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BLOOMSBURY NEW TITLES JANUARY–JUNE 2015
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January – June 2015
2 Original Fiction
17 Original Non-ction
33 Nature & Outdoors
36 Food
41 Business
43 Sport & Sailing
52 Religion
54 Paperback Fiction
65 Paperback Non-ction
80 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales
82 Index
86 Social Media Contacts
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PB B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm)
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January – June 2015
2 Original Fiction
17 Original Non-ction
33 Nature & Outdoors
36 Food
41 Business
43 Sport & Sailing
52 Religion
54 Paperback Fiction
65 Paperback Non-ction
80 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales
82 Index
86 Social Media Contacts
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ORIGINAL FICTION
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Weathering
Lucy Wood
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Diving Belles comes
a beautifully bewitching novel of memories, mothers, daughters and ghosts
Pearl doesn’t know how she’s ended up in the river, or why, for that matter, she’d
been stupid enough to fall down those rickety stairs. Ada, Pearl’s daughter,
doesn’t know how she’s ended up back in the house in the rain-soaked valley she
le thirteen years ago. With her daughter Pepper, she starts to sort through Pearl’s
things, clearing the house so she can leave and not look back. As the first frosts
of autumn herald the coming of a long winter, Pepper and Ada discover the ways
that places can take root inside us and bind us together.
Lucy Wood has been longlisted for the Dylan omas Prize, shortlisted for the
Edge Hill Prize and was a runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Award. She
has also been awarded the Holyer an Gof Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.
Lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in creative writing from Exeter University. She
grew up in Cornwall and lives in Devon.
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Wallflowers
Eliza Robertson
A delicate and startling debut collection from the winner of the 2013
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
A
small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard;
a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory
birds y over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen
pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting
revelations. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty
survivors; they teach us how to trap hummingbirds, relinquish dreams gracefully
and feed raccoons without getting bitten. ese are tales of wildness and wonder,
of animals in search of an escape and outsiders looking for a way back in.
Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver, Canada. While studying at the University
of East Anglia, doing an MA in Prose Fiction, she received the Man Booker
Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize for best writer. Robertson is now a highly
celebrated short story writer, winning three national ction contests in Canada
and the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
@ElizaRoberts0n
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The Mime Order
Samantha Shannon
e hotly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller, e Bone Season
Paige Mahoney has escaped the penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have
only just begun: many survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person
in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-
queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly.
Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter
fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around
every corner. en the Rephaim start crawling out from the shadows. But where
is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret
catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.
Born in 1991, Samantha Shannon started writing at the age of feen. In 2013 e
Bone Season hit the bestseller lists across three continents in the rst week of
publication. It was picked as a Book of the Year by the Daily Mail, Stylist and
Hungton Post and was named one of Amazon’s 2013 Best Books of the Year. It
has been translated into twenty-eight languages
@say_shannon
Chaos of the Senses
Ahlem Mosteghanemi
e second novel in the international bestselling trilogy from ‘the literary
phenomenon’ (Elle), Ahlem Mosteghanemi
P
icking up where e Bridges of Constantine ended, Mosteghanemi’s second novel
begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high-
ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an
unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on esh. She falls in love with the
story’s male protagonist, and a love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out
in the dark corners of a battered city. Aer all, the best and truest loves are those
we nd when we’re looking for something else. With poetic nesse, the author
weaves fact and ction to convey a chapter in Algeria’s history as no one else could.
Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author
in the Arab world. She has 4 million followers on Facebook and was ranked in
the top ten most inuential women in the Middle East by Forbes in 2006. e
previous book in her trilogy of bestselling novels, e Bridges of Constantine, was
published by Bloomsbury in 2013, and has been translated into several languages
and adapted into a television series.
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The Mime Order
Samantha Shannon
e hotly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller, e Bone Season
Paige Mahoney has escaped the penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have
only just begun: many survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person
in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-
queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly.
Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter
fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around
every corner. en the Rephaim start crawling out from the shadows. But where
is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret
catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.
Born in 1991, Samantha Shannon started writing at the age of feen. In 2013 e
Bone Season hit the bestseller lists across three continents in the rst week of
publication. It was picked as a Book of the Year by the Daily Mail, Stylist and
Hungton Post and was named one of Amazon’s 2013 Best Books of the Year. It
has been translated into twenty-eight languages
@say_shannon
Chaos of the Senses
Ahlem Mosteghanemi
e second novel in the international bestselling trilogy from ‘the literary
phenomenon’ (Elle), Ahlem Mosteghanemi
P
icking up where e Bridges of Constantine ended, Mosteghanemi’s second novel
begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high-
ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an
unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on esh. She falls in love with the
story’s male protagonist, and a love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out
in the dark corners of a battered city. Aer all, the best and truest loves are those
we nd when we’re looking for something else. With poetic nesse, the author
weaves fact and ction to convey a chapter in Algeria’s history as no one else could.
Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author
in the Arab world. She has 4 million followers on Facebook and was ranked in
the top ten most inuential women in the Middle East by Forbes in 2006. e
previous book in her trilogy of bestselling novels, e Bridges of Constantine, was
published by Bloomsbury in 2013, and has been translated into several languages
and adapted into a television series.
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Don’t Let Him Know
Sandip Roy
A tender, powerful and beautifully told story of displacement, Don’t Let Him
Know marks the arrival of a brave new voice in Indian literature
I
n a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra,
a young bride, anxiously awaits her rst letter from home in India. When she
accidentally opens the wrong one, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit
nds the letter and thinks he has discovered his mother’s secret. But secrets have
their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers.
Moving from adolescent rooop games to adult encounters in gay bars, from hair
saloons in Calcutta to McDonald’s drive-thrus in California, Don’t Let Him Know
is an unforgettable story about family, the struggle between having what we want
and doing what we feel we must, and the sacrices we make for those we love.
Sandip Roy is Senior Editor at the popular news portal Firstpost.com and writes
for the Hungton Post. He has been a commentator on National Public Radio’s
Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio programme in the US. He is also
an editor with New America Media and has won several awards for journalism.
Sandip Roy lives in Kolkata.
@Sandipr
Vanessa and Her Sister
Priya Parmar
e bewitching story of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. A novel of art, love
and betrayal. ‘Prepare to be dazzled’ Paula McLain
London, 1905. e city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the
forefront as they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends
who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. At the centre
of the charmed circle are the devoted, gied sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and
Virginia, the writer. But the landscape shis unexpectedly when Vanessa falls
in love and Virginia – eerily possessive and unpredictable – careens towards
self-destruction. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa
must choose whether to protect Virginia’s happiness or her own.
Priya Parmar is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. She lives in
London and Hawaii.
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We Are Pirates
Daniel Handler
A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author
otherwise known as Lemony Snicket
A
boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. ere is blood in the water.
Pirates are terrorising the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a
struggling producer and the owner of a condo with a view of the water. But he’d
like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter.
Gwen is his daughter. She’s fourteen. She’s a student, a swimmer and a best friend.
But she’d like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.
is is a book about our search for freedom. And a tale of a hapless father trying
to get his daughter home.
Daniel Handler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Why We Broke Up,
Adverbs, e Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, Who
Could at Be at is Hour? and a sequence of children’s novels collectively entitled
A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco.
@DanielHandler
The Burning Gates
A Makana Mystery
Parker Bilal
Many miles from Iraq, many months aer the invasion, the dust of war lands
on the streets of Cairo
P
rivate Investigator Makana has a new client, the powerful art dealer Aram
Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went
missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is
that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn’t want
to be found. Soon Makana nds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a
trail that leads him into the darkness of war and threatens to send the new life he
has built for himself up in ames.
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published critically
acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. e Burning Gates is
his fourth Makana Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times
in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.
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We Are Pirates
Daniel Handler
A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author
otherwise known as Lemony Snicket
A
boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. ere is blood in the water.
Pirates are terrorising the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a
struggling producer and the owner of a condo with a view of the water. But he’d
like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter.
Gwen is his daughter. She’s fourteen. She’s a student, a swimmer and a best friend.
But she’d like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.
is is a book about our search for freedom. And a tale of a hapless father trying
to get his daughter home.
Daniel Handler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Why We Broke Up,
Adverbs, e Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, Who
Could at Be at is Hour? and a sequence of children’s novels collectively entitled
A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco.
@DanielHandler
The Burning Gates
A Makana Mystery
Parker Bilal
Many miles from Iraq, many months aer the invasion, the dust of war lands
on the streets of Cairo
P
rivate Investigator Makana has a new client, the powerful art dealer Aram
Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went
missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is
that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn’t want
to be found. Soon Makana nds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a
trail that leads him into the darkness of war and threatens to send the new life he
has built for himself up in ames.
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published critically
acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. e Burning Gates is
his fourth Makana Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times
in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.
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She Will Build Him a City
Raj Kamal Jha
Violence, sex, poverty, love, longing, new money and new cities all come together
in this breathtaking, magical novel by the Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted
author of e Blue Bedspread
A
s night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales for her sleeping daughter. A young
man rides the metro and dreams of murder. A newborn wrapped in a blood-
red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away.
ere are twenty million bodies in this city and this woman, man and child are
only three. But their stories – of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of
grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul and of an orphaned boy who maps
out his own destiny – weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form
a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel.
Raj Kamal Jha is a journalist and a novelist, and works in New Delhi as Chief
Editor of e Indian Express. Jha’s rst novel, e Blue Bedspread, won the 2000
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia) and was a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year. His novels have been published in over a dozen
languages.
The Bamboo Stalk
Saud Alsanousi
Translated by Jonathan Wright
Winner of the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
J
osephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid. In the house
where she works, she meets Rashid, a spoiled only son. Josephine, with all the
wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes
pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid sends her back
to the Philippines with her baby son, José.
José grows up clinging to the hope of returning to his father’s country when he is
eighteen. But will Kuwait be any more welcoming to him than the Philippines was?
Daring and bold, e Bamboo Stalk takes an uninching look at the phenomenon
of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of
identity, race and religion.
Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born in 1981. His work has
appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and
Al-Arabi and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper.
©Saud Alsanousi
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The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’
Celeste
Malcolm Pryce
From the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth novels: a Boy’s Own derring-do
adventure of disappearing nuns, trainspotting and an unforgettable new detective
J
ack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway
detectives created to keep the trains free of fare dodgers, German spies and
ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of
the railways, Jack nds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted
great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous.
Shady government agents, missing nuns, drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged
bookseller, a missing manuscript, a melancholic gorilla and engine number 4070
Godstow Castle all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.
Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and
travelling abroad. He has been a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up,
a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the
world’s worst aluminium salesman. He is the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth
novels. He lives in Oxford.
www.malcolmpryce.com / @exogamist
Not Quite Nice
Celia Imrie
A gloriously charming and funny debut about an eccentric group of expatriates
on the French Riviera, from one of the nation’s best-loved actresses
T
heresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting
her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a
picture-perfect town, just outside Nice.
Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-sur-Mer is now home to the
odd movie star, and, as eresa discovers, a close-knit set of foreigners. Settling
to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, eresa embraces her new-found friendships
and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall from
several closets, eresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as
nice as it rst appeared …
Celia Imrie, Olivier award-winning actress, is best known in lms Calendar Girls,
Nanny McPhee and e Love Punch and on television in Aer You’ve Gone, A Dark
Adapted Eye and Acorn Antiques. In March 2015, she returns for the sequel to e
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her autobiography, e Happy Hoofer, was published in
2011 and in 2014 she brought her cabaret Laughing Matters to the St James eatre.
www.celiaimrie.info / @CeliaImrie
©
David Mitchell
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The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’
Celeste
Malcolm Pryce
From the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth novels: a Boy’s Own derring-do
adventure of disappearing nuns, trainspotting and an unforgettable new detective
J
ack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway
detectives created to keep the trains free of fare dodgers, German spies and
ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of
the railways, Jack nds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted
great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous.
Shady government agents, missing nuns, drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged
bookseller, a missing manuscript, a melancholic gorilla and engine number 4070
Godstow Castle all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.
Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and
travelling abroad. He has been a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up,
a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the
world’s worst aluminium salesman. He is the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth
novels. He lives in Oxford.
www.malcolmpryce.com / @exogamist
Not Quite Nice
Celia Imrie
A gloriously charming and funny debut about an eccentric group of expatriates
on the French Riviera, from one of the nation’s best-loved actresses
T
heresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting
her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a
picture-perfect town, just outside Nice.
Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-sur-Mer is now home to the
odd movie star, and, as eresa discovers, a close-knit set of foreigners. Settling
to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, eresa embraces her new-found friendships
and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall from
several closets, eresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as
nice as it rst appeared …
Celia Imrie, Olivier award-winning actress, is best known in lms Calendar Girls,
Nanny McPhee and e Love Punch and on television in Aer You’ve Gone, A Dark
Adapted Eye and Acorn Antiques. In March 2015, she returns for the sequel to e
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her autobiography, e Happy Hoofer, was published in
2011 and in 2014 she brought her cabaret Laughing Matters to the St James eatre.
www.celiaimrie.info / @CeliaImrie
©
David Mitchell
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Weightless
Sarah Bannan
‘Sarah Bannan brings us right into the middle of bullying twenty-first-
century-style, in a novel that is chilling, engrossing and very, very impressive’
Roddy Doyle
B
efore Carolyn Lessing arrived, nothing much had ever happened in Adamsville,
Alabama. en the new girl came. All Carolyn’s social media could reveal was
that she had moved from New Jersey, she had 1075 friends – and she didn’t have a
relationship status. In beach photos she seemed beautiful, but in real life she was
so much more. She was perfect.
is was all before the camera crews arrived, before it became impossible to see
where rumour ended and truth began, and before the Annual Adamsville Balloon
Festival, when someone swore they saw the captain of the football team with his
arm around Carolyn, and cracks began to appear in the dry earth ...
Sarah Bannan was born in 1978 in upstate New York. She graduated from
Georgetown University in 2000 and then moved to Ireland, where she has lived
ever since. She is the Head of Literature at the Irish Arts Council and lives in Dublin
with her husband and daughter.
@sarahkeegs
The Kindness
Polly Samson
A heartbreakingly beautiful novel from one of Britain’s nest and most acclaimed
talents
J
ulian’s fall begins the moment he sets eyes on Julia. Julia is married and eight
years Julian’s senior. Ignoring warnings from family and friends they give up all
they have to be together and their new life oers immense happiness, especially
aer the birth of their daughter Mira. But when Mira becomes terrifyingly ill, it
is impossible for Julia to conceal the explosive secret that she has been keeping.
An exploration of deception wrapped as a gi, e Kindness asks if we can ever
truly trust another. is is an unforgettable story of love, grief, betrayal and
reconciliation, masterfully plotted and beautifully told.
Polly Samson is the author of Out of the Picture, which was shortlisted for the
Authors’ Club First Novel Award. Her most recent story collection, Perfect Lives,
was a Sunday Times Fiction Choice of the Year and was read on BBC Radio 4. She
has been shortlisted for the VS Pritchard Award and e Edge Hill Prize. Polly
Samson lives in Brighton.
www.pollysamson.com / @PollySamson
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Rise
Karen Campbell
By the author of is Is Where I Am: an exhilarating, luminous novel about
freedom, forgiveness and nding your place in the world
J
ustine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man who between them
have almost broken her she heads north to the mountains and the valleys of the
Highlands. Michael and Hannah are also running. With their two sons and their
tattered marriage they have come to the village of Kilmacarra.
In a place of standing stones, a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine.
Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a
referendum and the community around them fracturing, each must question where
they truly belong and each must nd a way to face their ghosts.
Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing
Masters and author of e Twilight Time, Aer the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life
and, most recently, is Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.
A former police ocer and council PR, Karen Campbell won the Best New Scottish
Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, Scotland.
www.karencampbell.co.uk
Reckless
Hasan Ali Toptas
Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss
e ‘Turkish Kaa’ weaves a mysterious and masterful tale of love and
friendship, guilt and secrets
Y
ears aer completing his military service Ziya ees the perplexing chaos of the
city to seek a peaceful existence in a village of which he has heard dreamlike
tales. However, the village does not provide the isolation Ziya yearns for, and
memories of his military service on the treacherous Syrian/Turkish border ood
his thoughts. As he battles spectres of the past, his ambivalence about village life
provokes a dangerous undercurrent of ill-feeling among the villagers. Toptaş plays
with ideas of time and memory, masterfully blurring the borders between dreams
and reality, truth and memory.
Hasan Ali Toptaş is one of Turkey’s leading writers. His novels have won many
prizes and have been translated into many languages. Shadowless (forthcoming
Bloomsbury 2016) was made into a lm.
Maureen Freely is a novelist and journalist. She is the acclaimed translator of Orhan
Pamuk’s Snow and e Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the inaugural
British Council’s Young Translators’ Prize for prose in 2012.
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Rise
Karen Campbell
By the author of is Is Where I Am: an exhilarating, luminous novel about
freedom, forgiveness and nding your place in the world
J
ustine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man who between them
have almost broken her she heads north to the mountains and the valleys of the
Highlands. Michael and Hannah are also running. With their two sons and their
tattered marriage they have come to the village of Kilmacarra.
In a place of standing stones, a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine.
Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a
referendum and the community around them fracturing, each must question where
they truly belong and each must nd a way to face their ghosts.
Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing
Masters and author of e Twilight Time, Aer the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life
and, most recently, is Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.
A former police ocer and council PR, Karen Campbell won the Best New Scottish
Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, Scotland.
www.karencampbell.co.uk
Reckless
Hasan Ali Toptas
Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss
e ‘Turkish Kaa’ weaves a mysterious and masterful tale of love and
friendship, guilt and secrets
Y
ears aer completing his military service Ziya ees the perplexing chaos of the
city to seek a peaceful existence in a village of which he has heard dreamlike
tales. However, the village does not provide the isolation Ziya yearns for, and
memories of his military service on the treacherous Syrian/Turkish border ood
his thoughts. As he battles spectres of the past, his ambivalence about village life
provokes a dangerous undercurrent of ill-feeling among the villagers. Toptaş plays
with ideas of time and memory, masterfully blurring the borders between dreams
and reality, truth and memory.
Hasan Ali Toptaş is one of Turkey’s leading writers. His novels have won many
prizes and have been translated into many languages. Shadowless (forthcoming
Bloomsbury 2016) was made into a lm.
Maureen Freely is a novelist and journalist. She is the acclaimed translator of Orhan
Pamuk’s Snow and e Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the inaugural
British Council’s Young Translators’ Prize for prose in 2012.
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Sophie and the Sibyl
A Victorian Romance
Patricia Duncker
A witty, intelligent novel about George Eliot, the creation of literature, authors
and publishers – and a surprising romance
D
uncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a publishing business in Berlin. Max,
fond of gambling, is a thorn in Wolfgang’s side, and is sent to court a celebrity
author – George Eliot. As captivating and intelligent as her books, admiringly
known as the Sibyl, she soon has Max enthralled. Yet Wolfgang has further plans
– to settle Max in marriage with Countess Sophie von Hahn. As stubborn as she is
beautiful, she dees convention by contacting her heroine, George Eliot, beginning
a series of events that overturn everybody’s future expectations. Sophie and the
Sibyl is a delightful comedy of manners, a mischievous modern take on Victorian
society and a playful imagining of the author George Eliot.
Patricia Duncker is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of
Manchester. Her ve previous novels include Hallucinating Foucault, winner of the
Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize and another Neo-Victorian
tale, James Miranda Barry.
www.patriciaduncker.com
Sleeping Dogs
A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery
Thomas Mogford
Spike Sanguinetti becomes entangled in a bloody vendetta in the fourth
instalment of omas Mogford’s thrilling series set in the Mediterranean
Haunted by his failure to prevent the violent murders of two innocent women,
Gibraltarian lawyer Spike Sanguinetti joins an old ame, Detective Sergeant
Jessica Navarro, for a holiday on Corfu’s beautiful northeast coast. ere they meet
philanthropist Leo Homann, scion of the powerful Homann banking family.
Leo has recently unearthed an important archeological site, but the discovery of the
body of a young Albanian, bludgeoned to death, halts progress. Reluctantly, Spike
agrees to defend the local man accused, but as he digs deeper, he nds an island
paradise full of deadly secrets – secrets that some will go to any lengths to let lie …
omas Mogford’s rst novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series, Shadow of the
Rock, Sign of the Cross and Hollow Mountain, were published to critical acclaim
by Bloomsbury in 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. He was shortlisted for the CWA
Debut Dagger Award for best new crime writer of 2013. He is married and lives
with his family in London.
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The Field of the Cloth of Gold
Magnus Mills
A witty and surreal fable from one of Britain’s most original and best-loved
comic novelists
In a lush meadow, bounded by a sparkling river, the ags of several tents utter
in the breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days.
Yet all is not as tranquil as it may seem: the balance of power wrought between
the occupants of e Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one, and
relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined
group oers to share its surplus of milk pudding. Only the narrator acknowledges
the gesture, but by forging links with the newcomers he becomes a conduit for
change, change that threatens e Great Field.
Magnus Mills is the author of A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In and six
other novels, including e Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize
and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa)
First Novel Award in 1998. His books have been translated into twenty languages.
He lives in London.
Ritual
Amir Tag Elsir
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic ction writers’ Daily News, Egypt
A
Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters
from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny, terrifying way – a real person
he had never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the
novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate?
Set in both sides of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-
stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and
of the (dubious?) relationship between imagination and reality.
Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor. He studied medicine in Egypt
and at the British Royal College of Medicine. He has published a number of
novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. His novel e Grub Hunter (2010)
was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. He lives in
Doha, Qatar.
©Steve Hogben © Amir Tag ElSir
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The Field of the Cloth of Gold
Magnus Mills
A witty and surreal fable from one of Britain’s most original and best-loved
comic novelists
In a lush meadow, bounded by a sparkling river, the ags of several tents utter
in the breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days.
Yet all is not as tranquil as it may seem: the balance of power wrought between
the occupants of e Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one, and
relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined
group oers to share its surplus of milk pudding. Only the narrator acknowledges
the gesture, but by forging links with the newcomers he becomes a conduit for
change, change that threatens e Great Field.
Magnus Mills is the author of A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In and six
other novels, including e Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize
and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa)
First Novel Award in 1998. His books have been translated into twenty languages.
He lives in London.
Ritual
Amir Tag Elsir
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic ction writers’ Daily News, Egypt
A
Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters
from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny, terrifying way – a real person
he had never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the
novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate?
Set in both sides of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-
stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and
of the (dubious?) relationship between imagination and reality.
Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor. He studied medicine in Egypt
and at the British Royal College of Medicine. He has published a number of
novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. His novel e Grub Hunter (2010)
was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. He lives in
Doha, Qatar.
©Steve Hogben © Amir Tag ElSir
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The Improbability of Love
Hannah Rothschild
A dazzling, witty and tenderly savage satire of London life and the art world
that is also a surprising and wonderful love story
When lovelorn Annie McCann stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop,
she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she nds herself drawn into
the art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate
auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers all scheming to get their hands on her
painting – a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called e Improbability of Love.
Delving into the painting’s past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of
former owners, but the darker secrets of European history – and in doing so she
will learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again.
Hannah Rothschild is a writer and lm director, whose documentary feature lms
have appeared on the BBC and HBO, and at international lm festivals. She has
written for Vanity Fair, New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. Her rst book,
e Baroness, was published in 2012, and has been translated into six languages.
www.hannahrothschild.com / @jazzybaroness
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At Hawthorn Time
Melissa Harrison
From the prize-winning author of Clay, an exquisite novel about four people’s
lives, our changing relationship with the landscape and what it means to belong
It is dawn on a May morning. A long, straight road runs between sleeping elds
to a little village called Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished,
violence gathered about them in the still morning air. As the sky lightens and a
new day begins, lives hang in the balance.
