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Contents 2–3 Melmoth Sarah Perry 4–5 Extinctions Josephine Wilson 6–7 Washington Black Esi Edugyan 8 Bad Blood E. O. Chirovici 9 The Summer House Philip Teir 10 The Beekeeper of Sinjar Dunya Mikhail 11 The Changeling Joy Williams 12 Hits and Misses Simon Rich 13 Miracle Workers Simon Rich 14 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 15 The Haunting of Henry Twist Rebecca F. John 16 Ocean of Sound David Toop 17 As Serious As Your Life Val Wilmer 18 The Future Won’t Be Long Jarett Kobek 19 New in paperback 20–21 Recently published 22–25 Backlist 26–27 Serpent’s Tail Classics 28–29 Contact information
Introduction
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Our Autumn 2018 books present us with people in bleak situations. A single act of betrayal overshadows the lives of each of the characters in Sarah Perry’s magnificent new novel Melmoth. In Josephine Wilson’s Miles Franklin Prize-winning novel Extinctions, an elderly man’s perpetual habit of letting people down finally catches up with him. Esi Edugyan’s eagerly awaited new novel Washington Black tells the story of a slave born into the harsh world of a Caribbean sugar plantation. And perhaps most extraordinary of all, Dunya Mikhail’s The Beekeeper of Sinjar, a non-fiction account of the actions of the remarkable Abdullah Shrem, whose bravery helped save the lives of many Yazidi women kidnapped by ISIS. However harsh their characters’ prospects seem, what makes these books – and their authors – truly remarkable is their unshakeable belief in the possibility of redemption. The greatest books remind us that life is always worth fighting for, and at a time when good news is hard to come by, we hope you’ll find these as inspiring, moving and essential as we have.
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Melmoth
New title
Sarah Perry
From the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent comes a dazzlingly inventive and moving novel that speaks urgently to our times Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself from its memory. But a strange manuscript is about to come into her possession, and its contents have the power to unravel every strand of her fragile safety net. It is filled with desperate testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, all of which record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet: Melmoth, the loneliest being in the world. Everyone that Melmoth seeks out must make a choice: to live with what they’ve done, or be lead into the darkness. Helen can’t stop reading, or shake the sensation that someone or something is watching her. As her past finally catches up with her, she too must choose which path to take.
‘One of the most memorable historical novels of the past decade’ Sunday Times on The Essex Serpent ‘Remarkable … will haunt the reader long after the final page’ Guardian on After Me Comes the Flood
Sarah Perry is the author of The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. She has been the UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence in Prague and a Gladstone’s Library writerin-residence. Her work is being translated into twenty languages.
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A family was something to fear, like a long, dark tunnel cutting through a mountain . Who knew if you would come out the other side alive?
Extinctions
Josephine Wilson
New title
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 2017 Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself in a retirement village. Surrounded by the debris of his life, he is determined to be miserable. But when a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbour Jan together, he begins to realise the damage done by a lifetime’s worth of secrets, and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Finally, Frederick Lothian has the opportunity to build something meaningful for the ones he loves. Humorous, poignant and galvanising, Wilson’s critically acclaimed novel is about all kinds of extinctions – natural, racial, national and personal – and what we can do to prevent them.
An inventive and original novel, full of insight about family ties, Extinctions is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry meets Stoner ‘Very funny, dark and full of tragic power’ Australian Book Review
Josephine Wilson lives in Perth, Western Australia, with her partner and two children. Her first novel, Cusp, was published in 2005. Extinctions, her second novel, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2017.
