I.B.TAURIS US RIGHTS GUIDE Frankfurt Book Fair 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS The Kingdom of Women by Choo Wai Hong
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Young Lothar by Larry Orbach & Vivian Orbach-Smith
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Corinth in Late Antiquity by Amelia Brown
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You Win or You Die by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov
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Zhou Enlai by Michael Dillon
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The New Sultan by Soner Cagaptay
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The Riviera at War by George G. Kundahl
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Young Lenin in London by Robert Henderson
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Babushka’s Journey by Marcel Krueger
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Chasing the Chinese Dream by Nick Holdstock
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Dark Rivers by Joanna Lillis
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Behind the Scenes of the Ballet Russes by Michael Meylac
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Frontline Turkey by Ezgi Basaran
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Growing Up with the Impressionists by Jane Roberts
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Amazons by David Braund
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Cleopatra by Trevor Fear
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Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome by Lindsay C. Watson
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Radical Prophet by Christopher Rowland
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The Pleasure Garden by Robert Foyle Hunwick
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Triple Axis by Ariana Tabatabai & Dina Esfandiary
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2017 Paperbacks
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The Kingdom of Women Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains CHOO WAI HONG Key selling points
FEBRUARY 17 PRICE: £17.99 EXTENT: 240 PAGES IMAGES: 10 BW INTEGRATED, 20 COLOUR IN 16PP PLATES HISTORY / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICS Author Choo Wai Hong was a corporate lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily. She lived for six years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China.
The first and only book on the Mosuo tribe A truly fascinating account of one of the world's last matrilineal societies The author’s moving personal story runs parallel to the story of the Mosuo
'A fascinating portrait of one of the world's last matriarchal societies, a land without fathers or husbands, without marriage or divorce, written by an international corporate lawyer who ditched her hectic life to embrace this Shangri-la inside deepest China.' Jan Wong, author of Beijing Confidential
Description In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition - that of 'walking marriage', where women choose their own lovers from men within the tribe but are beholden to none. Choo Waihong was a corporate lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily. She lived for six years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China.
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Young Lothar
An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin LARRY ORBACH AND VIVIAN ORBACH-SMITH Key selling points
FEBRUARY 17 PRICE: £10.99 EXTENT: 256 PAGES MEMOIR / WWII / HOLOCAUST Author Larry (Lothar) Orbach (1924-2008) grew up in Berlin and assumed the identity of Gerhard Peters from 194244. He spent the last year of the war in Auschwitz and emigrated to New York in 1946. Settling in New Jersey, Larry Orbach set up a jewellery business with his wife Ruth Geier – also a refugee from Nazi Berlin. Larry’s final years in his beloved New York were full and surrounded by friends from all walks of life. Vivien Orbach-Smith, Larry Orbach’s daughter, is an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at New York University and a freelance writer.
A singular true story of hope amidst the darkness of Hitler’s Berlin Highly respected and unique contribution to the literature of the period Underground Berlin in WWII: completely untold
‘This is a book to make one both smile and weep, to admire the generosity of spirit of courageous individuals and to despair of the selfish inhumanity of those who passed by on the other side. Larry Orbach’s story of survival against impossible odds opens a window into the seamy underworld of wartime Berlin and into the limitless extremes of good and evil of which our species is capable.’ Bernard Wasserstein, author of On the Eve: The Jews of
Europe before the Second World War
Description Lothar Orbach, the youngest son of a German Jewish family, was just 14 when the Nazis began rounding up Berlin’s Jews. His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach’s mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach – under the assumed identity of Gerhard Peters – entered Berlin’s underworld of ‘divers’. He scraped a living by hustling pool, cheating in poker and stealing – fighting, literally, to stay alive. But inwardly he remained just a boy, his mother’s son, a Jew holding desperately onto his shattered humanity. In the end, he was betrayed and sent to Auschwitz, on the last transport, in 1944. This singular coming of age story of life in the Berlin underground during WWII is, in essence, a story of hope, even happiness, in the very heart of darkness.
