CONTENTS Fourth Estate Fiction 2 Fourth Estate Non-fiction 8 Fourth Estate Paperbacks 17 Harper Press Fiction 22 Harper Press Non-fiction 24 Harper Press Paperbacks 34 The Friday Project 43 Indexes 50 Contacts 52
July 978-0-00-736077-2 £12.99 TPB 234 x 153 mm 300pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Serial
Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has taught English at the Sorbonne, written for the Times of India in Bombay and been a Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2008, and lives in London and Bombay. Saraswati Park is her first novel.
Saraswati Park Anjali Joseph ‘The best debut novel I’ve read for a long time’ Amit Chaudhuri Fêted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letter-writer outside the main post office, but whose lack of engagement has caused a thawing of his marriage. Beautifully rendered and involving, Saraswati Park is a book about love and loss and the noise in our heads – and how, in spite of everything, life, both lived and imagined, continues.
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July 978-0-00-735366-8 £14.99 HB 216 x 135 mm 300pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
Rina Frank was born in Wadi Salib, near Haifa. She now lives in Tel Aviv. Every Home Needs a Balcony is her first novel.
Every Home Needs A Balcony Rina Frank Translated by Ora Cummings An international bestseller tells the bittersweet story of one family, one home, and the surprising arc of one woman’s life, from the poverty of her youth to the intense love and painful losses of her adult years. Partly autobiographical, Every Home Needs a Balcony weaves together a moving, heartbreaking tale of growing up in poverty-stricken 1950s Haifa, Israel to reveal the deepest meanings of what it means to belong to a place, and to call somewhere home. Rina’s 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; and from which Rina witnesses the emergence of a strange new country, born from the ashes of World War II. Later, after years of absence abroad, Rina, longing for the simple life she has missed, returns to the old Haifa of her boisterous youth – a move that soothes her soul, but ultimately endangers her marriage. Told with the light touch of a humorous, incredibly dexterous writer, Every Home Needs a Balcony reveals how our choices shape us – and how we learn to survive life’s most surprising turns.
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September 978-0-00-730312-0 £14.99 HB 216 x 135 mm 200pp Rights; Home, Commonwealth, not Canada
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China, and came to the Unites States in 1996. She is the recipient of several prizes for her writing, including the Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, and an M.F.A. from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Li’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and elsewhere, and her first novel, The Vagrants, was published in 2009. She lives in California with her husband and their two sons.
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Yiyun Li The stories in this collection, like the stories in Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to new situations unknown to previous decades in which characters are trying to reorient themselves in the unfamiliar landscape of modern China. ‘A starkly moving portrayal of China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution’ Peter Ho Davies
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October 978-0-00-726975-4 £20.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 500 pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada
Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels, including The Corrections, a collection of nonfiction, and a memoir. He lives in New York City.
Freedom Jonathan Franzen Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walter – environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man – she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery and their lives seem to be pulling apart at an alarming rate. In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom’s intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
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October 978-0-00-737103-7 £14.99 HB 216 x 135 mm 288pp Rights: UK, Commonwealth incl. Canada, Exclusive Europe
Salley Vickers is the author of six novels, including the bestselling Miss Garnet's Angel, Instances of the Number 3, Mr Golightly's Holiday and, most recently, Dancing Backwards. She has worked as a dancer, an artist's model, a university teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst.
Aphrodite’s Hat Salley Vickers The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves between friends, between parents and children, between children and other adults; love even, in one case, for a pet. Psychologically acute, sharply written in lucid and often witty prose, these stories, set in Venice, Greece and Rome as well as London and the English countryside, take us into the complex geography of the human heart. Sometimes joyous and humorous, sometimes melancholy and poignant, this collection confirms Salley Vickers’ reputation as one of our most subtle and engaging writers.
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July 978-0-00-734050-7 £7.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 200pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada
Bryan Lee O’Malley is an awardwinning Canadian cartoonist. He has been working on a series of graphic novels called Scott Pilgrim. He writes the words and draws the pictures. He occasionally makes music under the name Kupek.
Scott Pilgrim – Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour Volume 6
Bryan Lee O’Malley It’s finally here! Six years and almost 1,000 pages have all led to this epic finale! With six of Ramona’s seven evil exes dispatched, it should be time for Scott Pilgrim to face Gideon Graves, the biggest and baddest of her former beaus. But didn’t Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn’t that let Scott off the hook? Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn’t, but one thing is for certain: all of this has been building to Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour! Soon to be a major motion picture coming in August 2010, directed by Edgar Wright and starring Michael Cera.
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July 978-0-00-726017-1 £12.99 TPB 216 x 135 mm 180pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth
Harry Bingham is an ex-City trader who has worked for major British, American and Japanese firms but who now writes full time. He lives near Oxford with his wife and their three dogs.
Stuff Matters Genius, Risk and The Secret of Capitalism
Harry Bingham Harry Bingham used to be an economist and a banker and he thought he understood money. Then, in autumn 2008, the world stood on the edge of calamity and Harry realised that everything he thought he knew had been proven utterly wrong. So, he decided to go back to first principles and find out what drives the people who have catapulted the human race from extreme poverty to our world of ever-expanding riches. He returned to the world of entrepreneurs and inventors, financiers, and traders and for the first time he saw that while the economy might be about many things, it is never only about money. In fact, the people who are best at making money often don’t care about it much at all. We all have strong feelings about money and the people who make it. But journeying from the paddy fields of South East Asia to the oil fields of Texas, Stuff Matters is fresh, bold and required reading that will revolutionise the way you see the world and explain just how to save it from the next trillion-dollar disaster.
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July 978-0-00-727862-6 £16.99 HB 216 x 135 mm 224pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada
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 iTunes, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phones, 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; 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 in to; a book to challenge and puzzle – and a book that gives us answers.
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August 978-0-00-729123-6 £16.99 HB 216 x 135 mm 256pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada
Arabella Weir is the author of the best-selling Does My Bum Look Big In This? She is best known for her role in BBC2’s The Fast Show and is a frequent commentator on current issues in the Guardian. Arabella recently appeared in the West End show Calendar Girls.
