martin Donnelly, and Thomas Legg £7.99 MAY 2021 POLITICS, CURRENT AFFAIRS PBK, A-FORMAT | 90 pages p: 978-1-913368-30-2 e: 978-1-913368-31-9 s e r i e s : Haus Curiosities
‘Brexit has put in question much of the traditional fabric of the constitution. This book is a brave attempt to show how it can be remoulded’ —Vernon Bogdanor Not since Ireland broke away from the United Kingdom a century ago has the British state been so fragile. Northern Ireland now operates under trading rules that are legally separate from the rest of the nation. In Wales, support for independence is running at a historical high. Above all, Scotland is more conscious than ever of its individual identity, and has aspirations for a European future. With public trust and confidence in government at record lows, the UK faces a crisis that can only be repaired by a new constitutional settlement. Unwritten Rule calls for a radical realignment, embracing a federal approach that would accommodate devolution as the best way of bringing about a successful and diverse national life, increasing democratic control over local and national decision-making, and modernising our national political structures. Stephen Green was chairman of HSBC and later minister of state for trade and investment. Thomas Legg served as a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Justice under three prime ministers between 1989 and 1999. Martin Donnelly was director-general for economics in the Foreign Office and later permanent secretary of the Department for International Trade. NEW
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WALKING PEPYS’S LONDON Jacky Colliss Harvey £12.99 APRIL 2021 WALKING, LONDON, BIOGRAPHY HBK, CLOTH-BOUND 120 x 110 mm 190 pages | 5 maps p: 978-1-913368-28-9 e: 978-1-913368-29-6
Jacky Colliss Harvey brings Samuel Pepys’s London vividly to life in five walks though the city as he knew it Samuel Pepys traversed London on foot his whole life. The two and a half miles to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London were undertaken on an almost daily basis, and so many of his professional conversations took place whilst walking that the streets became for him a second office. Following the routes of Walking Pepys’s London, the reader will come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of English history’s most renowned and beloved diarist. The city was almost as much a character in Pepys’s life as were his family or friends, and the book draws parallels between his experience of 17th-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Colliss Harvey’s new book reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of the past, bringing geography, biography, and history into one. Jacky Colliss Harvey is a commentator who speaks both in the UK and abroad on the arts and their relation to popular culture. She is the author of the bestseller RED: A History of the Redhead (9780316473866) and most recently The Animal’s Companion (9781760295783).
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GERMAN JERUSALEM The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City
Thomas Sparr t r a n s l at e d by
Stephen Brown £16.99 FEBRUARY 2021
JEWISH INTEREST, HISTORY HBK, TRADE | 220 pages p: 978-1-912208-61-6 e: 978-1-912208-62-3
’A scintillating evocation of an intellectual paradise’ – Norman Lebrecht
Planned in the early 1920s as a garden city on the fringes of Jerusalem, the suburb of Rehavia became a centre of emigration for German Jews from 1933 onwards. The neighbourhoods became a vibrant German-Jewish microcosm with residents including the poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, the historian Gershom Scholem, and the philosopher and scholar Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, but life was also tough and could be unforgiving: the city had long been divided, and the residents of Rehavia found themselves caught up in conflict. After the war, the recent history of the Shoah weighed heavily on the neighbourhood’s inhabitants, but Rehavia also became a place of German-Israeli rapprochement. German Jerusalem is a story of a culturally distinctive community, and a fascinating biography of those who lived and worked there. Thomas Sparr worked at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem’s Leo Baeck Institute from 1986 to 1989. Today he lives in Berlin, where he works as an editor-at-large for the publisher Suhrkamp and as an independent writer and scholar. NEW
ART, IMAGINATION AND PUBLIC SERVICE Hughie O’Donoghue, Brenda Hale James O’Donnell, Clare Moriarty Micheal O’Siadhail, David Blunkett £7.99 MAY 2021 POLITICS, SOCIETY PBK, A-FORMAT | 112 pages p: 978-1-913368-18-0 s e r i e s : Haus Curiosities