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Corinth in Late Antiquity A Greek, Roman and Christian City AMELIA BROWN Key selling points
APRIL 17 PRICE: £58 EXTENT: 272 PAGES IMAGES: 20 BW INTEGRATED URBAN/BYZANTINE STUDIES/ MEDITERRANEAN/ ARCHAEOLOGY/GREECE CHRISTIANITY Author Amelia Brown is Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Language at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She has published widely on ancient Greece in the Late Antique and Early Byzantine periods, including articles in the collections Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society (2013), Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean (2012) and Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World (2011). She is presently researching maritime religion and seafaring gods in ancient Greece.
The first ever comprehensive scholarly guide to Corinth in Late Antiquity. Makes use of all available sources, creating the definitive and synthetic work on the topic. Accessibly written, with researcher, student and trade audiences in mind.
Description Late Antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical religious, political and economic transformations that swept the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries after Christ. A strategic merchant city in the archaic and classical eras, it became the most important metropolis in Roman Greece and was a key locus for early Christianity. In Late Antiquity, Corinthians recognised new Christian authorities; adopted novel rites of civic celebration and decoration; destroyed and rebuilt the city’s landscape and monuments. Yet during that era, Corinth was always considered a city – a community of individuals with a shared civic identity – by both its inhabitants and outsiders. Amelia Brown demonstrates how public space in Late Antique Corinth evolved under these dynamics. She uses evidence from ancient literary sources, archaeological excavations and historical records to survey its public topography, from the old Agora and temples to new churches and fortifications. Spanning the registers of the building, neighbourhood, city and surrounding countryside, this study connects the materiality of the city to dramatic changes in metropolitan life, broadening our understanding of urban experience in the Late Antique Mediterranean.
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You Win or You Die
The Ancient World of Game of Thrones AYELET HAIMSON LUSHKOV Key selling points
APRIL 17 PRICE: £12.99 EXTENT: 272 PAGES IMAGES: 40 BW INTEGRATED TV / FANTASY / ANCIENT HISTORY & CLASSICS Author Ayelet Haimson Lushkov is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. She has wide interests in Roman history, literature and reception. Her previous books are Magistracy and the Historiography in the Roman Republic (2015) and Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition (co-edited with W Brockliss, P Chaudhuri and K Wasdin, 2012). She has written on Game of Thrones for The Guardian.
Essential: must-have reading for all Game of Thrones fans Authoritative: offers the nuanced perspective of an ancient historian but also a keen fan’s eye-view Original: the first book to show just how saturated Game of Thrones is in the antique/classical world
Description If the Middle Ages form the present-day backdrop to the continents of Westeros and Essos, then antiquity is their resonant past. The Known World is haunted by the remnants of distant and powerful civilizations, without whose presence the novels of George R R Martin and the ever popular HBO show would lose much of their meaning and appeal. In this essential sequel to Carolyne Larrington’s Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov explores the echoes, from the Summer Islands to Storm’s End, of a rich antique history. She discusses, for example, the convergence of ancient Rome and the reach, scope and might of the Valyrian Freehold. She shows how the wanderings of Tyrion Lannister replay the journeys of Odysseus and Aeneas. She suggests that the War of the Five Kings resembles the War of the Four Emperors (68-69 AD). And she demonstrates just how the Wall and the Wildlings advancing on it connect with Hadrian’s bulwark against fierce tribes of Picts. This book reveals the remarkable extent to which the entire Game of Thrones universe is animated by its ancient past.
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Zhou Enlai
China’s Good Communist
MICHAEL DILLON
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APRIL 17 PRICE: £25 EXTENT: 336 PAGES IMAGES: 16 BW INTEGRATED BIOGRAPHY / HISTORY / CHINA Author Michael Dillon was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught modern Chinese history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society and was Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009. He is the author of China: A Modern History (I.B.Tauris).
Hugely important figure in modern China and central to China’s superpower status No other competing biography of Zhou Enlai Brand new insight into the man, using original Chinese sources
Description Urbane, enigmatic, Èminence grise, the ‘man behind the scenes’ sums up Zhou Enlai’s long and vital political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s and his close connections with both Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong. He was a major influence on Deng Xiaoping – a source, for example, of major influence on Xiaoping’s ‘Four Modernizations’ in agriculture, industry, science and technology, and the military. Enlai was thus the prime architect of China’s drive towards superpower status. An interesting, attractive and intellectual figure whom Dillon regards as ‘a genuine statesman rather than just a political operator’.