The Real Me is Thin Arabella Weir The hapless and hilarious tale of a life lived under the constant and ruthless tyranny of the chocolate biscuit… Lumped into ‘the too fat for potatoes group’ by her mother, carefree eating isn’t something Arabella Weir had much experience of growing up. With startling frankness, Arabella unravels her own relationship with food in this humorous appraisal of our attitudes towards eating disorders and obesity. Not easy for someone who still can’t be left unsupervised near a packet of HobNobs. Charting Arabella’s neurotic relationship with food, from prolonged abstinence to binge eating, this candid memoir recreates a childhood besieged with battles over food. Subjected to her mother’s capricious feeding regime, and taught early on that food was her enemy, happiness meant being allowed to eat what she liked – or more importantly, what everyone else was eating. Recounting stories of unhinged mothers and callous doctors, mystery-meat suppers, and egg custard battles with calculating boyfriends’ mothers, The Real Me is Thin vividly recreates a childhood and adolescence marred by the social embarrassment of being marked as different simply due to your weight.
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September 978-0-00-732032-5 £12.99 TPB 216 x 135 mm 352pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European
Steve Richards is one of the most influential political commentators in the country. He was the political editor of the New Statesman before becoming the Independent’s chief political commentator in 2000. Steve also presents GMTV’s flagship current affairs show The Sunday Programme and Radio 4’s Week in Westminster.
Whatever it Takes The Inside Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour
Steve Richards At the beginning of the financial crisis, in September 2008, Gordon Brown called an emergency press conference in which he declared, ‘we will do whatever it takes to restore stability in the financial markets’. He repeated the phrase constantly in the following weeks. As Shadow Chancellor Brown would do whatever it took to restore Labour’s economic credibility. As leader-in-waiting he would do whatever it took to acquire the crown. As Prime Minister he would do whatever it took to buttress his enfeebled regime. New Labour, as a political force, rootless and defensive in its origins, would similarly do whatever it took to retain support. Written by one of the most influential political commentators in the country, the Independent’s chief political commentator Steve Richards, this political expose examines Gordon Brown’s wildly oscillating career and the ruthless pragmatism displayed by New Labour as a whole.
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September 978-0-00-732521-4 £25.00 HB 240 x 170 mm 320pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European
Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books, including the classics Real Fast Food, Appetite and the critically acclaimed The Kitchen Diaries. He has written a much-loved column for the Observer for seventeen years. His memoir Toast –The Story of a Boy’s Hunger, has won six major awards, including British Biography of the Year and his recent television programme regularly attracted five million viewers.
Tender Volume II, A Cook’s Guide to the Fruit Garden
Nigel Slater With over 200 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the fruit garden, Tender: Volume II – A Cook’s Guide to the Fruit Garden, is the definitive guide to cooking, baking and eating fruit, from Britain’s finest food writer. ‘When I dug up my lawn to grow my own vegetables and herbs I planted fruit too. A handful of small trees – plum, apple and pear – some raspberry, blackberry and currant bushes and even strawberries in pots suddenly joined my patch of potatoes, beans and peas. These fruits became the backbone of my home baking, the stars in my cakes and pastries and even inspired the odd pot of jam. More than this, I started to use them in new ways too, from a weekday supper of pork chops with cider and apples to a Chinese Sunday roast with spiced plum sauce. The hot family puddings and fruit ices we had always loved so much suddenly took on a delicious new significance.’
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September 978-0-00-732887-1 £25.00 HB 221 x 153 mm 480pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European
Rose Prince is a freelance food journalist and writer and is the author of the highly acclaimed New English Kitchen and New English Table. She writes a hugely popular column in the Daily Telegraph and has contributed to the Food Programme and Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4.
A Taste of Real Life Rose Prince Education about food is limited to the voices of TV chefs, mostly men intent on hunter gathering, butchery, deep sea fishing and cooking inimitably difficult recipes. Their programmes do nothing to solve the everyday predicament of real people: putting economical, common sense food on the table. Where are the cooks with wit, who work out the budget and plan an easy dish that efficiently feeds family and friends? Women traditionally have always held the answers to solving our many dilemmas in the kitchen. They understand practicality, budgets, and last but not least, creativity. This book contains their secrets, the often unwritten wisdom that has seen us through wars and shortages. Food addressed to would-be cooks who are starved of time, money and tradition. Full of logical, economical and imaginative recipes that solve the modern cook’s dilemma, A Taste of Real Life will teach you the skills of those teachers who work without books, the ‘mothers’ and the cooks who subsequently learned from them, to decisively show you the easy way to cook and shop resourcefully and creatively.
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October 978-0-00-736060-4 £18.99 HB 234 x 153 mm 400pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial
Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989. He has also written parodies for many other publications, including the Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Times and the Guardian.
The Lost Diaries Craig Brown A wide-ranging anthology from some of the world’s greatest movers, shakers and thinkers, all of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown. These diary entries cover the whole year, forming a patchwork quilt of observation, reflection, vituperation, contemplation and, above all, self-promotion. Among the over two hundred diarists featured are John Prescott, Nigella Lawson, Martin Amis, Jordan, Germaine Greer, President Barack Obama, HM the Queen, Heather Mills McCartney, Victoria Beckham, Max Clifford, Mohamed Fayed, Harold Pinter, Barbara Cartland, Jilly Cooper, Jeremy Clarkson, Keith Richards, Sharon Osbourne and Frank McCourt. Arranged day-by-day, full of invigorating and sometimes dismaying juxtapositions, they constitute a treasure trove, choc-a-bloc with all the fantasies and illusions of our times, and a unique window into the private worlds of some of the most revered and emblematic figures of contemporary public life.
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October 978-0-00-735638-6 £20.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 320pp Rights; Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European
Norma Farnes was Spike Milligan’s agent, manager and friend for over 35 years. She lives in Yorkshire and London.
Memories of Milligan Norma Farnes An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan’s close fiend and long-standing agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises. Heralded as brilliant and difficult in equal measure, Spike Milligan is one of the most prolific and mould-breaking writers of the twentieth century. Fantastically funny and incredibly talented, on his death in 2002, Spike left behind him one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history. Spike was many things to many people. In Memories of Milligan, Norma Farnes interviews those who knew him best, amassing an array of personal memories from fellow performers and comedians, long time friends and former girlfriends. Compiled of intimate stories, small exchanges and habits that go into making up a relationship, be it personal or professional, Memories of Milligan builds up a complete picture of one of the greatest British comic writers to date. Interviews include fellow comedian Barry Humphries, scriptwriters Galton and Simpson, director Jonathan Miller, stalwart presenter Terry Wogan, producer George Martin and comic geniuses such as Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard, Michael Palin and Eric Sykes. This original book encapsulates a moving portrait of a man who is synonymous with a unique era in post-war entertainment.
