Serpent's Tail catalogue Autumn 2017

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Washington Black Esi Edugyan

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A dazzling new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Half Blood Blues When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black – an eleven-year-old field slave who has known no other life – is aghast to find himself selected as personal servant to one of them. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde – explorer, inventor and abolitionist – whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Through Wilde, Washington is initiated into a world of wonder: where the night sea shivers with light; where a cloth canopy can propel a man across the sky; where a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning. Then, on a disastrous voyage of escape, Wilde disappears. Washington is forced to make his way back to the civilised world alone. One day, a man appears in his new life, making claims of the past. Is this the long-lost Wilde? And if so, is it possible that his resurrection will destroy everything? Half Blood Blues was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, the Walter Scott Prize, the Writers’ Trust Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award, and won the Giller Prize A magnificent adventure story based on a historical missing person’s case

Esi Edugyan has degrees from the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Half Blood Blues. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best New American Voices. She currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Fiction £14.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 84668 959 8 £12.99 Export paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 897 2 288pp eISBN: 978 1 84765 997 2 November 2017 UK Com ex Can

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I Hate the Internet Jarett Kobek

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‘The Kurt Vonnegut, hell, the Swift and Voltaire of the Twitter age’ The Times In the middle of the twentieth century, New York comic book companies made millions from comics while paying their creators almost nothing. At the start of the twenty-first century, San Francisco tech companies made billions from an unprecedented flourishing of creativity while paying its creators nothing. In 2013, a successful comic book artist named Adeline aired some unfashionable opinions. The reaction of the Internet, a computer network which was a fantastic place for shaming women, was predictable. The reaction of the Internet was to send Adeline messages like ‘Drp slut … hope u get gang rape.’ Set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed and rampant gentrification, I Hate the Internet is a furious indictment of all the intolerable bullshit of the modern world and a hilarious satire of our Internet Age. Fiction £8.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 762 3 288pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 314 7 June 2017 UK Com ex Can

‘Wildly entertaining … as an act of sustained indignation, it’s inspired – and has the effect of making most other writers seem coy and platitudinous … he leaves you inspecting the carnage with a grin on your face’ Spectator ‘A quite thrillingly funny and vicious anatomy of hi-tech culture and the modern world in general’ Guardian ‘Hilariously caustic … relentlessly quotable’ Metro

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Never Let it Stop Jarett Kobek

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Friendship and euphoria in the strangest of all possible worlds It’s the tail-end of 1986 and Baby is the starriest-eyed young homo in all of New York, straight off the bus from closeted backwoods Wisconsin. Adeline is his rich-art-school-kid saviour with a bizarre transatlantic drawl and a spare bed. Never Let it Stop follows Baby and Adeline as they cling to each other for dear life through a decade of mad, bad New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol and Basquiat and the forcible gentrification of the East Village. As Baby falls into a twilight zone of clubbing, ketamine and late-capitalistic sexual excess, he will test the strength of a friendship that had seemed unbreakable. Riotously funny, provocative but tender, Never Let it Stop is a sprawling, ecstatic elegy to New York, and to the friendships that have the power to change – and save – our lives.

The follow-up to I Hate the Internet, the fierce satire of 2013 San Francisco that was a word-of-mouth hit in the UK and the USA A paean to late 80s and early 90s New York, the city of Warhol, Basquiat and Wojnarowicz, of the AIDS crisis, of Michael Alig and the Club Kids

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA was called ‘highly interesting’ by the Times Literary Supplement, has appeared in Spanish translation, been the subject of much academic writing and was a recent and unexplained bestseller in parts of Canada.

