July-December 2011 New Titles - 4th Estate, Haper Press and The Friday Project by sam shone

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CONTENTS Fourth Estate Fiction 2 Fourth Estate Non-ﬁction 6 Fourth Estate Paperbacks 20 Harper Press Fiction 30 Harper Press Non-ﬁction 32 Harper Press Paperbacks 40 The Friday Project 55 Indexes 61 Contacts 63

July 978-0-00-718300-5 £12.99 TPB | 234 x 153 mm | 272 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

August 978-0-00-728711-6 £14.99 HB | 216 x 135 mm | 240 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European

Cressida Connolly was born in 1960. She is a journalist and reviewer. She lives in Worcestershire with her husband and three children.

David Prete is an actor, voice coach and author of Say It to My Face, published in 2004. He lives in Chicago.

August and then some David Prete

My Former Heart Cressida Connolly

New York City. By day, JT Savage is a labourer on the Upper East Side; by night an insomniac in an East Village tenement. His had been a superﬁcially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; a time of beers by the river, of working in his friend’s father’s garage, of studying to go to college. Then, one night, everything changed.

When she grew up, Ruth would say that she could place the day that her mother had decided to go away. She didn’t know the actual date, but she recalled the occasion: in the afternoon of a wet day, early in 1942, during a visit to the cinema. She thought she could even pinpoint the exact moment at which Iris had made up her mind to go, leaving her only child behind. Neither of them could have guessed then that they would never live together again.

August and then some is a taut and gripping family drama, in which horrifying secrets kept between father and daughter, and mother and son, explode during one tragic night. Set over the course of two summers, it is a novel of revenge and the difﬁculty of repentance and forgiveness. Jaggedly beautiful and intensely realised, tightly plotted yet expansive, this debut novel is the coming-of-age of a striking new voice in American ﬁction.

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My Former Heart, Cressida Connolly’s mesmerising ﬁrst novel, charts the lives of three generations of Iris’s family, the mother who walked away from her child. Ruth will be deserted again, by a husband she loves, but not before she has had two children by him. She leaves London to live with her uncle, where she creates a new life for herself with another woman. And we follow the lives of her two children, trying to make a place for themselves in the world in the shadow of the family that precedes them.

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October 978-0-00-744129-7 £20.00 HB | 254 x 153 mm | 440 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

October 978-0-00-744344-4 £14.99 HB | 203 x 135 mm | 288 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Australia, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial

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.

The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides

With My Body Nikki Gemmell

From Jeffrey Eugenides, author of the beloved novels Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides, comes a brilliant, funny and heartbreaking new novel.

In 2003 Nikki Gemmell created waves when, writing under the tag ‘Anonymous’, her novel The Bride Stripped Bare became a literary sensation, with its raw and unﬂinching depiction of female sexuality. Now, eight years later, Gemmell returns with another tour de force, With My Body, and addresses the question of what intimacy is and whether it is ever truly possible to know another person. It is at once a manifesto of married mothers everywhere and a highly personal story of one woman’s sexual awakening.

While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, Madeleine Hanna, a dutiful English major, was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. Madeleine was the girl who dressed a little too nicely for the taste of her more bohemian friends, the perfect girlfriend whose college love life hadn’t lived up to expectations. But now, in the spring of her ﬁnal year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course ‘to see what all the fuss is about’. And life and literature will never be the same. Not after she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Morten, who is possessed of seemingly inexhaustible energy and introduces her to the ecstasies of immediate experience. And certainly not after Mitchell Grammaticus resurfaces in her life, obsessed with the idea that she will be his wife. With brilliant wit, irony and an incredible understanding of and love for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides captures the original energies of the novel while creating a story so contemporary that it reads like an intimate journal of our own lives.

Nikki Gemmell has had two previous novels published to critical acclaim, with reviewers hailing the freshness and power of her writing.

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A wife, comfortably married and with three children, is contemplating middle age along with all the constraints of motherhood. Finding herself numb and locked down in an unending cycle of school runs, laundry and meal times, she cannot at ﬁrst see a way to live with honesty. Even her husband, whom she loves, has never reached the core of her. Despairing of ever ﬁnding a way through her family to her own identity, she returns to the memory of an old love affair – the consequences of which she has never resolved. With My Body is exquisitely raw, emotional and bold, and deeply resonant of the classic French erotic writings of Colette, Nin and Duras, but with a modern and provocative twist.

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July 978-0-00-731342-6 £14.99 TPB | 234 x 153 mm | 288 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European

August 978-0-00-718157-5 £20.00 HB | 234 x 153 mm | 400 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Translation, Serial

Christopher Turner first came across the orgasmatron whilst doing anthropological fieldwork at infamously progressive Summerhill School. He went on to complete a PhD at the University of London. He teaches at the London Consortium, a PhD programme in the Humanities at Birkbeck College, London, and is a regular contributor to the LRB, Tate Magazine, the Guardian and Sight and Sound. For the academic year 2003/4, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. He’s also a documentary filmmaker.

Mark Lynas is an activist, journalist and traveller. He was editor of the website www. oneworld.net and has made many appearances in the press and TV as a commentator on environmental issues. He is the author of High Tide and Six Degrees.

The God Species

Adventures in the Orgasmatron

How Humanity Can Change the Earth

How Renegade Europeans Conceived the American Sexual Revolution and Gave Birth to the Permissive Society

Mark Lynas Humankind dominates every feature of the Earth’s natural system from the water cycle to the movements of pollutants through the sky. We are truly the ‘God Species’. In 2008 Mark Lynas attended a meeting of leading scientists in Sweden when it suddenly dawned on him that what was being discussed represents a revolutionary new approach to maintaining the life of, and life on, our planet. For the ﬁrst time, these scientists were beginning to understand not only that there are a number of processes, or systems, that are crucial to the stability and sustainability of human life on Earth, but also, critically, that all these systems are intimately linked to each other and can only be properly understood and managed together, not individually. Climate change is just one of these systems; the others include the nitrogen cycle, land use, ocean acidity and so on. These scientists – the boundaries team, as Mark calls them – are suggesting that we need to move from a world of Mutually Assured Destruction of competing national interests to Mutually Assured Survival of shared interests. In a radical departure from the traditional arguments about how to manage the planet, Mark shows just how it should be done.

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Christopher Turner In the middle of the 20th century, the United States became an adoptive home for dozens of expatriated European thinkers, who saw this rich, young country ripe for sexual liberation. One of the most left-ﬁeld of them was the Viennese psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, a disciple of Freud’s who had broken with the master. Reich’s own approach was based on his theories of the orgasm and sexual energy, which he dubbed ‘orgone energy’. Instead of the couch, he made use of a tall, slender construction of wood, metal, and steel wool, which he called the orgone box. A highly sexed man himself, Reich thought that a person who sat in the box could elevate their ‘orgastic potential’ ridding the body of repressive forces, improving sexual potency, and enhancing overall health. After World War Two, Reich’s theories caught on among writers and artists, the early adopters of the counter-culture, including Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow. This is the story of the blossoming of the 20th century’s sexual revolution, and the unshackling of a repressed society, and sex before science.

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October 978-0-00-739143-1 £25.00 HB | 240 x 170 mm | 448 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth

September 978-0-00-724338-9 £16.99 HB | 216 x 135 mm Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial

Dan Lepard is a baker and photographer who has worked with the likes of Yotam Ottolenghi, Giorgio Locatelli and Fergus Henderson. He is the author of The Handmade Loaf and has a very popular baking column in the Saturday Guardian. He writes frequently for Sainsbury’s Magazine and is also currently designing a range of baking products for Sainsbury’s. Originally from Australia, he now lives in London.

Alexander Masters lives in London. His ﬁrst book, Stuart: A Life Backwards, was a Sunday Times bestseller and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award.

Short and Sweet Dan Lepard

The Genius in my Basement Alexander Masters

Dan Lepard is Britain’s foremost baking guru. His Guardian column commands a legion of followers, while his recipes are highly sought after by top chefs and restaurants, including Giorgio Locatelli, Fergus Henderson and Yotam Ottolenghi. He is the baker that every chef wants in their kitchen. With Dan’s utterly dependable baking bible open on your worktop, you can bake with conﬁdence as he coaches you through 250 of his best recipes for cakes, pastries, breads, pies, biscuits, scones, desserts, frostings and more.

