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export information TPB trade paperback PAPERBACK B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm) The Horseman Tim Pears
From the prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful pastoral novel, the first in a dazzling new trilogy
911. In a forgotten West Country valley, 12-year-old Leopold 1Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter, and dreams of a job on the Master’s stud farm. Spring comes and Leo is breaking a colt when a boy in a Homburg and breeches appears. Peering under the stranger’s hat, he discovers the Master’s daughter, young Miss Charlotte. And so a friendship begins, bound by a love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries – which become increasingly difficult to navigate as adolescence approaches.
Evoking the realities of agricultural life with precise, poetic brushstrokes, Tim Pears has created a masterful, Hardyesque novel.
Tim Pears is the author of eight novels including In the Place of Fallen Leaves, winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, In a Land of Plenty, made into a ten-
12 JANUARY 2017 part BBC series, Landed, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary HARDBACK • 9781408876879 • £16.99 Award and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and EXPORT TPB • 9781408876886 • £12.99 Disputed Land. He lives in Oxford. EBOOK • 9781408876893 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH timpears.com
ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 ‘This is the real thing … Comic, and wry, and elegiac, and TPB • AUS $24.99 shrewd and thoughtful’ A. S. Byatt
‘A gifted storyteller, steeped in country lore and the beauty of ordinary events’ New York Times
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2 ORIGINAL FICTION The Burning Ground Adam O’Riordan
The debut short story collection, set on America’s West Coast, from the award- winning, critically acclaimed poet Adam O’Riordan
oving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, Mthis collection of eight stories explores fractured lives on America’s West Coast. A man visits his long-distance lover in Los Angeles and forges an unexpected bond with a fellow traveller; the foreman of a desert building project takes a journey into California’s underworld when his employer’s daughter disappears; and an artist finds peace in exile after the disintegration of an affair. Written with a poet’s lyricism and an outsider’s keen eye, this insightful work of beauty and poignancy paints an intimate portrait of diverse lives.
Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982 and read English at Oxford 12 JANUARY 2017 University. In 2008 O’Riordan became the youngest Poet in Residence at The HARDBACK • 9781408864777 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781408864784 • £14.99 Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first poetry collection, TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM In the Flesh, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. He is lecturer in Poetry TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE WYLIE AGENCY Writing at the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $36.99 adamoriordan.com • @oriordanadam
The House at Bishopsgate Katie Hickman
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughters of Britannia comes a story of marital secrets and obsession, set in Jacobean London
leppo, 1611. Celia Lamprey and her husband, Paul Pindar, the Levant Company Aconsul, are to set sail for England after ten years away. They find a country much changed; James I has succeeded Queen Elizabeth and the Renaissance is flourishing. Pindar’s great house at Bishopsgate is being restored to its former glory. But all is not as it seems. Between the couple lies a great, unspoken darkness. And, as they await the arrival of Celia’s friend Annetta, the alluring widow Frances Sydenham becomes increasingly indispensable to the household – and its members. A sumptuous, richly woven novel from a master of historical fiction.
09 FEBRUARY 2017 Katie Hickman is the author of seven books, including two bestselling history books, HARDBACK • 9781408821145 • £16.99 Courtesans and Daughters of Britannia, Travels with a Mexican Circus (shortlisted EXPORT TPB • 9781408882214 • £12.99 for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award), and has been shortlisted for the Sunday EBOOK • 9781408834138 • £14.99 Times Young British Writer of the Year award. Her novels The Aviary Gate and The TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROGERS, COLERIDGE Pindar Diamond have sold in 19 countries. She lives in London. AND WHITE katiehickman.com ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 TPB • AUS $27.99 • NZ $29.99
ORIGINAL FICTION 3 Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
Bestselling and much loved author Neil Gaiman brings to incandescent life the stories of Norse mythology that have inspired his own extraordinary writing
he great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our Tstorytelling – from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliffe to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman’s own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales. Gaiman’s gods are thoroughly alive on the page – irascible, visceral, playful, passionate – and the tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised by Gaiman’s prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freja are irresistible forces for modern readers, and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open fire on a freezing, starlit night.
Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for children
7 FEBRUARY 2017 and adults and is the first author to have won the Carnegie and HARDBACK • 9781408886816 • £20.00 Newbery Medals for the same work – The Graveyard Book. The EXPORT TPB • 9781408886809 • £14.99 Sleeper and the Spindle, illustrated by Chris Riddell, won the 2016 EBOOK • 9781408887028 • £17.99 Kate Greenaway Medal. American Gods has been adapted into a TERRITORY: UK/COMMONWEALTH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: W. W. NORTON major series which will air in 2017.
ANZ PUB DATE 7 FEBRUARY 2017 gaimanbooks.com • @neilhimself TPB • AUS $39.99 • NZ $43.00 ‘One of the joys of reading Gaiman is how he subverts our expectations of magic, horror, fantasy and the mundane’ The Times
‘Gaiman has a rich imagination ... and an ability to tackle large themes’ Philip Pullman
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4 ORIGINAL FICTION The Song Rising Samantha Shannon
The hotly anticipated third book in the internationally bestselling Bone Season series – a ground-breaking dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imagination
Even a rebel can become a queen
ollowing a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige FMahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London’s clairvoyant population.
But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilising the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging.