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November 978-0-00-736055-0 £14.99 HB 216 x 135 mm 300pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Serial
Matthew Norman is a journalist and broadcaster in many forms. He writes about sport for the Evening Standard, has a column in the Independent, and is the Guardian’s Restaurant reviewer. He is married and lives in London.
Utter Balls Matthew Norman Some of us spend too much time in the shed listening to sport on the radio and hogging the television. The thing about sports lovers is that we hate so much about it, we shout at the radio and the television; we love sport so much that if any of it makes us cross, it makes us furious. So this is a book for us, the sports loving angry brigade. So, introducing: Frank Lampard; badge kissing (Frank Lampard); Neville Neville, for producing the Neville brothers (sparing his lovely daughter, who is a terrific hockey player); Ally McCoist; John Fashanu; Gary Player; Gavin Henson; Sebastian Coe; Lewis Hamilton (obviously); Cristiano Ronaldo; Tim Henman; ‘Beefy’ and ‘Lamby’ adverts; Tim Henman’s mother; dressage; Tim Henman’s father; Pro-celebrity golf (which Tim Henman plays); Will Carling; Fatima Whitbread; the truly awful Sir Clive Woodward; Torville and Dean; Joey Barton; national anthems; Peter Crouch; grunting female tennis players; Nigel Mansell; Paul Ince (Incy); Mark Lawrensen; the fella in the Union Jack outfit at sporting events, particularly cricket, who I think is dead now; SIR Nick Faldo (for goodness’ sake); Cliff Richard (the reason they got the roof ); the haka; Will Carling; American golf fans who shout out ‘in the hole’; the green jacket; the Barmy Army.
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July 978-0-00-735063-6 £7.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 368pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial
Marti Leimbach is the author of several novels, including the international bestseller, Dying Young, which was made into a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts, and the acclaimed Daniel Isn’t Talking (2007), inspired by the story of her autistic child. Born in Washington DC, she moved to England in 1990; she lives in Berkshire with her husband and two children.
The Man from Saigon Marti Leimbach 1967. Vietnam. Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon. Vietnamese photographer, Son is anxious to get his work into the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, they find themselves the prisoners of three Vietcong soldiers. Under constant threat, facing daily hardships of the jungle, and held under terrifyingly harsh conditions it becomes clear just how profound and important their relationship has become to both of them.
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July 978-0-00-735637-9 £8.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 416pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Translation, Serial
Mark Hollingsworth writes regularly for the Sunday Times, the Mail on Sunday and the Financial Times, and is the author of an acclaimed study of MI5. Stewart Lansley is an award-winning television and radio producer and the author of Top Man, a biography of Sir Philip Green.
Londongrad From Russia with Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs
Mark Hollingsworth
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Stewart Lansley
Roman Abramovich’s purchase of Chelsea FC. The former KGB agent, Alexander Lebedev’s takeover of London’s Evening Standard newspaper. The unsolved movie-esque murder of ex-spy, Alexander Litvinenko. Welcome to Londongrad. Since the collapse of communism in Russia, London has become the playground for Russian billionaires. Londongrad is the true, inside story of the oligarch phenomenon. The dubious deals and deadly disputes, the £40,000 sushi take-aways and Harrods spending sprees, the private jets, the mega yachts and the multi-million pound properties. Gripping and fascinating, Londongrad is a must-read for anyone who likes to indulge in the outrageous extravagancies and ruthlessness of the ridiculously super rich. ‘Mind-boggling … there’s bling, and then there’s blingski’ Rod Liddle, Sunday Times
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July 978-0-00-736260-8 £8.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 400pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada
Mary Karr is the author of two bestselling memoirs – the awardwinning The Liar’s Club and Cherry. She won a Guggenheim fellowship for her poetry, as well as Pushcart Prizes for both poetry and essays. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.
Lit A Memoir
Mary Karr Mary Karr’s prize-winning The Liars’ Club chronicled her tough Texas childhood and crested the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year. Cherry, her ecstatically reviewed account of a psychedelic adolescence and a moving sexual coming-of-age, followed it into bestsellerdom. Now Lit answers the question asked by thousands of fans: How did Karr make it out of that toxic upbringing to tell her own tale? Karr’s longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, blueblood poet produces a blond son they adore. But Karr can’t outrun her apocalyptic upbringing. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in ‘The Mental Marriott’ with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors awakens her to the possibility of joy again, and leads her to an unlikely faith. A brilliant memoir from one of our finest storytellers, Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.
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July 978-1-84115-043-7 £8.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 288pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European
Lorna Sage was a professor of English at the University of East Anglia. Her other books include Women in the House of Fiction and Good As Her Word (selected journalism). Lorna Sage died in January 2001, just months after Bad Blood was first published.
Bad Blood A Memoir
Lorna Sage Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award and universally acclaimed, Lorna Sage’s account of her childhood and adolescence is a dazzling piece of writing and one of the outstanding memoirs of recent times. Bad Blood vividly and wickedly brings to life Lorna’s eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer, on the border between Wales and Shropshire. It evokes eras now almost unimaginably strange, from the 1940s, dominated for Lorna by her dissolute but charismatic vicar grandfather, through the 1950s, where the invention of fish fingers revolutionised the lives of housewives like Lorna’s mother, to the brink of the 1960s, where the community was shocked by Lorna’s pregnancy at 16, an event which her grandmother blamed on ‘the fiendish invention of sex’. Published to celebrate its tenth anniversary, this edition will be beautifully repackaged and include a new introduction.
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November 978-0-00-735796-3 £8.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 336pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European
Peter Parker was born in Herefordshire and educated in the Malverns, Dorset and London. He is the author of The Old Lie and biographies of J.R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood. He writes about books and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines and lives in London’s East End.
The Last Veteran Harry Patch and the Legacy of War
Peter Parker On 25th July 2009, almost a century after the end of the First World War, Harry Patch, the last British veteran who saw active service, died – our final link with that conflict broken. Harry Patch was born in 1898 and was conscripted in 1916. He served with a Lewis gun team at the Battle of Passchendaele and in September 1917 was wounded by a shell that killed three of his comrades. After the war, Patch returned to Somerset to work as a plumber, a job he continued to do until his retirement. The First World War was fought not by a professional army but by ordinary civilians like Patch. The Last Veteran tells Patch’s story, and explores the meaning of the war to those who fought in it and the generations that have followed. It is at once a moving tribute to a remarkable generation, and an illuminating consideration of how we will remember them. ‘An occasion for thoughtful refection on our recent military history, the echo of the war down the generations and our sense of ourselves in the modern world’ The Times
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July 978-0-00-730898-9 £12.99 TPB 234 x 153 mm 304pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European
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’, bingedrunk 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 lives in Kent with Harriet and their two young sons.