As Aristotle understood it, ‘there is no great genius without a mixture of madness,’ and he may well have had a point: Einstein routinely forgot his way home when out walking the streets of Vienna and Nietzsche wound up in an insane asylum.

Short and Sweet uses the newest flours and ingredients and has everything from updates on the classics to the latest in baking for intolerances. Enjoy simple recipes for flatbreads and scones or try his innovative flavour combinations – such as blue cheese and oatmeal biscuits or pumpkin and ginger cupcakes. Mixing science with old-fashioned kitchen wisdom, Dan has tried and tested almost every baking technique out there.

Simon Philips Norton, the subject of The Genius in my Basement, is not mad – not by a long shot – but is certainly mixed up. At one time he was considered one of the greatest prodigies of contemporary mathematics: his breakthrough work on a group of numbers nicknamed the ‘Monster’ inspired, and was acclaimed by, the international maths community for many years. These days he spends most of his time colouring in road atlases, tracing the paths of bus routes he has travelled upon all over the country, sheltering amongst a tower of unwashed pans and eating smoked kippers straight from a tin in his ‘messy’ (as Simon calls it) basement ﬂat in Cambridge. Alexander Masters, the award-winning and bestselling author of Stuart: A Life Backwards, offers a tender, humorous and intimate portrait of a genius and, in doing so, reveals the cruel burdens, as well as the glorious rewards, of a life marked by brilliance.

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September 978-0-00-724850-6 £40.00 TPB | 240 x 170 mm | 592 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European

September 978-0-00-736062-8 £16.99 HB | 234 x 153 mm | 400 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial

Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books, including the classics Real Fast Food and Real Cooking, and the award-winning Appetite. He has written a much-loved column for the Observer for over a decade. His autobiography, Toast – The Story of a Boy’s Hunger, won six major awards, including the British Biography of the Year, the Glenﬁddich Award and the André Simon Memorial Award. The Kitchen Diaries won the Design and Production Award at the 2006 British Book Trade Awards.

Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989. He has also written parodies for many other publications, including the Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Times and the Guardian.

Tender Boxed Set Nigel Slater

One on One Craig Brown

Both volumes available together for the ﬁrst time, in this collectable boxed edition.

Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. They speak, or don’t speak. They get on, or don’t get on. They laugh, they cry, they are excited, they are indifferent, they share secrets, they say, ‘how do you do?’ Often it is the most ﬂeeting of meetings that, over time, turn out to be the most noteworthy.

Selected twelve times as Book of the Year, in Tender Volume I Nigel Slater extolled the virtues of his vegetable patch. In the hotly anticipated second volume, his fruit garden took the starring role. Now presented side-by-side in a beautiful bespoke box, the set contains over 700 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the cook’s garden. The most definitive guide to cooking with vegetables and fruit, Tender Volumes I and II reaffirm Nigel Slater’s position as Britain’s finest food writer. ‘You could eat sublimely for a year using only Nigel Slater’s Tender’ Guardian

One on One examines the curious nature of different types of meeting, from the oddity of meetings with the Royal Family (who start giggling during a recital by T. S. Eliot) to those often perilous meetings between old and young (Gladstone terrifying the teenage Bertrand Russell) and between young and old (the 23-year-old Sarah Miles having her leg squeezed by the nonagenarian Bertrand Russell), and our contemporary random encounters on television (George Galloway meeting Michael Barrymore on Celebrity Big Brother). All human life is here, dancing in a circle. Ingenious in its construction, witty in its narration, panoramic in its breadth, One on One is a wholly original book.

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September 978-0-00-744529-5 £18.99 HB | 216 x 135 mm Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

September 978-0-00-743206-6 £12.99 PB | 203 x 135 mm | 240 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Serial

Jane Lynch is a Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning actress. She has starred alongside Meryl Streep, Will Ferrell and Steve Carrell and is best known for her portrayal of the catty Sue Sylvester in the ultimate television success story of recent years, Glee.

Matt Lacey (a.k.a. Orlando) began writing and performing comedy sketches as a schoolboy and has not stopped since. He wrote for and appeared in numerous productions while at university at Oxford, and after graduating joined the sketch comedy group The Unexpected Items, with whom he still performs regularly. Matt is also an accomplished actor and has appeared in a number of television and theatre productions. He lives in London.

Happy Accidents Jane Lynch

The Gap Yah Plannah Orlando

This is no typical Hollywood memoir of torment, grief, regret and plastic surgery (even if Jane does own a tiny little dog and used to drink too much). It’s a simple but candid story of how a girl from Chicago came to Hollywood, overcame her demons, and ﬁnally hit the big time. Taking a good, hard look at herself, Lynch reveals that she and Sue Sylvester – her alter ego in Glee – actually aren’t all that different. At times in her life she ‘was a real pain in the ass’. It’s not surprising, when you discover what she’s been through to get to where she is today, including beating alcoholism and coming to terms with her homosexuality. Not one to wallow in self-pity, Lynch quips about her darkest times in a manner that is wonderfully forthright and funny.

So, you didn’t get the grades, and you’ve decided to take a gap yah. Or, you massively love life and want to have a cheeky beer in loads of waard places around the world, and have decided to take a gap yah. Well, you’ve picked up the right book. After reading this, you should know the best cocktails to have in South Americah, how to do traditional African dancing, and which frogs can or cannot be licked in South-East Asiah. Or you may ﬁnd out none of the above. From budgeting for your time away (mummy and daddy’s credit card) and what not to bring (respect for the law – that only inhibits your fun), to how to say ‘vomcano’ in Spanish, this is the absolutely essential spiritual, political and cultural guide to making the most of your gap yah. ‘I’m not going to do a gap yah in Tanzanah’ Boris Johnson ‘Saariously funny’ The Times ‘The latest British sensation’ Calcutta Telegraph

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September 978-0-00-743289-9 £14.99 HB | 216 x 135 mm | 188 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

September 978-0-00-743369-8 £30.00 HB | 249 x 178 mm | 384 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market

Complements the 3-part BBC series of the same name Michelin-starred Giorgio Locatelli is one of Britain’s best known Italian chefs. Giorgio began his career at his family’s restaurant in Italy before coming to London. He was head chef at Zafferano in London from its opening to a storm of praise and press coverage in 1994, before moving in 2002 to open Locanda Locatelli, where he remains chef-patron.

Joan Didion is the author of ﬁve novels and seven previous books of nonﬁction: among them the great portraits of a decade in essays, Sentimental Journeys, The White Album, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Her previous book, The Year of Magical Thinking, was an international bestseller.

Blue Nights Joan Didion

Made in Sicily Giorgio Locatelli

From one of America’s greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood.

In the follow-up to his acclaimed Made in Italy, Georgio Locatelli embarks on a gastronomic tour of Sicily, his most-loved holiday destination. He immerses himself in every part of this sun-drenched isle, from the bustling cities to the rural tranquillity of lemon and orange orchards; the dramatic slopes of Mount Etna to simple ﬁshing villages and charming Taormina with its amphitheatre teetering on the cliffs.

Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion’s only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter’s death. Blue Nights is a shatteringly honest examination of Joan Didion’s life as a mother, a woman and a writer. Recently widowed, and becoming increasingly frail herself, Didion attempts to understand our deepest fears, our inadequate adjustments to ageing and to put a name to what we refuse to see and as a consequence fail to face up to. This fear is tied to what we cherish most and ﬁght to conserve, protect, and refuse to let go, for ‘when we are talking about mortality we are talking about our children.’ A profound, poetic and powerful book about motherhood and the ﬁerce way in which we continue to exalt and nurture our children, even if they only live on in memory, Blue Nights is an intensely personal and yet strangely universal account of how we love. It is both groundbreaking and a culmination of a stunning career.

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He unearths a culture that is rich and unique, and a cuisine that resembles classic Italian cooking but at the same time reveals Spanish, Greek, Arab and African inﬂuences. Dishes are marked by exotic ingredients – pungent spices, citrus fruits, apricots and couscous, New World cocoa and maize. There’s an abundance of seafood, lots of fresh, simple produce, and of course the desserts and sweets for which Sicily is famed. With over 150 recipes inspired by these wonderful local dishes, exquisite location and food photography, and Locatelli’s charming stories and insightful commentary, Made in Sicily is the perfect companion volume for Made in Italy and is a vivid and unrivalled portrait of the Mediterranean’s largest island from the acknowledged master of modern Italian cooking.

