Fourth Estate, William Collins and The Friday Project July – December 2013 Catalogue
Contents Fourth Estate Non-Fiction……….pp3-13 Fourth Estate Fiction………….....pp4-29
William Collins …………….…… pp20-45 The Friday Project………………..pp46-64
The End of Night Paul Bogard A beautiful invocation of our constant companion, the night. This book reminds us of the power and mystery of the dark. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard investigates what we mean when we talk about the different shades of darkness, about what we’ve lost, what we still have, what we might regain. He travels from our brightest nights to our darkest, from the intensely lit cities where public lighting as we know it began, to the sites where real darkness might still remain. Encountering scientists, physicians, activists and writers, Bogard discusses how our use of light at night is negatively affecting the natural world in ways we’re barely beginning to study; how human physical, psychological, and spiritual health are significantly influenced by darkness or a lack thereof; and how it’s not a matter of using light at night or not, but rather when and where, how and how much.
• The End of Night will be supported by a full PR campaign, with widespread coverage across the media. • Tapping into the current enthusiasm for astronomy, The End of Night will almost assuredly share a fanbase with Professor Brian Cox’s hugely successful television series Stargazing: Live.
Paul Bogard, PhD., is a widely published author of journalism, creative nonfiction, scholarship and is the editor of Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark. He studied Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, and now teaches writing at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-742820-5 Size: 216x135mm Hardback 4 July 2013 UK £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-742822-9 4 July 2013
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The New IQ Tracey Alloway and Ross Alloway The New IQ provides an understanding of working memory as an evolving mechanism of the modern brain and shows us how to enhance it in order to improve our chances of success in all aspects of life. IQ tests, which measure our ability to retain information, are out of date. In the information age, the key to survival is not our capacity for retaining knowledge but our ability to manage it. We are becoming more dependent on something known as working memory.
But what determines the strength of our working memory? How does it change over the course of our lives and is there anything we can do to improve its capability? Through research, observations and anecdotes, The New IQ explores these questions, dispelling the myths that surround modern intelligence and IQ and explaining how working memory differs across a spectrum of people, with varying aptitude, experiences, and expertise. • Tracey and Ross Alloway’s research has received widespread coverage on TV (Fox, BBC, SkyNews, Channel 4); radio (BBC TV and World Service, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio 1 Germany, NewsTalk Ireland); in print; and online. • Will appeal to readers of Daniel Goleman, Oliver Burkeman and Derren Brown’s Tricks of the Mind.
Tracy Packiam Alloway, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Memory and Learning in the Lifespan at the University of Stirling, UK and the world’s leading expert on Working Memory. Ross Alloway, PhD, is the CEO of Memosyne Ltd, a company that brings cuttingedge scientific research to parents.
Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-744343-7 Size: 216x135mm Trade Paperback 18 July 2013 UK: £12.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746876-8 18 July 2013
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Daylesford Food Book The ultimate in delicious, fresh food from the company who are dedicated to growing, producing and cooking real food. Daylesford have made us think differently about how we eat and shop. Their recipe for successful living and delicious eating is simple. Using scrupulously sourced ingredients from local artisans and producers, Daylesford passionately believe in an unswerving commitment to sourcing produce of the utmost quality: self-sustaining fruit and vegetables grown naturally, in season; specialist breeds of animals reared healthily and in the habitat that suits them best; cheeses made with the highest quality milk, using traditional techniques. This book will help you make Daylesford's award-winning recipes at home, showing you how to live healthily and simply throughout the food calendar year. It will include recipes for traditionally crafted breads, tarts and cakes from seven-seed sourdough to quintessentially English classics of spiced apple cake, as well as delicious vegetarian recipes, and meat and game dishes. The principles of purity, simplicity and seasonality lie behind each carefully crafted dish.
• An expanding, luxury food, health and homeware brand that counts Kate Moss and Liz Hurley amongst its fans. • Originally based in Gloucestershire, Daylesford has grown from its original farm shop and restaurant and now has stores in Sloane Square, Notting Hill and in Selfridges, and new stores are planned for 2013.
Passionately dedicated to sourcing top-quality, locally produced food, Daylesford is based on self-sustaining organic farming model that explores the link between what we eat and where it comes from. Daylesford now have six food outlets in London and a restaurant, farmshop, natural health spa and yoga studio in the Cotswolds.
Cookery ISBN: 978-0-00-727479-6 Size: 280x230 mm Hardback 29 August 2013 UK: £30 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-735644-7 29 August 2013
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The Little Book of Fast Food Nigel Slater
The author of The Kitchen Diaries and presenter of Simple Suppers and Dish of the Day is back with a brilliant new collection of quick and simple recipes. Nigel Slater’s Real Fast Food was the original quick recipe book. Twenty years since it was first published, it has sold nearly a million copies. In The Little Book of Fast Food, Nigel returns to ‘fast food’ and what he is loved by many of his fans for – quick, simple, delicious recipes that provide inspiration for everyday meals.
• Nigel Slater is one of the country’s most loved food writers, and the presenter of BBC One’s Simple Suppers, which consistently attracts audiences of over 3.5 million, and Dish of the Day • The first instalment of The Kitchen Diaries has sold over 300,000 and the second nearly 200,000 copies in hardback so far. His recent two-volume Tender has sold 250,000. • The Little Book of Fast Food will be a completely fresh and modern take on the ‘quick recipe’ format. It will be beautifully and innovatively designed, with an image for each recipe.
Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books and presenter of BBC 1's Simple Cooking and Dish of the Day. He has been food columnist for the Observer for twenty years. His books include the classics Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries and the critically acclaimed twovolume Tender. His award winning memoir Toast – the Story of a Boy's Hunger won six major awards and is now a BBC. His writing has won the National Book Awards, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize and the British Biography of the Year. He was the winner of a Guild of Food Writers' Award for his BBC1 series Simple Suppers. Cookery ISBN: 978-0-00-752615-4 Size: 195x140mm Hardback 12 September 2013 UK : £26 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752616-1 12 September 2013
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The Drinking Diaries Ann Dowsett Johnston The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery. This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of women. The new reality: binge drinking is increasing among young adults – and women are largely responsible for this trend. Women’s buying power has been growing for decades, and their decision-making authority has grown as well. The alcohol industry, well aware of this reality, is now battling for women’s downtime – and their brand loyalty. Our relationship with alcohol is complex, and growing more so. This book will be essential reading for a huge number of women, a book that's breaks a major taboo. This will be a book for best friends to give one another, mothers to give daughters, sisters to give to each other – a book to read with the cover off, in hiding, when you know you're in trouble. This book will offer companionship for women of every age. It will answer a myriad tough questions. Intimate and startlingly honest, The Drinking Diaries will be a book to change the lives of women of all ages – and those who love them. A book for anyone who thinks they have a problem, or knows someone who may have a problem, and wants to know more. Which means: just about everyone. • For fans of Elizabeth Lesser's Broken Open. As with Eat, Pray, Love, it should resonate as a story of suffering, searching and redemption. Eat, Pray, Love sold more than half a million copies through TCM in the UK. • The growing problem of female alcoholism in the UK, and worldwide, will make this a book a huge news story.
Winner of five National Magazine Awards, a Southam Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy (2011), Ann Dowsett Johnston is a gifted writer, editor and public speaker. Most recently, as Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, she wrote a 11-part series on Women and Alcohol, appearing in Toronto Star. Ann grew up in northern Ontario, rural South Africa and Toronto. A graduate of Queen's University, she lives in Toronto. Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-750356-8 Size: 234x153mm Trade Paperback 26 September 2013 UK : £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-750357-5 28 February 2013
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The Kraus Project Jonathan Franzen From the bestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom, a hugely inventive book that revives the prescient, wise and even laugh-out-loud witty voice of a major figure of fin-de-siècle Europe: Karl Kraus. Kraus was a playwright, poet, social commentator and satirical genius, widely known and influential throughout Europe. Jonathan Franzen here translates three major essays, but it is his sharp, deep and colourful annotations on Kraus’s work which makes up two-thirds of the book. Praise for Freedom: ‘Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be’ Independent on Sunday 'Head and shoulders above any other book this year: moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer, Books of the Year
Jonathan Franzen was born in 1959 and graduated from Swarthmore College. He has lived in Boston, Spain, New York, Colorado Springs and Philadelphia. His other novels are The TwentySeventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections and Freedom. He is also the author of How To Be Alone, a collection of non-fiction, and The Discomfort Zone, a memoir.
Letters, Essays, Journalism and Literature ISBN: 978-0-00-751743-5 Size: 216x135mm Hardback 8 October 2013 UK : £16.99 Farther Away (PB) 978-0-00-745953-7 £8.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751745-9 8 October 2013
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Bad Pharma Ben Goldacre Bad Science hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a half a million copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own drugs, which distort and exaggerate the benefits by design. When these trials produce unflattering results, the data is simply buried. All of this is perfectly legal. In fact, even government regulators withhold vitally important data from the people who need it most. Doctors and patient groups have stood by too, and failed to protect us. Instead, they take money and favours, in a world so fractured that medics and nurses are now educated by the drugs industry. Patients are harmed in huge numbers. Ben Goldacre is Britain’s finest writer on the science behind medicine, and Bad Pharma is a clear and witty attack, showing exactly how the science has been distorted, how our systems have been broken, and how easy it would be to fix them. This edition will be fully updated for paperback publication.
