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CONTENTS Fourth Estate Fiction 2 Fourth Estate Non-fiction 13 Fourth Estate Paperbacks 22 Harper Press Fiction 35 Harper Press Non-fiction 38 Harper Press Paperbacks 53 The Friday Project 64 Indexes 70 Contacts 72
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Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories, and is one of America’s most highly respected literary figures. She currently holds the post of Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.
Little Bird of Heaven Joyce Carol Oates Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this is a searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America. When young wife and mother Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects: her estranged husband Delray and her long-time lover Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers’ son Aaron and Eddy’s daughter Krista become obsessed with one another, each believing the other’s father is guilty. Told in the very different voices of Krista and Aaron, Little Bird of Heaven is classic Joyce Carol Oates, in which the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the anguish of loss, and tenderness is barely distinguishable from cruelty. By the novel’s end, the fated lovers, meeting again as adults, are at last ready to exorcise the ghosts of the past and come to terms with their legacy of guilt, misplaced love and redemptive yearning. With Little Bird of Heaven, Joyce Carol Oates once again confirms her place as one of the most outstanding writers at work today.
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David Flusfeder is the author of six novels: Man Kills Woman (1993), Like Plastic (1996), which won the Encore Award, Morocco (2001), The Gift (2003), The Pagan House (2007) and A Film by Spencer Ludwig (2010).
A Film by Spencer Ludwig David Flusfeder A hilarious and heartbreaking father–son road movie of a novel. Spencer Ludwig, idealist and film-maker, is making one of his regular duty visits from London to New York City to tend to his declining but still fearsome father. Driving back from one of their doctors’ appointments, Spencer decides not to take the turn to his father’s apartment; instead, they hit the road. Ahead of them is an emotional ride taking in police and prostitutes, film festivals and gambling in Atlantic City, as father and son try to make sense of each other’s lives and hearts, as well as their own. To reach, as Spencer hopes, a suitably cinematic conclusion …
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Bryan Lee O’Malley is a Canadian cartoonist and occasional musician. He lives in the wilderness with Hope Larson and three cats, and has an extremely great website at www.radiomaru.com.
Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life Volume 1
Bryan Lee O’Malley Scott Pilgrim’s life is totally sweet. He’s 23 years old, he’s in a rock band, he’s ‘between jobs’ and he’s dating a cute high-school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. Will Scott’s awesome life get turned upside-down? Will he have to face Ramona’s seven evil ex-boyfriends in battle? The short answer is yes. The long answer is Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life. Currently being made into an $80-million Universal film starring Michael Cera (Juno, Year One) and directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), to be released in summer 2010. ‘Now that the big-screen version of Watchmen has been realized, the most eagerly awaited adaptation of a comic book is probably Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ New York Times
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Volume 2 February 978-0-00-734048-4 £7.99 PB 197x130mm 208pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness Volume 3 February 978-0-00-735146-6 £7.99 PB 197x130mm 208pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe Volume 5 April 978-0-00-735147-3 £7.99 PB 197x130mm 208pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together Volume 4 May 978-0-00-734049-1 £7.99 PB 197x130mm 208pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 May £7.99 PB 197x130mm 208pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
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Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. Her first novel, Eve Green, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was a Richard and Judy pick; her second novel, Oystercatchers, was published in 2007.
Corrag Susan Fletcher ‘It is Corrag. Cor-rag. No other name but that. My mother was Cora, sir. But her most common name was hag so she joined them together like two sticks on fire, to make my name.’ The Massacre of Glencoe happened on 13th February 1692 when 37 members of the Macdonald clan were killed by government troops who had enjoyed the clan’s hospitality for the previous ten days. Thirty miles to the north, Corrag is condemned for her involvement in the massacre. She is imprisoned, accused of witchcraft and murder, and awaits her death, but Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist and Jacobite, hears of the massacre and, keen to publicise it, comes to the tollbooth to question Corrag on the events of that night, and the weeks preceding it. Leslie seeks any information that will condemn the Protestant King William, rumoured to be involved in the massacre, and reinstate the Catholic King James. Corrag agrees to talk to Leslie in an effort to clear her name and bring the guilty to justice, but also because she sees Leslie as company in her last few days. In Corrag, Susan Fletcher tells us the story of an epic historic event, as well as the unexpected but profound relationships that can come from the most unlikely places.
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Hugo Hamilton was born and grew up in Dublin. He is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, one collection of short stories and the internationally bestselling memoirs The Speckled People and The Sailor in the Wardrobe.
Trespassing Hugo Hamilton Vid Cosic is a Serbian immigrant whose burgeoning friendship with a young Dublin lawyer, Kevin Concannon, is overshadowed by a violent incident in which a man is left for dead in the street one night. The legal fallout forces them into an ever-closer, uncertain partnership, drawing Vid right into the Concannon family, working for them as a carpenter on a major renovation project and becoming increasingly involved in their troubled family story. Despite claiming to have lost his own memory in a serious accident back home in Serbia, Vid cannot help investigating the emerging details of a young woman from Connemara who was denounced by the church and whose pregnant body was washed up on the Aran Islands many years earlier. Was it murder or suicide? And what dark impact does this past event still have on the Concannon family now? As the deadly echo of hatred and violence begins to circle closer around them, Vid ďŹ nds this spectacular Irish friendship threatened, with fatal consequences. Drawing on his own speckled, Irish-German background, Hugo Hamilton has given us a highly compelling and original view of contemporary Ireland, the nature of welcome and the uneasy trespassing into a new country.
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Thomas Mullen is the author of The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of the Year by USA Today and Best Book of the Year by Chicago Tribune and won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and son.
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers Thomas Mullen Jason and Whit Fireson, the notorious, bank-robbing duo known as the Firefly Brothers, wake to find themselves lying on cooling boards in a police morgue. Riddled with bullet wounds, the reality is inescapable: they’ve been killed. But they’re alive. It is August of 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression but in the waning months of the great Crime Wave, during which the newly-created FBI killed such famous outlaws as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. Across the nation, men are out of work, wives are starving, entire families disappear. Americans are stunned and frightened by the collapse of their country’s foundations, and everyone blames the government and the banks. The Firefly Brothers rise from their cooling boards, bewildered but otherwise unaffected by their apparent demise. They have no memory of the previous day. What happened? Who betrayed them? And how have they come back to life? Combining the stark realism of a troubled time with all the myth-making magic of the American Dream itself, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers recreates a fascinating era when all the toeholds of normality were coming loose, when America’s way of life was at death’s door and everyone had a theory of what would rise up to take its place.
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Isabel Allende’s first novel for adults, The House of the Spirits, was published in Spanish in 1982, beginning life as a letter to her dying grandfather. It was an international sensation, and ever since her books have been acclaimed and adored in numerous translations worldwide.
Island Beneath the Sea Isabel Allende Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Tété is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When 20-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride, the beautiful Eugenia Garcia del Solar – but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he had imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tété and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When the bloody revolution of Toussaint Louverture arrives at the gates of the plantation, the two flee the island that will become Haiti for the decadence and opportunity of New Orleans. There, Tété finally forges a new life – but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not so easily severed.
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Nicola Barker is the author of eight other books, including Wide Open, which won the IMPAC Prize in 2000, Clear, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2004, and Darkmans, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007.
Burley Cross Postbox Theft Nicola Barker From the award-winning author of Clear comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit. Reading other people’s letters always provides a guilty pleasure. There’s no such joy for two west Yorkshire policemen. They contemplate 27 letters with the task of solving a crime: the shocking attack, just before Christmas, on a postbox in the village of Burley Cross. Exhausted, Sergeant Laurence Everill gives up the task and hands the case over to PC Roger Topping. Topping is submerged in examining the curtain-twitching lives of Jeremy Baverstock, Baxter Thorndyke, the Jonty Weiss-Quinns, Mrs Tirzana Parry, widow, and a splendid array of more weird and wonderful characters, inhabiting a world where everyone’s secrets are worn on their sleeves. Pettiness becomes epic; little is writ large. From complaints about dog shit to horse-trodden turkeys, from Biblical amateur dramatics and a failing novelist’s fan mail, a chicken that turns out to be a duck and an Auction of Promises that goes staggeringly, horribly wrong a dozen times and more, Nicola Barker’s epistolary novel is one of immense comic range, her characteristic ambition, her shrewd humanity but, above all, it’s about how we laugh at ourselves and fail to see the funny side.