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Three dialogues ask what more we can do to make public service imaginative, compassionate, and intelligent Art, Imagination and Public Service consists of three dialogues between a painter and a president of the Supreme Court (Hughie O’Donoghue and Brenda Hale); between a a musician and a permanent secretary (James O’Donnell and Clare Moriarty); and between a poet and a secretary of state (Micheal O’Siadhail and David Blunkett). In the dialogues, the speakers discover surprising synergies in their respective approaches to their work. Together they explore how art and imagination can sustain public servants and enable them to find new ways of addressing the seemingly intractable problems facing government, parliament, and the law – problems that resist utilitarian responses in which people end up being treated only as statistics in a target-driven world. Brenda Hale was president of the Supreme Court between 2017 and 2020; Hughie O’Donoghue is a painter and Royal Academician; Clare Moriarty was permanent secretary of the Department for Exiting the EU; James O’Donnell is an organist; David Blunkett held a number of senior positions in Tony Blair’s cabinet; Micheal O’Siadhail has published poetry collections including The Five Quintets. NEW
JUSTICE IN PUBLIC LIFE Claire Foster-Gilbert James Hawkey Jane Sinclair £7.99 MAY 2021 POLITICS, LAW PBK, A-FORMAT | 112 pages p: 978-1-913368-20-3 s e r i e s : Haus Curiosities
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Vividly bringing an abstract concept to life, this is a clarion call for us to nurture justice as a virtue pursued individually and together Together, the three contributions in this book consider the meaning of justice in the twentyfirst century, asking how justice can be expressed by our public service institutions and in society more widely. Is justice always threatened when truth is a casualty? Is our idea of justice skewed when we conflate it with fairness and its associated emotions? Justice in Public Life explores how justice as a virtue can help us navigate the complexities of life today in economics, in wider society, and in righting wrongs. The short essays also examine the threats to a just society, including human nature itself; our inheritance of unjust structures and expectations; the wide range of views over what constitutes justice; and the difficulty of establishing global justice and justice between nation states.
Jane Sinclair was canon of Westminster and rector of St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey. Claire Foster-Gilbert is the founding director of Westminster Abbey Institute and a current member of numerous medical and theological ethics committees. James Hawkey is canon theologian of Westminster Abbey and a visiting lecturer at King’s College London. NEW
RIDA SAÏD A Man for All Seasons
Sabah Kabbani t r a n s l at e d by
Peter Clark £14.99 MARCH 2021
BIOGRAPHY, SYRIA PBK, TRADE | 240 pages p: 978-1-912208-27-2 e: 978-1-912208-28-9
The remarkable story of one of the key figures in twentieth-century Syrian history and the founder of Damascus University After studying medicine in Istanbul and Paris, Rida Saïd served as a field doctor with the Ottoman Army in the Balkan Wars. Becoming disillusioned with the Ottoman Empire – like other Syrians, he was aware of an aggressive Turkish nationalism that alienated the Arabs – Saïd became a pioneering educationalist in Syria after the empire's collapse. He was the first head of Damascus University and later Minister of Education, dying in 1945 a few months before Syria achieved independence in 1946. Based on years of meticulous research – in archives in France and Turkey, as well as the Library of Congress and the archives of Damascus University – Kabbani has written an inventive and compelling version of a remarkable life. Rida Saïd is the story of a man who shaped many aspects of modern Syria, always staying true to his commitment to the education of the Arab people. Sabah Kabbani (1928–2015) was born in Damascus and educated in Syria and France. He had a career in public service as Director of Syrian Television and as a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Syria’s ambassador to the United States in 1974. NEW
THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD
On Archives, Empires, and the Vanity of Borders Photographs by
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg Text by Martin Zimmermann £17.99 APRIL 2021 HISTORY, PHOTOGRAPHY, EMPIRE PBK | 205 x 230mm | 160 pages p: 978-1-913368-11-1 e: 978-1-913368-10-4