Little does Paige know that her reign may be cut short by the introduction of Senshield, a deadly technology that spells doom for the clairvoyant community and the world as they know it…
Samantha Shannon published The Bone Season in 2013 and The 07 MARCH 2017 Mime Order in 2015. Both were Sunday Times and New York Times HARDBACK • 9781408877852 • £12.99 bestsellers and have been translated into 26 languages. The film EXPORT TPB • 9781408879726 • £11.99 rights have been optioned by the Imaginarium Studios and 20th EBOOK • 9781408877869 • £10.99 TERRITORY: WE Century Fox. The Song Rising is the third novel in the series. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID GODWIN Samantha lives in London. ANZ PUB DATE 07 MARCH 2017 samantha-shannon.blogspot.co.uk • @say_shannon TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $26.99
‘Don’t just suspend your disbelief – send it to the pictures and sink into this fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ... Bring on the sequel’ The Times
‘Language as rich as a figgy pudding, the best terminology in the genre and gripping, edge-of-the-seat plotting to boot’ Daily Mail
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ORIGINAL FICTION 5 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize- winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders
n 22 February 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln Ois laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery, alone, under cover of darkness.
Unfolding in the graveyard over a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief and love. It is a novel completely unlike anything you have read before, written as only George Saunders could do: with humour, pathos and grace.
George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestselling Tenth of December, which won the Folio Prize 2014 and was a finalist for the National Book Award 2013. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, the PEN/
09 MARCH 2017 Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and in 2013 was HARDBACK • 9781408871744 • £18.99 listed by Time as one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People. EXPORT TPB • 9781408871751 • £12.99 He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. EBOOK • 9781408871768 • £16.99 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PENGUIN RANDOM georgesaundersbooks.com HOUSE USA ‘He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless’ ANZ PUB DATE 14 FEBRUARY 2017 Jonathan Franzen TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99
‘He will be read long after these times have passed’ Zadie Smith
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6 ORIGINAL FICTION Carnivalesque Neil Jordan
A magical and haunting coming-of-age story from the Oscar- winning film director and novelist
o Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: creaking Tghost train, rusty rollercoaster and circus performers. But of course it isn’t. Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out and rejoins his parents – leaving Andy trapped inside the glass, snatched from the tensions of his suburban home and transported to a world where the laws of gravity are meaningless and time performs acrobatic tricks. And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy’s life, unsettling his mother with a curious blankness.
Intoxicating and kaleidoscopic, Carnivalesque is a dark, twisted tale of adolescence, metamorphosis and identity.
Neil Jordan has written seven previous books including a story collection, Night in Tunisia, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and his recent acclaimed novel, The Drowned Detective. His films 23 FEBRUARY 2017 have won multiple awards, including an Academy Award (The HARDBACK • 9781408881392 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408881385 • £12.99 Crying Game), a Golden Bear at Venice (Michael Collins), and EBOOK • 9781408881361 • £14.99 several BAFTAS (Mona Lisa and The End of the Affair). He lives TERRITORY: WE in Dublin. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CASAROTTO RAMSAY & ASSOCIATES
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‘One of Ireland’s most talented artists’ John Banville
‘Prose of the most bewitching kind’ Sunday Times
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ORIGINAL FICTION 7 All the Beloved Ghosts Alison MacLeod
From the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded comes a haunting, atmospheric new story collection
overing on the border of life and death, these stories form a ground-shifting Hcollection, taking us into the hidden lives of iconic figures and moments in history. From a woman who spends her savings on a fur coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life, to two teens on an estate coming together in a summer marked by community unrest, from a professor of cardiovascular physiology awaiting his new heart, to Angelica Garnett, a former Bloomsbury child, overpowered by the echoes of her past; All the Beloved Ghosts masterfully captures the small tragedies, unexpected joys and profound truths of existence.
23 MARCH 2017 Alison MacLeod is the author of three novels: Unexploded, The Wave Theory of HARDBACK • 9781408863756 • £16.99 Angels and The Changeling, as well as a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales EXPORT TPB • 9781408863763 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408863770 • £14.99 of Attraction. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011, TERRITORY: WO and is the joint winner of the 2016 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Award. She lives in Brighton.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 TPB • AUS $27.99 alison-macleod.com
Based on a True Story Delphine de Vigan Translated from the French by George Miller
The prize-winning psychological thriller from the author of the Richard and Judy Bookclub selection, No and Me
verwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering Ofrom a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. Unusually intuitive, L. slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer’s life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister and dangerous ways.
A sophisticated psychological thriller about the destructive power of obsessive 06 APRIL 2017 friendship that skilfully blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. HARDBACK • 9781408878804 • £12.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408878811 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408878835 • £10.99 Delphine de Vigan is the author of bestselling D’après une histoire vraie, winner of TERRITORY: WE both Le Prix Renaudot and Le Prix Goncord des Lycéens, it has sold over 450,000 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: EDITIONS JC LATTES copies in France alone. Previously she has won the Prix FNAC, the Grand Prix des lectrices de ELLE and the Prix des Libraires. She lives in Paris. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $27.99 George Miller is the translator of Nothing Holds Back the Night, No and Me and Underground Time.
8 ORIGINAL FICTION The Forensic Records Society Magnus Mills
The master of comic deadpan returns with his best novel yet, a surreal exploration of power, fanaticism and really, really good records
wo men with a passion for vinyl create a society for the appreciation of records. TTheir aim is simple: to elevate the art of listening by doing so in forensic detail. The society enjoys moderate success in the local pub, The Half Moon, with enthusiasts drawn to the initial promise of a weekly gathering. 06 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408878378 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781408878385 • £12.99 However, as the club gains popularity, one founder’s uncompromising dogma results TERRITORY: WE in a schism and a counter group forms. Then the arrival of a young woman called TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROGERS, COLERIDGE Alice further fractures the unity of the vulnerable society. As rifts form, Magnus AND WHITE
Mills brilliantly examines the surreal nature of ordinary lives. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 Magnus Mills is the author of eight previous novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1999. The Field of the Cloth of Gold was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2015. His books have been translated into 20 languages. He lives in London.