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Every Home Needs a Balcony Rina Frank Braiding together the past and present, this novel tells the story of a young Romanian Jewish girl who lives with her family in the poverty-stricken heart of 1950s Haifa. Eight-year-old Rina and her family inhabit a cramped apartment with a narrow balcony that becomes an intimate, shared stage on which the joys and dramas of the building’s daily life are played out. As the years pass, Rina falls in love with a wealthy Spaniard and moves to a luxury apartment in Barcelona. Though she enjoys money and status in her new land, it is not Israel – it is not home. May 978-0-00-735366-8 £14.99 TPB 216x135mm 300pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
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Told in Silence Rebecca Connell At 22, Violet is already a widow and living with her late husband’s parents, Harvey and Laura Blackwood. Jonathan died 18 months previously in mysterious circumstances after only six months of marriage. The questions surrounding Jonathan’s death nag at her as she becomes increasingly sure that Harvey and Laura are hiding something. The reappearance of Max, an old friend of Jonathan’s, threatens to shake the foundations of everything she thought she knew. A spellbinding novel of desire, deception and the lengths we go to for love.
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The Death of Eli Gold David Baddiel The new novel from David Baddiel; comedian, columnist and author of the critically praised The Secret Purposes. As Eli Gold, a famous old writer, lies dying in a New York hospital, his family gather around his bed. His first wife Violet is too old to travel from London but their son, Harvey, who has never emerged from the shadow of his overpowering father, makes the journey. And there is Colette, a six-year-old daughter from a second marriage, struggling to make sense of the fact that her father is about to leave her. The Death of Eli Gold is a mesmerising family drama which confounds the expectations that anyone might have about David Baddiel as a TV comedian. It is the work of a very fine novelist, writing here at the peak of his powers.
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Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven novels, including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, two collections of short stories and two works of non-fiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and four children.
Manhood for Amateurs Michael Chabon What does it mean to be a man today? Michael Chabon invokes, interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him. As a son, a husband and, above all, as a father of four young children, Chabon explores memories of childhood, of his parents’ marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth. At once dazzling, hilarious and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.
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Maps and Legends Michael Chabon A collection of essays on books and why they matter, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around ‘serious’ literature in favour of a wide-ranging affection. His own fiction, meanwhile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: for example, post-collegiate desperation sparks his debut, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and procrastination and doubt reveals the way towards Wonder Boys. March 978-0-00-728987-5 £8.99 PB 197x130mm 250pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
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The New English Table 200 Recipes from the Queen of Thrifty, Inventive Cooking
Rose Prince In today’s dual culture of fast food versus ethical eating, how are city-dwellers with busy lives and tight budgets supposed to eat well – and responsibly – and with any sense of the diversity of British produce? Rose Prince’s brilliant and original new book solves all these problems with over 200 delicious recipes, from apple soup to wood pigeon with figs, and is packed full of information on how to shop both locally and ethically.
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Christopher Hirst wrote the witty ‘Weasel’ column in the Independent for over a decade and was nominated for the Glenfiddich Best Food Writer Award in 2007. He regularly commentates on current food issues in the Daily Telegraph and Intelligent Life magazine.
Love Bites Marital Skirmishes in the Kitchen
Christopher Hirst On his perilous culinary mission into the kitchen, Hirst proudly seeks to reclaim some of the greatest dishes in modern-day cuisine that we have become bizarrely indifferent to as a nation. Peppered throughout with the piquant comments and trenchant opinions of Mrs H, acting as a vocal – though not always enthusiastic – participant, Hirst’s lively instructions and recipes include such dining delights as the quintessentially English treat of the pork pie, the history of the humble rhubarb stick and forays into the kitchen to make sticky Seville orange marmalade. Tackling important questions such as the correct pronunciation of a certain cheesy snack (clearly Welsh rabbit, not rarebit), and probing what it was exactly that fascinated our ancestors so much about blancmange, Hirst might not promise perfect results every time, but he does guarantee intriguing historical discussion about age-old culinary classics.
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To Die For Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?
Lucy Siegle An exposé on the fashion industry written by the Observer’s ‘Ethical Living’ columnist, examining the inhumane and environmentally devastating story behind the clothes we so casually buy and wear. Siegle analyses the global epidemic of unsustainable fashion, taking stock of our economic health and moral accountabilities to expose the pitfalls of fast fashion, and revealing the truth behind cut-price, bulk fashion and the importance of your purchasing decisions.
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Matthew Syed is an award-winning journalist for The Times, writing for both the sports pages and the comment pages. He is a three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion and has competed in two Olympics Games. He studied PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was awarded a prize-winning first-class degree.
Bounce Beckham, Tiger, Mozart and the Science of Success
Matthew Syed What is the magic spark that sees David Beckham and Tiger Woods soar above all their competitors, and could the secret lie in the practice regime of Mozart? Matthew Syed’s dazzling investigation of high achievement draws on the stories of sports stars and the most up-to-date science to uncover the surprising factors that lead to world-beating success. Along the way he explains why the most successful figure skaters are those that have fallen over the most, how a Hungarian father turned his daughters into three of the best chess players the world has ever seen and why one small street in Reading – Matthew’s own – produced more top tabletennis players than the rest of Britain put together. In Bounce, Matthew is set to revolutionise our ideas of what it takes to get to the top.
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Sebastian Junger is the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York.
War Sebastian Junger From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger’s near-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down. Gripping, honest and intense, War explores the neurological, psychological and social elements of combat, and the incredible bonds that form between these small groups of soldiers. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the ‘War on Terror’; it is a book about the universal truth of all people, in all wars. Junger set out to answer what he thought of as the ‘hand grenade question’: why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men that he has probably known for only a few months? The answer is elusive but profound, and goes to the heart of what it means not just to be a soldier, but to be human.
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Matt Ridley is the author of such bestselling titles as The Red Queen (1993), The Origins of Virtue (1996), Genome (1999) and Nature via Nurture (2003). His books have sold over half a million copies, been translated into 25 languages and been shortlisted for six literary prizes.
The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley The acclaimed author of Genome and Nature via Nurture turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age and proves, however much we believe the contrary, that things are getting better. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200: calories, vitamins, clean water, the means to travel faster than we can run and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous. Optimistically, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other.
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Marcus du Sautoy has been named by the Independent on Sunday as one of the UK’s leading scientists, has written extensively for the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Telegraph and has appeared on Radio 4 on numerous occasions. In 2008 he was appointed to Oxford University’s prestigious professorship as the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins.
The Number Mysteries An Odyssey through Everyday Life
Marcus du Sautoy Every time we download a song from i-Tunes, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phone, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. Maths may fail to provide answers to several of its own problems, but it can provide answers to problems that don’t seem to be its own – how prime numbers are the key to Real Madrid’s success, to secrets on the Internet and to the survival of insects in the forests of North America. In The Number Mysteries, Marcus du Sautoy explains how to fake a Jackson Pollock, how to work out whether or not the universe has a hole in the middle of it and how to make the world’s roundest football. He shows us how to see shapes in four dimensions, and how maths makes you a better gambler. He tells us about the quest to predict the future – from the flight of asteroids to an impending storm, from bending a ball like Beckham to predicting population growth. It’s a book to dip into; a book to challenge and puzzle – and a book that gives us answers.
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Dorothy Rowe was born in Australia, and worked as a teacher and child psychologist before coming to England, where she obtained her PhD at ShefďŹ eld University. She is worldrenowned for her work on how we communicate and why we suffer; her books include Beyond Fear and Time on Our Side.
Why We Lie Dorothy Rowe Why do we lie? Because we are frightened of being humiliated, being treated like an object, being rejected, losing control of things and, most of all, we are frightened of uncertainty. Often we get our lies in before any of these things can happen. We lie to maintain our vanity. We lie when we call our fantasies the truth. Lying is much easier than searching for the truth and accepting it, no matter how inconvenient it is. We lie to others and, even worse, we lie to ourselves. In both private and public life we damage ourselves with our lies, and we damage other people. Lies destroy mutual trust, and fragment our sense of who we are. Lies have played a major part in climate change and the global economic crisis. Fearing to change how they live, many people prefer to continue lying rather than acknowledge that we are facing a very uncertain but undoubtedly unpleasant future unless we learn how to prefer the truths of the real world rather than the comforting lies that ultimately betray us. We are capable of changing, but will we choose to do this?