William’s Progress Matt Rudd William has a twelve-year-old boss bent on his destruction, the interior design duo from hell re-decorating his bathroom, and an angry ginger midget with a mean right hook on his case. Then there’s the flood. And the village full of Machiavellian nutters. On the plus side, he has as a gorgeous wife and an adorable (but insomniac) new son – and he loves them both. It’s just a shame that parenthood doesn’t stop him doing the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time, with catastrophic results for his small – and increasingly exasperated – family. It’s very nearly too much for one man to handle. Correction. It is ENTIRELY too much for one man to handle. And that man is William Walker. Praise for Matt Rudd: ‘Brilliant characterisation…a fast-paced narrative and hilarious dialogue’ Daily Mail
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July 978-0-00-736419-0 £12.99 TPB 234 x 153 mm 400pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial
Tatjana Soli is a novelist and short story writer. Born in Salzburg, Austria, she attended Stanford University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program. She lives with her husband in Orange Country, California.
The Lotus Eaters Tatjana Soli As the fall of Saigon begins in 1975, two lovers make their way through the streets, desperately trying to catch one of the last planes out. Helen Adams, a photojournalist, must leave behind a war she has become addicted to and a devastated country she loves. Linh, her lover, must grapple with his own conflicting loyalties to the woman from whom he can’t bear to be parted and his country. ‘[A] tremendously evocative debut, a love story set in the hallucinatory atmosphere of war, described in translucent, fever-dream prose’ Janice Y. K. Lee, author of the bestselling The Piano Teacher
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August 978-0-00-724931-2 £25.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 352pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European
Tamara Chalabi has a PhD from Harvard University in History. Her first book, The Shi’is of Jabal’Amil and the New Lebanon: 1918–1943 was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2006. She has written for the Sunday Times, New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Slate and Prospect, on war, culture, encounters, and identities. She lives in London.
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace Tamara Chalabi An exquisite multi-generational memoir of one family’s tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present. From the time leading up to Saddam’s revolution, to life in exile and finally to the return to her lost, longed-for country, this is Tamara Chalabi’s unique look at the history of Iraq told through the memories and experiences of her family. From the grand opulence of her great grandfather’s house during the first decade of 20th century – opening up the Ottoman world of Baghdad and the birth of the modern Iraqi state – to her grandfather’s imprisonment in 1930 and her larger than life grandmother, Chalabi uncovers an Iraq lost to the modern world – a rich Middle Eastern culture and civilisation that has largely disappeared behind recent headlines of occupation, suicide bombings and man slaughter. Upon her return to Iraq in 2003, she finds a country sliding out of the tyrannical grip of Saddam’s rule. Chalabi must find a way to reconcile the old and the new, the sense of alienation with a longing for her homeland. As she explores the nature of identity, memory and what it means to be in exile, the magic of this country and its people are brought to life.
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August 978-0-00-735631-7 £20.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 400pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Serial
Janie Hampton is the author of fifteen books, including the critically acclaimed The Austerity Olympics, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of 2008. She has been a journalist in Africa, a producer at the BBC World Service and has written articles for the Sunday Times, The Times, the Independent, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman. She lives in Oxford.
How the Girl Guides Won the War Janie Hampton The Girl Guides is one of the world’s most extraordinary movements: millions of women have been members. But what have the Guides actually achieved, since they began 100 years ago? Do they do more than sell biscuits, sing around campfires, and tie knots? In this constantly surprising book, Janie Hampton shows that Girl Guides have been at the heart of women’s equality since the early twentieth century – when they were garnering badges like Electrician and Telegraphist. Exploring modern-day girlhood through this very British institution’s effect on global warfare, How the Girl Guides Won the War reveals, for the first time, the dramatic impact that the Guides had on the Second World War. When the Blitz broke out, they dug bomb shelters, grew vegetables and helped millions of evacuated children adjust to new lives in the country. Many were taken as prisoners of war and survived concentration camps. Told by the Guides themselves, How the Girl Guides Won the War is packed with rich social history, fond and funny anecdotes, surprising archives, and the lingering taste of smoky tea in a tin mug. Providing a new slant on both the Guide movement and World War II, Janie Hampton’s remarkable book finally gives the Girl Guides the historical attention they deserve.
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September 978-0-00-724077-7 £25.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 352pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European
Juliet Gardiner is a hugely respected historian and commentator on British social history from the Victorian times to the 1950s. She was editor of History Today magazine and is also author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling The Thirties and Wartime.
The Blitz Juliet Gardiner September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany’s sustained attack on civilian Britain. Lasting eight months, the Blitz was a new and terrible form of warfare that had been predicted throughout the 1930s, widely feared since Neville Chamberlain’s declaration that Britain was at war. Yet, compared with other great events of that war – Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, D-Day – the Blitz remains curiously overlooked; while the London Blitz has been much documented, there exists very little in the way of a comprehensive account of the Blitz experience as a whole – or of its social, political and cultural implications. In her new book, critically acclaimed historian Juliet Gardiner finally gives the Blitz the historical attention it deserves. Exploring this national story, she charts the impact of the nightly bombings on the entire country. And while loss and devastation affected the whole of Britain, the attacks also served to galvanise the nation: in the face of the terrifying Nazi onslaught, a new determination steadily emerged. Revealing, original and beautifully written, The Blitz is a much-needed re-examination of one of the most important aspects of Second World War history.
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September 978-0-00-725476-7 £25.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 448pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial
Donald Sturrock worked at the BBC for ten years as a writer, producer and director. Since his departure from the BBC in 1992, he has written and directed a number of television programmes, including a film about Roald Dahl for the BBC.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock Roald Dahl is one of the greatest storytellers of all time. More than fifteen years after his death, his popularity around the globe continues to grow and worldwide sales of his books have now topped 100 million copies. The man behind the stories, however, remains an enigma. Dahl was a single-minded adventurer, an eternal child, yet his public persona was characterised by his blunt opinions, and he has been described as an anti-Semite, a racist and a misogynist. To his readers, though, Dahl was always a hero, and since his death his reputation has been transformed. His wild imagination is now celebrated, along with his quirky humour and his linguistic elegance. Figures like Willy Wonka, the BFG and the Grand High Witch are nothing less than immortal literary creations. In this masterly biography, Donald Sturrock reveals many hitherto hidden aspects of Roald Dahl’s life: his terrifying experiences as a fighter pilot; the mental anguish caused by the death of his seven-year-old daughter; his work for military intelligence at the end of the war. Written with exclusive access to the Roald Dahl archives, Storyteller is revealing, compelling and a pure joy to read.