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The New Sultan
Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey SONER CAGAPTAY Key selling points
MAY 17 PRICE: £17.99 EXTENT: 276 PAGES TURKEY / CURRENT AFFAIRS Author Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics and Turkish nationalism, publishing in scholarly journals and major international print media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, New Republic, and Newsweek Türkiye. He has been a regular columnist for Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey's oldest and most influential English-language paper, and a contributor to CNN's Global Public Square blog. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, NPR, Voice of America, BBC, and CNNTurk.
The must-have story of Erdogan’s rise, rule and beliefs New insight into the roots of the Middle Eastern conflict – Turkey is on the frontline Author is an internationally known specialist on Turkey with extensive media experience and multiple platforms for promotions
Description The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in a country which will play a critical geopolitical role in the wars of the Middle East. The spotlight will inevitably be on Erdogan – the powerful leader of the country - whose increasingly bizarre and authoritarian regime has increased tensions enormously both within and outside the country. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent – thousands of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and three quarters of highest ranking army officers arrested.In some senses, this coup has given Erdogan the license to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a ‘strongman’. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at where Erdogan comes from in Turkish history, what he believes in, how he has cemented his rule will assess the threats he faces – from the liberal youth to the Gulen movement, the army plotters and the Kurdish question.
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The Riviera at War
World War II on the Côte d’Azur GEORGE G. KUNDAHL Key selling points
MAY 2017 PRICE: £18.99 EXTENT: 336 PAGES IMAGES: 30 BW IN 16PP PLATES HISTORY / TRADE / WORLD WAR II Author George G. Kundahl was, until his retirement, a Major General in the U.S. Army. He held the positions of Executive Director, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (19811990); Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (1990-1993) and Chief of Staff, Military Order of the World Wars (1996-2000). He holds a PhD in Political science from University of Alabama and has been resident on the French Riviera for many years.
First history of World War II on the Riviera Includes new information about the Battle of Toulon The Côte d’Azur is one of France’s most visited regions
Description During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies— Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France, the region popularly known as the Riviera or Côte d’Azur, was one. Not only did inhabitants suffer through Italian Fascism and German Nazism but also under a third hardship at times even more oppressive - the rule of Vichy France. Following a nine-month prelude, the reality of World War II burst onto the Riviera in June 1940 when the region had to defend itself against the Italian army and ended in April 1945 with a battle against German and Italian forces in April 1945, a period longer than any other part of France. In this book, George G. Kundahl tells for the first time the full story of World War II on the French Riviera. Featuring previously unseen sources and photographs, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in wartime France.
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Young Lenin in London
The Untold Story of Lenin’s Lover and Tsarist Spies in Victorian London ROBERT HENDERSON
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JUNE 17 PRICE: £17.99 EXTENT: 288 PAGES IMAGES: 12 BW HISTORY / RUSSIAN HISTORY Author Robert Henderson is a Historian from Queen Mary University in London. He was Russian Curator for the British Library for over 20 years and has been responsible for several headlines due to his knack for discovering archival gems – his latest being the identity and first picture of Lenin’s lover in London. He is probably the world’s leading expert on Russian archives, and has seen material which no other historian has seen.
A new angle on Lenin Potentially ground-braking book which should have a lot of backing and support Some revelatory material
Description Behind the textbook account of the Russian revolution there lies a network of personal histories – sometimes romantic, sometimes mysterious. Who was Apollinariya Yakubova? How did Lenin spend his 11 years living in London? What can we discern about the political atmosphere of this period by coming to a better understanding of the lives, loves, and intrigues of Russia’s revolutionary inner circle? With new archival material to hand, Robert Henderson weaves a compelling vision of the Russian communist community abroad. It is a world of spies, anarchists and police-chases across Victorian London, culled from the files of the Tsarist secret police. In grainy photographs, letters, and narratives we gather a shadowy sense of Lenin’s closest allies and enemies. Henderson offers a window into the untold experiences of a group of young revolutionaries, far from home and standing on the brink of a civil war that would change the very course of world history.