Gravel Heart Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise captures the immigrant experience in this powerfully affecting story of belonging, betrayal and exile
rowing up in 1970s Zanzibar in a house full of secrets, Salim has always known Gthat his father does not want him. When his father moves out, retreating into dishevelled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When his adored Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, he travels to London for college. Struggling to find a foothold in this hostile city, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, Salim must face devastating truths about himself and those closest to him. 04 MAY 2017 Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of eight novels including By the Sea, longlisted HARDBACK • 9781408881347 • £16.99 for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and EXPORT TPB • 9781408881330 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408881316 • £14.99 Paradise, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award. He is Professor TERRITORY: WE of English at the University of Kent, and is one of the judges of the Man Booker TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROGERS, COLERIDGE Prize 2016. He lives in Canterbury. AND WHITE
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ORIGINAL FICTION 9 The Walworth Beauty Michèle Roberts
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author comes a haunting, sensuous tale set between 1850 and 2011, exploring sexual desire in Victorian London
851. Joseph Benson is employed by Henry Mayhew to interview London’s poor. 1A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph must coax testimony from prostitutes for Mayhew’s newspaper articles on the working classes. Roaming the Southwark streets, he is tempted by brothels’ promises of pleasure – yet when he meets Mrs Dulcimer, proprietor of a Walworth boarding house, Joseph’s eyes are gradually opened to the complexities of women’s lives. One hundred and sixty years later, Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer and moves to Walworth. As her story unfolds, the two eras brush against each other and ghosts of the city’s past erupt in the present. 06 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408883396 • £16.99 Michèle Roberts is the author of 13 novels, including Daughters of the House, which EXPORT TPB • 9781408883402 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408883419 • £14.99 won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and TERRITORY: WO Ignorance, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has also TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY published a memoir, poetry and short stories, and is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at UEA. She lives in south-east London. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $29.99 micheleroberts.co.uk
10 ORIGINAL FICTION The Songs Charles Elton
The poignant, darkly comic story of an extraordinary family, from the bestselling author of Mr Toppit, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick
z Herzl, famed activist and protest singer, has always said Ithat you should only concentrate on the future. Now aged 80, Iz’s refusal to look back at his past leaves his teenage children, maths wunderkind Rose and her dying brother Huddie, adrift in uncertainty. Meanwhile their half-brother Joseph, whom they have never met, is on a shocking path to self-destruction. As the scattered children of Iz Herzl begin to converge, the ambiguities of their father’s life start to surface in a way that will change them all. Funny and heartbreaking, The Songs is a haunting story of family, fame and music.
Charles Elton was a director of the literary agency Curtis Brown before becoming an Independent TV producer in 1991. In 2000 he joined ITV as Executive Producer in Drama and left in 2010 when his bestselling first novel Mr Toppit was published. He lives in London and Somerset. The Songs is his second novel. 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408882399 • £16.99 ‘Dark, funny … Jangly with secrets’ EXPORT TPB • 9781408882382 • £14.99 Sunday Times EBOOK • 9781408882368 • £12.99 TERRITORY: COMM/EU, FRENCH & GERMAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: LUTYENS & RUBINSTEIN ‘Elton has an arch wit, an engaging style and a sense of invention that recalls Jonathan Coes’s What a Carve Up!’ ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 Evening Standard TPB • AUS $27.99 • NZ $29.99
ORIGINAL FICTION 11 A Thousand Paper Birds Tor Udall
An exquisite, strange and beautiful novel with a mystery at its heart for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Audrey Niffenegger
fter the death of his wife, Jonah roams Kew Gardens trying to reassemble the Ashattered pieces of his life. Chloe finds solace in the origami she meticulously folds. But when Chloe meets Jonah, her defences threaten to fall. Milly – a child quick to laugh – freely explores Kew. But where does she go when the gardens are closed? Harry saves plants from extinction. He longs for something – or someone – to root him to the earth.
Audrey links these strangers. As the mystery of her death unravels, the characters weather the passing seasons to learn that stories, like paper, can be reformed. 15 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408878637 • £16.99 Tor Udall studied Theatre and Film at Bristol University. At 18 she directed a show EXPORT TPB • 9781408878644 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408878651 • £14.99 that won the opportunity to be performed at the National Theatre. She co-founded TERRITORY: WE a dance-theatre company, taught theatre and dance, and choreographed an opera TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ANDREW for the Royal College of Music. A Thousand Paper Birds is her first novel. She lives NURNBERG in London.
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Shadowless Hasan Ali Toptas Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss
Hasan Ali Toptaş, the ‘Turkish Kafka’, playfully challenges ideas of identity and memory in this surprising and beguiling novel
n an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has Ibeen elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he drunkenly staggers to bed that night, the village is prospering. But when he awakes to discover that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared in the dead of night the community begins to fracture. In a nameless town far, far away, Nuri walks into a barbershop, not knowing how he has 29 JUNE 2017 arrived. Blurring the lines of reality to terrific effect, this novel is both a compelling HARDBACK • 9781408850824 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408850831 • £12.99 mystery and an enduring evocation of displacement. EBOOK • 9781408850848 • £14.99 TERRITORY:WE Hasan Ali Toptaş’s prize-winning novels have been translated into many languages. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE ISTANBUL Reckless was longlisted for the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award COPYRIGHT AGENCY 2016 and Shadowless has been made into a film.
Maureen Freely is the translator of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and The Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the British Council’s inaugural Young Translators’ Prize for Prose 2012.
12 ORIGINAL FICTION The Dust of Promises Ahlem Mosteghanemi Translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts
‘A rhapsodic and voluptuous prose poem’ Independent
till heartsick over the break-up of his relationship with the alluring novelist SHayat, the narrator of The Dust of Promises finds himself adrift in Paris. Stumbling into an art exhibition, he is struck by the power of the paintings and feels impelled to learn more about the artist – an Algerian exile.