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The Art of Losing Rebecca Connell
The Bad Book Affair Ian Sansom
Haunted by loss, Louise adopts her late mother’s name of Lydia and sets out to find Nicholas, whom she has always held responsible for her mother’s death. Nicholas has also been unable to shake off his past, in which he and Lydia had a destructive and ultimately tragic affair.
The Bad Book Affair features the magnificently hapless Israel Armstrong – the dufflecoat wearing, navel-gazing Jewish librarian who solves crimes, mysteries and domestic problems while driving a mobile library around the north coast of Ireland.
As Louise infiltrates his life, tensions grow and outward appearances begin to crack as both discover painful truths about their own lives and the woman they loved.
In The Bad Book Affair Israel finds himself on the verge of his thirtieth birthday and on the trail of a troubled missing teenager, the daughter of a local politician.
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Translated by Humphrey Davies From the author of the bestselling Yacoubian Building comes a collection of ten brilliant short stories and a novella, banned in Egypt for a decade. As in his novels, Al Aswany paints the minute ties that hold together human relationships as well as dissecting modern Egyptian society, and reveals the hypocrisy, violence and abuse of power characteristic of a world in crisis. ‘Fragment by fragment, character by character, Aswany’s desolately touching short stories paint modern Egypt’ Independent
‘An exceptional talent for storytelling’ Mavis Cheek
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Friendly Fire Alaa Al Aswany
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Dancing Backwards Salley Vickers Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six-day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin’s friendship, and abandoning her career as a poet, for the safety of marriage and domesticity. Despite her reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significantly, she meets Dino, whose motives in befriending her are shady, but who inadvertently helps her recover.
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The Elephant Keeper Christopher Nicholson This is the story of Tom the stable boy and Jenny the elephant. Set in the late 18th century, it follows their adventures from the Bristol docks, to country estates, to a London menagerie. The Elephant Keeper is a novel about sexuality and violence, freedom and captivity and about the nature of storytelling, but most of all it is the tale of an unlikely but wonderful love between a man and an animal – a love that has its costs as well as its rewards.
‘Delightful – comic, sad, tender and utterly engrossing’ Observer
‘Captivatingly original. A wonderful feat of storytelling’ Daily Mail
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Hilary Mantel is one of our most important living writers. She is the author of 11 books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Giving up the Ghost, and Beyond Black, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize.
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel In this – simply one of the finest historical novels in years – the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors comes to glittering, bloody life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell; lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue and, finally, most powerful of all Henry VIII’s courtiers. ‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’ Daily Mail ‘Wonderful. As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop. When I did have to put it down, I was full of regret the story was over, a regret I still feel’ The Times ‘Brilliant. Mantel’s Tudor England is strong meat, reeking with blood’ Spectator ‘Bewitching … a beautiful and profoundly humane book, a dark mirror held up to our own world’ Observer
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To coincide with the paperback publication of Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate will be beautifully repackaging six of Hilary Mantel’s novels, including Beyond Black, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction, and A Place of Greater Safety, her brilliant, epic re-imagining of the French Revolution, as well as her haunting memoir, Giving up the Ghost.
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All the Living C. E. Morgan
Solo Rana Dasgupta
Glover’s Mistake Nick Laird
Aloma has put her life aside to move in with her lover, Orren, whose family has recently been killed in an accident. Stricken with grief, Orren struggles to keep his family’s tobacco farm, while Aloma battles with loneliness on the remote Kentucky farm.
Solo recounts the life and daydreams of a reclusive 100year-old man from Bulgaria.
David Pinner is a discontented 30-something English teacher, whose life really hasn’t amounted to much. His new flatmate is barman James Glover, whose life hasn’t quite worked out, either. Into the lives of these two dissatisfied bachelors comes Ruth, a successful American artist, and she changes everything…
This stunning debut novel is about every single relationship between a man and a woman, and about the distance between the lives we lead and the lives we imagine for ourselves. ‘A lyrical tale of grief and gruelling love’ New Yorker
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Wondering if he has any wisdom to leave to the world, Ulrich embarks on an epic armchair journey through a century of violent politics, forbidden music, lost love and failed chemistry, eventually finding his way to an astonishing epiphany of tenderness and enlightenment. ‘A novel of exceptional, astonishing strangeness’ Salman Rushdie
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‘A very special and terrifically enjoyable book. Not to be missed’ Daily Mail Utterly Monkey, Nick Laird’s hilarious and touching first novel, will be reissued alongside Glover’s Mistake.
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Map of the Invisible World Tash Aw A beautiful new novel from the Costa Awardwinning author of The Harmony Silk Factory. In Indonesia in the 1960s, two orphaned brothers are adopted into very different families. Johan is taken to Kuala Lumpur by a wealthy Malaysian couple; Adam remains in Indonesia, where he is adopted by a Dutch painter, Karl. The brothers adapt to their new lives but unrest, is in the air. As Indonesia slides towards civil war, both brothers will face irreversible changes.
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Gentleman’s Relish Patrick Gale From the bestselling author of Notes from an Exhibition and The Whole Day Through comes a wonderful collection of short stories. From a frustrated housewife’s escape through fishing, to a son’s revenge wreaked through the power of cookery, to a disobedient puppy and the discovery of a murder, the tales that make up Gentleman’s Relish contain all the wit, tenderness and acute psychological insight of Gale’s much-loved novels.
‘Absolutely stunning writing…a master storyteller’ The Times
‘A hugely enjoyable collection which proves that the short story is still very much alive’ Daily Express
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Experimental, anarchic and controversial, William Burroughs, godfather of the Beats, is one the most important and innovative writers of the twentieth century. Fourth Estate will be reissuing two collections of his writing, Word Virus and Last Words, and four novels – including the iconic Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket that Exploded, part of the famous ‘cut-up’ trilogy. ‘Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift’ Jack Kerouac
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It’s Our Turn to Eat Michela Wrong When Michela Wrong’s Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared unexpectedly on her London doorstep, it was clear that something had gone very wrong in a country regarded until then as one of Africa’s few success stories. Two years earlier, John had been appointed Kenya’s anti-corruption czar, but now he was on the run … It’s Our Turn to Eat is an incisive exploration of the corruption endemic in African society, as well as the story of how one brave man came to make a lonely decision with huge ramifications. ‘An important and thrilling book’
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No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition
Naomi Klein A sensation when it was first published, No Logo has gone on to become an international phenomenon and a cultural manifesto for the anti-globalisation movement. In these troubled economic times, Klein’s analysis of our corporate and branded world is as timely and powerful as ever. With a new introduction by the author to bring it fully up to date, No Logo continues to be a riveting account of rebellion and self-determination in the face of our new branded world. ‘A manifesto and call to arms that sometimes reads like an Orwellian nightmare’ Financial Times
John Le Carré
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Cameron on Cameron Conversations with Dylan Jones
David Cameron and Dylan Jones Just who does David Cameron think he is? In an engaging series of landmark interviews – that will define the would-be prime minister ahead of the next election – Dylan Jones finds out. The paperback edition will be extensively updated to include material on recent personal and political events. ‘A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the man who would be prime minister’ Matthew Ancona
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Hopping Melanie McGrath Up until the 1950s, hundreds of East End families went hopping – escaping the dirty streets of London every September for the fresh air of Kent, eager for work (and even a little fun) harvesting hops for the brewing industry. In this beautiful account, from the turn of the century to the closure of the docks in the 1960s, Melanie McGrath tells the story of one East End family, of their troubles and joys, of hard work and good times, and the annual escape to the fields of Kent. ‘A classic. A sublime successor to the beautiful Silvertown’ The Times
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Stanley I Presume Stanley Johnson Stanley Johnson has lived a rich, unpredictable and extraordinary life. A sparkling raconteur and a natural storyteller, here he tells fascinating tales in an unsurpassable style. From stories of motorcycling to Afghanistan to unexpectedly winning poetry competitions, and from accounts of forays into politics to inadvertently training as a spy, Stanley I Presume is a memoir of a life lived to the full, from a great character of our time. ‘Stanley manages to make his adventures laugh-out-loud funny’ News of the World
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Outcasts United
I Know this Much
A Refugee Team, an American Town
From Soho to Spandau
Warren St. John Outcasts United follows the exploits on and off the pitch of a young ramshackle football team – made up of rehomed refugees from 17 different nations – and their remarkable coach, Luma Mufleh – in Clarkston, Georgia. The stories here are often painfully moving but what endures is the refugees’ determination to establish new lives, and rediscover community and a sense of purpose in the face of impossible odds.