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Babushka's Journey
The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps MARCEL KRUEGER Key selling points
JULY 17 PRICE: £18.99 EXTENT: 272 PAGES IMAGES: 15 BW INTEGRATED HISTORY / TRAVEL / WWII
Riveting and unique story from WWII, with a broad and universal appeal Marcel Krueger is a master storyteller who keeps the reader gripped from start to finish Will appeal to both history buffs and armchair travellers
Some forebear of mine was a violinist, A horseman and thief, moreover. Isn’t that where I got my wanderlust, Why my hair smells of wind and weather? Marina Tsvetaeva, Some Forebear of Mine was a Violinist
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Marcel Krueger is a writer and translator whose articles and essays have been published in The Daily Telegraph, Süddeutsche Zeitung and CNN Travel, among others, and who also works as a local Berlin expert or ‘Spotter’ for Spotted by Locals. Marcel divides his time between Berlin, Cologne and Dublin. He is the author, with Paul Sullivan, of Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers.
This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and Eastern Europe in World War II. Following the tracks of his grandmother Cäcilie, Cilly for short, into her vanished homeland of East Prussia and to the labour camps of the Soviet Union, Marcel Krueger has intervowen contemporary landscape and family history into an evocative travel memoir. Babushka's Journey is the record of his grandmother's journey from the snow -covered battlefields of East Prussia in January 1945 to the labour camps in the Urals, where she spent five years before returning to Germany. In pursuit of the sights, sounds and voices both past and present along this route, the author has created both fictionalised historical narrative and contemporary travelogue covering two different journeys in the same direction. This book is both laconic stumbling through the bars of present-day Poland and the bunk beds of the Trans-Siberian railway, and at the same time the authentic retelling of a tragic yet hopeful individual fate that stands for tens of thousands of similar stories in Germany, Poland and Russia today. A rich mixture of travel writing, memoir and history, best read on the train and washed down with a vodka.
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Chasing the Chinese Dream The Story of Modern China NICK HOLDSTOCK
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JULY 17 PRICE: £14.99 EXTENT: 256 PAGES CHINA / CURRENT AFFAIRS Author Nick Holdstock is a journalist and writer. His writing can be found in Vice, The LA Review of Books, n+1, The Independent, The Dublin Review, Times Literary Supplement, The Edinburgh Review, Dissent and Salon.com amongst others. He worked for many years under Isabel Hilton at China Dialogue – part of the Guardian environment network. He is the author of China’s Forgotten People, a biography of Xinjiang. His first novel, The Casualties, was published in 2015. He writes regularly on China for the London Review of Books.
A spellbinding narrative of Chinese hopes and dreams The author has lived and worked in China Should support a big publicity campaign
Description China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the ‘Chinese Dream’, the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country in order to find out the reality behind this rhetoric – from the factory-owner, to the noodle seller, from the karaoke maids to the hoteliers, and from the deserted, ageing countryside to the young and overcrowded cities. Chasing the Chinese Dream follows a cast of extraordinary characters: we meet the people getting rich; running factories and buying luxury cars and Louis Vuitton bags. But we also meet those left behind, trapped by a system which forces long hours and no prospects upon them. A spell-binding and magical narrative, this book looks to tell the story of modern China through the people who are living it.
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Dark Rivers
Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan JOANNA LILLIS
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JULY 17 PRICE: £16.99 EXTENT: 240 PAGES CHINA / CURRENT AFFAIRS Author Joanna Lillis is a freelance journalist based in Kazakhstan. She writes regularly on the country for The Atlantic, The Guardian (for whom she is their ‘de facto’ Central Asia correspondent) The Diplomat , EurasiaNet, Politico and The National. She has previously worked for the BBC in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and is considered one of the best journalists working on the ground in Central Asia today.