The artist is none other than Khaled, the man who haunted the pages of Hayat’s first novel, just as the narrator was entangled in her second. As the two men embark on a tentative friendship, a twist of fate brings Hayat to France, where their destinies 12 JANUARY 2017 will once again collide. PAPERBACK • 9781408866276 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781408866283 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE Ranked among the top ten most influential women in the Arab world by Forbes TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DIRECT 2006, Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author in the Arab world. The previous books in her trilogy of bestselling novels, ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 The Bridges of Constantine and Chaos of the Senses were published by Bloomsbury, PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 and have been translated into several languages.
My Own Dear Brother Holly Müller
‘Captivating and haunting from the first page’ Guardian
n 1944 war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For I13-year-old Ursula Hildesheim life in the village of Felddorf remains as it was: idly thieving, enlisted in chores and running wild with her adored older brother. But when Russian prisoners escape from a concentration camp, her friend goes missing and her brother’s allegiance to the Hitler Youth emerges, Ursula finds herself disturbed by dark memories and surrounded by threat.
She must discover a bravery she has never known and recognise that danger comes not only from the enemy at the door but from the enemy within. 12 JANUARY 2017 Holly Müller is a writer and musician. She teaches Creative Writing at the University PAPERBACK • 9781408866795 • £8.99 of South Wales and sings in the band Hail! The Planes. My Own Dear Brother is EXPORT TPB • 9781408866788 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408866801 • £8.99 her first novel. Holly Müller lives in Cardiff. TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN hollymuller.com • @mullerism ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99
PAPERBACK FICTION 13 The World Without Us Mireille Juchau
‘Masterly … An extraordinarily vivid novel, elegant, convincing, intelligent and profoundly moving’ Alberto Manguel, Guardian Book of the Year
t has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling Ito her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother goes each day, pushing an empty pram.
Their father tends to his apiary, trying to understand why his bees are disappearing. But when he discovers human remains on their farm, secrets emerge which threaten the fragile family. As trees are felled, Tess watches the landscape of her family undergo shifts of its own. A storm is coming and the Müllers are in its path. 09 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781408866528 • £8.99 Mireille Juchau is an award-winning Australian writer. Her first novel, Machines EXPORT TPB • 9781408866511 • £12.99 for Feeling, was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award 1999 and her EBOOK • 9781408866498 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE second, Burning In, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2008. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID HIGHAM The World Without Uswon the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2016 and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize 2016. ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 mireillejuchau.com • @MireilleJuchau
14 PAPERBACK FICTION Nice Work (If You Can Get It) Celia Imrie
‘Joie de vivre and a sunny, good-natured feel’ Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
ucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the red carpets of TCannes, Bellevue-Sur-Mer seems like the perfect place for some enterprising expats to open a restaurant. In exile from tiresome families and bad weather, they have found peace and Provençal cooking in its cobbled streets. However, it soon becomes clear that someone is trying to sabotage their project.
Down the coast, the Cannes Film Festival is in full swing. Celebrities are flying in, luxury yachts arriving. As the excitement spills over into Bellevue-Sur-Mer, the residents realise they are embroiled in something far murkier than they could have imagined – and the race is on to get the restaurant open in time…
Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild- 23 FEBRUARY 2017 nominated actress, best known for her film roles in The Best Exotic PAPERBACK • 9781408876947 • £7.99 Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee. Her upcoming EXPORT TPB • 9781408876916 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408876923 • £7.99 films include Bridget Jones’s Baby and Absolutely Fabulous: The TERRITORY: WE Movie. She is the author of an autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PFD and a Sunday Times bestselling novel, Not Quite Nice. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 celiaimrie.info • @CeliaImrie
‘Celia Imrie has effortlessly made the transition from being one of our best-loved actresses to a talented novelist … Impressive’ Choice
‘Very witty’ Julian Fellowes
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PAPERBACK FICTION 15 River of Ink Paul M.M. Cooper
‘River of Ink is what historical fiction should be: immersive, illuminating and captivating’ The Times
rom his humble village beginnings, Asanka has risen to the prestigious position Fof court poet, delighting in a life of ease. But when the ruthless Kalinga Magha violently usurps the Lankan throne, Asanka’s world is changed beyond imagination. To his horror, the king tasks him with the translation of an epic poem designed to snuff out the fires of rebellion…
Asanka has always believed that poetry makes nothing happen, but as lines on the page become cries in the street, he learns that true power lies not at the point 26 JANUARY 2017 of a sword, but in the tip of a pen. PAPERBACK • 9781408862292 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408862223 • £12.99 Paul M.M. Cooper was born in south London and grew up in Cardiff, Wales. He EBOOK • 9781408862230 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE was educated at the University of Warwick and UEA, and after graduating he left TRANSLATION RIGHTS: EVE WHITE for Sri Lanka to work as an English teacher. He has written for magazines, websites and also worked as an archivist, editor and journalist. ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 paulmmcooper.com • @PaulMMCooper
This is the Ritual Rob Doyle
‘Full of booze, books, sex and despair … Irresistible. He writes with the confidence of a literary giant’ Daily Mail
young man roams a Dublin industrial park where he meets a strange vagrant A in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing a break-up finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend’s red shoes.
Layering narratives and splicing fiction with non-fiction, This is the Ritual tells of the ecstatic, the desperate and the uncertain. Immersive, at times dreamlike, and frank in its depiction of sex, the writer’s life, failed ideals and the transience of 26 JANUARY 2017 emotions, it introduces an unmistakable new literary voice. PAPERBACK • 9781408865378 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408865361 • £12.99 Born in Dublin, Rob Doyle holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an EBOOK • 9781408865385 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. His widely acclaimed first TRANSLATION RIGHTS: MARIANNE GUNN novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014 and chosen as a book of O’CONNOR LITERARY AGENCY the year by Colm Tóibín, the Irish Times, Independent, Sunday Times and Sunday Business Post. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 robdoyle.net • @RobDoyle1
16 PAPERBACK FICTION Jonathan Unleashed Meg Rosoff
‘Hilarious, thoughtful, touching … Wonderfully romantic as well as brilliantly satirical’ Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
onathan Trefoil’s boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling Jand his New York apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him – only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. On the plus side, his two flatmates are determined to fix his life – or possibly to destroy it altogether. It’s difficult to be certain because, being dogs, they only speak dog.