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October 978-1-84115-455-8 £25.00 HB | 234 x 153 mm | 554 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

October 978-0-00-741797-1 £18.99 HB | 234 x 153 mm | 300 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind. She is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Grand Pursuit A Story of Economic Genius

Sylvia Nasar Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind, takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics. Nasar’s account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and publishing the conditions of the poor majority in mid-19th-century London, at the time the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit. She then describes the efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshall, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and Irving Fisher to put those insights into action – with revolutionary consequences for the world. From the great John Maynard Keynes to Schumpeter, Hayek, Keynes’s disciple Joan Robinson, the inﬂuential American economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman, and India’s Nobel Prize Winner Amartya Sen, she shows how the insights of these activist thinkers transformed the world. We witness men and women responding to personal crises, world wars, revolutions and economic upheavals to transform the dismal science into a triumph over mankind’s hitherto age-old destiny of misery and early death. This is a story of trial and error, and ultimately transcendence, rendered here in stunning narrative.

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Diane Keaton is a world-famous actress and director.

Then Again Diane Keaton An immensely touching and funny autobiography, as iconic as its author, the world-famous, and much-loved actress Diane Keaton. Best known for her role as Annie Hall in Woody Allen’s film of the same name, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, Keaton has had a fascinating and highly successful career, with roles in The Godfather, Reds, Something’s Gotta Give and many more. Personally, Keaton has had relationships with Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, and Al Pacino – all of whom she remains in touch with today and about whom she writes here. Diane Keaton’s mother suffered from Alzheimer’s, and during the fifteen year long battle with this heartbreaking and debilitating disease, Diane began to reflect on both of their lives – their commonalities and their differences, the dreams they each realised and the dreams they deferred. Soon after her mother passed away last September, Diane started to write. This memoir is the illumination of an ordinary girl’s journey to become an extraordinary woman – and the defining relationship that made it all possible. Diane Keaton’s Academy Award-winning career, both in front of and behind the camera, has made her a cinema legend and touchstone for a generation.

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October 978-0-00-741242-6 £12.99 TPB | 234 x 153 mm | 300 pp Fourth Estate Non-fiction Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Europe

September 978-0-00-726976-1 £8.99 PB | 197 x 130 mm | 570 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

Mark Steel’s TV and radio series include The Mark Steel Solution, The Mark Steel Revolution and The Mark Steel Lectures. He has written for the Guardian and the Independent and is a regular on Radio 4’s Loose Ends and appears frequently on the television programme Mock the Week. His latest series of In Town was broadcast in April 2010, and is recommissioned for winter 2011.

Jonathan Franzen was born in 1959 and graduated from Swarthmore College. He has lived in Boston, Spain, New York, Colorado Springs and Philadelphia. His is the author of three novels: The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion, and two works of nonﬁction: How To Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone. He lives in New York City.

In Town Mark Steel

Freedom Jonathan Franzen

Based on his award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy series, Mark Steel’s In Town is a celebration of the quirks of small-town life in a country of increasingly homogenized high streets. As everywhere hurtles along a route towards being identical to everywhere else, it seems that any expression of local interest or eccentricity is becoming a yell of defiance. Scrape away the veneer of Wetherspoons and Pizza Hut-inspired uniformity, and the march of Tesco towards being reclassified as a continent, and Britain is as magnificently diverse as ever, and ready to celebrate each distinct community.

An international bestseller and the most widely acclaimed novel of 2010, Freedom is an epic of contemporary love and marriage.

Mark Steel is a writer, presenter, comedian and champion of the left. Building on the success of his hugely popular radio show, Steel’s bespoke humorous observations on the small, sometimes forgotten, towns of Britain go right to the heart of British culture today, championing the very people who shape the places we live in now.

But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? But most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become ‘a very different kind of neighbour’, an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street’s attentive eyes?

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentriﬁers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour and an enviably perfect mother. Together with Walter – environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man – she was doing her small part to build a better world.

‘Head and shoulders above any book this year: moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over’ Sam Mendes, Observer, Books of the Year

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Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, both left-wing journalists and politically radical, met in 1961 while working for magazines published by the same company. They married the next year and together created the Martin Beck crime series, famously writing alternate chapters at night after putting their children to bed. Wahloo died at the age of 49 just as their tenth book was going to press. Sjowall currently lives in Sweden and continues to work as a writer and translator. They won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Crime Fiction Book in 1971.

‘Pick up one book and you become unhinged. You want to block out a week of your life, lie to your boss, and stay in bed, gorging on one after another’ Observer ‘If you haven’t come across Beck before, you’re in for a treat’ Guardian

The Martin Beck series Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

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Widely recognised as masterpieces of crime ﬁction, the Martin Beck detective stories from the 1960s were pioneers of Swedish crime writing. They have inspired a huge number of writers from Nicci French to Michael Connelly, from Jonathan Franzen to Henning Mankell.

July | 978-0-00-743911-9 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 288 pp

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke July | 978-0-00-743912-6 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 288 pp

They are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo – a husband and wife team who wrote alternate chapters after their children had gone to bed. The ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inﬂuenced countless other policemen in crime ﬁction.

The Man on the Balcony July | 978-0-00-743913-3 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 288 pp

The Laughing Policeman Sure to appeal to fans of Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo and Henning Mankell, all ten books will be reissued in beautiful new jackets with introductions from contemporary writers.

September | 978-0-00-724294-8 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 288 pp

The Fire Engine That Disappeared September | 978-0-00-743915-7 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 288 pp

Murder at the Savoy September | 978-0-00-743916-4 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 288 pp

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September 978-0-00-730310-6 £7.99 PB | 197 x 130 mm | 256 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

Nicola Barker lives and works in east London. She was the winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction and joint winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Love Your Enemies, her ﬁrst collection of stories. Her second story collection, Heading Inland, received the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. Her novel Wide Open won the IMPAC Prize in 2000, Clear was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2004 and Darkmans was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008.

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China, and moved to the United States in 1996. She is the recipient of several prizes for her writing, including the Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, and an MFA from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Li’s stories have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review and elsewhere, and her ﬁrst novel, The Vagrants, was published in 2009. She lives in California with her husband and their two sons.

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Yiyun Li The stories in this collection, as in Yiyun Li’s award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, are mostly set in China, portraying the China of the 21st century where economic development has led to situations unknown in previous decades. Residents in a shabby apartment building witness in awe the real estate boom; a local entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist shelters women in trouble in her mansion; a group of retired women discover fame late in their lives as private investigators specialising in extramarital affairs. Underneath the veneer of prosperity and opportunity, however, lie the struggles of characters trying to reorient themselves in the unfamiliar landscapes of modern China: a new wife makes a plea to have a baby with her husband who was to be executed; a middle-aged couple in America, upon losing their only daughter, return to their hometown in China to hire a young woman as a surrogate mother. These characters’ fates are affected as much by the historical moments in which they reside as by the choices they make.

Nicola Barker With her brilliantly unconventional sense of humour and surreal explorations of contemporary life through the unfashionable and unexpected corners of society, Nicola Barker is widely regarded as one of the country’s freshest, funniest and most talented literary writers. She is the award-winning author of eight novels and two collections of short stories, and this set of ﬁve titles completes a reissue of all her work, including the winner of the IMPAC award, Wide Open, and the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Darkmans.

Reversed Forecast October | 978-0-00-743605-7 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 300 pp

Darkmans October | 978-0-00-719363-9 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 300 pp

Behindlings October | 978-0-00-713526-4 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 300 pp

Heading Inland October | 978-0-00-743571-5 | £7.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 300 pp

‘Yiyun Li’s beautifully crafted Munro-like stories of loss and betrayal show the human cost of living in a changing world’ Sunday Times

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Clear October | 978-0-00-743765-8 | £8.99 | PB | 197 x 130 mm | 300 pp

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July 978-0-00-737795-4 £8.99 PB | 197 x 130 mm | 224 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada

September 978-0-00-731907-7 £10.99 PB | 197 x 130 mm | 288 pp Rights: UK Commonwealth, not Canada

Stephen Davis is a veteran rock writer and contributor to Rolling Stone and the New York Times.