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September 978-0-00-724740-0 £25.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 576pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Serial
Philip Ziegler was born in 1929 and educated at Eton and Oxford. He was a diplomat before becoming an editorial director at the publishers William Collins. His many books include acclaimed biographies of William IV, Lady Diana Cooper, Lord Mountbatten and Harold Wilson, as well as the classic history of the Black Death.
Edward Heath The Authorised Biography
Philip Ziegler In this magisterial official ‘life’, distinguished biographer Philip Ziegler offers a fundamental reassessment of Britain’s complex and misunderstood former prime minister Edward Heath. Heath arguably changed the lives of the British people more than any prime minister since Winston Churchill. By securing Britain’s entry into Europe he reversed almost a thousand years of history and embarked on a course that would lead to the legal, political, and social transformation of the country. By abolishing Resale Price Maintenance he made possible the all-conquering march of the supermarket, which revolutionised every high street in the country. He forced through both reforms with a combination of determination, patience and persuasive powers, and against the inertia or active hostility of a large part of the British population, including many in his own party. Heath’s working-class origins and suspect accent made him an unlikely Tory leader, but he was a trail-blazer, who paved the way for Mrs Thatcher. With exclusive access to Heath’s personal papers, unavailable to previous biographers, Ziegler explores the twists and turns of Heath’s political career and his endlessly fascinating personality.
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October 978-0-00-730770-8 £25.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 488pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial
David Starkey, CBE, is Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and the author of many books including Elizabeth, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII and Henry: Virtuous Prince. He is a winner of the W.H. Smith Prize and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History and is a wellknown TV and radio personality. He lives in London.
The Kings and Queens of England David Starkey From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy, from the retreat of the Romans up to the modern day. The monarchy is one of Britain’s most venerable and revered institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous. In this masterful book, David Starkey charts its roller-coaster history from the tribal kings who reigned under the Romans to the Wars of the Roses, the chaos of the Civil War and the Republic that followed, the growth of Empire and its embodiment in the embattled, triumphant personage of Queen Victoria – all the way to the twentieth century, the abdication of Edward VIII and the death of the family monarchy with the dissolution of the marriage between Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Bringing to life a cast of colourful characters, this brilliant overview of the history ofBritain through her kings and queens provides an in-depth examination of what the monarchy has meant historically, what it means now, and what it will continue to mean. With trademark energy and authority, Starkey offers us a compellingly vivid portrait of British culture, politics and nationhood through an institution that has defined the realm for nearly two thousand years.
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October 978-0-00-734137-5 £25.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 400pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
Simon Winchester was born and educated in England, has lived in Africa, Ireland, India and China, and now lives in the USA. A former foreign correspondent, he is the author of many highly acclaimed works of non-fiction, including bestsellers The Surgeon of Crowthorne, The Map That Changed the World and Krakatoa.
Atlantic The Biography of an Ocean
Simon Winchester In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life story of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. The Atlantic has profoundly influenced the lives of those who have lived along its shores, from hardscrabble pioneers in windswept locations such as the Aran Islands and Newfoundland, to the inhabitants of the great port cities of Lisbon, Rio, London and New York. Atlantic brings to life key episodes in this compelling human drama – the age of exploration and the subsequent colonisation of the Americas; the flourishing of transatlantic commerce and the rise and fall of the slave trade; extraordinary tales of sea-borne emigration during the nineteenth century; and the great naval battles that have left an indelible imprint on Atlantic history. Travelling by small sailing craft, container ship and general cargo vessel, Simon journeys around the edges and across the vast expanse of the ocean to report from the places that encapsulate its most fascinating stories. It is an enthralling mixture of history, science and reportage from a master of narrative non-fiction, and the definitive account of this magnificent body of water.
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November 978-0-00-732555-9 £18.99 HB 216 x 135 mm 352pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Serial
Deborah Cadbury is the highly acclaimed, bestselling author of several books, including The Dinosaur Hunters, The Lost King of France, and Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. She has also won numerous international awards as a TV producer for the BBC, including an Emmy for Horizon. She lives in London.
Chocolate Wars Deborah Cadbury Bestselling historian Deborah Cadbury takes us on a fascinating journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building. With exclusive access to the family archives, Deborah tells the delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers through the prism of the Cadbury dynasty. Beginning with an account of John Cadbury, who founded the first Cadbury’s coffee and chocolate shop in Birmingham in 1824, Chocolate Wars goes on to chart the astonishing transformation of the company’s fortunes under his grandson George. But this is also the story of Cadbury’s Quaker rivals, the Frys and Rowntrees, and their European competitors, the Nestlés, Suchards and Lindts. These rivalries drove the formation of the huge chocolate conglomorates that still straddle the corporate world today, and have first call on our collective sweet tooth. Chocolate Wars explores the relationship between business and religion, and the impact of globalisation, and reaches a gripping climax with an inside account of the recent takeover battle with Kraft. This is narrative history at its most absorbing, peopled by wonderfully colourful characters – the true story of the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them and the mouth-watering concoctions they created.
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November 978-0-00-725790-4 £16.99 HB 221 x 153 mm 256pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European
Barbara Leaming is the author of two New York Times bestselling biographies and three New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her most recent book, a biography of John F. Kennedy, focused on the influence of British history and culture on the 35th President. She was the first to write extensively about the extraordinary influence of Winston Churchill on Kennedy’s intellectual formation and political strategies. Her articles have appeared in many publications including The Times, Vanity Fair and the New York Times Magazine. She is married and lives in Connecticut.
Churchill Defiant Fighting On 1945–1955
Barbara Leaming At the end of July 1945, Churchill was a defeated man – hurled from power by the British people at the end of the war in which he had just saved his country. Churchill Defiant is the story of how, when it seemed impossible, Churchill fought his way back over the next six years to the centre of great events. In 1951, at last Prime Minister once more, he was ready to begin his dash to win ‘the last prize I seek’: the lasting peace that had eluded the world after Hitler’s defeat. But Churchill’s battles were just beginning. He would have to wage war with both his closest colleagues and his most indispensable allies, the Americans, to get to where none of them wanted him to go: the negotiating table with the Soviets. Barbara Leaming has written a gripping, fast-paced narrative of bare knuckle politics, of life and death decisions, of old grudges, and fresh blame. It is a compelling, vivid, and often deeply poignant portrait of the great man at a time when almost no one wanted him to remain on the public stage and when he was willing to do absolutely anything to stay there.
