Haus Publishing - Spring 2023 Catalogue

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THE VIEW FROM THE HILL

Four Seasons in a Walker’s Britain

Christopher Somerville

£12.99 April 2023

Travel | Walking | UK

B-Format Pbk, 129×198mm | 480 pages p: 978-1-914982-03-3 e: 978-1-9099617-9-1

Imprint: Armchair Traveller

‘Somerville is a walker’s writer. The countryside has never been more inviting, and this is the book to make you reach for your rambling shoes. It’s a profusion of delights!’ Nicholas Crane

In Christopher Somerville’s workroom is a case of shelves that holds 450 notebooks. Their pages are creased and stained with mud, blood, flattened insect corpses, beer glass rings, smears of plant juice, and gallons of sweat. Everything Somerville has written about walking in the British countryside has its origin among these little black-and-red books.

During the lockdowns and enforced idleness of the Covid-19 pandemic, Somerville began to revisit this rough treasury of notes, spanning forty years of exploring these islands on foot. The View from the Hill pulls together the cream of this unique crop, following the cycle of the seasons from a freezing January on the Severn Estuary to the sight of sunrise on Christmas morning from inside a prehistoric burial mound. Through his retelling of hundreds of walks we discover randy natterjack toads in a Cumbrian spring, trout in a Hampshire chalk stream in lazy midsummer, a lordly red stag at the autumn rut on the Isle of Mull, and three thousand geese at full gabble in the wintry Norfolk sky.

Christopher Somerville is walking correspondent of The Times. He is one of Britain’s most respected and prolific travel writers, with forty-two books, hundreds of newspaper articles, and many TV and radio appearances to his name.

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THE SERPENT COILED IN NAPLES

Marius Kociejowski

£12.99 April 2023 Travel | Italy

B-Format Pbk, 129×198mm | 560 pages 63 illustrations p: 978-1-914982-02-6 e: 978-1-909961-80-7

Imprint: Armchair Traveller

‘BEST BOOKS OF 2022’

‘A delightful work that is as eclectic, labyrinthine, ironic, and shocking as the city itself.’ —Economist ‘Marius Kociejowski is one of life’s great questioners [and] The Serpent Coiled in Naples takes on some of the largest questions that come with searching for this stupendous city’s soul … The experience is more of an intellectual joyride than a standard history.’ —The New Yorker ‘Kociejowski’s book is one of the best I have read on the ramshackle Mediterranean outpost (and I have read a few). In pages of scholarly but engagingly droll prose, Kociejowski conjures a deathhaunted city, where the meaning of life is everywhere connected to what it is to die.’ —The Spectator ‘[A] sprawling, labyrinthine, exuberantly discursive book … to be dipped into at leisure (whether in an armchair at home or on a terrace overlooking the Bay of Naples). And it is a holiday in itself, with all the ingredients of a first-rate one: natural wonders, the evocative remnants of a many-layered ancient culture, unfamiliar food, haunting music and an edge of scary strangeness, all of it explored in excellent company.’ —Times Literary Supplement

Marius Kociejowski is a poet, essayist and travel writer. His books include The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool, The Pigeon Wars of Damascus, and, most recently, A Factotum in the Book Trade. He lives in London where, until recently, he worked as an antiquarian bookseller.

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IN THE LONG RUN WE'RE ALL DEAD

The Lives and Deaths of Great Economists

Björn Frank

Translated by Jamie Bulloch

£14.99 June 2023

Biography | Economics

Trade Hbk, 153×216mm | 172 pages p: 978-1-913368-57-9 e: 978-1-913368-58-6

A humorous and sideways look at the lives of some of the great and eccentric economic minds.

No one grows up dreaming of becoming an economist. Until the late nineteenth century, economics couldn’t even be studied at university; it was the preserve of polymathic figures whose radical curiosity drew them to an evolving, little understood, and often derided discipline. Each of the thirteen chapters of this book tells the story of just such a figure. Their extraordinary lives are all worthy of fiction and, oddly, the manner of their deaths often illuminates their work.

In the Long Run We’re All Dead shows us how these economists developed the theories for which they became famous (often, tragically, much too late for them to enjoy their fame). These often-complex ideas – utilitarianism, social costs, and the endowment effect, to name just a few – are explained here with reference to the lives of their creators in a style that is engaging, irreverent, and comic. Though what Frank tells us about these lives is true, this is also a book of imaginative speculation that considers how these economists’ principles might be applied to the problems of today and the future.

Björn Frank is professor of economics at the University of Kassel, Germany. Jamie Bulloch is a historian and has worked as a professional translator from German since 2001.