LZ-75 Across America with Led Zeppelin

Stephen Davis As a young rock writer Stephen Davis landed the ultimate commission – touring America with Led Zeppelin. This is a personal account by Davis of his journey, which saw him crossing the country with the band on board the Starship, their famous Boeing passenger jet, complete with deep shag purple carpet, electric pianos, girlfriends and star-struck hangers-on. This is also the story of one of the hardest-living bands in the world at their peak, capturing a few perfect months in rock, when Led Zeppelin epitomised the free-living rock dream. But, like Icarus, their wings were already beginning to melt. It wouldn’t be long before John Bonham died of a vodka overdose, and punk killed their brand of monumental rock. LZ-’75: Across America with Led Zeppelin is a wonderful and unique thing – a beautifully succinct account of a single moment in rock, when no lyric was too far-fetched, no drink went un-drunk and no expense was ever, ever spared. It’s a moment that will never be repeated. ‘Timely tales of rock star excess’ LA Times

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Listen to This Alex Ross Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker and author of the prize-winning The Rest is Noise, looks both backwards and forwards in time, capturing essential ﬁgures and ideas in classical music history, as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music. Ross vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; gives us indepth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. In his essay ‘Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues’, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history from Renaissance dance to Led Zeppelin through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows that music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of the wider contemporary culture. ‘One minute you’re immersed in Mozart, and then suddenly you’re on tour with Radiohead’ Guardian

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Norma Farnes was Spike Milligan’s agent, manager and friend for over 35 years. She lives in Yorkshire and London.

Memories of Milligan Norma Farnes

The Lost Diaries Craig Brown

Collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan’s close friend and longstanding agent, Memories of Milligan brings to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises.

The Lost Diaries is a brilliant and hilarious anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.

After his death in 2002, Spike left behind him one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history. Heralded as brilliant and difﬁcult in equal measure, inspirational and at times doggedly loyal, yet famously tempestuous and ﬁckle, Spike was many things to many people. In Memories of Milligan, Farnes sets out to interview those who knew him best ranging from fellow comedian Barry Humphries, scriptwriters Galton and Simpson, director Jonathan Miller, stalwart presenters Michael Palin and Terry Wogan, to comic geniuses such as Eric Sykes and producer George Martin.

Arranged on a day-to-day basis, spread throughout an entire year, these diary extracts form a patchwork quilt of observation, reﬂection, contemplation and, above all, self-promotion. As the months unfold, different diarists offer their insights on the events that pass: John Prescott on going to Royal Ascot, Nigella Lawson on preparing Christmas lunch, W.G. Sebald on enjoying an ice lolly by the beach. Among over two hundred diarists featured are Martin Amis, Jordan, Germaine Greer, The Duchess of Devonshire, President Barack Obama, Philip Roth, HM the Queen, Victoria Beckham, Jeremy Clarkson, Jeanette Winterson, Sylvia Plath, Keith Richards, Maya Angelou and Frank McCourt. The Lost Diaries is the ﬁrst time all Craig Brown’s greatest parodies have been gathered together in one book. Full of invigorating and sometimes shocking juxtapositions, they constitute a treasure-trove of all the fantasies and illusions of our times.

Compiled from intimate stories, small exchanges and habits that go into making up a relationship, be it personal or professional, Memories of Milligan captures another side to the performer’s public persona, to build a complete picture of one of the greatest British comic writers.

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‘Pitch-perfect, laugh-out-loud parodies from our greatest living satirist’ Sunday Times

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Born in 1974, Luella Bartley trained at Central Saint Martins before working as a journalist on Vogue and the London Evening Standard. Ten years ago she decided to set up her own fashion label and gave her ﬁrst collection the title ‘Daddy, I Want A Pony’. Named by Harpers & Queen as ‘the leader of London’s junior style maﬁa’, she lives in Cornwall with her husband, photographer David Sims. Aside from her own collections she has designed for O’Neill, the surfwear company, and Target, the American chain-store.

Nikki Gemmell has had two previous novels published to critical acclaim, with reviewers hailing the freshness and power of her writing. In the tradition of women over the centuries, she has decided to conceal her name in order to allow herself utter freedom in the writing of this novel.

The Bride Stripped Bare Nikki Gemmell The explosive, international bestseller, reissued to coincide with publication of With My Body, the next book from the author of The Bride Stripped Bare. A woman disappears. Her car lies abandoned on a remote bluff; no body is found. She was the good wife, the good mother: mannerly, quiet, self-contained. But she has left behind an incendiary diary chronicling a disturbing journey of sexual awakening. The diary opens on her honeymoon in Morocco, she believes herself to be happy – or happy enough, anyway. Swiftly, this security masquerading as love fractures in an act of massive betrayal, only to propel her into a world of desire and fantasy and recklessness. What begins for her in the imagination ends in a tangle of sheets, in a drowning spiral of obsession and release. She dares to rupture convention, learning, for the ﬁrst time, the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, how long can her soul sustain a perilous double life?

Luella’s Guide to English Style Luella Bartley What makes English girls the coolest in the world? What is the English style which girls around the world try to emulate? In this book Luella Bartley – crowned Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2008 – sets out to capture what it is that makes English girls just a little bit special.

Coolly impassioned, The Bride Stripped Bare tells shocking truths about love and sex. It is the perfect companion to Nikki Gemmel’s new book, With My Body.

First up are the clothes. Luella investigates the combination of smart and scruffy, classic and street-style, which ensures that English girls are always at the cutting edge of fashion. Then there are the icons – the English girl knows that Kate Moss and The Duchess of Devonshire both have a place in the style pantheon. Luella explains the style tribes vying for the English girl’s allegiance, the social rituals she undergoes – from surﬁng in Cornwall to clubbing in Berlin – and the status symbols she marks herself out with. All this requires a lot of photographs, drawings, and, occasionally, diagrams. But Luella’s Guide to English Style isn’t simply a book about fashion and style, it’s a work of social anthropology – delivered with a wink and a kiss on the cheek.

‘A must read … A tale of sexual awakening for the dark horse in all of us’ Tatler

‘A star – a poster child for London cool’ American Vogue

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Jenny Wingﬁeld is an accomplished screenwriter. Her credits include The Man in the Moon (starring Reese Witherspoon), as well as The Outsider (starring Naomi Watts). She lives in Texas and this is her ﬁrst novel.

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Jenny Wingfield

The King’s Diamond Will Whitaker

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café.

A vivid and evocative read that leaps off the page with a dazzling recreation of the Renaissance diamond and gem trade.

It’s 1956 and Samuel Lake, a handsome preacher, is voted out of his ministry by yet another congregation, disappointed by his relentless pleas for them to live more charitable lives. Out of options and out of pocket, Samuel and his family are forced to move in with their Arkansas in-laws, the rambunctious Moses clan.

As the chaos of war spreads out across Europe, Charles V extends his empire in a series of ruthless and aggressive moves. The Medici Pope has formed an alliance to drive Charles out of Italy for good. Only England holds aloof from the great struggle that is to come. The 36-year-old Henry VIII presides over an opulent and glamorous court, thinking only of the woman with whom he has fallen in love. In the midst of this politically sensitive and dangerous world, steps Richard Dansey, a young and ambitious jewel merchant, determined to break his mother’s stranglehold on the family ﬁrm after his father’s early death.

At ﬁrst they thrive in the unruly sea of relatives – Willa, Samuel’s wife, runs the bar for Grandma Calla, while the boys, Noble and Bienville, run riot through the surrounding countryside. But when Swan, their formidable but loveable 11-year-old tomboy, crosses the path of neighbour Raz Ballenger, things take a turn for the worse. Raz Ballenger, a horse trainer, is a man who rules both his family and his animals through terror. Used to instant obedience, he is insulted when Swan leaps to his son’s defence, an act that sets a whole chain of unexpected and terrible events in motion…

Will Whitaker has published three young adult novels with the Oxford University Press. This is his ﬁrst historical novel. He lives with his wife, Katie Whitaker, and their two children in Ripon, North Yorkshire.