A new approach to a hidden world, which looks at the reality of life there Covers a crucial paradigm shift in Central Asia China’s Strategy in Central Asia will make understanding this country a must
Description Money is flooding into Kazakhstan. The country is home to vast gas and oil deposits, and its staggering level of international investment is increasing year by year. And yet, Kazakhstan effectively looks and feels like a Cold War state. Its president for the last 26 years, Nazarbayev, is a ruthless dictator who believes in telepathy (visitors to national monuments can place their hands on a golden handprint and send him telepathic messages) and recently constructed a 56-metre glass pyramid in which 100 Kazakhstani religious leaders will meet to discuss the future of the world. This book teases out the strange and fascinating conditions of present-day Kazakhstan – a state haunted by disappearances, buried Uranium mines, corruption, and gangsterdom at the highest levels of power. Joanna Lillis is a compelling storyteller and a shrewd social critic; her study evokes a country simultaneously lost in its complex past and poised to move into the foreground of world affairs.
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Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes Stories from a Golden Age
MICHAEL MEYLAC, TRANSLATED BY ROSANNA KELLY Key selling points
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BALLET / HISTORY / DANCE Author Michael Meylac is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Strasbourg. He is the author of editions and studies of the Oberiou poets and of studies on the Provençal troubadours. Rosanna Kelly is an author and translator, based in London.
Essential reading for ballet fans Based on previously-unseen interviews Provides unique insights into many of the greatest names in twentieth-century dance
Description The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time enigmatic, ballet company of the twentieth century. Following the death of their founder Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the company split into two separate groups – the Ballets Russes de Colonel de Basil and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In the mid-twentieth century – during the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War – the Ballets Russes companies kept the spirit and traditions of Russian ballet alive in the West, touring extensively in America, Europe and Australia. This groundbreaking new book uncovers previously-unseen conversations with the leading protagonists of the companies, primarily with the dancers themselves, but also with choreographers, instructors and critics. Through the dancers’ own words, Michael Meylac reveals what life was really like for the stars of the Ballets Russes and provides fascinating new insights into some of the most important dance events of the twentieth century – including Nureyev’s defection to the West. In doing so, he provides insights into the lives of the great figures of the age – from the dancers Anna Pavlova and Alicia Markova to the choreographers Leonide Massine, George Balanchine and Anton Dolin. Meylac has interviewed some of the greatest dancers of the period including Alexandra Danilova, Nina Vyroubova and the three ‘baby ballerinas’, as well as those who kept the company running behind the scenes such as Roland Petit and Pierre Lacotte.
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Frontline Turkey
The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East
EZGI BASARAN Key selling points
AUGUST 17 PRICE: £17.99 EXTENT: 256 PAGES TURKEY / CURRENT AFFAIRS Author Ezgi Basaran is a Turkish journalist who made her name covering the Kurdish conflict - reporting ‘on the ground’ in the fight between ISIS, the YPG, the PKK and the Turkish state. After accepting the offer to write a daily column on Turkish foreign affairs, she became the youngest ever editor of Turkey’s Radikal, the biggest centre-left news outlet in Turkey, and the first woman to hold the role. After facing government censorship when covering the breakdown of the Kurdish talks, she resigned. Radikal was shut down by the government a month later – an unprecedented event which made headlines worldwide. She is currently an academic visitor at St Antony’s College Oxford, a position she was awarded with the support of Timothy Garton-Ash and several other prominent journalists. She has nearly 1 million twitter followers, and extensive ‘name-recognition’ in the field of Turkish politics and journalism. This would be her first book in English.
This book will make the argument that the Kurds relationship with Turkey is at the very heart of the Middle Eastern crisis Will document, through front-line events, the breakdown of the peace process, and explain why it is the key to understanding current events in the region.