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November 978-0-00-725692-1 £20.00 HB 234 x 153 mm 416pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European, Serial
Christina Lamb’s previous books include The Sewing Circles of Herat, House of Stone and Small Wars Permitting. In 1997, she was named Foreign Correspondent of the year for a remarkable fourth time.
The Wrong War The War on Terror in Afghanistan
Christina Lamb Awash with arms and warlords, Afghanistan has become one of greatest threats to the peace of the western world. Every day British, American and Canadian soldiers are killed on its plains – and yet the war in Afghanistan was intended to be a glorious project of which western governments could be proud. Drawing on more than twenty years as a foreign correspondent in the region, with unparalleled access to key individuals such as President Karzai and resurgent Taliban warlords, Christina Lamb’s The Wrong War is the definitive book of the tragedy that is Afghanistan. In this gripping and authoritative investigation, she reveals how the West manipulated the situation in Afghanistan for its own ends, laying bare the lies, deceptions and false intelligence that have underwritten many of the government’s fatal decisions. Praise for Christina Lamb: ‘Hers is the humane face of her hard profession: candid, modest and brave. She is clear-sighted without cynicism, and amazingly unscarred by all she has experienced’ Colin Thubron
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July 978-0-00-727655-4 £9.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 576pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European
Tom Bower has a distinguished reputation as an investigative historian, broadcaster and journalist and is the author of several groundbreaking books about tycoons. His most recent works are Branson and Gordon Brown: Prime Minister. His books about the Nazis include Blood Money and the definitive biography of Klaus Barbie. Among his other much-debated biographies are those of Mohammed Fayed, Richard Branson and Robert Maxwell.
The Squeeze Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century
Tom Bower The sensational human story of the hunt for oil, and the politics, power and personalities involved. Over the last 20 years, oil prices have soared from $7 a barrel to $147 and back down to $37. Amid economic boom and bust, speculators, traders, politicians and monarchs have plotted to earn fortunes from oil, and prayed for salvation from unpredictable natural and man-made disasters. Behind the headlines are the crushing rivalries between men and women exploring for oil five miles beneath the sea, battling for control of the world’s biggest corporations and gambling billions of dollars twenty-four hours every day on oil prices. Success or failure for all those extraordinary personalities depends on squeezing their rivals and squeezing the crude out of the rocks. Overweening vanity and greed absorb those titans whose ambitions are forging the world’s quest for oil. Exploiting unprecedented close access to the lives of irrepressible traders in New York, oil-oligarchs in Moscow, corporate chieftains in Dallas and London and wily politicians floating in jets across the globe, Tom Bower presents the untold story of the most important quandary of our times: why, if there is plentiful oil in the earth, does mankind face a dire shortage threatening our lives?
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July 978-0-00-728820-5 £7.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 280pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European, Serial
Ed Macy left the British Army in January 2008, after twenty-three years’ service. He had amassed a total of 3,930 helicopter flying hours, 645 of them inside an Apache. Ed was awarded the Military Cross for his courage during the Jugroom Fort rescue in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. His first book, Apache, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller.
Hellfire Ed Macy This is the nerve-shredding true story of ace pilot Ed Macy and how, in the grueling Afghan war, he flew the first combat helicopter to fire the devastating Hellfire missile in battle – proving the effectiveness of the £4.2 billion Apache AH Mk1. Some senior Army officers hadn’t been sure about this complex, heavily-armed machine. Just as some hadn’t been sure about the cocky ex-para Ed when he trained as a pilot. But Ed had proved them wrong and became a weapons expert and combat specialist. Years later, in the heat of a desperate fight to defend his own Apache and British soldiers on the ground, Ed would push both terrifying machine and his own skills right to the limit – will thrilling results. ‘Ed Macy is a 21st Century Top Gun’ Andy McNab
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July 978-0-00-730775-3 £12.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 608pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European
John Keay is a writer, broadcaster and historian whose books include Into India, India Discovered, When Men and Mountains Meet, Highland Drove, The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company, The Great Arc, China: A History and (with his wife, Julia Keay) the Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. He has travelled extensively in India and the Far East, and specialised in Asian history and current affairs.
India A History
John Keay A new edition of the most authoritative and highly-regarded single-volume history of India. Fully revised to include the most recent research and to cover events from partition to the present day. In India: A History five millennia of the sub-continent’s history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. This definitive work combines narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. India’s history begins with a highly advanced urban civilisation in the Indus valley, regressing to a tribal and pastoral nomadism, and then evolving into a uniquely stratified society. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent, while sharing a common history and culture, are not now, and never have been, a single unitary state; the book accommodates Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as other embryonic nation states like the Sikh Punjab, Muslim Kashmir and Assam. Based on the latest research, this is an indispensible history of a country set to be a definitive influence on the future of world economics, politics and culture.
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September 978-0-00-727549-6 £16.99 TPB 246 x 189 mm 224pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European
Richard Holmes is a celebrated military historian and television presenter. His bestselling and widely acclaimed books include Redcoat, Tommy, Sahib and Dusty Warriors. He taught military history at Sandhurst for many years and is now Professor at Cranfield University and The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.
Shots from the Front The British Soldier 1914–18
Richard Holmes For Shots from the Front, Richard Holmes, one of our leading military historians, has selected over 200 rare and unusual photographs to illustrate the wide range of the British Army’s experience in World War I – on all fronts, from Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Gallipoli to the Flanders trenches. These images, culled from a wide variety of archive collections, museums and private sources, illuminate in evocative, dramatic and richly informative ways the Tommy’s wartime life. As much about the ordinary and the commonplace, as about the lofty or portentous, it shows us the dirt beneath the fingernails of history. This handsomely illustrated book is a moving tribute to the British soldier, as well as a fitting memorial to ‘the legions that have suffered and are dust’. Praise for Richard Holmes: ‘The photos are extraordinary … Holmes’s commentary is superlative. A calm, outstandingly knowledgeable guide to the carnage’ Daily Mail
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September 978-0-00-711844-1 £19.99 PB 246 x 189 mm 320pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European
Laura Cumming is art critic for the Observer. Previously, she was Arts Editor for the New Statesman and Arts Producer for the BBC.