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Richard’s reckless pursuit of jewels worthy of Henry’s wooing of Anne Boleyn, leads him across Europe to Venice and Rome. Obsessed with one diamond, but dangerously distracted by love, Richard ﬁnds himself thrust into the heart of the murderous politics of the Tudor court. The King’s Diamond is a story of obsession and love, in a world of political conniving and treachery, that grips from the ﬁrst page.

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Educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford, William Rees-Mogg joined the Financial Times in 1952, becoming chief leader writer and assistant editor. He then moved to The Times, eventually becoming its editor, and remaining there for fourteen years. He has been vice-chairman of the BBC, chairman of the Arts Council and head of the Broadcasting Standards Council and sits on the boards of several companies.

Memoirs William Rees-Mogg William Rees-Mogg is one of the most pivotal figures of post-war Britain. He has spent his life at the epicentre of events in politics and journalism and in this brilliantly entertaining memoir he recounts the story of his colourful life, reflecting on the key figures and events of his time. Often controversial and never dull, he has always had the courage to hold strong opinions. From his famous defence of Mick Jagger on a charge of possessing cannabis, to his recent criticism of the morality behind the war in Kosovo, his writing has demanded attention, to the point of becoming newsworthy in itself. From an early age his life was filled with incident – among the many anecdotes are the stories of the Bristol Blitz, his doomed attempts to enter politics, hiring burglars to uncover corruption in the Met, an eventful stay at Chequers with Harold Wilson, how Rupert Murdoch amused the Queen at lunch and how Harold Macmillan impressed Ronald Reagan at dinner. He knew and knows most of the anybodies who were anybody: from royalty to prime ministers; presidents to religious leaders; and uses his unique insider perspective to great effect in this utterly compelling autobiography.

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Adam Bryant is the deputy national editor of the New York Times and writes the popular ‘Corner Ofﬁce’ feature in the paper’s Sunday Business section. He was the lead editor for the team that won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and is a former senior writer and business editor at Newsweek. He lives in Westchester County, New York.

The Corner Office How Top CEOs Made It and How You Can Too

Adam Bryant Aspirational business book based on interviews with over seventy-five leading American CEOs. What does it take to succeed in business and to inspire others? Adam Bryant of the New York Times sat down with more than seventy-five CEOs and asked them how they do their jobs and the most important lessons they learned as they rose through the ranks. The Corner Office draws together lessons, memorable stories, and eye-opening insights from chief executives like Steven Ballmer (Microsoft), Carol Bartz (Yahoo), Jeffrey Katzenberg (DreamWorks), and Alan Mulally (Ford), as Bryant reveals the keys to success in the business world, including the five qualities CEOs value most in their employees, and shows how executives at the top of their game get the most out of others. For aspiring executives, of any age, The Corner Office offers perspectives that will help anyone who seeks to be a more effective leader and employee, and a path to future success.

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Famous for his BBC series War Walks, Rebels and Redcoats, Wellington: The Iron Duke; Battleﬁelds; and The Western Front, celebrated military historian Richard Holmes wrote many bestselling and widely acclaimed books including Firing Line, The Western Front, Redcoat, Tommy and Sahib. He taught military history at Sandhurst before he became Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranﬁeld University and the Royal Military College of Science. He served for 36 years in the Territorial Army was Colonelin-Chief of The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment. Richard Holmes died suddenly in April 2011.

Richard Fortey retired from his position as senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in 2006. He is the author of several books, including Fossils: A Key to the Past, The Hidden Landscape which won The Natural World Book of the Year in 1993, Life: An Unauthorised Biography, Trilobite! and The Earth: An Intimate History. He was elected President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Survivors

Soldiers

The Animals and Plants that Time has Left Behind

A Social History

Richard Fortey

Richard Holmes

An awe-inspiring journey around the globe in search of the imprint of evolution preserved on living creatures that have survived since the beginnings of time.

Completing a trilogy begun with his best-selling Redcoat and Tommy, Richard Holmes has written the deﬁnitive social history of the British soldier from the restoration of Charles II in 1660 until the present day.

The history of life on Earth is far older – and far odder – than many of us realise. In Survivors, acclaimed author Richard Fortey seeks out the stories of organisms that have survived nearly unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. They range from humble algal mats dating back two billion years to hardy musk oxen, which linger on as vestiges of the Ice Age. Their existence today affords us glimpses of landscapes long vanished, of continents lost, of endurance against the odds. Survivors takes us on fascinating journeys to ancient worlds; written with Fortey’s customary sparkle and gusto, this engrossing exploration of the world’s most enduring creatures brilliantly combines the best science writing about the long narrative of life with an explorer’s sense of adventure and a poet’s wonder at the natural world. This utterly compelling and eyeopening book is for anyone with an interest in evolution, in nature, in the remarkable scope of geological time and our own modest interactions with it – in short, in life itself.

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Soldiers is the story of a man as ancient as a redcoat in the age of horse and musket, and as modern as the gate guards today on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan – and the women who have followed him, anxiously watched his progress from afar or, more recently soldiered alongside him. Technological, political and social developments have all made their mark on the advancement of warfare, but have the attitudes of the soldier shifted as much we might think? For Holmes, the soldier is part of a unique tribe – and qualities of loyalty and heroism, an appetite for alcohol, sex and casual violence are interwoven seamlessly into a personality coloured by self-sacrifice, comradeship, generosity, humour; and the fiercest of pride in his mates. This magnificent book, completed just before Richard Holmes’s untimely death, is his last tribute to the man who has lain at the heart of his professional and writing life.

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Max Hastings studied at Charterhouse and Oxford and became a foreign correspondent, reporting from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and the Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism. Among his bestselling books, Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham Prize and both Overlord and Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize. After ten years as editor and then editorin-chief of the Daily Telegraph, he became editor of the Evening Standard in 1996.

All Hell Let Loose The World at War 1939–45

Max Hastings The seminal narrative history of the Second World War from one of our finest historians. A book which depicts what the war was like to live through – whether you were a starving child in Leningrad, a soldier in North Africa, or a civilian in Dresden. Truly global, Max Hastings’ book is the definitive account. With its battlefields dispersed across the globe, the vastness of the Second World War was unparalleled. This was a time when nearly everything which civilised people took for granted in peace time was destroyed. Many men and women who lived through this catastrophe struggled to find the words to describe what they witnessed daily. Many turned to a phrase, which although a cliche, summed things up: ‘All Hell’s Let Loose!’ In this definitive, single-volume history of a war that continues to fascinate and horrify us in equal measure, Max Hastings brings together many different human stories, and touches on almost every country in the world. All Hell Let Loose charts these experiences, along with the numerous battles on land, at sea and in the air, all over the world, that formed the greatest conflict in human history.

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Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives at Sissinghust Castle in Kent. This is his sixth book for HarperCollins – his previous ﬁve being Earls of Paradise, Men of Honour, Sea Room, Power and Glory, Seamanship, Sissinghurst and The Smell of Summer Grass.

The Gentry Adam Nicolson Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tackles the subject he was born to write: the story of the gentry – the backbone of England. For generations England was a country dominated by its middling families, rooted on their land, in their locality, with a healthy interest in turning a proﬁt from their property and a deep distrust of the centralised state. The virtues we may all believe to be part of the English culture – honesty, affability, courtesy, liberality – each of these has their source in gentry life cultivated over ﬁve hundred years. Using family archives of family papers, many never seen before, Adam Nicolson’s riveting new book concentrates on fourteen families, spanning from 1400 to the present day. From the medieval gung-ho of the Plumpton family to the high-seas adventures of the Lascelles in the 18th-century, to more modern examples, the book provides a chronological picture of the English, seen through these passionate and powerful stories of family saga. Some families are divided by politics while others destroy their inheritance through reckless gambling and investments. All of them are vivid depictions of the life and code of the gentry, told in this wonderful sweep of English history.

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Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. He has appeared on the stage in many ﬁlms, including the hugely popular Four Weddings and a Funeral. Callow’s books include Being an Actor, Shooting the Actor, a highly acclaimed biography of Charles Laughton, a biographical trilogy of Orson Welles (of which the ﬁrst two parts have now been published) and Love is Where it Falls, an account of his friendship with the great play agent, Peggy Ramsay.

