Bloomsbury New titles January-June 2013

BLOOMSBURY NEW TITLES JANUARY–JUNE 2013

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Tenth of December George Saunders ‘Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny with a prose style this fine’ Zadie Smith Unsettling and hilarious, this is the new collection from undisputed master of the short story, George Saunders. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions, Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx™ in some unusual drug trials and a young boy discovers that sometimes the voices fade and all you are left with is a frozen hill on a cold day in December… With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, Tenth of December sings with astonishing depth, charm and intensity, and re-affirms Saunders as one of our greatest living storytellers. PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408837344 EBOOK: 9781408837351 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM

At one point a geophysical engineer, MacArthur Fellowship-winner George Saunders is an acclaimed writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children’s books. His work includes the story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award, Pastoralia and In Persuasion Nation, one of only three finalists for The Story Prize in 2006. He teaches Creative Writing at Syracuse University, New York, where he lives with his family.

TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM New York/Curtis Brown UK

Clay Melissa Harrison A lyrical portrait of four people finding freedom and beauty in a city’s concrete confines, by debut novelist Melissa Harrison Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city’s overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, seventy-eight, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she so loves. She’s writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world – though she lives less than a mile away. Jozef works by day doing house clearances, by night at a takeaway. He can’t forget the farm he left behind in Poland, its woods and fields written on his heart. When he meets TC he finds a kindred spirit: both lonely and lost; both looking for something. PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408826027 EBOOK: 9781408833551 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Melissa Harrison lives in South London and is a freelance writer and photographer whose clients include the Guardian. She was the winner of the John Muir Trust’s ‘Wild Writing’ Award in 2010 and Clay is her first novel.

The World Was All Before Them Matthew Reynolds Original, exhilarating and surprisingly tender, this story of two people and the life they inhabit is a tour de force Philip and Sue have moved to a small town for the circle of a year. Philip is a locum in a nearby GP surgery, and Sue works in an art gallery an hour’s commute away. On the surface, their life together is unremarkable, but around them and within them is a kaleidoscope of complex, intersecting worlds. As Philip struggles with his new patients – a child with ADHD and an elderly woman who insists on experiencing her body’s slow decline – and Sue stakes her career on a reckless impulse, they find themselves asking: how much do we really know about the place we live in, or ourselves? And, in the end, who can we rely on?

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408817964 EBOOK: 9781408833056 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013

Matthew Reynolds is the author of Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors, which was shortlisted for the Author’s Club First Novel Award and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. He has also written several books of literary criticism, including The Poetry of Translation and The Realms of Verse. He lives in Oxford where he is a fellow of St Anne’s College.

TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White

Little Known Facts Christine Sneed ‘Sneed writes with the care of a fine stylist and the heart of a sympathetic reader’ Publishers Weekly The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature – his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives – long to experience the glow of his flame. For his grown-up children, Anna and Will, their father’s fame is a force they are both drawn to and repelled by, overshadowing every part of their lives. Little Known Facts is the compelling story of the fallout of fame and fortune for a family that can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst; a story of influence and affluence, of forging identity and happiness in a celebrity-obsessed age.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408833452

Christine Sneed’s story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, won AWP’s 2009 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was named the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, and was chosen as the recipient of Ploughshares’s 2011 first-book prize. It was also long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and named one of the seven best books of the year by Time Out Chicago. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

EBOOK: 9781408833469 PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM

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Restless: TV tie-in William Boyd Now a major BBC 1 series (December 2012) starring Hayley Atwell and Charlotte Rampling It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can’t do it alone: she needs her daughter’s help. Film tie-in artwork to come PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408835180 EBOOK: 9781408807125 PUB DATE: 6 Dec 2012 TERRITORY: Comm/UK, EXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown

William Boyd is the author of eleven novels including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection; Ordinary Thunderstorms and, most recently, the Sunday Times bestseller, Waiting for Sunrise. William Boyd lives in London and France.

The Night Rainbow Claire King A beautiful and beguiling debut novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion, and the dangers of an overactive imagination During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, in a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea’s father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief, has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach her. Then Pea meets Claude, a man who seems to love the meadow as she does. Pea believes that she and Margot have found a friend, maybe even a new papa. But why do the villagers view Claude with suspicion? PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408824672 EBOOK: 9781408832820 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Claire King has found success and acclaim with her prize-winning short stories. Having graduated from Cambridge she now lives and works in France. The Night Rainbow is her first novel.

Dogstar Rising Parker Bilal The second Makana Mystery, by the acclaimed author of The Golden Scales It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded streets the unsolved murders of several homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred. Makana, who fled his native Sudan a decade ago, has been hired to investigate threats that have been made to a hapless travel agent. But his case brings him into contact with Meera, a woman who knows what it is like to lose everything and who needs his help. When Makana witnesses a brutal killing he uncovers a web of intrigue, violence and old secrets, and attracts the attention of some very dangerous people. Parker Bilal is the pen-name of Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written seven critically acclaimed literary novels which have been shortlisted for and awarded numerous prizes. His works include: In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier and The Drift Latitudes. He lives in Barcelona.

PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408827857 EBOOK: 9781408832837 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath

The Walking Laleh Khadivi In the tumult of the Iranian Revolution, two brothers embark on a fast-paced escape that that will take them half way around the world, and eventually, away from each other Iran. 1979. The mullahs have come to power and two young Kurdish brothers are forced to swear their loyalty to the new regime by taking part in a massacre. For Saladin, the younger, the decision to flee the town of their birth and go west is exciting; this is the direction of Hollywood, Los Angeles, America. But his euphoria is not enough for his brother Ali, who belongs, heart and soul, to his mountain town. As they cross the Zagros by foot, to Istanbul, to the Azores by freighter and finally as smuggled cargo aboard a plane, Saladin realises that his dream of a better future can only be fulfilled alone. The Walking is a haunting and beautifully-written story of exodus; of those people torn between the lure of home and the lure of hope.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408814840 EBOOK: 9781408814956

Laleh Khadivi was born in Iran in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, finally settling in Canada and the United States. Khadivi received an MFA, a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction and, in 2008, the Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2009 she published her first novel, The Age of Orphans. Laleh Khadivi lives in San Francisco.

PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Trident Media

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Mimi Lucy Ellmann ‘Ellmann’s writing is in a class of its own’ The Times With its mix of art, music, egg-nog and badinage, this is a New York love story like no other – a vibrant call to arms, and Lucy Ellmann’s most tender and dazzling book yet

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408833568 EBOOK: 9781408833582 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013

It’s Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. ‘Ya can’t sit there all day, buddy, looking up people’s skirts!’ chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet: Mimi. She then kindly conjures the miracle of a taxi. While recuperating with Schubert, Bette Davis and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his life’s work, a List of Melancholy Things (puppetry, shrimp-eating contests, Walmart…). But when he receives a dreaded invitation to address his old school he enlists the services of a coach, and Mimi reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love. And, as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air.

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Lucy Ellmann’s first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She has since written Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango?, Dot in the Universe and Doctors & Nurses. Born in the United States, she now lives in Scotland.

This Magnificent Desolation Thomas O’Malley A heart-breaking, staggering, soaring novel about war, music, loneliness and the redemptive power of the imagination Duncan’s whole world is the orphanage where he lives. Aged ten, he is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a run-down bar through a haze of whisky and regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. Thrown into this adult world of mysterious suffering, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio – from which tumble the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home – and dreams of one day finding his father. PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408833803 EBOOK: 9781408833810 PUB DATE: 28 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Arts Entertainment EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408834466 PRICE: £11.99

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Thomas O’Malley is the author of the novel In the Province of Saints, selected as one of the best books of 2005 by Booklist and the New York Public Library. He earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and teaches at Dartmouth College. Raised in Ireland and England, O’Malley currently lives in the Boston area.

The Arch and the Butterfly Mohammed Achaari Joint winter of the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction – the Arab Booker 2011 Set in the author’s home country of Morocco, outside the ancient city of Marrakech, this is a moving novel of identity, extremism, culture and generational change. The narrator, Yousif, the son of a cross-cultural marriage, is caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect the changing world he lives in. One day he hears that his son Yasin, whom he believed to be successfully pursuing an education at a prestigious college in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance. With his world already shattered, and finding himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Yousif questions everything, including his own values and identity. PRICE: £7.99

Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short story writer, journalist, former Minister of Culture in Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. He has published a number of works of fiction and poetry, and has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second novel.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9789992179055 PUB DATE: 14 March 2013 TERRITORY: WO Ex/Italy, Arabic TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BQFP c/o Bloomsbury

This Is Where I Am Karen Campbell A heartbreaking, uplifting and unforgettable novel about loss and hope, and an unlikely friendship between a Scottish widow and a Somali asylum seeker When the Scottish Refugee Council assigns Deborah Maxwell to act as Somali refugee Abdi Hassan’s new mentor, the two are drawn into an awkward friendship. They must spend a year together, meeting once a month in different parts of Glasgow. As recently-widowed Deborah opens Abdi’s eyes to her beloved city and its people, he teaches her about the importance of family – and of laying your ghosts to rest. All Abdi has brought with him is his four-year-old daughter, Rebecca, who lives in a silence no one can reach. Until, one day, she starts talking. And they discover why she had stopped…

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408832714

Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing Masters, and author of The Twilight Time, After The Fire, Shadowplay and Proof of Life. A former police officer, she won the Best New Scottish Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, Scotland.

EBOOK: 9781408832721 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Coombs Moylett Agency

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Home Fires Elizabeth Day A stunning portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores loss, class and the long road to redemption Max Weston leaves home at twenty-one for his first army posting in Africa. He never comes back. His parents Caroline and Andrew are devastated. As Caroline is borne away on a private ocean of grief their marriage begins to suffer. Then Andrew’s mother, Elsa, arrives, ninety-eight and no longer able to look after herself. Caroline has never felt good enough for the elegant, cuttingly courteous Elsa; now, suddenly, she has the upper hand. As Elsa lies in the spare room, her disintegrating mind throws up fragments of her own 1920s childhood – under the shadow of her father, a soldier who came back from the Great War a different man. PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408828670 EBOOK: 9781408832844

Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone which won a Betty Trask Award. She is also an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and who is now a feature writer for the Observer. She grew up in Northern Ireland and lives in London.

PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Marsh Agency

The City of Devi Manil Suri ‘He combines, in a magician’s feat, the thrill of Bollywood with the pull of a thriller … Manil Suri’s bravest and most passionate book’ Kiran Desai Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. Soon she is joined on her quest by Jaz – cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of a dystopia rife with absurdity and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking and multilayered, The City of Devi is a fearlessly provocative tale of three individuals balancing on the sharp edge of fate. PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408833902 EBOOK: 9781408833926 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408833919 EXPORT PUB DATE: 4 Feb 2013 PRICE: £12.99

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Manil Suri is the author of The Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva. He has been translated into twenty-seven languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and WHSmith Awards, and has won the McKittrick Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. He was born in Bombay and is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

She Rises Kate Worsley Sarah Waters meets Carol Birch in a breathtaking, utterly original story of love, adventure and identity 1740. Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has long been warned of the lure of the sea – after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work as a maid in the naval port of Harwich, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. Rebecca, her haughty mistress, is unlike anyone Louise has encountered before. Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Luke has been press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. Aching for the girl he left behind, he must learn fast if he is to survive. Louise and Luke’s new worlds are dangerous and exciting, and when they collide the consequences are astonishing. PRICE: £12.99

Kate Worsley studied English at University College London and has written for the Guardian, the Independent and the Sunday Telegraph. She graduated from an MA in Creative Writing (Novels) at City University in 2010 where she was mentored by Sarah Waters. She lives by the sea in Essex.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408835890 EBOOK: 9781408835913 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Higham Associates EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408835906 PRICE: £11.99

The Gamal Ciarán Collins Skippy Dies meets The Butcher Boy in a wickedly funny and moving debut set in an Irish village Meet Charlie. People think he’s crazy. People think he’s stupid. People think he’s innocent… He’s the Gamal. Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinéad and James and the bad things that happened. But where is the beginning? Is it when Sinéad first spoke up for him at school? Or when Sinéad and James followed the music and found each other? Or, that terrible night, when something unspeakable happened after closing time and someone chose to turn a blind eye? Charlie has promised Dr Quinn he’ll write 1,000 words a day, but it’s hard to know which words to write. And which secrets to tell… PRICE: £12.99

Ciarán Collins was born in County Cork in 1977. He teaches English and Irish in a school in West Cork.The Gamal is his first novel.

FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408827840 EBOOK: 9781408834107 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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The Wall William Sutcliffe An enthralling story drawn from a frightening political reality, The Wall is about the devastating effect of occupation and segregation on ordinary lives Joshua is thirteen. He lives in the isolated town of Amarias. At the edge of the town is a high wall, guarded by soldiers. Joshua has been taught that The Wall is the only thing keeping him and his people safe. One day, Joshua stumbles across a tunnel which leads towards this forbidden territory. He’s heard plenty of stories about the other side, but nothing has prepared him for what he finds...

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The Wall is a political fable in a setting which closely mirrors the West Bank. It is a novel about a boy, a settler child, discovering that his world may not be as it seems – that his people may be aggressors rather than victims – and that if he wants to honour his dead father, he must stand up and forge his own sense of right and wrong.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408828090 EBOOK: 9781408833940 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE

William Sutcliffe was born in London in 1971. He is the author of five previous novels – the international bestseller Are You Experienced?, The Love Hexagon, New Boy, Bad Influence and, most recently, Whatever Makes You Happy. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Lutyens & Rubinstein EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408834817 PRICE: £11.99

A History of the Present Illness Louise Aronson Funny, honest and compassionate linked stories which provide a portrait of health and illness like nothing we have read before An elderly Chinese immigrant must sacrifice his demented wife’s well-being to satisfy his son’s authority. A psychiatrist who advocates for the underserved may herself be crazy. A gay doctor learns very different lessons about family from his life and his work, and a young veteran’s injuries become a metaphor for the rest of his life. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408832127 EBOOK: 9781408832158

Set in the neighbourhoods, hospitals and nursing homes of San Francisco, A History of the Present Illness explores the role of stories in medicine, creates a world pulsating with life and introduces a striking new literary voice.

PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Wendy Weil Agency EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: 22 Jan 2013

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Louise Aronson has an MFA in fiction and an MD from Harvard Medical School. She has won numerous awards and three Pushcart nominations. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California where she cares for older patients and directs the Pathways to Discovery Program, the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and UCSF Medical Humanities. She lives in San Francisco.

The Memory Theatre An Alec Blume Novel

Conor Fitzgerald In the fourth book of Fitzgerald’s crime series, Commissioner Blume becomes lost in a labyrinth of memory and extremist ideologies Rome. Commissioner Alec Blume is called out on a freezing November night by Magistrate Principe to look into the shooting of a young woman, possibly by neo-fascists. His inquiries soon lead to Professor Pitagora who mixes a passion for the art of memory with an extremist ideology, and to a hospitalised ex-terrorist whose injuries have left her mind innocently blank. As he goes deeper into the case, Blume becomes alienated from his colleague and, especially, his partner Caterina. A work of classically plotted detective fiction, The Memory Theatre casts a cold eye on Italian politics and on the strange world of mnemonics.

PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408828076 EBOOK: 9781408837894 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE

Conor Fitzgerald is the author of four books in the Commissioner Blume series. A former analyst of Italian politics for several foreign embassies based in Rome, he currently lives in the German-speaking part of Italy.

TRANSLATION RIGHTS: United Agents

Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night James Runcie ‘Inspector Morse would appear to have a rival’ Scotland on Sunday The second in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series – six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history 1955. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest and part-time detective, is back. Accompanied by his Labrador, Dickens, and the increasingly-exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King’s College Chapel, a case of arson at a glamour photographer’s studio and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester’s finest spin bowler. Alongside his sleuthing, Sidney has other problems. Can he decide between the glamorous socialite Amanda Kendall and Hildegard Staunton, the beguiling German widow? To make up his mind Sidney takes a trip abroad, only to find himself trapped in a web of international espionage just as the Berlin Wall is going up.

PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408828106 EBOOK: 9781408834114 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO

James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning filmmaker and the author of five novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow Of Death, the first of ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012. He lives in London and Edinburgh.

TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Helium Jaspreet Singh A haunting novel of one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation: the massacre of the Sikh citizens enabled by the government after the assassination of Indira Gandhi On November 1st 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip with his mentor and chemistry teacher, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight.

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408829165

Years later the student, Raj, is compelled to find his professor’s widow, the beautiful Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, Nelly comes up against a nation in denial, Raj faces the truth about his father’s role in the Sikh massacre and they both find the path leads back to the train station. In Helium, Jaspreet Singh crafts an affecting and important story of a largely untouched moment in Indian memory.

EBOOK: 9781408833865 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838211 PRICE: £11.99

Jaspreet Singh is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a former research scientist. His story collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, won the 2004 Quebec First Book Prize. Chef, his first novel, received the Alberta Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for four awards including the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Born in India, he moved to Canada in 1990.

Constance Patrick McGrath The acclaimed Costa-shortlisted author of Trauma and Asylum brings us a masterful novel of psychological suspense and marriage in 1960s New York The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan when she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior, at a literary party. A few weeks later, he proposes marriage and Constance accepts, moving into his dark, book-filled apartment.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408821138

But Constance is tortured by a bitter past. When her father makes a devastating revelation, Constance’s fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely. Sidney can only watch and wait, doubting his own moral strength. Constance’s consolation is the friendship of Sidney’s boy Howard, a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself…

EBOOK: 9781408824283 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM

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Patrick McGrath is the author of seven previous novels including Asylum, Martha Peake, Port Mungo and Trauma, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. He has also published Ghost Town, a volume of novellas about New York. Spider was made into a film in 2002 by director David Cronenberg. Patrick McGrath lives in London and New York.

