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Contents 2–3 Saint Mazie Jami Attenberg 4–5 Sister Noon Karen Joy Fowler 6–7 Women Talk Sex Wendy Jones 8 Jernigan David Gates 9 A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me David Gates 10 Cathi Unsworth backlist 11 Without the Moon Cathi Unsworth 12 Vulgar Tongues Max Décharné 13 Death by Video Game Simon Parkin 14 The Winter War Philip Teir 15 Am I Cold Martin Kongstad 16 Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy Thrillers 17 The Moth introduced by Neil Gaiman 18 The Passport Herta Müller 19 Serpent’s Tail Classics 20 Seiobo There Below László Krasznahorkai 21 Boy on the Wire Alastair Bruce 22–23 Recently published and new in paperback 24–27 Backlist 28–29 Contact information
Introduction
Serpent’s Tail an imprint of Profile Books Ltd
Our Autumn 2015 books are obsessed with the question of what drives us as human beings. What are we living for? How far should we pursue our desires – what if our pursuit of them hurts other people? What if they destroy us? Should we stop then? When does desire turn into dependency and dependency into addiction?
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From a working-class hero in depression-era New York to a serial killer in Blitz-struck London, from the obsessive inhabitants of the virtual world to the English women willing to reveal their closely held sexual secrets, not to mention the most charismatic drunkard you will ever meet, these books strive to say something about why we do what we do. Their unflinching depictions of the best and worst of us have kept us riveted.
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Saint Mazie Jami Attenberg
New Title
An ingenious novel that imagines the life and times of Mazie Phillips, a real-life saint from New York City, by the author of The Middlesteins Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed movie theatre in the rundown Bowery district of New York City. She spends her days taking tickets, chatting with drunks and eccentrics, and chasing out the troublemakers. After closing up, the nights are her own, and she fills them with romance and booze aplenty – even during Prohibition. When the Great Depression hits, homelessness soars and Mazie opens The Venice to those in need, giving them shelter and dimes for food and booze, and earning the nickname ‘Saint Mazie’. Inspired by Joseph Mitchell’s essay about Mazie in Up in the Old Hotel, acclaimed author Jami Attenberg’s novel honours an extraordinary life and heralds a completely original approach to writing historical fiction.
‘A raw, boisterous, generous novel with a heroine to match and New York in its soul, Saint Mazie offers proof again that Jami Attenberg is a brilliant, lion-hearted storyteller’ Maggie Shipstead, author of Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements ‘Touching, funny and wise, Saint Mazie … is as difficult to categorise as the hard-living, heart-breaking, soul-saving ticket-taker it is about’ Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat 3
Jami Attenberg is the author of three other novels, including New York Times bestseller The Middlesteins and a collection of short stories. She also writes for The New York Times, The Rumpus, Salon, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. jamiattenberg.com @jamiattenberg
Fiction 352pp £12.99 Demy hardback ISBN: 9781781254738 £11.99 Export paperback ISBN: 9781846689918 eISBN: 9781782830696 July 2015 UK & Com ex Can
Serpent’s Sister Noon Tail Classics Karen Joy Fowler
New Title
Never before published in the UK, Sister Noon has all of Karen Joy Fowler’s trademark wit, intelligence and insight San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions, home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild West lingering in the imagination, and even the behaviour, of some residents. Lizzie Hayes, a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies’ Relief and Protection Society Home, or the Brown Ark. She doesn’t know it, but she’s waiting for the spark that will liberate her from convention. When the wealthy and well-connected but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark with an orphan in tow, Lizzie is drawn to them both. It is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her mysterious past and rumoured voodoo practice, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie’s rebellious nature.
‘In Sister Noon, Karen Joy Fowler recreates a lost world so thrillingly, with such intelligence, trickery and art, that when you at last put the book down and look up from the page it all seems to linger, shimmering, around you, like the residue of a marvellous dream’ Michael Chabon ‘Fowler has a voice like no other, lyrical, shrewd and addictive, with a quiet deadpan humour that underlies almost every sentence’ Newsday 5
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 and won the PEN/ Faulkner Prize.