Can Jonathan get out of advertising, meet the girl of his dreams and figure out the gender of his secret crush? Given how it’s going so far, probably not.
Meg Rosoff grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and moved to London in 1989. Her first novel, How I Live Now, sold over one million copies, won the Guardian Children’s Prize, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and made into a film. She has won or been 09 FEBRUARY 2017 shortlisted for 20 international awards including the Carnegie and PAPERBACK • 9781408870792 • £7.99 the National Book Award in America. EXPORT TPB • 9781408870785 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408870808 • £7.99 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN, OM megrosoff.co.uk • @megrosof TRANSLATION RIGHTS: FELICITY BRYAN
‘Surreal, charming and very, very funny’ ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 Sunday Express
‘Like Ephron, Rosoff has a lightness of touch, and is also a clever comic writer: her dialogue is sharp, her characters keenly observed and ruthlessly well realised’ Sunday Times
PAPERBACK FICTION 17 Scary Old Sex Arlene Heyman
‘Graphic, funny, tender and shocking’ Elaine Showalter, Guardian
woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the A bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A teenage art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with her frail, fierce mother. A boy thinks about his schoolmate’s breasts as the Twin Towers fall. And a man finds his father has died during extra-marital sex and wonders what to do with the body. In Scary Old Sex, Arlene Heyman, a practising psychiatrist, gives us what really goes on in people’s minds, relationships and beds in these raw, tender, funny and often shocking stories.
09 FEBRUARY 2017 Arlene Heyman is the recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, Rockefeller and PAPERBACK • 9781408865330 • £8.99 Robert Wood Johnson Fellowships. She published in the New American Review, EXPORT TPB • 9781408865323 • £12.99 won Epoch magazine’s novella contest, and has been listed twice in the honour EBOOK • 9781408865347 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE rolls of Best American Short Stories. A psychiatrist/psychoanalyst practising in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH New York, she is currently at work on a novel.
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18 PAPERBACK FICTION The Summer Before the War Helen Simonson
‘P. G. Wodehouse and Mapp and Lucia territory … An exhilarating new comic voice’ Daily Express
t is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season’s Isplendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives at the coastal town of Rye, to take up a teaching position at the local grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a community that remains resistant to the idea of female teachers. But change is coming, and the limits of the old ways will be tested as this small idyllic town prepares for the devastating realities of war.
Helen Simonson was born in Buckinghamshire and spent her teenage years in a village in East Sussex, near Rye. Her first novel, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, was an international bestseller, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, and was translated and published 09 MARCH 2017 in 21 countries. She lives in New York City. PAPERBACK • 9781408837665 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408872024 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408837658 • £8.99 helensimonson.co.uk • @Simonsonhelen TERRITORY: COMM/EXCANAUSNZ, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ABNER STEIN ‘An immersive, howlingly emotional read’ Sunday Times
‘A gorgeous gem of a book … She’s a wonderful, original writer’ Santa Montefiore
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PAPERBACK FICTION 19 A Doubter’s Almanac Ethan Canin
‘551 pages of bliss … So true that it’s a pure joy to read ... Devastating and wonderful’ Esquire
ilo Andret is studying at UC Berkeley when his brilliance of mind is first Mrecognised. The research he begins there makes him a legend, but California in the 1970s is rife with temptations. These expose a dark need in Milo, and it is this duality that ultimately unravels his life. It is a duality that his son inherits – and must conquer.
This major work of seductive beauty from one of our foremost writers is a novel of flawed characters and unreachable dreams, of the bonds that tie and the passions 23 MARCH 2017 that destroy. PAPERBACK • 9781408879566 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408879658 • £12.99 Ethan Canin is the author of seven books, including the story collection The Palace EBOOK • 9781408879627 • £8.99 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM Thief and the novel America America. He is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WILLIAM MORRIS Workshop and divides his time between Iowa and northern Michigan. He is also a physician. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 ethancanin.com
20 PAPERBACK FICTION The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest’s Sunday Times bestselling debut novel takes us into the beating heart of London – an electrifying, multi- generational tale of drugs, desire and belonging
oung Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in Ya fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London – the place they have always called home.
As the story moves back in time, to before they had to leave, we see them torn between confidence and self-loathing, between loneliness and desire, between desperate ambition and the terrifying prospect of getting nothing done.
In The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest explores 09 MARCH 2017 contemporary city life with a powerful moral microscope, giving PAPERBACK • 9781408857335 • £8.99 us irresistible stories of hidden lives, and showing us how the best EXPORT TPB • 9781408857311 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408857328 • £8.99 intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Kate Tempest is the writer of two plays, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted, and two collections of poetry, Everything Speaks in its ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $17.99 • NZ $18.99 Own Way and Hold Your Own. Her epic poem, Brand New Ancients, won the 2012 Ted Hughes Award. Her album Everybody Down was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Music Prize. She is a Next Generation Poet and lives in south London. katetempest.co.uk • @katetempest
‘Deeply affecting: cinematic in scope; touching in its empathic humanity … Tempest’s voice never falters’ New York Times
‘A bold, bright, beguiling novel; a lustrous pageant that dazzles and grips … An irresistible, immersive snapshot of a changing world … Unstoppable’ Sunday Telegraph
PAPERBACK FICTION 21 The Photographer’s Wife Suzanne Joinson
‘Suzanne Joinson’s Atonement-esque second novel creates a lingering sense of trauma’ Sunday Telegraph
erusalem, 1920: 11-year-old Prudence feels tensions rising as her architect father Jlaunches an eccentric plan to redesign the Holy City. Prue, known as the ‘little witness’, watches everything but is rarely watched herself.
