Between the Devil and the Deep

PAINT MY NAME IN BLACK AND GOLD

The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy

MARK ANDREWS

A biography charting the early years of the hugely influential cult band who invented goth

In the early to mid-1980s, two bands dominated the independent charts: the Smiths and the Sisters of Mercy. They have proved to be equally influential. In every city in the world you will find people dressed like they have just walked offstage from playing a gig with the Sisters of Mercy in 1983.

Paint My Name in Black and Gold tells the story of the band’s rise: how against the odds and all reasonable expectation they came to make transcendent and life-changing music, and how their peculiar, compelling lead singer Andrew Eldritch stakes a powerful claim to be the greatest rock star of his generation.

Title: Paint My Name in Black and Gold Pub date: 16/09/2021 Format: Hardback Price: £20.00 ISBN: 978-1-80018-038-3 Rights: World/Audio/TV & Film

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Mark Andrews is a journalist living in Belgium. He has interviewed musicians ranging from Lemmy and Jon Spencer to Mudhoney and the Scientists. He has written for the Middle East Times, Egypt Magazine, LeftLion, Flanders Today and Louder. This book grew out of two acclaimed articles he wrote about the Sisters of Mercy for The Quietus.

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EFFIN’ BIRDS

A Field Guide to Identification

AARON REYNOLDS

The beloved farcical field guide featuring more than 200 sweary and hilarious birds

With Effin’ Birds, you can venture into nature with confidence. This field guide will help you identify over 200 birds, but more importantly, for the first time in history, it will also help you understand what these birds are thinking:

● The vainglorious grebe is acutely aware of its own magnificence. ● The overbearing heron wishes you better luck next time, fucknuts. ● The counsellor swallow wants you to maybe try not being a dickhead. ● … and many, many more.

Title: Effin’ Birds

Alongside beautiful illustrations and a whole lot of swearing is incisive commentary on modern life and the world we, as humans, must navigate. Or maybe it’s just some pictures of effin’ birds, okay?

Pub date: 16/09/2021

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Paperback £12.99 ISBN: 978-1-80018-043-7 Rights: UK & Comm. ex. Can/Audio/ TV & Film ‘Possibly the best thing ever’

Chuck Wendig, NYT bestselling author of Wanderers

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Aaron Reynolds is the Webby Award-honoured author of Effin’ Birds: A Field Guide to Identification, which for seven whole days in 2019 was the bestselling book by any Canadian author not named Margaret Atwood. Previously he taught software for Apple Inc., wrote about baseball, and was a Santa Claus photographer in the worst mall in Mississauga. He currently lives in Toronto. @EffinBirds

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FORGOTTEN HEROES OF COMEDY

An Encyclopedia of the Comedy Underdog

ROBERT ROSS

Featuring a foreword by the late Terry Jones, this is the definitive survey of the twentieth century’s overlooked comic greats

In this long overdue and affectionate salute, celebrated comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest, funniest and most fascinating names in comedy from both sides of the Atlantic.

Whether it is a favourite from the distant smoke- and ale-stained world of the Music Hall like the great George Robey, or the downbeat poetry of Hovis Presley, who dropped disenchanted bombs on the late 1990s, Ross honours the legends who didn’t quite reach the heady heights of stardom or, once they had, couldn’t cope with the pressures.

Forgotten Heroes of Comedy will finally elevate them to the Hall of Fame where they belong.

‘The top chronicler of British comedy’ Film Review

Title: Forgotten Heroes of Comedy Pub date: 30/09/2021 Format: Hardback Price: £30.00 ISBN: 978-1-78352-918-6 Rights: World/Audio/TV & Film

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Robert Ross is the leading authority on the history of British comedy. His sixteen books include The Monty Python Encyclopedia, The Carry On Story, Sid James: Cockney Rebel, The Complete Terry-Thomas and official BBC celebrations of Fawlty Towers, Last of the Summer Wine and Steptoe and Son. His latest is a critically acclaimed biography of Marty Feldman. 90

THE INCOMPLETE FRAMLEY EXAMINER

The Book of the Website of the Newspaper

THE EDITORS

Celebrating twenty years of the spoof local newspaper from the team behind the Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups

In 2001, fans of the internet were introduced to scanned pages from spoof local newspaper The Framley Examiner. Packed with humdrum and preposterous news stories, classified ads, local business features and headlines that seemed to have been typed while asleep, it skewered the banal madness of small-town existence, perfectly encapsulating the British national character.

This book, published to mark the website’s twentieth anniversary, compiles the very best of the paper in a single full-colour volume.

‘Packed with hard laughs’ Bob

Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)

Title: The Incomplete Framley Examiner Pub date: 14/10/2021 Format: Hardback Price: £14.99 ISBN: 978-1-80018-082-6 Rights: World/Audio/TV & Film

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Robin Halstead, Jason Hazeley, Alex Morris and Joel Morris would, between them, go on to write the best selling Bollocks to Alton Towers books, write for potty-mouthed national treasure Viz, create TV idiot Philomena Cunk, co-write the BAFTA-winning Charlie Brooker’s Wipe shows and the Paddington films, and create the industry-smashing Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups. @JasonHazeley / @gralefrit

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EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON

JACKIE MORRIS

A beautifully illustrated retelling of the classic Norwegian fairy tale by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning co-author of The Lost Words

From the moment she saw him, the girl knew the bear had come for her. How many times had she dreamed of him? Now, here he was, as if spelled from her dreams.

This encounter marks the beginning of a long and extraordinary journey for the girl. First to the bear’s secret palace in faraway mountains, where she is treated so courteously, though troubled by the bear’s unfathomable sadness.

As the bear’s secret unravels, another journey unfolds, which takes the girl to the homes of the four winds and beyond, to the castle east of the sun, west of the moon.

Title: East of the Sun, West of the Moon Pub date: 14/10/2021 Format: Hardback Price: £16.99 ISBN: 978-1-78352-886-8 Rights: World English

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Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane, won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019, and The Unwinding has been nominated for the 2021 Medal. @JackieMorrisArt

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THE WILD SWANS

JACKIE MORRIS

A gorgeously illustrated and extended version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning coauthor of The Lost Words

A girl loses her brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She has a task: to turn them back into boys again, she must pick nettles with her bare hands, stamp on them to make yarn, and spin and knit the yarn into shirts for each of the eleven brothers. And all the while she knits she cannot speak, for if she does, even so much as a whisper, it will be like a knife in the heart of each swan boy.

So she knits, silent. And where there is silence people will put words . . .

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The Wild Swans 14/10/2021 Hardback £16.99 978-1-78352-888-2 World English

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Jackie Morris is an author and illustrator. She studied illustration at Hereford College of Art and Bath Academy and has illustrated many books, and written some. The Lost Words, co-authored with Robert Macfarlane, won the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019, and The Unwinding has been nominated for the 2021 Medal. @JackieMorrisArt

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