Fiction £12.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 076 6 288pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 461 8 July 2018 UK Com ex Can, ex ANZ
‘A rich and humane novel’ Saturday Paper 5
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Washington Black
New title
Esi Edugyan
A stunning novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker and Orange 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 – finds himself selected as personal servant to one of them. The eccentric Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Titch’s idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape together, but then Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible. Inspired by a true story, Washington Black is an extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again. This exhilarating future classic will appeal to fans of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
Esi Edugyan’s Half Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the GovernorGeneral’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
‘A thrilling story about truth and betrayal … a brilliant, fast-moving novel’ Kate Saunders in The Times on Half Blood Blues 978 1 84668 776 1 £7.99
Fiction £14.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 84668 959 8 £12.99 Trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 897 2 320pp eISBN: 978 1 84765 997 2 August 2018 UK Com ex Can
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Bad Blood E. O. Chirovici
New title
You can’t trust your own memories. You can’t trust other people’s. Can you ever know what really happened? One night in New York, psychologist James Cobb gives a talk on the art of recovering lost memories. Afterwards, he’s approached by a stranger: a dying man who, forty years ago, woke up in a hotel room with a murdered woman and no memory of what happened. Intrigued, James begins to unpick the tangled threads of this decades-old mystery. But everyone involved has a different story to tell, and every fact he uncovers has another interpretation. As secrets from his own past start to surface, he begins to suspect that someone has buried the truth deep enough to hide it forever. Bad Blood tells a dark story of memory, murder and how little we really know about ourselves. Crime fiction £12.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 063 6 256pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 454 0 July 2018 UK Com ex Can Exclusive Europe
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E. O. Chirovici has had a prestigious career in the Romanian media and has also published novels and short stories in his native language. His first book in the English language, The Book of Mirrors, was an international bestseller. He lives in Brussels with his wife.
Chirovici is a top ten bestseller in Italy, France and Germany Tightly plotted to conceal a shocking twist, Bad Blood will grip fans of Joël Dicker, S. J. Watson and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History looking for their next obsession ‘Intelligent, sophisticated and highly recommended’ Lee Child on Chirovici’s previous novel The Book of Mirrors
The Summer House
New title
Philip Teir
Translated by Tiina Nunnally
How do we carry on when we know that everything is falling apart? Erik and Julia marshal their children into the car and start the drive towards the house by the sea on the west coast of Finland where they will spend the summer. From the outside they are a happy young family looking forward to a long holiday together. On the eve of the holiday, Erik lost his job, but hasn’t yet told the family. And the arrival of Julia’s childhood friend Marika – along with her charismatic husband Chris, the leader of a group of environmental activists that have given up hope for planet Earth – deepens the hairline cracks that had so far remained invisible. Around these people, over the course of one summer, Philip Teir weaves a finely tuned story about life choices and lies, about childhood and adulthood.
Will appeal to readers who love Jonathan Franzen, Joe Dunthorne and Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book
Philip Teir is a Finland-Swedish writer considered one of the most talented young novelists in Scandinavia. His poetry and short stories have been featured in anthologies including Granta Finland. His first novel The Winter War was a WHSmith ‘Fresh Talent’ pick. He lives in Helsinki, Finland.
‘Quietly devastating … shot through with understated black humour and nicely balanced between tender and acerbic’ The Times on The Winter War
Fiction £12.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 927 6 240pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 392 5 July 2018 World English language US
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The Beekeeper of Sinjar Dunya Mikhail
New title
Translated by Max Weiss & Dunya Mikhail
‘Either we die here, or we escape together’ Since 2014, ISIS has been killing and enslaving the Yazidi people. In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape. In the midst of ISIS’s reign of terror and hatred, an unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper. Once a trader selling mountain honey, when ISIS came to Sinjar he turned his knowledge of the terrain to another use. Along with a secret network of helpers, Abdullah Shrem smuggles brutalised Yazidi women to safety. This powerful work of literary nonfiction by celebrated Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail offers hope in the face of terror, as ordinary people go to extraordinary lengths to save the lives of others.
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Dunya Mikhail worked for the Baghdad Observer before she was forced to flee Iraq. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize and won the 2010 Arab American Book Award. She has also been awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.
Like The Optician of Lampedusa and The Bookseller of Kabul, this is a deeply moving story of courage in the face of unimaginable adversity ‘Mikhail bears witness to women in war-torn Iraq, women who have scarcely known peace throughout their lives. That she is a poet is clear on each page’ Kirkus
The Changeling Joy Williams
with a foreword by Karen Russell
A work of mythic genius by ‘the heir to Anton Chekhov’ and celebrated author of The Visiting Privilege When we first meet Pearl – young in years but advanced in her drinking – she’s sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics. Cradled in the crook of her arm is her infant son. But the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family calls home, doesn’t last for long. Soon she’s being shepherded back. The island, for Pearl, is a place of madness and pain, and her drinking might dull the latter but it spurs on the former. Through the lens of Pearl’s fragile consciousness, readers encounter the horror and triumph of both childhood and motherhood. With language that flits between exuberance and elegy, the plainspoken and the poetic, Joy Williams has created a modern fairy-tale, entirely original and entirely consuming.