A Face to the World On Self-Portraits
Laura Cumming Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they will stand out in the crowd. Children can tell them from portraits at first glance and they need no introduction or title. Come across them in the world’s museums and you get a strange shock of recognition, rather like seeing your own reflection by chance. In this beautifully written book, Laura Cumming, art critic for the Observer, investigates the drama of the self-portrait all the way from Dürer and Velázquez to Picasso, Warhol and the present day. She considers how and why self-portraits look as they do, the curious ways in which they imitate our real-life behaviour and what they reveal about the artist’s innermost sense of self. Drawing in a new way on art, biography, literature, history and philosophy, she considers the intimate truths and elaborate fictions of self-portraiture and, above all, the question of how we present ourselves to others and learn to come to terms with who we are.
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September 978-0-00-726368-4 £8.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 576pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European
Max Hastings has been studying warfare all his life, first as a war correspondent on battlefields, then as author of some twenty books, including Overlord, Armageddon, Nemesis and, most recently, Did You Really Shoot the Television? He was editor of the Evening Standard for six years and editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph for ten years.
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, an intimate and affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britain’s saviour, but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led and the performance of its armed forces.
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June 978-0-00-730884-2 £9.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 400pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, Exclusive European
Peter Snowdon is a writer and journalist, and the co-author of Blair Unbound with the renowned historian Anthony Seldon. As a journalist at the BBC, he has worked on several acclaimed documentaries and the Politics Show. He is currently a producer on the Today programme. He lives in London.
Back from the Brink The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection
Peter Snowdon 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 20th century British politics. He reveals how the Conservatives were torn apart by in-fighting after their catastrophic electoral defeat in 1997, and Margaret Thatcher’s sudden removal from office. Under a succession of hapless leaders – William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard – the party lost two further elections and effectively ceased to function as a political force. But now a new generation of Conservatives, under the leadership of David Cameron, has emerged and seems set to take back power. Packed full of insights about what goes on behind closed doors at Westminster, this paperback edition will be fully updated to cover election night and the early months of the first Tory government for over a decade. ‘Among the best of a crop of Tory literature that tries to explain why a party suddenly came alive and biffed Labour on the nose … If Cameron wins, it will be a definitive account of how he did it’ Guardian
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October 978-0-00-730159-1 £7.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 400pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Canada, Exclusive European
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 School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. She was recently awarded a fellowship in the visual arts by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. She lives and works in Oxford.
The Swimmer Roma Tearne A passionate and beautiful novel of love, loss and what it means to find home, from the bestselling author of Brixton Beach. Forty-three-year-old Ria is used to being alone. All her life, she has struggled to form a meaningful relationship with any man. Her existence, ultimately, is a solitary one – until she discovers the swimmer. It is midnight when she first sees him, across the river at the bottom of her garden. His name is Ben and she discovers that he is a Sri Lankan doctor, awaiting a decision on his asylum application. He is eighteen years Ria’s junior, but their friendship steadily grows until, in the long blistering days of summer, under the wide Suffolk skies, they are irresistibly drawn to each other. Until tragedy strikes, and a single act of violence changes their lives and those of their rural community forever. ‘An exquisite writer and captivating storyteller. The reader is endlessly torn between the desire to linger and the urge to turn the page to see where she will take us next’ Aminatta Forna
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December 978-0-00-730138-6 £7.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 352pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, not Australia, not Canada, Exclusive European
Simon Van der Vlugt is an acclaimed Dutch writer, well known for her young adult novels. The Reunion was her debut novel for adults and sold over 200,000 copies in Holland. Shadow Sister is her second psychological thriller. She lives with her husband and two children in Alkmaar, The Netherlands.
Shadow Sister Simone van der Vlugt The stunning new novel from Holland’s Queen of Crime. Married. One child. A career: Lydia has her life in perfect order – if only everyone else around her could be as organised as she is. Her unmarried twin sister Elisa is still struggling to find what she wants to do. And her colleagues at the school where she teaches often fail to reach her high standards. But one day, it all falls apart from Lydia. When she is threatened by one of her pupils, her sister is the first person she turns to. But Elisa is powerless to stop the campaign of intimidation that follows. How far will it go? Or is someone else taking advantage of the situation? And what is Elisa’s part in all of this? Twins are close. Aren’t they? Praise for The Reunion: ‘The author builds a great atmosphere of tension as the truth slowly, horrifyingly, comes into focus’ Sunday Telegraph
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October 978-0-00-736218-9 £14.99 HB 297 x 210 mm 80pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Translation, Serial, Film/TV
You Can Stick It! P. K. Munroe After years of kids getting all the cool sticker books here is one for adults. You Can Stick It! has hundreds of stickers for all occasions: • Book stickers including NEVER TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM and SHOULD HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • Public transport stickers such as PLEASE KEEP YOUR LONGINGS WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES, NO EYE CONTACT 9-6.30 MON-FRI and NO TUTTING • Cash machine stickers including SPEAK YOUR PIN CLEARLY INTO THE MICROPHONE and PRESS 1 TO SPEAK TO AN OPERATOR • And many more such as spoof wine bottle labels, Health and Safety signs, CD and DVD stickers and car bumper stickers. The ideal Christmas gift for the lazy Banksy in your life.
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Bob Burke lives just outside Limerick in Ireland. The Ho Ho Ho Mystery is his second novel.
The Ho Ho Ho Mystery Bob Burke When Santa goes missing on the day before Christmas Eve, Mrs Claus calls on our intrepid hero Harry Pigg to track him down. What follows is another hardboiled caper featuring fairy tale villains, plenty of red herrings, a few close shaves, a couple of punch ups and a very clever twist. Aided and abetted by his sidekicks Jack Horner and the genie from the lamp, Harry tries to save Christmas before time runs out. This is the second in the Third Pig Detective Agency series. Book One was shortlisted for the Bisto Children’s Book of the Year award in 2010.
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November 978-0-00-736219-6 £10.00 HB 203 x 231 mm 192pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Translation, Serial, Film/TV
364 Days of Tedium or What Santa Gets Up To on His Days Off
Dave Cornmell For 364 days of the year Santa has bugger all to do. The elves do all the manual labour and these days he orders all the presents online. All he has to do is deliver them. So, for the rest of the time he is bored out of his tiny mind. Dave Cornmell’s brilliant and inspired comic strip is an irreverent and sometimes very rude look at Santa’s real life. It features an hilarious cast of characters including Mrs Claus, the elves, reindeer, a variety of arctic wildlife, Santa’s bath toys and some maggots. Find out where Santa goes on holiday, how he copes with bin day, what he watches on telly, how he survives when his wife goes away and whether or not the rumours are true about him and Vixen. Whatever your idealised image of Santa may be, the truth is that he’s just a bored fat bloke who hates his job. Get used to it.