The Hired Man Aminatta Forna The stunning new novel from Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Aminatta Forna Apart from his two hunting dogs, Duro Kolak lives alone. His small but comfortable hut is beyond the boundaries of Gost, a quiet Croatian town, and a short distance from the Pavic house. The blue, crumbling house has lain empty for years after the departure of an old friend and current enemy, Kresimir, and Anka, Kresimir’s sister. When an English family moves in, Duro becomes invaluable to them by undertaking repairs to the house and helping them explore the quiet town. But as plaster on the front wall is pulled away to reveal a beautiful mosaic bird, the ancient passions and well-buried memories of Gost’s residents begin to surface. PRICE: £14.99

Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and Britain and also spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of two novels, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She has also written short stories and essays as well as for radio and television and presented arts magazine and documentary programmes. Aminatta Forna lives in London.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408817667 EBOOK: 9781408818770 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838242 PRICE: £11.99

Where Pigeons Don’t Fly Yousef Al-Mohaimeed A critical look at the smothering impact of Saudi Arabia’s religious police and Islamic extremists Where Pigeons Don’t Fly tells the story of Fahd, a young Saudi whose happy childhood is disrupted by his father’s arrest for the attack on the Great Mosque of Makkah in 1979 and later death. After Fahd’s mother dies at the hands of his stepfather and a superstitious sheikh, his only remaining companions are Saeed, a childhood friend, and Tarfah, his latest lover. When Fahd and Tarfah are arrested in a Riyadh shopping mall café by the so-called Committee for Promotion of Virtue, Fahd decides to abandon his restrictive country and take refuge in the freer climate of England. Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has published several novels and short story collections in Arabic, and his work has been translated into English, Russian, Spanish and German. His writing is admired for its honest treatment of controversial subjects, and he is celebrated as one of Saudi Arabia’s most talented emerging writers. He was born in Riyadh in 1964.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9789992179161 PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO, EX ARABIC TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BQFP c/o Bloomsbury

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My Notorious Life by Madame X Kate Manning An electrifying rags-to-riches tale of scandal, family and the many faces of love, set in nineteenth-century New York

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Based partly on a true story, this is the testament of Madame X: midwife, millionaire, and the most sensational woman in New York. Her tale begins in 1860, when she is a thirteenyear-old urchin called Axie Muldoon. She and her siblings are forced to beg for pennies on the street – until the day a Christian philanthropist arrives to save them. Separated from her family, Axie is taken in by a midwife who teaches her the craft she will live by – and later fight for. As she makes her fortune tending to the women of New York, the man who would be the righteous instrument of her downfall circles ever closer…

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408835647 EBOOK: 9781408835661 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013

A former documentary television producer (and winner of two Emmy Awards), Kate Manning has written for, among others, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. She is the author of Whitegirl, a novel. She lives with her family in New York City.

TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408835654 PRICE: £11.99

The Feast of Artemis Anne Zouroudi Hermes Diaktoros returns in the seventh gripping, sun-drenched instalment of The Mysteries of the Greek Detective The olive harvest is drawing to a close in the town of Dendra, and when Hermes Diaktoros arrives for the celebratory festival he expects an indulgent day of food and wine. But as young men leap a blazing bonfire in feats of daring, one is badly burned. Did he fall, or was he pushed? Then, as Hermes learns of a deep-running feud between two families, one of their patriarchs dies. Determined to find out why, Hermes follows a bitter trail through the olive groves to reveal a motive for murder, and uncovers a dark deed brought to light by the sin of gluttony. PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408837511 EBOOK: 9781408837528 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Christopher Little

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Anne Zouroudi was born in England and has lived in the Greek islands. She now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District with her son. She is the author of six other Mysteries of the Greek Detective including The Messenger of Athens, which was shortlisted for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Breakthrough Authors and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.

Gloria Kerry Young A captivating new novel of love and redemption from the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life for ever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As the city convulses with political change, Gloria’s desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own. Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening which she must reconcile with the realities of her life and her love of Jamaica. PRICE: £12.99

Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and a mother of mixed Chinese-African heritage. She came to England in 1965. Kerry’s early life with her father, a businessman who operated within Kingston’s shadow economy, provided the inspiration for Pao, her first novel, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Book Prize. She lives in Leicestershire.

FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408822883 EBOOK: 9781408822890 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Equilateral Ken Kalfus ‘There are hip writers, there are technically innovative writers, and there are wise, moving, and profound writers. Kalfus is all of these at once’ David Foster Wallace It is the turn of the twentieth century and a British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of the age, arrives in Egypt to embark on the project of a lifetime: the excavation of a triangle in the desert, with sides hundreds of miles long, to be filled with petrol and set alight. The purpose: to send out a signal to life on Mars (for which he has evidence) that humans exist. But as work progresses, the huge task force of Egyptian workers is struck by disease and rebellion, and the success of Thayer’s project looks increasingly uncertain. Ken Kalfus is the author of two novels, The Commissariat of Enlightenment and A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. He also published two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages. He lives in Philadelphia.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408832936 EBOOK: 9781620400173 PUB DATE: 6 June 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Fletcher & Company EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: 16 April 2013

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The Hanging Lotte and Søren Hammer The international bestseller from the new stars of Scandinavian crime ‘The best Danish crime fiction in years’ Lars Kepler

PRICE: £12.99

On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are called in to investigate this horrific case – the men hanging in a geometric pattern; the scene so closely resembling a public execution. When the identities of the five victims and the disturbing link between them is leaked to the press, the sinister motivation behind the killings quickly becomes apparent to the police. Up against a building internet campaign and even members of his own team, Simonsen finds that he must battle public opinion and vigilante groups in his mission to catch the killers.

FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408816011 EBOOK: 9781408820018 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN

Lotte and Søren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte worked as a nurse after finishing her training in 1977 and her brother Søren was a trained teacher and a lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. The Hanging is the first in a series of crime novels which are published in twenty countries.

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Correspondences Anne Michaels Renowned novelist and poet Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist Bernice Eisenstein have collaborated to create a rare and beautiful book

PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408836026

Anne Michaels’ resonant and deeply moving book-length poem on one side, that ranges from the universal to the intimate, and Bernice Eisenstein’s profound and luminous portraits (accompanied by quotes from great writers and thinkers) on the other come together in a uniquely designed accordion book whose physical format perfectly reflects the thematic interconnectedness of this creative collaboration, ‘just as a conversation becomes the third side of the page ... to name the moment one life becomes another’ (Anne Michaels).

PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Wylie Agency

Anne Michaels was born in Toronto in 1958. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: The Weight of Oranges, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas, Miner’s Pond and Skin Divers. She is also the author of the novels Fugitive Pieces, which won both the Orange Prize and the Guardian Fiction Award and has now been published in over thirty countries, and The Winter Vault. Bernice Eisenstein was born in 1949 in Toronto. Her illustrations have appeared in a variety of Canadian magazines and periodicals, including the Globe and Mail.

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Ballistics D. W. Wilson A deeply compelling, stunningly written story of fathers and sons, friendship and betrayal, by the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. Fleeing the fallout of a failed relationship, Alan West returns to his grandfather’s home in the Kootenay Valley. Cecil West, an old man confronted by his own mortality, asks Alan to track down his son, Alan’s father, so that Cecil can make his peace with him. And so Alan begins his search for Jack West: a man who skipped town before Alan could walk. His quest will lead him to Archer, an American soldier who long ago went AWOL across the border. The young man and the old soldier set off on a reckless journey. What they find will change their lives forever.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408833766 EBOOK: 9781408833469 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013

D.W. Wilson is the author of the collection Once You Break a Knuckle. He was born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. His stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and ‘The Dead Roads’ won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011. He lives in Cambridge.

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Land of No Rain Amjad Nasser ‘One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Nasser is an inspired poet and this work takes the precision and economy of his language into prose narrative for the first time. Gentle, sad, hopeful – a poet writing prose at his mature best. Watch out for the English translation’ Guardian After twenty years in exile, a man returns to Hamiya, a fictional Arab country run by military commanders who treat power as a personal possession to be handed down from one generation to the next. Forced abroad for taking part in a failed assassination attempt on the military ruler known as The Grandson, the man is interrogated by security police on his return and later encounters family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first love. But most importantly he grapples with his own self, the person he left behind. Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback

Amjad Nasser, a Jordanian poet born in 1955, has written numerous volumes of poetry and several travel memoirs. He has worked for newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus and since 1987 he has lived in London, where he is managing editor and cultural editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily newspaper. Land of No Rain is his first novel.

ISBN: 9789992194584 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO, EX Arabic TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BQFP c/o Bloomsbury

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The Love-charm of Bombs Restless Lives in the Second World War

Lara Feigel A powerful chronicle of wartime London as experienced by five writers – driving ambulances, fighting fires and falling passionately in love

PRICE: £25.00

At the height of the Blitz, Graham Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one ‘like a love-charm’. For Greene – and for Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green, Rose Macaulay and Hilde Spiel – this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs. Volunteering as ambulance drivers and firefighters, these were the successors to the soldier poets of the First World War and their story has never been told. Now Lara Feigel uses letters, diaries, fiction and war records to create a haunting chronicle that starts by following the five writers through a single night of September 1940.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408830444 EBOOK: 9781408833483 PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White

Dr Lara Feigel is a Lecturer in English and the Medical Humanities at King’s College London. She is the author of Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930–1945 and the editor (with Alexandra Harris) of Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside and (with John Sutherland) of the New Selected Journals of Stephen Spender. She has also written pieces for various publications, including the Guardian, Prospect and History Today. She lives in West Hampstead, London.

Newcomers’ Lives The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times

Edited by Peter Unwin Foreword by Archbishop John Sentamu How the culture and life of the British people have been transformed by the contribution of immigrants in recent history

PRICE: £16.99

To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, CLR James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character. This collection of obituaries from The Times of some the most important of these people gives the reader a unique view of their contribution.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781441159175 EBOOK: 9781408186220

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, contributes a fascinating introduction surveying our historical and cultural landscape.

PUB DATE: 31 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Peter Unwin has contributed many obituaries to The Times since his retirement from the Diplomatic Service. He has published several books, most notably Hearts, Minds & Interests: Britain’s Place in the World and The Narrow Sea, a history of the English Channel.

Return of a King The Battle for Afghanistan

William Dalrymple A towering history of the First Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple In 1841, the Afghan people called for jihad against the British occupying forces, and the country exploded into violent rebellion. In the greatest military humiliation ever suffered by the West in the East, an eighteen-thousand strong army of the most powerful military nation in the world was utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War, a disastrous entanglement which has important lessons for today. Using newly discovered sources to bring to life unforgettable characters on all sides, this masterful retelling of Britain’s greatest imperial disaster is an important parable of neo-colonial ambition and cultural collision for our times.

PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408818305 EBOOK: 9781408828434 PUB DATE: 4 Feb 2013

William Dalrymple is the author of the prize-winning and bestselling books In Xanadu, City of Djinns, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408822876 PRICE: £14.99

50 Licks Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones

Bernard M. Corbett & Peter Fornatale An illustrated, anecdotal history of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the 50th year– featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band On July 12, 1962, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song made its debut at the Marquee Club in London. They were the Rolling Stones and, over half a century later, they are still one of the biggest bands in the world, playing sell-out arena shows around the world and beloved by millions. 50 Licks commemorates their unparalleled achievement in rock music. Based on a series of never-before-published interviews with the band and the people closest to them, and illustrated with photographs and artwork, 50 Licks will be the book to own as the Stones tour the world in celebration of their 50th anniversary.

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408833827

Pete Fornatale was an award-winning broadcaster and rock icon and a fixture on the New York radio scene for the past forty years. He lived in New York City until his death in 2012.

EBOOK: 9781408833834

Bernard M. Corbett is the radio voice of Harvard University football and Boston University hockey. He is the author and co-author of fifteen books. He lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and is a lifelong Rolling Stones fan.

TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO

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Servants A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain

Lucy Lethbridge An original and fascinatingly intimate portrait of twentieth-century Britain told through the eyes of those who served, which will change the way we look at society

PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9780747590170

No aspect of the home has spoken quite so eloquently to the traditional English idea of the ordered life as the keeping of servants. The stories of below-stairs workers are an untold history, a barometer of the changing place of both men and women and the radical changes in their everyday life over the last century. From the quintessential liveried servant of 1900 to the self-service of the 1970s, these are stories of aspirations, ideals, hopes and disappointments across the classes. Sweeping in its scope, extensively researched and brilliantly observed, Servants offers the most authoritative account yet of behind-the-scenes, twentieth-century Britain.

EBOOK: 9781408834077 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop

Lucy Lethbridge has written for the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and the Times Literary Supplement. She has been the Literary Editor of the Tablet and the London correspondent for Art News in New York. Lucy is the author of Who Was Ada Lovelace?, which won the 2002 Blue Peter Award for non-fiction. She lives in London.

Spectrums Our Mindboggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity

David Blatner A new guide to the intricacies of the world around us

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408828632 EBOOK: 9781408832455

David Blatner explains the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. He makes it possible to imagine both billions of years and billionths of seconds; the distance to Jupiter and the size of a proton; or the freezing point of Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atom bomb. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, illustrated by a wealth of photographs and diagrams, Blatner shows how you can ‘grok’ – understand intuitively – the spectrums we encounter every day. If you know how to look, the world is an extraordinary place.

PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838594 PRICE: £12.99

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David Blatner is the award-winning author of books including The Joy of Pi and The Flying Book. More than 500,000 copies of his books are in print in twelve languages. He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.

The Good Book A Secular Bible

A. C. Grayling The highly regarded best-selling alternative to the Bible, now published in an elegant, smaller format hardback edition A.C. Grayling, Britain’s most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible that draws on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing about all that it means to be human – from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life. Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, nonreligious alternative to the many people who do not follow one of the world’s great religions, in which Grayling collects, edits, rearranges and organises the collective secular wisdom of the world now published in a smaller format edition.

PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408837832

A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, a regular contributor to the newspapers, a frequent and popular contributor to radio and TV, and the author of many books including The Meaning of Things and Liberty in the Age of Terror

EBOOK: 9781408817544 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408837825 PRICE: £12.99

The God Argument The Case Against Religion and For Humanism

A. C. Grayling A lucid presentation of the case against religion and for humanism There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in support of religious belief, and does so in full consciousness of the reasons people have for subscribing to religion, and the needs they seek to satisfy by doing so. The God Argument is the definitive examination of the issues, and a statement of the humanist outlook that recommends itself as the ethics of the genuinely reflective person.

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408837405 EBOOK: 9781408837429 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408837412

A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, a regular contributor to the newspapers, a frequent and popular contributor to radio and TV, and the author of many books including The Good Book and Liberty in the Age of Terror.

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How to Read a Graveyard Travels in the Company of the Dead

Peter Stanford A taboo-breaking exploration of what graveyards and memorials can tell our secular, scientific and sceptical age about our eternal fate Death is the one certainty in life, yet, with the decline of religion in the West, we have become collectively reluctant to talk about it. If we want to know how previous generations dealt with death, graveyards tell us the history — if we are able to read them.

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781441179777

From Neolithic mounds to internet memorials via municipal cemeteries, war graves and holocaust memorials, Roman catacombs and more, Stanford shows us how to read a graveyard, what to look out for in our own, and how even the most initially unpromising exploration can enthral.

EBOOK: 9781441132758 PUB DATE: 28 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt

Peter Stanford is a writer, broadcaster and biographer, whose books include biographies of Lord Longford, C Day-Lewis and the Devil, and the travelogue, The Extra Mile. A former editor of the Catholic Herald, he writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and the Observer and has a regular column in the Tablet.

Forecast What Extreme Weather Can Teach Us About Economics

Mark Buchanan A groundbreaking book that uses physics to show how instability is inherent in economic markets, from prize-nominated author Mark Buchanan

PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback

In this thoroughly researched and piercingly intelligent book, physicist Mark Buchanan shows how a simple feedback loop can lead to major consequences, the kind predictable by mathematical models but hard for most people to anticipate. From his unique perspective, Buchanan argues that our basic assumptions about economic markets – that they are for the most part stable, with occasional interruptions – are simply wrong. Markets really act more like weather: a brief heat wave can become a massive storm in a matter of a few days, or even hours. Forecast re-imagines the basics of the financial world, with consequences that affect everyone.

ISBN: 9781408827376 EBOOK: 9781408835401 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Garamond Agency

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Physicist Mark Buchanan is a former editor of Nature and New Scientist, and is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles published internationally. He currently writes monthly columns for the financial media outlet Bloomberg Views, as well as for Nature Physics. He has written two prize-nominated non-fiction books, Ubiquity: The Science of History and Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks. In 2009, he received the prestigious Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize for scientific writing about complexity science.

Rice’s Church Primer Matthew Rice An idiosyncratic introduction to the architecture and interior styles of British churches Britain is full of churches. They have a lot to say about our history, our art and our ideas. But how do you read them? Through charming illustrations, Rice’s Church Primer covers the basic ‘grammar and vocabulary’ – the component parts and the overall style – of church architecture and interiors, as well as giving examples of churches that show off everything from the imposing Norman style to the gilded detailing of the Baroque. Guided by Matthew Rice’s elegant and witty illustrations, you’ll see our most iconic, beautiful and occasionally bizarre buildings in a completely fresh light. PRICE: £14.99

Matthew Rice is an architectural enthusiast and the acclaimed writer and illustrator of Rice’s Architectural Primer; you might also have seen his work in Country Life, on his own calendar or on much of his wife Emma Bridgewater’s pottery. He lives in Oxfordshire and Norfolk.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408807521 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

The Blue Guide to Grey Living Lionel Blue Rabbi Lionel Blue is loved by millions of Radio Four listeners for his homely wisdom and good humour, qualities in abundance in this guide Rabbi Lionel Blue addresses the growing grey brigade, for there are few counsellors to help them grow from late middle age into old age. This is an easily readable guide to the problems and paradoxes of old age which does not dodge the issues. With his characteristic humour and charm, Blue writes with extreme practicality of specialised forms of giving: giving up, giving away and giving back. As Parkinson’s has now entered into his own life, this is also an account of his own journey into old age. This is Rabbi Blue at his most sympathetic and very best.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781441133113 EBOOK: 9781441178459 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013

Rabbi Blue lives in North London. He appears frequently on the stage on college podiums and on the radio (occasionally on TV). He is a Fellow of Grey College, University of Durham and an honorary Doctor Of Divinity. He is currently also honorary Vice Chairman of the Movement for Reform Judaism.

TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Sheil Land Associates

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Cities Are Good for You The Genius of the Metropolis

Leo Hollis Fascinating, entertaining, radical and impassioned, Cities Are Good for You is a rallying cry for twenty-first-century living

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback

The twenty-first century will be the age of the city. Over 50% of the world’s population currently live in urban centres and this percentage is set to increase. From the slums of Mumbai to recycling centres in Stockholm, secret dinner parties in Paris to bus-rides in Bogotá, Leo Hollis blends research and anecdote to explore why cities can never be ‘rational’ places; how we can walk in a crowd without bumping into people; how ants and slime mould can make us rethink congestion; and, above all, how living in the city can make us fitter, richer, smarter, greener, more creative – and perhaps even happier.

ISBN: 9781408826621 EBOOK: 9781408826638 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Conville & Walsh

Leo Hollis is a writer and historian. He studied history at the University of East Anglia. He now works as an editor at Verso and is the critically acclaimed author of The Phoenix: St Paul’s Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London and The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings. He lives in West Hampstead.

EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408826614 PRICE: £12.99

Elizabeth’s Bedfellows An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court

Anna Whitelock The riveting inside story of the Elizabethan Court and the favoured women who tended the Queen

PRICE: £20.00

At the heart of Elizabeth I’s court lay her bedchamber, closely guarded by the women who helped her dress, washed her clothing, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Witnesses to the face beneath the make-up, and rumoured dalliances with, among others, Robert Dudley, Elizabeth’s bedfellows were the guardians of truth about her health, chastity and fertility. For such was the political significance of the queen’s body: it represented the very state itself. This revealing history of the politics of intimacy uncovers the feminised world of Elizabethan politics, the fragility of royal favour and the price of disloyalty.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408808801 EBOOK: 9781408833636 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU, EX CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Felicity Bryan EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408836613 PRICE: £12.99

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Anna Whitelock’s bestselling debut, Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen, was published to critical acclaim in 2009. She is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She regularly appears on television and radio and has written for the Guardian, BBC History, Sunday Telegraph and the New York Times. She lives in Cambridge.

The Letters of John F. Kennedy Edited by Martin W. Sandler Published for the fiftieth anniversary year of the assassination of JFK, these letters (and replies), many published for the first time, present both the politician and the man 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the untimely death of a man who led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet is regarded as one of the great Presidents of all time. Drawn from more than two million letters on file at the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, it presents readers with a portrait of both Kennedy the politician and Kennedy the man, as well as the turbulent times he lived in. The beginnings of American involvement in Vietnam, a touch-and-go Cold War relationship with the Soviet bloc and many other international controversies are intertwined with Kennedy’s own hushed-up health problems, his renowned controversial personal life and his charismatic engagement with the world of presidential politics.

PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408830451 EBOOK: 9781408839959

Martin W. Sandler has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television and is the author of more than sixty books, two of which have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Sandler has taught American History and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College, and lives in Massachusetts.

PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Britten’s Century The Centenary of Benjamin Britten’s Birth

Edited by Mark Bostridge Introduction by Nicholas Kenyon 2013 marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event With contributions from biographers, performers and music critics, Britten’s Century considers various aspects of Benjamin Britten’s life and work in his centenary year. Here is a wealth of subject matter: Britten’s operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song, his experience as a homosexual man living in largely homophobic society, and his influence outside Britain, particularly in the USA and Italy. Contributors include Alan Bennett, Michael Berkeley, Mark Padmore, Blake Morrison, Janet Baker, Ian Bostridge, Susan Hill, Colin Matthews, Edward Gardner and Stephen Hough.

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781441177902 EBOOK: 9781441151865

Mark Bostridge’s books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, the NCR Prize for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize, the bestselling Letters From a Lost Generation and Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize.

PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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The Attacking Ocean The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels

Brian Fagan

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New York Times bestselling author Brian Fagan delivers a history of mankind’s relationship with the sea and the changing coastlines of the planet

PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback

The past fifteen thousand years – the entire span of human civilisation – have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on earth, and also because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines. The Attacking Ocean details the rising complexity of the relationship between humans and the sea, a complexity created not by the oceans, which have changed little, but by us.

ISBN: 9781408836033 EBOOK: 9781408836040 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Brian Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Beyond the Blue Horizon, Elixir, the Los Angeles Times bestseller Cro-Magnon, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming, and many other books, including Fish on Friday, The Long Summer, The Little Ice Age, Elixir and Beyond the Blue Horizon.

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

Michael Sims The Adventures of Henry Thoreau sheds illuminating light on one of the most iconic figures in American history

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408830499

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau – chronicling the ten years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond – tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled soul found a meaningful life in a tempestuous era. Who was this unsophisticated young man who became a protégé of Ralph Waldo Emerson, himself leading a cultural revolution in tiny Concord, Massachusetts? Why did Thoreau go to Walden? And how did he come to write his most famous work? In rich, evocative prose, Michael Sims brings to life the insecure, boyish Henry, long before he became the literary icon Thoreau.

EBOOK: 9781408838235 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Stanford J. Greenburger

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Michael Sims is the author of the acclaimed The Story of Charlotte’s Web, Apollo’s Fire and Adam’s Navel, and editor of Dracula’s Guest and The Dead Witness. He lives in western Pennsylvania.

Modernity Britain Opening the Box: 1957-1959

David Kynaston The latest book in David Kynaston’s best-selling series bring us to the brink of the ‘60s The late 1950s was an action-packed, often dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain began to take shape. These were the ‘never had it so good’ years, when the Carry On film series and the TV soap Emergency Ward 10 got going, and films like Room at the Top and plays like A Taste of Honey brought the working class to the centre of the national frame; when the urban skyline began irrestistibly to go high-rise; when CND galvanised the progressive middle class; when ‘youth’ emerged as a cultural force; when the Notting Hill riots made race and immigration an inescapable reality; and when ‘meritocracy’ became the buzz word of the day. The consequences of this ‘modernity’ zeitgeist, David Kynaston argues, still affect us today.

PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9780747588931 EBOOK: 9781408839829

David Kynaston is the author of eighteen books including Austerity Britain, 1945-51 and Family Britain 1951-57. He is currently a visiting professor at Kingston University.

PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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MOB Rule Lessons Learned by a Mother Of Boys

Hannah Evans You may be outnumbered and at your wit’s end, but remember you’re part of a very special club ... welcome to the MOB!

PRICE: £12.99

Hannah Evans has three small boys. In her world, farting is so much more interesting than phonics, and dam-building trumps damsels in distress any day. It’s a world of mud – and just occasionally blood – sweat and tears. It is also a world of indescribable joy. MOB Rule is the funny, honest and eye-opening account of Hannah’s experiences as a Mother of Boys. Supplemented by recipes, quizzes, mnemonics and mysteries, it is the indispensable book for anyone who has ever found themselves adrift on a sea of testosterone, wondering when the lifeboat is going to show up.

FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408830123 EBOOK: 9781408830130

Hannah Evans has previously explored the world of the MOB in a number of articles, most notably in the Guardian. She lives with her husband and three boys in Devon.

PUB DATE: 21 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

A Prince Among Stones That Business with The Rolling Stones and Other Adventures

Prince Rupert Loewenstein A wry, fascinating memoir revealing the complex relationship between an aristocratic financier and ‘the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world’

PRICE: £20.00

In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn’t understand why The Rolling Stones had no money. The man he asked to help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of rock’n’roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as ‘a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny’, usually enthralled but often bemused and exasperated.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408808764 EBOOK: 9781408821220

Coolly impartial, dryly humorous, this is a refreshingly different take on the rock’n’roll world from within its inner sanctum.

PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408832790 PRICE: £12.99

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Born in Palma, Majorca in 1933, Prince Rupert Loewenstein, of an offshoot of the Bavarian royal house of Wittelsbach, studied medieval history at Magdalen College, Oxford before joining the American stockbrokers Bache & Co. While a director of the merchant bank Leopold Joseph & Sons, he was introduced to Mick Jagger in 1968 and managed The Rolling Stones’ finances until 2005.

A Slow Passion Snails, My Garden and Me

Ruth Brooks One woman’s investigation into the whys and wherefores of snails Ruth Brooks won the nation’s hearts – as well as the search for amateur scientists launched by the programme Material World on BBC Radio 4 – with this question: Do snails have a homing instinct? A Slow Passion is Ruth’s story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. It’s a story that sees the grandmother-turned-scientist change from snail exterminator to fascinated observer, marking snail shells with nail varnish, sneaking off on night-time missions to repatriate bucketloads of snails and exploring snails’ sex-lives (which are unexpectedly romantic). With charming illustrations, A Slow Passion is a sweet, funny and surprising investigation into the hidden life of snails.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback

Ruth Brooks’s dormant interest in science only bloomed in her seventieth year. In 2010, she entered a talent search run by the BBC programme Material World, and was awarded the title BBC Amateur Scientist of the Year. She loves the countryside, walking by the sea and, most of all, playing with her grandchildren. She lives in Devon.

ISBN: 9781408826584 EBOOK: 9781408826591 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Vow A Memoir of Marriage and Other Affairs

Wendy Plump A searing, confessional and extremely frank story which confronts the challenges of marriage, fidelity and commitment head-on One morning in January 2005, Wendy Plump discovered her husband was having an affair and, not only that; he had an eight-month-old daughter living within a mile of the family home. Monogamy is one of the most important vows we make in our marriages. Yet it is a rare spouse who does not face some level of temptation in their married life. In Vow Wendy Plump tells of the pleasures affairs gave her as a younger woman and analyses the view of betrayer and the betrayed, the patterns of adultery, the recovery, the lies, the alibis, and offers a unique and timely insight into long-term relationships, fidelity and commitment.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408827802 EBOOK: 9781408837870

Wendy Plump has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for over twenty years. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and won several New Jersey Press Association Awards. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, with her sons.

PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner

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How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution

Leslie Woodhead A fascinating examination of the enduring popularity of the Beatles in the former Soviet Union, including never-seen-before photographs

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408158869 EBOOK: 9781408840436 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law – recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, broadcasts taped from Western radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world but the USSR, where a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the British Invasion. The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a part in waking up an entire generation of Soviet youth. Leaders there had suppressed most Western popular music since the days of jazz, but the Beatles and the bands they inspired helped to batter down the walls of state culture. How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin tells the unforgettable-and endearingly odd-story of the Russians who discovered that all you need is Beatles.

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Leslie Woodhead made the first ever film with the Beatles, in 1962. His films have won many international awards. He is the author of two books, My Life as a Spy and A Box Full of Spirits. He lives in Cheshire.

Saul Bellow’s Heart A Son’s Memoir

Greg Bellow An affectionate, revealing portrait of a fiercely private man, a moving father–son relationship and a unique insight into one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers

PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback

Greg Bellow’s bond with his famous-writer father was grounded in a tenderness, social optimism and light-hearted humour rarely attributed to a man more often remembered for being quick to anger and schooled in rational argument. This intimate memoir gives voice both to the ‘Young Saul’ – the rebellious, irreverent and ambitious young writer, and dedicated father – and to the ‘Old Saul’, the literary icon known to the wider world, whose edges hardened as his social views turned pessimistic. The change taxed the relationship between Bellow and his son so sorely that Greg feared it might not survive.

ISBN: 9781408835487 EBOOK: 9781408835500 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Inkwell EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408835494 EXPORT PUB DATE: 4 March 2013 PRICE: £12.99

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Gregory Bellow was a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist for forty years and remains a member of the Core Faculty of The Sanville Institute. He lives in Redwood City, California.

Let Me Tell You a Story A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood

Renata Calverley The spellbinding true story of a little girl’s miraculous escape from the Nazis during the Second World War Poland, 1939. Three-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the night and bundled into the basement. No one explains to her what war is. June, 1942. Soldiers burst into their apartment carrying guns and the family is taken to the Ghetto. Her mother and grandmother are forced to work at the factory until, one day, they do not return. Five-years-old, Renata is left utterly alone until she is smuggled out under the skirt of her former nanny. Forced into hiding, twists of fate save her life, but it is stories that become her salvation. A remarkable story of the horrors of war, Let Me Tell You a Story is a powerful memoir of growing up in traumatic times, and of the magical discovery of books.

PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408834497

Born in Poland, Renata Calverley moved to the UK aged nine. After gaining an Honours Degree in English Literature and American Studies from Nottingham University, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the London University Institute of Education and a Diploma in Creative Writing, she taught English for thirty-five years. Renata Calverley lives in Oxford with her husband.

EBOOK: 9781408834510 PUB DATE: 1 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408834503 PRICE:: £11.99

Lost Cat A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology

Caroline Paul For anyone who has ever wondered what their cat gets up to when they’re away This is the perfect book for cat lovers and amateur detectives. The story began when Wendy and Caroline’s beloved cat Tibia disappeared. Understandably, they were sick with worry. Weeks later, he waltzed back home and they were overjoyed. But they couldn’t help feeling jealous too – where had he been? Had he become a swashbuckling feline adventurer? To find out, they resorted to psychics, pet-cams and GPS tracking. Writer Caroline Paul tells the story of their discoveries, alongside Wendy MacNaughton’s charming watercolour illustrations and maps of Tibia’s movements. Warm and poignant, Lost Cat is a gem of a book. PRICE: £14.99

Caroline Paul is the acclaimed author of Fighting Fire, the story of her thirteen-year career as a firefighter in San Francisco, and the novel Paul’s East Wind, Rain. Wendy MacNaughton’s illustrations have appeared in national publications including the New York Times. They live together in San Francisco.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408835579 EBOOK: 9781408835586 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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King’s Cross Kid A London Childhood Between the Wars

Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud This highly entertaining prequel to Rifleman is set to become one of the classic accounts of a London working-class childhood and youth

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback

Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a fascinating life. King’s Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life is so hard that the Salvation Army arrange for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag time of late childhood begins. Then, after years of being in street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship in survival. Ending with his enlistment into the army on the day of his eighteenth birthday, this prequel to the bestselling Rifleman will appeal to the many readers who were charmed by Victor Gregg’s engaging, honest and warm voice.

ISBN: 9781408840504 EBOOK: 9781408840528 PUB DATE: 1 May 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath

Victor Gregg was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937, serving first in the Rifle Brigade in Palestine and the Battle of Alamein, and then in the Parachute Regiment at the Battle of Arnhem. He survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 1946 and now lives in Winchester. Rick Stroud is a writer and film director. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and The Phantom Army of Alamein and, with Victor Gregg, co-author of the acclaimed Rifleman.

Maggie & Me Damian Barr A unique and darkly witty memoir: coming of age, coming out and somehow surviving Glasgow’s tough streets during Thatcher’s reign It’s 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows up the Grand Hotel in Brighton and a secret explodes Damian Barr’s family in Glasgow. With a Catholic mum and Protestant dad, his childhood was always split, but now Damian faces a terrifyingly abusive stepfather and a creepily glamorous stepmother. The blonde bogeywoman on the BBC snatched his school milk and now she’s after the Ravenscraig Steelworks where his dad works. Then the threat of AIDS adds fear to the confusion of falling in love with his best friend… Maggie & Me is an inspiring memoir about surviving the 1980s and becoming an individual in spite of – and maybe because of – the Iron Lady. PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408838068 EBOOK: 9781408838082 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Conville & Walsh EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838075 PRICE:: £11.99

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Damian Barr has been a journalist for The Times for ten years, writes plays for BBC Radio 4 and features for the Independent, Telegraph, Guardian and Granta. He is the author of Get It Together: A Guide to Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis, featured on Richard & Judy, and host of the Shoreditch House Literary Salon. He lives in Brighton.

The Valley A Century in the Life of a Mining Family

Richard Benson From the bestselling author of The Farm, the story of twentieth-century workingclass England told through four generations of a Yorkshire mining family The Dearne Valley lies at the heart of the South Yorkshire coalfield. In 1945 that coalfield had sixty-seven pits; today only two survive. Following four generations of his mother’s family, the Hollingworths, born between 1890 and 2000, Benson depicts a community characterised not by the stereotype of doughty, unassuming labourers and housewives, but driven individuals relentless in the pursuit of their dreams. In its sweeping but deeply personal history of the working classes, The Valley shows a century punctuated by social upheaval. It is a tribute to a community that has changed almost beyond recognition, but still resonates in our memories.

PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9780747591849

Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller The Farm, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2005, a 2006 Richard &Judy Book Club choice and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Richard Benson lives in London.