Fiction £7.99 B format paperback 336pp ISBN: 9781781255490 eISBN: 9781782832089 May 2015 UK Com ex Can
Women Talk Sex Wendy Jones
New Title
An honest and inspiring exploration of female sexuality, this book will change how we think and talk about sex In the seven hundred years that books have been published in England, there has not been one that invites women to talk about what they want from sex. Wendy Jones thought someone should at least have the courtesy to ask. So she went out with a tape recorder and spoke to twenty-five women from all walks of life: a wealthy suburban housewife, a former prostitute, a feminist into BDSM, a covered Muslim, a transsexual, a woman in her nineties who remembers the sexual freedom of World War Two. They talk about their lives, families, partners and bodies, about what they have learnt, how they have been hurt, what they enjoy and what they long for. The interviews are frank, engaging and sometimes astonishing. Each woman is unique, but together perhaps they bring us closer to answering Freud’s old question: ‘What do women want?’ The twenty-five women who share their sexual histories and unspoken desires in Women Talk Sex are each remarkable in their own right, but together tell the moving and frequently surprising story of women’s relationship with sex today
Wendy Jones is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and has a PhD from Goldsmiths in creative writing. She has published two novels and is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, a biography of Grayson Perry. @abilliontimes
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Non-fiction £9.99 B format trade paperback 320pp ISBN: 9781781254615 eISBN: 9781782831655 July 2015 World all languages
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Jernigan
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David Gates With a new foreword by Stuart Evers
The great lost American masterpiece of a life spiralling out of control Peter Jernigan’s losing his grip on life, and his only relief from all this reality – alcohol – is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn’t work, you up the dose. And when that doesn’t work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?) Jernigan’s answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him – his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his vulnerable new girlfriend Martha and, eventually, himself – until the laughs have turned to mute horror. But while he’s busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, Jernigan’s perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end. Shot through with gin and irony, Jernigan is a funny, scary, mesmerising portrait of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open – wisecracking all the way.
Fiction £8.99 B format trade paperback 256pp ISBN: 9781781254905 eISBN: 9781782831792 September 2015 UK Com ex Can
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David Gates lives in Missoula, Montana, and Granville, New York. He teaches at the University of Montana, and in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and was a writer and editor at Newsweek, where he specialised in music and books.
‘A bravura performance, sprawling and energetic, soused and noisy, with a bitter comic edge ... a rambunctious and enthralling portrait of a man who, by looking too closely, has finally lost sight of himself’ Guardian A forgotten masterpiece to rank alongside Revolutionary Road and Stoner
A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me David Gates
New Title
The master of suburban tragicomedy returns with his first book in a decade A woman moving calamitously into middle age; a musician taking in a friend with terminal cancer; a failed actor moving to the country: cynical, unreliable, sinking into middle age or alcoholism, dealing with physical decline or mediocrity, Gates’s characters are a dark reflection of our own urban and suburban lives. Terrifyingly self-aware, overcome by the burdens of the human condition, they find their impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. But wherever it is they’re going – and sometimes it’s nowhere fast – they won’t go gently. Comical and caustic but always moving, the novella and ten short stories which make up A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me reinforce David Gates as ‘a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever.’
Published to coincide with the rediscovery of Gates’s classic novel Jernigan, A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is Gates at his wry, heart-breaking best ‘David Gates makes me sick with envy’ Nick Hornby
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David Gates is the author of two novels, Jernigan and Preston Falls, and the story collection The Wonders of the Invisible World. Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gates’s short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Paris Review and Granta.
Fiction £12.99 Demy trade paperback with flaps 256pp ISBN: 9781781254912 eISBN: 9781782831808 August 2015 UK Com ex Can
Cathi Unsworth
‘The First Lady of noir fiction’ David Peace
‘An absorbing mystery, an extraordinarily powerful evocation of time and place’ Guardian
‘A haunting and utterly absorbing London noir that takes us to all the bright lights and dark places of the big city’ Jake Arnott
‘The Great Punk Novel’ David Peace
‘I haven’t been as excited by a new writer since I first read Ellroy or stumbled across the very first James Sallis’ Ken Bruen
Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 416pp ISBN: 9781846687938 eISBN: 9781847658494 June 2013 World all languages
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Without the Moon Cathi Unsworth
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Hush, hush, hush, here comes the Bogeyman … London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs and cafés, soldiers mix with petty crooks, stage magicians with lonely wives, scandal-hungry reporters with good-time girls – and DCI Edward Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone. Out on the streets, something nastier is stirring: London’s prostitutes are being murdered, their bodies left mutilated to taunt the police. And in the shadows Greenaway’s old adversaries in organised crime are active again, lured in by rich pickings on the black market. As he follows a bloody trail through backstreets and boudoirs, Greenaway must find a way to stop the slaughter.
An atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the hugely successful Weirdo, Without the Moon is Val McDermid meets Kate Summerscale Beautifully observed period drama and a plot filled with enough twists to keep the most demanding crime fan happy
Cathi Unsworth is the author of four other novels, The Not Knowing, The Singer, Bad Penny Blues and Weirdo, and the editor of the award-winning crime compendium London Noir, all published by Serpent’s Tail. She lives in London.
Crime fiction £11.99 Demy trade paperback 384pp ISBN: 9781846689864 eISBN: 9781782830665 July 2015 World all languages
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Vulgar Tongues
A history of English slang Max Décharné
New Title
A rollercoaster ride through the colourful history of slang – from highwaymen to hip-hop Slang is the language of street culture, pop culture and underground movements; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honour or a dangerous assault on the values of polite society. Of all the vocabularies available to us, slang is the most alive, constantly evolving to infuse the language with a healthy dose of vitality. Witty, energetic and informative, Vulgar Tongues traces the history of slang from the thieves and prostitutes of Elizabethan London through to the punks and hipsters of the present day. On the way, Décharné’s tour through argot, jargon, patois and cant introduces us to Dr Johnson, lonely hearts columns, World War Two flying aces, pulp novels, carnival geeks, pickpockets and the many eccentric characters who have tried to record slang throughout its chequered past. Language £14.99 Demy hardback 288pp ISBN: 9781846685613 eISBN: 9781847659415 November 2015 World all languages
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Max Décharné is a writer and musician. He has written about music regularly for Mojo since 1998 and his work has also appeared in the Sunday Times Colour Magazine, the TLS and Bizarre, among others. He is the author of six books.
Décharné is also the author of Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything from Polari to gangster rap A perfect quirky Christmas gift, Vulgar Tongues is The Etymologicon with a street culture edge
Death by Video Game
Tales of obsession from the virtual frontline Simon Parkin
Debut
What makes video games so compelling, comforting and irresistible to the human mind? In Canada, volunteers are raising money for charity by playing marathon stints of the worst video game ever created. Across the globe, thousands of viewers tune in to Kurt J. Mac’s epic voyage towards the outer realms of Minecraft. In Iraq, mothers encourage their children to enter Call of Duty competitions to keep them off the bomb-ravaged streets. And in Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafés is raising questions about what playing video games does to us. In Death by Video Game, renowned gaming journalist Simon Parkin delves into the lives of obsessive gamers to answer the question: why do we spend so many hours of our lives in virtual playgrounds? Telling the stories of gamers and the worlds they inhabit, Death by Video Game uncovers the reality behind the headlines of our video game addiction.
‘One of the most effortless and masterly voices in video game writing’ New Statesman Does for video games what Born to Run did for runners, explaining the addictive appeal of games and examining what makes obsessive gamers tick
Simon Parkin is an awardwinning critic and journalist. Parkin’s articles exploring the vibrant culture that has grown up around video games have featured in numerous highprofile publications, including the New Yorker, Guardian and New Statesman. @SimonParkin
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Non-fiction £12.99 Demy trade paperback 288pp ISBN: 9781781254219 eISBN: 9781782831433 August 2015 World all languages
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The Winter War Philip Teir
New paperback
Translated by Tiina Nunnally
A wise and funny family drama by Scandinavia’s answer to Jonathan Franzen On the surface, the Paul family are living the liberal, middle-class Scandinavian dream. Max Paul is a renowned sociologist and his wife Katriina has a well-paid job in the public sector. They live in an airy apartment in the centre of Helsinki. But look closer and the cracks start to show. As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, the certainties of Max’s life begin to dissolve. He hasn’t produced any work of note for decades. His wife no longer loves him. His grown-up daughters – one in London, one in Helsinki – have problems of their own. So when a journalist shows up and offers him a seductive lifeline, Max starts down a path from which he may never find a way back. Funny and razor-sharp, Teir’s debut has the feel of a big, contemporary, humane American novel, but with a distinctly Scandinavian edge.