Gary Kemp From his North London upbringing to the London club scene during the Thatcher years from which Spandau Ballet emerged, I Know this Much is simply the freshest, most exciting memoir to arrive for years.
‘Remarkable … A marvellous story’ Mike Atherton
Gary’s thrilling journey with Spandau Ballet saw them record worldwide hits such as ‘True’, ‘Gold’ and ‘Through the Barricades’ and play the biggest stadiums in the world. Gary records the wonderful friendships, and the slow-building tensions, that would eventually see five old friends facing each other in court.
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The best of Lynne Truss reissued in paperback A Certain Age A brilliantly funny collection of 12 monologues. February £8.99 PB 197x130mm Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial
Making the Cat Laugh One woman’s journal of single life on the margins. A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’s journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. February £8.99 PB 197x130mm Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Serial
Going Loco A wonderful comic novel about one woman’s pursuit of the gothic doppelgänger. June £7.99 PB 197x130mm Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Serial
Tennyson’s Gift An unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about the Victorian Poet Laureate. June £7.99 PB 197x130mm Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Serial
With One Lousy Free Packet of Seeds Lynne Truss’s first novel, in which she shows herself to be one of the very best comic writers. June £7.99 PB 197x130mm Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Serial
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Lynne Truss is one of Britain’s best-loved comic writers and is the author of the worldwide bestsellers Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Talk to the Hand. She reviews for the Sunday Times and writes regularly for radio.
Get Her off the Pitch! How Sport Took over my Life
Lynne Truss This is the story of one woman’s foray into the very masculine and rather baffling world of sport. Lynne Truss spent four years as an unlikely sports writer for The Times. It was a job that took her around the world (via the most difficult journeys and least glamorous hotels) and introduced her to some of the greatest living sportsmen (and many argumentative men with clipboards). ‘By turns hilarious, unpredictable and controversial. It’s a terrific read, whether you love sport or are still wondering what all the fuss is about’ Mail on Sunday ‘She can write comedy for Britain’ The Times ‘Truss is not only warm and witty on her personal journey from footie virgin to sports bore, she also delivers unique and piercing perspectives’ Observer ‘If you are a fan of Truss’s self-depreciating moroseness you will hugely appreciate Get Her off the Pitch! ’ The Times
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Francis Wheen is an award-winning journalist for the Guardian and contributor to Private Eye. He is the bestselling author of How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World and Karl Marx.
Strange Days Indeed The Golden Age of Paranoia
Francis Wheen ‘If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.’ The seventies: a decade of power cuts, military coups and economic anarchy, when the optimism of the sixties gave way to a world on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown, waiting for the next terrorist bomb, kidnapping or food-shortage warning. Told with his wonderfully acute sense of the absurd, this is Francis Wheen’s brilliantly revealing chronicle of a decade that would become defined by mass paranoia and, since the Great Crash of our generation, might just be returning to haunt us. ‘Outrageously funny … only a writer of Francis Wheen’s skill and touch could turn it into a book as glorious, memorable and laugh-out-loud hilarious as this’ Literary Review
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Johanna Moran lives in Florida with her husband, John. She has travelled extensively, working as a PanAm stewardess, and has visited all the places mentioned in the book. She first came across this story through her father, a professor of law. The Wives of Henry Oades is her first book.
The Wives of Henry Oades Johanna Moran Based on a controversial court case from the early twentieth century, this is a darkly comic and completely moving historical fiction debut. In 1890, Henry Oades decides to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. Here they settle on the lush but wild coast – although it isn’t long before disaster strikes. A local Maori tribe, incensed at their treatment at the hands of the settlers, kidnaps Mrs Oades and her four children. After searching ceaselessly for his family, Henry is forced to conclude that they must be dead. In despair, he moves to San Francisco to start over, eventually falling in love with and marrying a young widow. In the meantime, Margaret Oades and her children are leading a miserable existence, enslaved to the local tribe. After contracting smallpox, they are cast out and make their way back to town, five years after they were presumed dead. Discovering that Henry is now half a world away, they are determined to rejoin him. Months later they arrive on his doorstep in America, and Henry Oades discovers that he has two wives and many dilemmas …
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Roma Tearne fled Sri Lanka at the age of ten, travelling to Britain, where she has spent most of her life. She gained her Master’s degree at the Ruskin Shool of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. She is the author of Mosquito, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award, Bone China and Brixton Beach. She lives and works in Oxford.
The Swimmer Roma Tearne Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her father and since then she has been unable to form a meaningful relationship with any man. That is, until she discovers the swimmer. Ben, a young Sri Lankan doctor, has arrived illegally in the UK and is awaiting asylum status to be granted by the Home Office. Discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house, their tentative friendship soon turns into love. This passionate and beautifully written novel raises important questions about the refuge that art and love can provide – and what happens when violence becomes a daily part of life. Praise for Roma Tearne: ‘Tearne at her lyrical best. A heartfelt and timely lament for the Sri Lankan tragedy’ Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand
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Suzannah Dunn is the author of ten previous works of fiction. Her first historical novel, The Queen of Subtleties, tells the story of Anne Boleyn’s downfall and was followed by the bestselling The Sixth Wife in 2007 and The Queen’s Sorrow in 2008. She lives in Shropshire.
The new novel from the bestselling author Suzannah Dunn When 12-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk’s household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious of her. The two girls couldn’t be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious; Katherine, interested only in clothes and boys. Their companions are in thrall to Katherine, but it’s Cat in whom Katherine confides and, despite herself, Cat is drawn to her. Summoned to court at 17, Katherine leaves Cat in the company of her ex-lover, Francis, and the two begin their own, much more serious love affair. Within months, the king has set aside his Dutch wife Anne in favour of Katherine. The future seems assured for the new queen and her maid-in-waiting, although Cat would feel more confident if Katherine hadn’t embarked on an affair with one of the king’s favoured attendants, Thomas Culpeper. However, for a blissful year and a half, it seems that Katherine can have everything that she wants. But then allegations are made about her girlhood love affairs. Desperately frightened, Katherine recounts a version of events which implicates Francis but which Cat knows to be a lie. With Francis in the Tower, Cat alone knows the whole truth of Queen Katherine Howard – but if she tells, Katherine will die …
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Amanda Little is an award-winning journalist who has published widely on energy, technology and the environment for more than a decade. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Wired and the Washington Post.
Power Trip From Oil Wells to Solar Cells – Our Ride to the Renewable Future
Amanda Little When environmental journalist Amanda Little examined the role that energy played in her daily life, she was shocked by the results: ‘There I sat at a desk made of Formica (a plastic), wearing a sweatshirt made of fleece (a polymer), surrounded by walls covered with oil-derived paints, jotting notes in petroleum-derived ink.’ Look around you – energy is everything. It fights our wars, grows our crops and produces our plastic. We depend on it completely. How did we get so hooked on fossil fuels? And what will it take to break the habit? In this gutsy, optimistic and adventurous book, Little visits the most eccentric and exciting frontiers of the global energy landscape. As she introduces us to a range of characters – Saudi royalty, grassroots activists, the world’s most respected politicians and an array of inventors – she argues that there is an energy future beyond oil – as long as we have the courage and creativity to pursue it. ‘Power Trip takes a most timely and complicated issue and weaves a fast, fun, and gripping story … Amanda represents the best of a new young perspective, a new voice of green’ Robert Redford
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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. His most recent books were Shakespeare: The World as a Stage and Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors.
Seeing Further The Story of Science & The Royal Society
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On a damp weeknight in November, 350 years ago, a dozen or so men gathered at Gresham College in London. A 28-year-old Christopher Wren was giving a lecture on astronomy. As his audience listened, they decided that it would be a good idea to create a society to promote the accumulation of useful knowledge. With that, The Royal Society was born. Since then, The Royal Society has pioneered scientific exploration and discovery. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Robert Hooke, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Locke, Dorothy Hodgkin, Alexander Fleming – all were Fellows. Its members have split the atom, discovered the double helix and the electron and invented the computer and the World Wide Web. Truly international in its outlook, The Royal Society has created modern science. Filled with contributions from Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey, amongst others, and illustrated with images of treasures from the Society’s archives, this is a lavish, unique and ground-breaking volume that tells the story of science and The Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.
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Haleh Esfandiari is an IranianAmerican academic and Director of the Middle East Programme at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Iranian politics and democratic developments in the Middle East are amongst her areas of expertise.