Fiction £14.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 855 2 352pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 359 8 November 2017 UK Com ex Can

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The Haunting of Henry Twist Rebecca F. John

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Is there a love so powerful it can bring someone back from the dead? London, 1926: Henry Twist’s heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is hit by a bus and killed. Miraculously, the baby survives. Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter – a single father in a world without single fathers. He hurries the baby home, terrified that she’ll be taken from him. Racked with guilt and fear, he stays away from prying eyes; walking her through the streets at night, under cover of darkness. One evening, a strange man materialises from the shadows and addresses Henry by name. The man says that he has lost his memory, but thinks his name is Jack. Henry is both afraid of and drawn to Jack, and the more time they spend together, the more Henry sees that this man has echoes of his dead wife. Henry wonders, has his wife returned to him? Or is he in the grip of a fantasy?

Rebecca F. John was the first unpublished writer to be shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Prize in 2015 Winner of the PEN International New Voices Award 2015, her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and highly commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize

Rebecca F. John was born in 1986, and grew up in Pwll, Wales. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is the winner of the PEN International New Voices Award 2015, and the British participant in the 2016 Scritture Giovani project.

Fiction £14.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 714 2 352pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 289 8 July 2017 World all languages Exclusive Europe

‘A prodigious writer of great intelligence and talent’ Roshi Fernando US

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The Cutaway Christina Kovac

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Breaking news is a dangerous business It begins with someone else’s story. The story of a woman who leaves a busy restaurant and disappears completely into the chilly spring night. Evelyn Carney is missing – but where did she go? Who was she meeting? And why did she take a weapon with her when she went? When brilliant TV producer Virginia Knightly finds Evelyn’s missing person report on her desk, she becomes obsessed with finding out what happened that night. But her pursuit of the truth draws her deep into the power struggles and lies of Washington, D.C.’s elite – to face old demons and new enemies. A slick, gripping thriller that moves at the pace of breaking news, The Cutaway will keep your heart hammering until the final page.

Crime fiction £12.99 Royal hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 882 8 £12.99 Export paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 883 5 320pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 371 0 April 2017 UK Com ex Can

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Christina Kovac worked for seventeen years managing Washington, D.C. newsrooms and producing crime and political stories for Fox, ABC and NBC News. She lives with her family outside of Washington, D.C. The Cutaway is her first novel.

A taut debut thriller for fans of Ruth Ware, Val McDermid and Peter Swanson Written by a newsroom insider who knows first-hand the tension and excitement of a breaking news story


The Hidden Keys André Alexis

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A slick, sophisticated mystery from the award-winning author of Fifteen Dogs When master thief Tancred Palmieri encounters Willow Azarian, an ageing heroin addict, she reveals to him that her wealthy father has passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that she believes might be the clues to a treasure hunt. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and solve the puzzle. But he isn’t the only one she’s told. A Japanese screen, a painting that plays music, an aquavit bottle, a framed poem and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater ... Are these really clues, or has Tancred fallen victim to the delusions of a junkie? Inspired by Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honourable and faithful in the face of greed, desire and the law.

Alexis’ previous novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, awarded to the best Canadian novel Praise for Fifteen Dogs: ‘Startlingly original … as thought-provoking as it is enjoyable’ Independent

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Fiction £12.99 B-format hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 842 2 240pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 354 3 August 2017 UK Com ex Can Exclusive Europe

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Let Us Be True Alex Christofi

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Can love save you from the past? Paris, 1958. After a chance encounter, Ralf and Elsa begin a love affair that will mark their lives. Both already bear scars from their continent’s violent upheavals. The end of the war brought Ralf to Paris, where he is hiding from the past. Elsa meanwhile tries to hide not just her past from Ralf, but her present too. As they fall more deeply in love they face a dilemma: can you really love someone without giving yourself away? In a Paris recovering from the Second World War but riven by protests and discontent as the old world order falls away, Ralf tries desperately to hold on to the only person he has ever felt he belongs with, while facing the prospect of a reality where love might not be enough.

The new novel from the Desmond Elliott Prize-listed, Betty Trask Prize-winning, Observer ‘Debut authors for 2014’ pick A sweeping story of lives lived in and out of the eye of history, Let Us Be True will appeal to fans of William Boyd’s Any Human Heart, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See and Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader

Alex Christofi was born in Dorset and read English at Oxford University. As well as working as an editor, he writes occasional essays and reviews. His first novel Glass, also published by Serpent’s Tail, won the Betty Trask Prize.