Ben Goldacre is a doctor, writer, broadcaster and academic who specialises in unpicking dodgy scientific claims from drug companies, newspapers, government reports, PR people and quacks. His first book, Bad Science, reached Number One in the non-fiction charts, sold over half a million copies in the UK alone, and has been translated into 25 languages.
Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-749808-6 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 18 July 2013 UK: ÂŁ8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-736364-3 27 September 2013
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You Can’t Read This Book Nick Cohen One of today’s finest and most uncompromising journalists devastatingly exposes the reality behind the unprecedented freedoms we supposedly enjoy. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism and the advent of the Internet, it has become the conventional wisdom that we are living in an age of unparalled freedom. But, as Nick Cohen argues, this view is in fact dangerously naïve. From the Great Firewall of China to super-injunctions that shield the misdeeds of the filthy rich from public scrutiny, the traditional opponents of freedom of speech are thriving, and in many respects finding the world a more comfortable place than ever before. In Britain, they are shamefully abetted by libel laws that have made the country an international byword for the judicial suppression of inconvenient truths. In You Can't Read This Book, one of the wittiest and most excoriating journalists at work today passionately and persuasively describes how we in the liberated West find ourselves in a situation in which you can write a novel, criticise an alternative therapy or ‘offend’ a religion by drawing a cartoon, and risk ending up financially ruined, or even dead.
Nick Cohen is a journalist and commentator for the Observer and Evening Standard. He is also the author of What’s Left? – the most important and provocative commentaries on how the Left lost its way.
• Nick Cohen is a popular columnist for the Observer and Standpoint Magazine. • What’s Left? sold over 14,000 copies in trade paperback and 15,000 so far in paperback in the UK and received fantastic reviews across the media.
Politics ISBN: 978-0-00-751850-0 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 1 August 2013 £8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-743645-3 19 January 2012
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The Pike Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War Lucy Hughes-Hallett The story of Gabriele D’Annunzio, poet, daredevil, and Fascist. In September 1919 Gabriele D’Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern day Croatia. His intention – to establish a utopia based on his fascist and artistic ideals. It was the dramatic pinnacle to an outrageous career. Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the controversial life of D’Annunzio, the debauched artist who became a national hero. His evolution from idealist Romantic to radical right-wing revolutionary is a political parable. Through his ideological journey, culminating in the failure of the Fiume endeavour, we witness the political turbulence of early 20th century Europe and the emergence of fascism. ‘Hugely enjoyable … Hughes-Hallett has a great talent for encapsulating an era or an attitude …The fact that almost 700 pages flew by bears testimony to how pleasurable and readable those pages were’ Sunday Times
‘This is a magnificent portrait of a preposterous character … D’Annunzio was deplorable, brilliant, ludicrous, tragic but above all irresistible, as hundreds of women could testify. His biographer has done him full justice’ Francis Wheen, Daily Mail ‘Beautiful, strange and original… an extraordinarily intimate portrait’ New Statesman
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions which was published in 1990 to wide acclaim, and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen, published in 2004, which garnered similar praise. Cleopatra won the Fawcett Prize and the Emily Toth Award. Lucy HughesHallett lives in London. Biography ISBN: 978-0-00-721396-2 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 10 October 2013 UK : £12.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-735651-5 17 January 2013
Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen (PB) 978-1-85702-686-3 £16.99
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Paper An Elegy Ian Sansom A witty, personal and entertaining reflection on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell their physical counterparts. Still, there are some uses of paper that seem unlikely to change – Christmas won’t be Christmas without wrapped presents or crackers. And the language of paper – documents, files and folders – has survived digitisation. In Paper: An Elegy Ian Sansom builds a museum of paper and explores its paradox – its vulnerability and durability. This book is a timely meditation on the very paper it’s printed on. ‘Engaging and dynamic’ Andrew Martin, Financial Times ‘Wonderfully diverting book[…]splendidly dense with fact and thought’ Steven Poole, TLS
Ian Sansom is the author of the popular Mobile Library Mystery Series and of the new book The Norfolk Mysteries. He is also a frequent contributor and critic for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, LRB, and Spectator. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. He teaches at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University in Belfast.
Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748027-2 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 24 October 2013 UK : £8.99
The Bad Book Affair (PB) 978-0-00-725593-1 £7.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-748107-1 24 October 2013
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A French Novel Frédéric Beigbeder Already a huge hit in France, the new novel from Independent Foreign Fiction Award-winning author of Windows on the World. In his most autobiographical book to date, Beigbeder recounts his stay in a French police cell in January 2008, after he was arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet outside a nightclub in the super-chic 8th arrondissement of Paris. As he lies in the cell, he revisits his childhood, from the carefree days when his grandfather taught him to skim pebbles at the beach in Cénitz, to his parents’ divorce, the conflicting influences of his hedonistic father and studious, seemingly conventional brother who ‘has it all’, and his own first, unrequited loves. Sharp, witty – with a particularly pitiless irony directed at himself – and yet tender, A French Novel is a gem. Beigbeder’s reminiscences, his search for answers in the lost country of his childhood, will speak to a whole generation searching for its soul. 'Beigbeder brings this off thanks to his electrifying intelligence and vaulting leaps of sympathy with all the victims – in the tower, the planes, and the unjust world beyond New York’. Independent on Windows on the World
Frédéric Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster
• Already a bestseller in France, A French Novel received the Prix Renaudot in 2009. Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-737136-5 Size: 216x135mm Hardback 18 July 2013 UK £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746885-0 18 July 2013 Windows on the World (PB) 978-0-00-718470-5 £7.99
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I Take You Nikki Gemmell The Original Erotic Sensation.... And Still the Best. The third instalment in the bestselling Bride Stripped Bare trilogy. Nikki Gemmell’s concluding instalment is a modern day version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, set in Notting Hill, involving a banker’s wife and the gardener of a local communal garden. Connie Carven is devoted to her husband, who is left paralysed from the waist down following an accident. But this is no less than he demands – in fact, he insists on Connie’s utter subservience to his every desire. But unable to physically satisfy his wife, Clifford is eager to explore new, strange and troubling avenues of passion. Connie, ever the dutiful wife, follows wherever he leads. And yet Connie is bursting with unfulfilled desire. Unfulfilled, that is, until the communal gardener enters, and their affair accelerates to its tense, shuddering conclusion. • Since its repackage, The Bride Stripped Bare has TCM’d 100,000 physical copies, and 35,000 ebooks. In the same period With My Body has TCM’d 35,000 paperbacks and sold 13,500 ebooks. • This concluding instalment will appeal not only to Nikki’s own readership, but also that newly mobilised and now greedy 50 Shades readership.
Nikki Gemmell’s unmasking as the 'anonymous' author of The Bride Stripped Bare sparked tremendous media interest in the book, which went on to become an international bestseller. She lives in Sydney.
Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-751661-2 Size:197x130mm Paperback 1 August 2013 UK: £7.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751660-5 23 May 2013
With My Body (PB) The Bride Stripped 978-0-00-734639-4 Bare (PB) 978-0-00-716354-0 £7.99 £7.99
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Valley of Amazement Amy Tan A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club. A painting called the ‘Valley of Amazement’ is passed along through three generations of women of the same family. Despite vast differences in their upbringing, culture and circumstances, each of the women is drawn to discover the meaning of the painting and the unknown histories of her mother.
Set on two continents, over several generations, between San Francisco and Shanghai, this novel is an epic study of femininity and a paragon of storytelling. ‘An exciting, funny and thought-provoking story[…]a masterful novel.’ Telegraph on Saving Fish from Drowning • The Bonesetter's Daughter sold over 215,000 copies in paperback in the UK alone. • Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club has now established itself as a classic title, bringing new generations of readers to one of the world's most loved writers.
Born in the US to immigrant Chinese parents, Amy Tan is an internationally celebrated writer. Her novels are The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and Saving Fish from Drowning, all New York Times bestsellers. Her work has been translated into 35 languages. Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-745627-7 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 24 October 2013 UK : £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746724-2 24 October 2013
Saving Fish From Drowning (PB) 978-0-00-721616-1 £8.99
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Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides ‘I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974’. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and an astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. 4th Estate is delighted to have this classic backlist title to publish alongside Eugenides’ most recent novel The Marriage Plot .
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 to great acclaim and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France’s Prix Medicis and has sold more than 3 million copies.
Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752864-6 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 18 July 2013 UK: £8.99
The Marriage Plot (PB) 978-0-00-744130-3 £8.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752865-3 25 April 2013
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The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters – beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighbourhood boys – commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humour and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. The Virgin Suicides was adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola. 4th Estate is delighted to have this classic backlist title to publish alongside Eugenides’ most recent novel The Marriage Plot .
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993 to great acclaim and he has received numerous awards for his work. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and France’s Prix Medicis and has sold more than 3 million copies.
Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752430-3 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 18 July 2013 UK: £8.99
The Marriage Plot (PB) 978-0-00-744130-3 £8.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752431-0 25 April 2013
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Half of a Yellow Sun Film Tie-in Edition Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie This heartbreaking, exquisitely written classic is now a major film starring Thandie Newton, Joseph Mawle and Chiwetel Ejiofor, due for release in Autumn 2013. Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things. ‘Heartbreaking, funny, exquisitely written and, without doubt, a literary masterpiece and a classic’. Daily Mail • Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007 and has sold over 550,000 copies in paperback alone since publication in the UK. • The most significant African novel since Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her collection of short stories The Thing Around your Neck was published to great acclaim and in April 2013 comes her triumphant new novel Americanah.
Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-750607-1 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 12 September 2013 UK: £8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-727928-9 19 Jan 2009
Americanah (HB) 978-0-00-730622-0 £20
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Wonders of Life Apple iOS App edition Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen The official Wonders of Life app, in conjunction with the BBC Take an awe-inspiring 3D tour across the Earth’s most disparate climates and creatures, guided by Professor Brian Cox. From the vast networks of subterranean freshwater caverns of the Yucatan peninsula to the unique and precious island of Madagascar, from the Robber Crabs of Christmas Island to the Paramesians of the caves in Kentucky, this app will help you uncover the secrets of life in the most unexpected locations and in the most stunning detail. Explore the trinocular vision of the Mantis Shrimp, the tongue of the Flathead Catfish or the legs of the Mohave Desert Sand Scorpion in scintillating 3D detail, delving down variously into the detail of bone structure, molecular composition and more. Along the way you’ll learn how everything in the Universe, from the smallest microbe to the largest cluster of galaxies, is constructed from the same fundamental building blocks and is subject to the same laws of nature. The app seamlessly complements the Wonders of the Universe app (chosen by Apple as one of the best apps of 2012), adding in a tranche of additional information to add to Brian’s compendium of information on our solar system.
• Includes over 200 articles delving into intricacies of the natural world and the laws which bind it, alongside over 2 hours of footage from the series and 50+ mind-blowing 3D models, all optimised for the iPad’s retina display
Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known to the public as a science broadcaster and presenter of the highly popular BBC2 series Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe. He was also the keyboard player in the UK pop band D:Ream in the 1990s. Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC2 series Wonders of Life. Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-752762-5 App 4 July 2013 UK: £4.99
Wonders of Life (HB) ISBN: 978-0-00-745267-5 Size: 280x220mm UK: £25
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-745268-2 24 January 2013
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Queen Victoria A Celebrated Life Matthew Dennison A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria is Britain’s queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name. Victoria embraced photography, railway travel and modern art; she resisted compulsory education for the working classes, recommended for a leading women’s rights campaigner ‘a good whipping’ and detested smoking. She may or may not have been amused. Meanwhile she reinvented the monarchy and wrestled with personal reinvention. She lived in the shadow of her mother and then under the tutelage of her husband; finally she embraced self-reliance during her long widowhood. Fresh, witty and accessible, Queen Victoria is a compelling assessment of Victoria’s mercurial character and impact, written with the irony, flourish and insight that this Queen and her rule so richly deserve. ‘Beautifully written ... confident and disarmingly impressive’ Daily Telegraph on The Last Princess
‘Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented biographer could get to the key of her character. Fortunately in Matthew Dennison's pithy, well-researched, beautifully written and very accessible book, she has found one’.Andrew Roberts • Matthew Dennison regularly writes for The Times, Telegraph Magazine and the Daily Express. • 2013 sees the 175th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation.
Matthew Dennison is the author of three critically acclaimed works of nonfiction: The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Daughter, written with the full assistance of the Royal Archives and published in nine UK editions to date, Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia, and The Twelve Caesars. Described in The Independent as ‘one of those rare marvels, a historical biographer whose work has reached the bestseller lists’, he is also a regular contributor to Country Life, Telegraph Magazine, The Times and Majesty. Biography ISBN: 978-0-00-750457-2 Size: 216x135 mm Hardback 1 August 2013 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-750456-5 1 August 2013
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One Hundred and Four Horses Mandy Retzlaff ‘A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; that this is no longer your home, for it now belongs to the crowd on your doorstep. Then the drums begin to beat’. As the land invasions gather pace, the Retzlaffs begin an epic journey across Zimbabwe, facing eviction after eviction, trying to save the group of animals with whom they feel a deep and enduring bond – the horses. When their neighbours flee to New Zealand, the Retzlaffs promise to look after their horses, and making similar promises to other farmers along their journey, not knowing whether they will be able to feed or save them, they amass an astonishing herd of over 300 animals. But the final journey to freedom will be arduous, and they can take only 104 horses. Each with a different personality and story, it is not just the family who rescue the horses, but the horses who rescue the family. One Hundred and Four Horses is the story of an idyllic existence that falls apart at the seams, and a story of incredible bonds – a love of the land, the strength of a family, and of the connection between man and the most majestic of animals, the horse. • Epic, true story in a similar vein to The Horse Boy (58K), Seabiscuit (60K) and The Horse Whisperer (11K).
• The author will promote extensively with interviews in broadsheets, women’s magazines and equine/wildlife publications.
Mandy Retzlaff grew up in Ghana before moving to what was then Rhodesia. She married her husband Patrick in 1978, and in 1980 they took up farming. After being forced to hand over their farm to the Zimbabwe War Veterans Association in 2000, they eventually fled across the border to Mozambique, rescuing horses from other evicted farmers along the way. The Retzlaffs run a horse safari company on the Mozambique coast, taking tourists on rides through the wild and wonderful country that they now call home. Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-747755-5 Size: 234x153 mm Hardback 15 August 2013 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-747757-9 15 August 2013
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Bird Populations From the New Naturalist series Ian Newton Earlier naturalists formed the impression that bird numbers remained more or less stable through time. In the years since, however, changes have occurred in the landscapes of the British Isles and in the seas around our coasts, causing bird populations to fluctuate in an unprecedented way. In this seminal new work, Ian Newton sets out to explain why different bird species are distributed in the numbers that they are, and have changed over the years in the way that they have. He emphasises the factors that influence bird numbers, rather than the numbers themselves, thus providing a much-needed overview which is necessary if we are to successfully manage bird populations, whether for conservation reasons, for sustainable hunting or for crop protection. The continued monitoring of bird numbers can also alert us to impending environmental problems. In addition, the regular watching and study of birds now provides a source of recreation and pleasure for very large numbers of people, who would find a world with fewer birds a poorer place. ‘Truly outstanding – the product of a lifelong inquiry into the annual travels of birds’ Guardian on Bird Migration • Of interest to a wide range of readers, from the enthusiastic amateur to the interested professional. • New findings and latest research on one of the most popular natural history subject areas. Limited signed and leatherbound editions available exclusively on www.newnaturalists.com Bird Populations [Limited signed edition] ISBN: 978-0-00-752979-7 26 September 2013 UK: £75 Bird Populations [Limited leather edition] ISBN: 978-0-00-752980-3 26 September 2013 UK: £250
Ian Newton is an ornithologist and applied scientist, and a leading expert on bird ecology and biogeography, specialising in finches, waterfowl and birds of prey, especially the sparrowhawk. He graduated from Bristol University and gained his doctorate in finch behaviour at Oxford, followed by research on bullfinch damage in orchards. He joined the NERC in 1967, initially studying population ecology of geese and finches, followed by the impact of pesticides on birds of prey. He has written two previous New Naturalist volumes, Finches (1972) and Bird Migration (2010). Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-742953-0 Size: 216x149mm Hardback 29 August 2013 UK: £55 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-00-752798-4 29 August 2013 UK: £35 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752799-1 29 August 2013
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Catastrophe Europe Goes to War 1914 Max Hastings From the bestselling author of All Hell Let Loose comes a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell hundreds of millions of people as soaring prosperity and aristocratic ease gave way to a colossal tragedy. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century’s first terrible act of self-immolation. On the eve the centenary of The Great War, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men and women during the first months of strife. While what followed was a vast tragedy, he argues passionately against the ‘poets view’, that the war was not worth winning. It was vital to the freedom of Europe, he says, that the Kaiser’s Germany should be defeated. His narrative of the early battles will astonish those whose images of the war are simply of mud, wire, trenches and steel helmets.
Through Max Hastings’s accustomed blend of top-down and bottom-up accounts from a multitude of statesmen and generals, peasants, housewives and private soldiers of seven nations, this book offers answers to the huge and fascinating question ‘what happened to Europe in 1914?’ His narrative pricks myths and offers some striking and controversial judgments. For a host of readers gripped by the author’s last international bestseller All Hell Let Loose, this will seem a worthy successor. Praise for All Hell Let Loose:
‘Magnificent … hypnotically readable’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Unquestionably the best single-volume history of the war ever written’ Sunday Times • Published to coincide with the highly anticipated centenary memorial celebrations. • All Hell Let Loose was the history book of 2011-2, selling 260,000 copies.