Howard and Kitty have not lived in Lodeshill long. A one-time roadie, Howard has
not taken to the country – unlike Kitty, who always dreamed of this life. Jamie,
meanwhile, is a local boy, born in the village like his grandfather before him, but
struggling to build a life there. Finally, Jack is an itinerant landworker, protestor,
poet and seer, who walks into Lodeshill one spring day, bringing change.
Melissa Harrison is a freelance writer and photographer whose clients include
the Guardian and the FT Weekend. Her debut novel Clay was published in 2013
and was the winner of the Portsmouth First Fiction Award, selected for Amazon’s
‘Rising Stars’ programme and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. She lives
in south London.
@M_Z_Harrison
©
Neil Brookeld
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Paradise City
Elizabeth Day
An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers
whose lives collide with far-reaching consequences
B
eatrice Kizza is a refugee in ight from her homeland; Howard Pink is a
blustering self-made millionaire; Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is
living the quiet life in Wandsworth and Esme Reade is a journalist learning to
muck-rake in pursuit of the elusive scoop. Four strangers, they are each inhabitants
of the same city – the capital – where the gulf between those who have too much
and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when an inexcusable
act shatters the boundaries between their worlds, they discover that the city has
connected them in ways they could never have imagined.
Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and Home Fires. She is an
award-winning journalist who has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday
Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and is now a feature writer for the Observer.
She grew up in Northern Ireland and currently lives in London, with her husband.
www.elizabethdayonline.co.uk / @elizabday
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Sidney Chambers and
the Forgiveness of Sins
James Runcie
To be a major, prime-time six-part series, Grantchester, for ITV in autumn 2014
L
oveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers is
back, continuing his investigations. A mysterious stranger seeks sanctuary
in Grantchester’s church; a shooting weekend in the country has a sinister end;
a friend receives poison pen letters; a piano falls on a musician’s head; a school
cricket match has an explosive nish; and on a holiday in Italy, Sidney is accused
of stealing a priceless painting. On the home front, his new curate has become
irritatingly popular with the parish and his daughter is starting to walk and talk.
Entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful and deeply humane, these stories are bound
to delight the clerical detective’s many fans.
James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning
lm-maker and the author of eight novels. His popular detective series is set to
become a six-part show on ITV, Granchester, and is scheduled for autumn 2014.
www.jamesruncie.com / @james_runcie
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Paradise City
Elizabeth Day
An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers
whose lives collide with far-reaching consequences
B
eatrice Kizza is a refugee in ight from her homeland; Howard Pink is a
blustering self-made millionaire; Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is
living the quiet life in Wandsworth and Esme Reade is a journalist learning to
muck-rake in pursuit of the elusive scoop. Four strangers, they are each inhabitants
of the same city – the capital – where the gulf between those who have too much
and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when an inexcusable
act shatters the boundaries between their worlds, they discover that the city has
connected them in ways they could never have imagined.
Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and Home Fires. She is an
award-winning journalist who has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday
Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and is now a feature writer for the Observer.
She grew up in Northern Ireland and currently lives in London, with her husband.
www.elizabethdayonline.co.uk / @elizabday
07 MAY 2015
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Sidney Chambers and
the Forgiveness of Sins
James Runcie
To be a major, prime-time six-part series, Grantchester, for ITV in autumn 2014
L
oveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers is
back, continuing his investigations. A mysterious stranger seeks sanctuary
in Grantchester’s church; a shooting weekend in the country has a sinister end;
a friend receives poison pen letters; a piano falls on a musician’s head; a school
cricket match has an explosive nish; and on a holiday in Italy, Sidney is accused
of stealing a priceless painting. On the home front, his new curate has become
irritatingly popular with the parish and his daughter is starting to walk and talk.
Entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful and deeply humane, these stories are bound
to delight the clerical detective’s many fans.
James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning
lm-maker and the author of eight novels. His popular detective series is set to
become a six-part show on ITV, Granchester, and is scheduled for autumn 2014.
www.jamesruncie.com / @james_runcie
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The Holy Sail
Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud
In the name of the Cross, Portuguese eets head to the Gulf. In the name of
Allah, Arabian tribes must resist …
O
blivious to the invasions, massacres and religious fanaticism that characterise
the eenth century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader.
But all eyes are on the Portuguese eets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on securing the
protable spice trade. Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous
historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility, while guiding us around
the medieval world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah, and Istanbul.
e Holy Sail brings to life a neglected episode of history that impacted not only
the region but the world for centuries to come.
Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. He has a BA in
engineering from Clarkson University in New York and an aviation and engineering
diploma from the UK. He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and e Peninsula
newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. is is his second novel.
The Harder They Come
T.C. Boyle
A moving exploration of the ne line between heroism and savagery
S
ten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired principal, is on vacation in Costa Rica
when his tour bus is hijacked. Sten reacts, killing one of the hijackers, and is
hailed a hero. Back home, anti-government protestor Sara Jennings is arrested for
resisting police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with Sten’s unstable son Adam
sparks a passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. But Adam’s
behaviour becomes steadily more extreme, descending into a spiral of fanatical
violence impossible to halt.
e Harder ey Come is as timely as it is provocative: a deep and disturbing
meditation on the roots of American gun violence.
T.C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and
fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his
collected stories, T.C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-
ve languages and he has won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member
of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.
www.tcboyle.com
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The Sunlit Night
Rebecca Dinerstein
‘Lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller, funny, dark, warm and
as knowing of place as any travel book or memoir, e Sunlit Night marks the
appearance of a brave talent’ Jonathan Safran Foer
The Sunlit Night explores the intersection of two young lives: Frances, who ees
her claustrophobic childhood apartment in Manhattan and seeks refuge at
an obscure Norwegian artist colony; and Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian
immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, who heads north to carry out
his beloved father’s last wish to be buried ‘at the top of the world’. e two meet in
Lofoten, an archipelago in the Norwegian Sea. eir unlikely connection forties
them against the turmoil of their distant homes and teaches them that however
far they travel for independence, it is ultimately love that gives them their place
in the world.
Rebecca Dinerstein was born in New York City in 1987. She received her BA from
Yale University, and her MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her rst book of poems, Lofoten,
was published in English and Norwegian. e Sunlit Night is her rst novel.
@beckydinerstein
The All Saints’ Day Lovers
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
An extraordinarily powerful collection of seven, thematically linked, long stories
from the acclaimed prize-winning author of e Sound of ings Falling
A
chingly sad and beautifully craed, e All Saints’ Day Lovers is an intense
exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly
beautiful landscape of Belgium’s Ardennes, these stories have been compared to
Maupassant, Chekhov and John Cheever. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder
which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her
husband to return, while he lies in another woman’s bed twenty kilometres away.
rough blood-soaked betrayal, a love aair, murder and long-meditated revenge,
Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with
these fragmented lives.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá. He is the author of e Sound of ings
Falling, winner of the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and e Informers,
shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in
2004 and for e Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.
© Rebecca Dinerstein
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The Sunlit Night
Rebecca Dinerstein
‘Lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller, funny, dark, warm and
as knowing of place as any travel book or memoir, e Sunlit Night marks the
appearance of a brave talent’ Jonathan Safran Foer
The Sunlit Night explores the intersection of two young lives: Frances, who ees
her claustrophobic childhood apartment in Manhattan and seeks refuge at
an obscure Norwegian artist colony; and Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian
immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, who heads north to carry out
his beloved father’s last wish to be buried ‘at the top of the world’. e two meet in
Lofoten, an archipelago in the Norwegian Sea. eir unlikely connection forties
them against the turmoil of their distant homes and teaches them that however
far they travel for independence, it is ultimately love that gives them their place
in the world.
Rebecca Dinerstein was born in New York City in 1987. She received her BA from
Yale University, and her MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her rst book of poems, Lofoten,
was published in English and Norwegian. e Sunlit Night is her rst novel.
@beckydinerstein
The All Saints’ Day Lovers
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
An extraordinarily powerful collection of seven, thematically linked, long stories
from the acclaimed prize-winning author of e Sound of ings Falling
A
chingly sad and beautifully craed, e All Saints’ Day Lovers is an intense
exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly
beautiful landscape of Belgium’s Ardennes, these stories have been compared to
Maupassant, Chekhov and John Cheever. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder
which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her
husband to return, while he lies in another woman’s bed twenty kilometres away.
rough blood-soaked betrayal, a love aair, murder and long-meditated revenge,
Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with
these fragmented lives.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá. He is the author of e Sound of ings
Falling, winner of the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and e Informers,
shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in
2004 and for e Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.
© Rebecca Dinerstein
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The Girl in the Ice
Lotte & Søren Hammer
Translated from the Danish by Paul Norlen
e second in the international bestselling Konrad Simonsen series – a chilling
thriller from the authors of e Hanging
U
nder the pitiless vault of Greenland’s arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered.
Half-naked and tied up, hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain
alone, buried in the ice cap, for twenty-ve years until an ice-melt reveals her.
When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is own in to investigate
this horric murder and the Danish detective sees how she was attacked, it triggers
a dark memory and he realises this was not the killer’s only victim. As Simonsen’s
team work to discover evidence that has long since lain buried, they unearth truths
that certain people would rather stayed forgotten and powerful individuals are
suddenly working against them.
Lotte and Søren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister
Lotte worked as a nurse and her brother Søren was a trained teacher and a lecturer
at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. Aer Søren moved into the
house where Lotte lived with her family they began writing crime novels together.
ey live near Copenhagen.
Coup de Foudre
Ken Kalfus
From National Book Award nalist Ken Kalfus, een intellectually adventurous
comedies, including a shocking title novella ripped from the headlines
A
groundbreaking work of literary invention, Coup de Foudre is the third collection
by celebrated author Ken Kalfus. e book is anchored by the biting title novella,
a sometimes farcical, ultimately tragic story about the president of an international
lending institution accused of sexually assaulting a chambermaid in a New York
hotel. With irony and compassion, Kalfus skewers international political gridlock
and the hypocrisies of acceptable sexual conduct.
Varying boldly in theme, setting and tone, the stories in Coup de Foudre share
Kalfus’s distinctive humour and intellect, inextricably bound with high literary
ambition.
Ken Kalfus is the author of three novels, Equilateral, A Disorder Peculiar to the
Country – a nalist for the National Book Award – and e Commissariat of
Enlightenment. He has also published two collections of stories, one a nalist for
the PEN/Faulkner Award. Kalfus has received a Pew Fellowships in the Arts award
and a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Philadelphia.
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Vera Brittain and the First
World War
The Story of Testament of Youth
Mark Bostridge
e remarkable story of Vera Brittain and her extraordinary testimony of war
I
n 1915 Vera Brittain interrupted her education and volunteered as a nurse, serving
in London, Malta and, eventually, in France, on the Western Front. e events of
the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life and work: four
of Brittain’s closest friends including her ancé Roland Leighton and her brother
Edward were killed, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacism.
Here Mark Bostridge tells the story of her tragic, courageous and deeply fascinating
memoir, Testament of Youth, with a chapter describing the book’s adaptation into
a major new lm, starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington.
Mark Bostridge’s books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread
Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize; the
bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Florence Nightingale: e Woman and
Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; and
e Fateful Year: England 1914.
Chasing the Scream
The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari
is shocking account of the War on Drugs and the alternatives to it is ‘superb
journalism and thrilling story-telling’ Naomi Klein, author of No Logo
J
anuary 2015 marks 100 years since drugs were rst banned. Johann Hari set o on
a three-year-long, 20,000-mile journey to nd out why they were criminalised,
how this is causing a disaster today and what happens when you choose a radically
dierent path. His discoveries are told entirely through the startling and moving
stories of real people – from a transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn to a Hungarian
Holocaust survivor who discovered the real causes of addiction. With endorsements
from Elton John, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, this book will change how we
think about one of the most controversial issues of our time.
Johann Hari has been twice named ‘Newspaper Journalist of the Year’ by Amnesty
International UK for his reporting. He has written for the New York Times, the LA
Times, the Independent, the Guardian and Le Monde amongst others. He has also
been named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by Stonewall.
www.johannhari.com / @johannhari101
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Vera Brittain and the First
World War
The Story of Testament of Youth
Mark Bostridge
e remarkable story of Vera Brittain and her extraordinary testimony of war
I
n 1915 Vera Brittain interrupted her education and volunteered as a nurse, serving
in London, Malta and, eventually, in France, on the Western Front. e events of
the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life and work: four
of Brittain’s closest friends including her ancé Roland Leighton and her brother
Edward were killed, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacism.
Here Mark Bostridge tells the story of her tragic, courageous and deeply fascinating
memoir, Testament of Youth, with a chapter describing the book’s adaptation into
a major new lm, starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington.
Mark Bostridge’s books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread
Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize; the
bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Florence Nightingale: e Woman and
Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; and
e Fateful Year: England 1914.
Chasing the Scream
The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari
is shocking account of the War on Drugs and the alternatives to it is ‘superb
journalism and thrilling story-telling’ Naomi Klein, author of No Logo
J
anuary 2015 marks 100 years since drugs were rst banned. Johann Hari set o on
a three-year-long, 20,000-mile journey to nd out why they were criminalised,
how this is causing a disaster today and what happens when you choose a radically
dierent path. His discoveries are told entirely through the startling and moving
stories of real people – from a transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn to a Hungarian
Holocaust survivor who discovered the real causes of addiction. With endorsements
from Elton John, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, this book will change how we
think about one of the most controversial issues of our time.
Johann Hari has been twice named ‘Newspaper Journalist of the Year’ by Amnesty
International UK for his reporting. He has written for the New York Times, the LA
Times, the Independent, the Guardian and Le Monde amongst others. He has also
been named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by Stonewall.
www.johannhari.com / @johannhari101
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The Girl From Human Street
Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
Roger Cohen
An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the
diaspora of the author’s own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement
and disquiet
T
urning an eye on the legacy of his family, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen
explores the anomie of European Jews aer the Holocaust, following them from
Lithuania to South Africa, England, the United States and Israel. He illuminates
the uneasy resonance of the racism his family witnessed living in apartheid-era
South Africa and explores the pervasive Jewish sense of ‘otherness’ and how it
relates to his family’s own history of manic depression. is tale of remembrance
and repression, suicide and resilience, moral ambivalence and uneasily evolving
loyalties is an uninching personal story that contributes an important chapter
to the narrative of Jewish life.
Roger Cohen is a former foreign correspondent and award-winning columnist,
writing a regular column for the New York Times op-ed page as well as the
International New York Times. He lives in London and New York.
Sophia
Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
Anita Anand
e exhilarating story of an Indian Princess in the British court, weaving through
the most important episodes in British and Indian history
I
n 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, the Maharajah,
was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the Kashmir
Valley to the foothills of the Khyber Pass, as far as Sindh. A territory irresistible
to the British, they took everything, including the fabled Koh-i-noor diamond.
Exiled, the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate in Norfolk into a
palace, replete with exotic animals. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was
raised a society lady. But aer travelling to India, against the wishes of the British
government, she returned a revolutionary, committed to Indian Independence –
and the ght for female surage.
Anita Anand has been a radio and television journalist for almost twenty years.
She is currently the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Any Answers. During
her career, she has presented shows on Radio 5 Live, Radio 4 and BBC television.
@tweeter_anita
© Rebecca Ring
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The Fish Ladder
A Journey Upstream
Katharine Norbury
Part travelogue, part memoir, this moving story of an adoptee’s search for
personal identity – told through journeys on foot along glittering rivers – is
nature writing at its nest and destined to be a classic of memoir
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by
a loving adoptive family, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of
the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-
for child, Katharine sets out – accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie
– to follow a river from the sea to its source. e luminously observed landscape
grounds the walkers, earths them, providing both a constant and a context to their
expeditions. But what begins as a diversion from grief evolves into a journey to
the source of life itself: a life-threatening illness forces Katharine to seek a genetic
medical history, and this new and unexpected path delivers her to the door of the
woman who abandoned her all those years ago.
Katharine Norbury trained as a lm editor with the BBC and has worked extensively
in lm and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA
programme at UEA and a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths College. She lives in
London with her family. e Fish Ladder is her rst book. @kjnorbury
The Rape of Europa
Charles FitzRoy
Part art history, part detective story, a thrilling account of one of the world’s
most celebrated works of art
T
he Rape of Europa is one of Titian’s great masterpieces, a work charged with
eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the
painting itself. Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of the painting’s history,
ranging from the court of King Philip II of Spain, through French revolution and
English intrigue, to its nal move to America, engineered by the brilliant but
devious art dealer Bernard Berenson. is is the tale of how Titian’s masterpiece
has captivated kings, artists, lovers and laymen alike for over four centuries since
its conception and continues to do so today.
Charles FitzRoy is a direct descendant of Charles II and the uncle of the Duke of
Graon. Educated at Eton and Magdalene College Cambridge, he trained as an
art historian under Professor David Watkin. He runs Fine Art Travel Ltd and is a
director of art agents Robert Holden Ltd.
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The Fish Ladder
A Journey Upstream
Katharine Norbury
Part travelogue, part memoir, this moving story of an adoptee’s search for
personal identity – told through journeys on foot along glittering rivers – is
nature writing at its nest and destined to be a classic of memoir
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by
a loving adoptive family, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of
the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-
for child, Katharine sets out – accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie
– to follow a river from the sea to its source. e luminously observed landscape
grounds the walkers, earths them, providing both a constant and a context to their
expeditions. But what begins as a diversion from grief evolves into a journey to
the source of life itself: a life-threatening illness forces Katharine to seek a genetic
medical history, and this new and unexpected path delivers her to the door of the
woman who abandoned her all those years ago.
Katharine Norbury trained as a lm editor with the BBC and has worked extensively
in lm and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA
programme at UEA and a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths College. She lives in
London with her family. e Fish Ladder is her rst book. @kjnorbury
The Rape of Europa
Charles FitzRoy
Part art history, part detective story, a thrilling account of one of the world’s
most celebrated works of art
T
he Rape of Europa is one of Titian’s great masterpieces, a work charged with
eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the
painting itself. Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of the painting’s history,
ranging from the court of King Philip II of Spain, through French revolution and
English intrigue, to its nal move to America, engineered by the brilliant but
devious art dealer Bernard Berenson. is is the tale of how Titian’s masterpiece
has captivated kings, artists, lovers and laymen alike for over four centuries since
its conception and continues to do so today.
Charles FitzRoy is a direct descendant of Charles II and the uncle of the Duke of
Graon. Educated at Eton and Magdalene College Cambridge, he trained as an
art historian under Professor David Watkin. He runs Fine Art Travel Ltd and is a
director of art agents Robert Holden Ltd.
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A New History of Life
The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution
of Life on Earth
Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink
A revolutionary account of Earth-life, from the Big Bang, through its origin on
Mars, to its wonderful diversity today
F
or decades, our principal account of life on Earth has remained unchanged. Using
groundbreaking research, scientists Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink expose the
gaps in our knowledge of Life, and re-write it from the beginning. ey examine
why Earth-life most likely began on Mars, how it triggered the rst cataclysmic
Snowball Earth event, why the rise of animals was delayed for billions of years,
how the global climate has both encouraged and destroyed organisms, and what
the future of humanity may be. Together, they show that the true history of Earth
is more surprising and wonderful than we could ever have imagined.
Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology, and Earth and Space Sciences, at the University
of Washington. He is the author of seventeen books, including the bestselling
Rare Earth.
Joe Kirschvink is the Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology at
Caltech, as well as a PI of the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo.
Kaleidoscope City
A Year in Varanasi
Piers Moore Ede
From the acclaimed author of Honey and Dust: a captivating memoir of a year
spent in the city of Varanasi
P
iers Moore Ede rst fell in love with Varanasi when he passed through it in search
of wild honey hunters. In the decade that followed, it continued to exert its pull
on him, and so he returned to live there, renting a room overlooking the Ganges.
In this intoxicating ‘city of 10,000 widows’, where funeral pyres smoulder beside
the river in which thousands of pilgrims bathe, and where holiness and corruption
walk side by side, Piers encounters sweet-makers and sadhus, mischievous boatmen
and weary bureaucrats, silk weavers and musicians, and discovers a remarkable
interplay between death and life, light and dark.
Piers Moore Ede has contributed to many literary, travel and environmental
publications, including the Daily Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement,
Ecologist, Traveller and Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Honey and Dust,
winner of a D. H. Lawrence Prize for Travel Writing, and All Kinds of Magic. He
lives in East Sussex with his wife and daughter.
piersmooreede.blogspot.co.uk
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How to Win Every Argument
The Use and Abuse of Logic
Madsen Pirie
e witty and complete guide to how to use – and deliberately misuse – logic
in order to win every argument
The second edition of Madsen Pirie’s infectious guide on using logic in order to
win arguments will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and
opponents will all wish you had never read it. New chapters on out-talking others
in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and on Twitter, make this the
complete guide for all situations, ranging from the everyday to the downright
serious. Pirie shows how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and
identify the weaknesses in other people’s arguments. And, more mischievously,
he shows how to be deliberately illogical – and get away with it.
Madsen Pirie is President of the Adam Smith Institute, UK and author of numerous
books including Boost Your IQ and e Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College,
Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television.
Edward Thomas:
From Adlestrop to Arras
A Biography
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Edward omas is one of the major poets of the First World War; this is the rst
full-length biography of him to appear for more than thirty years
How did Edward omas really die at the Battle of Arras? Is it true that Robert
Frost’s poem ‘e Road Not Taken’ sent him to war? Did he actually cower
cravenly before an irate gamekeeper? Were all his prose books hackwork? And are
Helen omas’s two books on her husband a true picture of him? is biography,
the rst full-length one for more than thirty years, goes back to original sources
and adds a wealth of new material, exploding the many myths that have grown
up around the ne poet whom Walter de la Mare called a ‘mirror of England’.
Jean Moorcro Wilson is a foremost authority on First World War literature.
She is the author of acclaimed biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg
and Charles Hamilton Sorley. She has taught for many years at Birkbeck College,
University of London, and is married to the nephew of Virginia Woolf.
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How to Win Every Argument
The Use and Abuse of Logic
Madsen Pirie
e witty and complete guide to how to use – and deliberately misuse – logic
in order to win every argument
The second edition of Madsen Pirie’s infectious guide on using logic in order to
win arguments will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and
opponents will all wish you had never read it. New chapters on out-talking others
in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and on Twitter, make this the
complete guide for all situations, ranging from the everyday to the downright
serious. Pirie shows how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and
identify the weaknesses in other people’s arguments. And, more mischievously,
he shows how to be deliberately illogical – and get away with it.
Madsen Pirie is President of the Adam Smith Institute, UK and author of numerous
books including Boost Your IQ and e Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College,
Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television.
Edward Thomas:
From Adlestrop to Arras
A Biography
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Edward omas is one of the major poets of the First World War; this is the rst
full-length biography of him to appear for more than thirty years
How did Edward omas really die at the Battle of Arras? Is it true that Robert
Frost’s poem ‘e Road Not Taken’ sent him to war? Did he actually cower
cravenly before an irate gamekeeper? Were all his prose books hackwork? And are
Helen omas’s two books on her husband a true picture of him? is biography,
the rst full-length one for more than thirty years, goes back to original sources
and adds a wealth of new material, exploding the many myths that have grown
up around the ne poet whom Walter de la Mare called a ‘mirror of England’.
Jean Moorcro Wilson is a foremost authority on First World War literature.
She is the author of acclaimed biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg
and Charles Hamilton Sorley. She has taught for many years at Birkbeck College,
University of London, and is married to the nephew of Virginia Woolf.
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Gallipoli
The Dardanelles Campaign in Soldiers’ Words and
Photographs
Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers
An entirely fresh account based on original sources, published for the 100th
anniversary of one of the Great War’s most catastrophic campaigns
V
an Emden’s narrative and his lucid analysis of Churchill’s misguided campaign
complements the soldiers’ voices and Chambers’ evocative images, showing how
the rapid spread of diseases like dysentery, the lack of clean water and food, and
the tremendous losses on both sides undermined morale, until nally in January
1916 the Allies successfully fooled the Turkish forces and evacuated their troops.
Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign,
the majority taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written
material from troops, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an
unrivalled account of the hell that was Gallipoli and what really happened there.
Leading First World War historian Richard van Emden has interviewed more than
270 veterans of the Great War and has written sixteen books on the subject. He
lives in London. Gallipoli expert Stephen Chambers is a military historian and a
well-known tour guide to the battleelds.
Girl in the Dark
Anna Lyndsey
e story of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary illness. A memoir of a
life lived in darkness and a passionate love aair with light
T
his is the true story of an ordinary woman who developed an extraordinary
condition, leading her to live an impossible life – a life without light, yet one
that is illuminated in the most unexpected ways. It began with a burning sensation
on her face when she was exposed to computer screens and uorescent lighting.
en the burning spread and the problematic light sources proliferated. Now Anna
Lyndsey’s extreme sensitivity to light in all forms means she must spend much of
her life in total darkness.
Told with great beauty, humour and honesty, Girl in the Dark is the upliing story
of how light can be found in even the darkest of places.
Anna Lyndsey worked for several years in London as a civil servant until she
became ill. She now lives with her husband in Hampshire. Anna is writing under
a pen-name.
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The Pleasure of Reading
Edited by Antonia Fraser and Victoria Gray
Forty of our best-loved writers describe what makes reading that very special
delight
I
n this charming collection acclaimed writers explain what rst made them
interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue
to do so. First published in 1992, original contributors include Margaret Atwood,
J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duy, Alan
Hollinghurst, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson.
e new edition will include essays from ten new writers.
Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org.
uk, a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of
particular benet, working with organisations such as Age UK, Prison Reading
Groups and a variety of literacy projects.
Antonia Fraser is well known as a historical biographer. She also writes the Jemima
Shore crime novels and in 2010 published an acclaimed memoir of her life with
her husband Harold Pinter, Must You Go?. Victoria Gray is a trustee of Give a
Book, a charity founded in honour of her late husband, the playwright and diarist
Simon Gray.
A Higher Form of Killing
Diana Preston
Diana Preston oers a startling new window on to World War I with her chronicle
of the birth of weapons of mass destruction
I
n six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever
altered the way war would be fought, employing poison gas in the trenches,
torpedoing the passenger line Lusitania and beginning by Zeppelin the rst aerial
bombardment of London. Each of these actions violated the rules of war agreed at
e Hague in 1898 and 1907. e era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned.
Diana Preston here links each of these momentous events for the rst time – in
our current time of terror, the story of their birth is of great relevance.
Diana Preston is the author of A First Rate Tragedy, e Boxer Rebellion, Lusitania:
An Epic Tragedy and Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. She lives
in London.
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The Pleasure of Reading
Edited by Antonia Fraser and Victoria Gray
Forty of our best-loved writers describe what makes reading that very special
delight
I
n this charming collection acclaimed writers explain what rst made them
interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue
to do so. First published in 1992, original contributors include Margaret Atwood,
J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duy, Alan
Hollinghurst, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson.
e new edition will include essays from ten new writers.
Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org.
uk, a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of
particular benet, working with organisations such as Age UK, Prison Reading
Groups and a variety of literacy projects.
Antonia Fraser is well known as a historical biographer. She also writes the Jemima
Shore crime novels and in 2010 published an acclaimed memoir of her life with
her husband Harold Pinter, Must You Go?. Victoria Gray is a trustee of Give a
Book, a charity founded in honour of her late husband, the playwright and diarist
Simon Gray.
A Higher Form of Killing
Diana Preston
Diana Preston oers a startling new window on to World War I with her chronicle
of the birth of weapons of mass destruction
I
n six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever
altered the way war would be fought, employing poison gas in the trenches,
torpedoing the passenger line Lusitania and beginning by Zeppelin the rst aerial
bombardment of London. Each of these actions violated the rules of war agreed at
e Hague in 1898 and 1907. e era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned.
Diana Preston here links each of these momentous events for the rst time – in
our current time of terror, the story of their birth is of great relevance.
Diana Preston is the author of A First Rate Tragedy, e Boxer Rebellion, Lusitania:
An Epic Tragedy and Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. She lives
in London.
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Princes at War
The Royal Family’s Turmoil in World War II
Deborah Cadbury
e story of ‘the King’s speech’ is well known, but now Deborah Cadbury reveals
all that happened to the British Royal Family in the War Years
T
he sons of King George V and Queen Mary were brought up to full very
dierent roles within the Royal Family. eir personal lives were successfully
kept out of the public eye until 1936, when the dazzling Edward VIII rejected his role
as King of England for the sake of the glamorous American socialite and divorcee,
Wallis Simpson, and plunged the family and his country into crisis.
Drawing on new research Cadbury shows just how far the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor were prepared to go to take back the British throne from Edward’s younger,
stammering brother, King George VI, should Germany prevail in the Second World
War, and how the ri threatened to tear the Royal Family and the nation apart.
Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning former TV producer for the BBC, including
Horizon for which she won an Emmy. She is also the author of seven acclaimed
books including e Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, for which the TV series
received a BAFTA nomination for Best Series. She lives in London.
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Mr Mojo
A Biography of Jim Morrison
Dylan Jones
A revealing biography of Jim Morrison, lead singer of e Doors and a musical
icon
I
n Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison’s grati-scrawled tombstone is
a place of pilgrimage. Found dead in his bathtub aged only twenty-seven having
achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of e Doors, Morrison was quickly
immortalised amongst the rock and roll deity. In this colourful and intimate
biography, Dylan Jones oers a frank and honest appraisal of a much beloved and
oen-romanticised counter-cultural icon. Mr Mojo is littered with little-known
anecdotes from fellow stars, spurned lovers and industry moguls. It is a refreshingly
honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry and public
self-destruction.
Dylan Jones studied at Chelsea School Of Art and St Martin’s School of Art. e
award-winning editor of GQ magazine, he has been the Chairman of the Prince’s
Trust, is a Trustee of the Hay Festival and in June 2013 was awarded an OBE for
services to publishing and the fashion industry.
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The Monopolists
Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite
Board Game
Mary Pilon
e inside story of the world’s most famous board game – a buried piece of
history with a controversy that continues today
T
hose who know that it is American rather than British think Monopoly was
invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers
during the Great Depression in 1935. at, however, is not exactly true – the real
story traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers and a forgotten feminist named
Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord’s Game more than thirty
years before. A remarkable social history of corporate greed that illuminates the
cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, e Monopolists reads
like the best detective ction, told through Monopoly’s real-life winners and losers.
Mary Pilon is an award-winning sta reporter at the New York Times where she
currently covers sports. She has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Gawker,
USA Today and lives in New York City.
www.marypilon.com / @marypilon
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Another Little Piece
of My Heart
My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ‘60s
Richard Goldstein
An intimate and sweeping personal account of a decade that no one else could
provide – the dening document of rock and revolution in 1960s America
I
n 1966, at just 22, New Yorker Richard Goldstein became the rst person to write
about rock music in a major publication. From his unique position he saw the full
arc of events that shaped culture and politics in the 1960s. He met Andy Warhol,
got stoned with Brian Wilson, witnessed Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’
speech, was challenged to a boxing match by Norman Mailer and took Susan Sontag
to her rst disco. Goldstein also developed close relationships with rock legends
Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, whose early deaths came as a wrenching shock,
fuelling his disillusionment as the music he loved evolved from a communal rite
into a vast industry – and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval faded away.
Richard Goldstein wrote the ‘Pope Eye’ column in the Village Voice from 1966 to
1970 where he later served as executive editor. His work has appeared in the New
York Times, Harper’s and the Guardian. He is currently an adjunct professor at
Hunter College of the City University of New York.
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The Monopolists
Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite
Board Game
Mary Pilon
e inside story of the world’s most famous board game – a buried piece of
history with a controversy that continues today
T
hose who know that it is American rather than British think Monopoly was
invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers
during the Great Depression in 1935. at, however, is not exactly true – the real
story traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers and a forgotten feminist named
Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord’s Game more than thirty
years before. A remarkable social history of corporate greed that illuminates the
cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, e Monopolists reads
like the best detective ction, told through Monopoly’s real-life winners and losers.
Mary Pilon is an award-winning sta reporter at the New York Times where she
currently covers sports. She has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Gawker,
USA Today and lives in New York City.
www.marypilon.com / @marypilon
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Another Little Piece
of My Heart
My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ‘60s
Richard Goldstein
An intimate and sweeping personal account of a decade that no one else could
provide – the dening document of rock and revolution in 1960s America
I
n 1966, at just 22, New Yorker Richard Goldstein became the rst person to write
about rock music in a major publication. From his unique position he saw the full
arc of events that shaped culture and politics in the 1960s. He met Andy Warhol,
got stoned with Brian Wilson, witnessed Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’
speech, was challenged to a boxing match by Norman Mailer and took Susan Sontag
to her rst disco. Goldstein also developed close relationships with rock legends
Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, whose early deaths came as a wrenching shock,
fuelling his disillusionment as the music he loved evolved from a communal rite
into a vast industry – and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval faded away.
Richard Goldstein wrote the ‘Pope Eye’ column in the Village Voice from 1966 to
1970 where he later served as executive editor. His work has appeared in the New
York Times, Harper’s and the Guardian. He is currently an adjunct professor at
Hunter College of the City University of New York.
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The Fall of the House of Wilde
Emer O’Sullivan
A remarkable and perceptive account of the double fall from grace of one of
nineteenth-century Dublin’s most prominent families
Oscar Wilde’s father was one of the most eminent men of his generation, while
his mother ran a dazzling salon in Dublin. Together they championed the
Celtic renaissance and were among the most enlightened Anglo-Irish families in
Victorian Ireland. But in 1865, Dublin society was rocked to its foundations when
Sir William was charged with sexually assaulting a female patient. Fleeing Ireland
Lady Jane and her two sons had tremendous success in London until it was Oscar’s
turn to be the subject of a scandalous trial. Here is Oscar Wilde set in the context
of his family and the politics of his time.
Emer O’Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an
MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf’s literature at UEA, where she
also lectured in English Literature. is is her rst book. She lives in London.
The Intimate Bond
How Animals Shaped Human History
Brian Fagan
Brian Fagan shows how the powerful bond between Homo sapiens and other
species has determined the course of civilisations and shaped human character
F
rom the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly
redening their relationship with one another. Brian Fagan unfolds this
fascinating story, from the rst wolf who wandered into our prehistoric ancestors’
camp and found companionship, to empires built on the backs of horses, donkeys
and camels, to the industrial age when some animals became commodities, oen
brutally exploited, and others became pets, nurtured and pampered. rough an
in-depth analysis of six truly transformative human-animal relationships, Fagan
reveals with characteristic care and penetrating insight the profound inuence
that animals have exercised on human history.
Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. He is the author of New York Times bestseller e Great Warming
and many other books, including e Little Ice Age and e Long Summer.
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A Guest at the Shooters’
Banquet
My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family,
A Search for the Truth
Rita Gabis
e personal journey of a woman who discovers her grandfather was a Nazi
collaborator, and passionately researches the atrocities that occurred, in part,
under his watch
R
ita Gabis, from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics, was
close to her Lithuanian Catholic grandfather as a child. She knew one version
of his past; prior to immigration he was a resistance ghter against the Russians.
But then she discovers the horrifying fact: from 1941 to 1943, he had been Chief
of Security Police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near
the killing eld of Poligon, where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in
the autumn of 1941, and where in 1942, a massive slaughter of local Poles took
place. Compelled to nd out the complicated truth of who he was and what he
had done, Rita Gabis goes on a quest to honour some of those who perished with
a name, a face and a story.
Rita Gabis is an award-winning poet and prose writer. She lives and teaches in
New York City.
The Darjeeling Quartet
A History of the World’s Most Famous Tea
Jeff Koehler
e past, present and future of India’s most exclusive and iconic brew
I
n the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, bound by Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, rows
of brilliant-green, waist-high tea bushes cover the steep slopes and valleys around
Darjeeling. ey produce a fraction of the world’s tea, and less than one per cent
of India’s total. Yet that limited crop is the world’s best. is is the story, rich
in mythology, ecology and culture, of the industry’s rise under British Imperial
rule, recent decline and current struggle to produce. As this edenic region seethes
with unrest in a violent ght for independence and against climate change some
measures to protect this unduplicable tea are nothing short of radical …
Je Koehler is an American writer, photographer, traveller and cook. He studied
at King’s College, London, and has published four books including, most recently,
Spain: Recipes and Traditions, named one of 2013’s best cookbooks by the New York
Times. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.
www.je-koehler.com / @koehlercooks
©
Alba Koehler
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A Guest at the Shooters’
Banquet
My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family,
A Search for the Truth
Rita Gabis
e personal journey of a woman who discovers her grandfather was a Nazi
collaborator, and passionately researches the atrocities that occurred, in part,
under his watch
R
ita Gabis, from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics, was
close to her Lithuanian Catholic grandfather as a child. She knew one version
of his past; prior to immigration he was a resistance ghter against the Russians.
But then she discovers the horrifying fact: from 1941 to 1943, he had been Chief
of Security Police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near
the killing eld of Poligon, where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in
the autumn of 1941, and where in 1942, a massive slaughter of local Poles took
place. Compelled to nd out the complicated truth of who he was and what he
had done, Rita Gabis goes on a quest to honour some of those who perished with
a name, a face and a story.
Rita Gabis is an award-winning poet and prose writer. She lives and teaches in
New York City.
The Darjeeling Quartet
A History of the World’s Most Famous Tea
Jeff Koehler
e past, present and future of India’s most exclusive and iconic brew
I
n the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, bound by Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, rows
of brilliant-green, waist-high tea bushes cover the steep slopes and valleys around
Darjeeling. ey produce a fraction of the world’s tea, and less than one per cent
of India’s total. Yet that limited crop is the world’s best. is is the story, rich
in mythology, ecology and culture, of the industry’s rise under British Imperial
rule, recent decline and current struggle to produce. As this edenic region seethes
with unrest in a violent ght for independence and against climate change some
measures to protect this unduplicable tea are nothing short of radical …
Je Koehler is an American writer, photographer, traveller and cook. He studied
at King’s College, London, and has published four books including, most recently,
Spain: Recipes and Traditions, named one of 2013’s best cookbooks by the New York
Times. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.
www.je-koehler.com / @koehlercooks
©
Alba Koehler
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Thinkers of the New Left
Roger Scruton
A uniquely critical reappraisal of le-wing thinking by Roger Scruton, one of
Britain’s best-known philosophers
I
n examining the inuential thinkers of the New Le, Scruton begins from a
general account of the le-wing stance in politics and culture and concludes by
sketching an alternative, a way that frees itself from the thought that has blighted
intellectual life since the 1960s. He examines thinkers such as: E.P. ompson,
Ronald Dworkin, Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Jürgen Habermas, György Lukács,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek, Ralph Miliband and Eric Hobsbawm,
writing with skill, perception and at all times with pellucid clarity. e result is an
indispensible guide to one of the great disasters of our time.
Roger Scruton has been Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London,
and University Professor at Boston University. He is currently Visiting Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and
Public Policy Center, Washington D.C. He has published a large number of books,
including ction, and writes regularly for the daily and weekly press.
Dreamland
The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones
From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma, an explosive
account of addiction and heroin in the heartland of America
O
ver the past een years, enterprising sugar cane farmers on the west coast of
Mexico have created a distribution system that brought black-tar heroin – the
cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate – to the United States. In Dreamland,
Sam Quinones weaves together the stories of young men in Mexico tracking
cheap black-tar heroin to America’s rural and suburban addicts, with that of
Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, determined to corner the market on
pain medications with its new, expensive and extremely addictive miracle drug,
Oxycontin. Dreamland is a scathing and incendiary account of addiction and
capitalism run amuck in America’s heartland.
Sam Quinones is a journalist and author of two acclaimed books of narrative non-
ction about Mexico and Mexican immigration.
©News Syndication
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Harry Mount’s Odyssey
Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus
Harry Mount
Celebrated journalist Harry Mount travels through Greece in the footsteps of
Odysseus, tracing ancient civilisation at its height
I
n his Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while
on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his
bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All at, Harry visits Troy, still looming over
the plain where Achilles dragged Hector’s body through the dust, and attempts
to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover,
Leander. Whether in Odysseus’s kingdom on Ithaca, Homer’s birthplace of Chios
or the Minotaur’s lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey – and ancient Greece
– back to life.
Harry Mount studied ancient and modern history and classics at Magdalen College,
Oxford, where he gained a First. His previous books include Amo, Amas, Amat
and All at, A Lust for Windowsills and How England Made the English. He is a
former New York correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and now writes regularly
for the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
Spain
The Centre of the World 1519–1682
Robert Goodwin
e extraordinary history of how Spaniards laid the foundations of the modern
western world
F
our hundred years ago, the Spaniards became the rst nation in history to have
worldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and
India. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from the Duke of Alba
to Cervantes, who were at the heart of that imperial story.
At the beginning of the modern age, Spaniards were caught between the
excitement of change and a medieval world of chivalry and religious orthodoxy,
they experienced a turbulent existential angst that fuelled an exceptional Golden
Age, a uorescence of art, literature and poetry, and which inspired new ideas
about International Law, merchant banking, and economic and social theory.
Dr Robert T. C. Goodwin was born and educated in London and was awarded
his PhD by the University of London for his thesis about Golden Age Spain. He is
currently a full-time writer and historian and is a Research Associate at University
College. He divides his time between London and Seville.
©Michael Jacobs
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Harry Mount’s Odyssey
Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus
Harry Mount
Celebrated journalist Harry Mount travels through Greece in the footsteps of
Odysseus, tracing ancient civilisation at its height
I
n his Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while
on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his
bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All at, Harry visits Troy, still looming over
the plain where Achilles dragged Hector’s body through the dust, and attempts
to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover,
Leander. Whether in Odysseus’s kingdom on Ithaca, Homer’s birthplace of Chios
or the Minotaur’s lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey – and ancient Greece
– back to life.
Harry Mount studied ancient and modern history and classics at Magdalen College,
Oxford, where he gained a First. His previous books include Amo, Amas, Amat
and All at, A Lust for Windowsills and How England Made the English. He is a
former New York correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and now writes regularly
for the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
Spain
The Centre of the World 1519–1682
Robert Goodwin
e extraordinary history of how Spaniards laid the foundations of the modern
western world
F
our hundred years ago, the Spaniards became the rst nation in history to have
worldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and
India. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from the Duke of Alba
to Cervantes, who were at the heart of that imperial story.
At the beginning of the modern age, Spaniards were caught between the
excitement of change and a medieval world of chivalry and religious orthodoxy,
they experienced a turbulent existential angst that fuelled an exceptional Golden
Age, a uorescence of art, literature and poetry, and which inspired new ideas
about International Law, merchant banking, and economic and social theory.
Dr Robert T. C. Goodwin was born and educated in London and was awarded
his PhD by the University of London for his thesis about Golden Age Spain. He is
currently a full-time writer and historian and is a Research Associate at University
College. He divides his time between London and Seville.
©Michael Jacobs
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The Tail Wags the Dog
International Politics and the Middle East
Efraim Karsh
A provocative new approach to Middle Eastern politics from distinguished
writer and academic Efraim Karsh
I
n e Tail Wags the Dog, Professor Karsh argues that the Western view of Muslims
and Arabs as victims is misguided; Middle Eastern history has in fact been the
culmination of long existing indigenous trends, passions and patterns of behaviour.
Great power inuences, however potent, have constituted neither the primary
force behind the region’s political development nor the main cause of its notorious
volatility. It is only, Karsh argues, when Middle Eastern people take responsibility
for their actions and their Western champions drop their condescending approach
that the region can at last look forward to a real ‘Arab Spring’.
Efraim Karsh is Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Professor
Emeritus of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London. A
former director of the Middle East Forum, he is editor of Middle East Quarterly
and Israel Aairs, and is writing A History of the Jewish People, published by
Bloomsbury in 2018.
Quentin Blake
A Visual Biography
Ghislaine Kenyon
An intimate visual biography of Quentin Blake, the much-loved illustrator and
artistic genius of our age
Q
uentin Blake’s illustrations are loved by millions the world over. In this
extraordinary new illustrated biography, Ghislaine Kenyon explores the artist’s
life and work, and places Blake, his artistic output and working processes in the
context of other creative geniuses. Kenyon has worked with Blake for many years
and recorded many interviews with him about his work. Interviewing school friends
and contemporaries at the Royal College of Art, the author aims to answer two key
questions: who is the person behind the work and how does one relate to the other?
Ghislaine Kenyon worked formerly as Deputy Head of Education at the National
Gallery and then Head of Learning at Somerset House. She has curated several
exhibitions, including ‘Tell Me a Picture’ in 2000 with Quentin Blake
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An Intelligent Person’s Guide
to Education
Tony Little
Tony Little, Head Master of Eton, provides a unique insight into the fundamental
questions concerning education in the modern world
T
here is a growing crisis in British education; each year brings greater focus
on the measurement of academic attainment, yet employers complain that
our schools are not producing people t for the workplace. e virtue of a well-
rounded education is under attack. Have we become a nation ‘over schooled and
under educated’?
Head Master of Eton, Tony Little has drawn on a lifetime of experience to address
the central questions concerning education, including such topics as pupil self-
condence, teacher training, progress, crises, and authority, providing essential
reading not only for the concerned parent, but also the teaching profession.
Tony Little was educated at Eton College and has taught at various schools in
the UK. He has led three schools over the past 25 years and was appointed Head
Master of Eton in 2002. Working with state and independent institutions at home
and abroad he has become a passionate believer in the transformative eect of
good, modern boarding schools.
In Manchuria
A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural
China
Michael Meyer
A vivid and insightful portrait of China today, from the acclaimed author of
e Last Days of Old Beijing
F
or three years, Michael Meyer rented a home in the Chinese rice-farming
community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife’s family. eir personal saga
mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, as a privately-
held rice company has built new roads, introduced organic farming and constructed
high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land
rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town. In Manchuria is
a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting and historical
research, presenting a unique prole of China’s legendary northeast territory and
a rich and original chronicle of its people.
Michael Meyer rst went to China in 1995. He is the author of e Last Days of Old
Beijing, and divides his time between Pittsburgh and Singapore.
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An Intelligent Person’s Guide
to Education
Tony Little
Tony Little, Head Master of Eton, provides a unique insight into the fundamental
questions concerning education in the modern world
T
here is a growing crisis in British education; each year brings greater focus
on the measurement of academic attainment, yet employers complain that
our schools are not producing people t for the workplace. e virtue of a well-
rounded education is under attack. Have we become a nation ‘over schooled and
under educated’?
Head Master of Eton, Tony Little has drawn on a lifetime of experience to address
the central questions concerning education, including such topics as pupil self-
condence, teacher training, progress, crises, and authority, providing essential
reading not only for the concerned parent, but also the teaching profession.
Tony Little was educated at Eton College and has taught at various schools in
the UK. He has led three schools over the past 25 years and was appointed Head
Master of Eton in 2002. Working with state and independent institutions at home
and abroad he has become a passionate believer in the transformative eect of
good, modern boarding schools.
In Manchuria
A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural
China
Michael Meyer
A vivid and insightful portrait of China today, from the acclaimed author of
e Last Days of Old Beijing
F
or three years, Michael Meyer rented a home in the Chinese rice-farming
community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife’s family. eir personal saga
mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, as a privately-
held rice company has built new roads, introduced organic farming and constructed
high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land
rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town. In Manchuria is
a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting and historical
research, presenting a unique prole of China’s legendary northeast territory and
a rich and original chronicle of its people.
Michael Meyer rst went to China in 1995. He is the author of e Last Days of Old
Beijing, and divides his time between Pittsburgh and Singapore.