Fiction £7.99 B format paperback 304pp ISBN: 9781781254899 eISBN: 9781782830702 September 2015 World ex USA, Can
Finland-Swede Philip Teir is considered one of the most promising young writers in Scandinavia. His poetry and short stories have been included in anthologies, including Granta Finland. He lives in Helsinki. The Winter War is his first novel. @philipteir #scanzen
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‘Enlivened with a humour as sour as pickled herring and often as delicious. This is an everyday tale of midlife crisis among spoilt, middle-class folk. Think Wallander with laughs’ The Times ‘Somewhere between Richard Yates and John Updike, but with a cooler Nordic temperament’ Expressen
Am I Cold
Martin Kongstad
Debut
Translated by Martin Aitken
A vicious satire for the credit-crunched generation Copenhagen, 2008. Excess is in, austerity is out. The crash is about to send everything tumbling down, but everyone’s too wasted to notice. And Mikkel Vallin’s own bubble has already burst. Divorced, sacked from his job as a food critic, the wrong side of forty, Mikkel has had enough: he’s declared war on the monogamous relationship. Jealousy, deceit, hatred … monogamy, he’s realised, is the root of all our ills. Fortunately, his new girlfriend – a beautiful young Hungarian artist – agrees. Unfortunately, Mikkel might be falling for her. Among the orgies, the drug-fuelled sprees, the whirlwind of parties, surely there can’t be space for … love? Told in Mikkel’s brilliantly spiky, terminally cynical deadpan, Martin Kongstad’s excoriating debut novel turns the last, glorious, debauched days of pre-crash decadence into a wild satire of modern life.
‘This autumn’s funniest and most provocative book about relationships’ Elle Mikkel Vallin is a captivating narrator with a seductively acerbic voice and a very Scandinavian sense of detached cool Houellebecq meets Bret Easton Ellis; does for late noughties Copenhagen what American Psycho did for 1980s Wall Street 15
Martin Kongstad has worked as a journalist, columnist, culture writer and food critic at Denmark’s leading newspapers, and has written for film, television and theatre. His collection of short stories Han danser på sin søns grav won the 2009 Debutant Prize. He grew up in Copenhagen and lives today in Nørrebro. Am I Cold is his first novel.
Fiction £12.99 trade Demy paperback with flaps 400pp ISBN: 9781781253335 eISBN: 9781782831006 November 2015 World English language
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Adrian McKinty
‘McKinty is firmly in the front rank of modern crime writers’ Daily Mail Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 336pp ISBN: 9781846689826 eISBN: 9781782830511 September 2015 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe Tr
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‘McKinty’s series is settling in as one of crime fiction’s most reliable attractions’ Mail on Sunday
‘Smart and irreverent’ Sunday Times Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 336pp ISBN: 9781846688218 eISBN: 9781847659316 June 2014 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe
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‘It blew my doors off’ Ian Rankin Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 352pp ISBN: 9781846688195 eISBN: 9781847659293 January 2013 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe
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‘If Raymond Chandler had grown up in Northern Ireland, The Cold Cold Ground is what he would have written’ The Times Crime fiction £7.99 B format paperback 352pp ISBN: 9781846688232 eISBN: 9781847657954 June 2012 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe Tr
The Moth
New Paperback
This is a true story
Introduced by Neil Gaiman A spellbinding collection of true stories Before television, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather around the fire and tell stories. Bewitched audiences would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is trying to recapture this lost art, helping storytellers – old hands and novices alike – hone their stories before playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events. The very best of these real-life stories are collected here. Established writers such as Malcolm Gladwell and Nathan Englander sit alongside ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. Whether it’s Bill Clinton’s hell-raising press secretary, a doctor whisked away by nuns to Mother Teresa’s bedside or a friend of Hemingway’s who accidentally talks himself into a role as a substitute bullfighter, these eccentric, pitch-perfect stories – all, amazingly, true – range from the poignant to the downright hilarious.