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July 978-0-00-735547-1 £8.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 288pp Rights: Home, Commonwealth, US market, Exclusive European, Translation, Serial, Film/TV
Alex Marsh was born in Essex, and worked as a typesetter, an advertising person and an internet expert before moving to Norfolk as a househusband and writer. Having already once hit the musical big-time, with a support slot for the Sultans of Ping at the Pink Toothbrush club in Rayleigh, he hopes to repeat this success both on the rock stage and on the bowling green.
Sex & Bowls & Rock & Roll How I Swapped My Rock Dreams for Village Greens
Alex Marsh Alex Marsh wanted to be a rock star, but it didn’t work out. Instead he toiled away in the big city – only to give up his career, move to rural Norfolk, and become a househusband. But he isn’t a very good one. Whilst his pride won’t let him admit it, he struggles with the cooking, the housework and the isolation. He hires a cleaner without telling his wife, his repertoire of baked potatoes exhausts quickly. He becomes hooked on daytime television and computer solitaire. He is in danger of becoming weird. So he takes up bowls. In Sex & Bowls & Rock & Roll we follow a season in the life of the village bowls team, a group of amateur sportsmen and mild eccentrics. In doing so we see this unfashionable pastime in a whole new light, and very funny it is, too. Join Alex has he comes to terms with life as a domestic disappointment, attempts to learn the fine art of bowls and finally realises that supporting the Sultans Of Ping at the Pink Toothbrush in Rayleigh really was the highpoint of his musical career.
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July 978-0-00-733940-2 £8.99 PB 197 x 130 mm 256pp Rights: Home, Serial
Stewart Copeland was a founder member of The Police, one of the most successful rock bands of all time. Before The Police he enjoyed chart success as the mysterious masked pop star Klark Kent. Since the band broke up in the early 1980s he has enjoyed a successful career as a composer, working on operas, ballets and film music – most notably the score to Rumblefish. In 2007, The Police reformed and staged the biggest grossing tour in recent years.
Strange Things Happen A Life With The Police, Polo and Pygmies
Stewart Copeland Stewart Copeland is a genuine rock legend. As the drummer with The Police he was part of the biggest rock band in the world. They sold over 50 million records, won two Brits and five Grammys. When they reformed in 2007 they played to nearly four million fans on a recordbreaking world tour which grossed over $400m. But his time with The Police is just a tiny part of Copeland’s story. Growing up in Lebanon, unaware that his dad was a major US spy. Being best friends with Kim Philby’s son. Singing in the choir in Wells Cathedral. Performing arts college in San Diego. Drumming with prog-rock gods Curved Air. Appearing on TOTP as Klark Kent in full camouflage make-up. Spray painting The Police logos around London at night. Rock stardom and fan obsessions. Filming experimental movies with a pygmy tribe. Playing polo against Prince Charles. Recording the score to Rumblefish with Francis Ford Coppola looking on. Composing operas. Reforming the band. Arguing with Sting. Embarking on one of the biggest tours of all time as he approaches sixty. Strange Things Happen is an unforgettable memoir from a musician who has earned his place in rock history.
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Dr Benjamin Daniels is a GP. That is about as much as we can reveal about him.
Confessions of a GP Benjamin Daniels Just who are the people sitting alongside you in the doctor’s waiting room? Could they be the sort of patients Dr Benjamin Daniels has to see every day? The middle-aged woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can’t remember why he’s come to see the doctor in the first place. A lady with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A bloke with a sore knee. A young wife who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn’t sure she actually wants to go through with it. A seven-year-old boy with ‘tummy aches’ that don’t really exist. And that’s without mentioning the home visits. Confessions of a GP is a witty insight into the life of a family doctor. Funny and moving in equal measure it will change the way you look at your GP next time you pop in with the sniffles.
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Author Index Bingham, Harry 8 Bower, Tom 34 Brown, Craig 14 Burke, Bob 44 Cadbury, Deborah 31 Chalabi, Tamara 24 Copeland, Stewart 47 Cornmell, Dave 45 Cumming, Laura 38 Daniels, Benjamin 48 Farnes, Norma 15 Frank, Rina 3 Franzen, Jonathan 5 Gardiner, Juliet 26 Hampton, Janie 25 Hastings, Max 39 Hollingsworth, Mark 18 Holmes, Richard 37 Joseph, Anjali 2 Karr, Mary 19 Keay, John 36 Lamb, Christina 33 Lansley, Stewart 18 Leaming, Barbara 32
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Leimbach, Marti 17 Li, Yiyun 4 Macy, Ed 35 Marsh, Alex 46 Munroe, P. K. 43 Norman, Matthew 16 O’Malley, Bryan Lee 7 Parker, Peter 21 Prince, Rose 13 Richards, Steve 11 Rudd, Matt 22 Sage, Lorna 20 Sautoy, Marcus du 9 Slater, Nigel 12 Snowdon, Peter 40 Soli, Tatjana 23 Starkey, David 29 Sturrock, Donald 27 Tearne, Roma 41 Vickers, Salley 6 Vlugt, Simone van der 42 Weir, Arabella 10 Winchester, Simon 30 Ziegler, Philip 28
Title Index 364 Days of Tedium 45 Aphrodite’s Hat 6 Atlantic 30 Back from the Brink 40 Bad Blood 20 Blitz, The 26 Chocolate Wars 31 Churchill Defiant 32 Confessions of a GP 48 Edward Heath 28 Every Home Needs A Balcony 3 Face to the World, A 38 Finest Years 39 Freedom 5 Gold Boy, Emerald Girl 4 Hellfire 35 Ho Ho Ho Mystery, The 44 How the Girl Guides Won the War 25 India 36 Kings and Queens of England, The 29 Last Veteran, The 21 Late for Tea at the Deer Palace 24 Lit 19 Londongrad 18
Lost Diaries, The 14 Lotus Eaters, The 23 Man from Saigon, The 17 Memories of Milligan 15 Number Mysteries, The 9 Real Me is Thin, The 10 Saraswati Park 2 Scott Pilgrim – Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour 7 Sex & Bowls & Rock & Roll 46 Shadow Sister 42 Shots from the Front 37 Squeeze, The 34 Starkey, David 29 Storyteller 27 Strange Things Happen 47 Stuff Matters 8 Swimmer, The 41 Taste of Real Life, A 13 Tender 12 Utter Balls 16 Whatever it Takes 11 William’s Progress 22 Wrong War, The 33 You Can Stick It! 43
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