Sir Max Hastings is the author of twentyfour books. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, which he quit after a year to become a journalist. Thereafter he reported for newspapers and BBC TV from sixty-four countries and eleven conflicts, notably the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Vietnam and the 1982 Battle for the Falklands. Between 1986 and 2002 he was editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and for his books, most recently the 2012 Chicago Pritzker Library’s $100,000 literary award for his contribution to military history, and the RUSI’s Westminster Medal for All Hell Let Loose. Military history ISBN: 978-0-00-739857-7 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 12 September 2013 UK: £30 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751975-0 12 September 2013
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Eyes Wide Open How to make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World Noreena Hertz In a fast-moving world we’re often overloaded with differing opinions, conflicting data and changing advice. In this essential guide, Noreena Hertz guides practical steps to how to make better, smarter decisions. Most of us think we make decisions for the right reasons: we scour books, we talk over options with our friends, we search the internet, we ask experts, we look at data or we trust our guts. But how hard do we scrutinise those we listen to? How much do we interrogate the information they provide? Are we open to new ways of tackling problems? Or are we swayed by how we’ve made decisions in the past? Noreena Hertz reveals the extent to which life-altering, businessaffecting, policy-determining, and also health-defining decisions are being made based on partial information, assumed wisdoms, corrupted data and insufficient scrutiny. She provides a clear, practical toolkit for how you can be a smarter decision-maker and better problem solver. Whether knowing when to trust experts and when to trust the internet or how you can be unconsciously swayed by certain behaviours or phoney stats, this books instructs you how to make better choices and more accurate predictions – through your personal life, your work and all your decisions.
Noreena Hertz is currently Associate Director at the Centre for International Business and Management at Cambridge University. With the critically acclaimed publication of The Silent Takeover and IOU she has become recognised as a leading expert on economic globalization. Her television and radio appearances include Question Time, Newsnight, Start the Week and The World at One, amongst others. Noreena also regularly takes part in debates and panels with leading public figures.
• Books on decision-making sell: Nudge and The Decision Book have TCM sales of 48k and 49k respectively. • Noreena is one of the ten most-followed professors on Twitter and over 350k viewers have watched her TED talk. .
Business ISBN: 978-0-00-746710-5 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 12 September 2013 UK: £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746711-2 12 September 2013
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Smarter Than You Think How Technology is Changing our Minds for the Better Clive Thompson A brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think – for the better. In this groundbreaking book, Wired writer Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more, not less, intelligent as is so often claimed. Our lives have been changed utterly and irrevocably by the rise of the internet. Clive argues that as we rely increasingly on machines to help us think, our thinking itself is becoming richer and more complex. We’re able to learn more, retain it longer, to write in curious new forms, and even to think entirely new types of thoughts. Smarter Than You Think is filled with stories of people who are living through these profound technological changes – a series of postcards from the near future. Lucidly written and argued, Smarter Than You Think is a breathtakingly original look at our Brave New World. ‘Almost without noticing it, we have become superhuman – the internet has become our intellectual exoskeleton. Rather than just observing this evolution, Clive Thompson takes us to the people, places and technologies driving it, bringing deep reporting, storytelling and analysis to one of the most profound shifts in human history’. Chris Anderson, bestselling author of The Long Tail • Big-think book that will appeal to readers of Freakonomics and books by Malcolm Gladwell.
Clive Thompson is one of the most prominent thinkers on technology and its impact on daily life. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Wired magazine. This is his first book.
Social and Cultural Studies ISBN: 978-0-00-742777-2 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 12 September 2013 UK: £20 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-742778-9 12 September 2013
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Collecting the New Naturalists Tim Bernhard and Timothy Loe The New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world with over 100 volumes published in over 60 years. Being a numbered series, with a very low print run for some volumes, New Naturalist publications have been and continue to be highly collectable. Second-hand copies of the rarer volumes, in very good condition, can command high prices. Collecting the New Naturalists offers a detailed insight into the fascinating phenomenon that has gripped Britain since just after World War II and which reflects the country’s continued enthusiasm for wildlife and nature publishing generally. With previously unpublished in-depth insight into the workings of the series and its collectors, the book will comprehensively cover every aspect of the New Naturalists, from rare editions produced for Bloomsbury and the Reader’s Union to foreign editions, interviews with the iconic cover artists and well-known naturalists such as Chris Packham and Alan Titchmarsh telling the story of their own fascination with the series. • The hugely successful New Naturalist series has a dedicated following of avid collectors, all of whom will buy this book. • The perfect companion volume to the successful Art of the New Naturalists.
Limited editions available exclusively on www.newnaturalists.com
Collecting the New Naturalists [Limited signed edition] 978-0-00-745058-9 £75
Collecting the New Naturalists [Limited leather edition] 978-0-00-745057-2 £250
Art of the New Naturalists (HB) 978-0-00-728471-9 £60
Tim Bernhard works as a freelance natural history illustrator. He runs the New Naturalist Collectors Club in his spare time and has had a profound interest in all aspects of natural history since childhood. Timothy Loe spent his childhood in Africa and it was here that he developed a passion for natural history. Always an avid book collector, he gave up his career in landscape architecture to become a fulltime bookseller in 2002. Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-736715-3 Size: 280x220mm Hardback 26 September 2013 UK: £60 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-741346-1 26 September 2013
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Rule Hibernia! How Ireland Made Britain Great Ryan Tubridy The Emerald Isle’s favourite son delves into his country’s past to celebrate the Irish men and women who have helped to make Britain great. In Rule Hibernia! Ryan Tubridy takes a journey into Ireland’s past to unearth the many amazing, and altogether fascinating, contributions the Irish have made to everyday British life; whether it be making us laugh (Graham Norton), thrilling us with their acting (Peter O’Toole), or dazzling us with their audacious adventuring (Earnest Shackleton). Just as Stuart Maconie has celebrated in his own unique way all that is great about his North of England roots, so Ryan Tubridy makes a passionate case for the magnificent contribution Ireland has made to its nearest neighbour.
• Ryan Tubridy is one of Ireland’s most famous TV and radio personalities – he presents RTE’s The Late Late Show and The Tubridy Show. . • His previous book – JFK in Ireland – was a bestseller and garnered impressive reviews across all media.
Ryan Tubridy is an awardwinning television and radio presenter for RTE in Ireland. Currently, Tubridy presents The Tubridy Show on RTE Radio 1 and is host of the Late Late Show, the world's longest running chat show. Since taking over in 2009 he has interviewed a number of international and acclaimed personalities.
History ISBN: 978-0-00-731745-5 Size: 234x153mm Trade Paperback 26 September 2013 UK: £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752761-8 26 September 2013 JFK in Ireland: Four Days that Changed a President (TPB) 978-0-00-744430-4 £12.99
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Knowledge is Beautiful David McCandless This is about much more than just information… It is a fascinating and thoroughly modern glimpse of world knowledge, designed in David McCandless’s inspirational and boundary-pushing signature visual style. Knowledge is Beautiful is the incredible, captivating follow-up to the bestseller Information is Beautiful. Knowledge is Beautiful will offer a deeper, more ranging look at the world and its history, and David McCandless will work with his army of followers to achieve an entirely democratic, global look at key issues bedded into the foundations of world knowledge – from questions and facts on history and politics to science, literature and much, much more. He will design the findings in his characteristically fantastic, and surprising, visual style. Featuring input and contributions from a range of online collaborators, this project which will push the boundaries of books and provide knowledge about our world in a way you’ve never seen before… Praise for Information is Beautiful:
David McCandless is an awardwinning writer and journalist. His work has appeared in over 30 magazines in the UK and the US and all over the web. He currently works as creative consultant for Orange and the BBC and writes about the Internet, underground culture and ‘anything interesting’ for Wired and The Guardian.
‘Unbelievably brilliant’ Vogue ‘Stunning’ Sunday Times
• Information is Beautiful was an instant classic – shipping over 100k copies of this in the UK alone with translations into Dutch, Finnish, German, Chinese, Hungarian, Korean and Spanish.
Popular Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-742792-5 Size: 246x189mm Hardback, PLC 26 September 2013 UK: £20 Ebook 26 September 2013
Knowledge is Beautiful (HB) 978-0-00-749289-3 £20
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Collins Fungi Guide The Most Complete Field Guide to the Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain & Ireland Stefan Buczacki, Chris Shields and Denys Ovenden The most complete field guide to the mushrooms and toadstools of Britain & Ireland The sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world. Leading mycological artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. Where possible, species are described and illustrated on the same page, with up-to-date authoritative text aiding identification. Nearly 2,400 species are illustrated in full colour, with detailed notes on how to correctly identify them, including details of similar, confusing species. Illustrations of young and mature fruiting bodies are included where necessary, and key features are highlighted for quick and easy reference.
Written by one of Europe's leading mycologists and horticultural scientists, Stefan Buczacki, and illustrated by two of the world's leading natural history illustrators, Chris Shields and Denys Ovenden, this is the ultimate field guide for mushroom and toadstool lovers. • The definitive guide to fungi species in the UK and Ireland with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world. • Fungi is one of the most popular natural history subjects, with previous mushroom and foraging titles selling nearly 400,000 copies over the past three years.