Fiction £14.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 740 1 256pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 302 4 August 2017 World ex USA & Can Exclusive Europe

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Bluebird, Bluebird

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A Highway 59 Novel

Attica Locke

The first novel in a thrilling, timely new series about the cost of justice in the American South Highway 59 is the forgotten route that connects the backwoods towns across the state of Texas. It’s a place that time seems to have forgotten. But then two bodies wash up in a bayou outside the tiny town of Lark in three days: a poor local white girl and a well-to-do African–American lawyer from Chicago. Darren Mathews is an ex-Texas Ranger on the brink of indictment. His marriage is failing and he’s losing himself to the bottle – until he hears about the murders. There is no clear connection between the victims, but as fear and paranoia begin to grow, the town’s racial fault lines threaten to erupt. Unable to ignore his instincts, Darren risks everything on this last case. But the locals don’t take kindly to a black Ranger asking too many questions, and Darren soon finds the target on his own back …

The first in a blockbuster series set along Highway 59, history casts a long shadow in this high-stakes, small-town thriller ‘In her first three novels, Locke has explored cultural history since the days of slavery. A future book will surely deal with race in the Obama and post-Obama era. That could be her best story yet – which, on the evidence of those she has already written, is saying something’ Mark Lawson, Guardian

Attica Locke is the author of three novels, all published by Serpent’s Tail: The Cutting Season, Pleasantville and Black Water Rising, which was shortlisted for the Bailey’s Prize. Locke has also worked as a screenwriter for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney and HBO. A native of Houston, Texas, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

Fiction £14.99 Royal hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 767 8 £12.99 Export paperback ISBN: 978 1 7812 5 896 5 320pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 319 2 September 2017 UK Com ex Can

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The Book of Disquiet

New title

The Complete Edition

Fernando Pessoa

Edited by Jerónimo Pizarro & translated by Margaret Jull Costa

For the first time – and in the best translation – the complete Book of Disquiet The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa’s life and published nearly half a century after his death, this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears now, for the first time, in the order of its original composition and with substantial new material that has never appeared in any previous English edition. Narrated principally by an assistant book-keeper named Bernardo Soares – an alias of sorts for Pessoa himself – The Book of Disquiet is Pessoa’s ‘factless autobiography’, a mosaic of dreams, of hope and despair, of exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms and ruminations. This new, luxury hardback edition represents the most complete vision of Pessoa’s genius.

‘The very book to read when you wake at 3am and can’t get back to sleep – mysteries, misgivings, fears and dreams and wonderment. Like nothing else’ Philip Pullman ‘A meandering, melancholic series of reveries and meditations. Pessoa’s amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output’ William Boyd

Fernando Pessoa, 1888–1935 was born in Lisbon. Most of Pessoa’s writing was not published during his lifetime; The Book of Disquiet first came out in Portugal in 1982. Since its publication it has been hailed as a classic of both existentialism and modernism.

Fiction £25 Royal hardback ISBN: 9781 7 8125 569 8 448pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 356 7 August 2017 World ex USA & Can Exclusive Europe

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Don’t Cry

Mary Gaitskill

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Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous collection of stories ‘An Old Virgin’ describes a nurse’s obsession with her forty-three-year-old patient’s virginity; in the urban fable ‘Mirrorball’ a man steals a girl’s soul during a one-night stand; ‘College Town 1980’ follows a group of listless young people adrift in Ann Arbor, debating the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; ‘Folk Song’ opens with a list of newspaper headlines before dissecting the lives of the characters behind the features, including a murderer who gives a prime-time interview and a woman from San Francisco attempting to break a world record by having sex with one thousand men. Full of jagged, lived emotion, broken people and powerful, original writing, Don’t Cry is a testament to Gaitskill’s formal range and incomparable excavation of character.