EBOOK: 9781408834169 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Godwin Associates

Harley Loco A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side

Rayya Elias ‘She’s experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, prison, record deals

and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the process, and may very well have had sex with your wife back in the eighties...’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love When she was seven, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in Syria, settling in a suburb of Detroit. Bullied in school, she rebelled early and moved to New York City to become a musician at the height of the punk movement. Her uncommon talent for cutting hair kept her afloat in a world of adventure, creative inspiration and temptation. But as her obsessive love affairs with women and men went wrong and her occasional drug use turned to addiction, she spiralled into the darkness of heroin and cocaine. Soon she found herself living rough on the streets – between visits to jail.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408837672 EBOOK: 9781408837689 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013

Rayya Elias was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1960 and moved to the United States in 1967. She is a musician, hairdresser and film-maker, and she also sells real estate to make some extra scratch. Rayya Elias lives in New York City and Little York, New Jersey and has been clean since 8 August, 1997.

TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Wylie EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: 1 April 2013

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The Cooked Seed Anchee Min The unforgettable sequel to her internationally bestselling memoir, Red Azalea, in which she leaves China for the promised land of America only to find herself even more lost, until she finds herself through motherhood, love and writing Fifteen years after the publication of the bestselling Red Azelea, Anchee Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from her the shocking deprivations of her homeland to America, arriving without language, money or a clear path.

PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408838174 EBOOK: 9781408838198

It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces. She also gives birth to a daughter who will save her and root her, finally, in the new country. An unforgettable journey between two radically different cultures, this is an honest and incredible story of success in the face of bitter hardship.

PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838181 Export PUB Date: 14 May 2013 PRICE: £12.99

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labour collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao’s Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir, Red Azalea was published in twenty-seven countries. She has since published six novels, including the Richard & Judy choice Empress Orchid and, most recently, Pearl of China.

The North (And Almost Everything In It)

Paul Morley A celebratory and beautiful mixture of memoir, social history and cultural observation, Paul Morley’s The North is a unique portrait of Northern England and almost everything within it

PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9780747578161

Since he was seven, Morley has always thought of himself as a northerner. What that meant, he wasn’t entirely sure, but, like millions of others, he knew it to be an absolute, indisputable truth. Decades later, Morley sets out to discover and re-imagine the north through stories of his own past, from his Dad spreading margarine on Weetabix to the Stockport airplane disaster, and those of the region, from Tristram Shandy to Bernard Manning, from Wordsworth’s musings on the Lakes to the construction of Blackpool tower. Beautiful and ambitious, The North is a masterful blend of memoir and social history that captures the people, places and poetry – and inspiring energy – of northern England.

EBOOK: 9781408834008 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Godwin Associates

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Critic, broadcaster and music theorist Paul Morley grew up in Stockport, Cheshire. He is the author of a number of influential books on music as well as an acclaimed memoir, Nothing. Paul has written for numerous publications including the New Statesman, the Sunday Telegraph, NME, the Observer and the Financial Times, and appears regularly on BBC2’s The Review Show.

If It’s Not One Thing It’s Your Mother Image © Michael Blum

Julia Sweeney A memoir of motherhood and marriage that will make you laugh and cry – and then laugh again One day, comedian and writer Julia Sweeney took a flight to China to adopt Mulan – a one-and-a-half-year-old girl every bit as feisty as the Disney character (whom she was not named for). If It’s Not One Thing It’s Your Mother is the story of this quirky mother-daughter pair who eventually became – in a hilariously unexpected way – a mother-daughter-father trio, from their eventful journey home to the USA to the arrival of their smelly dog and The Conversation in which Mulan worked out how men do it with other men. Julia Sweeney turns her considerable talent for comic performance to the story of her own voyage to motherhood and marriage, and the result is a classic of its kind.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408830635 EBOOK: 99781408832219 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: William Morris Endeavour Entertainment

Julia Sweeney was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1994. She has also written and performed in several critically acclaimed one-woman shows, including God Said Ha!, In the Family Way and Letting Go of God. She lives outside of Chicago, Illinois. If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother is her first book.

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The Breakfast Bible Seb Emina and Malcolm Eggs Everything you ever wanted to know about breakfast When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books. A crack team of eggsperts have come up with recipes ranging from the iconic full English to more exotic fare such as omelette Arnold Bennett and pães de queijo from South America. Interspersed with these are notes on hot topics such as the top songs to boil an egg to, forgotten breakfast cereals of the 1980s and the analysis of Freud’s famous ‘breakfast dream’. With its beguiling mix of recipes, advice, illustrations and miscellany, The Breakfast Bible is, unquestionably, the most important book of the day.

PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback

Seb Emina is the creator and editor of the London Review of Breakfasts blog, where he writes under the nom de plume of Malcolm Eggs. His writing has appeared in newspapers and books internationally. He lives in London.

ISBN: 9781408804810 EBOOK: 9781408839904 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Chicken & Eggs River Cottage Handbook No.11

Mark Diacono A comprehensive guide to keeping chickens, plus thirty cracking recipes Chickens come in all shapes and sizes – some lay eggs, others just strut about looking decorative. Mark Diacono begins with the basics, explaining how to choose, look after and breed chickens. He shows how you can work out what kind of eggs you have (are they destined for the eggcup, or will they hatch into chicks?), as well as how to go about getting the birds on the table, offering delicious recipes that go far beyond the roast. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this is an essential guide for anyone who can’t stop thinking about chicks. PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408817919 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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A smallholder and writer, Mark Diacono is known for his commitment to sustainable, ethically produced food. He also champions climate-change growing, an approach to producing food that takes sustainable advantage of the new weather conditions; Otter Farm, his smallholding in East Devon, is home to the UK’s first olive grove.

Atul’s Curries of the World Atul Kochhar A book of world curries from one of the world’s greatest exponents of the art, award-winning, Michelin-starred chef, Atul Kochhar A book for spice lovers of all cuisines. Atul explores curries of the world, looking to his native India, of course, but also to Asia and Africa, to the Americas, Europe and even the UK. Curry remains one of the world’s most popular dishes and Atul’s collection of mouth-watering dishes does more than enough to convince us why. Over 100 recipes show curry in all its fantastic forms. Inspiring, intoxicating spiced dishes that cover meat, fish and vegetable curries from all corners of the globe: this promises to be a book you will cook from again and again.

PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781906650797

Atul Kochhar is one of the world’s leading Indian chefs and food writers, with a vast knowledge and passion for curry. The face of Indian cooking on British television, he has appeared on shows such as Saturday Kitchen and The Great British Menu. His Michelin-starred restaurant, Benares, is one of London’s flagship destinations to eat out.

PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

The Farm Shop Cookbook Christine McFadden A paperback edition of The Farm Shop Cookbook: the first book to recognise the most influential food revolution in Britain since the supermarket As farm shops continue to emerge all over Britain at an ever-increasing rate, Christine McFadden’s timely book reflects the celebration of all things British. In a simple A-Z format Christine provides recipes, cook’s notes, tips and much more for all and everything that might be found in a fully stocked farm shop in the rural heart of any one of Britain’s counties. Fruit, dairy produce, vegetables, herbs, meat, poultry, game, offal as well as wild foraged food are all given pages of wholesome and delicious recipes in a book whose time has truly come. PRICE: £14.99

Christine McFadden is an award-winning and highly respected food writer, whose books Pepper (Absolute Press) and Cooks’ Tools earned her glowing reviews and front-of-store sales. She is the author of fourteen other books in total, is a leading member of The Slow Food Movement and past committee member of The Guild of Food Writers.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781906650810 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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The Little Book of Biscuit Tips Jane Middleton The Little Books of Tips series is a collection of books, each containing 50 tips, delivering wisdom and advice on a whole range of popular subjects covering food, gardening, craft, sports and hobbies. Over quarter of a million copies sold across the series PRICE: £3.50 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781906650902 PUB DATE: 23 May 2013

With tips on creating classic favourites such as Viennese whirls through to advice on cookies, macaroons and savoury bites too. All combine to create the perfect gift for sweet-toothed friends.

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Jane Middleton is one of the UK’s finest food editors who has turned a love of working with recipes from some of the best known food writers in the country into a love of writing recipes, launching her own bespoke bakery business a year ago and specialising in creating beautiful biscuits, macaroons and hand-held treats.

The Little Book of Seafood Tips

The Little Book of Toast Tips

The Little Book of Cleaning Tips

Andrew Langley

Andrew Langley

William Fortt

This little tome includes lots of tips on getting the most from

With tips on all manner of toasted treats, from grilled

Including plenty of tips on household cleaning, for all sorts

the vast range of wonderful seafood now available to cooks.

sandwiches to perfect toast toppings: everything that

of domestic mess and disorder, this little book will help

There are tips on preparing and cooking fish and shellfish

is wonderful from the world of grilling. A selection of

you find shine and perfection in your lives once more.

and finding the best ways to enjoy eating it whether you love

tips for terrific treats, snacks and meals.

From natural solutions to tackling the most stubborn

oysters or lust after lobster.

of stains to keeping clutter at bay, this small volume is Andrew Langley is a knowledgeable food and drink

packed with useful advice.

Andrew Langley is a knowledgeable food and drink writer and

writer and the author of many Little Books of Tips.

the author of many Little Books of Tips. He has written books

He has written books on all manner of food and

William Fortt is an author of over 30 years, with many

on all manner of food and drink subjects and is the editor of

drink subjects and is the editor of the highly regarded

books to his name including several Little Books of Tips.

the highly regarded anthology of the writings of the legendary

anthology of the writings of the legendary Victorian

He has a keen interest in the environment and keeping

Victorian chef Alexis Soyer.

chef Alexis Soyer.

it tidy

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Sweet Things from the Aga Hannah Miles Hannah Miles introduces you to the wonderful world of cakes, biscuits, puddings and desserts, created on the cooker that produces them best UK MasterChef finalist Hannah Miles reached ‘the final three’ in the 2007 series of MasterChef and there’s been no stopping her since. This will be Hannah’s 12th cookery book, but her first dedicated to creating puddings and desserts and biscuits and cakes on her beloved Aga. Sumptuous classics for this classic cooker include treats such as jam roly poly, custard tarts, flapjacks and muffins while exciting and more exotic delectations such as Churros with Toffee Cream Filling, Maple Pretzels and Cardamom Rice Pudding make this compact but decadent book an irresistible buy for all sweet-toothed Aga owners.

PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781906650834

In 2007 Hannah’s success on MasterChef was a launchpad into a successful food career. She has a monthly column in Country & Town House and has had recipes featured in numerous magazines, including BBC Good Food, Delicious, Hello!, New York Daily News and the Sunday Express. She has appeared on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and exhibited at the BBC Good Food Show.

PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Ice Cream Ben Vear A benchmark book of ice cream recipes, from the fourth generation of one of England’s most famous ice cream making families, Winstones This wonderful new book from fourth generation ice cream maker Ben Vear features more than 100 recipes, from simple, delicious ice creams such as strawberry and butterscotch chip to a fantastic array of other iced treats such as sorbets, smoothies, granitas, gelatos, frozen yoghurts, milkshakes and some fun molecular experiments to boot. Winstones is one of the UK’s longest-running and most respected family ice cream producers, founded by Ben’s great grandfather Albert in 1925 in the heart of the Cotswolds. All of the ice cream recipes in this book remain true to Albert Winstone’s original base recipe but have been updated by Ben.

PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback

Twenty-three-year-old Ben Vear is an award winning ice cream maker at his historic family business Winstones Ice Cream. Recently shortlisted as Young British Foodie of the Year (2012), Ben is the founder of the Campaign for Real Ice Cream and the Pop-up Pudding Parlour.

ISBN: 9781906650858 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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The Square, The Cookbook: Volume 2 (Sweet) Philip Howard Philip Howard’s dedication to perfection informs every page of this monumental work of gastronomic creativity and technical expertise

PRICE: ÂŁ30.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781906650827 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

The second volume of the extraordinary work from two-Michelin-star chef, Philip Howard. The Square: The Cookbook (Sweet) gives precise instructions on how to create food of top Michelin standard. Meticulous, detailed and fiercely intelligent, this is a book that will set the benchmark for books of the highest culinary ambition. Featuring brilliant dishes such as his signature Brillat Savarin Cheesecake with Passion Fruit and Lime, the book features a full repertoire of sweet recipes, each accompanied by the beautiful photography of Jean Cazals. A must-have book for all chefs, but a great book for keen amateurs and serious foodies alike. Philip Howard has been chef and co-owner of The Square since its opening in 1991. Whilst the style of his cooking has evolved, receiving many awards and accolades, the fundamental backbone of his dishes is unchanged. Impeccable seasonal ingredients are accurately cooked and brought together in a harmonious, elegant, yet satisfying manner. He has held two Michelin stars since 1998 and is the author of The Square: Volume 1 (Savoury).

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The Great Tamasha Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India

James Astill The story of modern India told through the glitzy, scandalous and transformative world of cricket Cricket is a unique national passion that’s at the heart of modern India. The explosive growth of the sport in the country is a remarkable tale that has transfixed the nation. As a business, it represents everything that is most dynamic and entrepreneurial about the country’s economic boom. As an unholy congregation of the rich and powerful, it reveals the corrupt, back-scratching and nepotistic way in which India is run. Examining the great optimism, industry and vulgar consumerism of India’s emerging middleclass – via rapid economic growth, outlandish corruption and crony capitalism – and reappraising contemporary Indian nationality, this is a truly original book.

PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408156926 EBOOK: 9781408192207

James Astill spent four years in New Delhi as South Asia Bureau Chief for the Economist. He is now their Political Editor. He has won four major journalism awards including America’s Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defence.

PUB DATE: 28 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Hell-Bent Obsession, Pain and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Bikram Yoga

Benjamin Lorr A remarkable investigation into the world of Bikram Yoga, by turns shocking, hilarious and enlightening Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found Bikram yoga reinventing his life. He was content to slim down and tone up until a run-in with a competitive yoga champion convinced him to take his practice to the next level. So begins a journey into the strange, amazing world of competitive yoga. Populated by athletic prodigies, wide-eyed celebrities, medical miracles and predatory hucksters, Hell-Bent follows Lorr as he grapples with his new obsession: researching the health claims and history, humanising its maniacal guru, and eventually competing for glory at the national championship.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408836392

Benjamin Lorr graduated from Columbia University with a degree in creative writing. He lives in New York and is currently writing his second book.

EBOOK: 9781408836408 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: 8 Nov 2012

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Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy A Journey to the Heart of Cricket’s Underworld

Ed Hawkins An astounding and unprecedented exposé of the corruption and match-fixing running rife throughout cricket

PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback

Over several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India’s bookmakers and the International Cricket Council anti-corruption officers who are trying to shut them down. He travelled to the country as he endeavoured to understand how the world’s largest unregulated gambling market operates. Bookies, fixers and gamblers showed him the tricks of their trade. He lived and worked with a bookmaker for a spell and will now never watch a match in the same way again. With a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and players – and corruption, intimidation, even murder – this is surely the most important cricket book ever written.

ISBN: 9781408169957 EBOOK: 9781408165973 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO

Ed Hawkins is an award-winning sports journalist. He has twice been named the Sports Journalists Association’s Sports Betting Writer of the Year and was a nominee for Best New Writer at the 2012 British Sports Book Awards.

TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838525 PRICE: £12.99

The Little Wonder 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack

Robert Winder The remarkable true story of the world’s most famous sports book, published to coincide with the Almanack’s 150th anniversary In 1864 the English cricketer John Wisden, known as ‘The Little Wonder’, first published his eponymous book. That first edition is now a rare artwork worth around £10,000, and the Almanack has been published continuously ever since.

PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408136263

Wisden’s history gives us the entire social pageant of English, and world, cricket. Winder depicts the game’s most charismatic characters, its high points, flops and political storms. He traces cricket’s journey – at the heart of national life for so long – through Britain’s imperial domain, revealing the game’s impact on schools and culture at large, its class twists and its relationship with English identity.

EBOOK: 9781408165973 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Robert Winder was Literary Editor of the Independent and Deputy Editor of Granta. He has written several books including Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey and Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. He is a team member of the Gaieties Cricket Club, whose chairman was the late Harold Pinter.

Tour de France 100 A Visual History of Cycling’s Greatest Challenge

Richard Moore A stunning visual history of the Tour de France published as the one hundredth race gets underway in 2013 First staged in 1903, the Tour de France lasts three weeks every July and takes its c.200 competitors through over 3600km of varied terrain, including testing mountain stages. The race is broken into one-day ‘stages’, with the overall leader wearing the fabled yellow jersey.

PRICE: £30.00 FORMAT: Hardback

Tour de France 100 celebrates 110 years of the Tour and publishes in the run up to the 100th race. It captures key visual moments in its history, including heroes of the race, great rivalries, moments of high drama, accidents and scandals, all accompanied by Richard Moore’s authoritative text that illuminates and expands upon the superb imagery. The final chapter celebrates Bradley Wiggins’ triumph in 2012 as the first British man to win the tour and bring home the yellow jersey.

ISBN: 9781408170960 EBOOK: 9781408186831 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Richard Moore is a journalist, author, and former racing cyclist, competing in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. His first book, In Search of Robert Millar, won the Best Biography award at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. His latest book, The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Olympic 100m Final, is also published by Bloomsbury.

The Great British Mountain Bike Trail Guide Clive Forth Clive Forth provides detailed information on the best mountain bike trails across the British Isles as thoroughly tested by himself The Great British Mountain Book Trail Guide provides detailed information on the best trails across the British Isles. Written and tested by author Clive Forth, this is a practical guide by an experienced mountain biker. With Clive’s knowledge of the sport and of trail centres he is able to give a considered evaluation of each trail, the grading, the facilities, and how it rates in terms of scenery and exhilaration. Portable and well-presented with inspiring images and maps, this is an essential resource for all mountain bikers.

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Paperback

Clive Forth is a leading mountain bike racer and trainer and the author of The Mountain Bike Skills Manual. He competed in the first UK mountain bike series, took part in the World Championships and is currently involved in coaching and training novice and professional mountain bikers. He is the founder of MTBSkills: the Clive Forth Mountain Bike Academy.