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The Armchair Scientist
The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home
Chris Woodford
Seriously surprising science from the sofa
T
he perfect way to enjoy science in and around the house, e Armchair Scientist
introduces you to the incredible scientic explanations behind a variety of
household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky oorboards to the
mechanics of microwaves, how washing-up liquid works, and how to soundproof
a room using science.
Is it better to build skyscrapers like wobbly jellies or stacks of biscuits?
Can you burn your house down with an electric drill?
How many atoms would you have to split to power a lightbulb?
e Armchair Scientist answers all these questions, and hundreds more. You’ll
never look at your home the same way again.
Chris Woodford has been a professional science writer for 25 years. Aer graduating
from Cambridge University with a degree in natural sciences, he has gone on to
write many science education books, including the best-selling Cool Stu series.
Children of the Stone
The Healing Power of Music in a Hard Land
Sandy Tolan
From the author of e Lemon Tree, a moving tale of music as a means of
empowerment set in war-torn Palestine
R
amzi Hussein Aburedwan is a boy from a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah
who confronts the occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument,
dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then inspires scores of others
to work with him to make that dream a reality.
at dream is to transform the lives of thousands of children – as Ramzi’s life
was transformed – by opening a music school. Children of the Stone tells a story
about music, rst, but also about freedom and conict, determination and vision.
And how one man created something lasting and beautiful in a devastated land.
Sandy Tolan is the author of e Lemon Tree. He has written for the New York
Times Magazine and for more than 40 other publications. Tolan has produced
radio documentaries for NPR and PRI and his work has won numerous awards.
www.sandytolan.com / @RamallahCafe
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Cuckoo
Cheating by Nature
Nick Davies
One of nature’s great mysteries, the arms race between the wily cuckoo and its
ever more discriminating host birds revealed
T
he cuckoo is Nature’s most famous cheat, regularly manipulating and deceiving
other species into raising its young. Nick Davies has studied this remarkable
interaction for the past thirty years and shows that cuckoos are among the most
cunning creatures in the natural world. Using shrewd detective skills and eld
experiments, he reveals the astonishing and beautiful adaptations that have taken
place in the cuckoos’ long battle to keep on outwitting their hosts.
The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs by leading wildlife
photographers, including Richard Nicoll, and pen-and-wash drawings done in
the eld by renowned Norfolk-based artist James McCallum.
Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge,
and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. His cuckoo
research has been presented on BBC Radio 4, and as a BBC lm, produced by Mike
Birkhead and narrated by David Attenborough.
Bill Oddie Unplucked
Bill Oddie
A compelling collection of Bill Oddie’s latest magazine columns, website blogs
and general musings
B
ill Oddie has been the voice and face of birding broadcasting for more than three
decades. In this new book, Bill has compiled and expanded a collection of his
recent published musings about birds and birdwatching. Writing in his witty and
inimitable style, Bill is sure to entertain and enthrall his many fans with this new
book of thoughts and opinions on the world of natural history in Britain and abroad.
e book is illustrated throughout with Bill’s charming and comic line drawings.
Bill Oddie is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician
who has developed an established reputation as a keen and committed birdwatcher
and conservationist. He has written a number of bestselling books on this subject
including the legendary Bill Oddie’s Little Black Bird Book. His many television
credits include being the rst presenter of Springwatch.
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Cuckoo
Cheating by Nature
Nick Davies
One of nature’s great mysteries, the arms race between the wily cuckoo and its
ever more discriminating host birds revealed
T
he cuckoo is Nature’s most famous cheat, regularly manipulating and deceiving
other species into raising its young. Nick Davies has studied this remarkable
interaction for the past thirty years and shows that cuckoos are among the most
cunning creatures in the natural world. Using shrewd detective skills and eld
experiments, he reveals the astonishing and beautiful adaptations that have taken
place in the cuckoos’ long battle to keep on outwitting their hosts.
The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs by leading wildlife
photographers, including Richard Nicoll, and pen-and-wash drawings done in
the eld by renowned Norfolk-based artist James McCallum.
Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge,
and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. His cuckoo
research has been presented on BBC Radio 4, and as a BBC lm, produced by Mike
Birkhead and narrated by David Attenborough.
Bill Oddie Unplucked
Bill Oddie
A compelling collection of Bill Oddie’s latest magazine columns, website blogs
and general musings
B
ill Oddie has been the voice and face of birding broadcasting for more than three
decades. In this new book, Bill has compiled and expanded a collection of his
recent published musings about birds and birdwatching. Writing in his witty and
inimitable style, Bill is sure to entertain and enthrall his many fans with this new
book of thoughts and opinions on the world of natural history in Britain and abroad.
e book is illustrated throughout with Bill’s charming and comic line drawings.
Bill Oddie is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician
who has developed an established reputation as a keen and committed birdwatcher
and conservationist. He has written a number of bestselling books on this subject
including the legendary Bill Oddie’s Little Black Bird Book. His many television
credits include being the rst presenter of Springwatch.
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Tales of Remarkable Birds
Dominic Couzens
An exploration of strange and surprising bird behaviour from throughout the
avian world
T
hroughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable
behaviours abound: the wooing of female Fairywrens by males that are not
their mates, the legendarily dangerous Cassowary, the apparent ‘divorce’ of long-
term Albatross couples. is new book takes a series of baing situations from
each continent to illustrate a great diversity of bird behaviour from throughout
the world. Each story examines the truths and the mythology to shed light on why
these birds do the things they do. An intriguing book from an author with a unique
ability to engage with his audience.
Dominic Couzens is a naturalist and author who has written many books on birds
and other wildlife including RSPB e Secret Lives of Garden Birds and RSPB e
Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife. His most recent book is e Secret Lives of Puns
with photographer, Mark Sisson.
Few and Far Between
On the Trail of Britain’s Rarest Animals
Charlie Elder
Award-winning writer Charlie Elder travels the length and breadth of Britain
to track down our rarest and most endangered animals
S
eeking both the beautiful and the bizarre, Charlie Elder goes in search of Britain’s
rarest and most endangered animals. Travelling the length and breadth of
the UK, and meeting up with experts along the way, he tracks down secretive
and scarce mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, sh and insects living on the
brink – ranging from the iconic Scottish Wildcat and surreal Spiny Seahorse to
the striking Golden Oriole, outlandish Wart-biter Cricket and sinister Black Rat.
Few and Far Between celebrates the diversity on our doorstep and highlights the
natural treasures we risk losing.
Charlie Elder is a journalist. For the last twenty-ve years he has written for
newspapers ranging from the Independent to the Times of Tonga in the South
Pacic. He is currently head of production on the Herald in Plymouth. His rst
book, While Flocks Last, was published in 2009.
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The Secret Life and Curious
Afterlife of Seashells
Helen Scales
A fascinating slice of marine biology and cultural history, revealing wonders
that can be held in the palm of your hand
T
he shell-making molluscs are among the most successful of all animals. ey
live extraordinary lives in many strange places; they provide food and homes
for other animals, and across the ages, their shells, sculpted by evolution and
mathematics, have become powerful symbols of sex and death, prestige and war.
ey have become currency, been tapped for mind-bending drugs, and even
exchanged for human lives. Shells help heal the ri between us and the living
world; e Secret Life and Curious Aerlife of Seashells shows why this matters, and
reveals the story of these undersea wonders of calcium carbonate.
Marine biologist Helen Scales tagged sharks in California, catalogued marine life
in the Andaman Sea, and studied the diverse sh that live on coral reefs in the
South Pacic, before becoming an author and presenter of science programmes
on BBC Radio 4. Her credits include Inside Science, Home Planet and e Museum
of Curiosity.
www.helenscales.com / @helenscales
Wild Camping
A Guide to Wild Camping and Foraging in Britain and Ireland
Stephen Neale
Escape the noise, clutter and stress of everyday life with this revolutionary
guide to wild camping
F
rom getting back to nature with a tent and some matches, to enjoying a pub
dinner and camping out in the garden aerwards, this beautifully illustrated
guide shows you how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms.
With advice on nding water, foraging for food, making a re, setting up shelter
and staying within the law, the bulk of the book features the best places to wild
camp in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly … What’s not to like?
Stephen Neale is a journalist and writer, and the author of Camping by the Waterside.
He is the Editor of Outdoor Focus (for the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’
Guild) and spends most of his spare time setting up camp with his family in the
wilderness, and writing about how amazing our country is.
www.camponwater.com / @camponwater
©
Ria Mishaal
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The Secret Life and Curious
Afterlife of Seashells
Helen Scales
A fascinating slice of marine biology and cultural history, revealing wonders
that can be held in the palm of your hand
T
he shell-making molluscs are among the most successful of all animals. ey
live extraordinary lives in many strange places; they provide food and homes
for other animals, and across the ages, their shells, sculpted by evolution and
mathematics, have become powerful symbols of sex and death, prestige and war.
ey have become currency, been tapped for mind-bending drugs, and even
exchanged for human lives. Shells help heal the ri between us and the living
world; e Secret Life and Curious Aerlife of Seashells shows why this matters, and
reveals the story of these undersea wonders of calcium carbonate.
Marine biologist Helen Scales tagged sharks in California, catalogued marine life
in the Andaman Sea, and studied the diverse sh that live on coral reefs in the
South Pacic, before becoming an author and presenter of science programmes
on BBC Radio 4. Her credits include Inside Science, Home Planet and e Museum
of Curiosity.
www.helenscales.com / @helenscales
Wild Camping
A Guide to Wild Camping and Foraging in Britain and Ireland
Stephen Neale
Escape the noise, clutter and stress of everyday life with this revolutionary
guide to wild camping
F
rom getting back to nature with a tent and some matches, to enjoying a pub
dinner and camping out in the garden aerwards, this beautifully illustrated
guide shows you how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms.
With advice on nding water, foraging for food, making a re, setting up shelter
and staying within the law, the bulk of the book features the best places to wild
camp in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly … What’s not to like?
Stephen Neale is a journalist and writer, and the author of Camping by the Waterside.
He is the Editor of Outdoor Focus (for the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’
Guild) and spends most of his spare time setting up camp with his family in the
wilderness, and writing about how amazing our country is.
www.camponwater.com / @camponwater
©
Ria Mishaal
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The Detox Kitchen Bible
Lily Simpson and Rob Hobson
e cookbook that will leave you feeling cleansed from the inside out – with
delicious weekend and weekly detox plans
The Detox Kitchen philosophy is all about bright, inspiring and nutritious food
that will make your skin glow, your hair shine, your stress levels fall and your
energy increase. Using mouth-watering avour combinations and an encyclopaedic
knowledge of ingredients, chef Lily Simpson and nutritionist Rob Hobson bring you
this ultimate bible of detox food. e 200 vibrant recipes are all wheat-, dairy- and
rened-sugar-free, and include pad thai with brown rice noodles, turkey burgers
with cabbage slaw, salmon and dill shcakes, and beetroot brownies. With exquisite
photography, this is the denitive guide to eating your way to radiant health.
A unique detox food delivery service, and now with two delis in London, e
Detox Kitchen was founded by inventive chef Lily Simpson in 2012, and launched
to dazzling acclaim and a loyal following of celebrity clients. Rob Hobson is an
expert nutritionist who runs two consultancies in London. Together they are a
dynamic team shaking up the food industry.
www.detoxkitchen.co.uk / @eDetoxKitchen
The Breakfast Bible
Seb Emina & Malcolm Eggs
‘Seb is to breakfast what Brian Cox is to space’ Observer
W
hen 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, e Breakfast Bible is, unquestionably, the
most important book of the day.
Seb Emina is the creator and editor of e 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 Paris and London.
londonrevieworeakfasts.blogspot.com / @sebemina
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19 FEBRUARY 2015
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MasterChef: The Masters
Master chefs from around the globe celebrate their favourite dishes for a perfect
weekend
H
ave you ever wondered what chefs love to cook when they are in their own
kitchen? Away from the intensity and heat of restaurant service, what food
makes them happiest on a weekend o? More than 30 globally renowned chefs have
each shared three recipes for weekend treats in this special MasterChef anthology
of food at home.
Ferran Adrià, Andoni Aduriz, Michael Anthony, Elena Arzak, Jason Atherton,
Joe Bastianich, Lidia Bastianich, Claude Bosi, Massimo Bottura, Claire Clark,
Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot, Andrew Fairlie, Peter Gilmore, Peter Gordon,
Bill Granger, Angela Hartnett, Tom Kerridge, Tom Kitchin, Atul Kochhar, Pierre
Komann, Neil Perry, Pascal Proyart, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Joan and Jordi
Roca, Ruth Rogers, Curtis Stone, David ompson, Mitch Tonks, Tetsuya Wakuda,
Ashley Palmer-Watts, Marco Pierre White.
@masterchefuk
The Benares Cookbook
Atul Kochhar
A bewitching cookbook with exquisite recipes from Benares, Atul Kochhar’s
acclaimed Michelin-starred Indian restaurant
Atul Kochhar’s sublime, world-class cuisine is showcased in this beautiful book
of recipes from Benares restaurant in Mayfair. More than 80 signature dishes
reect Atul’s combination of excellent British produce with modern Indian style.
An unforgettable meal might start with a cocktail such as Atul’s favourite Passion
Fruit Chutney Martini, include the warming heat from Tandoori Macchi, and
be sweetened by a Rose and Raspberry Bhapa Dhoi. is is a true celebration of
Atul’s expert gastronomy – a cookbook to treasure and use to conjure the masterly
Michelin spirit in your home. With stunning photography by Mike Cooper.
Atul Kochhar is one of the nest Indian chefs in the UK and the recognisable face
of Indian cuisine on television. He has featured on the BBC’s Great British Menu,
MasterChef and Saturday Kitchen.
www.benaresrestaurant.com / @atulkochhar / @Benaresocial
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ANZ PUB DATE: 01 MARCH 2015
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19 FEBRUARY 2015
HARDBACK / 9781472900265 / £30.00
EBOOK /N/A /N/A
TERRITORY: WO
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE: 01 MAY 2015
HARDBACK / AUS $59.99 / NZ $75.00
MasterChef: The Masters
Master chefs from around the globe celebrate their favourite dishes for a perfect
weekend
H
ave you ever wondered what chefs love to cook when they are in their own
kitchen? Away from the intensity and heat of restaurant service, what food
makes them happiest on a weekend o? More than 30 globally renowned chefs have
each shared three recipes for weekend treats in this special MasterChef anthology
of food at home.
Ferran Adrià, Andoni Aduriz, Michael Anthony, Elena Arzak, Jason Atherton,
Joe Bastianich, Lidia Bastianich, Claude Bosi, Massimo Bottura, Claire Clark,
Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot, Andrew Fairlie, Peter Gilmore, Peter Gordon,
Bill Granger, Angela Hartnett, Tom Kerridge, Tom Kitchin, Atul Kochhar, Pierre
Komann, Neil Perry, Pascal Proyart, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Joan and Jordi
Roca, Ruth Rogers, Curtis Stone, David ompson, Mitch Tonks, Tetsuya Wakuda,
Ashley Palmer-Watts, Marco Pierre White.
@masterchefuk
The Benares Cookbook
Atul Kochhar
A bewitching cookbook with exquisite recipes from Benares, Atul Kochhar’s
acclaimed Michelin-starred Indian restaurant
Atul Kochhar’s sublime, world-class cuisine is showcased in this beautiful book
of recipes from Benares restaurant in Mayfair. More than 80 signature dishes
reect Atul’s combination of excellent British produce with modern Indian style.
An unforgettable meal might start with a cocktail such as Atul’s favourite Passion
Fruit Chutney Martini, include the warming heat from Tandoori Macchi, and
be sweetened by a Rose and Raspberry Bhapa Dhoi. is is a true celebration of
Atul’s expert gastronomy – a cookbook to treasure and use to conjure the masterly
Michelin spirit in your home. With stunning photography by Mike Cooper.
Atul Kochhar is one of the nest Indian chefs in the UK and the recognisable face
of Indian cuisine on television. He has featured on the BBC’s Great British Menu,
MasterChef and Saturday Kitchen.
www.benaresrestaurant.com / @atulkochhar / @Benaresocial
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12 MARCH 2015
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River Cottage Australia
Paul West
Bountiful recipes from the Australian River Cottage, by ‘new Hugh’ Paul West
– tying in to Lifestyle’s major Australian television series
B
etween Sydney and Melbourne, and nestled among the pristine Sapphire Coast
and Mount Gulaga, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has sown the seed for a brand
new River Cottage, handing over the baton to his Australian counterpart, Paul West
– a fresh, exciting face on the global food scene. Here, Paul oers more than 100
innovative and delicious recipes including pumpkin scones, roast aubergine salad,
salt crust chicken and warm curd cake with honey rhubarb. With an introduction
by Hugh (and a sprinkling of his recipes), this beautiful book glows with luminous
photography of the Australian landscape and enticing recipe photographs by
Mark Chew.
Born in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Paul West trained at
Melbourne’s renowned Vue de Monde. He now runs River Cottage Australia and
presents the acclaimed Lifestyle television series of the same name. e much-
anticipated third series airs in April 2015, and will be broadcast on More4.
www.rivercottage.net/australia / @RiverCottageAus
Pigs & Pork
River Cottage Handbook No.14
Gill Meller
In the fourteenth River Cottage Handbook, Gill Meller shows how to keep pigs
and cook with pork
K
eeping these curious, intelligent and lovable animals brings a great deal of
enjoyment, and when the time comes, they provide you with a ne carcass with
which to create a range of delicious pork products – in the most sustainable and
hands-on way possible. Pigs & Pork gives expert advice on setting up home, caring
for and feeding pigs, on arranging for their eventual slaughter and on butchery
techniques. Recipes include the denitive roast pork with crackling, farmhouse
pâtés, sausages, rillettes, pork pies, Scotch eggs, bacon and salami. And of course,
there are guidelines for setting up a proper hog roast, River Cottage-style.
Head chef Gill Meller has been part of the River Cottage team for ten years. Working
closely with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Gill has been a major part of all activities
at River Cottage, including sourcing the ethically produced ingredients, teaching
at the cookery school, appearing on the Channel 4 television series and creating
the ever-changing menu at the exceptional restaurant.
www.rivercottage.net / @GillMeller
©Nicholas Wilson ©Simon Wheeler
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21 MAY 2015
HARDBACK / 9781472905598 / £25.00
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ANZ PUB DATE: 01 AUGUST 2015
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07 MAY 2015
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The Seahorse Cookbook
Mitch Tonks
A celebratory tour of the highly acclaimed Seahorse restaurant and its suppliers
T
he Seahorse Cookbook is a beacon of seafood brilliance, showcasing more than 70
delectable dishes served at the glorious shore-side eatery in Dartmouth through
the course of a year, and capturing pearls of advice from sh expert Mitch Tonks.
Cherished by critics, foodies and locals, e Seahorse is a rare and beautiful gem
in Britain’s sea of restaurants, championed ‘Best Seafood Restaurant in the UK 2013’
by the Good Food Guide and ‘Best UK Restaurant 2012’ by Observer Food Monthly.
With beautiful photography from Chris Terry.
Mitch Tonks, voted Tatler’s Restaurateur of the Year, has published numerous
seafood cookbooks, developed the Eat Fish iPhone app, created the South Devon
Seafood Academy and runs one of the nest restaurants in the UK: e Seahorse.
Television appearances include Saturday Kitchen, Market Kitchen, MasterChef,
Great Food Live, Fish Food and Mitch and Matt’s Big Fish. Mitch also demonstrates
at various cookery schools and regional festivals throughout the year.
www.mitchtonks.co.uk / www.seahorserestaurant.co.uk / @MitchTonks
sketch
Pierre Gagnaire and Mourad Mazouz
A dreamscape book about one of the world’s most exotic and extraordinary
restaurants: London’s sketch
S
ketch is a unique meeting place in Mayfair with diverting treasures to be
discovered in every room. Now its myriad food, drink and entertainment
styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium of all things
sketch. At its heart is amazing cuisine. World-renowned, three-Michelin-star
chef Pierre Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic
menus and interlaced with the recipes are stories and art from the wonderful
gastrodome, presented by restaurateur Mourad Mazouz. A sensual feast in a book,
with photography by Jean Cazals.
Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the
most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have
created unique experiences in six international cities.
Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical
mastery. He is a leading gure of modern French cuisine and three-Michelin-star,
mad-scientist food experiments, with restaurants around the world.
www.sketch.uk.com / @sketchlondon
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21 MAY 2015
HARDBACK / 9781472905598 / £25.00
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TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE: 01 AUGUST 2015
HARDBACK / AUS $45.00 / NZ $55.00
07 MAY 2015
HARDBACK / 9781472906854 / £50.00
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TERRITORY: WO
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE: 01 JUNE 2015
HARDBACK / AUS $89.99 / NZ $110.00
The Seahorse Cookbook
Mitch Tonks
A celebratory tour of the highly acclaimed Seahorse restaurant and its suppliers
T
he Seahorse Cookbook is a beacon of seafood brilliance, showcasing more than 70
delectable dishes served at the glorious shore-side eatery in Dartmouth through
the course of a year, and capturing pearls of advice from sh expert Mitch Tonks.
Cherished by critics, foodies and locals, e Seahorse is a rare and beautiful gem
in Britain’s sea of restaurants, championed ‘Best Seafood Restaurant in the UK 2013’
by the Good Food Guide and ‘Best UK Restaurant 2012’ by Observer Food Monthly.
With beautiful photography from Chris Terry.
Mitch Tonks, voted Tatler’s Restaurateur of the Year, has published numerous
seafood cookbooks, developed the Eat Fish iPhone app, created the South Devon
Seafood Academy and runs one of the nest restaurants in the UK: e Seahorse.
Television appearances include Saturday Kitchen, Market Kitchen, MasterChef,
Great Food Live, Fish Food and Mitch and Matt’s Big Fish. Mitch also demonstrates
at various cookery schools and regional festivals throughout the year.
www.mitchtonks.co.uk / www.seahorserestaurant.co.uk / @MitchTonks
sketch
Pierre Gagnaire and Mourad Mazouz
A dreamscape book about one of the world’s most exotic and extraordinary
restaurants: London’s sketch
S
ketch is a unique meeting place in Mayfair with diverting treasures to be
discovered in every room. Now its myriad food, drink and entertainment
styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium of all things
sketch. At its heart is amazing cuisine. World-renowned, three-Michelin-star
chef Pierre Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic
menus and interlaced with the recipes are stories and art from the wonderful
gastrodome, presented by restaurateur Mourad Mazouz. A sensual feast in a book,
with photography by Jean Cazals.
Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the
most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have
created unique experiences in six international cities.
Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical
mastery. He is a leading gure of modern French cuisine and three-Michelin-star,
mad-scientist food experiments, with restaurants around the world.
www.sketch.uk.com / @sketchlondon
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04 JUNE 2015
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10 SEPTEMBER 2015
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ANZ PUB DATE: 01 JULY 2015
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Social Sweets
Jason Atherton
Jason Atherton’s collection of top desserts to make at home
More than 100 recipes make up this heavenly collection of desserts from Jason
Atherton: perfect treats to share with friends and family. It is not only a
showcase of Jason’s favourite sweet dishes, but also a celebration of the avours
and techniques that have inspired him from around the world.
Having worked under Pierre Komann, Nico Ladenis, and Marco Pierre White,
Jason Atherton ran Verre and Maze for Gordon Ramsay before opening his own
incredible ne-dining empire. Jason is not only a world-class culinary alchemist,
he is also featured in national newspapers, magazines and TV series, most recently
starring as the host of Great British Menu and My Kitchen Rules.
www.jasonatherton.co.uk / @_JasonAtherton
Spuntino
Russell Norman
From the bestselling author of POLPO come recipes and inspiration from
Spuntino – the New York-inuenced diner taking London by storm
A
er the success of Venetian-inspired restaurant POLPO, Russell Norman
scoured the Big Apple’s scruest boroughs to nd inspiration for an urban
diner. e result, Spuntino, delivers big bold avours with a dose of swagger to the
crowds who ock to its pewter-topped bar. Spuntino will take you on a culinary
adventure to New York and back as Russell maps out his walks through the city’s
quirkiest neighbourhoods. e 120 recipes include trued egg toast, zingy salads
and prohibition-era cocktails. With radiant photography capturing New York’s
visceral grittiness, Spuntino pays homage to the energy and dynamism inspired
by the world’s greatest melting pot.