Never before published in the UK and issued now in a beautiful 40th anniversary hardback edition ‘One of the great writers of her generation’ The New York Times
Joy Williams is the author of four novels and four short story collections. Among her many honours are a National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming. 978 1 78125 747 0 £9.99
Fiction £12.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 134 3 320pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 483 0 September 2018 UK Com ex Can
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Hits & Misses Simon Rich
New title
A sharp new collection from the hilarious writer of New Yorker fame From a bitter tell-all by a horse who made a man famous and then got left behind to a gushing magazine profile of one of your favourite World War II dictators, these stories trawl through history to skewer our obsession with fame and fortune – all the way from ancient Babylon to Hollywood. What fatherto-be wouldn’t feel a little jealous when his baby outstrips his success from the womb? And what happens when a film critic is forced to live in the movies he so cruelly damned? Loved in the UK by celebs and writers alike, including Lauren Laverne, Matt Haig and Caitlin Moran, Simon Rich is back with his funniest and most personal collection of stories to date.
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Simon Rich has written for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, and worked on Inside Out for Pixar. He is the creator of TV series Man Seeking Woman (based on The Last Girlfriend On Earth) and the forthcoming Miracle Workers. He is a contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4.
Rich has already drawn comparisons to Douglas Adams, James Thurber and P. G. Wodehouse, so prepare to enjoy these tales of mishap, mischief and mayhem ‘Simon Rich is the funniest writer alive’ Matt Haig ‘Outrageously, lavishly gifted’ Caitlin Moran
Miracle Workers
TV tie-in
Simon Rich
Now a major TV series starring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi From the Sunsets Department and Geyser Regulation to the Department of Miracles, Heaven Inc has the earth covered. Unless someone is away from their desk. And these days, the CEO is kind of disillusioned. God knows he should be keeping an eye on the bad things happening on Earth, but His first priority is getting Lynyrd Skynyrd back together. Downstairs on the office floor, Eliza has been promoted from the Prayers Department to Miracles, and Craig, the only other workaholic in heaven, has to show her around. Eliza is furious when she discovers that God has never looked at, let alone answered, a single prayer. So she storms into God’s office and asks Him a question that no one has ever dared to ask before. And it might just be the end of the world.
‘An appealing mixture of subtle and laugh-out-loud funny’ Independent on Sunday
Fiction £7.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 059 9 176pp eISBN: 978 1 84765 815 9 July 2018 UK Com ex Can
‘Funny and touching … a satire that avoids sanctimony’ The New York Times ‘Truly hilarious’ Observer 978 1 78125 748 7 £7.99
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Bluebird, Bluebird
New in paperback
A Highway 59 Novel
Attica Locke
A Great American Novel of the post-Obama era – a thought-provoking thriller Southern fables usually go the other way around. A white woman is killed or harmed in some way, real or imagined, and then, like the moon follows the sun, a black man ends up dead. But when it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules – a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. He tried to get as far away from Texas as he could, until duty called him back. Trying to escape troubles at home, Darren is drawn to a case in the small town of Lark, where two dead bodies have washed up in the bayou. First a black lawyer from Chicago and then, three days later, a local white woman. He must solve the crimes – and save himself in the process – before Lark’s everwidening racial fault lines tear the community apart. Fiction £7.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 768 5 320pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 319 2 April 2018 UK Com ex Can
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Attica Locke is the author of three novels, all published by Serpent’s Tail, including Black Water Rising, which was shortlisted for the Bailey’s Prize. Locke has also worked as a screenwriter for Paramount, Disney and HBO. A native of Houston, Texas, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
The first in a blockbuster series set along Highway 59, now being adapted by the author into a major television series for FX
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‘America’s most interesting crime writer’ Daily Telegraph
The Haunting of Henry Twist Rebecca F. John
New in paperback
Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award 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 alone with 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? Is there a love so powerful it can bring someone back from the dead?
Rebecca F. John was the first unpublished writer to be shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Prize 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 ‘A tender, charming gem of a book’ Clare Wigfall
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 of the 2016 Scritture Giovani project.
Fiction £8.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 715 9 368pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 289 8 February 2018 World all languages US
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Ocean of Sound
Classic
Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication
David Toop
with a new foreword by Michel Faber
The classic account of ambient music David Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of twentieth century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking account of ambient sound. An encyclopaedic masterpiece of music criticism that will delight any music fan, and will appeal to readers of Alex Ross, Simon Reynolds and Lester Bangs.