Art Book of the Year in The Art Newspaper, selected by Hartwig Fischer, director of the British Museum Published here for the first time, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s historically unique photographs show the Archivo General de Indias in Seville before its redevelopment. Established in 1785, it is the archive of roughly 300 years of Spanish colonial history in the Americas. It houses 8,000 charts and around 90 million documents – among them Christopher Columbus’s logbook and the famous Treaty of Tordesillas, mediated by the pope and signed in 1494, which entitled the Spanish and Portuguese kings to divide the world between them. With this treaty as a starting point, the historian Martin Zimmermann takes the reader on a journey into the age of discovery and recounts stories of dangerous passages, encounters with the unknown, colonial brutality, the power of cartographers – and the insatiable lust of colonialists to conquer, exploit, and own the world. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is one of Germany’s most renowned photographers. In her works, she explores places at the edge of Western perception and man-made border areas. Her photographs have been exhibited around the world, including most recently at the Tate Modern. Martin Zimmermann is professor of ancient history at the LMU in Munich. NEW
THE DICTATORSHIP SYNDROME Alaa Al Aswany t r a n s l at e d by
Russell Harris
£9.99 FEBRUARY 2021 POLITICS PBK, B-FORMAT | 185 pages p: 978-1-913368-04-3 e: 978-1-912208-60-9
‘The great storyteller cures the current perils of humanity with his words’ – Ece Temelkuran The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, and injustice. What is the nature of dictatorship? How does it take hold? In what conditions and circumstances is it permitted to thrive? And how do dictators retain power, even when reviled and mocked by those they govern? In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator. Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building has sold over a million copies worldwide, and his work has been published in over a hundred countries. Al Aswany was named by The Times as one of the fifty best authors to have been translated into English in the last fifty years.
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TAZMAMART
18 Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison
Aziz BineBine t r a n s l at e d by
Lulu Norman
£9.99 APRIL 2021 MEMOIR PBK, B-FORMAT | 220 pages p: 978-1-913368-13-5 e: 978-1-912208-89-0
‘Far more than a vital document: it is a powerful tribute to human fortitude and imagination.’ – Guardian ‘Compulsively readable... Tazmamart is a deeply moving testament to the strength of the human spirit’ – Spectator In 1971, Aziz BineBine was imprisoned after becoming unwittingly involved in the attempted assassination of King Hassan II. He then endured eighteen years in the nightmarish conditions of the secret prison Tazmamart, where inmates were confined in small underground cells. With his fellow prisoners dying around him, BineBine realised the only way to survive was to forget the world outside his cell: to forget his past, his family, and his friends. An unfiltered depiction of the agony of prison life, written with touching simplicity and great tenderness, Tazmamart is a harrowing, powerful, and at times searing tale, and a testimony to the triumph of one human spirit pitted against injustice and savage cruelty. Aziz BineBine is a Moroccan author and former army officer. Inadvertently involved in the attempted coup d’état of 1971, he spent eighteen years imprisoned at Tazmamart. He now lives in Marrakech.
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SALZBURG City of Culture
Hubert Nowak t r a n s l at e d by
Peter Lewis £9.99 MARCH 2021
TRAVEL, AUSTRIA PBK, B-FORMAT | 140 pages p: 978-1-909961-71-5 e: 978-1-909961-69-2
A rich confection of fact and quirky detail, Nowak‘s Salzburg is a must for any visitor to this remarkable city As the seat of prince-bishops, it found wealth and power; as the birthplace of Mozart, it found fame; and as a festival city it found its purpose and destiny. But can today’s Salzburg really be known for anything more than music and majestic baroque architecture? Hubert Nowak, who lived and worked in Salzburg for many years, sets out to find the lesserknown side of the city. Leaving the festival district, he plunges into the atmospheric old quarter and places known only to natives – and often not even to them. Through the stories of those who visited the city over the centuries, Nowak gives the reader a fresh perspective and gives the old city new life. Salzburg: City of Culture is essential reading for anyone interested in visiting the city. Hubert Nowak is an Austrian journalist and author. For many years he was a journalist of domestic politics on radio and television, and the presenter of 'Zeit im Bild', the most important TV news programme of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). Later he was director of the ORF Landesstudio in Salzburg. NEW IN PAPERBACK