Russell Norman spent four years running some of London’s most venerated
restaurants in the Caprice Holdings group, before turning his back on the high
life, getting an octopus tattoo and setting up Venetian bàcaro POLPO in scruy
Soho. Polpetto, Spuntino, Mishkin’s and the Ape & Bird followed and he has recently
presented the BBC2 series e Restaurant Man.
www.spuntino.co.uk / @Spuntino
©John Carey © Laurie Fletcher
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26 MARCH 2015
HARDBACK / 9781472916846 / £25.00
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ANZ PUB DATE: 01 APRIL 2015
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26 MARCH 2015
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The Success Formula
How Smart Leaders Deliver Outstanding Value
Andrew Kakabadse
A ground-breaking guide to improving your company culture and achieving
the results that matter
I
nterviews with over 80 leading organisations in private, public and third
sectors from all over the world have led Andrew Kakabadse to a fascinating
insight: superior stakeholder engagement is a happy by-product of superior value
delivery. e Success Formula demonstrates how value-delivery-led organisations
are outperforming their strategy-led counterparts and how the world’s best
organisations deliver value to their stakeholders. is authoritative guide shows
leaders how to improve the way they gather evidence to create a value-delivery
culture that maximises the benets for their organisations and stakeholders.
Andrew Kakabadse is Professor of Governance and Leadership at Henley Business
School, Emeritus Professor at Craneld School of Management and Visiting
Professor at US, Australian, French and Chinese universities. His research covers
boards, top teams, government and policy design. He has published 41 books, over
240 articles and 18 monographs.
www.kakabadse.com / @Kakabadse
Capitalism’s Toxic
Assumptions
Adam Smith’s 7 Deadly Sins
Eve Poole
An agenda-setting look at how the market is run by rules that are well past
their sell-by date
I
n Science, no one believes the earth is at any more. Economists, on the other
hand, haven’t budged from their original worldview. Market Capitalism depends
on seven big ideas: competition, the ‘invisible hand’, utility, agency theory, pricing,
shareholder value, and limited liability. Eve Poole argues that if you zoom in on any
of these rm foundations, they start to blur and wobble. Here she oers alternative
views for a healthier system.
Eve Poole teaches at Ashridge Business School. She has also worked for Deloitte
Consulting in the nancial services industry, and the Church Commissioners, who
run a £6 billion portfolio. Her clients range from EY and Tesco to the Foreign Oce
and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and this breadth of experience makes her a
popular commentator on leadership, ethics, and public life.
www.evepoole.livejournal.com / @evepoole
©
Andrew Kakabadse
©Ashridge Business School
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26 MARCH 2015
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TERRITORY: WO
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE: 01 APRIL 2015
HARDBACK / AUS $50.00 / NZ $60.00
26 MARCH 2015
HARDBACK / 9781472916792 / £25.00
EBOOK / 9781472916808 / £21.99
TERRITORY: WO
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE: 01 APRIL 2015
HARDBACK / AUS $50.00 / NZ $60.00
The Success Formula
How Smart Leaders Deliver Outstanding Value
Andrew Kakabadse
A ground-breaking guide to improving your company culture and achieving
the results that matter
I
nterviews with over 80 leading organisations in private, public and third
sectors from all over the world have led Andrew Kakabadse to a fascinating
insight: superior stakeholder engagement is a happy by-product of superior value
delivery. e Success Formula demonstrates how value-delivery-led organisations
are outperforming their strategy-led counterparts and how the world’s best
organisations deliver value to their stakeholders. is authoritative guide shows
leaders how to improve the way they gather evidence to create a value-delivery
culture that maximises the benets for their organisations and stakeholders.
Andrew Kakabadse is Professor of Governance and Leadership at Henley Business
School, Emeritus Professor at Craneld School of Management and Visiting
Professor at US, Australian, French and Chinese universities. His research covers
boards, top teams, government and policy design. He has published 41 books, over
240 articles and 18 monographs.
www.kakabadse.com / @Kakabadse
Capitalism’s Toxic
Assumptions
Adam Smith’s 7 Deadly Sins
Eve Poole
An agenda-setting look at how the market is run by rules that are well past
their sell-by date
I
n Science, no one believes the earth is at any more. Economists, on the other
hand, haven’t budged from their original worldview. Market Capitalism depends
on seven big ideas: competition, the ‘invisible hand’, utility, agency theory, pricing,
shareholder value, and limited liability. Eve Poole argues that if you zoom in on any
of these rm foundations, they start to blur and wobble. Here she oers alternative
views for a healthier system.
Eve Poole teaches at Ashridge Business School. She has also worked for Deloitte
Consulting in the nancial services industry, and the Church Commissioners, who
run a £6 billion portfolio. Her clients range from EY and Tesco to the Foreign Oce
and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and this breadth of experience makes her a
popular commentator on leadership, ethics, and public life.
www.evepoole.livejournal.com / @evepoole
©
Andrew Kakabadse
©Ashridge Business School
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Managing for Success
How to Spot the Signs of Managerial Incompetence in
Advance
Morgen Witzel
A practical guide to avoiding incompetence, rather than xing problems once
they’ve occurred
M
orgen Witzel tackles the problem of incompetence in the round by exploring the
political, cultural, psychological and personal factors that lead to incompetency
at the top. Using international case studies from Ford Motor Company and Lehman
Brothers, practical solutions are provided for avoiding incompetence by changing
the culture within organisations and the ways in which managers are trained and
developed to truly manage for success and minimise failure.
Morgen Witzel is a fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University
of Exeter Business School. He is author of more than twenty books including the
bestsellers Tata: e Evolution of a Corporate Brand and Doing Business in China.
His articles have appeared in the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, e Smart
Manager, Financial World, and many others.
www.morgenwitzel.com / @MorganWitzel
Backstabbers and Bullies
How to Recognise and Cope with the Dark Side of People at
Work
Adrian Furnham
An engaging guide to preventing dark side behaviour, and dealing with the
nasty, negative narcissists we encounter in the workplace
T
he idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet
for far too long and only now are the statistics on the sheer numbers who fail
coming out. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical
perspectives on dark side behaviour and leadership failure, including recognising
and coping with over-condent, narcissistic and psychopathic leaders. is book
goes beyond the science to explore corporate culture corruption and the nature of
corporate crime today. Most importantly, it makes recommendations for avoiding
appointing leaders who fail and preventing dark side behaviour in the workplace.
Adrian Furnham is Professor of Psychology at University College London. He
has written over 1,000 scientic papers and 70 books and is among the most
well-known and productive psychologists in the world. Adrian is a newspaper
columnist, previously at the Financial Times, now at the Sunday Times, and is a
regular contributor to national and international radio and television stations.
©
UCL 1999-2014
©
Marilyn Livingstone
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A Clean Break
My Story
Christophe Bassons with Benoît Hopquin and
Peter Cossins
e autobiography of cycling’s Mr Clean who refused to dope or to remain silent
about doping – and was exiled from the sport
B
assons’ professional cycling career was a successful one albeit never in the
full glare of the media. at all changed when, in 1988, the Festina doping
scandal broke and he shot to fame as one of the handful of clean riders in the
peloton – and as the only pro who dared to speak openly about the topic. His
willingness to denounce the doping culture set him against cycling teams’ owners,
management and his peers – the likes of Lance Armstrong, Richard Virenque,
Christophe Moreau. A year later, Bassons found himself exhausted and exiled. His
career was over. is is his story.
Christophe Bassons was a professional cyclist between 1996 and 2001, racing with
the likes of Lance Armstrong, Tyler Hamilton and Richard Virenque. He now works
for the French Ministry of Sport and Culture to prevent doping. Peter Cossins has
been writing and reporting on cycling for over 20 years. He is a former editor of
Procycling and the author of e Monuments.
The Monuments
The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest One-day Races
Peter Cossins
An awe-inspiring history of the ve most legendary ‘classic’ races in world cycling
T
he Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is
cycling’s one-day tests that professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and
dirtiest of all are the so-called ‘Monuments’. Each provides the sport’s outstanding
performers with a chance to measure themselves against each other in cycling’s
most challenging tests. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of Paris–
Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as
unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win
them. In e Monuments, Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these
extraordinary races.
Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling for twenty years. He has covered
sixteen editions of the Tour de France and spent three years as editor of Procycling
magazine. He has also contributed to the Guardian, e Times, the Sunday
Telegraph, the Sunday Express and the Sunday Herald and in 2012 he collaborated
with Tour de France winner Stephen Roche on his autobiography, Born to Ride.
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A Clean Break
My Story
Christophe Bassons with Benoît Hopquin and
Peter Cossins
e autobiography of cycling’s Mr Clean who refused to dope or to remain silent
about doping – and was exiled from the sport
B
assons’ professional cycling career was a successful one albeit never in the
full glare of the media. at all changed when, in 1988, the Festina doping
scandal broke and he shot to fame as one of the handful of clean riders in the
peloton – and as the only pro who dared to speak openly about the topic. His
willingness to denounce the doping culture set him against cycling teams’ owners,
management and his peers – the likes of Lance Armstrong, Richard Virenque,
Christophe Moreau. A year later, Bassons found himself exhausted and exiled. His
career was over. is is his story.
Christophe Bassons was a professional cyclist between 1996 and 2001, racing with
the likes of Lance Armstrong, Tyler Hamilton and Richard Virenque. He now works
for the French Ministry of Sport and Culture to prevent doping. Peter Cossins has
been writing and reporting on cycling for over 20 years. He is a former editor of
Procycling and the author of e Monuments.
The Monuments
The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest One-day Races
Peter Cossins
An awe-inspiring history of the ve most legendary ‘classic’ races in world cycling
T
he Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is
cycling’s one-day tests that professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and
dirtiest of all are the so-called ‘Monuments’. Each provides the sport’s outstanding
performers with a chance to measure themselves against each other in cycling’s
most challenging tests. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of Paris–
Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as
unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win
them. In e Monuments, Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these
extraordinary races.
Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling for twenty years. He has covered
sixteen editions of the Tour de France and spent three years as editor of Procycling
magazine. He has also contributed to the Guardian, e Times, the Sunday
Telegraph, the Sunday Express and the Sunday Herald and in 2012 he collaborated
with Tour de France winner Stephen Roche on his autobiography, Born to Ride.
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The Strangers Who Came
Home
The First Australian Cricket Tour of England, 1878
John Lazenby
A compelling and beautifully-drawn social history of the rst Australian cricket
tour of England
T
he Ashes cricket series is the oldest, and arguably most keenly-contested, rivalry
in international sport. Yet the rst representative Australian cricket team to
tour England in 1878 regarded themselves as Englishmen. e Strangers Who
Came Home brings that summer to life, telling the story of eleven extraordinary
men who travelled thousands of miles, risking life and limb, playing 43 matches in
England during a demanding but ultimately triumphant homecoming; how their
glorious achievements on the eld of play threw open the doors to international
sports touring, and how these men from the colonies provided the stimulus for
Australian nationhood through their sporting success.
John Lazenby is a freelance journalist on national newspapers and a sports
broadcaster for radio and television. His book, Test of Time: Travels in Search of a
Cricketing Legend was selected as a nalist for the MCC/Cricket Society’s Book of the
Year award in 2005 and chosen as one of e Wisden Cricketer’s Books of the Year.
Faster
The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World’s Fastest
Cyclists
Michael Hutchinson
A fascinating and funny investigation into cyclists’ incessant pursuit of speed
by one of the sport’s top professionals
F
or professional cyclists, going faster and winning are closely related. Yet
surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is more important than a desire to
win. Faster looks at the things that make you faster – training, nutrition, the right
psychology – and explains how they work, and how what we know about them
changes constantly. It’s a book about why cyclists do what they do, what the riders,
their coaches and the bons get up to behind the scenes, and why the idea of going
faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.
Michael Hutchinson is a cyclist with more than 50 British championship titles to
his name. He has represented Britain at the World Championships and Northern
Ireland at the Commonwealth Games, and was previously a member of the all-
conquering GB track squad, training with the likes of Chris Hoy and Bradley
Wiggins. He is the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly and a commentator for
most major cycling events on Eurosport.
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Sea Fever
The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime
Authors
Sam Jefferson
An enthralling collection of the real-life adventures that inspired our best-loved
maritime authors, including Conrad, Hemingway and Maseeld
How did a big-game shing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the
key scenes in Hemingway’s e Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis
Stevenson’s cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in
his writing of Treasure Island? How did Maseeld survive Cape Horn and a near-
nervous breakdown to write his celebrated poem Sea Fever?
Behind many a great sea story is a real-life adventure that inspired it, and Sea Fever
explores the dangerous, exciting and oen eccentric escapades of literature’s sailing
stars, giving us a fascinating insight into how fact fed into ction.
Sam Jeerson is a journalist and maritime historian, and the author of Clipper
Ships and the Golden Age of Sail (Bloomsbury). He is a former Deputy Editor of
Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today and Traditional
Boats and Tall Ships.
Wisden on Grace
An Anthology
Jonathan Rice
In the centenary of W.G. Grace’s death, Wisden celebrates the ‘Champion’ – still
to many the greatest cricketer who ever lived
W
isden was rst published in 1864, the year that William Gilbert Grace, then
aged 16, made his debut in rst-class cricket. e great man made his rst
appearance in the 1865 edition and today the continuing interest in, and inuence
of, Grace on cricket is remarkable.
Wisden on Grace records the highlights of an astonishing playing career, but the
real treasures are to be found in the opinions and articles written about – and by
– W.G. during his lifetime and aerwards.
In the year of the centenary of W.G.’s death, Wisden’s tribute to Grace is a delight
for any cricket lover.
Jonathan Rice is a well-respected Wisden writer as well as the author of a wide
variety of cricketing books.
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Sea Fever
The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime
Authors
Sam Jefferson
An enthralling collection of the real-life adventures that inspired our best-loved
maritime authors, including Conrad, Hemingway and Maseeld
How did a big-game shing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the
key scenes in Hemingway’s e Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis
Stevenson’s cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in
his writing of Treasure Island? How did Maseeld survive Cape Horn and a near-
nervous breakdown to write his celebrated poem Sea Fever?
Behind many a great sea story is a real-life adventure that inspired it, and Sea Fever
explores the dangerous, exciting and oen eccentric escapades of literature’s sailing
stars, giving us a fascinating insight into how fact fed into ction.
Sam Jeerson is a journalist and maritime historian, and the author of Clipper
Ships and the Golden Age of Sail (Bloomsbury). He is a former Deputy Editor of
Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today and Traditional
Boats and Tall Ships.
Wisden on Grace
An Anthology
Jonathan Rice
In the centenary of W.G. Grace’s death, Wisden celebrates the ‘Champion’ – still
to many the greatest cricketer who ever lived
W
isden was rst published in 1864, the year that William Gilbert Grace, then
aged 16, made his debut in rst-class cricket. e great man made his rst
appearance in the 1865 edition and today the continuing interest in, and inuence
of, Grace on cricket is remarkable.
Wisden on Grace records the highlights of an astonishing playing career, but the
real treasures are to be found in the opinions and articles written about – and by
– W.G. during his lifetime and aerwards.
In the year of the centenary of W.G.’s death, Wisden’s tribute to Grace is a delight
for any cricket lover.
Jonathan Rice is a well-respected Wisden writer as well as the author of a wide
variety of cricketing books.
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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack
2015
e 152nd edition of the world’s most famous sports book, published every
year since 1864
A
perennial bestseller loved by cricket fans and bibliophiles around the world
and published every single year since its rst edition in 1864, Wisden Cricketers’
Almanack, as ever, contains coverage of every rst-class game in every cricket
nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with some of the
nest 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.
is is Lawrence Booth’s fourth year as Editor of Wisden. 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.
Danish Dynamite
The Story of Football’s Greatest Cult Team
Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen and Mike Gibbons
e story of the coolest international football team in history – the iconic 1980s
Denmark national team – told in English for the rst time
H
eralding from a country with no real football history to speak of and a
population of ve million, the Denmark side of the 1980s was one of the last
truly iconic international football teams. Although they did not win a trophy, they
claimed something much more important and enduring: glory, and in industrial
quantities. e story of Danish Dynamite, as the team became known, is the story
of a team of rock stars in a polyester Hummel kit, a team that had it all and blew
it in spectacular style. Featuring interviews with the players themselves, this is a
joyous celebration of one of the most life-arming teams the world has ever seen.
Rob Smyth works for the Guardian and has also written for Wisden, Intelligent
Life, GQ Style, Sports Illustrated and the ocial Manchester United magazine. Lars
Eriksen lives in Copenhagen where he writes about sport, culture and food for the
Guardian and various other publications. Mike Gibbons has written for the Planet
World Cup website, extracts of which have been republished in numerous books.
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Blood Ransom
Stories from the Front Line in the War Against Somali Piracy
John Boyle
e rst book to look at the issue of modern-day piracy from every side of the
war – from pirate to hostage to president
For the rst time in history, every superpower on the planet has united against
a common enemy – a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys.
Crammed together in tiny open boats and armed with ancient AK47s and rocket
propelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. Many die at sea. But
occasionally these modern-day pirates hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews
that will be ransomed for millions of dollars.
Using interviews with pirates, hostages, skippers, security guards and politicians,
John Boyle paints a vivid picture of a seemingly unwinnable war.
John Boyle is a lawyer turned lmmaker. Whilst lming for National Geographic
on the war against the Somali pirates, he found himself meeting victims on every
side, and being drawn into the incredibly complex situation. Few people have any
understanding of the overall picture, and John’s investigation gives us a unique
insight into an ongoing war.
Addicted to Adventure
Between Rocks and Cold Places
Bob Shepton
e incredible life and adventures of Reverend Bob Shepton, sailing and climbing
in the most remote places on earth
B
ob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his late 70s,
but is known around the world as a climber, sailor and adventurer. In this
fascinating journey through his extraordinary life, he recounts some of his most
extreme and hair-raising escapades. We follow Bob as he sails round the world
with a group of school children, is dismasted o the Falklands, is trapped in ice,
and makes rst ascents of mountains only accessible by boat.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes: ‘A wonderful true tale of adventure.’
Bear Grylls: ‘As a Commando, Bob is clearly made of the right stuff !’
Bob Shepton has been a Royal Marine, a Reverend in London’s East End and a
school chaplain. He has also made some 60 rst ascents of mountains in Greenland
and Arctic Canada. He has won the Piolet d’Or (a sought-aer mountaineering
award) and Yachtsman of the Year, and his writing regularly appears in sailing
and climbing magazines worldwide.
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Blood Ransom
Stories from the Front Line in the War Against Somali Piracy
John Boyle
e rst book to look at the issue of modern-day piracy from every side of the
war – from pirate to hostage to president
For the rst time in history, every superpower on the planet has united against
a common enemy – a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys.
Crammed together in tiny open boats and armed with ancient AK47s and rocket
propelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. Many die at sea. But
occasionally these modern-day pirates hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews
that will be ransomed for millions of dollars.
Using interviews with pirates, hostages, skippers, security guards and politicians,
John Boyle paints a vivid picture of a seemingly unwinnable war.
John Boyle is a lawyer turned lmmaker. Whilst lming for National Geographic
on the war against the Somali pirates, he found himself meeting victims on every
side, and being drawn into the incredibly complex situation. Few people have any
understanding of the overall picture, and John’s investigation gives us a unique
insight into an ongoing war.
Addicted to Adventure
Between Rocks and Cold Places
Bob Shepton
e incredible life and adventures of Reverend Bob Shepton, sailing and climbing
in the most remote places on earth
B
ob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his late 70s,
but is known around the world as a climber, sailor and adventurer. In this
fascinating journey through his extraordinary life, he recounts some of his most
extreme and hair-raising escapades. We follow Bob as he sails round the world
with a group of school children, is dismasted o the Falklands, is trapped in ice,
and makes rst ascents of mountains only accessible by boat.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes: ‘A wonderful true tale of adventure.’
Bear Grylls: ‘As a Commando, Bob is clearly made of the right stuff !’
Bob Shepton has been a Royal Marine, a Reverend in London’s East End and a
school chaplain. He has also made some 60 rst ascents of mountains in Greenland
and Arctic Canada. He has won the Piolet d’Or (a sought-aer mountaineering
award) and Yachtsman of the Year, and his writing regularly appears in sailing
and climbing magazines worldwide.
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Nell McAndrew’s Guide to
Running
Everything you Need to Know to Train, Race and More
Nell McAndrew and Lucy Waterlow
Sub three-hour marathon runner Nell McAndrew’s practical guide to running
N
ell McAndrew is passionate about running. If you are too – or want to be – then
this is the book for you! Whether you’re starting out, or looking to improve
your performance, this insightful handbook is packed with tips, eective training
plans and advice from fellow runners.
Find out how to get the most from your training – with 5k, 10k and marathon
training plans, along with helpful advice on nutrition, injuries and women’s running
(including exercise and pregnancy).
Nell McAndrew is a tness expert and runner. @Nell_McAndrew
Lucy Waterlow is a freelance journalist and keen club runner and has written for
many national publications including the Daily Mail, the Sun, Sky News, OK and
New. @LucyRunningFeat
Game, Set and Match
Secret Weapons of the World’s Greatest Tennis Players
Revealed
Mark Hodgkinson
A must-read for all tennis fans. e world’s greatest players share their top tips
on how to improve your game
W
ith contributions from current and past greats of tennis, including Maria
Sharapova, Andy Murray, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Grigor Dimitrov,
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Martina Navratilova to name but a few, who better to
improve your game than the men and women who have won grand slam titles
and held the world No. 1 ranking?
Top tips from the pros include:
‘How to disguise your serve’ with Pete Sampras
‘How to move on grass’ with Eugenie Bouchard
‘How to be a world class coach’ with Nick Bollettieri
Mark Hodgkinson is the author of Andy Murray: Champion: e Full Extraordinary
Story and Lendl: e Man Who Made Murray.
@thetennisspace
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Half-time
The Glorious Sporting Summer of 1934
Robert Winder
ree sporting victories from Fred Perry, Hedley Verity & Henry Cotton in one
remarkable fortnight provide an atmospheric account of life between the wars
S
et against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was a spectacular
summer for English sport. e Ashes Test at Lord’s saw Verity bowl England
to a famous innings victory; that same day, Cotton began the rst qualifying round
of the British Open, a tournament he went on to win with a game so sparkling the
Daily Express called it ‘the best round of golf ever played’. And within a fortnight,
Perry had taken the Wimbledon title.
Together, the stories of these three contests – and their three very English heroes
– weave a vivid portrait of an England that has faded from view.
Robert Winder was Literary Editor of the Independent and Deputy Editor of Granta.
He is the author of several books, including Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket
Journey and Bloody Foreigners: e Story of Immigration to Britain. His most recent
book is e Little Wonder: e Remarkable History of Wisden.
Thirty-One Nil
On the Road With Football’s Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey
James Montague
e story of the immense struggle to qualify for the 2014 Brazilian World Cup,
irty-One Nil is a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin
of world football
N
amed aer the greatest victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualiers have
ever seen (Australia’s 31-0 victory over American Samoa), irty-One Nil is the
story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey in the
qualifying campaign chasing a place at the World Cup Finals. From the endlessly
humiliated San Marino to lowly Haiti; from war-torn Lebanon to the oppressed
and eet-footed players of Eritrea, James Montague gets intimately and oen
dangerously close to some of the world’s most extraordinary teams, and tells their
exceptional stories.