Araminta Hall has worked as a journalist since 1994 at some of Emap’s biggest titles, including Bliss Magazine and New Woman. Since 2000, she has freelanced for a variety of magazines and national newspapers. She lives in Brighton with her husband and three children.

Dickens Simon Callow

Everything and Nothing Araminta Hall

In Dickens, acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language, bringing to life Dickens the man in this highly entertaining biography.

Cupboards were sticky from spilt jam and honey, and the oven smoked when you turned it on because of the fat that had built up over the years. Agatha would never, ever let her future home end up like this. She would never leave it every day like Ruth did. She would never put her trust in strangers.

Though most famous for his great novels of the industrial age, Dickens was one of the ﬁrst ‘celebrity’ authors, attracting thousands of fans to his readings both in Britain and across the Atlantic. Not only did he give voice to his vast cast of characters; he was also a dazzling mimic and raconteur, and he wrote, stage-managed and acted in plays for the public. From his early years as a child entertainer in Portsmouth pubs to his reluctant retirement from ‘these garish lights’, he remained fanatical about the stage. Just months before his death he pointed at a theatre and declared, ‘That’s what I should have done with my life!’

Ruth and Christian are – just – holding their marriage together, after Christian’s disastrous affair a year ago. But chaos beckons, and when the family is suddenly left without any childcare, Agatha comes into their lives to solve all their problems. But Agatha is not as perfect as she seems and her love for the children masks a deeper secret. Everything and Nothing is a stunningly assured debut, superbly evoking an atmosphere of inexorable and sinister menace that builds to a mesmerising climax in a story that is, at its heart, about thwarted and damaged love. ‘An unsettling, menacing read’ Grazia

In this short and lively study, Callow reveals an original genius, and offers a compelling insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literary endeavour. By no means a dry academic study, here is an accessible introduction to an exuberant and irrepressible talent, whose extraordinary wit and personality crackle off the page.

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Bill Bryson is the internationally bestselling author of The Lost Continent, Mother Tongue, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, Notes from a Big Country, Down Under, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and A Short History of Nearly Everything, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, won the Aventis Prize for Science Books in 2004, and was awarded the Descartes Science Communication Prize in 2005.

Richard Aldrich is a regular commentator on war and espionage and has written for the Evening Standard, the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of several books, including The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence which won the Donner Book Prize in 2002.

GCHQ Richard Aldrich A gripping exploration of the last great unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ).

Seeing Further The Story of Science and the Royal Society

Edited by Bill Bryson

GCHQ is the successor to Bletchley Park and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. Since the end of the Cold War, it has played a pivotal role in shaping Britain’s secret state. Still, we know almost nothing about it. In this ground-breaking new book, Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ’s evolution from a wartime code-breaking operation based in the Bedfordshire countryside to one of the world’s leading espionage organisations.

On a damp November evening in 1660, a small group of men gathered to hear a twenty-eightyear old – and not widely famous – Christopher Wren give an astronomy lecture. As they listened to him speak, his audience decided to create a Society to promote the accumulation of useful knowledge. And with that, the Royal Society was born. Since then, the Society’s fellows have split the atom, discovered hydrogen and the electron. They’ve invented the World Wide Web and developed profound theories on gravity and motion. They’ve tested the very limits of knowledge itself.

Packed to the brim with dramatic spy stories – including secret submarine missions, hidden tunnels dug to tap phones and Soviet moles – GCHQ also explores the organisation’s role in tackling some of the most troubling issues of our time: Al Qaeda, privacy and surveillance. Revelatory and brilliantly written, this is the crucial missing link in Britain’s intelligence history.

Introduced and edited by Bill Bryson, Seeing Further is ﬁlled to the brim with contributions from some of today’s most eminent writers; Richard Dawkins on Darwin; Margaret Atwood on mad scientists; Richard Holmes on ballooners, and many more, forming a truly remarkable and unique celebration of one of the greatest scientiﬁc forces in history.

‘Richard J. Aldrich is an outstanding analyst and historian of intelligence … an important book’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times

‘Provocative, admirable and highly readable’ Sunday Times

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In the late 1950s, Anthony Sampson spent four years in Johannesburg editing the black magazine Drum, an experience which led to a lifelong fascination with South African politics. He was on the staff of the Observer in the 1960s, and his bestselling books have been translated into over 15 languages. He died in 2004.

Simon Winchester studied Geology at Oxford University. He is the author of A Crack in the Edge of the World, Krakatoa, The Map That Changed the World, The Professor and the Madman, The Fracture Zone, Outposts, and Korea, among many other titles. He lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.

Mandela

Atlantic

The Authorised Biography – Updated

A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Anthony Sampson

Simon Winchester

Over a decade after his presidency of South Africa, Nelson Mandela remains an inspirational ﬁgure to millions of people – both in his homeland and far beyond her borders. He is, without doubt, one of the most important ﬁgures in global history.

Born 190 million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean was viewed by ancient mariners with a mixture of awe, terror and amazement. Today, we cross ‘the pond’ with little thought, this vast sea perceived by most as no more than a passageway between the Earth’s continents.

Mandela’s opposition to apartheid and his 27-year incarceration at the hands of South Africa’s all-white regime are familiar to most. In this utterly compelling book, eminent journalist Antony Sampson, who knew his subject since 1951, reveals the man behind the events that rocked a continent – and changed the world. With unprecedented access to the former South African president – the letters he wrote in prison, his unpublished jail autobiography, extensive conversations, and interviews with hundreds of colleagues, friends, and family – Sampson depicts the realities of Mandela’s private and public life, and the tragic tension between them. Newly updated by distinguished South African journalist John Battersby, Mandela is the ultimate biography of one of the twentieth century’s greatest statesmen.

In this utterly original biography, Simon Winchester explores the life of the Atlantic; its birth, its relationship with mankind, and what lies in store for it once man has left the stage. He charts the development of the ﬁrst settlements by the Oceanside and delves into the age of exploration, venturing to forgotten worlds. The building of some of the world’s most beautiful port cities – London, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Casablanca – is also examined, along with the creation of settlements and colonies in and around the sea.

‘It is hard to believe that a better biography will ever be written’ Sunday Telegraph

‘From start to ﬁnish an enthralling book’ Sunday Times

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Completely unique and highly readable, Atlantic takes its reader on a wonderful journey through time, along the waves of our planet’s most signiﬁcant ocean.

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Colin Clark, son of Lord Clark and brother of Alan, was born in London in 1932 and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1956 he worked on the Laurence Olivier/Marilyn Monroe ﬁlm The Prince and the Showgirl, after which he became personal assistant to Olivier, accompanying him and Vivien Leigh on the Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s world tour of Titus Andronicus. He acted as stage manager on John Osborne’s The Entertainer at the Royal Court and then moved on to Granada Television. He died in 2002.

My Week With Marilyn Colin Clark

The Prince, the Showgirl and Me Colin Clark

Due for release in 2011 as a major motion picture starring Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper and Eddie Redmayne.

In June 1956, fresh from Eton and Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark, younger son of Sir Kenneth, worked as a humble ‘gofer’ on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl – the ﬁlm that united Britain’s foremost classical actor, Sir Laurence Olivier (who was also directing), with Hollywood’s most glamorous sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe (on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller).

A delightfully comic and touchingly romantic interlude in which Colin Clark describes for the ﬁrst time what happened between Marilyn Monroe and himself during The Prince and the Showgirl. Colin Clark’s diary account of his experiences on set with Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, published as The Prince, the Showgirl and Me, was met with critical acclaim. It was chosen as book of the year by Jilly Cooper, Joan Collins and others. But one week was missing. This is the story of that week, a delicious idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to escape from the pressures of stardom. Her new husband Arthur Miller was away, and the coast was clear for Colin to introduce her to the pleasures of British life. How he ended up sharing her bed is a tale too rich to summarise!

From the beginning, the production was beset by problems, and the clashes between Monroe and Olivier have entered ﬁlm legend. In this utterly riveting ﬁrst-hand account of his experiences, Colin Clark exposes the confusions and complications of that summer on set in 1953. ‘This book is sheer delight…wonderfully funny…by the end of this short but richly packed chronicle, Colin Clark seems like an old friend…he is blessed with a sharp eye and an even sharper pen’ Sunday Telegraph

‘My favourite book of the year’ Joan Collins on The Prince, the Showgirl and Me

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Ben Macintyre is the author of Forgotten Fatherland, The Napoleon of Crime, A Foreign Field and the bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat. He is the associate Editor and a columnist for The Times, and has been the paper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He lives in London.