Fiction £8.99 B-format trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 595 7 320pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 228 7 July 2017 UK Com ex Can

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Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To, and the novels The Mare, Veronica and Two Girls Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.

‘Gaitskill’s work feels more real than real life and reading her leads to a place that feels like a sacred space’ Boston Globe ‘Stripped-bare fragile and “fuck you” tough’ Dazed & Confused Following on from the critical success – and paperback publication in early 2017 – of Gaitskill’s novel The Mare


Torpor

Chris Kraus

The latest novel from the author of cult super-hit I Love Dick It’s the summer of 1991, and as the New World Order of the post-MTV, pre-AOL generation dawns, Jerome Shafir and Sylvie Green set off on a journey across the former Soviet Bloc with the intention of adopting a Romanian orphan. Unflinchingly dark, hilarious and moving, Torpor is at once a satire and a philosophy of cultural history, social identity and failed relationships. Dipping into the trajectory of a life at different moments, Kraus interrogates convention and emotion, creating characters that are flawed, witty, and altogether true to life. Part prequel, part sequel to I Love Dick, Torpor continues Kraus’s project of lifewriting; personal, unsparing and triumphant. If I Love Dick is the book of your 20s, Torpor is the book for your 30s.

I Love Dick was a word-of-mouth success that became an international phenomenon and is being adapted for television ‘The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable – especially now, when everything is so confusing, so full of despair. I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with her brightness, and with incredible humour, too’ Rachel Kushner

Chris Kraus is a Professor of Writing at the European Graduate School, writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles. Her previous works include Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick and Summer of Hate, as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs.

Fiction £8.99 B-format trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 898 9 320pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 377 2 June 2017 UK Com ex Can Exclusive Europe

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99 Stories of God Joy Williams

‘A treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces’ The New York Times Brand new microfiction from American master Joy Williams At a hot-dog-eating contest or at a demolition derby, in line at the pharmacy counter waiting for a shingles vaccination, living in a cave with a colony of bats: the Almighty appears in ever more mysterious ways in 99 Stories of God, Joy Williams’ surreal, sublime new collection of very short stories. Each less than a page long, each packing a punch belied by its size, every one of these ninetynine stories tells of everyday human interaction with an increasingly elusive and arbitrary deity. Bleak and funny, ironic and lyrical, enigmatic and aphoristic, 99 Stories of God breaks down the barriers between the everyday and the divine and takes Williams’ writing into territories strange and new.

Fiction £10 B-format hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 880 4 160pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 370 3 May 2017 UK Com ex Can

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Joy Williams is the author of four novels – the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runnerup for the Pulitzer Prize – and three collections of stories. Among her many honours are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

99 Stories of God follows on from the celebrated publication of Williams’ collected stories The Visiting Privilege ‘She belongs in the company of Céline and Flannery O’Connor’ James Salter ‘The literary heir to Anton Chekhov’ Washington Post


Like A Fading Shadow Antonio Muñoz Molina

Translated by Camilo A. Ramirez

The hypnotic new novel by one of Spain’s most important authors explores the story of Martin Luther King’s assassin, James Earl Ray On 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by James Earl Ray. Before Ray’s capture and sentencing to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his story is Lisbon, where he spent ten days attempting to acquire an Angolan visa. Like a Fading Shadow traces three journeys to the city: Ray’s attempt to evade justice in 1968; a research trip undertaken by the young Muñoz Molina for his novel Winter in Lisbon in 1987; and the novelist‘s return as he attempts to reconstruct these stories. Aided by the recent declassification of Ray’s FBI case file, Like a Fading Shadow boldly weaves a taut retelling of Ray’s assassination of King, his time on the run and his eventual capture together with a highly original, fearlessly honest examination of the novelist’s own past.