Professor Stefan Buczacki is Past-President of the British Mycological Society and holder of its Benefactors’ Medal and also one of the country’s best known horticultural writers and broadcasters. He has published many thousands of newspaper and magazine articles and over fifty gardening and natural history books, including Collins New Generation Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools and New Naturalist Garden Natural History. Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-746648-1 Size: 195x135mm Paperback 26 September 2013 UK: £19.99 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-00-724290-0 10 May 2012 UK: £35 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-741343-0 25 October 2012
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Warsaw 1944 Hitler, Himmler and the Warsaw Uprising Alexandra Richie The dramatic story of the Warsaw Uprising, one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This is the first account to recall the tragedy from both German and Polish perspectives and asks why, when the war was nearly lost and resources were so urgently needed in Germany, Hitler and Himmler decided to return to Warsaw bent on murder, deportation, and destruction. Using previously unpublished documents and photographs, Alexandra Richie weaves the views of Poles trapped within the city as well as German and Russian witnesses to the chaos. She reveals for the first time how the Nazi leadership had hoped that the increasing Allied divisions over Warsaw would lead to a Third World War. Also by examining how the Uprising affected negotiations over the fate of post war Europe, she also shows why it is rightly called the first battle of the Cold War.
Alexandra Richie is the author of Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin. She has lectured on international politics and history across the world, from Warsaw University to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. She lives in Warsaw with her husband and two children.
• A brilliantly perceptive look at a major battle of World War II that has been all but forgotten.
Narrative history ISBN: 978-0-00-718041-7 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 26 September 2013 UK: £25
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin (TPB) 978-0-00-637688-0 £14.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752341-2 26 September 2013
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The Building of England A History of English Architecture Simon Thurley Throughout England’s cultural history, its buildings have reflected changing economic circumstances and fashions, and architecture has always been an expression of power and influence. The Building of England takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of English architecture. From the awe-inspiring castles, cathedrals and monasteries built by the Normans, to the steel-frame buildings of the Industrial Revolution and the skyscrapers springing up today, Simon Thurley explores how this small island has come to be so distinctly different from its European neighbours, and its huge architectural impact on the globe. The Building of England puts into context the significance of a country’s architectural history and unearths how it is inextricably linked to the cultural past – and present. Saxon, Tudor, Georgian, Regency, even Victorian and Edwardian are all wellrecognised architectural styles, displaying the influence of the events that mark each period. Thurley looks at how the architecture of England has evolved over a thousand years, uncovering the beliefs, ideas and aspirations of the people who commissioned them, built them and lived in them. He tells the fascinating story of the development of architecture and the advancements in both structural performance and enhanced aesthetic effect.
Dr Simon Thurley is one of the UK’s leading architectural historians. He is Chief Executive of English Heritage – the government’s principle advisor on the historic environment.
• Richly illustrated with over 500 illustrations, photographs and maps.
Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-730140-9 Size: 246x179mm Hardback 10 October 2013 UK: £30
• Simon Thurley is a world-renowned building historian and head of English Heritage.
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752790-8 10 October 2013
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The Salmon The Extraordinary Life of the King of Fish Michael Wigan ‘Sometimes the river was too high to see the fish pairs well, sometimes the wind shook up the surface too much to get a clear view. In the best years you look down on the spawners as in an aquarium. You know if they have already spawned and buried their eggs in the gravel because hit by the light they run, and squiggle downstream. Un-spawned, they face the light. It is one of nature’s great spectacles.’ So begins Michael Wigan’s fascinating journey into the extraordinary world of the king of fish. He explores the natural history of the salmon, this most mysterious of fishes that has fascinated man for centuries, evoking passion and adventure throughout the ages. He explores the life cycle of the salmon, weaving his own experiences and stories into an evocative narrative. Crucially, he addresses the pressing matter of conservation issues and human management, which in the past has led to fast decreasing populations. History suggests it is the pressure of human development which has narrowed down the survival zone of the salmon, and the author questions whether we can go on altering natural systems and freshwater rivers in order to make space for human populations, and do so in sync with fish needs. In his unique and passionate voice, the author transports us to another world – his writing is beautifully evocative and his excitement for the salmon palpable throughout. • An acknowledged world expert on the salmon, Michael is equally an accomplished writer and a passionate and dedicated advocate for the salmon.
Michael Wigan is a father of five, journalist and writer, living with his wife in the north Scottish Highlands. One-time film critic, art critic and travel writer, he has reported and commented on countryside and field sports issues in assorted newspapers and magazines for 35 years, which has allowed him to cover his favourite interests: fly-fishing, deer stalking, oil paintings and literature. He is presently the manager of the fishery board on Sutherland’s River Helmsdale. Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-748764-6 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 10 October 2013 UK: £25 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-748765-3 10 October 2013
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Dogfight How Apple and Google went to war over a phone and started a revolution Fred Vogelstein Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google – and how it’s reshaping the way we think about technology The rise of iPhones, smartphones and tablets has changed the world. At the centre of this are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial acumen have steamrolled the competition. In the age of the Android and the iPad, these corporations are locked in the feud of a generation – a battle that will play out not just in the marketplace but in the courts and on screens around the world. Fred Vogelstein has reported on this rivalry for more than decade and has rare access to the offices and boardrooms where company dogma translates into ruthless business; behind outsize personalities like Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt; and inside the deals, transactions, lawsuits, and allegations that mold the way we use the internet and communicate with one another. Apple and Google are brazenly poaching each other’s employees. They bid up the price of each other’s acquisitions for spite, and they forge alliances with major players like Facebook and Microsoft in pursuit of market dominance. Dogfight reads like a novel: it is vivid non-fiction with neverbefore-heard details. This is not just a story about what devices are going to replace our TVs, phones, laptops, and music players. It’s about who will control the content we see on those devices and where that content will come from – about the future of media, entertainment, communication and information around the globe.
Fred Vogelstein is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he writes about the world of high-tech business and finance. His writing has appeared in Fortune magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report
Popular Culture ISBN: 978-0-00-744840-1 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 15 October 2013 UK: £20 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-744841-8 15 October 2013
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Creative Confidence Unleashing the Creative Potential within us all David Kelley and Thomas Kelley A powerful and inspiring book from the founders of IDEO, the award-winning design firm, on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the ‘creative types’. But two of the foremost experts in innovation, design and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their work at IDEO and with many of the world's top companies and design firms, David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives, allow us to think outside the box in terms of how we approach and solve problems. It is a book that will help each of us be more productive and successful in our lives and in our careers.
David Kelley is the founder of IDEO, one of the world's leading innovation and design firms, as well as the creator of the d.school at Stanford University. Tom Kelley is the managing director of IDEO, and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation.
Business Books ISBN: 978-0-00-751798-5 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 24 October 2013 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751800-5 24 October 2013
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The Men Who United The States Simon Winchester Bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. How did America become ‘one nation, indivisible’? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognise today? In this enthralling history, Simon Winchester addresses these questions, bringing together the breathtaking achievements of the pioneers who have helped to forge and unify America. Trekking vast swatches of territory, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, including Lewis and Clark, the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. The Men Who United the States is a fresh, lively, and engaging look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together.
Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of Atlantic, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World and The Surgeon of Crowthorne, among many other titles. In 2006 he was awarded an OBE. He lives in western Massachusetts and New York City.
‘No one tells a better yarn than Winchester’. Washington Post • Simon Winchester is a master of narrative non-fiction, and the bestselling author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Krakatoa and Atlantic.
• This is a subject close to his heart: his first book about his adopted homeland.
Narrative History ISBN: 978-0-00-753237-7 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 24th October 2013 UK: £25 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-753238-4 15th October 2013
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Empires of the Dead Fabian Ware and the Creation of the War Graves David Crane The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries. Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were often unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave; officers shipped home to be buried in local cemeteries. The great cemeteries of WWI came about as a result of the efforts of one inspired visionary, Fabian Ware. Critically acclaimed author David Crane gives a profoundly moving account of the creation of the great citadels to the dead, which involved leading figures of the day, including Kipling, Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. It is the political and human story of one man’s battle to commemorate the sacrifice of a whole Empire and a struggle against entrenched interests that has left us with the most enduring and moving legacy of ‘the war to end all wars’.
‘Moving … a balanced and gripping account … David Crane has written a fine biography of Scott, the flawed but timeless hero, and I read it all with pleasure’. Guardian on Scott of the Antarctic • Examples of present annual visitor numbers at two main sites – 340,000 to Tyne Cot; 700,000 to Vimy Ridge
David Crane's first book, Lord Byron’s Jackal was published to great acclaim in 1998, and his second, The Kindness of Sisters published in 2002, is a groundbreaking work of romantic biography. In 2005 the highly acclaimed Scott of the Antarctic was published, followed by Men of War, a collection of 19th Century naval biographies, in 2009. Crane lives in north-west Scotland. Narrative history ISBN: 978-0-00-745665-9 Size: 216x135mm Hardback 7 November 2013 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-745724-3 7 November 2013
Scott of the Antarctic (PB) 978-0-00-745044-2 £9.99
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Can The Church Still Be Saved? Hans Küng As the Year of Faith draws to a close, radical Catholic theologian and visionary Hans Küng presents the Church with an urgent and controversial call to arms. Can the Church Still be Saved? promises what Catholics have long been yearning for: modern responses to a modern world. Fifty years ago, the world’s bishops gathered for the Second Vatican Council in the hope they could, in the words of Pope John XXIII, ‘open the windows of the Church and let some fresh air in’. It was a gathering of real optimism; Hans Küng and Joseph Ratzinger were both there. In Can the Church Still be Saved?, Küng relates how after fifty years, the Church has only turned back the clock, becoming ever more conservative. Refusing to open dialogue on celibacy for male priests; the role of women in the priesthood; homosexuality and gay marriage; or the use of contraception even to prevent AIDS in Africa, the Papacy is losing touch. Now, amid widespread disillusion over child abuse, the future of Catholicism is in crisis. Küng calls for a complete renewal of the Church, setting out a radical and inspiring programme of action. As grassroots support grows – both in the UK and internationally – and with an arguably more compassionate Pope, Can the Church Still be Saved? makes a compelling case for structural reform and for a proper dialogue on the modern world.