My Prison, My Home Haleh Esfandiari Robbed in Iran and imprisoned for over 100 days for suspected espionage, Haleh Esfandiari tells the true story of her shocking ordeal in the country she called home. In December 2006, on her way to the airport after visiting her mother in Tehran, IranianAmerican scholar Esfandiari was robbed at knifepoint. Her assailants left her unharmed, but stole her passport. Without documentation, Esfandiari was unable to leave Iran. But what appeared to be a straightforward robbery was, in fact, a state-coordinated plot to detain her indefinitely. This was the beginning of Esfandiari’s eight-month Iranian saga – starting with endless hours of interrogation, intimidation and threat, and ending with her release from prison after over 100 gruelling days in solitary confinement. In this terrifying and engaging memoir, Esfandiari recalls the nightmarish reality of Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison. At a time when Iran is rarely out of the headlines, she examines the broader history of the country’s failed relationship with the Western world, the growing paranoia within the Tehran regime and the reality of those living there today. Revealing, gripping and alarming, My Prison, My Home is an insight into Iran like no other.
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Tim Hilton was the art critic for the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday. He was educated at Aston Technical College in Birmingham, Balliol College, Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art. His biography of Ruskin was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award.
Van Gogh His Life and Work
Tim Hilton Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world’s greatest artists. He produced almost 2,000 paintings, drawings and watercolours within a ten-year period. Yet until now no definitive biography of him has ever been written; the truth of his life overshadowed by the myth that has surrounded him since his suicide. This magisterial biography provides the first complete account of Van Gogh’s life and his art, as well as his failed attempts at teaching and evangelism. This was a man constantly brought low by bouts of depression and who lived, at times, in near destitution. It wasn’t until he was 27 that he became an artist. Hilton’s sweeping account sheds new light on Van Gogh’s rôle in modern art as well as his hitherto unexplored relationship with literature. Generous quotations from 600 letters between Vincent and his brother Theo provide a new anthology of his writing. Steps towards his suicide are traced, from his childhood in Zundert, Holland in the 1850s, through years spent in Paris, Victorian London, Brussels and Arles, to his death in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890.
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Hamish McRae is an economic journalist. He is an associate editor of the Independent and is the author of The World in 2020, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He broadcasts regularly on the BBC.
What Works What it Takes to Succeed in a Competitive Global Marketplace
Hamish McRae Why do some initiatives take off while others flounder? How have some communities managed to achieve so much while others struggle? What distinguishes the good companies from the bad? In this lively and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from around the globe, awardwinning journalist Hamish McRae takes the reader on a fascinating journey in pursuit of the elusive difference between triumph and failure. What lessons can we learn from the surprisingly well-ordered Mumbai community made famous by the film Slumdog Millionaire? Why have Canadian manners helped Whistler become the most popular ski resort in North America? And how has gambling helped to extend the life span of Hong Kong residents? This galvanising exploration of some of the world’s greatest success stories provides an optimistic and eminently practical guide to what works and why. Drawing life lessons from eye-opening ideas on every continent – from America to Europe and from Africa to Asia and Australasia – award-winning journalist McRae’s stories are as surprising as they are inspiring. A rousing corrective to the current economic gloom, What Works will leave you entertained, informed and enlightened as to what each of us can do to make successes of our businesses, our communities and our lives.
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On the Spartacus Road Chopin A Spectacular Journey through ancient Italy
Peter Stothard
Prince of the Romantics
Adam Zamoyski
In the final century of the first Roman Republic, an army of slaves brought terror to the people of Italy. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the Roman legions. It is a road that stretches through 2,000 miles of Italian countryside and out into 2,000 years of world history. Former Times editor Peter Stothard takes us on an extraordinary journey along that road. The result is a book like none other – at once a journalist’s notebook, a classicist’s celebration, a survivor’s record of a near-fatal cancer and the history of a brutal war.
Few composers inspire such strong emotions as Chopin. Few have been more revered and cherished. And few have had so much sentimental nonsense written about them. Adam Zamoyski’s compelling biography, published to coincide with the bicentenary of the composer’s birth, cuts through the mass of anecdote and myth in search of the real Chopin. In a biography of authority, perception and wit, Zamoyski draws the reader into the private world of this most complicated and reticent of men and reveals the real passions, suffering and ultimate tragedy of his life.
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Juliet Gardiner is a respected commentator on British social history from Victorian times through to the 1950s. She was editor of History Today magazine and is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Wartime.
The Thirties An Intimate History
Juliet Gardiner J.B. Priestley famously described the ‘three Englands’ that he saw in the 1930s: Old England, nineteenth-century industrial England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain was a land of contrasts; at once a nation rendered hopeless by the global Depression, unemployment and international tensions, yet also a place of complacent suburban homeowners with a Baby Austin in every garage. Now Juliet Gardiner, acclaimed author of the award-winning Wartime, provides a fresh perspective on that restless, uncertain, ambitious decade, bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain to life through newspapers, magazines, memoirs, letters and diaries. Gardiner captures the essence of a people part-mesmerised by ‘modernism’ in architecture, art and the proliferation of ‘dream palaces’, by the cult of fitness and fresh air, the obsession with speed, the growth and regimentation of leisure, the democratisation of the countryside and the celebration of elegance, glamour and sensation. Yet, at the same time, this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss – of Britain’s influence in the world, of accepted political, social and cultural signposts and, finally, of peace itself.
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Distinguished professors Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler are pre-eminent scientists. Christakis was recently listed in Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for 2009. Fowler is renowned for providing the first evidence of the ‘Colbert bump’ – the boost in support political candidates receive after appearing on Stephen Colbert’s US comedy talk show.
Connected The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Nicholas Christakis
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Is happiness catching? Can your sibling make you smart? Is wealth contagious? Does free will exist? It turns out that your colleague’s husband’s sister can make you fat, even if you don’t know her. And a happy friend is more relevant to your happiness than a bigger income. Our connections – our friends, their friends and even their friends’ friends – have an astonishing power to influence everything, from what we eat to who we sleep with. And we, in turn, influence others, changing the behaviours, the beliefs, and even the basic health of people we’ve never met. In this brilliant and engaging exploration of how much we truly influence one another, science’s ‘dynamic duo’, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, explain why obesity is contagious and even how we find and select our partners. Intriguing and revelatory, Connected will change the way you think about every aspect of your life and, ultimately, how you live it.
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Peter Snowdon is a contemporary historian and journalist. He has coauthored several works with renowned historian Anthony Seldon, including Major: A Political Life and Blair Unbound. He has written for the Observer and Newsweek and has also worked on the BBC’s The Politics Show. He lives in London.
Back from the Brink The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection
Peter Snowdon Lifting the lid on the most captivating story in British politics today, Back from the Brink charts the Conservative Party’s remarkable journey from the political wilderness to the threshold of power. Based on unprecedented access to key figures in the Conservative Party, including every leader from John Major to David Cameron, political journalist Peter Snowdon sheds new light on the dramatic decline and renaissance of the party that dominated twentieth century British politics. He reveals how the Conservatives were torn apart by in-fighting as they struggled to come to terms with their catastrophic electoral defeat in 1997. Under a succession of hapless leaders, the party lost two further elections, and at times effectively ceased to function as a political force across whole swathes of Britain. It took the emergence of a new generation of Conservatives, and David Cameron’s election as leader in 2005, to set the party on the uneven road to electoral recovery. Packed full of fresh insights into what really goes on behind closed doors at Westminster, Back from the Brink exposes the bitter rivalries and recriminations that have blighted the Conservatives in Opposition, and gets to the heart of Cameron’s quest for power and ambitions for office.
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Max Hastings has been studying warfare all his life, first as a war correspondent on battlefields, then as author of some 20 books, including Overlord: Battle for the Falklands, Nemesis and his most recent bestseller, Finest Years. He was editor of the Evening Standard for six years and editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph for ten.
Did you Really Shoot the Television? A Family Fable
Max Hastings ‘All families are dysfunctional,’ his mother Anne Scott-James told a young Max, but the Hastingses were more dysfunctional than most – ‘a tribe of eccentrics’, as he himself characterises them. His father roamed the world as a journalist and television presenter, while his mother edited Harper’s Bazaar, and became a famous columnist and bestselling gardening writer. Over three generations, the family has produced more than 80 books: one of Max’s grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrote plays, essays and an enchanting memoir of his own Victorian childhood. Featuring guest appearances by a host of celebrities from Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster (his mother’s third husband), this story will make a lot of people laugh, and perhaps a few cry. By turns moving, dramatic and comic, Max Hastings portrays a childhood fraught with rows and explosions, in which the sudden death of a television set was just one highlight among a multitude.