‘Remarkable … what it shows is that everybody has a story worth telling. Long may The Moth continue’ Financial Times ‘Brilliant and quietly addictive … crammed with personality … full of colour and life’ Guardian ‘One of the hottest events in town … enthralling, funny and moving’ The Times 17
The Moth is an acclaimed notfor-profit organisation dedicated to the art of storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to packed-out audiences worldwide. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. @TheMoth
Non-fiction £8.99 B format paperback 400pp ISBN: 9781846689901 eISBN: 9781782830689 March 2015 UK Com ex Can
The Passport Herta Müller
Classic
Translated by Martin Chalmers and with a new foreword by Paul Bailey
A beautiful, haunting novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceaușescu is the father of our country. And just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother, so Comrade Elena Ceaușescu is the mother of our country. All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena, because they are their parents.’ In a Romanian village, caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West, a community is breaking up as villagers betray each other for exit papers. Weaving stories from the past with the problems the miller Windisch faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany, Herta Müller describes with poetic attention the dreams, superstitions and forlorn plight of a trapped people and the realities of a totalitarian state.
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Herta Müller was born in Timis, Romania in 1953. A vocal member of the German minority, she was forced to leave the country in 1987, and moved to Berlin, where she still lives. In 2009 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
‘With the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, Müller depicts the language of the dispossessed’ Nobel Prize in Literature citation ‘Müller is a phenomenal stylist and her prose intensely poetic – but it is poetry wielded as a diamond laser … unsentimental and rigorous boring after the truth’ Metro
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Seiobo There Below László Krasznahorkai Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
The stunning new novel by the author of Satantango shows us how to glimpse the divine through extraordinary art and human endeavour In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection; an ancient Buddha being restored; the Italian renaissance painter Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing to a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan’s most sacred shrine; a heron as it gracefully hunts its prey. Told in chapters that sweep us across the world and through time, covering the furthest reaches of human experience, Krasznahorkai demands that we pause and ask ourselves these questions: what is sacred? How do we define beauty? What makes great art endure?
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László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango. In 1993, he won the Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance. http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/
‘The universality of Krasznahorkai’s vision rivals that of Gogol’s Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing’ W. G. Sebald Winner of Best Translated Book of the Year Award 2014
Boy on the Wire Alastair Bruce
THE CLERKENWELL PRESS
A devastating exploration of truth, memory and guilt by a highly acclaimed novelist who has been compared to J. M. Coetzee In 1983 Paul Hyde, aged ten, dies falling from a ledge in the mountains of the Karoo. His older brother Peter, who falls at the same time, survives but loses all memory of the event. The youngest brother, John, is the only witness. Many years later, John is living in London with his wife Rachel, who knows nothing of the tragedy of his past or of his family. Their life together is disrupted when Peter shows up and claims his memory is returning. Pulled back in spite of himself, John returns to South Africa and the home he grew up in. His return makes him question his recollection of the tragedy. Can we ever be certain of events that happened that far in the past, certain we have not completely changed their meaning?
‘A consummate storyteller who appears well set to become a defining novelist of our time’ André Brink Bruce’s first novel Wall of Days was winner of the Amazon Rising Star autumn selection and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, Best First Book, Africa
Alastair Bruce was born in Port Elizabeth and studied at the University of Cape Town. He has lived in the United Kingdom for over ten years where he works in electronic publishing. He is married and has a daughter.
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Different Every Time Marcus O’Dair ‘The strange, varied and very English career of Robert Wyatt is done full justice in this authorised life’ Sunday Times Biography / Music £12.99 Royal paperback ISBN: 9781846687600 eISBN: 9787847656490 November 2015 World all languages Tr
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After Me Comes the Flood Sarah Perry ‘A dark, marvellous novel ... bask in a dazzling new writing talent’ Sunday Telegraph Debut fiction £7.99 B format paperback ISBN: 9781781253649 eISBN: 9781846689468 June 2015 World ex USA
Love Game Elizabeth Wilson
See You in Paradise J. Robert Lennon
No Book But the World Leah Hager Cohen
‘Fascinating … a sporting history unlike any I’ve read’ Guardian
‘Dark, dazzling and reeling with a constant undertow of dangerous unpredictability’ Téa Obreht
‘Leah Hager Cohen writes like a dream and effortlessly inhabits each of her characters’ Daily Mail
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