When Prue’s father employs a British pilot to take aerial photographs of the city, she is uncomfortably aware of the attraction between him and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer. Eleanora’s husband is a nationalist, intent on removing the British, and so begins a dangerous game. Years later, in 06 APRIL 2017 rain-soaked Sussex, the consequences of that game will come to haunt Prue when PAPERBACK • 9781408840801 • £8.99 she opens her door to an unwelcome visitor… EXPORT TPB • 9781408840788 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408840795 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WO Suzanne Joinson is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction whose work TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY has appeared in, among other places, the New York Times, Vogue, Aeon, Lonely Planet collections of travel writing and the Independent on Sunday. Her first novel, ANZ PUB DATE 01 AUGUST 2017 A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (2012) was translated into 16 languages and was PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 a national bestseller. She lives in Sussex.
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They are Trying to Break Your Heart David Savill
‘Tense and powerful’ Times Literary Supplement
n 1994 Marko’s world is torn apart by the death of his best friend, a soldier in Ithe Bosnian civil war. In 2004, human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous lead in the hunt for a war criminal. When Anya invites her first love Will to join her on holiday in a Thai beach resort, she hopes they might unpick the mistakes of their past. She also knows Kao Lak may be home to the man she is looking for.
But a disaster as destructive as war is approaching: one that will connect the fates 20 APRIL 2017 of them all. PAPERBACK • 9781408865781 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408865767 • £12.99 In the last year of the Bosnian war, David lived as a teacher and student among the EBOOK • 9781408865774 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE refugees of Srebrenica. In an eight-year career as a BBC Current Affairs journalist, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONVILLE & WALSH he worked on Panorama, This World, Real Story, World at One and PM. David teaches Creative Writing at St Mary’s University, London. This is his first novel. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 davidsavill.com • @SavillDavid
22 PAPERBACK FICTION The Gun Room Georgina Harding
‘The finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose’ Sadie Jones, Guardian
onathan has gone to Vietnam to be a war photographer. A chance encounter Jtakes him into a burning village and scenes of mayhem, and he gets the shot that might make his career. Only the horror is too great. He flees to Tokyo, to lose himself and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom – and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. But even here his history catches up with him: the photograph, his responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried in his past. 20 APRIL 2017 Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The PAPERBACK • 9781408869819 • £8.99 Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award EXPORT TPB • 9781408869802 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408869826 • £8.99 and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize TERRITORY: WO for Fiction 2012. Georgina Harding lives in London and on a farm in the Stour TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Valley, Essex. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99
The Theoretical Foot M. F. K. Fisher
‘Intimate and moral, funny and wise … She is not, you see, just a great food writer. She is a great writer, full stop’ Observer
usan and Joe never want this perfect summer to end. It is the 1930s, and society Sfrowns on the slack morals of couples living in sin – but judgement is suspended at the haven on Lake Geneva where Joe’s friend Sara and her lover Tim preside. Here, surrounded by orchards heavy with plums, they are thrust into an exotic milieu of artistic Americans. As one day is recounted through the eyes of seven characters, the group’s hidden tensions and desires are revealed. This lost gem by one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated food writers is a witty, bold portrait of bohemian life.
M. F. K. Fisher is credited with inventing American food writing and was one 04 MAY 2017 of its pre-eminent figures in the twentieth century. She published over 25 books PAPERBACK • 9781408880067 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408880852 • £12.99 encompassing essay collections, short stories, memoirs, journals, one other novel, EBOOK • 9781408880050 • £8.99 Not Now But Now, and her classic work, Consider the Oyster. Born in Michigan in TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM 1908, she lived in California and died in 1992. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ABNER STEIN
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PAPERBACK FICTION 23 Commonwealth Ann Patchett
‘Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction. Patchett is unique; generous, fearless and startlingly wise’ New York Times
hen Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening Wparty uninvited and later kisses Franny’s mother, he sets in motion the joining of two families. Commonwealth weaves across 50 years to tell how that chance encounter changed the lives of the six children and four parents involved. When, in her twenties, Franny meets the famous author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story ceases to be anything she can control. Told with equal measures of humour and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation and the ownership of stories, as well as the far-reaching bonds of love and responsibility.
Ann Patchett has written seven novels and three non-fiction books. Both The Magician’s Assistant and State of Wonder were shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, which she won with Bel Canto in 2002. She has won the PEN/Faulkner Award and her work has
04 MAY 2017 been translated into over 30 languages. She is the co-owner of PAPERBACK • 9781408880364 • £8.99 Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. EXPORT TPB • 9781408880395 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408880371 • £8.99 @ParnassusBooks1 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN ‘There is a stillness and beauty to Ann Patchett’s writing that ANZ PUB DATE 01 SEPTEMBER 2017 takes the breath away … Patchett’s mastery of language is PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 matched only by her narrative abilities’ The Times
‘Masterfully done – the sweep of it and the subtlety of the ideas’ Esther Freud
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24 PAPERBACK FICTION Reputations Juan Gabriel Vásquez Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
‘A strong writer with a compelling vision’ Guardian
s Colombia’s most famous political cartoonist strolls through downtown Bogotá Ain the hours before a public celebration of his career, he contemplates how 40 years before he gave up painting and began drawing caricatures to earn a living. For years his cartoons have had the power to overturn a judge’s decision, threaten the stability of a ministry or repeal a law, with the result that half the country loved him and the other half wished him dead. But as he leaves the theatre a young woman emerges from the crowd and forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation and 04 MAY 2017 the value of his life’s work. PAPERBACK • 9781408852941 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781408852873 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá. The Sound of Things Falling won the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CASANOVAS & 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Reputations won the el Premio Real Academia LYNCH AGENCY Española and The Informers was shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.