ISBN: 9781408179444 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Foinavon David Owen The Story of the Grand National’s Biggest Upset The extraordinary story of a 100-1 outsider’s triumph in the most dramatic horse race of all time

PRICE: £18.99

It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Liverpool’s Aintree racecourse, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos exceptional even by the Grand National’s standards and won the world’s toughest steeplechase. Foinavon, the dogged victor, and Susie, the white nanny goat who accompanied him everywhere, became instant celebrities. Foinavon’s victory has become part of British sporting folklore. Here, for the first time, Owen tells the real story and shows why the Grand National holds tens of millions of people spellbound, year after year, for ten minutes on a Saturday afternoon in early spring.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408154755 EBOOK: 9781408192214 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013

David Owen is a former sports editor of the Financial Times, and has covered scores of major sports events around the world for the FT and other publications in a career spanning three decades. This is his first non-fiction book.

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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2013 Edited by Lawrence Booth The 150th-anniversary edition of the world’s most famous sports book, published every year since 1864

PRICE: £50.00

A perennial bestseller loved by cricket fans and bibliophiles around the world and published every single year since its first edition in 1864, Wisden celebrates its 150th anniversary with the 2013 edition. As ever, it contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with some of the finest sports writing of the year. Together with Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the brilliant obituaries, Wisden’s trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records, make it a ‘must-have’ for every cricket fan.

FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408175651 PUB DATE: 11 April 2013 TERRITORY: WO

This is Lawrence Booth’s second year as Editor of Wisden, although he contributed for many years. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game.

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You Are The Ref Keith Hackett & Paul Trevillion A Guide to Good Refereeing Illustrated by You Are the Ref artist Paul Trevillion, this football refereeing guide will improve your understanding of the game

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408158869

Perfect for all referees, trainee referees and anyone looking to increase their knowledge of the beautiful game, You Are the Ref: A Guide to Good Refereeing is packed with information on every aspect of the game for football referees and assistants, all brought to life with illustrator Paul Trevillion’s legendary images and renowned ex-referee Keith Hackett’s incisive text. Fully comprehensive and immensely entertaining, You Are the Ref will help you stay one step ahead of the game.

EBOOK: 9781408181713 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Paul Trevillion is a renowned sports artist – famous for the legendary comic strip character Roy of the Rovers and his classic ‘You are the Ref’ column in the Observer. Keith Hackett is General Manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) – the referee’s governing body and is the Referee Ambassador for the FA, Premier League and UEFA.

Golf Stories Gerald Batchelor A reproduction of the 1914 original, Golf Stories is a collection of original short stories, jokes, anecdotes, dialogues and parodies ‘Few have attempted to give any record of the subtle humour which belongs to all sports of Scottish origin, and to Golf in particular.’ So said the original blurb when first published in 1914, and though a large number of titles have since appeared, mining the inherent wit, intemperance and pratfalls of golf, it is enlightening to return to Gerald Batchelor’s original. Golf Stories is a collection of original short stories, jokes, anecdotes, sketches, dialogues and parodies, all illustrated with suitably baggy-trousered line drawings by E. W. Mitchell. The book is an essential addition to the library of any golfer. Gerald Batchelor was the author of a number of golfing stories, republished in many subsequent collections, unknowingly spawning a genre.

PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408182611 EBOOK: 9781408182635 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Don’ts for Cricketers From the publishers of Don’ts for Husbands and Don’ts for Wives a brand-new old collection of advice for cricketers Don’ts for Husbands and Don’ts for Wives were republished by A&C Black in 2007 and have sold more than one million copies to date. Don’ts for Cricketers was originally printed in 1906 and contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining, timeless and amusing advice for cricketers of all abilities. The advice – ranging from technique and equipment to etiquette on the field – provides an engaging snapshot of life in early twentieth-century Britain.

PRICE: £3.50 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408192221 EBOOK: 9781408192238 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

The Authors XI A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon An insightful examination of modern cricket by a historic team made up of cricket-obsessed writers PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408840450 EBOOK: 9781408840467 PUB DATE: 6 June 2013

The Authors Cricket Club last played in 1912, and include among their alumni such greats as PG Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and JM Barrie. A hundred years on from their last match, a team of modern-day authors has been assembled to continue the tradition in a nationwide tour in search of the perfect day’s cricket.

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Over the course of a summer they played over a dozen matches in some of England’s most spectacular and historic grounds. In the book, each player contributes a chapter about one of their fixtures, using a match report as a starting point for an essay on cricket and its appeal. The Authors XI is a thoughtful and engaging look at both the history of cricket and the state of the game today. The Authors Cricket Club has been revived by Charlie Campbell and Nicholas Hogg. The new-look side includes brothers Tom and James Holland, William Fiennes and Alex Preston, professional-cricketer-turned-author Ed Smith, historians Matthew Parker and Thomas Penn and Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens. Planning has begun for 2013 and beyond.

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The Year Klunk When the Mountain Bike Began

Charlie Kelly Written by the man who started it all, an unprecedented insight into the beginning of the mountain bike craze, with a bit of the seventies thrown in for good measure Charlie Kelly was the first man to build and ride a mountain bike, in Marin County, California 1974. He went on to organise the Repack downhill races for ten years, making mountain biking the most exciting cycling craze, first of the Bay area, then of California and finally the world. Through all the fuss, Charlie’s ironic Irish-American scepticism kept him honest, and he continues to be the most entertaining and down-to-earth commentator on the extraodinary business of riding bikes off-road. Beginning in flower power San Francisco, the story retains the power of that once-in-a-generation period of change.

PRICE: £30.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408190005 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013

Charlie Kelly is known throughout the world as the godfather of mountain biking. While he has collaborated before, this is the first book he has written about how it all started.

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Maglia Rosa 2nd edition Triumph and Tragedy at the Giro D’Italia

Herbie Sykes ‘A sumptious history of the race, accompanied by marvellously evocative photographs’ Guardian Maglia Rosa: Triumph and Tragedy at the Giro d’Italia is the definitive history of the Giro d’Italia, written by Turin resident and regular Rouleur contributor Herbie Sykes. Sykes takes the reader on an inspiring, magical journey. In so doing he evokes 100 years of the race for the maglia rosa, the mythical pink jersey of the race leader. This second edition includes updates throughout from Sykes, including new photographs and perspectives on the 2012 Giro.

PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408190012 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO

Herbie Sykes is a cycling historian and the author of Coppi: Inside the Legend of the Campionissimo on the great cyclist Fausto Coppi, also published by Rouleur Books. Sykes lives in Turin and is a regular contributor to both Rouleur and Procycling magazines.

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Mechanic Keeping the Pros on the Road

Rohan Dubash & Guy Andrews A captivating portrayal of the life of the professional bike mechanic

PRICE: ÂŁ30.00 FORMAT: Hardback

A behind the scenes look at how far professional road bike mechanics have to go to keep their riders fast and, more importantly, safe. Also included are tricks of the trade and set-up guides, with secrets and techniques from the professionals and interviews with leading mechanics and riders. The authors followed several key mechanics over a number of years and have amassed a collection of wonderful images and experiences of life on the road. Includes: what to expect during a day at the Tour de France; what the best mechanics use to keep going; helpful hints from those in the know.

ISBN: 9781408189894 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Rohan Dubash is a technical writer and specialist bike consultant. Guy Andrews is the founder of Rouleur magazine and an experienced author, photographer and former bike mechanic.

Why Rousseau was Wrong Christianity and the Secular Soul

Frances Ward Why secular humanism leads to guilt, political correctness and fear of giving offence – and how the Church can help Post-Olympic Britain looks a very different country from the post-riot Britain of 2011. However, despite the successes of 2012, Frances Ward argues that underlying tensions remain in our society because we have forgotten how to nurture belonging and trust. Tracing the impact of key Enlightenment philosophers on our increasingly secular society, Ward outlines an alternative model of citizenship based on character and virtue, rather than ‘identity.’ Using extracts from Alexander McCall Smith’s Isabel Dalhousie series as a counterpoint, she shows how the church can help to shape national corporate life by strengthening bonds of hospitality, friendship and trust.

PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781441115539

Frances Ward is Dean of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich and is an inter-faith specialist. She was formerly a Canon of Bradford Cathedral.

EBOOK: 9781441153036 PUB DATE: 31 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Spiritual Letters Sister Wendy Beckett A series of letters to young religious on the spiritual life, always laced with sound common sense and good humour Apart from her celebrity status as the ‘art nun’ through her television programmes, Sister Wendy has always been passing on sound simple advice to others on the spiritual life and the life of prayer. Here for the first time are collected some of the finest of her letters. This little book is a treasure trove of wisdom and wise counsel. Sister Wendy became a nun at the age of 16, went on to live for nearly 20 years as a hermit, and then was exposed to the world in a successful television career as the ‘art nun’. She continues to live a cloistered life, devoted to prayer.

PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408188439 EBOOK: 9781408188415 PUB DATE: 28 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO EX-USA/CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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You Are The Messiah and I Should Know Why Leadership is a Myth (and Probably a Heresy)

Justin Lewis-Anthony Is ‘Leadership’ a useful sociological tool for the Church’s ministry and mission, or a dangerous threat, akin to a heresy? PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781441186188

Every human endeavour needs leadership. The Church believes itself to be no exception. However, advocates of ‘leadership’ have been unable to give a universally accepted definition of the term.

EBOOK: 9781441122469 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Justin Lewis-Anthony explores how our understanding of both secular and religious leadership has been fatally compromised by the influence of ‘mythic’ leadership models. Exploring the role that Hollywood film has played in creating ideas of the perfect leader, he shows how, though we talk about Jesus Christ, we expect John Wayne. This book shows how leadership is, at best, a contested concept and, at worst, a dangerous heresy. Justin Lewis-Anthony is Rector of St Stephen’s Church, Canterbury and Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of the bestselling If You Meet George Herbert on the Road, Kill Him.

Saint Augustine of Hippo An Intellectual Biography

Miles Hollingworth An outstanding new examination of St. Augustine’s philosophy and of its bearing upon the roots of Western civilization Augustine was one of the West’s first public philosophers. Intelectually brilliant and a gifted writer, he is known as one of the great figures of late Christian antiquity. This biography is written at once for scholars and students but also for the huge number of intelligent lay readers for whom Augustine is a towering figure in the history of Western civilisation.

PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781441173720 EBOOK: 9781441152282 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO EX-USA/CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Miles Hollingworth is Research Fellow in the History of Ideas at St. John’s College, Durham. His writing on Augustine has won awards from the Society of Authors (2009 Elizabeth Longford Grant for Historical Biography) and the Royal Society of Literature (2009 Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction).

The New Asceticism Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God

Sarah Coakley Sarah Coakley cuts creatively across established ecclesiastical battle lines in a new, serious reflection on ascetical theology tout court In this original thesis on the nature of desire, Sarah Coakley draws both liberal and conservative camps into a new and serious reflection. Each chapter concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism. The New Asceticism shows how desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention. Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and was previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. She was an assistant curate at Littlemore, Oxford, for 7 years after her ordination in 2000 and is currently an honorary canon of Ely Cathedral.

PRICE: ÂŁ14.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781441103222 EBOOK: 9781441162243 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Good Small Business Guide 2013, 7th Edition How to Start and Grow Your Own Business Fully updated for this 6th annual edition, the Good Small Business Guide 2013 is packed with essential advice for small business owners or budding entrepreneurs. Offering help on all aspects of starting, running and growing a small business, including: planning, setting up or acquiring a business, getting to grips with figures, marketing, selling online, and managing yourself and others. Containing over 140 easy-to-read articles, brand-new viewpoints from people who’ve been there and done it (and lived to tell the tale) and an extensive information directory, this fully updated guide offers help on all aspects of starting and growing a small business. PRICE: £19.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408159590 EBOOK: 9781408178843 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

How to Wear White A Pocketbook for the Bride-to-Be

Francesca Beauman An intelligent, funny and eclectic guide for the twenty-first-century bride, from the author of How to Crack an Egg with One Hand Within these pages you will find everything you need to know (and a few things you don’t) in order to take the daring leap that is a modern marriage: from the frivolous to the deeply serious, from the cultural to the historical, from the physics of falling in love and the marriage customs of the Na people of south-west China to celebrity wedding dress designers and tax credits. True, you may not ever need to know the names of all of Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands or how to plan a wedding in the Antarctic, but isn’t it fabulous that you do? PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408826607 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Conville & Walsh

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Francesca Beauman is a historian, journalist and television presenter. She is the author of The Pineapple, The Woman’s Book, Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad and How to Crack an Egg with One Hand: A Pocketbook for the New Mother. She lives in London and Los Angeles and is married with two young children.

Pregnancy Yoga Samantha Magee Pregnancy Yoga focuses on the best postures from the first stages of pregnancy through to birth and into motherhood Pregnancy Yoga offers clear guidance to prepare your body and mind for your new arrival, taking you step by step through the best yoga postures during pregnancy and into early motherhood. Yoga during pregnancy can be a valuable tool, not only as a form of exercise but as a way of learning acceptance of change, and maintaining a positive mental outlook as well as a strong and supple body. It can also minimise common pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness and constipation, ease labour and delivery, and help restore your body after childbirth.

PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408182246 PUB DATE: 28 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN

Samantha Magee has been practicing yoga for over 10 years. She is an experienced Bikram teacher, having trained under Bikram Choudhury, as well as completing Vinyasa yoga teacher training with Max Strom.

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She is a contributor to Surfgirl and Yoga Magazine, teaches in studios throughout London and conducts corporate seminars on stress relief and yoga for the office and lifestyle.

Sweet Knits 30 Cute Designs for Kids

Catherine Graham-Evans Some children like to slay dragons, others prefer sipping tea with princesses, but any child will find something to wear, play with and love within the creative patterns featured in Sweet Knits. From flower-shaped tea cups to cute summer dresses, cosy jumpers to fun decorations, these projects are full of personality. Garments come in kids’ sizes from newborn to ten years, and there are even some patterns for grown-ups, too! With suggestions on how to adapt and personalise each design for unique results, Sweet Knits contains cosy hand-made treasures that grow with your child and stir young imaginations.

PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408171943

Catherine Graham-Evans has always designed and made her own knits. She studied fine art at university, before becoming a primary school teacher. In 2008, Catherine began designing, knitting and selling handknit and crochet items for children. In 2010, she gave up teaching, and now creates patterns for books and yarn companies, as well as handknitted items for sale.

PUB DATE: 31 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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The Ukulele Handbook Gavin Pretor-Pinney and Tom Hodgkinson The definitive guide to the uke – its legends and history, plus a fantastic songbook

PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408836293 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WE

The ukulele has undergone a massive resurgence in recent years. You can now hear the uke all over the place, from trendster indie rock to YouTube megahits. All around the country people are picking up a ukulele and starting to strum, at home, in classes, and down the pub. Gavin Pretor-Pinney and Tom Hodgkinson have produced the ultimate uke handbook: an illustrated guide to its history crossed with a how-to guide and songbook. With lovely production values, a light touch and an irresistible instrument at centre stage, this is a musthave for all aspiring George Formbys.

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Tom Hodgkinson and Gavin Pretor-Pinney founded the Idler magazine in 1993. Tom edits the magazine and is the author of How to Be Idle; he now runs the Idler Academy bookshop, café and school. Gavin is the author of the bestselling book The Cloudspotter’s Guide and founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. They were in a band together at school.

The Pocket Book of Weather Entertaining and Remarkable Facts About our Weather

Michael Bright Featuring over 3,000 essential facts and figures, this entertaining and informative guide to the world’s weather explains how the weather shapes our planet and affects all our lives. From sandstorms to monsoons, avalanches to solar storms, rainbows to tornadoes, this concise but comprehensive book explores the whats, whys, wheres, hows and whens. How do clouds form? What makes the wind blow? Why are deserts so dry and rainforests so wet? Uncovering the amazing truth behind our weather and exploring the intriguing mysteries of weather phenomena, this is a fascinating compendium of useful and entertaining information. Michael Bright is an executive producer with the BBC’s Natural History Unit. He is based in Bristol, England, but treks around the world gathering material for the BBC’s groundbreaking television documentaries. Michael is the author of scores of books about the natural world, from The Private Life of Sharks to 1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die.

PRICE: £10.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408181553 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Elwin Street LTD

Final Voyage The World’s Worst Maritime Disasters

Jonathan Eyers The dramatic true stories of forgotten maritime tragedies Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn’t even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three centuries. Many of these disasters have been almost forgotten, including the loss of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest maritime disaster in history, in which 10,000 people perished. These are stories of people – whether they lived or died – as well as the ships themselves. They tell of tragedy, war, heroism and cowardice, greed and sacrifice. Only for the lucky few were they also stories of rescue and survival. PRICE: £8.99

Jonathan Eyers is the author of Don’t Shoot the Albatross: Nautical Myths and Superstitions and How to Snog a Hagfish: Disgusting Things in the Sea. He is an Assistant Editor for Adlard Coles Nautical.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408158944 EBOOK: 9781408158937 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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The Thames, 2nd Edition A Photographic Journey from Source to Sea

Derek Pratt A stunning and comprehensive showcase of the Thames we know – and the Thames we don’t PRICE: £20.00 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408186930 EBOOK: 9781408170137 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO

Emerging as a small stream in idyllic countryside and growing to become the country’s largest river, the Thames passes through some of the world’s most iconic urban environments. This beautiful book celebrates the entire river from source to sea, and with wonderful photography and quirky text follows it on a voyage through Britain’s history, as it joins landmarks of the past with the urban landscape of today. Updated for its second edition with new text and photography throughout, this is a loving tribute to an iconic river.