A leading Catholic theologian, Hans Küng is 84 years of age, and is President of the Global Ethic Foundation at the University of Tübingen, an internationally renowned theological centre.
• The Year of Faith marks 50 years since the end of Vatican II, even though many of its reforms have never been implemented.
Religion ISBN: 978-0-00-752202-6 Size: 234x153mm Trade Paperback 7 November 2013 UK: £12.99
• Pope Benedict’s retirement has given the Church a new energy for reform. • This book has sold over 40k copies in Germany.
Küng is a contemporary of Pope Benedict (Joseph Ratzinger), and in the 1960s they were both, as young priests, theological advisors to the Second Vatican Council.
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752203-3 7 November 2013
• This is the only English Language edition available.
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The Plantagenets The Kings Who Made England Dan Jones This brilliant book explores the lives some of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. Their story is the story of Britain. England’s greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings. Their remarkable reign saw England emerge from the Dark Ages to become a highly organised kingdom that spanned a vast expanse of Europe. Plantagenet rule saw the establishment of laws and creation of artworks, monuments and tombs which survive to this day, and continue to speak of their sophistication, brutality and secrets. Dan Jones brings you a new vision of this battle-scarred history. From the Crusades, to King John’s humbling over Magna Carta and the tragic reign of the last Plantagenet, Richard II – this is a blow-by-blow account of England’s most thrilling age. ‘Majestic in its sweep, compelling in its storytelling, this is narrative history at its best’ Simon Sebag Montefiore ‘Stonking narrative history’ Observer
Dan Jones took a first in History from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 2002. He is an award-winning journalist and a pioneer of the resurgence of interest in medieval history. His first book on the Peasant’s Revolt received widespread critical acclaim.
• Dan Jones is an exciting young historian. The Times said he 'has breathed fresh life into the middle ages’. • The Plantagenet age is the coming historical period following the discovery of the body of Richard III.
Narrative History ISBN: 978-0-00-721394-8 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 4 July 2013 UK: £9.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-745749-6 10 May 2012
Summer of Blood (PB) 978-0-00-721393-1 £9.99
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The Meadow Terrorism, Kidnapping and Conspiracy in Paradise Adrian Levy and Cathy ScottClark The shocking story of the mountain kidnapping of ten tourists. One was found beheaded, the others vanished... In July 1995, ten backpackers journeyed into the foothills of the Himalayas, trekking to a place known as the Meadow. They came for nirvana, exhilaration – a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, they were held hostage by ruthless Islamic extremists and dragged into a jihad.
Using diaries, letters, classified police reports and interviews with the jihadis themselves, The Meadow portrays the adventure that became a murder hunt. It traces the escalating tension between the kidnappers, victims and even the police amid the conspiracy that would rock a country. It tells of the terrifying escape of one victim and how – with a brutal beheading – the hostage takers took an irreversible step into the abyss. ‘A meticulous account … Like a real-life version of The Beach’ Sunday Telegraph • A gripping, politically-charged story likely to appeal to readers of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, or books by Joe Simpson or Rory Stewart. The book reads like a hair-raising thriller – but it is all true.
Adrian Levy and Cathy ScottClark are internationally renowned and award-winning investigative journalists who have written for the Sunday Times and the Guardian. They are authors of the New York Times book of the year Stone of Heaven, the US bestseller The Amber Room, and Deception, a finalist in the Royal United Services Institute. They have won the One World Media award for foreign reporting and been selected the One World Media Journalists of the Year. They have produced several television documentaries, including City of Fear, for Channel 4’s Dispatches. True Stories and Narrative ISBN: 978-0-00-736817-4 Size: 197x130 mm Paperback 1 August 2013 UK: £8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-745705-2 29 March 2012
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The Perfume Lover A Personal Story of Scent Denyse Beaulieu An intimate journey into the mystery of scent. What if the most beautiful night in your life inspired a fragrance? Denyse Beaulieu is a respected fragrance writer; it is her world, her love, her life. When she was growing up, perfume was forbidden in her house, spurring a childhood curiosity that went on to become an intellectual and sensual passion. It is this passion she pursued all the way to Paris, where she now lives, and entered the secretive world of the perfume industry. But little did she know that it would lead her to achieve a fragrance lover’s wildest dream… When Denyse tells a famous perfumer of a sensual night spent in Seville under an orange tree in full blossom, wrapped in the arms of a beautiful young man, the story stirs his imagination and together they create a scent that captures the essence of that night. This is the story of that perfume. The Perfume Lover is an unprecedented account of the creative process that goes into composing a fragrance, and a uniquely candid insider’s view into the world and history of fragrance. ‘Femme fatale Denyse Beaulieu undresses the art of perfumery with a sensual, scintillating striptease’ Laren Stover, author of The Bombshell Manual of Style ‘A gorgeous romp through the history of perfume and a personal exploration of its role in Beaulieu's life as a woman and world class sensualist[…]A thoroughly delectable and passionately intelligent read’ Debra Ollivier, author of the bestseller What French Women Know
Denyse Beaulieu is a Parisbased fragrance writer and industry consultant who established herself as one of the foremost bloggers in the field with Grain de Musc. Her expertise has been acknowledged by at the London College of Fashion where she teaches an intensive ‘Understanding Fragrance’ course and the Société Française des Parfumeurs where she is lecturer. Lifestyle ISBN: 978-0-00-741185-6 Size: 197x130 mm Trade Paperback 1 August 2013 UK: £8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-741183-2 15 March 2012
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My Old Man A Personal History of Music Hall John Major The paperback edition of the former prime minister’s widely acclaimed, richly colourful history of music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, class-conscious, but always patriotic and on the side of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences’ hopes and fears, and sometimes the general absurdity of life. This was the world that John Major’s father, Tom, entered at the age of twenty-one as a comedian and singer. In My Old Man, his story is a springboard for an entertaining history of music hall, from its origins in Elizabethan times through to its heyday in the nineteenth century and eventual decline with the rise of radio and cinema in the twentieth century. Packed with colourful anecdotes about the great performers of the day, this warmhearted history conjures up a lost age. ‘Entertaining, fascinating and written with love ... the admiration that John feels for his father is palpable on every page’ Sunday Express ‘Affectionate, charming and unexpectedly lively … Major paints a vivid picture … To read this richly enjoyable book is to be given a glimpse into a lost world’ Mail on Sunday
John Major was Conservative Member of Parliament between 1979 and 2001. In Cabinet, he served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was Prime Minister between 1990 and 1997. He was awarded the Companion of Honour in 1999, and became a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in 2005.
History ISBN: 978-0-00-745014-5 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 29 August 2013 UK: £9.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-745015-2 13 September 2012
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Titian: His Life Sheila Hale A towering biography which captures the genius of Titian and the extraordinary times in which he lived – the apogee of Venice’s power and influence. Titian was the greatest painter of the Italian High Renaissance, an artist whose poetic vision and mastery of oil pigments made him into an international celebrity and continues to inspire working painters to this day. He lived in a Venice that was the most populous, celebrated and visited city in Europe, painting everything from frescos, grand altarpieces, mythological stories, and portraits that were described by his contemporaries as ‘mirrors of nature’. Sheila Hale’s rich and monumental biography of Titian is the first since 1877 to examine all contemporary accounts of Titian’s life and work, and to include recent art historical research and scholarship. Presenting Titian through the story of the turbulent century in which he lived, Hale gives a vivid portrait of how this innovative 16th-century master conveyed in his paintings a kind of truth that few other artists have been able to communicate and which has fascinated Titian’s admirers and followers for centuries. ‘A huge and exceptional new study of the painter … a superb portrait of the artist – an example of measured scholarship, judicious opinion, and telling framing detail’. Guardian • Titian remains one of the greatest artists of all time – exhibitions of his work draw unprecedented crowds.
Sheila Hale is the author of many books including a guidebook to Venice which prompted Eric Newby to declare she 'deserves a Nobel Prize' and by David Lodge as ‘the best guidebook I have ever used'. She is a trustee of Venice in Peril and her last book, The Man Who Lost His Language, was one of the most widely reviewed and highly praised books of 2002. She lives in London. Narrative History ISBN: 978-0-00-717583-3 Size: 234x153mm Trade Paperback 5 September 2013 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746713-6 5 July 2012
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God’s Little Book of Christmas Words of Promise, Hope and Celebration Richard Daly A new edition especially for Advent and Christmas in this bestselling series of gift books God’s Little Book of Calm Words of Peace and Refreshment
Religion ISBN: 978-0-00-752832-5 Size: 128x108mm Paperback 7 November 2013 UK: £4.99
God’s Little Book of Peace Words of Comfort and Reassurance
Religion ISBN: 978-0-00-752838-7 Size: 128x108mm Paperback 7 November 2013 UK: £4.99
God’s Little Book of Love Words of Warmth and Affection
Religion ISBN: 978-0-00-752837-0 Size: 128x108mm Paperback 7 November 2013 UK: £4.99
God’s Little Book of Joy Words to Cheer and Delight
Religion ISBN: 978-0-00-752836-3 Size: 128x108mm Paperback 7 November 2013 UK: £4.99
God’s Little Book of Hope Words of Inspiration and Encouragement
Religion ISBN: 978-0-00-752835-6 Size: 128x108mm Paperback 7 November 2013 UK: £4.99
God’s Little Book of Comfort Words to Soothe and Reassure
Religion ISBN: 978-0-00-752834-9 Size: 128x108mm Paperback 7 November 2013 UK: £4.99
Richard Daly is a church pastor and author of several books, including God’s Little Book of Calm, and God’s Little Book of Peace.