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Antony Woodward is the author of the bestselling Propellerhead and coauthor of the 2007 Christmas book The Wrong Kind of Snow. He has written columns for Country Life and Tatler, and before that won many awards as an advertising copywriter.
The Garden in the Clouds From Derelict Smallholding to Private Paradise
Antony Woodward It was a derelict smallholding so high up in the Black Mountains of Wales that it was routinely lost in cloud. But to Antony Woodward, Tair-Ffynnon was the most beautiful place in the world. Equally ill-at-ease in town and country after too long in London’s ad-land, Woodward bought Tair-Ffynnon because he yearned to reconnect with the countryside he never felt part of as a child. But what excuse could he invent to move there permanently? The solution, he decided, was a garden. In just one year he’d create a garden so special, it would be selected for the prestigious Yellow Book – the National Gardens Scheme guide to gardens open to the public for charity. It’s an ambition that soon sees Woodward driven by odder and odder compulsions – from hauling a 20-tonne railway carriage up a mountain to making hay with hopelessly antiquated machinery. As the family battles gales, mud and cunning Welsh mountain sheep, they remain deeply uncertain whether their garden will ever make the grade … Brilliantly funny, this is the memoir of a hopeless romantic with a grandly ludicrous ambition.
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Fergal Keane is one of the BBC’s most distinguished correspondents. He has won a BAFTA and has been named reporter of the year on television and radio. He lives in London and Ireland.
Kohima The Last Great Battle of Empire
Fergal Keane In early 1942, District Commissioner Charles Pawsey stood in the hills overlooking Kohima, watching the first of thousands of refugees scrambling for the safety of India. The Japanese Army was advancing through Burma and would eventually arrive at the Indian border, in the impassable high peaks and thick jungle of the Naga Hills. Pawsey’s bungalow and tennis court at Kohima became the pivotal scene of the last great battle of the British Empire, and one of the most ferocious (but largely forgotten) struggles in living memory. In a siege that lasted 16 days and nights, a garrison of no more than 1,500 British and Indian soldiers, desperately short of water and with nowhere to move their wounded, faced a Japanese attacking force of 13,000. Told from all perspectives, Fergal Keane brings his trademark narrative skill to the astounding story of Kohima – its heroism and its brutality. He recounts the wider battle and the principal commanders, the intimate slaughter of the siege and the grim aftermath – the horrific Japanese withdrawal, the long-term effect on veterans and the end of the Empire in the East – in the most vivid account yet of this epic struggle of World War II.
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Moral Combat A History of World War II
Michael Burleigh From pre-eminent historian Michael Burleigh comes a brilliant new examination of World War II and a magisterial counterpart to his award-winning and bestselling The Third Reich. In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with remarkable depth of knowledge and astonishing scope. By exploring the moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaders, as well as how this changed under the impact of total war, he presents readers with a fresh and powerful perspective on the conflict that continues to shape our outlook. Opening with the ‘predators’ – Mussolini, Hitler and Hirohito – and moving on to appeasement, the rape of Poland, Barbarossa, the role of Churchill, and the Holocaust, Burleigh analyses the moral dimension of World War II’s most important moments. More than just a history of ‘great men’, however, Moral Combat also examines the moral reasoning of individuals forced to make choices under circumstances now almost impossible to imagine. Original, perceptive and deeply engaging, this is an unforgettable and hugely important work of the history of World War II.
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Wilfred Thesiger in Africa With contributions from Alexander Maitland, Sir David Attenborough, Benedict Allen, Jeremy Coote, Elizabeth Edwards, Schuyler Jones Published to coincide with the centenary of Wilfred Thesiger’s birth in Ethiopia in 1910 and a major exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum, this book is a moving celebration of Thesiger’s enduring relationship with the continent, and his fascination with its peoples and landscapes. Wilfred Thesiger in Africa brings together contributions from Alexander Maitland, Benedict Allen, Jeremy Coote, Elizabeth Edwards and Schuyler Jones, and includes Thesiger in conversation with Sir David Attenborough from 1994. Containing around 200 of Thesiger’s beautiful photographs, most of them previously unpublished, the essays in this volume explore and evaluate Thesiger’s lifetime of exploration and travel throughout Africa, as well as, for the first time, his photographic practice and its legacy as a museum collection.
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Basharat Peer studied journalism and politics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His work has appeared in the Guardian, New Statesman and the Financial Times magazine among other publications. Curfewed Night, his first book, was published in India, where it won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for English Non-fiction.
Curfewed Night A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir
Basharat Peer Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir, more than 70,000 people have been killed in battles for the region between India and Pakistan. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known part of the world to life in haunting, vivid detail. Peer reveals stories from his youth, as well as gut-wrenching accounts of the many Kashmiris he met years later, as a reporter. He chronicles a young man’s initiation into a Pakistani training camp; a mother who watches her son forced to hold an exploding bomb by Indian troops; and a poet who finds religion when his entire family is killed. He writes about politicians living in refurbished torture chambers, idyllic villages rigged with land mines and ancient Sufi shrines decimated in bomb blasts. A brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting, this is the tale of a man’s love for his land, the pain of leaving home and the joy of return – as well as a fierce and moving piece of reportage from an intrepid young journalist who delivers a new world – vivid and alive – to readers.
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‘A passionate and important book – a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore’ Salman Rushdie
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Born and raised in Massachusetts, Brunonia Barry studied literature and creative writing at Green Mountain College in Vermont and at the University of New Hampshire. After nearly a decade in Hollywood, Barry returned to Massachusetts, where, along with her husband, she founded an innovative company that creates award-winning word, visual and logic puzzles. The Lace Reader is her first novel.
The Lace Reader Brunonia Barry She’s come home to a place where being different can be deadly. And she’s as different as can be. Towner Whitney’s great-aunt Eva has suddenly disappeared – and when you’ve lived a life like Eva’s, that could mean trouble. It has taken something this serious to get Towner back to her home town of Salem, Massachusetts – notorious for the Witch Trials held there centuries ago. When she was just 15, Towner got a glimpse of the future – a future without her twin, Lyndley. Haunted by the tragedy, she ran from her family, her familial ‘gift’ of reading lace and her past. Now the present might just destroy her … ‘A haunting tale and an enchanting literary thriller’ Daily Express ‘Clairvoyance, abuse, religion … and an ending that makes us look back at the entire novel with fresh eyes’ Guardian
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Julia Stuart worked as a features editor at the Independent for eight years before moving to Bahrain, where she wrote Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo. Her first novel, The Matchmaker of Perigord, was published in 2007.
Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo Julia Stuart Meet Balthazar Jones, beefeater at the Tower of London. Married to Hebe, he lives and works in the Tower, as he struggles to cope with the tragic death of his son, Milo, three years ago. The Tower of London is its own magical world; a maze of ancient buildings, it is home to a weird and wonderful cast of characters – the Joneses, of course, as well as Reverend Septimus Drew, the Ravenmaster, and Ruby Dore, landlady of the Tower’s very own tavern, the Rack & Ruin. And, after an announcement from Buckingham Palace that the Queen’s exotic animals are to be moved from London Zoo to the Tower’s grounds, things are about to become a whole lot more interesting … Komodo dragons, marmosets and even zorillas (‘a highly revered yet uniquely odorous skunk-like animal from Africa’) fill the Tower’s menagerie – and it is Balthazar Jones’s job to take care of them. Things run far from smoothly, though – missing penguins and stolen giraffes are just two of his worries! A touching, magical and completely original novel.
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Matt is a writer and editor on the Sunday Times, where he has worked for seven years. In the name of journalism, he has fought three Mexican wrestlers single-handed, had an affair on ‘SecondLife’, binge-drunk at Wetherspoons, bruised himself on a Japanese toilet and spied on his wife Harriet using the very latest GPS technology. He has also stress-tested M&S Y-fronts but prefers not to talk about it. He is 34 and lives in Kent with Harriet and their two young sons.