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Derek Pratt is a professional photographer and specialist writer on inland waterways. He regularly writes and photographs for Britain’s leading waterways magazine Waterways World and he is the author of several books and articles on the subject, including the bestselling Waterways Past and Present, London’s Waterways and Urban Waterways, all published by Adlard Coles Nautical.

Looking for the Goshawk In Search of the Fugitive Raptor

Conor Mark Jameson A gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird Looking for the Goshawk traces Conor Jameson’s travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and the unearthing of information from research, exploration and conversations. The journey takes Conor from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case, through travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain, to Berlin - where he finds the bird at ease in the city. PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback

Why, he wants to know, is the bird so rarely seen in Britain?

ISBN: 9781408164877 EBOOK: 9781408187029 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Conor Mark Jameson works for the RSPB and has contributed to numerous wildlife magazines including the RSPB’s Birds magazine and BBC Wildlife. In 2010 he won the BBC Wildlife Nature Writer of the Year award with his article, Phantom, about an encounter with a goshawk in Berlin. His first book, Silent Spring Revisited was published by Bloomsbury in spring 2012.

RSPB Handbook of the Seashore Maya Plass A brand new RSPB guide to help you become a confident and learned explorer of the seashore If the tantalising glimpses you catch of the diverse and alien wildlife found in the semi-aquatic environment between the tides leaves you curious to learn more, the RSPB Handbook of the Seashore is for you. It will teach you to easily identify the species you discover and features helpful sections on how to read tide tables, where to look, climate change concerns, and who to call should you come across something unexpected on your next beach visit. Packed with 200+ species accounts this new guide is written throughout in engaging text, accessible to anyone who loves to visit the seashore. PRICE: £9.99

Maya Plass is an experienced marine ecologist committed to sharing her love and knowledge of our aquatic world. Maya has developed projects in the UK and abroad to encourage communities to protect our seas and oceans, and her passion for the sea has led her to engage with wider audiences through television presenting and now through her first book.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408178362 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Exploring the Thames Wilderness A Guide to the Natural Thames

Richard Mayon-White and Wendy Yorke A beautiful guide to the natural Thames – plants and wildlife, stunning views and wonderful walks There is a hidden side to the Thames – wild and natural, with stunning scenery and a wealth of activities. This guidebook features over 150 of the best places to explore the real Thames wilderness, with information on the history and character of each stretch of the river, which plants and wildlife to watch out for, activities you can do, how to get there and nearby moorings, cycle paths and car parks. Each section features a circular walk, tying together several of the sites and accompanied by an enchanting hand-drawn map.

PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408181126 EBOOK: 9781408181140

Richard Mayon-White is a river warden coordinator for the River Thames Society, and has loved the river for 50 years, exploring it on foot and afloat from source to sea. Wendy Yorke is the Projects Manager for the Thames Rivers Trust and has been involved in community engagement and river restoration in the UK and Australia.

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Ghosts of Gone Birds Edited By Ceri Levy The book of the show – Art does extinct birds

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The original brief – given to 120 artists – was to produce a piece of work based loosely on one or more extinct birds, with proceeds from sales going to BirdLife International. The results exceeded the curator’s wildest dreams – the initial exhibition in London was a sensation, with the people involved representing a who’s who of British art – Sir Peter Blake, Ben Newman, Ralph Steadman, Billy Childlish – and renowned bird artists such as Bruce Pearson and Carry Akroyd. This book features art from the event along with text by the artists themselves. It is glossy, colourful and rich - a fitting testament to the exhibition and to the birds whose demise inspired it.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408187463 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Cari Levy is a film-maker who started out making videos before moving into the world of documentaries. His works include Bananaz, a film about the inner machinations of the group Gorillaz, and the forthcoming The Bird Effect. He was pivotal in the creation of Ralph Steadman’s Extinct Boids and provided the commentary for this extraordinary work.

RSPB The Great British Wildlife Hunt Anne Harrap A ‘Nature detective’ book with a difference A first sighting of an unexpected bird or an elusive mammal is a real thrill and can encourage a lifetime’s interest in nature. This new RSPB book is perfect for anyone who enjoys a walk in the woods or a coastal stroll. It isn’t a site guide directing you to the same old places; instead The Great British Wildlife Hunt encourages you to actively find species everywhere you go, by learning to recognise landscape features, habitats and niches, and spot other signs that a species is nearby. Each species has a score to inspire friendly competition on your days out. PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408180372 EBOOK: 9781408186749 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Anne Harrap studied biology and has an MSc in Environmental Science and Conservation Resource Management. She runs her own garden design business and currently combines this with environmental education, creating school gardens and wildlife areas. She is co-author of Wildflowers in the Garden as well as the bestselling Orchids of Britain and Ireland: A Field and Site Guide.

Ada’s Rules Alice Randall ‘A wonderful, warm and funny novel. Truly inspiring’ Katie Fforde Ada Howard, the preacher’s wife, has a whole lot of people to take care of. It’s no wonder she can’t find time to take care of herself. And her husband’s been so busy lately she’s suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him… Then an invitation to her college reunion arrives, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. Ada starts laying down some rules to lose the hundred or so pounds gained since her college days, and so begins an unforgettable journey on the way to less weight and more love… Alice Randall was born in Detroit, grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Harvard. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, and Rebel Yell. Like Ada, she’s done battle with her weight. And, like Ada, she’s a proud member of the Links, Incorporated.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830949 EBOOK: 9781408833070 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WE EX-USA/CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Jack Holmes and His Friend Edmund White ‘This comedy of sexual manners may be White’s finest novel’ Sunday Times Jack Holmes is in love. Sadly for him, his feelings are not returned, at least not in the way he would like them to be. It doesn’t look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for: the other men he takes to bed never stay for long. Jack will introduce his friend Will to the woman he will marry, and against the charged backdrop of sixties New York – literary and intense, before gay liberation – the lives of Jack and Will intertwine, and as their loves come and go, they will always be, at the very least, friends. Edmund White is the author of A Boy’s Own Story, My Lives, The Flaneur, Hotel de Dream and, most recently, the memoir City Boy. He is an officer of French Order of Arts and Letters and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in New York City and teaches at Princeton University.

PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830277 EBOOK: 9781408824610 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White

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Hinterland Caroline Brothers ‘Heart-wrenching ... a novel everyone should read’ Daily Mail Two young boys cross a river in the middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their lives depend on this journey. With nothing but the clothes on their back, Aryan and his little brother Kabir travel by truck, boat, train, bus and on foot across a Europe they desperately hope will offer them a future they can no longer wait for in Afghanistan. Kabul-TehranIstanbul-Athens-Rome-Paris-London – this is the route they cling to, the mantra they repeat in their prayers, and the only option they can see before them. Hinterland is the story of two ordinary brothers whose courageous gamble for a better life brings home the devastating human consequences of war. PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830352 EBOOK: 9781408818749 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO

Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin America. She currently lives in Paris where she writes for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. She has published a book, War and Photography, and also writes short stories. Hinterland is her first novel.

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In Darkness Nick Lake ‘Gripping, moving and uplifting ... stunningly original and hard-hitting’ William Sutcliffe Trapped beneath the rubble of the Haitian earthquake of 2010, a teenage boy is terrified and alone. A child of the slums, Shorty has been drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule his broken city, a world that turns dreams into dust and boys into killers. But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that fires his resolve to find the twin sister, stolen from him five years ago. In darkness the line between the present and the past begins to blur and, as Shorty fights for life, his struggle becomes part of a two-hundred-year-old story - a story of courage and betrayal, freedom and of hope. For Shorty may not be quite as alone as he believes... PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830345 EBOOK: 9781408824191 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt

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Nick Lake is the Editorial Director for fiction for HarperCollins Children’s Books and is the author of The Secret Ministry of Frost and Blood Ninja. In Darkness, set in Haiti, is Nick’s first book for adults and older teen readers. He first discovered Haitian culture as part of his Master’s Degree in Linguistics and has since been fascinated by it. Nick lives near Oxford.

One Thousand and One Nights Hanan Al-Shaykh ‘Magical ... bursting with jinnis and mischief’ Donna Tartt, The Times One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife’s orgies, King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To survive Shahrazad spins a web of tales each night, leaving the King in suspense when morning comes, prolonging her life for another day. Retold by Hanan al-Shaykh, these mesmerising stories tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408827765

Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the contemporary Arab world’s most acclaimed writers. She is the author of a memoir The Locust and the Bird, and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues and Only in London, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in central London.

EBOOK: 9781408826713 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown

The Golden Scales A Makana Mystery

Parker Bilal ‘Parker Bilal whisks the reader straight to the dark heart of Cairo’ Economist Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the business man’s private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter, as his search stirs up painful memories, leading him back into the sights of an old and dangerous enemy…

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Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Born in London, he has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.

ISBN: 9781408830369 EBOOK: 9781408824900 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath

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The Prisoner of Paradise Romesh Gunesekera ‘A terrific read: pacey, political, moral, atmospheric and yes, definitely romantic’ Independent Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand plantation house. Under the surface of this beautiful island paradise, poised between India and Africa, there is unease, and Lucy cannot help but feel discomfited by the restrictions she sees around her, and by the strangely attractive Don Lambodar, a young translator from Ceylon. It is 1825: the age of slavery is coming to its messy end, and word is lapping against the shores of the island of a charismatic new Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty. For Lucy, for Don, for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is coming… PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830376 EBOOK: 9781408825679 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013

Romesh Gunesekera is the author of four novels: Reef, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize, The Sandglass, winner of the BBC Asia Award, Heaven’s Edge, shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, and The Match. He has also written two short story collections: Monkfish Moon and O Colleccionador de Especiarias. He grew up in Sri Lanka and the Philippines and now lives in London.

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This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You Jon McGregor ‘Sharp, dark and hugely entertaining’ Observer

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A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman’s windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren’t the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do. Set in the flat and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won.

ISBN: 9781408830383 EBOOK: 9781408811290 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Wylie

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Jon McGregor is the author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to Begin and Even the Dogs. He is the winner of the Betty Trask Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has been twice longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now lives in Nottingham.

Waiting for Sunrise William Boyd ‘A truly gripping, hugely atmospheric spy thriller’ Daily Mirror Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with eminent psychiatrist, Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. Their subsequent affair is both passionate and particularly destructive. Moving from Vienna to London’s West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force. PRICE: £7.99

William Boyd is the author of ten novels, including An Ice-Cream War, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, a Richard & Judy selection and a soon-to-be BBC drama; and, most recently, the bestselling Ordinary Thunderstorms. He lives in London and France.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830390 EBOOK: 9781408828458 PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown OME: 9781408835272 PRICE: £5.99 EXPORT PUB DATE: 1 Jan 2013

Homesick Roshi Fernando ‘A debut that can sit alongside White Teeth and Small Island . . . powerful and revelatory’ Sunday Times It is New Year’s Eve, 1982, and the whole gang is at Victor and Nandini’s house. The Godfather is on repeat upstairs. Baila music is blaring from the record player in the lounge. Poppadoms are frying in the kitchen. And Preethi, tipsy on youth and friendship and covert cigarettes out the window, just wants to belong. But what does that mean, to belong? From that New Year’s party to a family funeral, via ghetto blasters and growing pains, through 7/7 and the world according to Charlie Chaplin, life in all of its complexity happens to Preethi, Nil, Lolly, Rohan, and their tightly knotted Sri Lankan families in south London. Roshi Fernando was born in London of Sri Lankan parents. She won the 2009 Impress Prize for New Writers, was shortlisted for the 2011 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Award, was given a special commendation by the judges of the Manchester Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the Bridport prize and the Fish prize. Roshi Fernando lives in Gloucestershire.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830406 EBOOK: 9781408826430 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath

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No Time Like the Present Nadine Gordimer ‘A book of great thematic richness and quiet brilliance’ Sunday Times No Time Like the Present brings the reader into the lives of Steven Reed and Jabulile Gumede, a ‘mixed’ couple, both of whom have been combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid. Once clandestine lovers under racist law forbidding sexual relations between white and black, they are now in the new South Africa. The place and time where freedom – the ‘better life for all’ that was fought for and promised – is being created but also challenged by political and racial tensions, while the hangover of moral ambiguities and the vast and growing gap between affluence and mass poverty, continue to haunt the present. No freedom from personal involvement in these or in the personal intimacy of love. The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer’s treatment is timeless. PRICE: £8.99

Nadine Gordimer’s many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, My Son’s Story and The Pickup. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in Life Times. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She lives in South Africa.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831267 EBOOK: 9781408831762 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-SA/CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt

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We All Fall Down Michael Harvey ‘Michael Harvey has put his own unique touch on the crime novel’ Michael Connelly A light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, releasing a deadly pathogen. Within hours, a homeless man, a cop, and then dozens more start to die. Hospitals become morgues. ‘L’ trains become rolling hearses. Chicago is on the verge of chaos before the mayor finally acts, quarantining entire sections of the city. Meanwhile, cop-turned-PI Michael Kelly hunts for the people responsible. The search takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago’s west-side gangs and the even more terrifying world of black biology – an elite field operating covertly at the nation’s top labs, where scientists play God and will do anything necessary to keep their secrets safe.

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Michael Harvey is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor and The Third Rail, and is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won numerous awards including multiple Emmy Awards, two Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award nomination. He lives in Chicago.

ISBN: 9781408830413 EBOOK: 9781408811443 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein

Ignorance Michèle Roberts ‘A gripping story of fear, arrests and personal tragedy’ Independent Jeanne and Marie-Angèle grow up in the Catholic village of Ste Madeleine. Marie-Angèle is the daughter of the grocer, inflated with ideas of her rightful place in society; Jeanne’s mother washes clothes for a living and used to be a Jew. When war arrives, the village must play its part in a game for which no one knows the rules – not the dubious hero who embroils Marie-Angele in the black market, nor the artist living alone with his red canvases. In these uncertain times, the enemy may be hiding in your garden shed and the truth can be buried under a pyramid of recriminations. Ignorance brings to life a people at war in a way that is at once lyrical and shocking. Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. HalfEnglish and half-French, Michèle Roberts lives in London.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831151 EBOOK: 9781408818824 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Aitken Alexander Associates

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A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar Suzanne Joinson ‘A sprightly, engaging and lovingly written book’ Guardian PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830918 EBOOK: 9781408830260 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

1923: Evangeline English, lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie and their zealous leader Millicent at the ancient city of Kashgar to establish a mission. As they encounter resistance and calamity, Eva commences work on her Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar… In presentday London, Frieda opens her door to find a man sleeping on the landing. Tayeb, a Yemeni refugee, has arrived in Frieda’s life just as she learns that she is next-of-kin to a stranger, a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises. The two wanderers embark on a journey that is as great, and as unexpected, as Eva’s.

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Suzanne Joinson works for the British Council and regularly travels widely across the Middle East, North Africa, China and Europe. In 2007 she won the New Writing Ventures Award for Creative Non-Fiction for ‘Laila Ahmed’. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and lives by the sea on the South Coast of England.

Diving Belles Lucy Wood ‘She has an instinct for the inner meanings of myths that echoes the great Angela Carter. Superb’ The Times Along Cornwall’s ancient coast, sometimes, the flotsam and jetsam of the past can become caught in the cross-currents of the present and a certain kind of magic floats to the surface… Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants. And, on a windy beach, a small boy and his grandmother keep despair at bay with an old white door. In these stories, hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, wreckers’ lamps and baying hounds as Cornish folklore slips into everyday life.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830437 EBOOK: 9781408816868 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown

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Lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Exeter University. She grew up in Cornwall. Diving Belles is her first work. She lives in Devon.

Life! Death! Prizes! Stephen May ‘Stephen May’s voice is original, funny and poignant’ Marie Claire Billy’s mother is dead. He knows – because he reads about it in magazines – that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother’s death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy is both mother and father to Oscar, despite what his aunt, the social services and Oscar’s own prodigal father all think is best. The boys’ new world is built out of chaos and fierce love, but as Billy’s obsession with his mother’s missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that really matters… Stephen May’s first novel Tag was published by a small Welsh press and won the Reader’s Choice at the Welsh Book of the Year 2009. Stephen May also writes for television and theatre. He now lives and works in West Yorkshire.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831199 EBOOK: 9781408819142 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

The Light of Amsterdam David Park ‘Destined to become an international bestseller ... An astute observation of humanity, with echoes of Brian Moore and Richard Ford’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a university art teacher, goes on a pilgrimage to the city of his youth with troubled teenage son Jack; middle-aged couple Marion and Richard take a break from running their garden centre to celebrate Marion’s birthday; and Karen, a single mother struggling to make ends meet, joins her daughter’s hen party. As these people brush against each other in the squares, museums and parks of Amsterdam, their lives are transfigured as they encounter the complexities of love in a city that challenges what has gone before. Tender and humane, and elevating the ordinary to something timeless and important, The Light of Amsterdam is a novel of compassion and rare dignity.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831540

David Park has written seven books, most recently the acclaimed The Truth Commissioner, winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. He has also won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year award, twice. The Light of Amsterdam was chosen for Fiction Uncovered 2012. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland with his wife and two children.

EBOOK: 9781408824924 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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The Namesake An Alec Blume Novel

Conor Fitzgerald ‘Meticulously researched. The Namesake is not a light read, but it is never boring or difficult’ The Times

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When magistrate Matteo Arconti’s namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the courthouse in Piazzo Clodio, it’s a clear warning to the authorities in Rome – a message of defiance and intimidation. Commissioner Alec Blume knows it’s a reference to his other case – that of a mafia boss operating at a frustratingly untouchable distance in Germany. Handing control of the investigation to now live-in and not-so-secret partner Caterina Mattiola, Blume takes a back seat. But while Caterina questions the Milanese widow, Blume has an underhand idea of his own to lure the arrogant mafioso out of his hiding place…

ISBN: 9781408831564 EBOOK: 9781408828083 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: United Agents

Conor Fitzgerald is the author of The Dogs of Rome and The Fatal Touch. He has lived in Ireland, the UK, the United States and Italy and has worked as an arts editor and founded a successful translation company. He is married with two children and lives in Rome. The Namesake is the third in his series of Italian crime novels.