Religion ISBN: 978-0-00-752833-2 Size: 128x108mm Paperback 7 November 2013 UK: £4.99 Ebook ISBN: 7 November 2013
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The Third Pig Detective Agency The Complete Casebook Bob Burke Harry Pigg, the only surviving brother from the Big Bad Wolf attacks, has set up business as a private detective in Grimmtown, only things aren't going too well. Down on his luck, with bills to pay and no clients in sight the outlook is poor. But when your next customers are going to include local businessman Aladdin, Father Christmas’s Wife and Little Miss Muffet, what follows is a hard-boiled casebook of nursery rhymenoir – full of fairy tale villains, plenty of red herrings, a few close shaves, a couple of punch ups and some very clever twists indeed.
Bob is the award-winning author of The Third Pig Detective Agency series. He lives in County Limerick with his wife and three children.
Fiction ISBN 978-0-00-747940-5 Size: 197x130 Paperback 4 Jul 2013 UK £6.99
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Butterfly Winter W. P. Kinsella The final novel from the legendary Canadian author of Shoeless Joe, WP Kinsella. Butterfly Winter, W.P. Kinsella's first novel in 15 years, is the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins born in the Caribbean country of Courteguay, an enchanted but impoverished enclave on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic where time moves at its own pace and reality is open to question.
The brothers are born to play baseball, they even played catch in the womb, and at the age of ten they leave home for the American Major Leagues. Julio proves to be a winning pitcher who, much to the frustration of any team that signs him, will only throw to his catcher brother, who is a very weak hitter. As they pursue their baseball dreams, they are monitored by the Wizard, a mysterious figure who controls events behind the scenes. In his last years, the Wizard tells the story of the twins, their family and their lovers to an American journalist. Butterfly Winter is a magical fable from one of Canada’s best-loved novelists. Kinsella has announced that this will be his final novel. In 2011, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Kinsella the Jack Graney Award for a significant contribution to the game of baseball in Canada through a life's work or a singular outstanding achievement. ‘Butterfly Winter is magical, with language that sings off the page’ NOW
William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues. Fiction ISBN 978-0-00-749759-1 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 4 Jul 2013 UK £7.99 Ebook ISBN 978-0-00-749760-7 UK £2.99
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Confessions of a Showbiz Reporter Holly Forest The fifth book in the bestselling Confessions series. Press junkets. Premiers. Dom Perignon. They’re all in a day’s work for your average Hollywood celebrity. But, what’s it like on the other side of the microphone? In this no-holds-barred memoir, showbiz reporter Holly Forest reveals the less glamorous side of the world’s most glamorous industry: show business. Confessions of a Showbiz Reporter follows in the footsteps of the hugely successful Confessions of a GP (the bestselling ebook of 2011) and Confessions of a Male Nurse (the paperback alone has TCM’d more than 10,000 copies, and counting).
Holly Forest is the pseudonym of a successful British showbiz reporter. And that’s all we can say! Fiction ISBN 978-0-00-751773-2 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 18 Jul 2013 UK £7.99 Ebook ISBN 978-0-00-751774-9 UK £2.99
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Purgatory/Paradise Throwing Muses Throwing Muses return with their first studio album in over a decade - published as a book. Purgatory/Paradise is a 32-track double album which is being released as a deluxe 64-page book containing: • the full studio album across 2 CDs • photographs and artwork by Dave Narcizo and Kristin Hersh • lyrics for each song • stories and essays by Kristin Hersh to accompany each track • instructions on how to download a wealth of exclusive content including demos and out-takes The exclusive content will only be available with this special book edition. ‘One of the great US alt-rock bands of the 80s and 90s’. Guardian ‘One of the most inventive bands of the late-80s’. BBC Music
• Following on from our successful release of Crooked, Kristin Hersh’s last solo album, which was published as a book to critical acclaim. • The band will be over in the UK to support the release. • A long-awaited new album from Throwing Muses which will have their fanbase out in numbers.
Throwing Muses were formed by Kristin Hersh in 1981 and are considered one of the most influential alternative rock bands of the modern era. Kristin Hersh has also enjoyed a successful solo career, including a Top 10 UK album with Hips and Makers and more recently with her album Crooked which was also released as a book. Music ISBN 978-0-00-752544-7 Hardback 22 August 2013
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The Deep Whatsis Peter Mattei A gripping and hilarious satire of hipsters, consumerism, contemporary art, for fans of Bret Easton Ellis and Don Delillo. When a successful Advertising Executive meets a mischievous intern, his whole sensational existence begins to crumble around him. Mattei’s addictive debut follows its anti-hero’s quest for contemporary self-identity in a toxic corporate world. The natural successor to Don Dellilo and Bret Easton Ellis, Peter Mattei tells a tale of corrupt corporate America, and its effect on the psyche. The Friday Project will break all the rules publishing this iconic novel - from the cover to the campaign, this book is going to get people talking. ‘With zingy, hilarious glee, Peter Mattei takes a sharp stick and pokes it at many deserving underbellies: the puffery of corporate America; hipsters, yoga dudes, and the general pretentiousness of north Brooklyn; and many more. The Deep Whatsis is a provocative, darkly subversive, deeply satisfying novel’. Kate Christensen, winner of the 200 Pen/Faulkner Award and author of The Astral.
Peter Mattei is a writer and director working in both theater and film, and has written pilots for HBO and other networks. Love in the Time of Money was his first feature film, which he wrote and directed. The script was developed at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab in 1998, and was inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde. He lives in Brooklyn. Fiction ISBN 978-0-00-752435-8 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 22 Aug 2013 UK £7.99 Ebook ISBN 978-0-00-752436-5 UK £2.99
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Confessions... Timothy Lea Available for the first time on ebook, these classic sex comedies from the 70s:
Confessions Of An Ice Cream Man The women melted at his feet - one lick at a time! Confessions Of A Driving Instructor Scream if you want to go faster! Confessions Of A Plumber’s Mate Your pipes need cleaning? Tim and Sid are the men for you. Confessions From A Nudist Colony If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a BIG surprise… Confessions Of A Long Distance Lorry Driver Get comfy, you’re in for a nice long ride…
Ebook 22 Aug 2013 UK: £2.99 Confessions Of An Ice Cream Man ISBN 978-0-00-751604-9 Confessions Of A Driving Instructor ISBN 978-0-00-753018-2 Confessions Of A Plumber’s Mate ISBN 978-0-00-753019-9 Confessions From A Nudist Colony ISBN 978-0-00-753020-5 Confessions Of A Long Distance Lorry ISBN 978-0-00-753021-2 Christopher Wood is a British screenwriter and novelist best known for the erotic Confessions series of novels and films written under the pseudonyms 'Timothy Lea' and ‘Rosie Dixon’. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.
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Confessions of an Undercover Cop Ash Cameron The sixth book in the bestselling Confessions series. What is life like for a female Undercover Cop? Ash Cameron joined the police in the 70s – think Life on Mars with added ladders in her tights. Ash Cameron gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at life in the Police. Funny, moving and irreverent, you’ll never look at a bobby the same way again… From arresting East End gangsters, dealing out justice to football hooligans and coping with sexism on the job, Ash did it all. So when she was asked to go undercover, well, it was just another job, wasn’t it? Told with warmth and humour, these ‘confessions’ will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you roll your eyes as you learn exactly what goes on behind-the-scenes in the police… • Confessions of an Undercover Cop follows in the footsteps of the hugely successful Confessions of a GP (the bestselling ebook of 2011) and Confessions of a Male Nurse (the paperback alone has TCM’d more than 10,000 copies, and counting). • Ties in to current controversy surrounding the role of undercover Police Officers.
Ash Cameron is a pseudonym for a retired policewoman who lives in the Highlands of Scotland. Non-Fiction ISBN 978-0-00-751508-0 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 12 Sep 2013 UK £3.59 Ebook ISBN 978-0-00-752199-9 UK £2.99
• A witty and refreshing look at Police procedure, told from a female point of view.
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Facing the Other Way The Story of 4AD Martin Aston The first official account of the iconic record label. This Mortal Coil, Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Breeders, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Germano, Kristin Hersh, Belly, Red House Painters. Just a handful of the bands and artists who started out recording for 4AD, a record label founded by Ivo WattsRussell and Peter Kent in 1979, a label which went on to be one of the most influential of the modern era.
