Running Up That Hill

50 Visions of Kate Bush

By Tom Doyle

Kate Bush is the subject of murmured legend and one of the most distinctive musicians of the modern era. Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush is a multifaceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating angles. Featuring details from the author’s one-onone conversations with Kate as well as vignettes of her key songs, albums, videos, and concerts, this artful, candid, and often brutally funny portrait introduces a refreshingly real Kate Bush.

Tom Doyle also intertwines vivid reconstructions of transformative moments in her career and insights from the friends and collaborators closest to her, including her photographer brother John Carder Bush and fellow artists David Gilmour, John Lydon, and Youth. With Netflix’s Stranger Things inspiring a new generation of fans, Kate Bush has made an incredible resurgence in popularity and has broken new records.

Tom Doyle is a highly acclaimed music journalist and author. As a journalist and interviewer, his work has appeared in Mojo, Billboard, Q, Sound On Sound, The Guardian and The Times. Over the years, he has been responsible for key magazine profiles of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Yoko Ono, Keith Richards, U2, Madonna, Kate Bush, and R.E.M., among many other artists. He lives in London, England.

“Praiseworthy.”—The Guardian

Long-term Kate Bush devotees and new teenage fans won over by Stranger Things will both find enlightenment in Tom Doyle’s prismastic portrait of the elusive artist.—The Times

Approaching its subject from inspired angles [...] probably the best [Kate] Bush book to date.—Record Collector

A vibrant and comprehensive reexamination of the artist and her many creative landmarks.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2023

368 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8116 4 eBook

978 1 5381 8117 1

Biography & Autobiography • Music

Falling into Place

A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer

By Thomas Swick, foreword by Pico Iyer

Working as a feature writer in 1976, Thomas Swick falls in love with a visiting Polish student named Haina and soon moves with her to Warsaw. The next decade sees Thomas living in Poland, Greece, and New York. He declines an invitation to be a Polish informer, sees John Paul II embolden the masses on his first trip back to his homeland since becoming pope, witnesses the rise of Solidarity and the imposition of martial law in Poland, and walks with thousands of Poles on the pilgrimage to Czestochowa, an annual religious rite that blossoms into a nine-day protest march. In 1989, he watches Hania vote in her country’s first free elections since pre-war independence. One month later, he lands his dream job as a travel writer.

Falling into Place is the personal story of a young man’s discovery of the world and his development as a travel writer. It is also a love story, as he and Hania overcome cultural differences, communist bureaucracy, and unhealthy separations. Intertwined with both is the story of the revolution that altered history. With the world’s attention once again turned to Eastern Europe, and a Cold War reality, this memoir can help readers better understand both.

Thomas Swick was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from 1989–2008, during which time the newspaper’s name appeared in the first nine editions of The Best American Travel Writing. He is the author of four books, and his work has appeared in US newspapers and magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. He lives with his wife Hania in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Visit his website at thomasswick.com.

A coming-of-age story tied to a historic moment, the defining one of the second half of the twentieth century in Eastern Europe.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2023

264 pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8177 5 eBook

978 1 5381 8178 2

Biography & Autobiography • Personal Memoirs

Becoming Kerouac A Writer in His Time

By Paul Maher Jr.

A full portrait fusing Kerouac’s life and art to comprehend this misunderstood literary genius.

Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer’s embattled insight of self as central to his life and work. He reveals how Kerouac’s troubled interactions with alcohol, drugs, and spirituality stamped its importance on his autobiographical prose and poetry and created a singular language that united thoughts on the human condition and spiritual liberation. Becoming Kerouac affixes Kerouac’s life and art in a fresh way, giving readers a rich perspective from which to understand this literary genius.

Paul Maher Jr. is a freelance writer and editor. He is also author/editor of Kerouac: His Life and Work. He lives in Lubec, Maine with his wife, Caitlin.

Lady Ref Making Calls in a Man’s World

By Shannon Eastin, with Kate St. Vincent Vogl

The eye-opening and inspiring memoir of the first female official for the NFL.

Shannon Eastin was used to breaking new ground. As a teenager, she was a six-time national judo champion before women were allowed to compete in her sport in the Olympics. Years later, she was the first woman to referee Division I football. But when she set her sights on officiating in the NFL, nothing could fully prepare her for the obstacles that would be thrown in her way. In Lady Ref: Making Calls in a Man’s World, Eastin candidly shares the struggles she faced throughout her journey to the pros.

Shannon Eastin is the Director of Officials for the Canyon Athletic Association and mentors and trains officials in football and basketball through her company, SE Sports Officiating. Kate St. Vincent Vogl is an author and teaches at the Loft Literary Center.

Lyons Press

November 2023 • 272 pages

Hardback with dust jacket 978 1 5897 9687 4 eBook 978 1 5897 9688 1

Biography & Autobiography • Literary Figures

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2023 • 224 pages • 18 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 8159 1 eBook 978 1 5381 8160 7

Biography & Autobiography • Sports

Red Cloud and the Indian Trader

The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier

By Marilyn Dear Nelson and Chris Nelson

The story of a friendship during the most turbulent, violent, and controversial periods in the history of the American West.

This book is about two men caught up in the momentous events of the Wild West in the 1870s and 80s. It is a story about the opening-up of the West and the process of nation building, driven by great vision, sacrifice, and human endeavor. But it is also a story of mismanagement, avarice, corruption, bigotry, extreme violence, and injustice.

Marilyn Dear Nelson grew up with stories, artifacts, and stereotype images from her great-grandfather’s life in the Wild West. When she and her husband Chris retired to London they started to research his extraordinary life.

The Tenacious Nurse Nichols An Unsung Civil War Hero

By Eileen Yanoviak

The remarkable story of a Civil War nurse who escaped slavery.

Lucy Higgs Nichols’ story is remarkable: a journey from enslavement in Tennessee, to freedom and service among the ranks of the Union Army, and finally to independence and national recognition from the press, the Grand Army of the Republic, and even Congress. Despite considerable obstacles and unimaginable pain, Lucy achieved notoriety, nobility, and self-sufficiency in a post-Civil War era that often denied black Americans and women justice and opportunity.

Eileen Yanoviak is the Director of the Carnegie Center for Art and History in Indiana. She has worked in museums in the US-American south for more than fifteen years.

TwoDot

December 2023 • 320 pages • 66 illustrations

Trade paperback 978 1 4930 7390 0 eBook 978 1 4930 7391 7

Biography & Autobiography • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Native American & Aboriginal

Lyons Press

February 2024 • 224 pages

Hardback 978 1 4930 5333 9

Biography & Autobiography • Women