Music £9.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 030 8 320pp eISBN: 978 1 78816 104 6 August 2018 World all languages US
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David Toop is an English musician, author and professor of audio culture and improvisation at the London College of Communication. He was a member of the Flying Lizards, and is a regular contributor to the Wire and other outlets. He has published five books, including Ocean of Sound, and released eight solo albums.
‘A meditation on the development of modern music, there’s no single term that is adequate to describe what Toop has accomplished here’ Pitchfork’s ‘60 Favourite Music Books’ ‘A heroic endeavour brought off with elegance and charm’ NME
As Serious As Your Life
Classic
Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977
Val Wilmer
with a new foreword by Richard Williams
The essential story of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s In As Serious As Your Life, celebrated jazz historian and photographer Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture. Placing the achievements of African American artists such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sun Ra in their broader political and social context – and featuring stunning original photographs from the author’s archive – Wilmer evokes an era of extraordinary innovation and experimentation that continues to inspire musicians today. As vital now as when it was first published in 1977, As Serious As Your Life is the story of one of the most dynamic musical movements of the twentieth century.
‘This book saved me from giving up. Even though the jazz musicians Wilmer wrote about were mostly male, their approach to music making, their passion and their activism resonated with me and showed me a way to move forward musically’ Viv Albertine ‘Exceptionally illuminating … one of the relatively few indispensable books about America’s classical music’ Nat Hentoff
Val Wilmer is an internationally acclaimed journalist and music historian. She has interviewed almost every significant figure in post-war jazz, blues and R&B, from Louis Armstrong to Aretha Franklin. Her photography features in the permanent collections of the British Library, the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery.
Music £12.99 B-format paperback with 16pp plates ISBN: 978 1 78816 071 1 432pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 458 8 March 2018 World all languages US
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The Future Won’t Be Long Jarett Kobek
New in paperback
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. The Future Won’t Be Long 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 latecapitalistic sexual excess, he will test the strength of a friendship that had seemed unbreakable. Riotously funny, provocative but tender, The Future Won’t Be Long is a sprawling, ecstatic elegy to New York, and to the friendships that have the power to change – and save – our lives. Fiction £8.99 B-format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 856 9 416pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 359 8 July 2018 UK Com ex Can
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Jarett Kobek is a TurkishAmerican writer living in California. He is the author of the cult novel I Hate the Internet. His novella ATTA, 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.
‘Intensely readable: the dialogue is snappy, the barrage of opinions bracing, so that 10 years and 400 pages whizz by ... compellingly vivid’ Financial Times
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‘A druggy, sexy, filthy fictional tour of New York City at the twilight of the 20th century … wonderful’ Anthony Cummins, Metro
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The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
The Hidden Keys André Alexis
Let Us Be True Alex Christofi
All These Wonders The Moth
Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus
‘Beautiful and life affirming’ Mike McCormack, New Statesman Books of the Year
‘Spry … impressive … I loved this exuberant fantasy from start to finish’ Guardian
‘A wonderful, moving love story … Christofi belongs to the school of Julian Barnes’ The Times
‘A joyful reminder of the power of the story and the need for storytelling’ Sunday Times
‘Not just great but indispensable … I read everything Chris Kraus writes’ Rachel Kushner
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Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado
Rave On Matthew Collin
The Word for Woman is Wilderness Abi Andrews
That Old Black Magic Cathi Unsworth
‘The stories vibrate with originality, ‘A remarkable performance, a queerness, sensuality and the magic trick that makes you laugh strange’ Roxane Gay at its audacity’ The New York Times
A state-of-the-nation account of rave culture today
‘Refreshing and funny and unlike anything else’ Daisy Johnson
Murder, magic and mayhem in wartime England from ‘The First Lady of noir writing’
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Broken River J. Robert Lennon
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Eat Up! Ruby Tandoh
The Price You Pay Adrian Truhen
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Break.up Joanna Walsh
The Accusation Bandi
‘A joyous manifesto for flavour and sanity’ Bee Wilson
Get mad. Get even. Get paid. What kind of loser stops at getting even?
A young black man trails an outlandish odyssey across riotstruck Los Angeles
‘A sublimely elegant writer … artful and intelligent’ New Statesman
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Serpent’s Tail Classics
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