William Walker’s First Year of Fatherhood A Horror Story
Matt Rudd William Walker loves his gorgeous wife and new son – even if he did faint at the birth. What man wouldn’t, after two whole days of labour and only one small sip of (medicinal) whisky to sustain him? But now he’s a father, and a proud one at that. It’s just a shame that parenthood doesn’t stop him doing the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time, with comically catastrophic results for his small – and increasingly exasperated – family. This hilarious romantic comedy will have you laughing out loud as William battles everything from floods to the Machiavellian denizens of a sinister Kentish village with more than a few hints of Royston Vasey … Praise for Matt Rudd: ‘Writing genius’ Cosmopolitan ‘Sparklingly energetic’ Sunday Times ‘Meet the male Bridget Jones’ Company magazine
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The Book of Fires Jane Borodale
The Buried Circle Jenni Mills
Brought up in Sussex, 17-year-old Agnes Trussel is carrying an unwanted child. Taking advantage of the death of her neighbour, Agnes steals the woman’s savings and runs away to London. She ends up at the household of John Blacklock, laconic firework-maker and becomes his first female assistant.The months pass and it becomes increasingly difficult for Agnes to conceal her secret. Soon she meets Cornelius Soul, seller of gunpowder, and hatches a plan which could save her from ruin. Yet why does John Blacklock so vehemently disapprove of Mr Soul?
Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, the village is a place where all is not as it seems.
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India has been asked to film the Wiltshire landscape for a television series about Earth’s mysteries, from a helicopter. When the helicopter flies anticlockwise over Avebury’s stone circle, she instinctively flinches: her grandmother was from the village and told her to always circle the stones sunwise. One hour later, the helicopter crashes, killing the TV director, and India cannot help but feel responsible …
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Alice Hoffman is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of 21 novels, including Here on Earth and Practical Magic (made into a film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman).
The Story Sisters Alice Hoffman A dazzling novel from a much-loved author, which weaves fairy-tale magic and gritty realism into a compelling coming-of-age story. There are three Story sisters – Elv, Claire and Meg – but each has a fate that they must face alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris and one in the corridors of her own imagination. But the choices they make will threaten their family’s ties. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga and a love story of erotic longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their decisions haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them. ‘There’s no finer writer than Alice Hoffman – but even she has outdone herself with her latest novel’ Jodi Picoult
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Patrick Bishop has been a foreign correspondent for over 20 years. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys and 3 Para.
Ground Truth 3 Para Return to Afghanistan
Patrick Bishop Fully updated for this paperback edition. At the end of 2008, the elite 3 Para Battle Group returned to Helmand Province, Afghanistan for their second tour of duty. Bestselling author Patrick Bishop went with them. Ground Truth is his gripping first-person account of tough battles, tough men – and tough questions about the war in Afghanistan. Covering events from 2008 right up to its paperback publication, it is a frank, action-packed and unflinching account of the most significant and controversial conflict of our times. ‘One of the best accounts you will ever read about contemporary warfare: shrewdly observed, action-packed and written with great sensitivity’ Mail on Sunday
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Americans in Paris Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44
Charles Glass An elegant and highly informative account of a group of Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June 1940. The American community in Paris was the largest in Europe before World War II. Although advised to leave in 1939, many chose to stay. Those who remained were an eccentric, original and disparate group, and Charles Glass brings their little-known stories vividly to life, weaving an unforgettable narrative of treachery by some, cowardice by others and unparalleled bravery by a few.
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The Sisters who would be Queen The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey
Leanda de Lisle Lady Jane Grey has been mythologised as a child-woman sacrificed to political expedience. But behind the legend lay a rebellious adolescent who was no mere victim. Growing up in her shadow, Katherine and Mary Grey had to tread carefully. Exploding many myths of Lady Jane, Leanda de Lisle brings vividly to life a time when a royal marriage could gain you a kingdom, or cost you everything. ‘Gripping … an unrivalled account’ John Guy
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Summer of Blood The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
Dan Jones The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic events in English history. Starting as a local revolt in Essex, it rapidly spread across the south-east, as rural peasants descended on London, torching houses and slaughtering their social superiors. Breaking new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics involved, this is historical writing of the highest quality, intellectually stimulating and compulsively readable.
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Hellfire Ed Macy May 2006. Ed Macy arrives in Afghanistan, along with the Apache AH Mk 1, on its first operational tour. It’s an unfamiliar combat zone with a limited role for the Apache and Ed’s time is spent escorting Chinooks. But one month later, during Operation Mutay, with 3 Para pinned down in Helmand, the arguments about the Apache’s potential are thrown out and Ed deploys the first-ever Hellfire missile in combat. That squeeze of the trigger changed the war for all concerned. ‘Ed Macy is a 21st century Top Gun’ Andy McNab
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Death or Victory
Mad World
The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire
Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
Dan Snow
Paula Byrne
Having lived uneasily beside each other in North America, Britain and France soon commenced their respective quests for domination of this vast region. The most significant campaign occurred in the late summer of 1759. Fought on the Plains of Abraham outside the city of Quebec, this marked the culmination of an epic struggle that lasted for the duration of 1759 but had roots stretching back for decades – and would lead Britain’s victory to the birth of British Canada, and her domination of the entire North American continent.
Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945, and the the Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous, eccentric and compelling as their fictional counterparts.
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Paula Byrne takes an innovative approach to her subject, setting out to capture Waugh through those friendships that mattered most to him. She uncovers a man as loving and complex as the family that inspired him. ‘Vibrant, absorbing, stranger than fiction’ Sunday Times
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Why Us?
The Bitter Sea
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean 1935–1949
James Le Fanu In his brilliantly argued counterattack on Dawkins-style materialist views, James Le Fanu examines the limitations of science. The last 20 years have seen the outcome of two great scientific projects: the Human Genome Project and the development of advanced brain imaging, both promising a greater understanding of humankind and our position in the world. And yet we remain in many ways the central mystery of the universe to which we belong. In this fascinating new work, James Le Fanu reveals that there is, indeed, ‘far more than we can ever know’.
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Simon Ball The Bitter Sea is a gripping history of the bitterly fought campaign for control of the Mediterranean. From 1935 to 1949, enemies and allies alike collided over the world’s greatest thoroughfare, setting in motion a train of tumultuous events that began with Mussolini and ended with the creation of Israel. This was total war – from the siege of Malta to the menace of U-boats. An original, compelling and expertly written book from one of our most accomplished young historians.
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Max Hastings has been studying warfare all his life, first as a war correspondent on battlefields, then as the author of some 20 books, including Overlord, Armageddon, Nemesis and Battle for the Falklands. He was editor of the Evening Standard for six years and editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph for ten.
Finest Years Churchill as Warlord 1940–45
Max Hastings Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and what they were capable of delivering. Max Hastings paints a wonderfully vivid image of the Prime Minister in triumph and tragedy. Finest Years is an intimate and affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britain’s saviour, but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led. ‘One of the best books ever written about Churchill’ Sunday Times ‘The book’s portrayal of Churchill is scrupulously fair and often deeply moving’ Antony Beevor
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Born and raised in New York state, Isobella now lives and works as a model in New York City. She writes daily about the modelling industry from a shorter girl’s perspective; her interests include discovering and enjoying the arts. And, of course, high heels.
Almost 5’4” Confessions of an Unconventional Model
Isobella Jade Isobella Jade is no ordinary model – she is far too short, for a start. Shunned by the major agencies and forced to take any job that comes her way just to make ends meet … From nude photoshoots for leering amateur photographers to sex-toy ads and lingerie shows, this is a tale from the sleazier side of modelling in the heart of New York City. But it’s also a tale of determination to break into the big time. Isobella becomes a brilliant self-publicist, banging on every door, e-mailing her pictures to every tenuous lead. This is an inspirational tale for women of all ages, shapes and sizes. It shows that you can battle against the odds to achieve your dreams and how a bit of hustling and attitude can work wonders. Isobella won’t take no for an answer, and gradually she start to appear on respectable magazine covers and in pop videos. She gets bit parts on Sex & the City, CSI and Life on Mars, and becomes a beauty correspondent with her own internet radio show. Isobella wrote the book while still a penniless jobbing model – she visited the Apple Store in New York every day, logged onto one of their computers and updated her story.
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Darren Craske began his career writing comic books and lives in the south of England. The Equivoque Principle was his first novel, and The Eleventh Plague is its sequel in the Cornelius Quaint adventures.
The Eleventh Plague Book 2 of the Cornelius Quaint adventures
Darren Craske Picking up where The Equivoque Principle left off, The Eleventh Plague sees Cornelius Quaint embark on his most perilous adventure yet … Bidding an emotional farewell to Dr Marvello’s Travelling Circus, Quaint leaves for Egypt with only fortune-teller Madame Destine by his side. Once in the land of the pyramids, they must do battle with desert thieves, unearth long-buried secrets and attempt to foil the villainous Hades Consortium’s plans to poison the River Nile. With a whole new cast of characters, this is a ripping Victorian adventure story featuring Cornelius Quaint – part Sherlock Holmes, part Indiana Jones and part Harry Houdini.