James Montague is a journalist and author who writes for the New York Times,
CNN, GQ and World Soccer. His rst book When Friday Comes: Football in the War
Zone won him Best New Writer at the 2009 British Sports Book of the Year Awards
and he was described in Sports Illustrated as ‘e Indiana Jones of soccer writing.’
©Phil Beresford
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Half-time
The Glorious Sporting Summer of 1934
Robert Winder
ree sporting victories from Fred Perry, Hedley Verity & Henry Cotton in one
remarkable fortnight provide an atmospheric account of life between the wars
S
et against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was a spectacular
summer for English sport. e Ashes Test at Lord’s saw Verity bowl England
to a famous innings victory; that same day, Cotton began the rst qualifying round
of the British Open, a tournament he went on to win with a game so sparkling the
Daily Express called it ‘the best round of golf ever played’. And within a fortnight,
Perry had taken the Wimbledon title.
Together, the stories of these three contests – and their three very English heroes
– weave a vivid portrait of an England that has faded from view.
Robert Winder was Literary Editor of the Independent and Deputy Editor of Granta.
He is the author of several books, including Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket
Journey and Bloody Foreigners: e Story of Immigration to Britain. His most recent
book is e Little Wonder: e Remarkable History of Wisden.
Thirty-One Nil
On the Road With Football’s Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey
James Montague
e story of the immense struggle to qualify for the 2014 Brazilian World Cup,
irty-One Nil is a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin
of world football
N
amed aer the greatest victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualiers have
ever seen (Australia’s 31-0 victory over American Samoa), irty-One Nil is the
story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey in the
qualifying campaign chasing a place at the World Cup Finals. From the endlessly
humiliated San Marino to lowly Haiti; from war-torn Lebanon to the oppressed
and eet-footed players of Eritrea, James Montague gets intimately and oen
dangerously close to some of the world’s most extraordinary teams, and tells their
exceptional stories.
James Montague is a journalist and author who writes for the New York Times,
CNN, GQ and World Soccer. His rst book When Friday Comes: Football in the War
Zone won him Best New Writer at the 2009 British Sports Book of the Year Awards
and he was described in Sports Illustrated as ‘e Indiana Jones of soccer writing.’
©Phil Beresford
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Reckless
The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña
Alasdair Fotheringham
e rst biography of Luis Ocaña, one of the greatest cyclists of the twentieth
century whose rivalry with ‘e Cannibal’ Eddy Merckx is legendary
L
uis Ocaña seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling’s greatest ever rider,
Eddy Merckx. eir rivalry dened Ocaña’s entire career, yet he was the one rider
capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. An enigmatic outsider
to both the Spanish and French throughout his career, he died in mysterious
circumstances aged just 48. A fascinating, complicated character both on and o
his bike, Ocaña’s erce determination, impetuosity and recklessness created some
of the most beautiful and gripping episodes in the history of the sport. Reckless is
the rst biography in English of this fascinating champion.
Alasdair Fotheringham has been the cycling correspondent for the Independent
and the Independent on Sunday since 2001, and has covered the Tour de France
and other major cycling races since 1992. He is a regular contributor to the Express
and Reuters on cycling, as well as Cycle Sport and Cycling Weekly. e Eagle of
Toledo, his biography of the Spanish cyclist Federico Martín Bahamontes, was
published in 2012.
Alone
The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry
Bill Jones
e previously-untold story of the life and tragic early death of John Curry, one
of the most famous ice skaters in history
O
ver 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry win Olympic gure skating
gold in 1976. Overnight he became an international star as he singlehandedly
changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet he was an absolute
mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gi. An oen-tortured man
of labyrinthine complexity, Curry’s is a story of childhood nightmares, furious
ambition, sporting genius, lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics,
nancial ruin and deep personal tragedy. For the rst time, Alone untangles the
extraordinary web of his toxic, troubled, brilliant – and short – life.
Bill Jones’ rst book e Ghost Runner was published in 2011 to widespread critical
acclaim. It was shortlisted for the William Hill Sport Book of the Year, and won
him the ‘Best New Writer’ category at the British Sports Book Awards. He lives
in the North of England.
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Bernard
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Hinault
Philippe Brunel
A visually stunning celebration of the life of legendary French cyclist Bernard
Hinault
The life of Bernard Hinault, the French cyclist who won the Tour de France ve
times, is seen through stories and photographs in a celebration of this great
cyclist’s career.
Known as the Badger, Hinault is one of only ve cyclists to have won all three
Grand Tours, and the only one to have nished either rst or second in each Tour
de France he nished, winning in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 and coming second
in the following two years.
He remains the last French winner of the Tour de France.
Philippe Brunel is a writer and journalist for L’ E q u i p e . His book Merkx Intime was
a bestseller in France.
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Hinault
Philippe Brunel
A visually stunning celebration of the life of legendary French cyclist Bernard
Hinault
The life of Bernard Hinault, the French cyclist who won the Tour de France ve
times, is seen through stories and photographs in a celebration of this great
cyclist’s career.
Known as the Badger, Hinault is one of only ve cyclists to have won all three
Grand Tours, and the only one to have nished either rst or second in each Tour
de France he nished, winning in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 and coming second
in the following two years.
He remains the last French winner of the Tour de France.
Philippe Brunel is a writer and journalist for L’ E q u i p e . His book Merkx Intime was
a bestseller in France.
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Stations of the Cross
Timothy Radcliffe
A profound Lenten reection on Christ’s passion from the bestselling religious
writer Timothy Radclie, beautifully illustrated by Martin Erspamer
I
n Stations of the Cross, the bestselling religious author Timothy Radclie oers
readers his own reections on Christ’s passion, from his condemnation by Pilate
to his burial. Each reection is illustrated in full colour by the award-winning
liturgical artist Martin Erspamer. Perfect Lenten reading, Stations of the Cross is
a beautiful invitation to deeper meditation and richer contemplation during this
solemn season of prayer and penance.
A former Master of the world-wide Dominican Order, Timothy Radclie is now
based in Oxford but remains an itinerant lecturer, broadcaster, preacher and retreat
giver. His bestselling books include What’s e Point of Being a Christian?, What’s
e Point of Going to Church?, Take the Plunge and I Call You Friends, all published
by Bloomsbury Continuum.
An English Spring
Memoirs
Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
A compelling and illuminating memoir by one of the most outstanding gures
of the English Catholic Church in the post-war years
C
ardinal O’Connor was the Leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales
from 2000-2009. A highly respected gure, he nonetheless navigated his way
through tempestuous times whilst in oce. In 2000 it emerged that his handling
of a priest who was a compulsive abuser of children was severely misjudged. In
2006 he red his press aide, Stephen Noon, for being homosexual, suggesting
that his position was ‘incompatible’ with the teaching of the Church. O’Connor
addresses these issues, and discusses his relations with Popes Benedict and Francis,
making An English Spring compulsive reading for those of both religious and non-
religious persuasions.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor was Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
from 2000-2009 and previously Bishop of Arundel and Brighton. He is a
leading ecumenist with a devoted following both within and outside of his own
Communion.
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Coming Out Christian in the
Roman World
How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire
Douglas Boin
A new interpretation of early Christian history in the Roman Empire that
overturns centuries of myth and misunderstanding
T
he supposed collapse of Roman civilisation is still lamented more than 1,500
years later, and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a edgling religion,
Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that
toppled the empire. Not so, argues Douglas Boin, who instead shows that a small
minority movement rose to transform society – politically, religiously and culturally
– but it was a gradual process that happened over centuries. Using this insightful
approach to the story of Christians in the Roman world, Douglas Boin rewrites,
and rediscovers, the fascinating early history of a world faith.
Douglas Boin is an expert on the religious history of the Roman Empire. He is
currently assistant professor of ancient and late antique Mediterranean history at
Saint Louis University and has worked extensively as an archaeologist in Rome.
He lives in St Louis.
Contemplative Prayer
An Exploration
Dom David Foster
A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of
religious experience and mysticism
D
avid Foster, author of the bestselling Reading with God and Deep Calls to Deep
(Bloomsbury), extends their discussion of contemplative prayer in terms
of its philosophical framework. Contrasting a traditional framework with one
based on continental philosophy, Foster explores a number of metaphysical and
epistemological questions as well as the place of silence in a philosophy of language.
He defends traditional insights of the mystical tradition, including its underlying
metaphysical realism, religious experience as awareness of God, and the role of
apophatic discourse in mysticism, arguing that the sense of God’s absence can be
a threshold of prayer.
Dom David Foster is a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, where he was Prior
and Novice Master, as well as Chaplain of Downside School. He now teaches in the
Benedictine College of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.
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Coming Out Christian in the
Roman World
How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire
Douglas Boin
A new interpretation of early Christian history in the Roman Empire that
overturns centuries of myth and misunderstanding
T
he supposed collapse of Roman civilisation is still lamented more than 1,500
years later, and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a edgling religion,
Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that
toppled the empire. Not so, argues Douglas Boin, who instead shows that a small
minority movement rose to transform society – politically, religiously and culturally
– but it was a gradual process that happened over centuries. Using this insightful
approach to the story of Christians in the Roman world, Douglas Boin rewrites,
and rediscovers, the fascinating early history of a world faith.
Douglas Boin is an expert on the religious history of the Roman Empire. He is
currently assistant professor of ancient and late antique Mediterranean history at
Saint Louis University and has worked extensively as an archaeologist in Rome.
He lives in St Louis.
Contemplative Prayer
An Exploration
Dom David Foster
A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of
religious experience and mysticism
D
avid Foster, author of the bestselling Reading with God and Deep Calls to Deep
(Bloomsbury), extends their discussion of contemplative prayer in terms
of its philosophical framework. Contrasting a traditional framework with one
based on continental philosophy, Foster explores a number of metaphysical and
epistemological questions as well as the place of silence in a philosophy of language.
He defends traditional insights of the mystical tradition, including its underlying
metaphysical realism, religious experience as awareness of God, and the role of
apophatic discourse in mysticism, arguing that the sense of God’s absence can be
a threshold of prayer.
Dom David Foster is a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, where he was Prior
and Novice Master, as well as Chaplain of Downside School. He now teaches in the
Benedictine College of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.
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God is an Astronaut
Alyson Foster
‘A witty and original novel, rich in pithy insights, gloriously spot-on with regard
to the yearning middle-aged heart’ Barbara Trapido
J
ess Frobisher is a botany professor, her husband, Liam, works for a space tourism
company called Spaceco. Spaceco has just become front-page news: one of
their shuttles exploded shortly aer li-o, killing everyone on board. e press
descends. With the future of the company in doubt, two lmmakers approach
Liam about making a documentary on the space tourism industry. Seeing this as
an opportunity to save Spaceco, Liam agrees to cooperate, assembling a team for
another trip into space. When he asks Jess to go, she must decide how far she is
willing to go to save her faltering marriage and her life as she knows it.
Alyson Foster has a BA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and
received her MFA from George Mason University, where she was a Completion
Fellow. Alyson Foster lives in Washington DC, where she works for the National
Geographic library and writes for the Nat Geo Watch blog.
@alysonfoster
The Crooked Maid
Dan Vyleta
‘A seriously good novel from a seriously ne writer’ Mail on Sunday, Book of
the Week
T
he Second World War is over – and yet it lives on. As the initial phase of
denazication draws to a close, people across Vienna begin to rebuild their lives.
Anna Beer returns to the city she ed years earlier upon discovering her husband’s
indelity. She has come back to nd him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Travelling
on the same train is eighteen-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home
to the secrets of his family’s past. As Anna and Robert navigate an unrecognisable
city, beneath the bombed-out ruins a man battles demons from his past and hides
from a future that is deeply uncertain for all.
Dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late
1960s. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He has written
two previous novels, Pavel & I and e Quiet Twin, which was shortlisted for the
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. A Canadian by adoption, Dan Vyleta teaches
Creative Writing at Durham University.
www.danvyleta.com
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Wake Up Happy Every Day
Stephen May
‘e sense of jeopardy leaps from the page, and so does the writing. Hooked’ Elle
N
icky has always known Russell was rich, but he has no idea how astronomically
rich Russell is until his friend drops dead, on his ieth birthday, in his San
Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness. And now Nicky has come up
with an uncharacteristically daring plan. If Nicky were to become Russell and leave
his old life lying dead on the bathroom oor, then he and his family could start
again. But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack,
the impact of Nicky’s hasty decision begins to be felt by everyone around him.
Stephen May’s rst novel, Tag, won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 2009 Welsh
Book of the Year. His second, Life! Death! Prizes!, was published by Bloomsbury in
2012 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the Guardian’s ‘Not the
Booker Prize’. Originally from Bedford, he now lives and works in West Yorkshire.
www.sdmay.com / @RealStephenMay
The Ghost Runner
A Makana Mystery
Parker Bilal
A question of honour. An eye for an eye. e truth cannot stay buried for ever
I
t is 2002 and as the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are
running high on Cairo’s streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his
native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of the wife and daughter he
lost, is shaken out of his grief when a routine surveillance job leads him to the
horric murder of a teenage girl. Seeking answers, he travels to an oasis town on the
edge of the great Sahara desert. As violence follows him through the twisting, sand-
blown streets, Makana discovers that the truth can be as deadly and as changeable
as the desert beneath his feet.
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven
critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Following on
from e Golden Scales and Dogstar Rising, e Ghost Runner is his third Makana
Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan,
Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.
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Wake Up Happy Every Day
Stephen May
‘e sense of jeopardy leaps from the page, and so does the writing. Hooked’ Elle
N
icky has always known Russell was rich, but he has no idea how astronomically
rich Russell is until his friend drops dead, on his ieth birthday, in his San
Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness. And now Nicky has come up
with an uncharacteristically daring plan. If Nicky were to become Russell and leave
his old life lying dead on the bathroom oor, then he and his family could start
again. But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack,
the impact of Nicky’s hasty decision begins to be felt by everyone around him.
Stephen May’s rst novel, Tag, won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 2009 Welsh
Book of the Year. His second, Life! Death! Prizes!, was published by Bloomsbury in
2012 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the Guardian’s ‘Not the
Booker Prize’. Originally from Bedford, he now lives and works in West Yorkshire.
www.sdmay.com / @RealStephenMay
The Ghost Runner
A Makana Mystery
Parker Bilal
A question of honour. An eye for an eye. e truth cannot stay buried for ever
I
t is 2002 and as the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are
running high on Cairo’s streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his
native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of the wife and daughter he
lost, is shaken out of his grief when a routine surveillance job leads him to the
horric murder of a teenage girl. Seeking answers, he travels to an oasis town on the
edge of the great Sahara desert. As violence follows him through the twisting, sand-
blown streets, Makana discovers that the truth can be as deadly and as changeable
as the desert beneath his feet.
Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven
critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Following on
from e Golden Scales and Dogstar Rising, e Ghost Runner is his third Makana
Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan,
Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.
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Miss Carter’s War
Sheila Hancock
e story of a remarkable woman – the story of our times. A stunning debut
novel from iconic actor and bestselling author Sheila Hancock
It is 1948 and the young and beautiful Marguerite Carter has lost her parents and
survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. She returns
to England to be one of the rst women to receive a degree from the University of
Cambridge. Now she pins back her unruly auburn curls, draws a pencil seam up
her legs, ties the laces on her sensible black shoes, and sets out towards her future
as an English teacher in a girls’ grammar school. For Miss Carter has a mission –
to ght social injustice, to prevent war and to educate her girls.
Sheila Hancock received an OBE for services to drama in 1974 and a CBE in 2011.
Since the 1950s she has enjoyed a career across lm, television, theatre and radio.
Her memoir, e Two of Us, was a number one bestseller and won the British Book
Award for Author of the Year. Her second book, Just Me, was also a bestseller. She
lives in London and France.
Terms & Conditions
Robert Glancy
‘Every book seems to have “funny and life-arming” written on it but this one
actually is’ Matt Haig, author of e Humans
F
rank has been in a car accident*. e doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but
Frank believes he has lost more, he is missing memories. All he remembers is
that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print. But when his brother takes the
family company into business with an inventively cruel corporation** and Alice,
his wife, starts to seem oddly unlike the woman he remembers, Frank’s world
starts to unspool and the terms and conditions that he has lived his life by***
begin to change.
*apparently quite a serious one
**we can’t tell you what it’s called for legal reasons, but believe us, it’s evil
***and which are rarely in his favour
Robert was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved from
Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge, before working
in London in public relations. By day he still works in PR, by night he writes. He
currently lives in New Zealand with his wife and children.
@RobertGlancy
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A God in Every Stone
Kamila Shamsie
‘I can’t recommend A God in Every Stone too strongly – this is her best novel
yet’ Antonia Fraser, Guardian, Summer Reading
S
ummer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land,
about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. ousands
of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood
and loyalty in the British Indian army.
Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost
an eye at Ypres. ey meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is
about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself een years later
when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will
bring them together again.
Kamila Shamsie is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted
for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saron, Broken Verses and Burnt
Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and has been translated into
more than twenty languages. She is one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists
2013, she grew up in Karachi and lives in London.
@kamilashamsie
What Was Promised
Tobias Hill
‘A dazzling and deeply aecting portrait of a city struggling back to prosperity
... One of the outstanding writers of his generation’ Observer
In post-war London children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders
strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette
Malcolm have come ve thousand miles in search of prosperity, but nd the Mother
Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are
strangers in a strange land; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take all that the world
owes them. In the markets and tenements of Bethnal Green the three families live
and work together in uneasy harmony, until Michael shatters the balance between
them, changing the courses of all their lives.
Tobias Hill was born in London. In 2003 the TLS nominated him as one of the best
young writers in Britain. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young
Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the PEN/Macmillan Prize
for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize.
What Was Promised is his h novel.
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A God in Every Stone
Kamila Shamsie
‘I can’t recommend A God in Every Stone too strongly – this is her best novel
yet’ Antonia Fraser, Guardian, Summer Reading
S
ummer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land,
about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. ousands
of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood
and loyalty in the British Indian army.
Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost
an eye at Ypres. ey meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is
about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself een years later
when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will
bring them together again.
Kamila Shamsie is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted
for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saron, Broken Verses and Burnt
Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and has been translated into
more than twenty languages. She is one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists
2013, she grew up in Karachi and lives in London.
@kamilashamsie
What Was Promised
Tobias Hill
‘A dazzling and deeply aecting portrait of a city struggling back to prosperity
... One of the outstanding writers of his generation’ Observer
In post-war London children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders
strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette
Malcolm have come ve thousand miles in search of prosperity, but nd the Mother
Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are
strangers in a strange land; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take all that the world
owes them. In the markets and tenements of Bethnal Green the three families live
and work together in uneasy harmony, until Michael shatters the balance between
them, changing the courses of all their lives.
Tobias Hill was born in London. In 2003 the TLS nominated him as one of the best
young writers in Britain. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young
Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the PEN/Macmillan Prize
for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize.
What Was Promised is his h novel.
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The Giraffe’s Neck
Judith Schalansky
Translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
‘“Remarkable” is too small a word. It is very funny, desperately sad and real,
and ultimately, shocking’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
I
nge Lohmark is the last of her kind. As the Biology teacher at the Charles
Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany, for her
adaptation is everything. Yet in the course of a school year, it is Inge who is revealed
to be the one falling behind in the race to survive, as everything and everyone
now abandons the old ways to adapt to the new environment. e Girae’s Neck is
an outstanding novel that by parodying old-style school textbooks, including the
clever use of illustration, wittily and poignantly evokes the demise of its protagonist
and the passing of an era.
Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 in Greifswald in the former East Germany.
She studied Art History and Communication Design and now works as a freelance
writer. Schalansky’s previous book, the international bestseller, Atlas of Remote
Islands (I Never Visited and Never Will), was published to acclaim in the UK and
the USA in 2010. She lives in Berlin.
Shaun Whiteside is a translator from German, French, Italian and Dutch.
The Prince’s Boy
Paul Bailey
‘One of the wittiest, most panacheful and most graceful writers we have’
Ali Smith
M
ay 1927. Dinu Grigorescu, aged nineteen, is newly arrived in Paris from
Bucharest. An innocent in a new city, still grieving the loss of his beloved
mother, Dinu is guided in la vie de Bohème by a distant cousin. Drawn tentatively,
secretly, to the Bains du Ballon d’Alsace, a notorious place rumoured to oer the
men of Paris everything they crave, Dinu meets Razvan, the adopted child of a
man of renement – a prince’s boy – whose stories of Proust entrance Dinu, and
who becomes the young man’s teacher in the ways of the world. is is a work of
exquisite sensual delicacy from a master.
Paul Bailey’s novels include At e Jerusalem, which won a Somerset Maugham
Award and an Arts Council Writers’ Award; the Booker Prize-shortlisted Peter
Smart’s Confessions and Gabriel’s Lament; Sugar Cane, Kitty and Virgil, Uncle Rudolf
and most recently Chapman’s Odyssey. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster and
the George Orwell Memorial Awards. He lives in London.
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The Wives of Los Alamos
TaraShea Nesbit
‘With chilling implications and charged, sure-footed prose, this is a novel – and
writer – of consequence’ Paula McLain, author of e Paris Wife
Their average age was twenty-ve. ey came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris,
London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at
least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military
town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing
at the lab. ey were constrained by the words they couldn’t say, the letters they
couldn’t send. ough they were strangers, they came together. But then ‘the project’
was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as
they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the
atomic bomb.
TaraShea Nesbit teaches creative writing and literature courses at the University
of Denver. A graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St Louis,
TaraShea is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of
Denver.
Hollow Mountain
A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery
Thomas Mogford
‘Popular ction at its best’ Susan Hill
The late-morning sun rises high over the Rock of Gibraltar as a child stumbles
upon a man’s severed arm, a plaything of the apes. In the narrow streets of the
Old Town below, Spike Sanguinetti’s business partner is critically injured in a hit-
and-run. Reluctantly, Spike must abandon his search for his girlfriend, Zahra, and
return home to Gibraltar, where he is drawn into a case protecting the interests
of a ruthless salvage company hunting for treasure in the Straits. As Spike battles
to save his law rm, he begins to realise that his search for Zahra has triggered a
terrifying sequence of events, and that everything he holds dear is under threat.
omas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for
the European Parliament. His rst two novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series,
Shadow of the Rock and Sign of the Cross, were published by Bloomsbury in 2012
and 2013 respectively, to great critical acclaim. omas Mogford is married and
lives with his family in London.
www.thomasmogford.com / @omasMogford
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The Wives of Los Alamos
TaraShea Nesbit
‘With chilling implications and charged, sure-footed prose, this is a novel – and
writer – of consequence’ Paula McLain, author of e Paris Wife
Their average age was twenty-ve. ey came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris,
London and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at
least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military
town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing
at the lab. ey were constrained by the words they couldn’t say, the letters they
couldn’t send. ough they were strangers, they came together. But then ‘the project’
was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as
they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the
atomic bomb.
TaraShea Nesbit teaches creative writing and literature courses at the University
of Denver. A graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St Louis,
TaraShea is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of
Denver.
Hollow Mountain
A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery
Thomas Mogford
‘Popular ction at its best’ Susan Hill
The late-morning sun rises high over the Rock of Gibraltar as a child stumbles
upon a man’s severed arm, a plaything of the apes. In the narrow streets of the
Old Town below, Spike Sanguinetti’s business partner is critically injured in a hit-
and-run. Reluctantly, Spike must abandon his search for his girlfriend, Zahra, and
return home to Gibraltar, where he is drawn into a case protecting the interests
of a ruthless salvage company hunting for treasure in the Straits. As Spike battles
to save his law rm, he begins to realise that his search for Zahra has triggered a
terrifying sequence of events, and that everything he holds dear is under threat.
omas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for
the European Parliament. His rst two novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series,
Shadow of the Rock and Sign of the Cross, were published by Bloomsbury in 2012
and 2013 respectively, to great critical acclaim. omas Mogford is married and
lives with his family in London.
www.thomasmogford.com / @omasMogford
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No Country
Kalyan Ray
‘A moving and compelling tale, full of richly-satisfying ironies’ Enid Shomer,
author of e Twelve Rooms of the Nile
In November 1989 an immigrant couple is discovered murdered in a small town
in upstate New York. ey lie together as though just disengaged from a long
embrace. ese killings have been two centuries in the making.