Combining the unique tastes of Russell and the striking design aesthetic of Vaughan Oliver, 4AD records were recognisable by their look as their sound. In this comprehensive account of the label’s first two decades (up to the point that Russell left), music journalist Martin Aston explores the fascinating story with unique access to all the key players and pretty much every artist who released a record on 4AD during that time, and to its notoriously reclusive founder.
Biography ISBN: 978-0-00-748961-9 Size: 234x153mm Hardback 19 Sep 2013 UK: ÂŁ18.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752201-9 19 September 2013
With a cover designed by Vaughan Oliver this is an essential book for all 4AD fans and anyone who loved the music of that time.
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Born Weird Andrew Kaufman A family drama unlike any other from the internationally acclaimed author of All My Friends are Superheroes. The Weirds have always been a little peculiar, but not one of them suspected that they’d been cursed by their grandmother. At the moment of their birth Annie Weird gave each of her five grandchildren a special power that she thought was a blessing. Richard, the oldest, always keeps safe; Abba always has hope; Lucy is never lost and Kent can beat anyone in a fight. As for Angie, she always forgives, instantly. But over the years these blessings have proved to be curses and ruined their lives. Now Annie is dying and she has one last task for Angie, her favourite grandchild. Angie has to gather her far-flung brothers and sisters and assemble them in her Grandmother’s hospital room so that at the moment of her death, she can lift these blessings turned curses. ‘I gobbled it up in two days. I absolutely loved it. Another fantastic premise, brilliant characters, witty dialogue, it was just so so good and I am once again jealous that I didn't come up with the idea. As soon as I finished it I missed the characters so I hope he hurries up and writes another one quickly’. Cecelia Ahern.
Andrew Kaufman is the author of, All My Friends Are Superheroes, The Tiny Wife, and The Waterproof Bible. He was born in Wingham, Ontario. His work has been published in 11 countries and translated into 9 languages. He is also an accomplished screenwriter and lives in Toronto with his wife and their two children. Fiction ISBN 978-0-00-744141-9 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 26 Sep 2013 Price £8.99 Ebook ISBN 978-0-00-751652-0 UK £2.99
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F**k: An Irreverent History of the FWord Rufus Lodge
An amusing, informative, controversial and utterly irreverent history of the world’s favourite word. In this fascinating and frequently funny book, Rufus Lodge traces the origins of the F-word and explores its role in our language across the ages. He looks at the use of the word in literature, film, television, popular music and in the home. He explores the offence it has caused and the people who became famous for using it. The ideal gift for the foul-mouthed member of the family.
Rufus Lodge writes under a pseudonym and lives in London. Non-Fiction ISBN 978-0-00-752200-2 Size: 197x130mm Hardback 10 Oct 2013 UK £9.99 Ebook ISBN978-0-00-752199-9 UK £2.99
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Christmas Dodos Festive Things on the Verge of Extinction Steve Stack From the author of 21st Century Dodos comes a festive collection of endangered objects. An irreverent collection of eulogies, tributes and fond farewells to the many Christmas traditions and, well, other festive things that are threatened with extinction. From handwritten cards to coffee cremes, from Yule logs to thruppenny bits in Christmas puddings, from making paper chain decorations to carol singing, all of these and more are endangered, on the way out or on their last legs… …so what better time to celebrate them than Christmas itself.
Steve Stack is the pseudonym of a well-known blogger and journalist. He has, under various names, written for The Times, Observer, Private Eye and Guardian. Non Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752967-4 Size: 178x111mm Paperback 17 Oct 2013 UK: £4.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752968-1 17 Oct 2013
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Jokes Cracked by Lord Aberdeen Lord Aberdeen John Hamilton-Gordon, seventh Earl of Aberdeen, (3 August 1847–7 March 1934), was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and served as Governor of Canada. He also wrote extraordinarily unfunny jokes. This is his joke book, reproduced in beautiful facsimile hardback. Perfect for ruining Christmas and breaking up jovial family parties.
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21st Century Dodos A Collection of Endangered Objects (And Other Stuff) Steve Stack A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction. We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects. Until now, that is. Steve Stack has catalogued well over one hundred objects, traditions, cultural icons and, well, other stuff that is at risk of extinction. Some of them have vanished already. Cassette tapes, rotary dial phones, half-day closing, milk bottle deliveries, Concorde, handwritten letters, typewriters, countries that no longer exist, white dog poo… …all these and many more are big a fond farewell in this nostalgic, and sometimes irreverent, trip down memory lane.
Steve Stack is the pseudonym of a well-known blogger and journalist. He has, under various names, written for The Times, Observer, Private Eye and Guardian. Non Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748466-9 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 24 Oct 2013 UK: £6.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-735645-4 29 Sep 2013
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Brian Aldiss Collection Brian Aldiss This collection brings together the complete works of Brian Aldiss, published for the first time in eBook. They feature striking covers, and introductions from Aldiss himself.
Harm Welcome to HARM – the Hostile Activities Research Ministry… A compelling dystopia, created by Science Fiction’s bestloved writer, and available for the first time in eBook. ‘For … the originality and force of its presentation, HARM richly deserves a place in the canon of dystopian science fiction’. Strange Horizons 2007 Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748223-8 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 22 Aug 2013 UK: £9.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-748961-9 19 Sep 2013
Cretan Teat A ribald tale from Britain’s best-love Science Fiction writer. The Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus. ‘Aldiss is a magician’ Sunday Times Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748221-4 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 22 Aug 2013 UK: £9.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-748222-1 22 Aug 2013
Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story Criminal Record which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.
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Brian Aldiss Collection Brian Aldiss This collection brings together the complete works of Brian Aldiss, published for the first time in eBook. They feature striking covers, and introductions from Aldiss himself.
The Zodiacal Planet Galaxy A collection all the short stories and novellas that make up the Zodiac Planets series. Spanning over 40 years these include The Supertoys Trilogy, the first of which was filmed by Steven Spielberg as the movie A.I. Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-747890-3 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 8 Aug 2013 UK: £9.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-747891-0 8 Aug 2013
This World and Nearer Ones A collection of mostly previously published essays on a wide variety of subjects, including literature, film, politics, current affairs, art and the author’s own life. Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748234-4 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 24 Oct 2013 UK: £9.99
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Pale Shadow of Science Essays collected especially for Aldiss’s Guest of Honour visit to Norwescon, Seattle, Washington, in March of 1985. Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748232-0 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 24 Oct 2013 UK: £9.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-748233-7 24 Oct 2013
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Brian Aldiss Collection Brian Aldiss This collection brings together the complete works of Brian Aldiss, published for the first time in eBook. They feature striking covers, and introductions from Aldiss himself.
The Detached Retina In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world’s pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writers and writings. Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748232-0 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 24 Oct 2013 UK: £9.99
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-748233-7 24 Oct 2013
Fortitude A collection of essays, as wide ranging as one expects from Aldiss. Non Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748248-1 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 19 Dec 2013 UK: £9.99
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Tidings William Wharton In Tidings, one of America’s best-loved authors paints a vivid scene of an unusual family Christmas. At an old mill in the French countryside, philosophy teacher Will and his wife Loretta await the return of their four adult children for the Christmas holidays. The house is swept, the fire is lit, and the scene is set. Will is determined to make this a Christmas to remember; however, he is unprepared for the personal troubles each family member will bring to the festivities. Unsatisfied desires, affairs, and the shadow of divorce threaten the Yuletide cheer. As they struggle to resolve their issues, the family and their holiday celebrations come alive in a heart-warming evocation of the traditions, magic, and unseen labour for a family Christmas.
William Wharton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1925. During the Second World War, Wharton served in the US army, until an injury led to his discharge. In 1978, Wharton’s first novel, Birdy, was published to critical acclaim. Before his death in 2008, Wharton penned 8 further novels, and 3 memoirs. The most recent memoir, Shrapnel, will be published for the first time in English in 2012. Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-745803-5 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 14 Nov 2013 UK: £7.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-745814-1 1 Dec 2013
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Ever After William Wharton William Wharton turns his microscopic gaze on his own life to narrate and scrutinize the untimely deaths of his daughter and her family. A moving story of one man’s rage against death, and spiritual renewal. On August 3rd 1988, field burning caused a 23-car pile-up that claimed the lives of seven people, including William Wharton’s daughter, Kate, her husband, and their two children. In Ever After, William Wharton searches for meaning in this tragedy, and tries to put a stop to a dangerous agriculture practice. Written from the perspective of both father and daughter, Ever After is inspiring and heart-breaking in equal measures. ‘William Wharton’s search for meaning in personal tragedy is harrowing, courageous, and extraordinarily moving’. Hilma Wolitzer ‘Wharton’s book has the ring of emotional truth even as it reads like a grippingly dramatic novel’. Publishers Weekly
William Wharton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1925. During the Second World War, Wharton served in the US army, until an injury led to his discharge. In 1978, Wharton’s first novel, Birdy, was published to critical acclaim. Before his death in 2008, Wharton penned 8 further novels, and 3 memoirs. The most recent memoir, Shrapnel, will be published for the first time in English in 2012. Biography ISBN: 978-0-00-745806-6 Size: 197x130mm Paperback 14 Nov 2013 UK: £7.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-745817-2 17 Apr 2013
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