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The Checkout Girl Tazeen Ahmad The girl at the till is just another anonymous face in your busy life. She is sworn at, flirted with and at the receiving end of customer rants. Your family feuds and intimate secrets come right under her nose (beep) … but she might just be an undercover journalist gauging how the nation is coping with job cuts, food price hikes and a billion-pound hole in the economy. With white bread, ice cream and lots of potatoes, as it turns out. Tazeen Ahmad has been a TV presenter and reporter for over 12 years, most recently working for Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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More Blood, More Sweat & Another Cup of Tea Tom Reynolds The second volume of memoirs from Tom Reynolds, an Emergency Medical Technician – otherwise known as an ambulance driver. Based on his award-winning blog, this is a remarkable account of the highs and lows of life on the emergency service front line. An unforgettable account of one of the most stressful and rewarding jobs in the world.
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Cathy Rogers and Jason Gibb have, between them, notched up careers as TV producers, presenters, marine biologists, medics, diving instructors, and church organists. In 2005, they decided to try living and working in an olive grove in the Italian countryside. They now live in London.
The Dolce Vita Diaries Cathy Rogers and Jason Gibb It had all the makings of a Hollywood movie – it even starts in LA, complete with a pair of glittering television careers. But Cathy and Jason felt something was missing, so they took their livelihoods in their own hands and set off, one-year-old daughter in tow, to the Italian countryside. Not for them, though, the lakeside luxury of Como, or lounging on a terrazzo in Tuscany. Backbreaking toil restoring a run-down olive grove, and then making a living from it? Two tickets and a child safety belt, please. Armed mainly with an Italian dictionary and a love of food, this is the story of a couple who had never lived in the countryside, nor even cultivated so much as a pot of cress. An affectionate but honest account of what happens when you dive headfirst into your dreams to discover a market awash with olive oils of every hue, and how two and a half years in the middle of nowhere can leave you yearning for a return to the city. This refreshing travelogue removes the rose-tinted filter from the Italian idyll, and offers colour illustrations and a chapter of sumptuous original recipes.
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Caroline Smailes’s first novel, In Search of Adam, was published in 2007. She is currently an associate lecturer for the Open University and lives in the north-west with her husband and three children.
Like Bees to Honey Caroline Smailes A major new novel from the acclaimed author of In Search of Adam and Black Boxes. In her third novel, Caroline Smailes draws upon her own family history for this remarkable story of loss and redemption. Nina travels to Malta with her five-year-old son, Chrisopher. Having left the island at the age of 19 to study at Liverpool University, Nina became pregnant and was disowned by her family. Following a car accident, her relationship with her husband breaks down and she feels compelled to return home, taking her young son, in the hope of reconciliation with her father and siblings. Once in Malta, strange things start to happen. Nina discovers that Malta is the place where the dead visit before they pass over. She is visited by seven souls in various states of transition, all of whom try to help Nina face up to the reasons she has come back to the island after so long. Praise for Caroline Smailes: ‘There is little in the way of relief in this harrowing first novel, but Smailes’ sensitivity towards her subjects – and the poetry of her writing – carry the story’ Financial Times
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Author Index Ahmad, Tazeen 66 Allende, Isabel 9 Aswany, Alaa Al 22 Aw, Tash 27 Baddiel, David 12 Ball, Simon 62 Barker, Nicola 10 Barry, Brunonia 53 Bishop, Patrick 58 Borodale, Jane 56 Bryson, Bill 39 Burleigh, Michael 50 Burroughs, William 28 Byrne, Paula 61 Cameron, David 30 Chabon, Michael 13, 14 Christakis, Nicholas 45 Connell, Rebecca 11, 22 Craske, Darren 65 Dasgupta, Rana 26 Dunn, Suzannah 37 Esfandiari, Haleh 40 Fletcher, Susan 6 Flusfeder, David 3 Fowler, James 45 Frank, Rina 11 Gale, Patrick 27 Gardiner, Juliet 44 Gibb, Jason 67 Glass, Charles 59 Hamilton, Hugo 7 Hastings, Max 47, 63 Hilton, Tim 41 Hirst, Christopher 15 Hoffman, Alice 57 Jade, Isobella 64 Johnson, Stanley 30 Jones, Dan 60 Jones, Dylan 30 Junger, Sebastian 18 Keane, Fergal 49 Kemp, Gary 31
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Klein, Naomi 29 Laird, Nick 26 Le Fanu, James 62 Lisle, Leanda de 59 Little, Amanda 38 Macy, Ed 60 Maitland, Alexander 51 Mantel, Hilary 24, 25 McGrath, Melanie 30 McRae, Hamish 42 Mills, Jenni 56 Moran, Johanna 35 Morgan, C. E. 26 Mullen, Thomas 8 Nicholson, Christopher 23 O’Malley, Bryan Lee 4, 5 Oates, Joyce Carol 2 Peer, Basharat 52 Prince, Rose 14 Reynolds, Tom 66 Ridley, Matt 19 Rogers, Cathy 67 Rowe, Dorothy 21 Rudd, Matt 55 Sansom, Ian 22 Sautoy, Marcus du 20 Siegle, Lucy 16 Smailes, Caroline 68 Snow, Dan 61 Snowdon, Peter 46 St John, Warren 31 Stothard, Peter 43 Stuart, Julia 54 Syed, Matthew 17 Tearne, Roma 36 Truss, Lynne 32, 33 Van Gogh 41 Vickers, Salley 23 Wheen, Francis 34 Woodward, Antony 48 Wrong, Michela 29 Zamoyski, Adam 43
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Title Index All the Living 26 Almost 5’4” 64 Americans in Paris 59 Art of Losing, The 22 Back from the Brink 46 Bad Book Affair, The 22 Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo 54 Beyond Black 25 Bitter Sea, The 62 Book of Fires, The 56 Bounce 17 Buried Circle, The 56 Burley Cross Postbox Theft 10 Cameron on Cameron 30 Certain Age, A 32 Change of Climate, A 25 Checkout Girl, The 66 Chopin 43 Connected 45 Corrag 6 Curfewed Night 52 Dancing Backwards 23 Death of Eli Gold, The 12 Death or Victory 61 Did you Really Shoot the Television? 47 Dolce Vita Diaries, The 67 Elephant Keeper, The 23 Eleventh Plague, The 65 Every Home Needs a Balcony 11 Experiment in Love, An 25 Film by Spencer Ludwig, A 3 Finest Years 63 Fludd 25 Friendly Fire 22 Garden in the Clouds, The 48 Gentleman’s Relish 27 Get Her off the Pitch! 33 Giant, O’Brien, The 25 Giving up the Ghost 25 Glover’s Mistake 26 Going Loco 32 Ground Truth 58 Hellfire 60 Hopping 30 I Know this Much 31 Island Beneath the Sea 9 It’s Our Turn to Eat 29 Kohima 49 Lace Reader, The 53 Last Words 28 Like Bees to Honey 68 Little Bird of Heaven 2
Love Bites 15 Mad World 61 Making the Cat Laugh 32 Manhood for Amateurs 13 Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, The 8 Map of the Invisible World 27 Maps and Legends 14 Moral Combat 50 More Blood, More Sweat & Another Cup of Tea 66 My Prison, My Home 40 Naked Lunch 28 New English Table, The 14 No Logo 29 Number Mysteries, The 20 On the Spartacus Road 43 Outcasts United 31 Place of Dead Roads, Th 28 Place of Greater Safety, A 25 Power Trip 38 Rational Optimist, The 19 Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life 4 Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness 5 Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together 5 Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe 5 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 5 Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6 5 Seeing Further 39 Sisters who would be Queen, The 59 Soft Machine, The 28 Solo 26 Stanley I Presume? 30 Story Sisters, The 57 Strange Days Indeed 34 Summer of Blood 60 Swimmer, The 36 Tennyson’s Gift 32 Thirties, The 44 Ticket that Exploded, The 28 To Die For 16 Told in Silence 11 Trespassing 7 Van Gogh 41 War 18 What Works 42 Why Us? 62 Why We Lie 21 Wilfred Thesiger in Africa 51 William Walker’s First Year of Fatherhood 55 With One Lousy Free Packet of Seeds 32 Wives of Henry Oades, The 35 Wolf Hall 24 Word Virus 28
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