Description Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the conflict with the Kurds. That conflict, which has been raging on and off since 1984, has killed as many as 80,000 people and the PKK’s resistance to Ankara has destabilised Turkey’s border with Syria. In 2011 Erdogan put a lot of his political capital into resolving the war, promising to make a deal with the Kurdistan military wing – it is this process which is the subject of the book. The talks in fact marked a descent into assassinations, suicide bombings, secret agents and the killing of civilians on both sides. I’m attaching a timeline of those events. The Kurdish peace process finally collapsed in 2014 with the spill-over of the Syrian Civil War. With ISIS moving through northern Iraq, Turkey has essentially declared war on the PKK, who in turn blame Ankara for supporting ISIS with arms and support. All this is further complicated by the West’s reliance on the Kurdish YPG – as seen in their rescue of the Yezidis and the US-backed assault on Kobane (this latter put Turkey in the awkward position of opposing the fighting of ISIS forces on its border).
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Growing Up with the Impressionists The Diary of Julie Manet JULIE MANET,
TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY JANE ROBERTS
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Book with bestselling track record, now in a new translation and with new material Provides an unrivalled and truly fascinating insight into the lives of the Impressionists Jane Roberts is an expert on the Impressionists
‘An enchanting book... a delightful story with aptly chosen illustrations.’ Book of the Year, Financial Times
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MEMOIR / ART HISTORY Author Jane Roberts is an art historian who has worked for over 20 years in the international art market including Sotheby's and the Cabinet des Dessins at the Louvre, specialising in Impressionism. She now runs her own consultancy in Paris. She received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. She is also the author of Jacques-Émile Blanche.
Julie Manet, the daughter of Édouard Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on 14th November 1878 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries and it is hardly surprising that, with her mother giving all her encouragement, Julie would prove to be no exception to the rule. At the age of ten, Julie began writing her “memoirs” but it wasn’t until August 1893, at fourteen, that Julie began her diary in earnest: no neat leatherbound volume with lock and key but just untidy notes scribbled in old exercise books, often in pencil, the presentation as spontaneous as its contents. Her extraordinary diary – newly translated here by an expert of Impressionism, reveals a vivid depiction of a vital period in France’s cultural history seen through the youthful and precocious eyes of the youngest member of what was surely the most prominent artistic families of the time.
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Amazons
The Legendary Warrior Women of Antiquity DAVID BRAUND Key selling points
SEPTEMBER 17 PRICE: £20 EXTENT: 224 PAGES IMAGES: 16PP BW PLATE
Amazingly, there is no popular history of the Amazons in print David Braund is the leading authority writing in English on the subject: this book is long-awaited Plenty of new insights and discoveries
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SECTIONS CLASSICS & ANCIENT HIST/ MYTHOLOGY/RELIGI. GENDER ST./LIT. ST./ART HIST
Author David Braund is Professor of Black Sea History at the University of Exeter. His many books include Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC-AD 562, Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola, and Classical Olbia and the Scythian World: From the Sixth Century BC to the Second Century AD.
The idea of the Amazons is one of the most romantic and resonant in all antiquity. The Greeks were fascinated by the notion of a race of fierce female fighters: pitiless battles between the Athenians and Amazons echo through the Archaic period. In his vibrant new book, David Braund shows how these lithe warriors captivated moderns as well as ancients, unleashing, with their deadly arrows, a myth so powerful that from the medieval and Renaissance eras to the present it held its recipients spellbound. Deftly traversing art, literature and culture, he discusses Homer’s Penthesilea, combative sister of Hippolyta the Amazon Queen, cut down by Achilles beneath the walls of Troy. He examines Herodotus’ andoktrones – ‘killers of men’ – situated in the region bordering Scythia (Crimea) in Sarmatia; Aeschylus’ Scythian Amazons; and those placed by other classical writers in Pontus by the shores of the Euxine Sea. He then explores portrayals by Virgil, Chaucer, Ariosto and Mary Renault – who writes lyrically of the Amazons as muscular moon-maids of Artemis. Finally, he looks at the basis of the legend in history, locating in recent archaeology a reality as surprising and evocative as any fiction told through story or myth.
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Cleopatra
The Immortal Queen TREVOR FEAR
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SEPTEMBER 17 PRICE: £20 EXTENT: 288 PAGES IMAGES: 40 INTEGRATED BW, 8PP COLOUR PLATES
First concerted reception history of one of the most iconic figures of world civilization Strong general sales potential Interdisciplinary academic sale: classics, history, film, gender studies, cultural studies
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CLASSICS / ANCIENT HISTORY / CULTURAL GENDER / FILM+TV STUDIES / IDEAS Author Trevor Fear is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University and held prior teaching positions at SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State University and UCLA. He is the editor of the ejournal New Voices in Classical Reception Studies and has published several book chapters on Catullus and Roman Elegy.