LABOUR’ S CIVIL WARS

How Infighting has kept the Left from Power (and what can be done about it)

Patrick Diamond Giles Radice

£12.99 June 2023

Politics | Political Parties

B-Format Pbk, 129×198mm | 360 pages p: 978-1-913368-74-6 e: 978-1-913368-60-9

‘A thought provoking book’ Literary Review

‘The British tradition of social democracy has needed a powerful shot of political and analytical adrenaline for a long time. Diamond and Radice, bearing a large syringe, administer it’ Peter Hennessy

Though both the Conservative and Labour parties have been subject to internal conflict over the years, it is the Labour Party that has been more given to damaging splits; the divide exposed by the Corbyn insurgency is only the most recent example in a century of destructive infighting. Indeed, it has often seemed as though Labour has been more adept at fighting itself than in defeating the Tory Party.

This book examines the history of Labour’s civil wars and the underlying causes of the party’s schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by Ramsay MacDonald, to the ongoing battle for the future between the incumbent, Keir Starmer, and those who fundamentally altered the party’s course under his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

Patrick Diamond is associate professor of public policy at Queen Mary University of London. He was senior policy adviser to the prime minister (2001–5), and head of policy planning in 10 Downing Street (2009–10). Giles Radice was a Labour MP, a writer, and a Labour member of the House of Lords.

TRUST IN PUBLIC LIFE

Anna Rowlands, Claire Gilbert

Josie Rourke, Anthony Ball James Hawkey

£7.99 June 2023 Politics and Government

A-Format Pbk, 117×178mm | 60 pages p: 978-1-913368-75-3 e: 978-1-913368-76-0

Haus Curiosities Series Co-published with Westminster Abbey Institute

Five essays address important questions on the necessity of trust in public life at a time when trust in our public officials is at an all-time low.

In ‘Trust in Oneself’, Claire Gilbert writes that leaders need to have the self-trust and confidence to rule, but, she notes, so often self-trust comes out of a lack of self-knowledge, while selfknowledge can prevent good leaders from stepping forward, precisely because they know their own failings all too well. In ‘Trust in Institutions’, Anthony Ball offers a virtue-based guide to rebuilding trust in institutions by means of four virtues: honesty, humility, compassion, and competence. Writing from a theological perspective, Anna Rowlands identifies society's drift towards scepticism as a growing problem of modernity, one that can only be solved through encounters with real people and through loving acts of committed entrustment. And in ‘Trust in People’, James Hawkey argues that trust in each other, between groups that make up ‘the people’, is a choice. To trust is to risk, to become vulnerable, to place the centre of our universe somewhere other than ourselves.

Anna Rowlands is professor of Catholic social thought and practice at Durham University. Claire Gilbert is founding director of Westminster Abbey Institute. Anthony Ball is a canon of Westminster. James Hawkey is canon theologian of Westminster. Josie Rourke is a theatre and film director.

NONVIOLENCE

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Ramin Jahanbegloo

£7.99 June 2023

Philosophy | Political Thought

A-Format Pbk, 111×178mm | 90 pages p: 978-1-913368-79-1 e: 978-1-913368-80-7

Haus Curiosities Series

Nonviolence is today the most important tool for the empowerment and enlightenment of humanity. We ignore it at the risk of our future.

The history of humanity is dominated by violence – it has oppressed and degraded us for centuries.

Drawing on the values of ancient religions and moral leaders such as Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus of Nazareth, Mahatma Gandhi was the first modern thinker to apply the philosophy of nonviolence to politics. Since then, nonviolence has been the core philosophy of freedom fighters such as Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Václav Havel in their resistance against oppression. Characterised by courage, love, and freedom, and the belief that no political act can be just or truthful unless it is morally legitimate, nonviolence is a strategy of dissent that uses many methods of civil disobedience to put to an end to the social and political evil that it seeks to resist.

In this powerfully argued short book, Ramin Jahanbegloo contends that the time has come for humanity to renew its commitment – politically, economically, and culturally – to the idea of nonviolence.

Ramin Jahabegloo is an Iranian–Canadian philosopher and academic, and the author of over twenty works of philosophy. He is the executive director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, and, in 2009, won the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain.

CHURCHILL’ S BRITAIN

From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight

Peter Clark £12.99 May 2023

History | Biogrpahy | Travel B-Format Pbk, 129×198mm | 376 pages p: 978-1-914982-05-7 e: 978-1-909961-75-3

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Named by The New Statesman as one of the ‘BEST BOOKS OF 2020’

‘Peter Clark has lent the story [of Churchill] a freshness’ Times Literary Supplement ‘an ingenious new way to write about Winston Churchill … this book will bring instruction and joy.’ Andrew Roberts

More books have been written about Winston Churchill than any modern historical figure, but Peter Clark’s Churchill’s Britain does something quite different. It takes the reader the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland to places associated with Churchill’s life. Some are familiar – Blenheim Palace, Chartwell, the Cabinet War Rooms – but we also see his schools, far-flung parliamentary constituencies in Dundee and Epping, the sites of famous speeches, the place he started to paint, the shop he bought his cigars, and the final resting places of his family and close friends. We read about these places in Chuchill's own words alongside Clark’s insightful analysis and, by visiting sites that made important but less-celebrated contributions to the story of Churchill’s life, we come closer to a full picture.