Everything Love Is Claire King
‘Wonderful … Unforgettably poignant. Life-affirming, love-affirming, perfect’ Vanessa Gebbie
oored on his beloved houseboat at the edge of Toulouse, Baptiste Molino helps Mhis clients navigate the waters of contentment, yet remains careful never to make waves of his own.
But between Sophie, the young waitress in his local bar who believes it is time for Baptiste to rediscover passion, and his enigmatic new client Amandine Rousseau, this fragile status quo is now at risk. When the rising tensions on the city streets cause his mysterious past to catch up with him, Baptiste finds himself torn between finally pursuing his own happiness and safeguarding that of the one he loves. 18 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781408868454 • £8.99 Claire King’s debut novel, The Night Rainbow, was published by Bloomsbury in EXPORT TPB • 9781408868430 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408868447 • £8.99 2013. She is also the author of numerous prize-winning short stories. After 14 years TERRITORY: WO in southern France, Claire has recently returned to the UK and now lives with her TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY family by a canal in Gloucestershire. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 claire-king.com • @ckingwriter
PAPERBACK FICTION 25 Our Young Man Edmund White
‘A book that floats above things, so light is its touch, so playful and joyous its execution’ Neel Mukherjee, Guardian
uy takes on the fashion world in New York and becomes the darling of Fire GIsland’s gay community. Never ageing, at 35 he is still modelling, helplessly enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he’s far younger. Driven by the memory of his poor childhood, Guy lets them believe – until he finds his way of life is destroying the men he loves.
With the richest representations of gay male identity from the disco era to the age of AIDS, this exquisite novel explores the power of physical beauty – to fascinate, 18 MAY 2017 enslave and deceive – with sparkling wit and pathos. PAPERBACK • 9781408858967 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408858943 • £12.99 Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The EBOOK • 9781408858950 • £16.99 TERRITORY: WE Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and, most recently, Jack Holmes TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM and His Friend. His non-fiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. White lives in New ANZ PUB DATE 01 SEPTEMBER 2017 York and teaches at Princeton University. PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 edmundwhite.com
Mr Toppit Charles Elton
‘Engrossing, moving and perceptive … It’s quite a ride’ The Times
hen Arthur Hayman, writer of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies, a bizarre chain Wof events conspires to make his series of children’s books world famous. But buried inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake the fragile Hayman family – Arthur’s son, Luke, reluctantly immortalised as the young hero of the series; his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen; and his enigmatic wife, Martha, who knows that secrets are best kept well hidden.
Charles Elton was a director of literary agency Curtis Brown before becoming an independent TV producer in 1991. In 2000 he joined ITV as Executive Producer in Drama and left in 2010 when his bestselling first novel Mr Toppit was published. 01 JUNE 2017 He lives in London and Somerset. PAPERBACK • 9781408884881 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781408884898 • £8.99 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN, FRENCH & GERMAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: LUTYENS & RUBINSTEIN
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26 PAPERBACK FICTION Gods and Angels David Park
‘Dazzling … Park appears to write effortlessly … His emotional intelligence is remarkable’ Daily Mail
17-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day in a grey seaside A town; a university lecturer falls in with a group of older men who inhabit a very different world; a detective breaks into his former home to spy on his estranged family; a couple reflect on 25 years of marriage while under the Northern Lights; and an old man volunteering in a charity shop forms a tender bond with a young single mother. Exploring masculinity, loneliness, isolation and longing, Gods and Angels locates, with pinpoint accuracy, the quiet but deeply charged moments in life that define us.
David Park has written nine previous books including The Truth Commissioner, 01 JUNE 2017 The Light of Amsterdam and, most recently, The Poets’ Wives. He is the recipient of PAPERBACK • 9781408866092 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408866085 • £12.99 many awards, including the Authors’ Club First Novel Award and a Major Individual EBOOK • 9781408866108 • £8.99 Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He lives in County Down, TERRITORY: WO Northern Ireland. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
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The Many Selves of Katherine North Emma Geen
‘Startlingly fresh … I hunted, flew and swam in this extraordinary book’ Jane Shemilt
it has been projecting into other species for seven years. KLonger than anyone else at ShenCorp.
Longer than any of the scientists thought possible.
But lately she has the feeling that when she jumps she isn’t alone. 15 JUNE 2017 Emma Geen is a speculative thinker and writer whose fiction draws on her PAPERBACK • 9781408858455 • £8.99 education in Psychology and Philosophy. She is studying for a PhD in Creative EXPORT TPB • 9781408858448 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408858462 • £8.99 Writing at Bath Spa University, where she won the 2012 Janklow & Nesbit Bath TERRITORY: WE Spa Prize. The Many Selves of Katherine North is her debut novel. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANKLOW & NESBIT emmacgeen.wordpress.com • @EmmaCGeen ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $22.99
PAPERBACK FICTION 27 Please Do Not Disturb Robert Glancy
A gripping and beautifully observed novel of power, corruption and innocence from the author of Terms & Conditions
harlie, a boy with a dangerous Dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the eccentric Cguests of the Mirage Hotel as the African nation of Bwalo prepares for the appearance of its Glorious Leader Tafumo. Sean, who’s given his heart (and his liver) to Bwalo, struggles to write the great African novel. Josef, kingmaker and mythmaker, starts to hear the ominous rattle of skeletons in his closet. Hope, the nurse caring for the King, keeps the old man alive as she mourns her own broken dreams.
09 MARCH 2017 And storm clouds gather as Jack smuggles something into Bwalo that will change PAPERBACK • 9781408866320 • £8.99 all their lives for ever… EXPORT TPB • 9781408866306 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408866313 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WO Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At 14 he moved to TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge. His first novel, Terms & Conditions, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014 to critical acclaim. He has ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 recently been awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in New Zealand, where PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 he lives with his wife and children.