Praise for In the Night of Time: ‘An astonishingly vivid narrative that unfolds with hypnotic intensity by means of the constant interweaving of time and memory … Tolstoyan in its scale, emotional intensity and intellectual honesty’ Economist

Antonio Muñoz Molina is the author of more than a dozen novels, including In the Night of Time (also published by Tuskar Rock), Sepharad and A Manuscript of Ashes. He is the recipient of Spain’s National Narrative Prize, the Planeta Prize, and the Príncipe de Asturias Prize.

Fiction £16.99 Royal hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 893 4 432pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 375 8 November 2017 UK Com ex Can

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Constellation Adrien Bosc

I Must Be Living Twice Eileen Myles

¡No Pasarán! Edited by Pete Ayrton

Peace, Love & Potatoes John Hegley

‘Tight, formal puzzles and loose, riffing dialogue … a joy’ Guardian

‘Slim, marvellous … a meditation on chance and fate’ Wall Street Journal

‘Hilarious, sorrowful, valiant, original, necessary and timeless’ Maggie Nelson

The first truly international anthology of writing from and about the Spanish Civil War

‘Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils’ Observer

Crime fiction £7.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 693 0 eISBN: 978 1 78283 279 9 July 2017 World all languages Exclusive Europe

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Police At The Station And They Don’t Look Friendly Adrian McKinty

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The Visiting Privilege Joy Williams

Vulgar Tongues Max Décharné

Where Love Begins Judith Hermann

The Mare Mary Gaitskill

‘A treasure trove of high-octane prose and surreal wit’ Rupert Thomson, Observer

A history of English slang ‘A spectacular feat’ Lynne Truss

‘A masterly portrayal of the contrasting evils of obsession and disengagement’ Independent

‘Dark, dreamlike … beautiful in its evocation of flawed love’ Financial Times

Fiction £10.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 747 0 eISBN: 978 1 78283 307 9 November 2017 UK Com ex Can

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I Don’t Like Where This Is Going John Dufresne ‘Fans of Carl Hiaasen will enjoy this violent and amusing tale’ Sun Crime fiction £7.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 325 0 eISBN: 978 1 78283 096 2 July 2017 UK Com ex Can

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Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas

White Bicycles Joe Boyd

New foreword by Garth Greenwell

New foreword by Hanif Kureishi

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‘Gloriously entertaining … even those unfamiliar with back catalogues and B-sides will be intrigued’ Guardian

Celebrating fifty years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain

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Agents and representatives, UK & Europe UK sales enquiries

Claire Beaumont, Profile Books Sales Director T: 020 7841 6300 E: claire.beaumont@profilebooks.com

South West England Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, West Berkshire, Wiltshire Richard Evans, Faber & Faber T: 07957 354 631

Faber & Faber sales representatives

North of England Cumbria, Lancashire, Liverpool, Central & North Manchester, Yorkshire, North East (south of Newcastle) Sue Jackson, Faber & Faber T: 07980 712 102

London & environs, North Central & North London, Hertfordshire Jeremy Wood, Faber & Faber T: 07966 058 496

Midlands & North Wales North and Central Wales, Cheshire, Midlands, South Manchester Richard Fortey, Faber & Faber T: 07792 456 837

UK national accounts & Europe T: 020 7927 3800 E : sales@faber.co.uk

London & environs, South & West South & West London, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Sussex Kellie Balseiro, Faber & Faber T: 07790 757 833 London & environs, East East London, Kent, Essex, Suffolk Lindsay Powell, Faber & Faber T: 07590 929 836 Central & North London (Museums & Galleries) & East Anglia Luke Crabb, Faber & Faber T: 07841 800561

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Southern & Central Europe Arjumand Siddiqui, Faber & Faber E: arjumand.s@faber.co.uk Eastern Europe Cristian Juncu E: cristian@j4.ro

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Anna-Marie Fitzgerald, Profile Books Publicity Manager T: 020 7841 6304 E: anna-marie.fitzgerald@profilebooks.com

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Penny Daniel, Profile Books Rights Director T: 020 7841 6300 E: penny.daniel@profilebooks.com

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