The Forrests Emily Perkins ‘Perkins is an extraordinary writer ... a novel to be savoured’ Sunday Times Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, Dorothy is swept along by time. In a narrative that shifts and moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests sings with colour and memory and speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing and loneliness, about heat, youth, and how life can change if ‘you’re lucky enough to be around for it’. PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831496 EBOOK: 9781408830017 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE EX-CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt

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Emily Perkins is the author of Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go, The New Girl and, most recently, Novel About My Wife, winner of the Believer Award. Emily Perkins lives in New Zealand.

Once You Break a Knuckle D. W. Wilson ‘Spiky, gritty short stories ... his writing has a terrific, understated force’ The Times In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy’s death. A heartbroken young man chooses not to warn his best friend about an approaching car. And sons challenge fathers and break taboos… Crackling with tension and propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, D. W. Wilson’s stories are an intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline and vulnerability, doggedness and dignity. Once You Break a Knuckle explores the courage it takes just to make it through another day. D. W. Wilson was born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. His stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and ‘The Dead Roads’ won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011. He lives in London.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831311 EBOOK: 9781408830291 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE EX-CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown

The Uninvited Liz Jensen ‘This audacious novel is utterly gripping’ Daily Mail A seven-year-old murders her grandmother with a nail-gun to the neck. It is not an isolated incident. Across the world, children are killing their families. As chilling murders by children grip the country, Hesketh Lock, an anthropologist who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Nothing obvious connects the two cases, but as acts of child violence sweep the globe, Hesketh is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father. Liz Jensen is the bestselling author of seven acclaimed novels. She has been nominated three times for the Orange Prize for Fiction, was chosen by the Richard and Judy Book Club for The Rapture and her work has been published in more than twenty countries. She lives in Wimbledon, London.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408817735 EBOOK: 9781408830062 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: Comm/UK EX CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Aitken Alexander Associates

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Truth Like the Sun Jim Lynch ‘A brilliantly disturbing dissection of political morality’ Daily Mail It’s the architectural boom of 1962 in Seattle, a city full of promise. Audacious young promoter Roger Morgan wants to pull off the ultimate coup de théâtre: the World Fair and usher in a new age. Socialising with the likes of Elvis Presley and Lyndon Johnson, Roger dazzles everyone he meets. Forty years later, at the age of seventy, Roger makes a surprise bid for mayor. Keen journalist and newcomer Helen Gulanos follows his campaign trail, resolving to uncover the real Roger behind the handshakes and glossy receptions. Even Seattle’s golden boy must have something to hide… PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830338 EBOOK: 9781408830321 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: Comm/UK EXCAN, OM

Jim Lynch is the author of three novels, The Highest Tide, Border Songs and Truth Like The Sun. Before becoming a full-time novelist Lynch wrote for newspapers throughout the Northwest and beyond, winning the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, the George Polk Award and other national honors. He now lives in Olympia, Washington with his wife and daughter.

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The Trapeze Artist Will Davis ‘His best book yet’ Evening Standard The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision – a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, of the sweat, passions and tempers of circus life, and above all, the joyous longing to break free, and to swing higher and higher…

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831625 EBOOK: 9781408825198 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Will Davis is the author of two novels, My Side of the Story, which won the Betty Trask Prize 2007, and Dream Machine. He has trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse (rope), tissu (silks) and static trapeze. He lives in north London.

I Am An Executioner Love Stories

Rajesh Parameswaran ‘Riotously funny and savagely memorable book’ Irish Times A Bengal tiger wakes up one morning realising he is ravenously in love. A pompous railway supervisor in a small Indian village bites off more than he can chew when a peculiar new clerk arrives on his doorstep. In another place and in another time, a secret agent who spends her days watching the front door of an unknown quarry discovers something she isn’t meant to. And a small and famous country’s only executioner claims his conscience is as clean as his heavy, washed stones. In these stories, reality loops in Borgesian twists and dazzles with cinematic exuberance; frayed photographs take on a life of their own while elephants wish only to die with dignity.

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Rajesh Parameswaran’s short stories have appeared in Granta and McSweeney’s among others. ‘The Strange Career of Doctor Raju Gopalarajan’ was one of three stories for which McSweeney’s won the National Magazine Award, and it was included in Best American Magazine Writing 2007. He lives in New York.

ISBN: 9781408831144 EBOOK: 9781408821176 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein

John Saturnall’s Feast Lawrence Norfolk Glorious … not just a novel set in some point in history, nor even just a novel in which the characters face epochal events, but a novel about how histories infect stories’ The Times

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Lemprière’s Dictionary, John Saturnall’s Feast charts one man’s life through kitchens and bedchambers, battlefields and ancient magical woods. A rich, complex and mesmerising story of seventeenth century life, love and war.

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In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants of witchcraft. John Sandall and his mother are running for their lives. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla’s Wood, John’s mother opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the generations. Its exquisite dishes will be John’s legacy.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831168

Lawrence Norfolk is the bestselling author of three literary historical novels which have been translated into thirty-four languages. He is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and been shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Award, among others. Lawrence Norfolk lives in London with his wife and two children.

EBOOK: 9781408833292 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Blake Friedman Agency

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Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death James Runcie ‘The coziest of cozy murder mysteries ... consistently charming’ New York Times Book Review Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchesterl, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot.

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Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year’s Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery, the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty…

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831403 EBOOK: 9781408828465

James Runcie is Head of Literature at The Southbank Centre, an award-winning film-maker, and the author of five novels. He lives in London and Edinburgh.

PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Zoo Time Image © Jenny Jacobson

Howard Jacobson The blistering new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831748 EBOOK: 9781408829141

Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. Their provocative presence fills Guy’s head with stories so wild he can’t concentrate to write them. Not that anyone reads anymore, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, however, is writing her own novel. Guy dreads the consequences…

PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown OME: 9781408837443 PRICE: £5.99 EXPORT PUB DATE: 16 May 2013

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An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. His novels include The Mighty Walzer, Kalooki Nights, The Act of Love and The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson lives in London.

Abdication Juliet Nicolson ‘Brings a turbulent period to vivid life … the cast grips throughout’ Mail on Sunday England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. When nineteen-year-old May Thomas arrives in Liverpool, her first job as secretary and chauffeuse to Sir Philip Blunt introduces her to the upper echelons of British society – and to Julian, a young man of conscience whom, despite all barriers of class, she cannot help but fall for. But hidden truths, unspoken sympathies and covert complicities are everywhere, and the threat of another world war becomes increasingly inevitable… Juliet Nicolson is the author of The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911 and The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War. She has two daughters and lives with her husband in Sussex.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830932 EBOOK: 9781408828069 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Ed Victor

Canada Richard Ford ‘One of the first great novels of the 21st century’ John Banville, Guardian

Image © Laura Wilson

In 1956, Dell Parsons’ family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell’s parents decided to rob the bank. In the days following their arrest, Dell is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown: a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But in this new world of secrets and upheaval, Dell is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of the border. PRICE: £8.99

Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published seven novels and three collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, A Multitude of Sins and, most recently, The Lay of the Land. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes. He lives in Maine.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831007 EBOOK: 9781408828410 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White OME: 9781408836521 PRICE: £5.99

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The Bull of Mithros Anne Zouroudi ‘Greece has never appeared more beautiful or damaged, and secrets lurk behind every ruin’ Daily Mirror Drawn to the sun-drenched island of Mithros by the myth of its fabled bull, the arrival of investigator Hermes Diaktoros coincides with a violent and troubling death. The death has echoes in Mithros’s past, in a brutal unsolved crime from years ago which, it seems, is neither forgotten, nor forgiven. Hermes sets out to solve a complex puzzle where shadowy secrets and unspoken loyalties are intertwined. And before long it’s clear that the fate of the mythical bull may be the least of the island’s mysteries...

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Anne Zouroudi was born in England and has lived in the Greek islands. Her attachment to Greece remains strong, and the country is the inspiration for much of her writing. She now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District with her son.

ISBN: 9781408831489 EBOOK: 9781408819395 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Christopher Little

Wilderness Lance Weller ‘A remarkable debut, deeply affecting and heartfelt’ Gil Adamson Thirty years after the Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman embarks on one final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. As he journeys through the foothills, he endures violence at the hands of thugs who are after his beloved dog, and is haunted by memories of the Civil War. But good people have touched his life too – the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants; an escaped slave who nursed him back to life. Through it all, Abel holds on to his humanity, finding weigh stations of kindness along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path. PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831724 EBOOK: 9781620400616 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Lance Weller has published short fiction in several literary journals. He won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Washington native, he has hiked and camped extensively in the landscape he describes. He lives in Gig Harbor, WA, with his wife and several dogs.

Survival of the Beautiful Art, Science, and Evolution

David Rothenberg ‘An exhilarating and thought provoking trip’ Sunday Telegraph ‘The peacock’s tail,’ said Charles Darwin, ‘makes me sick.’ That’s because the theory of evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetics than with the practical. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty art and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin’s observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty – and why nature is, indeed, beautiful.

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David Rothenberg is Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of books including Thousand Mile Song and Why Birds Sing. His articles have appeared in Parabola, The Nation, Wired, Dwell, and Sierra.

ISBN: 9781408830567 EBOOK: 9781408828885 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

War Against the Taliban Why It All Went Wrong in Afghanistan

Sandy Gall ‘Sandy Gall may be one of the last heroes of his profession’ The Times Afghanistan’s strategically significant lands have long been fought over by foreign invaders. Today, as yet another generation risks life and limb in this inhospitable territory, an ever-rising death toll puts back under the spotlight the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being run, and demands answers. Drawing on interviews with Afghan politicians, businessmen and ordinary people, British, American and European diplomats and soldiers, Sandy Gall addresses the challenges – political, religious, and military – that face those now fighting on the most dangerous frontier in the world. PRICE: £8.99

Sandy Gall started his career with Reuters in 1953 but is best known as the former face of the ITN’s News at Ten. He has reported from many of the world’s hot spots, and has reported from Afghanistan since 1982. Sandy Gall has produced documentaries, written several books and founded a charity, Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal, which treats disabled Afghans.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822340 EBOOK: 9781408824290 PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Dinah Wiener LTD

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Bird Sense What It’s Like to Be a Bird

Tim Birkhead ‘An absolutely absorbing book. On almost every page there is an astonishing observation or revelation’ Daily Telegraph What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding through the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings and improvises? In this fascinating book, Tim Birkhead draws on his wealth of knowledge gained from a lifetime of study birds to answer these questions and many more, and explains how birds interpret the world and shows how their behaviour is shaped by their senses. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830543 EBOOK: 9781408828717

Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Among his other books are The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds, The Red Canary, which won the Consul Cremer Prize, and The Wisdom of Birds. He lives in Sheffield.

PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Deception Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West

Edward Lucas ‘Anyone who enjoys le Carré will love this ... gripping stuff’ Spectator

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From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the ‘Ace of Spies’, by Lenin’s Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs and disasters of Western intelligence in the Cold War, providing the background to the new world of industrial and political espionage. Once the threat from Moscow was international communism; now it comes from the siloviki, Russia’s ruthless ‘men of power’.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831038 EBOOK: 9781408830185 PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WE, RUSSIAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White

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Edward Lucas is a senior editor at the Economist. He has been covering eastern Europe since 1986, with postings in Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Vienna and the Baltic states. He is the author of The New Cold War (2008), which has been published in more than fifteen languages.

What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

John Mullan ‘Highly entertaining ... reveals a quite unexpected aspect to the novelist and her books’ Daily Mail In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate and understand Jane Austen’s world by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by the novels, Mullan explores the rituals and conventions of Austen’s world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and sheer daring as a novelist. Inspired by an enthusiastic reader’s curiosity, based on a lifetime’s study and written with flair, What Matters in Jane Austen? will appeal to all those who love and enjoy Jane Austen’s work and who would like to know it better.

PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831694 EBOOK: 9781408828731

John Mullan is a professor in the English department at UCL. He writes the Guardian’s weekly ‘Book Club’ column and frequently appears on BBC2’s Review Show. A judge of the ‘Best of the Booker Prize’ in 2008 and of the Man Booker Prize itself in 2009, he has lectured widely on Jane Austen in the UK and the US. He lives in London.

PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt

El Narco The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels

Ioan Grillo ‘[A] superb ... report from the front lines of narco-violence’ Independent As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade in Mexico, the body count – 55,000 dead in six years – and the sheer horror beggar the imagination. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan Grillo tells the story of the ultraviolent criminal organisations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. El Narco is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers and a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power, tracing the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present eminence as rulers of criminal empires. PRICE: £8.99

Ioan Grillo has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines and TV stations in the US and UK. Educated in Britain, he reports for Time magazine and regularly appears on radio and TV, commenting on Mexican crime and other issues.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408822432 EBOOK: 9781408824559 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Good in a Crisis A Memoir

Margaret Overton ‘Hilarious ... This memoir is wonderful on friendship and motherhood and brutally honest about the rest’ Psychologies

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During the four years of physician Margaret Overton’s acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her soulmate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of many Mr Wrongs. Overton, an anaesthetist, realised she had been so busy looking after the needs of others that she had forgotten to look after herself. So she set out on a course to take control of her future and finally become independent of men.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830550 EBOOK: 9781408824368 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013

Margaret Overton is an anesthesiologist with an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Chicago, and Good in a Crisis is her first book.

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The Dreyfus Affair The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History

Piers Paul Read ‘A masterly and eminently balanced account of the Affair’ Spectator

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In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a rising star in the French artillery, was on slender evidence sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island for treason. His wrongful conviction stunned the world and unleashed violent hatreds and anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long, bloody twentieth century to come. It is a story rife with heroes and villains, courage and cowardice, dissimulation and deceit. Today, amid charged debates over national and religious identity across the globe, it throws into sharp relief the conflicts of the present.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830574 EBOOK: 9781408829035 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Aitken Alexander

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Piers Paul Read is an acclaimed, multiple prize winning novelist, historian and biographer. His non-fiction book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, was adapted into the 1993 film Alive. He lives in west London.

The Death of a Child Edited By Peter Stanford ’A painful but necessary book’ The Catholic Herald Parents and siblings tell their stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief. Their experiences cover the earliest losses - actress and author Carol Drinkwater’s miscarriages, Irish writer Catherine Dunne’s still-birth, and the death of Sarah Brown’s daughter Jennifer at ten days old - right up to campaigner Augusto Odone losing his severely disabled son, Lorenzo, the day after his 30th birthday, or novelist Wendy Perriam coping with her daughter Pauline’s death at 43. The celebrated psychotherapist Dorothy Rowe contributes an afterword on surviving the loss of a child. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback

Peter Stanford is a writer, broadcaster and biographer, whose books include biographies of Lord Longford, C Day-Lewis and the Devil, and the travelogue, The Extra Mile. A former editor of the Catholic Herald, he writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and the Observer and has a regular column in the Tablet.

ISBN: 9781408192085 EBOOK: 9781441136183 PUB DATE: 28 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP WATT

Make Love Like a Prairie Vole Six Steps to Passionate, Plentiful and Monogamous Sex

Andrew G. Marshall ‘A manual for those who want to have “good sex” in a long-term relationship’ Guardian Prairie voles have it made. They mate for life, spend hours cuddling and can make love for two-day marathons! Thanks to new scientific research on them, we are beginning to understand the biochemical pathways of love shared by all species, and the key to a more fulfilling sex life. Marital Therapist Andrew G. Marshall combines this research with twentyfive years professional experience of helping couples rejuvenate their love lives. This book contains a programme that will transform routine into passionate sex but also leads to the kind of lovemaking that will bind you and your partner together as a couple.

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830529 EBOOK: 9781408825129

Andrew G. Marshall is the author of a series of practical relationship manuals. His books have been translated into over fifteen different languages. He writes for the Mail on Sunday, The Times, the Guardian and Psychologies magazine. He lives in West Sussex.

PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Sayle Agency

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Antarctica An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent

Gabrielle Walker ‘We are all anxious Antarctic watchers now, and Walker’s book is the essential primer’ Guardian

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Antarctica weaves all the significant threads of the Antarctic story – from exploration and survival, through astronomy and the science of ice cores, to what it feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people back there again and again – into an intricate tapestry. It is only when the weave is complete that the underlying truths of the continent emerge. Antarctica may be the most alien place on Earth – truly like walking on another planet – and yet, in its silence, its agelessness and its mysteries lie the secrets of our past, and of our future.

FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830598 EBOOK: 9781408824634 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM

Gabrielle Walker has a PhD in chemistry from Cambridge University and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. She is a consultant to the New Scientist, and writes for many publications. In 2009 she presented BBC Radio 4’s Planet Earth Under Threat and in 2011, Thin Air, a series about the Earth’s atmosphere. She lives in north west London.

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Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

Kate Summerscale ‘Simply superb’ Guardian When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was ‘fascinating’, she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man’s charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to shake…

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In a compelling story of romance, fidelity, fantasy and the bounds of privacy, Kate Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife’s longing for passion and learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.

ISBN: 9781408831243 EBOOK: 9781408812532 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White

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Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson prize. She has judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north west London with her son.