Each of the eight regions of the United Kingdom is introduced with a map, with the entries crossreferenced. It can be dipped into, consulted by the traveller, or read straight through. However used, Churchill’s Britain provides fascinating and fresh insights into this extraordinary man.

Peter Clark is a writer and translator with degrees from Keele and Leicester University. For thirty-one years he was in the overseas career service of the British Council.

CHAUCER’ S ITALY

Richard Owen £10.99 May 2023

Travel | Italy

B-Format Pbk, 129×198mm | 216 pages p: 978-1-914982-04-0 e: 978-1-909961-84-5

‘Richard Owen performs the remarkable feat of showing us Italy through Chaucer’s eyes ... the perfect read for a getaway break to Florence, Genoa, or Milan.’ Ross King, author of The Bookseller of Florence

Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In fact, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of The Canterbury Tales might never have assumed his place as the ‘father’ of English literature.

Nevertheless, Richard Owen’s Chaucer’s Italy begins in London, where the poet dealt with Italian merchants in his roles as court diplomat and customs official. Next Owen takes us, via Chaucer’s capture at the siege of Reims, to his involvement in arranging the marriage of King Edward III’s son Lionel in Milan and his diplomatic missions to Genoa and Florence. By scrutinising his encounters with Petrarch and Boccaccio, Owen reveals the deep influence of Italy’s people and towns on Chaucer’s poems and stories.

Much writing on Chaucer depicts a misleadingly parochial figure, but as Owen’s enlightening short study of Chaucer’s Italian years makes clear, the poet’s life was internationally eventful. The consequences have made the English canon what it is today.

Richard Owen was The Times’ Rome correspondent for fifteen years. He has written several works of non-fiction, including Crisis in the Kremlin and, with Haus, D. H. Lawrence in Italy and Hemingway in Italy.

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THE BONFIRE OF THE DECENCIES

Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution

Peter Hennessy and Andrew Blick

£12.99 October 2022

Politics | Current Affairs

Trade Pbk, 135×216mm | 238 pages

7 Tables

p: 978-1-913368-71-5 e: 978-1-913368-72-2

‘If you are interested in the codes and rules that constitute the ethical plumbing of the constitution, and how they were trashed by Johnson, then this is the book for you.’ Guardian

The British constitution matters. Its observance is crucial to the well-being of the public, to every state activity and deployment of government power. It is fundamental to sustaining the decencies of British public and political life. Yet mechanisms for the upholding of constitutional principles in the UK are deficient and require an overhaul. The experience of Boris Johnson’s premiership between 2019 and 2022 provides the focus for Andrew Blick's and Peter Hennessy's exploration of this subject.

From the outset, Johnson’s tenure was a source of serious disruption, which saw standards and integrity compromised and constitutional values violated. Eventually, his own colleagues turned on Johnson. But the problems do not end with his removal. They are part of longerterm tendencies in the UK, and of a worrying international trend towards the weakening of democracy. In this book, Blick and Hennessy analyse the pre-existing vulnerabilities that Johnson exposed in the UK system of government, ending with a series of proposals to repair the damage done and to prevent a repetition of this anxious episode in our political history.

Peter Hennessy is one of the UK’s leading contemporary historians and is the author of definitive books on the UK’s prime ministers, constitution, and intelligence agencies. Andrew Blick is professor of politics and contemporary history and head of department of political economy at King's College London. He is the editor of The Constitution in Review.

LEADERSHIP

Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy

Simon McDonald

£20 November 2022

Political Leadership | Politics & Government

Royal Hbk, 153×234mm | 258 pages p: 978-1-913368-68-5 e: 978-1-913368-69-2

‘This is a book full of riches – a despatch from deep inside the British state about how it really operates and how it could be run better.’ —Peter Hennessy

When Abraham Lincoln said, ‘You can be anything you want to be,’ Americans, and eventually everybody everywhere, lifted their sights. Nowadays anybody can aspire to be a leader, and nearly everybody has to lead sometimes.

In his first book, Simon McDonald assumes that thinking about leadership before you lead helps you to lead better. No matter the circumstances in which we might be called to lead – be it at work, on the sports field, or in the community – the example of top leaders in politics and public service (both their successes and shortcomings) can help you figure out your own approach.

As the head of HM Diplomatic Service, Simon McDonald was responbile for over 14,000 staff in 270 posts worldwide, worked for six foreign secretaries, and saw five prime ministers operate at close quarters. Observing these people undertaking the most important and often the most difficult work in the country, he saw the behaviours that helped them to achieve their objectives, and those which hindered them.

Simon Mcdonald was the British ambassador to Germany and later permanent undersecretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of the Diplomatic Service. He is master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

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