From nineteenth-century Ireland and England to India, Italy, Poland and North
America – the tides of history sweep people across continents. Weaving together
private histories and historical personalities, through betrayals and friendships,
through riots and splitting of nations on the Indian subcontinent, an East European
pogrom and the Triangle re in New York City, we are inexorably led towards the
terrible intimacy of that murder in a sleepy town.
Kalyan Ray’s family was uprooted from the Ganges Delta (now Bangladesh) through
a combination of natural disasters, political upheaval, and poverty. He was educated
in India and the US, and now lives in both countries. Ray has been a taxi driver in
Calcutta, nurse’s assistant at the psychiatric wing of an Upstate New York hospital,
professor of literature in the US and visiting professor of Comparative eology
in the Philippines.
History of the Rain
Niall Williams
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
‘Extremely moving ... By the nal chapter I was weeping’ Sunday Times
B
edbound in her attic room beneath the rain, plain Ruth Swain is in search of
her father. To nd him, Ruthie must rst trace the Swains, their jutting jaw
lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin, from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-
grandfather, to grandfather Abraham, to her father Virgil – via pole-vaulting,
salmon shing, poetry and a wild rain-sodden history of the pursuit of the
impossible on fourteen acres of the worst farming land in Ireland. A celebration
of books, love and the healing power of storytelling, this is an exquisite, funny
novel in which every sentence sings.
Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eight novels including
John and Four Letters of Love for which he has recently completed the screenplay for
Element Pictures. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine.
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From a Distance
Raffaella Barker
‘A beautifully written, superior romance perfect for a hammock on a sunny day’
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
I
n April, 1946, Michael returns on a troopship from the war. On impulse, he is
caught in a moment at a station and takes the train heading west to Cornwall. In
doing so he changes his destiny. May, 2012, and Kit, a charming stranger, arrives in
a coastal Norfolk village to take up his inheritance – a de-commissioned lighthouse,
half hidden in the shadows of the past, but now sweeping its beam forward through
time. Married Luisa falters in the ow of her life as her children begin to y the
nest. When Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the consequences of that split-
second decision made by Michael all those years ago.
Raaella Barker is the author of seven acclaimed novels including the bestselling
Hens Dancing and Summertime; she has also written a novel for young adults. She
is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and Harper’s Bazaar and teaches on
the Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of East Anglia and the
Guardian UEA Novel Writing Masterclass. She lives by the sea in Norfolk.
@raaellabarker
The Hidden Light of Objects
Mai Al-Nakib
‘A subtle air for perfection, an exciting new literary voice’ e National
A
young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of
Kuwait, nds her name has become a barometer of her country’s growing
hostility towards the West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on
his extramarital aairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife.
e headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond
them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the
fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous
stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold
extraordinary memories.
Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from
Brown University in the USA and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative
literature at Kuwait University. e Hidden Light of Objects is her rst collection of
short stories. She lives in Kuwait, and is currently writing her rst novel.
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From a Distance
Raffaella Barker
‘A beautifully written, superior romance perfect for a hammock on a sunny day’
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
I
n April, 1946, Michael returns on a troopship from the war. On impulse, he is
caught in a moment at a station and takes the train heading west to Cornwall. In
doing so he changes his destiny. May, 2012, and Kit, a charming stranger, arrives in
a coastal Norfolk village to take up his inheritance – a de-commissioned lighthouse,
half hidden in the shadows of the past, but now sweeping its beam forward through
time. Married Luisa falters in the ow of her life as her children begin to y the
nest. When Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the consequences of that split-
second decision made by Michael all those years ago.
Raaella Barker is the author of seven acclaimed novels including the bestselling
Hens Dancing and Summertime; she has also written a novel for young adults. She
is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and Harper’s Bazaar and teaches on
the Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of East Anglia and the
Guardian UEA Novel Writing Masterclass. She lives by the sea in Norfolk.
@raaellabarker
The Hidden Light of Objects
Mai Al-Nakib
‘A subtle air for perfection, an exciting new literary voice’ e National
A
young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of
Kuwait, nds her name has become a barometer of her country’s growing
hostility towards the West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on
his extramarital aairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife.
e headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond
them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the
fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous
stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold
extraordinary memories.
Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from
Brown University in the USA and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative
literature at Kuwait University. e Hidden Light of Objects is her rst collection of
short stories. She lives in Kuwait, and is currently writing her rst novel.
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Close Call
A Liz Carlyle Novel
Stella Rimington
‘She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham,
Graham Greene and John le Carré’ Wall Street Journal
I
n a Middle Eastern souk, CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked. At the time
he was inltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his cover had
been blown or if the act was just an arbitrary attack on Westerners. Months later,
the incident remains a mystery. Now, Liz Carlyle and MI5 have been charged with
the task of watching the international under-the-counter arms trade: a trade that
has been booming in the wake of the Arab Spring. As the clock counts down,
Liz nds herself on a manhunt through Paris and Berlin, and into her own long-
forgotten past. A past buried so deep that she never thought it would resurface ...
Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her
career she worked in all the main elds of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-
espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the
rst woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and seven Liz
Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.
Sidney Chambers and
The Problem of Evil
James Runcie
‘We should welcome him to the ranks of classic detectives’ Daily Mail
O
ur favourite clerical detective is back with four longer mysteries in which Canon
Sidney Chambers attempts to stop a serial killer; investigates the disappearance
of a famous painting aer a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art
gallery; uncovers the fact that an ‘accidental’ drowning on a lm shoot may not
have been so accidental aer all; and discovers the reasons behind the the of a
baby from a hospital in the run-up to Christmas, 1963. Meanwhile, Sidney wrestles
with the problem of evil, attempts to full the demands of Dickens, his faithful
Labrador, and contemplates, as always, the nature of love.
James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning
lm-maker and the author of eight novels. His popular detective series is set to
become a six-part show on ITV, Grantchester, starring James Norton. He lives in
London and Edinburgh.
www.jamesruncie.com / @james_runcie
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Outlaws
Javier Cercas
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
‘One of the best contemporary European novelists’ Scotsman
O
ne day, in an amusement arcade in Gerona, Ignacio Cañas, a timid, middle-
class sixteen-year-old encounters two tearaways: the beautiful Tere and her
glamorous boyfriend, El Zarco. Hopelessly in love with Tere, Cañas crosses the
border into El Zarco’s dangerous world of booze, drugs and robbery. Twenty-
ve years later, Tere appears in Cañas’s lawyer’s oce, to ask for his professional
help, and the three-way love aair begins again. Brilliantly plotted, fast-paced
and morally complex, Outlaws rmly establishes Javier Cercas as one of the most
rewarding novelists writing anywhere in the world today.
Javier Cercas is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books have won
numerous awards, sold more than a million copies worldwide and been translated
into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona.
Anne McLean is the translator of works by Julio Cortázar, Hector Abad and Juan
Gabriel Vásquez among others. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction
Prize. She lives in Toronto.
The True and Splendid History
of the Harristown Sisters
Michelle Lovric
‘Michelle Lovric is devilishly clever, endishly comic and generally just an
irresistible novelist. I delighted in every page’ Elizabeth Gilbert
I
reland, mid 1800s, the age of the Famine and of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,
when Europe burns with a passion for long, owing hair. So when seven Irish
sisters, born into fatherless poverty, grow up with curls cascading down to their
ankles, men are not slow to recognise their potential. Riches and fame follow, and
a palace in Venice, but the sisters’ dark pasts trail behind them like the tresses on
their heads, and success comes at a terrible price ... A bewitching tale of exploitation,
sibling rivalry, sexual betrayal and nancial skulduggery – and an extraordinary
luxuriance of exuberant Irish hair.
Michelle Lovric is the author of four novels – Carnevale, e Floating Book (a
WHSmith Read of the Week), e Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize
for Fiction) and e Book of Human Skin (a 2011 TV Book Club pick), as well as
four children’s books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New
York Times bestseller.
www.michellelovric.com
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Outlaws
Javier Cercas
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
‘One of the best contemporary European novelists’ Scotsman
O
ne day, in an amusement arcade in Gerona, Ignacio Cañas, a timid, middle-
class sixteen-year-old encounters two tearaways: the beautiful Tere and her
glamorous boyfriend, El Zarco. Hopelessly in love with Tere, Cañas crosses the
border into El Zarco’s dangerous world of booze, drugs and robbery. Twenty-
ve years later, Tere appears in Cañas’s lawyer’s oce, to ask for his professional
help, and the three-way love aair begins again. Brilliantly plotted, fast-paced
and morally complex, Outlaws rmly establishes Javier Cercas as one of the most
rewarding novelists writing anywhere in the world today.
Javier Cercas is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books have won
numerous awards, sold more than a million copies worldwide and been translated
into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona.
Anne McLean is the translator of works by Julio Cortázar, Hector Abad and Juan
Gabriel Vásquez among others. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction
Prize. She lives in Toronto.
The True and Splendid History
of the Harristown Sisters
Michelle Lovric
‘Michelle Lovric is devilishly clever, endishly comic and generally just an
irresistible novelist. I delighted in every page’ Elizabeth Gilbert
I
reland, mid 1800s, the age of the Famine and of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,
when Europe burns with a passion for long, owing hair. So when seven Irish
sisters, born into fatherless poverty, grow up with curls cascading down to their
ankles, men are not slow to recognise their potential. Riches and fame follow, and
a palace in Venice, but the sisters’ dark pasts trail behind them like the tresses on
their heads, and success comes at a terrible price ... A bewitching tale of exploitation,
sibling rivalry, sexual betrayal and nancial skulduggery – and an extraordinary
luxuriance of exuberant Irish hair.
Michelle Lovric is the author of four novels – Carnevale, e Floating Book (a
WHSmith Read of the Week), e Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize
for Fiction) and e Book of Human Skin (a 2011 TV Book Club pick), as well as
four children’s books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New
York Times bestseller.
www.michellelovric.com
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The Following Girls
Louise Levene
‘Acerbic and gloriously evocative ... Fizzes with cracking one-liners, acute
observations and acidic social satire’ Sunday Telegraph
The happiest days of your life? Not for Baker, sixteen and sick of it as she moves
miserably between lessons packed with palm bre and the use of the dative.
Baker’s only solace is her h-form gang – the Four Mandies – and a low-calorie
diet of king-sized cigarettes, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain
and consummate game player. So begins a passionate friendship that will threaten
her future, menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone
she holds dear. e Following Girls weaves the minutiae of Seventies girlhood
into an unsparing tragi-comedy of shrinking horizons, dangerous alliances and
not-so-happy families.
Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime,
which was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott rst novel prize, and Ghastly
Business. She has been the dance critic of the Sunday Telegraph since 1998. She
lives in London with her husband and their two children.
The Visitors
Patrick O’Keeffe
‘O’Keee writes with meticulous plainness about failure, fresh beginnings and
the seemingly inescapable consequences of who you are and where you’re from’
Independent
On a warm July night, a homeless man comes to the door of James’s apartment
in a college town in Michigan. Walter has a sunburnt face, smells like dry wood
and claims there is an old lady lying in the middle of the road. But when James goes
to look, there’s nobody to be seen, and he begins to question the stranger’s motives.
Walter’s arrival stirs up memories that James thought he’d le behind in Tipperary.
Slowly he unearths the long-ago mysteries: what the men in the village were
whispering about, what happened to his Aunt Tess and whether people, especially
his nemesis Kevin, ever really change.
Patrick O’Keee was born and grew up in Co. Limerick, and moved to the US in
his twenties. His rst book, e Hill Road was published by Bloomsbury in 2005;
in the USA it won the prestigious Story Prize ahead of such authors as William
Boyd, T. C. Boyle, James Salter and Robert Coover. He teaches in the graduate
creative writing programme at Ohio University.
@PatrickOKeefe
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Romany and Tom
A Memoir
Ben Watt
‘Romany and Tom is the most beguiling book you’ll read all year’ Independent
T
ommy Watt was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician whose 1950s heyday
took him into the glittering heart of London’s West End. Romany Bain was
a RADA-trained Shakespearian actress who had triplets in her rst marriage
before becoming a leading showbiz feature writer. Divorcees from very dierent
backgrounds, they came together like colliding trains in 1957. Both a personal
journey and a portrait of Ben Watt’s parents, Romany and Tom is a vivid story of
family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. It is about who we are,
where we come from, and how we love and live with each other for a long time.
Ben Watt is a musician, DJ and author. His rst book, Patient: e True Story of a
Rare Illness was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Sunday Times
Book of the Year. For twenty years he was one half of alt-pop duo Everything But
e Girl. He lives in north London with his wife Tracey orn and their children.
@Ben_Watt
Owning the Earth
The Transforming History of Land Ownership
Andro Linklater
‘A sprawling political history of the globe’ Scotsman
B
arely two centuries ago, most of the world’s productive land still belonged
either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch
or church. But that pattern was consigned to history by the notion of private
ownership of land, which laid waste to traditional communal civilisations,
displaced entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique
concept of individual freedom, and a distinct form of representative government
and democratic institutions. Owning the Earth oers a radically new view of the
evolution of society and politics through the most creative – and, at the same time,
destructive – cultural force of the modern era.
Andro Linklater was the author of Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness
Shaped the United States and Fullled the Promise of Democracy as well as e Code
of Love and several other books. He lived in England.
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Romany and Tom
A Memoir
Ben Watt
‘Romany and Tom is the most beguiling book you’ll read all year’ Independent
T
ommy Watt was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician whose 1950s heyday
took him into the glittering heart of London’s West End. Romany Bain was
a RADA-trained Shakespearian actress who had triplets in her rst marriage
before becoming a leading showbiz feature writer. Divorcees from very dierent
backgrounds, they came together like colliding trains in 1957. Both a personal
journey and a portrait of Ben Watt’s parents, Romany and Tom is a vivid story of
family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. It is about who we are,
where we come from, and how we love and live with each other for a long time.
Ben Watt is a musician, DJ and author. His rst book, Patient: e True Story of a
Rare Illness was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Sunday Times
Book of the Year. For twenty years he was one half of alt-pop duo Everything But
e Girl. He lives in north London with his wife Tracey orn and their children.
@Ben_Watt
Owning the Earth
The Transforming History of Land Ownership
Andro Linklater
‘A sprawling political history of the globe’ Scotsman
B
arely two centuries ago, most of the world’s productive land still belonged
either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch
or church. But that pattern was consigned to history by the notion of private
ownership of land, which laid waste to traditional communal civilisations,
displaced entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique
concept of individual freedom, and a distinct form of representative government
and democratic institutions. Owning the Earth oers a radically new view of the
evolution of society and politics through the most creative – and, at the same time,
destructive – cultural force of the modern era.
Andro Linklater was the author of Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness
Shaped the United States and Fullled the Promise of Democracy as well as e Code
of Love and several other books. He lived in England.
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The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Over the last half a billion years, there have been ve mass extinctions of life on
earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted
to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped
out the dinosaurs.
Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of researchers, geologists, botanists and
marine biologists to tell the stories of a dozen species, including the Panamian
golden frog and the Sumatran rhino, some already gone, others at the point of
vanishing. e sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy and
compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
Elizabeth Kolbert has been a sta writer at the New Yorker since 1999. She is the
author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Front-line Report on Climate Change,
which was based on ‘e Climate of Man’, her three-part series,
which won several awards including the 2006 National Magazine
Award for Public Interest. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts,
with her husband and children.
@E_Kolbert
White Beech
The Rainforest Years
Germaine Greer
‘A powerful account of Greer’s attempt to reverse the calamitous environmental
impact of Australian history on one patch of land ... Fascinating’ Evie Wyld,
Financial Times
I
n 2001 Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge: sixty
hectares of dairy farm in south-east Queensland that, aer a century of logging,
clearing and devastation, had been abandoned to their fate. To have turned down
the chance to help these acres of exotic pasture grass, impenetrable curtains of
tangled Lantana canes, and few remaining White Beeches back to health would
have been to succumb to despair. When her rst replanting shot up to make a
forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees,
she knew that at least here biodepletion could be reversed.
Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist
voice of the mid-twentieth century. From 1998 to 2003 she was Professor of English
Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Greer’s ideas
have created controversy ever since e Female Eunuch became an international
bestseller in 1970. She is the author of many other books.
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The Nile
Downriver through Egypt’s Past and Present
Toby Wilkinson
‘His take on ancient and colonial history is impeccable ... Compelling’ Observer
F
rom Herodotus’s day to the present political upheavals, the steady ow of the
Nile has been Egypt’s heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its
economy and moulded its civilisation. e same stretch of water which conveyed
Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian
steamers now carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which
rural life – farming and shing – continues much as it has for millennia. Egypt
is a palimpsest – every age has le its trace – and Toby Wilkinson is the perfect
guide to understanding the layers past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital,
conservative yet rapidly changing land.
Toby Wilkinson read Egyptology at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of Clare
College. He is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of
Egyptian History, and the author of e Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (2010) which
won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. He is currently Head of the International
Strategy Oce at the University of Cambridge and lives in Suolk.
The Triple Package
What Really Determines Success
Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
‘If you care at all about the social pressures underpinning success and failure
... you will want to read this’ Sunday Times
I
t might be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups consistently achieve
disproportionate levels of success. But why? Drawing on groundbreaking original
research and startling statistics, e Triple Package uncovers the secret to their
irrefutable success: i) a superiority complex, ii) insecurity, iii) impulse control.
Examining these three components, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld explore the
motivational drive that leads to the rise of cultural groups and oer lessons that
we can all learn from. Provocative and probing, e Triple Package will completely
transform the way we think about success.
Amy Chua is the John M. Du Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is the author
of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100
most inuential people in 2011. Jed Rubenfeld is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor
of Law at Yale Law School. He is also the author of the million copy bestselling e
Interpretation of Murder and e Death Instinct.
@amychua
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The Nile
Downriver through Egypt’s Past and Present
Toby Wilkinson
‘His take on ancient and colonial history is impeccable ... Compelling’ Observer
F
rom Herodotus’s day to the present political upheavals, the steady ow of the
Nile has been Egypt’s heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its
economy and moulded its civilisation. e same stretch of water which conveyed
Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian
steamers now carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which
rural life – farming and shing – continues much as it has for millennia. Egypt
is a palimpsest – every age has le its trace – and Toby Wilkinson is the perfect
guide to understanding the layers past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital,
conservative yet rapidly changing land.
Toby Wilkinson read Egyptology at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of Clare
College. He is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of
Egyptian History, and the author of e Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (2010) which
won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. He is currently Head of the International
Strategy Oce at the University of Cambridge and lives in Suolk.
The Triple Package
What Really Determines Success
Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
‘If you care at all about the social pressures underpinning success and failure
... you will want to read this’ Sunday Times
I
t might be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups consistently achieve
disproportionate levels of success. But why? Drawing on groundbreaking original
research and startling statistics, e Triple Package uncovers the secret to their
irrefutable success: i) a superiority complex, ii) insecurity, iii) impulse control.
Examining these three components, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld explore the
motivational drive that leads to the rise of cultural groups and oer lessons that
we can all learn from. Provocative and probing, e Triple Package will completely
transform the way we think about success.
Amy Chua is the John M. Du Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is the author
of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100
most inuential people in 2011. Jed Rubenfeld is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor
of Law at Yale Law School. He is also the author of the million copy bestselling e
Interpretation of Murder and e Death Instinct.
@amychua
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Inside a Pearl
My Years in Paris
Edmund White
‘A glittering, delicious, tender and funny memoir about his een years in
Paris’ New York Times
W
hen Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, he was forty-three years old,
spoke no French and knew just two people in the whole city. But he soon
discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture, and by the time
he le, een years later, he was uent enough to broadcast on French radio and
television, and had made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves St Laurent to
Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. Edmund White has always written about
the rewards of friendship, and never more poignantly than in this tribute to a
fascinating woman and her city.
Edmund White is the author of many novels including the classic A Boy’s Own
Story and most recently, Jack Holmes and His Friend; two previous memoirs, My
Lives and New York Boy; biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur
Rimbaud; and several other works of non-ction, including e Flâneur. He lives
in New York City and teaches writing at Princeton University.
Two Turtle Doves
A Memoir of Making Things
Alex Monroe
‘is is a tremendous book. A generous story of making, looking, travelling
and growing up’ Edmund de Waal
Growing up in 1970s Suolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild gardens,
Alex Monroe was le to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental
inuence, but with sisters to love him and brothers to ght for him, he made nature
into his world. Creation became a compulsion, whether it was go-carts and guns,
booby-traps, boats, bikes or scooters. And then, of course, it was jewellery. From
full-out warfare waged against the local schoolboys to the most intricate designs
for necklaces and earrings, Two Turtle Doves is about where we nd our creativity,
how we remember and why we make the things we do.
Alex Monroe grew up in rural Suolk and showed a keen interest in art and design
from an early age. Alex trained at Sir John Cass School of Art in Whitechapel. He
set up his business in South London in 1986 and Alex Monroe Jewellery is now an
iconic and internationally successful brand.
www.alexmonroe.com
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Beasts
What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of
Good and Evil
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
‘A compelling look at what animals at the top of the food chain can teach us about
anger, aggression and the history of human violence’ BBC Wildlife
A
nimals, at least predators, kill to survive, but animal aggression is not even
remotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. Humans are the most violent
animals to our own kind in existence. We lack what all other animals have: a check
on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. In Beasts,
Jerey Moussaie Masson brings to life the richness of the animal world and
strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, oering a powerful and
compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression.
Jerey Moussaie Masson is the author of numerous bestselling books on animal
emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep. He
lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with his family.
A Spy Among Friends
Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre
‘An unputdownable postwar thriller whose every incredible detail is fact not
ction’ Observer
K
im Philby is perhaps the most notorious British defector in history. He betrayed
every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold
War. Philby’s two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6
and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby
better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. is is a
story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience. With access to newly
released MI5 les and previously unseen papers, it unlocks what is perhaps the
last great secret of the Cold War.
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on e Times. He is the author
of nine books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award
and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, the number
one bestseller Operation Mincemeat and, most recently, the Richard & Judy Book
Club selection, Double Cross. He lives in London.
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Beasts
What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of
Good and Evil
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
‘A compelling look at what animals at the top of the food chain can teach us about
anger, aggression and the history of human violence’ BBC Wildlife
A
nimals, at least predators, kill to survive, but animal aggression is not even
remotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. Humans are the most violent
animals to our own kind in existence. We lack what all other animals have: a check
on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. In Beasts,
Jerey Moussaie Masson brings to life the richness of the animal world and
strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, oering a powerful and
compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression.
Jerey Moussaie Masson is the author of numerous bestselling books on animal
emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep. He
lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with his family.
A Spy Among Friends
Philby and the Great Betrayal
Ben Macintyre
‘An unputdownable postwar thriller whose every incredible detail is fact not
ction’ Observer
K
im Philby is perhaps the most notorious British defector in history. He betrayed
every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold
War. Philby’s two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6
and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby
better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. is is a
story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience. With access to newly
released MI5 les and previously unseen papers, it unlocks what is perhaps the
last great secret of the Cold War.
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on e Times. He is the author
of nine books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award
and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, the number
one bestseller Operation Mincemeat and, most recently, the Richard & Judy Book
Club selection, Double Cross. He lives in London.