The Winner Effect How Power Affects Your Brain

Ian Robertson ‘Compelling stories combine with cutting-edge science to show why coming first is not the same as being a real winner– engrossing’ Oliver James The ‘winner effect’ is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights against weak opponents is much more likely to win later bouts against stronger contenders. As Ian Robertson reveals, it applies to humans, too. Success changes the chemistry of the brain, making you more focused, smarter, more confident and more aggressive. But the downside is that winning can become physically addictive. By understanding what the mental and physical changes are that take place in the brain of a ‘winner’, how they happen, and why they affect some people more than others, Robertson explains what makes a winner – or a loser – and how we can understand better the behaviour of our business colleagues, employees, family and friends.

PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831656 EBOOK: 9781408828724

Ian Robertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. He has published over 250 scientific articles in leading journals and is the author of Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your Brain’s Untapped Potential. He is a regular keynote speaker at conferences on brain function throughout the world. He lives in Dublin.

PUB DATE: 7 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Felicity Bryan

River Cottage Every Day Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall ‘For anyone wanting to feed the family really well ... this is great’ The Times Putting food on the table for families quickly and economically doesn’t mean you have to compromise on quality. This book shows how Hugh’s approach to food can be adapted to suit any growing, working family, or busy singles and couples for that matter. As Hugh says: ‘I have honed the River Cottage approach to food over a decade now, and I believe passionately that it is relevant to everybody, every day. I intend to tempt and charm you towards a better life with food – with a set of simply irresistible recipes that just happen to be seasonal and ethical.’ PRICE: £14.99

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy, the Andre Simon Food Book of the Year, the Michael Smith Award and, in the US, the James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Hugh lives in Devon.

FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408804339 EBOOK: 9781408815557 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Forgotten Fatherland The Search for Elizabeth Nietzsche

Ben Macintyre ‘Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric’ New York Times

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In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a ‘racially pure’ colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating the survivors, while also tracing the colourful history of Elisabeth’s return to Europe, where she inspired the mythical cult of her brother’s philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler. Brilliantly researched and mordantly funny, this is an illuminating portrait of a forgotten people and of a woman whose deep influence on the twentieth century can only now be fully understood.

ISBN: 9781408838150 EBOOK: 9781408838167 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Ed Victor

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of eight previous books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, and the no. 1 bestseller Operation Mincemeat and Double Cross. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Luck What It Means and Why It Matters

Ed Smith ‘Fascinating, funny and honest’ Sunday Times For Ed Smith, as an aspiring cricketer, luck was for other people. Like his childhood hero, Geoff Boycott, the young Ed believed that the successful sportsman made his own luck by an application of will power and the elimination of error. But when a freak accident at Lord’s prematurely ended his cricketing career, it changed everything, prompting him to look at his own life through the prism of luck. Tracing the history of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, from the ancient Greeks to the present day – in religion, in banking, in politics – he argues that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent now as it ever has been. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830604 EBOOK: 9781408817681 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Author and journalist Ed Smith is a former international cricketer who has represented England, Cambridge University, Kent and Middlesex. His previous books include Playing Hard Ball, On and Off the Field and the acclaimed What Sport Tells Us About Life. He is a features writer for The Times, a columnist for GQ, writes for the Spectator and appears regularly on television and the Today programme. Ed Smith lives in London.

Cairo My City, Our Revolution

Ahdaf Soueif ‘Bursts of lyricism, poetry and love illuminate the factual account and political commentary, and it works beautifully’ Independent Ahdaf Soueif – novelist, commentator, activist – navigates her history of Cairo and her journey through the Revolution that’s redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian. Ahdaf Soueif was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 erupted on 25 January, she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir Square home for 18 days. She reported for the world’s media and did – like everyone else – whatever she could.

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Ahdaf Soueif is the author of five books including the bestselling novel The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Mezzaterra: Notes from the Common Ground, a collection of essays positioned at the intersection of culture and politics. She is the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, and writes regularly for the Guardian in the UK and al-Shorouk in Egypt.

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We’ll Get ’Em in Sequins Manliness, Yorkshire Cricket and the Century that Changed Everything

Max Davidson ‘Ingenious … a splendid book’ Daily Mail It is one of the oldest clichés in sports writing to say that sport mirrors life. And yet, in this instance, the world of Yorkshire cricket has so faithfully mirrored the outside world that the cliché is unavoidable. Yorkshire, soberest of counties, has given us some remarkable characters over the years – Len Hutton, Geoffrey Boycott, and Fred Trueman to name just a few. Through portraits of these and other Yorkshire players, and the values that they shared with their contemporaries, this wonderfully original book maps the contours of a sexual revolution whose tremors are still being felt today.

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Max Davidson is a journalist for national newspapers and has published several books including It’s Not the Winning That Counts: Inspiring Moments of Sporting Chivalry and Fields of Courage.

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Tracks Robyn Davidson A new edition of the international bestseller, with a new postscript and colour picture section

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‘I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.’ So begins Robyn Davidson’s perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company. Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia’s landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity. Tracks is the compelling, candid story of her odyssey of discovery and transformation.

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Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland. She went to Sydney in the late sixties, then returned to study in Brisbane before going to Alice Springs where the events of this book began. Since then she has travelled extensively, has lived in London, New York and India. In the early 1990s she migrated with and wrote about nomads in north west India. She is now based in Melbourne, but spends several months a year in the Indian Himalayas.

Experiment Eleven Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis

Peter Pringle ‘A riveting and heartbreaking book’ New Scientist

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In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young American PhD student working in professor Selman Waksman’s lab, was searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. On his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, at that time the leading killer among the world’s infectious diseases. As director of Schatz’s research, Waksman took credit for the discovery, belittled Schatz’s work, and secretly enriched himself with royalties from the streptomycin patent filed by Merck, the pharmaceutical company. For the first time, acclaimed author and journalist Peter Pringle unravels the intrigue behind one of the most important discoveries in the history of medicine.

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Peter Pringle is a veteran British foreign correspondent and the author of several non-fiction books, including the bestselling Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They? and the New York Times notable, Food, Inc. He has been on staff at The Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent and written for the New York Times and the Washington Post. He lives in New York City.

My Life as a Wife Love, Liquor and What to do About Other Women

Elisabeth Luard ‘Wonderfully wise and moving’ Scotsman A British diplomat’s daughter, the reluctant debutante Elisabeth fell for the ‘King of Satire’ Nicholas Luard while working as an office typist at Private Eye. At just twenty-one years old, she married him. Tracing the fascinating years they spent together in London, Spain, France, the Hebrides and Wales with their four children, one of whom died tragically from AIDS, Luard’s bitter sweet memoir chronicles the detrimental effects of an alcoholic philanderer husband appeased by the healing power of children and the comfort of the kitchen table.

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Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning author and illustrator. Her books include European Peasant Cookery, Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment and A Cook’s Year in a Welsh Farmhouse. An experienced broadcaster, Elisabeth is also a contributing editor to Waitrose Food Illustrated, a columnist for the Oldie and a regular contributor to various newspapers and magazines, including the Daily Mail and the Scotsman. She lives in west Wales.

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Elisabeth Luard ‘Gives us the crucial keys to our humanity’ Mail on Sunday ‘One of the most powerful accounts you will ever read of a mother’s love for her child’ Daily Mail ‘Unspeakably moving ... she deserves a medal’ The Times

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Darwin’s Ghosts In Search of the First Evolutionists

Rebecca Stott ‘Extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging’ Sunday Telegraph

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Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn’t his. Yet when he tried to trace his intellectual forebears, he found that history had already forgotten them… Rediscovering Aristotle on the shores of Lesbos and Leonardo da Vinci fossil hunting in the Tuscan hills, this is a masterful retelling of the collective daring of a few like-minded men, whose early theories flew in the face of prevailing political and religious orthodoxies and laid the foundations for Darwin’s revolutionary idea.

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Rebecca Stott is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and an Affiliated Scholar at the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. She is the author of eleven books including three non-fiction books and two novels, most recently the bestselling Ghostwalk, shortlisted for the Jelf First Novel Award and the Society of Authors First Book Award. She appears regularly on TV and radio. Rebecca Stott lives in Cambridge.

Hedge Britannia A Curious History of a British Obsession

Hugh Barker ‘It had me craving a pair of telescopic topiary loppers even though I don’t own a hedge’ Daily Mail

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Hedge enthusiast Hugh Barker journeyed across Britain to explore its remarkable variety of gardens and hedgerows. He discovers how hedges are among our most ancient monuments, meets hedge laying champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to which some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Hugh explains how the garden hedge became associated with paradise, why the British army planted a barrier hedge hundreds of miles long in India, and how the notorious enclosures during the Industrial Revolution turned the country upside-down. Informative, revealing and anecdotal, it’s a sweeping history of Britain as you’ve never seen it before.

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Hugh Barker has been a bookseller, musician, fruit picker, barman, publisher and writer, amongst other things. He currently lives in North London with his wife, daughter and several cats, surrounded by a small hedge that he can call his own.

The Man Within My Head Grahame Greene, My Father and Me

Pico Iyer ‘A personal and passionate book ... Captivating and intelligent’ Observer Ever since he first read Graham Greene’s work as a young traveller, Pico Iyer has been fascinated by the writer’s restlessness and interest in questions of faith and belonging. From Cuba to Vietnam – to Berkhamsted – Pico Iyer has found reminders of Greene’s life, fallen into scenes that might have been written by Greene, written stories that recall Greene. Yet as Iyer traces this obsession, another phantom image begins to emerge, one that he had long banished: that of his father, who comes to seem a deeper, more mysterious presence under his skin. PRICE: £8.99

Pico Iyer is the author of seven works of non-fiction and two novels. A writer for Time since 1982, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the TLS, the New York Review of Books, Granta, the Financial Times, and many other magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. He lives in California and Japan.

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Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die The Assassination of a British Prime Minister

Andro Linklater ‘A beautifully written portrait of an overlooked prime minister and a fascinating account’ Antony Beevor On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant, John Bellingham, made no effort to escape. A week later, before his motives could be examined, he was tried and hanged. Here, for the first time, Andro Linklater looks past the conventional image of Bellingham as a ‘deranged businessman’ and portrays him as an individual driven by personal anxieties and by the raw emotions that convulsed his home town of Liverpool. But as the evidence accumulates, a wider, darker picture emerges – John Bellingham was not alone in hating the prime minister.

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Andro Linklater is the author of Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy as well as The Code of Love and several other books. He lives in England.

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The Juice Vinous Veritas

Jay McInerney ‘Even if you’re teetotal, it’s intoxicating’ Metro Jay McInerney has written unique, witty, vinous essays for over a decade. Here, with his trademark flair and expertise, McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of wine, creating a collage of the people and places that produce it all over the world, from historic past to the often confusing present. Stretching from France and South Africa to Australia and New Zealand, McInerney’s tour is a comprehensive and thirst-inducing expedition that explores viticulture, investigates great champagne and delves into a vast array of styles, capturing the passion that so many people feel for the world of wine. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408833285 EBOOK: 9781408833278

Jay McInerney writes a wine column for the Wall Street Journal and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review and Corriere della Sera. He has written seven novels, including Bright Lights, Big City, and two non-fiction books on wine, including the acclaimed A Hedonist in the Cellar. He lives in New York.

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The Dirtiest Race in History Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final

Richard Moore ‘Magnificent ... the breadth and detail is astonishing’ The Times

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The men’s 100m final at the 1988 Olympics has been described as the dirtiest race ever – but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson’s blistering time, the race is infamous for its athletes’ positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and Lewis, and the repercussions still felt a quarter of a century on. Using witness interviews – with Johnson, Lewis and Calvin Smith among others – Moore reconstructs the build-up to the race, the race itself, and the fall-out when news of Johnson’s positive test broke and he was forced into hiding. It also puts the race in a historical context, examining its continuing relevance on the sport today, where every new record elicits scepticism.

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Richard Moore is a journalist, author, and former racing cyclist. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian, skysports.com, the Scotsman and Procycling magazine. His first book, a biography of the cyclist Robert Millar: In Search of Robert Millar won the Best Biography award at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. This is his fifth book.

The Phantom Army of Alamein How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel

Rick Stroud In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. They were so successful that in August 1942 Montgomery ordered them to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein. In six weeks two entire divisions were conjured from the sand, while real units, stores and men vanished into thin air. Then, right in front of the German’s eyes they made 600 tanks disappear and reappear fifty miles away disguised as lorries. Rommel had been bamboozled by an army made of nothing but string and straw and bits of wood.

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Rick Stroud is a film and television director, whose credits include Brideshead Revisited (associate producer) and Monarch of the Glen (lead director). He lives on a houseboat in Chelsea, London.

ISBN: 9781408831281 EBOOK: 9781408834282 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Sit Down and Cheer A History of Sport on TV

Martin Kelner A fascinating history of sport on TV, Sit Down and Cheer delves into the relationship between money and sport Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. They are indivisible, like an old couple sitting in a teashop finishing each other’s sentences, and there is little doubt which is the dominant partner. In Sit Down and Cheer Martin Kelner traces the development of this relationship from its humble origins at the 1960 Olympics, by way of the first-ever Match of the Day in 1964, through to the financial impact of Sky, right up to the high-tech gadgetry of our present-day viewing. Insightful and very funny, this is an entertaining exploration of two major national pastimes.

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Martin Kelner has written a weekly column about sport on TV for the last 12 years, most recently the popular Screen Break spot for the Guardian. He lives in Wakefield.

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A History of the Present Illness A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar A Prince Among Stones A Slow Passion A Sport of Nature Abdication Ada’s Rules Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The Antarctica Arch and the Butterfly, The Art of the Infinite, The Attacking Ocean, The Atul’s Curries of the World Authors XI, The

10 66 28 29 64 73 59 26 80 7 90 26 37 46

Ballistics Bird Sense Blue Guide to Grey Living, The Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy Breakfast Bible,The Britten’s Century Bull of Mithros, The

17 76 23 42 36 25 74

Cairo Canada Chicken & Eggs Cities Are Good for You City of Devi, The Clay Constance Cooked Seed, The Correspondences

83 73 36 24 8 2 12 34 16

Darwin’s Ghosts Death of a Child, The Deception Dirtiest Race in History, The Diving Belles Dogstar Rising Don’ts for Cricketers Double V, The Dreyfus Affair,The

86 79 76 88 66 5 46 90 78

El Narco Elizabeth’s Bedfellows Equilateral Experiment Eleven Exploring the Thames Wilderness

77 24 15 84 57

Family Life

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Farm Shop Cookbook, The Feast of Artemis, The Final Voyage Foinavon Forecast Forgotten Fatherland Forrests, The Furies

37 14 55 44 22 82 68 90

Gamal, The Ghosts of Gone Birds Gloria God Argument, The Golden Scales, The Golf Stories Good Book, The Good in a Crisis Good Small Business Guide 2013, 7th Edition Great British Mountain Bike Trail Guide, The Great Tamasha, The

9 58 15 21 61 45 21 78 52 43 41

Hanging, The Harley Loco Hedge Britannia Helium Hell-Bent Hinterland HIred Man, The Home Fires Homesick Hope Against Hope How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin How to Read a Graveyard How to Wear White

18 33 86 12 41 60 13 8 63 90 30 22 52

I Am An Executioner Ice Cream If It’s Not One Thing It’s Your Mother Ignorance In Darkness In the Kingdom of the Sick

71 39 35 65 60 90

Jack Holmes and His Friend John Saturnall’s Feast Juice, The

59 71 88

King’s Cross Kid

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Land of No Rain Last Ape Standing Late Bourgeois World,The Let Me Tell You a Story

17 90 64 31

Letters of John F. Kennedy, The Life! Death! Prizes! Light of Amsterdam, The Little Book of Biscuit & Cookie Tips, The Little Book of Cleaning Tips, The Little Book of Seafood Tips, The Little Book of Toast Tips, The Little Known Facts Little Wonder, The Looking for the Goshawk Lost Cat Love-charm of Bombs,The Luck

25 67 67 38 38 38 38 3 42 56 31 18 82

Saul Bellow’s Heart Servants She Rises Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death Sit Down and Cheer Spectrums Spiritual Letters Square: Sweet, The Cookbook Still Life Survival of the Beautiful Sweet Knits Sweet Things from the Aga

30 20 9 11 72 89 20 49 40 85 75 53 39

Maggie & Me Maglia Rosa 2nd edition Make Love Like a Prairie Vole Man Within My Head, The Mechanic Memory Theatre, The Midlife Eating Disorders Mimi Mirror Earth MOB Rule Modernity Britain Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace My Life as a Wife My Notorious Life

32 47 79 87 48 11 90 6 90 28 27 80 85 14

Tenth of December Thames, The This Is Where I Am This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You This Magnificent Desolation Tour de France 100 Tracks Trapeze Artist, The Truth Like the Sun

2 56 7

Ukulele Handbook, The Uninvited, The

54 69

Namesake, The New Asceticism, The Newcomers’ Lives Night Rainbow, The No Time Like the Present North, The

68 51 18 4 64 34

Valley, The Volcker Vow

33 90 29

Occasion for Loving Once You Break a Knuckle One Thousand and One Nights Out of the Labyrinth

64 69 61 90

Phantom Army of Alamein,The Pocket Book of Weather,The Pregnancy Yoga Prisoner of Paradise,The

89 55 53 62

Waiting for Sunrise Walking, The Wall, The War Against the Taliban We All Fall Down We’ll Get ‘Em in Sequins What Matters in Jane Austen? Where Pigeons Don’t Fly Wisden Crickers’ Almanack 2013, The Why Rousseau was Wrong Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die Wilderness Winner Effect, The World Was All Before Them, The

63 5 10 75 65 83 77 13 44 49 87 74 81 3

Return of a King Rice’s Church Primer River Cottage Every Day Restless RSPB Handbook of the Seashore RSPB The Great British Wildlife Hunt

19 23 81 4 57 58

Year Klunk, The You are the Messiah and I should know You Are The Ref

47 50 45

Zoo Time

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Saint Augustine of Hippo

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