Tamara Chalabi has written for the Sunday Times, New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Slate and Prospect, on war, culture, encounters, and identities. She lives in London.

Josiah the Great

Late for Tea at the Deer Palace

The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King

The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family

Ben Macintyre

Tamara Chalabi

The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous nineteenth century adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan.

A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir, Late for Tea at the Deer Palace tells the story of an extraordinary family’s century in Iraq.

In 1820, a young adventurer journeyed into the wilds of Central Asia. A soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist and writer, Josiah Harlan soon joined the court of deposed Afghan monarch – Shah Shujah.

From the grand opulence of her great-grandfather’s house in Ottoman Baghdad and her larger than life grandmother, Tamara Chalabi guides us through several generations until the moment when the country’s order, to which her family belonged, comes crashing down.

After slipping into Kabul in disguise, Josiah is the ﬁrst American to set foot in Afghanistan. He becomes a commander in the country’s army, and is the ﬁrst general since Alexander the Great to lead troops across the Hindu Kush. But, just one year after he declares himself a prince, he’s ousted by the invading British. Using a huge range of sources, including Harlan’s lost journals, Ben Macintyre brilliantly evokes the unbelievable life of Josiah the Great, the man who would be king.

In 2003, she visits her ancestral home for the ﬁrst time and ﬁnds a country sliding out of the tyrannical grip of Saddam’s rule. As she explores the nature of identity, memory and what it means to have inherited exile, the magic of this country and its people are brought to life.

‘A wonderfully compelling story … immediate and engrossing’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Magical … the story of Iraq told from an Iraqi woman’s perspective’ Daily Telegraph

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Bringing together east and west, the poetic and the political, Chalabi recreates an old world that has been lost behind recent headlines of war, occupation and suicide bombings.

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Tom Steel was born in 1943 in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1965 after graduating from Cambridge, he joined the staff of Rediffusion Television as a programme researcher. From 1968 he worked for Thames Television as a producer and director on such programmes as Today, This Week and People and Politics. After leaving Thames Television he worked as a freelance producer and director on numerous programmes for ITV, BBC and Channel 4. In 1989 he married Peta Van den Bergh. They lived in London where Tom died suddenly in July 2007. He had been updating this book at the time of his death.

Hamish McRae is a principle commentator for the Independent, the Independent on Sunday and associate editor of the Independent. He is author of The World in 2020, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He also co-wrote Capital City: London as a Financial Centre with his wife, Frances Cairncrosse, and broadcasts regularly on the BBC.

What Works

The Life and Death of St. Kilda

Success in Stressful Times

The Moving Story of a Vanished Island Community

Hamish McRae

Tom Steel

A lively, engaging and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from across the globe. Calling on years of experience as an award-winning ﬁnancial journalist, Hamish McRae brings a fresh perspective to the question of success, differentiating the few ‘big ideas’ that have transformed the marketplace from passing trends and over-hyped blind alleys.

The island of St Kilda is familiar to virtually nobody. A lonely archipelago off the coast of Scotland – the westernmost point of the United Kingdom – it is hard to believe that for over two thousand years, people lived here, cut off from the rest of the world. With a population never exceeding two hundred in its history, the sense of community amongst St Kildans was unparalleled. But, with the onset of the First World War, daily communication was established between the islanders and the mainland for the ﬁrst time, steadily marking the beginning of the end of St Kilda. In August 1930, the island’s 36 remaining inhabitants were evacuated.

Through an extraordinary range of case studies and an authoritative grasp of his material, the author demonstrates that although there is no sureﬁre recipe for success, there are several key ingredients – such as sense of mission and market sensitivity – which ambitious readers can apply to their own business practices. Bearing in mind the role of fashion, scale and other less predictable factors, What Works ultimately offers the general reader the chance to learn from some of the grandest economic successes and unexpected failures in the world today, through a series of imaginative, unusual and insightful examples. ‘Each case study is lean and precisely crafted…McRae deserves credit for writing a can-do anthology in defeatist times’ Observer

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Newly updated to include the historic appointment of St Kilda as the United Kingdom’s only UNESCO Dual Heritage site, the ongoing search for information about the island and the threats that it continues to face, this is the moving story of a vanished community and how twentieth century civilization ultimately brought an entire way of life to its knees. ‘Compulsive reading’ Guardian

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Judith Flanders is the author of critically acclaimed A Circle of Sisters – a biography of Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynder and Louisa Baldwin – which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the bestselling The Victorian House and the highly acclaimed Consuming Passions. She is a frequent contributor to the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Evening Standard, and the Times Literary Supplement. She lives in London.

The Invention of Murder

Storyteller

How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

The Life of Roald Dahl

Judith Flanders Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment began and became ubiquitous – transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera – even into puppet shows and performing dog acts. In this compelling book, Judith Flanders – author of The Victorian House – retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder – both famous and obscure. From the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in London’s East End, Burke and Hare and their bodysnatching business in Edinburgh, to Greenacre who transported his dismembered ﬁancée around town by omnibus.

Donald Sturrock worked at the BBC for ten years as a writer, producer and director. Since his departure from the BBC in 1992, he has written and directed a number of television programmes, including a ﬁlm about Roald Dahl for the BBC.

Donald Sturrock The authorised biography of Roald Dahl, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. Roald Dahl is one of the greatest storytellers of all time. He pushed children’s literature into uncharted territory and almost twenty years after his death his popularity continues to grow. The man behind the stories, however, remains an enigma. Dahl was a single-minded adventurer and his public persona was often controversial. To his readers, though, he was always a hero: ﬁgures like Willy Wonka, the BFG and the Grand High Witch are now immortal literary creations.

With an irresistible cast of swindlers and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, The Invention of Murder is a gripping tale of crime and punishment – history at its most readable.

In this masterly biography, Donald Sturrock reveals many hitherto hidden aspects of Roald Dahl’s life. Written with exclusive access to his private papers and manuscripts as well as with reference to hundreds of newly-discovered letters, Dahl lives on every page of this utterly compelling book, which reveals the man as we’ve never seen before.

‘Remarkable … [Flanders] has left no gravestone unturned’ Sunday Telegraph

‘[A] superb biography’ Sunday Telegraph

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Peter Taylor has reported on terrorism for over 35 years. He began his career covering Bloody Sunday, and his Troubles trilogy – Provos, Loyalists and Brits – is considered to be the deﬁnitive account of the conﬂict. Following peace in Northern Ireland his focus switched to the new security threat posed by Al Qaeda and he has since presented three television series. In 2002 he received an OBE for services to broadcasting and in 2008 he was awarded the James Cameron Memorial Prize ‘for work as a journalist that combined moral vision and professional integrity’.

Talking to Terrorists

Edward Heath

A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda

The Authorised Biography

Peter Taylor

Philip Ziegler

A controversial and important book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor published ten years on from the events of 9/11.

With exclusive access to personal papers, distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler offers a timely reassessment of Edward Heath’s remarkable political career. In this stunning biography, Ziegler charts Heath’s effortless rise through the ranks of the Conservative Party. He brilliantly captures Heath’s rivalry with Harold Wilson and the supreme drama of 1974 – the year of two elections and a hung parliament – with its uncanny parallels for our own times.

Peter Taylor takes us on a personal journey, quoting from diaries written at the time, as he reveals what it was like to come face-to-face with IRA terrorists and Islamic jihadis. What are terrorists really like? How do states counter them? And should governments talk to them? Drawing on more than 35 years of reporting terrorism, Taylor asks these difficult questions as he tries to understand the motives of the men and women behind some of the world’s most notorious terror attacks. The reality behind terrorism is complex. As the saying goes, ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’. Taylor asks what lessons can be learned from the resolution of conflict in Northern Ireland in confronting the threat of Islamic extremism, and tackles head-on the highly topical issue of extracting actionable intelligence that could save lives. When does interrogation become torture? Often, he argues, there is little choice but to talk to the enemy.