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Overwhelmed
Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time
Brigid Schulte
‘Startling ... May well do for time-poor workers what Lean In has done for guilt-
ridden working mums’ Evening Standard
B
rigid Schulte has baked cupcakes until 2 a.m., carried her BlackBerry on school
eld trips, then gone back to work until 4 a.m. aer her children were in bed.
Like so many of us, she began to question whether it is possible to be anything you
want to be, have a family and still have time to breathe. In Overwhelmed, Schulte
maps the individual, historical and societal stresses that have ripped working
mothers’ and fathers’ leisure to shreds, and embarks on a quest to put the pieces
back together. is is a game-changing look at time, frenetic families and the search
for an elusive moment of peace.
Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and the
Washington Post Magazine. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she has won
numerous writing awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Alexandria,
Virginia, with her two children, Liam and Tessa, and her husband, Tom Bowman,
Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio.
@BrigidSchulte
How to Wear White
A Pocketbook for the Bride-to-Be
Francesca Beauman
‘A wry guide to surviving the big day’ Marie Claire
W
ithin these pages you will nd 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 the marital bed and the marriage customs of the Na people of China to
celebrity wedding dress designers and the etiquette of the bathroom. True, you
may not ever need to know the names of all of Elizabeth Taylor’s spouses or how
to say ‘My husband’ in Norwegian, but isn’t it fabulous that you do?
Francesca Beauman is a historian, journalist and television presenter. She is the
author of e Pineapple, e 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.
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The Valley
A Hundred Years in the Life of a Mining Family
Richard Benson
‘Intensely enjoyable, rich in quirks of social history and sizzling with the
antagonisms only families generate ... Benson’s writing is a constant pleasure’
Sunday Times
T
he close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations
of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson’s great-grandmother
Winnie’s ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research,
interviews and anecdotes, e Valley lets us into generations of carousing and
banter as the family’s attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves
meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat. Against a backdrop
of underground explosions, strikes and pit closures, these are deeply personal
stories of man’s world sustained by strong women; of growing up, and the power
of love and imagination to transform lives.
Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller, e 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. He lives in London.
Rogue Elephant
Harnessing the Power of India’s Unruly Democracy
Simon Denyer
A gripping portrait of India today and an investigation into where the world’s
fastest-growing country is heading
S
imon Denyer investigates the conicts at the heart of the world’s most populous
democracy, from its history of inherent greed to the rise of popular movements
against corruption. rough original interviews with inuential gures both
inside and outside the government, Denyer exposes the battle taking place for a
functioning democracy. Rogue Elephant paints a vivid and comprehensive picture
of India today; of those with the power to aect that change and those driven to
ght for it, of the tensions splitting the country, of the possible futures that await
it and of what may happen if the people cannot control its runaway power.
Simon Denyer studied Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has worked
as a Reuters correspondent in numerous countries around the world, including
Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, covering the 2004 Indian general election and the
Asian tsunami. He has just moved to Beijing to become the Washington Post’s China
Bureau Chief, and is President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia.
@simondenyer
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The Valley
A Hundred Years in the Life of a Mining Family
Richard Benson
‘Intensely enjoyable, rich in quirks of social history and sizzling with the
antagonisms only families generate ... Benson’s writing is a constant pleasure’
Sunday Times
T
he close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations
of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson’s great-grandmother
Winnie’s ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research,
interviews and anecdotes, e Valley lets us into generations of carousing and
banter as the family’s attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves
meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat. Against a backdrop
of underground explosions, strikes and pit closures, these are deeply personal
stories of man’s world sustained by strong women; of growing up, and the power
of love and imagination to transform lives.
Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller, e 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. He lives in London.
Rogue Elephant
Harnessing the Power of India’s Unruly Democracy
Simon Denyer
A gripping portrait of India today and an investigation into where the world’s
fastest-growing country is heading
S
imon Denyer investigates the conicts at the heart of the world’s most populous
democracy, from its history of inherent greed to the rise of popular movements
against corruption. rough original interviews with inuential gures both
inside and outside the government, Denyer exposes the battle taking place for a
functioning democracy. Rogue Elephant paints a vivid and comprehensive picture
of India today; of those with the power to aect that change and those driven to
ght for it, of the tensions splitting the country, of the possible futures that await
it and of what may happen if the people cannot control its runaway power.
Simon Denyer studied Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has worked
as a Reuters correspondent in numerous countries around the world, including
Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, covering the 2004 Indian general election and the
Asian tsunami. He has just moved to Beijing to become the Washington Post’s China
Bureau Chief, and is President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia.
@simondenyer
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Farmageddon
The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Philip Lymbery Isabel Oakeshott
‘is eye-opening book, urging a massive rethink of how we raise livestock and
how we feed the world, deserves global recognition’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
I
n the post-war years there was a humanitarian desire to feed people eectively
and cheaply. But now the insidious creep of industrial agriculture, powered by
the remorseless drive to get more for less, has taken hold. Farm animals have
slowly disappeared from elds; the countryside is turning to wildlife desert,
and mysterious and potentially deadly viruses have entered our food chain.
Farmageddon is a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating
practices. Philip Lymbery takes an investigative journey behind the closed doors
of a runaway industry and strives to nd a way to a better farming future.
Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm welfare organisation,
Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the eects of
industrial farming.
Formerly Political Editor at the Sunday Times, Isabel Oakeshott is a regular
commentator on TV and radio, including BBC One’s Sunday Politics and the
Today programme on Radio 4.
Hotel Florida
Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Amanda Vaill
‘Amanda Vaill has produced a work that is by turns gripping and heartbreaking,
and utterly compelling’ Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana
I
n a country in the throes of a civil war that many fear will engulf Europe, six
people meet in besieged Madrid’s Hotel Florida. Amanda Vaill traces the tangled
wartime destinies of three couples – Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn,
photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, and Arturo Barea, chief of Madrid’s
foreign press oce, and his wife-to-be Ilsa Kulcsar. Drawing on unpublished letters
and diaries, ocial documents and recovered reels of lm, she creates a brilliant
portrait of the conict that dened a decade. Hotel Florida is a narrative of love,
reinvention and truth: nding it, telling it and, if luck holds, living it.
Amanda Vaill is the bestselling author of Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara
Murphy – A Lost Generation Love Story, a nalist for the National Book Critics’
Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: e Life of Jerome Robbins, for which
she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and on which subject she wrote an
award-winning documentary. She lives in New York City.
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Pondlife
A Swimmer’s Journal
Al Alvarez
‘A beautiful incantation to life at its simplest and best’ Philip Roth
T
he ponds of Hampstead Heath are fragments of nature nestled in north London.
For the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist and poker player
– has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his
eighties, chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and honesty – from his
nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles
with the council to keep his disabled person’s Blue Badge, to the devastating eects
of a stroke. Funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love and the
importance of life’s small pleasures.
Al Alvarez is a poet, novelist, literary critic and author of non-ction books on
topics ranging from suicide, divorce and dreams – e Savage God, Life Aer
Marriage, Night – to poker and mountaineering – e Biggest Game in Town and
Feeding e Rat. His most recent books are e Writer’s Voice and Risky Business.
He lives in north London.
Alex Through the
Looking-Glass
How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos
‘Brings the quirks and eccentricities of numbers wonderfully to life’ Observer
F
rom triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded
calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his
signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sis through over 30,000 survey
submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, and meets a mathematician
who looks for universes in his garage. Get hooked on maths, as Alex delves deep
into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have
shaped the world we live in.
Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University.
Curator-in-residence at the Science Museum and the Guardian’s maths blogger,
he has worked in London and Rio de Janeiro, as the paper’s unusually numerate
foreign correspondent. Alex’s Adventures in Numberland was shortlisted for the BBC
Samuel Johnson Prize and was a Sunday Times bestseller for more than four months.
www.alexbellos.com / @alexbellos
© Marcia Morei
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Pondlife
A Swimmer’s Journal
Al Alvarez
‘A beautiful incantation to life at its simplest and best’ Philip Roth
T
he ponds of Hampstead Heath are fragments of nature nestled in north London.
For the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist and poker player
– has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his
eighties, chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and honesty – from his
nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles
with the council to keep his disabled person’s Blue Badge, to the devastating eects
of a stroke. Funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love and the
importance of life’s small pleasures.
Al Alvarez is a poet, novelist, literary critic and author of non-ction books on
topics ranging from suicide, divorce and dreams – e Savage God, Life Aer
Marriage, Night – to poker and mountaineering – e Biggest Game in Town and
Feeding e Rat. His most recent books are e Writer’s Voice and Risky Business.
He lives in north London.
Alex Through the
Looking-Glass
How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos
‘Brings the quirks and eccentricities of numbers wonderfully to life’ Observer
F
rom triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded
calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his
signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sis through over 30,000 survey
submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, and meets a mathematician
who looks for universes in his garage. Get hooked on maths, as Alex delves deep
into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have
shaped the world we live in.
Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University.
Curator-in-residence at the Science Museum and the Guardian’s maths blogger,
he has worked in London and Rio de Janeiro, as the paper’s unusually numerate
foreign correspondent. Alex’s Adventures in Numberland was shortlisted for the BBC
Samuel Johnson Prize and was a Sunday Times bestseller for more than four months.
www.alexbellos.com / @alexbellos
© Marcia Morei
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The Disinherited
A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
Robert Sackville-West
‘Stranger than ction, but twice as fascinating, and leaving behind it a sense of
bittersweet sympathy’ Lucy Worsley
On the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in
a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. e man, Henry Sackville-West, had
shot himself minutes aer the death of his wife from cancer; Henry’s suicidal
despair had been driven equally by the failure of his claim to be the legitimate
son of Lord Sackville and heir to Knole. e Disinherited reveals the secrets and
lies at the heart of an English dynasty, unravelling the parallel lives of Henry’s four
illegitimate siblings: in particular his older sister, Victoria, who on becoming Lady
Sackville and mistress of Knole, by marriage, consigned her brothers and sisters
to lives of poverty and disappointment.
Aer studying History at Oxford University, Robert Sackville-West founded Toucan
Books in 1985. He chairs Knole Estates, the property and investment company
which runs the Sackville family’s interests at Knole. In 2008, he and his wife and
three children moved into the house, which has been occupied by the Sackville
family for 400 years. His history of Knole and the Sackville family, Inheritance,
was published in 2010.
Music Night at the Apollo
A Memoir of Drifting
Lilian Pizzichini
‘Dely, Pizzichini weaves personal history with social reportage to create an
exquisitely written chronicle of narcotically-induced mischief and madness’
Spectator
I
n 2007, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Grand
Union Canal. Her plan is to learn more about her working-class London forebears,
but as her ancestors begin to take root in her head, Lilian is pulled into a strange
netherworld of drink, drugs, vagrant neighbours and criminals. Pete, an ex-burglar,
brings her heroin and bags of pills and they lose consciousness on a regular basis.
But addiction has a relentless appetite and Lilian soon realises that, just like her
boat, she is sinking and must try to pull herself back.
Lilian Pizzichini’s rst book, Dead Men’s Wages won the 2002 CWA Gold Dagger
for non-ction. Her second, e Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys, was published
in 2009 to critical acclaim. Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review,
the Times Literary Supplement and as writer-in-residence at a prison. She lives
in London.
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War and Gold
A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures
and Debt
Kwasi Kwarteng
‘Enormously entertaining ... So engagingly written that readers of all political
persuasions should enjoy it’ Sunday Times
I
n the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. e vast
quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth,
plunged into multiple wars, would lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here,
historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history
has been echoed many times, from the French Revolution to both World Wars,
right up to the present day. Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, nancial
debt and uctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a
compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world.
Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History
from Cambridge University and was elected as the Member of Parliament for
Spelthorne in Surrey. His rst book, Ghosts of Empire, was published to critical
acclaim in 2011.
www.kwart2010.com / @kwasikwarteng
Unspeakable Things
Sex, Lies and Revolution
Laurie Penny
‘Unspeakable ings is essential for anybody who truly believes in equality and
freedom’ Irvine Welsh
S
mart, clear-eyed and irreverent, Unspeakable ings is a fresh look at gender
and power in the twenty-rst century which asks dicult questions about
dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental
health, queer politics and the Internet. Laurie Penny draws on her own experience
in radical subcultures in Britain and America to debate cultural phenomena from
economic justice and the Occupy movement, through eating disorders and social
control, to online dating and freedom of speech. A new sexual counter-revolution
is under way – and it’s up to us to ght for the future.
Laurie Penny is Contributing Editor at the New Statesman and Editor-at-Large at
cult New York literary project e New Inquiry. She was the youngest person to
be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for her blog ‘Penny Red’
which, like her rst feminist book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism,
was a word-of-mouth hit. She has 75,000 followers on Twitter.
@pennyred
©Jon Cartwri
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War and Gold
A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures
and Debt
Kwasi Kwarteng
‘Enormously entertaining ... So engagingly written that readers of all political
persuasions should enjoy it’ Sunday Times
I
n the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. e vast
quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth,
plunged into multiple wars, would lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here,
historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history
has been echoed many times, from the French Revolution to both World Wars,
right up to the present day. Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, nancial
debt and uctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a
compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world.
Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History
from Cambridge University and was elected as the Member of Parliament for
Spelthorne in Surrey. His rst book, Ghosts of Empire, was published to critical
acclaim in 2011.
www.kwart2010.com / @kwasikwarteng
Unspeakable Things
Sex, Lies and Revolution
Laurie Penny
‘Unspeakable ings is essential for anybody who truly believes in equality and
freedom’ Irvine Welsh
S
mart, clear-eyed and irreverent, Unspeakable ings is a fresh look at gender
and power in the twenty-rst century which asks dicult questions about
dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental
health, queer politics and the Internet. Laurie Penny draws on her own experience
in radical subcultures in Britain and America to debate cultural phenomena from
economic justice and the Occupy movement, through eating disorders and social
control, to online dating and freedom of speech. A new sexual counter-revolution
is under way – and it’s up to us to ght for the future.
Laurie Penny is Contributing Editor at the New Statesman and Editor-at-Large at
cult New York literary project e New Inquiry. She was the youngest person to
be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for her blog ‘Penny Red’
which, like her rst feminist book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism,
was a word-of-mouth hit. She has 75,000 followers on Twitter.
@pennyred
©Jon Cartwri
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Women of the World
The Rise of the Female Diplomat
Helen McCarthy
‘Carefully researched, stylishly written and highly entertaining history’ Sunday
Telegraph
T
hroughout history, hundreds of British women deed social conventions to
seek adventure and inuence on the world stage. Yet until 1946, when aer
decades of campaigning and the heroic labours performed by women during the
Second World War diplomatic careers were nally opened to both sexes, no British
woman could ocially represent her nation abroad. is is their story of personal
and professional struggle played out against the dramatic backdrop of war, super-
power rivalry and global transformation. Drawing on letters, memoirs, personal
interviews and government records, these heroines are brought vividly to life to
enrich our understanding of Britain’s global history.
Helen McCarthy is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London.
She studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University,
before earning her PhD from the University of London. She lives in east London
with her husband and two daughters.
A Curious Career
Lynn Barber
‘A riot of a read – funny, irreverent, artlessly frank’ Guardian
From her early career at Penthouse to proling eminent subjects including Gore
Vidal, Lady Gaga, James Stewart and Dirk Bogarde, Lynn Barber has always been
at the forefront of the interviewing life. is glorious memoir, a sequel of sorts to
her acclaimed An Education, is full of anecdotes and bursting with transcripts of
career highlights. In her inimitable frank and witty voice, A Curious Career opens
a fascinating window on to an extraordinary career, the inner worlds of people in
the limelight, and on the world of journalism itself.
Lynn Barber has won six British Press Awards. She read English Literature at
Oxford, worked for Penthouse magazine, the Sunday Express, Independent on
Sunday, Vanity Fair, Observer, and now works for the Sunday Times. Her books
include two collections of interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber. Her memoir,
An Education, was made into a major lm starring Carey Mulligan. She lives in
north London.
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Kidnap in Crete
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e extraordinary story of the kidnapping of a Nazi general in World War Two
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on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete. For thirty-two days they were chased across
the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy
launch waiting to take the general to Cairo. In Kidnap in Crete, Rick Stroud reveals
the devastating consequences of this mission. ere have been other accounts,
but this is the rst to draw on all the sources, including SOE les, letters and
private papers.
Rick Stroud is a lm and television director, whose credits include Brideshead
Revisited and Monarch of the Glen. He is the author of e Book of the Moon and
e Phantom Army of Alamein and co-author with Victor Gregg of Rieman and
King’s Cross Kid. He lives on a houseboat in Chelsea, London.
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Rachel Holmes
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extraordinary woman’s life’ Jeanette Winterson, Daily Telegraph
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bring Ibsen to a British public, to translate Mme Bovary, to create the biography
of her father Karl. But foremost amongst these was her strong, pioneering feminism.
For Eleanor Marx, sexual equality was a necessary precondition for a just society
and social contract. Not since Mary Wollstonecra had any individual made such
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has gone back to original sources to create a life of the nineteenth-century woman
who did more than any other to transform British politics, and who was unafraid
to live her contradictions.
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Venus: e Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor of Fiy Shades
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lives and our world. rough ten great buildings across the world Tom Wilkinson
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and asks: can architecture change our lives for the better?
Tom Wilkinson is writing a doctoral thesis on art history at University College
London, where he teaches an undergraduate course on architectural history. He
has lectured on the history of art and architecture at the Courtauld Gallery and the
University of Oxford. He has lived in Shanghai and Berlin and now lives in London.
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Junkyard Planet
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Poison Spring
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E.G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins
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‘It’s an odd sort of compliment to say a book is a load of rubbish, but Adam
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W
hen you drop your Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin,
where does it go? In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter travels deeply into a vast,
oen hidden, multibillion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and
environment. He takes us from back-alley Chinese computer recycling operations
to high-tech facilities capable of processing a jumbo jet’s worth of recyclable trash
every day. With unmatched access to and insight on the junk trade, it is an engaging,
colourful, and sometimes troubling tale of consumption, innovation, and the ascent
of a developing world.
Adam Minter grew up in a family of scrap dealers in Minneapolis. He became
a professional journalist and now serves as the Shanghai correspondent for
Bloomberg World View, in addition to making regular contributions to the Atlantic,
Foreign Policy, and other publications. He now lives in Shanghai and blogs at
shanghaiscrap.com. Junkyard Planet is his rst book.
Poison Spring
The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
E.G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins
M
illions of pounds of approved synthetic substances are dumped into the
environment every day. ey seep into our water supply, are carried thousands
of miles by wind and rain and remain potent long aer they are deposited. All of
these poisons are sanctioned – or in some cases, ignored – by the US Environmental
Protection Agency. Half a century aer Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, we are
poisoning our lands and waters with more toxic chemicals than ever. Poison Spring
provides a devastating exposé of how the agency created to protect the environment
has betrayed its mission.
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is Land is their Land. He worked in risk evaluation at the EPA for twenty-ve
years and lives in California.
McKay Jenkins’ most recent book was What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a
Toxic World, was hailed as ‘a Silent Spring for the human body’. He lives in Delaware.
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INDEX
A
Addicted to Adventure 47
Alex rough the Looking-
Glass 73
All Saints’ Day Lovers, e 15
Alone 50
Another Little Piece of My
Heart 25
At Hawthorn Time 12
Atoms Under the Floorboards 32
B
Backstabbers and Bullies 42
Bamboo Stalk, e 6
Beasts 69
Benares Cookbook, e 37
Bill Oddie Unplucked 33
Blood Ransom 47
Breakfast Bible, e 36
Bricks & Mortals 78
Burning Gates, e 5
C
Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions 41
Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ Celeste,
e 7
Chaos of the Senses 3
Chasing the Scream 17
Children of the Stone 32
Clean Break, A 43
Close Call 62
Coming Out Christian in the
Roman World 53
Contemplative Prayer 53
Coup de Foudre 16
Crooked Maid, e 54
Cuckoo 33
Curious Career, A 76
D
Danish Dynamite 46
Darjeeling Quartet, e 27
Detox Kitchen Bible, e 36
Disinherited, e 74
Don’t Let Him Know 4
Dreamland 28
E
Edward omas 21
Eleanor Marx 77
English Spring, An 52
F
Fall of the House of Wilde, e 26
Farmageddon 72
Faster 44
Few and Far Between 34
Field of the Cloth of Gold, e 11
Fish Ladder, e 19
Following Girls, e 64
From a Distance 61
G
Gallipoli 22
Game, Set and Match 48
Ghost Runner, e 55
Girae’s Neck, e 58
Girl From Human Street, e 18
Girl in the Dark 22
Girl in the Ice, e 16
God in Every Stone, A 57
God is an Astronaut 54
Guest at the Shooters’
Banquet, A 27
H
Half-time 49
Harder ey Come, e 14
Harry Mount’s Odyssey 29
Hidden Light of Objects, e 61
Higher Form of Killing, A 23
Hinault 51
History of the Rain 60
Hollow Mountain 59
Holy Sail, e 14
Hotel Florida 72
How to Wear White 70
How to Win Every Argument 21
I
Improbability of Love, e 12
In Manchuria 31
Inside a Pearl 68
Intelligent Person’s Guide to
Education, An 31
Intimate Bond, e 26
J
Junkyard Planet 79
K
Kaleidoscope City 20
Kidnap in Crete 77
Kindness, e 8
M
Managing for Success 42
MasterChef: e Masters 37
Mime Order, e 3
Miss Carter’s War 56
Monopolists, e 25
Monuments, e 43
Mr Mojo 24
Music Night at the Apollo 74
Index
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INDEX
N
Nell McAndrew’s Guide to
Running 48
New History of Life, A 20
Nile, e 67
No Country 60
Not Quite Nice 7
O
Outlaws 63
Overwhelmed 70
Owning the Earth 65
P
Packing Up 78
Paradise City 13
Pigs & Pork 38
Pleasure of Reading, e 23
Poison Spring 79
Pondlife 73
Prince’s Boy, e 58
Princes at War 24
Q
Quentin Blake 30
R
Rape of Europa, e 19
Reckless 9
Reckless 50
Rise 9
Ritual 11
River Cottage Australia 38
Rogue Elephant 71
Romany and Tom 65
S
Sea Fever 45
Seahorse Cookbook, e 39
Secret Life and Curious
Aerlife of Seashells, e 35
She Will Build Him a City 6
Sidney Chambers and the
Forgiveness of Sins 13
Sidney Chambers and e
Problem of Evil 62
Sixth Extinction, e 66
sketch 39
Sleeping Dogs 10
Social Sweets 40
Sophia 18
Sophie and the Sibyl 10
Spain 29
Spuntino 40
Spy Among Friends, A 69
Stations of the Cross 52
Strangers Who Came Home,
e 44
Success Formula, e 41
Sunlit Night, e 15
T
Tail Wags the Dog, e 30
Tales of Remarkable Birds 34
Terms & Conditions 56
inkers of the New Le 28
irty-One Nil 49
Triple Package, e 67
True and Splendid History of
the Harristown Sisters, e 63
Two Turtle Doves 68
U
Unspeakable ings 75
V
Valley, e 71
Vanessa and Her Sister 4
Vera Brittain and the First
World War 17
Visitors, e 64
W
Wake Up Happy Every Day 55
Wallowers 2
War and Gold 75
We Are Pirates 5
Weathering 2
Weightless 8
What Was Promised 57
White Beech 66
Wild Camping 35
Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack
2015 46
Wisden on Grace 45
Wives of Los Alamos, e 59
Women of the World 76
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INDEX
N
Nell McAndrew’s Guide to
Running 48
New History of Life, A 20
Nile, e 67
No Country 60
Not Quite Nice 7
O
Outlaws 63
Overwhelmed 70
Owning the Earth 65
P
Packing Up 78
Paradise City 13
Pigs & Pork 38
Pleasure of Reading, e 23
Poison Spring 79
Pondlife 73
Prince’s Boy, e 58
Princes at War 24
Q
Quentin Blake 30
R
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