Cleopatra is perhaps the most famous woman of the ancient world. But is her fame based on an actual life story or, rather, events that have evolved into a pervasive and persistent legend? Trevor Fear demonstrates how – over centuries and millennia – Cleopatra VII, the last ruling member of the Ptolemaic royal family of Egypt, has become ‘Cleopatra’: not just an historical figure but an abiding female icon that can be claimed by all. Giving proper factual context to this enigmatic monarch of Greek descent, who also adopted the quasi-divine role of Pharaoh, the author then discusses key moments in the afterlives of Cleopatra during her reincarnation into literature, theatre, film and television. From Plutarch’s Life of Antony to Shakespeare’s unforgettable evocation of doomed love; from the burlesques of the Victorians to Hollywood, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Carry on Cleo; and from Xena: Warrior Princess to HBO’s Rome, this continually engaging book reveals why age still cannot wither the immortal queen.
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Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome The Sorcery and Divination of Classical Antiquity
LINDSAY C. WATSON Key selling points
SEPTEMBER 17 PRICE: £62 EXTENT: 288 PAGES IMAGES: 20 BW INTEGRATED
Needed, overdue, holistic treatment of ancient magic (Greece + Rome) Authoritative: written by a senior professor and foremost expert on ancient magical texts Innovative and adoptable: fresh perspectives that will ensure undergraduate and general appeal
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CLASSICAL STUDIES & ANCIENT HISTORY / RELIGION / LITERARY STUDIES / HISTORY OF IDEAS Author Lindsay C. Watson is Honorary Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. His previous books include Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity (1991), Martial: Select Epigrams (with Patricia Watson, 2003), A Commentary on Horace’s Epodes (2003), Juvenal: Satire 6 (with Patricia Watson, 2014) and Martial (in the I.B.Tauris ‘Understanding Classics’ series, 2015).
Ancient magic was not an abstract thing, used to propitiate the gods or explore some arcane esoteric principle. It was visceral. It was often intended to render harm. It was about obtaining tangible results, whether redress, love, sexual satisfaction, justice or murder. As Lindsay Watson shows – in this first comprehensive survey in English of classical sorcery – spellworking in antiquity was above all pragmatic. ‘May he not enjoy his kingdom or the days he longed for, but let him die before his time and lie unburied in the sand’ (Aeneid Book IV). When the doomed Dido hurled these bitter words at Aeneas (departing Trojan prince, betrayer and former object of her love), Virgil’s rapt audience would have recognized the dramatic intent of a curse intended to produce a destructive outcome. The author shows magic to have been a practical philosophy, woven into the very fabric of everyday classical life and living. Concentrating on four key areas – curse magic, love spells, animal divination and the relationship of literary texts to day-today magic – he here explores the whole gamut of antique magical activity.
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Radical Prophet
The Mystics, Subversives and Visionaries Who Strove for Heaven on Earth CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND Key selling points
SEPTEMBER 17 PRICE: £25 EXTENT: 272 PAGES IMAGES: 20 BW INTEGRATED, 5 COLOUR IN 4PP PLATES
Christopher Rowland holds the top biblical studies Chair in the world Interdisciplinary and cross-market appeal to readers in religion, politics and history A book with an argument: strong, highly reviewable, ideas book
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RELIGION / HISTORY Author Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford. His many books include Blake and the Bible, Revelation (with Judith Kovacs), The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, Christian Origins: The Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism, and Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (with Andrew Bradstock).