Philip Ziegler was born in 1929 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, where he gained ﬁrst class honours in Jurisprudence. He then joined the Diplomatic Service and served in Vientiane, Paris, Pretoria and Bogota before joining the publishers William Collins, where he was editorial director for ﬁfteen years. His many books include biographies of William IV, Lady Diana Cooper, Louis Mountbatten and Harold Wilson, as well as the classic history of the Black Death.

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Heath’s later years were blighted by the ‘long sulk’, as he failed to come to terms with losing the leadership to Margaret Thatcher. But this should not disguise his considerable achievements. He helped to transform the Conservative Party, and by securing Britain’s historic entry into Europe, the high point of his career, he arguably changed the lives of the British people more fundamentally than any prime minister since Winston Churchill. ‘Written with the style, grace and polish that one has come to expect from Ziegler […] the great strength of the book lies in its grasp of Heath’s psychology and of the psychology of political leadership’ TLS

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App available containing footage of the Royal wedding David Starkey is Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and the author of many books including Elizabeth, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII and Henry: Virtuous Prince. He is a winner of the W.H. Smith Prize and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History presented by Britain’s Historical Association. He is a well-known TV and radio personality. He was made a CBE in 2007. He lives in London.

Crown and Country The Kings and Queens of England: A History

David Starkey From one of our ﬁnest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. The monarchy is one of Britain’s most venerable and revered institutions – but also one of its most volatile. Starkey brings the tempestuous story up to the present, guiding us through the dissolution of the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, with a new chapter on the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, royal weddings and the future of monarchy. Throughout, Starkey highlights both the strength and the terrible fragility of an institution that has seemed, at times, perilously close to extinction. He offers not only a brilliant overview of British history through her kings and queens but also a vivid portrait of British culture, politics and nationhood, embodied in an institution that has deﬁned the realm for nearly two thousand years.

Andrew Kaufman is a writer, ﬁlm-maker and radio producer. His writing has appeared on McSweeney’s website, he has completed a Director’s Residency at the Canadian Film Centre and his ﬁlm Aberystwyth was screened at festivals across Europe and Canada. Andrew is also a revolving cast member of the Perpetual Motion Roadshow, and now works as a producer for CBC Radio in Toronto.

The Tiny Wife Andrew Kaufman A robber holds up a bank but instead of stealing money he takes from each person their item of most sentimental value. As time passes the loss of these items have a dramatic effect on the victims: one turns to candy, another is attacked by her lion tattoo when it comes to life, and the wife of our narrator starts to shrink. It is a remarkable short novella from the author of the acclaimed All My Friends are Superheroes, a modern fable that is weird, uplifting and romantic all at the same time.

‘Excellent…the really crucial events in the history of the British Monarchy…are assessed with authority, wisdom and wit…This is Starkey at his ﬂuent and entertaining best’ Sunday Telegraph

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Having started out as a youth team player at Everton Chris Hargeaves made his debut for Grimsby Town in 1989 and was earmarked as their ﬁrst million-pound sale. It never happened. Instead he went on to play for Scarborough, Hull City, West Brom, Hereford United, Plymouth Argyle, Northampton Town, Brentford, Oxford United and Torquay United. He retired from football last season and is now working as a pundit for his local BBC television station and is opening a sports shop in Exeter.

Born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1933, di Giovanni now lives in Lymington on the south coast of England. He still works on translations and continues to ﬁght for the right to make his work with Borges available once more.

The Lesson of the Master Norman Thomas di Giovanni A collection of essays on Jorge Luis Borges by his long-time friend and collaborator. Jorge Luis Borges – Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer – is widely considered one of the giants of twentieth century world literature. Norman Thomas di Giovanni worked alongside Borges for a number of years creating English translations of his work, the only translations personally overseen by Borges himself. In The Lesson of the Master, a memoir and essays, he writes about his time with Borges but also offers us a unique insight on the man and his work. It is an indispensable volume for Borges readers and his growing legion of students and scholars.

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Where’s Your Caravan? 20 Seasons in the Lower Leagues

Chris Hargreaves Chris Hargreaves enjoyed 20 years as a professional football player at ten different teams. Every single one of those seasons was spent playing in the lower leagues. This is an honest account of what it is life to make a living playing the game you love but never quite making it to the top of the pile. It is funny, heartbreaking and refreshingly frank. ‘If you want to know exactly what happens in the real football world, Chris Hargreaves is the man to tell you. He’s been there and done it at a wide range of largely unfashionable clubs including my team Oxford United. The fans love and relate to him because he’s a grafter…a great team player who always gives everything for the cause. Chris has been down many times but was never counted out’ Jim Rosenthal

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Indexes Steve Stack is the pseudonym of a well-known blogger and journalist. He has, under various names, written for The Times, the Observer, Private Eye and the Guardian.

21st Century Dodos Steve Stack Steve Stack investigates the many inanimate objects, the unsung cultural icons of society, which don’t feature on any endangered list but are just as likely to become extinct. Many already have. Coke can ring pulls, telephone boxes, cassette tapes, hand-written letters, ﬂoppy disks, typewriters – all of these and many many more are bid a fond farewell in this affectionate, but slightly irreverent tribute.

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Title Index 21st Century Dodos 58 Adventures in the Orgasmatron 7 All Hell Let Loose 36 Atlantic 43 August and then some 2 Behindlings 23 Blue Nights 14 Bride Stripped Bare, The 28 Clear 23 Corner Ofﬁce, The 33 Crown and Country 54 Darkmans 23 Everything and Nothing 39 Fire Engine That Disappeared, The 21 Freedom 19 Gap Yah Plannah, The 13 GCHQ 40 Genius in my Basement, The 9 Gentry, The 37 God Species, The 6 Gold Boy, Emerald Girl 22 Grand Pursuit 16 Happy Accidents 12 Heading Inland 23 Homecoming of Samuel Lake, The 30 Invention of Murder, The 50 Josiah the Great 46 King’s Diamond, The 31 Late for Tea at the Deer Palace 47 Lesson of the Master, The 56 Life and Death of St. Kilda, The 49

Listen to This 25 Lost Diaries, The 27 Luella’s Guide to English Style 29 LZ-75 24 Made in Sicily 15 Mandela 42 Man on the Balcony, The 21 Man Who Went Up in Smoke, The 21 Marriage Plot, The 4 Memoirs 32 Memories of Milligan 26 Murder at the Savoy 21 My Former Heart 3 My Week With Marilyn 44 One to One 11 Prince, the Showgirl and Me, The 45 Reversed Forecast 23 Roseanna 21 Seeing Further 41 Short and Sweet 8 Soldiers 35 Storyteller 51 Survivors 34 Talking to Terrorists 52 Tender 10 Then Again 17 Tiny Wife, The 55 What Works 48 Where’s Your Caravan? 57 With My Body 5

Title Index

Author Index Aldrich, Richard 40 Anonymous, 28 Barker, Nicola 23 Bartley, Luella 29 Brown, Craig 11, 27 Bryant, Adam 33 Bryson, Bill 41 Chalabi, Tamara 47 Clark, Colin 44, 45 Connolly, Cressida 3 Davis, Stephen 24 Didion, Joan 14 Eugenides, Jeffrey 4 Farnes, Norma 26 Flanders, Judith 50 Fortey, Richard 34 Franzen, Jonathan 19 Gemmell, Nikki 5 Giovanni, Norman Thomas di 56 Hall, Araminta 39 Hargreaves, Chris 57 Hastings, Max 36 Holmes, Richard 35 Kaufman, Andrew 55 Keaton, Diane 17 Lepard, Dan 8 Li, Yiyun 22

Author Index

Locatelli, Giorgio 15 Lynas, Mark 6 Lynch, Jane 12 Macintyre, Ben 46 Masters, Alexander 9 McRae, Hamish 48 Nasar, Sylvia 16 Nicolson, Adam 37 One to One 11 Orlando 13 Prete, David 2 Rees-Mogg, William 32 Ross, Alex 25 Sampson, Anthony 42 Sjöwall, Maj 20 Slater, Nigel 10 Stack, Steve 58 Starkey, David 54 Steel, Tom 49 Sturrock, Donald 51 Taylor, Peter 52 Turner, Christopher 7 Wahlöö, Per 20 Whitaker, Will 31 Winchester, Simon 43 Wingﬁeld, Jenny 30 Ziegler, Philip 53

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