MY CYPRUS
Joachim Sartorius t r a n s l at e d by
Stephen Brown £9.99 JUNE 2021 MEMOIR, TRAVEL
PBK, B-FORMAT | 220 pages p: 978-1-909961-78-4 e: 978-1-913368-27-2
‘[a] delightful book’ – TLS ‘a must-read for anyone heading to Cyprus or in need of an armchair getaway.’ – Metro The history of the island of Cyprus is in many ways a world history. They all came here – the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, crusaders, Venetians, Genoese, Ottomans, British – and they all left their mark. Aside from the Roman and early-Byzantine ruins of Salamis, the most impressive monuments date from the Frankish and Venetian times: the Abbey of Bellapais, the fortified harbour of Kyrenia, the magnificent cathedrals in the cities of Nicosia and Famagusta, where Shakespeare’s Othello was set. In My Cyprus, the poet Joachim Sartorius recalls his years living amidst this remarkable history, including the island’s division after the Turkish invasion of 1974 and the difficulties that followed. Yet this is not the work of a historian but a poet who, with the help of both Greek and Turkish Cypriot friends, writes eloquently about this unique place. Joachim Sartorius is a poet and former diplomat. He was the secretary general of the Goethe Institut, and from 2001 to 2011 was artistic director of the Berlin Festival.
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MARY SEACOLE Ron Ramdin
£9.99 DECEMBER 2020 BIOGRAPHY PBK, B-FORMAT | 192 pages p: 978-1-913368-09-8 e: 978-1-913368-34-0
The remarkable life story of the woman voted Greatest Black Briton in 2004 Mary Seacole’s extraordinary life began in Jamaica, where she was born a ‘free person’, the daughter of a Black mother and white Scottish army officer. Ron Ramdin – who, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to the UK – tells the remarkable story of a woman celebrated today as a pioneering nurse. Refused permission to serve as a nurse during the Crimean War, Seacole took the unusual step of funding her own journey to the battlefront and there, in the face of sometimes harsh opposition, she established a hotel for wounded soldiers. Unlike Florence Nightingale, whose exploits saw her venerated as the ‘lady with the lamp’ for generations afterwards, Seacole was forgotten after a brief period of fame on her return to England. She died twenty-five years later in obscurity, and was unjustly written out of history for over a century before her significance was once again recognised. Ron Ramdin was born in Trinidad and emigrated in 1962 to the UK, where he has worked ever since as a journalist and author. His many publications include the pioneering history The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain (2017). PAPERBACK REISSUE
SELF AND SOCIETY Are Communal Solidarity and Individual Freedom Allies or Antagonists?
Michael Amherst, Tara McEvoy, David Crane, Nick Inman, Beninio McDonough-Tranza fo r e wo r d by
Michael D. Higgins £7.99 JULY 2021 ESSAYS
PBK, A-FORMAT | 90 pages p: 978-1-913368-32-6 s e r i e s : Haus Curiosities
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Prize-winning essays on a theme more pressing than ever in the era of coronavirus and Brexit Bringing together the winning and shortlisted essays from the Hubert Butler Essay Prize, Self and Society gives five perspectives on the tension between individual freedom and communal solidarity, asking what we owe our communities and why it matters. Winner Michael Amherst wonders whether the stratification of society in the name of social justice is helpful or harmful in the pursuit of equality. Tara McEvoy and David Crane tackle, respectively, the necessity of collective action as a response to the pandemic and other social crises, and the role of conflicts of individual freedom in facilitating or stifling the economic liberation of refugees. Nick Inman writes about personal responsibility, and Beninio McDonough-Tranza interrogates the legacy of the Polish union Solidarity (Solidarność). In his foreword, Ireland’s president Michael D. Higgins, invokes the spirit of the essayist Hubert Butler, asking whether collective and personal aims are destined to remain ever in conflict. Michael Amherst is the award-winning author of Go the Way Your Blood Beats. Tara McEvoy works at Pushkin Press. David Crane is an international development consultant. Nick Inman is an author, translator, and journalist. Beninio McDonough-Tranza is a researcher focused on the intellectual history of European imperialism. NEW
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