Christianity began with the conviction that the old order was finished. The mysterious, elusive and charismatic figure of Jesus proclaimed that a new era, the Kingdom of God, was dawning. Yet despite its success, and the conversion of the empire which had executed its founder, the religion he inspired was soon domesticated, its counter-cultural radicalism tamed, as the Church attempted to control both its doctrines and its followers. Christopher Rowland here shows that this was never the whole story. At the margins, around the edges, sometimes off the religious map, the apocalyptic flame of the New Testament continued to burn. In 1649 the Diggers occupied St George’s Hill to put the egalitarianism of Christ into practice. ‘You must break these men or they will break you’, Oliver Cromwell declared of the ‘lunaticks’. This book argues that such revolutionaries had divined the true intent of the enigma who threw over the tables of the money-changers: to summon a new epoch – strange, iconoclastic, uncomfortable and otherworldly. It gives full weight to a remarkable strain of radical religion that simply refuses to die.
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The Pleasure Garden
China’s Hidden World of Sex, Drugs and the Super-Rich ROBERT FOYLE HUNWICK
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OCTOBER 17 PRICE: £14.99 EXTENT: 216 PAGES IMAGES:
The first book revealing the dark side of Chinese super-capitalism The author is a journalist who has fantastic stories to tell and print and print platforms for promotion. A must-read for China-watchers and the readers who bought ‘Sex in the Citadel’ and ‘Little Emperors and Material Girls’
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CHINA / POP CULTURE / GENERAL INTEREST Author Robert Foyle Hunwick is a journalist who lives and works in China. He reports regularly for the Daily Telegraph and his journalism has been published in Vice, Slate, The Atlantic and Esquire. He also runs the influential blog Beijing Cream and is Senior Editor at the English-language magazine That’s Beijing. Known as the reporter who writes about the China the Party doesn’t want you to see, he has authored several talked-about articles on swinging, drug-use and corruption.
Capitalism is rampant in China. The successful have such extreme wealth that their lives bear no relation to anything in Chinese history since the eras of the Emperors. It has been near impossible, until now, to see first-hand how this sudden explosion in extreme wealth has caused the breakdown of traditional communist tradition and led to crime and corruption, deviancy, debauchery, hedonism and gluttony. Journalist Robert Foyle Hunwick now uncovers this hidden pleasure garden. He journeys into the sex clubs for women, peeks into the lives of kept mistresses, investigates the lavish gifts and lifestyles of business ‘fixers’, and lays bare China’s spiralling drug-use – where ‘hard’ drugs such as heroin and crystal meth are glamourised by the wealthy. He shows the ways in which all these vices are ‘mainstreamed’ in modern Chinese business culture. He also looks at the dark underbelly of this gleaming world, investigating murder and organised crime – both of which are not officially said to exist. From the high-level functionaries who keep pet Siberian tigers in their high-rise penthouses, to the fast-cars and bling of their sons and daughters, to the fixers and criminals who live off this world, The Pleasure Garden will take you inside the hyper-real, vibrant and violent side of new China.
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Triple-Axis
China, Russia, Iran and Power Politics
ARIANA TABATABAI AND DINA ESFANDIARY Key selling points
Emergence of the new superpowers Vital for understanding contemporary security challenges Contains new scholarly research and analysis
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OCTOBER 17 PRICE: £59 EXTENT: 272 PAGES IMAGES: 7 BW INTEGRATED, 3 MAPS
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS / POLITICS Author Ariane Tabatabai is a visiting assistant professor in the Security Studies Program, at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She holds a PhD from KCL and has written for the Financial Times and Boston Globe. Dina Esfandiary is a MacArthur Fellow at the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London. Her research focuses on security, relations between states and non-proliferation in the Middle East, including Iran and Syria’s WMD programmes.
The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. Rejecting the universality of Western liberal values, these states and their governments each consider the relative decline of Western economic hegemony as an opportunity. Yet cooperation between them remains fragmentary. The end of Western sanctions and the Iranian nuclear deal; the Syrian conflict; new institutions in Central and East Asia: in all these areas and beyond, the potential for unity or divergence is striking. In this new and comprehensive study, Ariane Tabatabai and Dina Esfandiary address the substance of this ‘triple axis’ in the realms of energy, trade, and military security. In particular they scrutinise Iran-Russia and the often overlooked field of Iran-China relations. Their argument – that interactions between the three will shape the world stage for decades to come – will be of interest to anyone looking to understand the contemporary international security puzzle.
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