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Show Me A Mountain Kerry Young
‘Kerry Young is a stand-alone talent … Her stories are gritty and also funny and very real’ Monique Roffey
ay Wong is caught between worlds. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, conjured a Ffortune from nothing; her mother grew up on a plantation and now reigns over the family mansion. But her father’s Chinatown haunts are out of bounds and the rooms of their home are filled with her mother’s rages.
As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, Fay’s eyes are opened to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. And when it is decided that she must marry the racketeer Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that leads to 29 JUNE 2017 sacrifice and betrayal. PAPERBACK • 9781408844335 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408843147 • £12.99 Kerry Young moved to England in 1965 from Kingston, Jamaica and lives in EBOOK • 9781408844342 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WO Leicestershire. Kerry is a reader and mentor for The Literary Consultancy and a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She is also Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Creative Writing ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 Fellow at the University of Leicester. PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99
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28 PAPERBACK FICTION The River at Night Erica Ferencik
When the adventure of a lifetime becomes a fight to stay alive
hich was worse, the fear of being left behind by my friends ‘Was they dashed away on some uberbonding, unforgettable adventure, or the inevitable self-loathing if I stayed behind like some gutless wimp…? Why couldn’t I just say yes to a camping trip with three of my best friends? What was I so afraid of?’
Win doesn’t want an adventure. After a miserable divorce and the death of her beloved brother, she just wants to spend some time with her friends. But athletic, energetic Pia has other plans.
Plans for an adrenaline-raising, breath-taking, white-water rafting trip in the Maine wilderness. Five thousand square miles of remote countryside. Just mountains, rivers and fresh air.
No phones. No people.
No help… 12 JANUARY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408886571 • £12.99 Erica Ferencik is a Massachusetts-based novelist and screenwriter. TPB • 9781408886588 • £12.99 She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Boston University EBOOK • 9781408886595 • £10.99 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM and has taught writing for years. Her essays have been featured in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Salon, the Boston Globe and on National Public Radio. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JANUARY 2017 EricaFerencik.com TPB • AUS $27.99 • NZ $29.99
‘Raw, relentless and heart-poundingly real, this book knocked me off my feet like a river in flood’ Ruth Ware, bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10
‘Ferencik’s writing pulses with a dangerous energy akin to the river she depicts’ Vicki Pettersson, New York Times bestselling author of Swerve
CRIME 29 A Thousand Cuts
A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery Thomas Mogford
Time passes. Some wounds never heal.
n Gibraltar, the troubles of the past are never far away. Scratch the surface, and the Ipoison bleeds through. What links a catastrophic dockyard bomb in the Second World War to a series of murders in the present day? Is retribution finally being served? Or is a killer trying to cover his tracks?
When a routine court case takes a sinister turn, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti starts asking dangerous questions. As the sun beats relentlessly down, crimes of the past 26 JANUARY 2017 and present collide, relationships are tested and long-buried secrets exposed. Who TPB • 9781408868508 • £12.99 can Spike trust? And where do his own loyalties lie? EBOOK • 9781408868515 • £7.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Thomas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for the European Parliament. His first four novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series were ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 published by Bloomsbury to great critical acclaim. Thomas Mogford is married TPB • AUS $28.00 • NZ $32.99 and lives with his family in London.
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The Lake
A Konrad Simonsen Thriller Lotte Hammer & Søren Hammer Translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund
A chilling crime novel from the internationally bestselling authors of The Hanging – the fourth in the Konrad Simonsen series
he remains of a woman are discovered tied to a stone in a lake deep in the Danish Tcountryside. The woman’s identity is a mystery; no one matching her description has been reported missing. After months of fruitless investigation it eventually becomes clear that this unknown woman is the key to a sinister world of human 20 APRIL 2017 trafficking, prostitution and violence. A world where everything comes with a price. TPB • 9781408870679 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408870693 • £7.99 Lotte and Søren Hammer are siblings from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte worked as TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE GYLDENDAL a nurse and Søren was a trained teacher and lecturer at the Copenhagen University GROUP AGENCY College of Engineering. Together, they have written six books in this series.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 Charlotte Barslund translates Scandinavian novels and plays. Recent translations TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 include The Son by Jo Nesbø.
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30 CRIME Party Girls Die in Pearls Plum Sykes
Agatha Christie meets Clueless in a comic murder mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes, the first in a major series
985: diligent country girl Ursula Flowerbutton can’t believe she’s 1made it to Oxford’s dreaming spires. She foresees three blissful years poring over history books and writing for the famous student newspaper, Cherwell. Meanwhile gutsy American student Nancy, whose Oxford fantasy revolves around Pimms, punting, and ‘Earl- catching’, sees Ursula as the perfect ‘project’.
When Ursula discovers the murder of glamorous fellow undergraduate Lady India Brattenbury, she is catapulted into the 18 MAY 2017 heart of a murky crime. Hungry for her first scoop, she and Nancy HARDBACK • 9781408882580 • £12.99 unravel the case while navigating a whirl of black-tie parties, secret EXPORT TPB • 9781408882597 • £12.99 dining societies and Sloane Rangers. EBOOK • 9781408882573 • £12.99 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANKLOW & NESBIT Plum Sykes was born in London and educated at Oxford. She has written two novels, Bergdorf Blondes, a top ten Sunday Times and ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 New York Times bestseller, and The Debutante Divorcée, a New York TPB • AUS $27.99 • NZ $29.99 Times bestseller. She is a Contributing Editor at American Vogue where she writes about fashion, celebrity and society. Plum Sykes lives on a Cotswolds farm.
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‘Perfectly pitched – playful, funny, satirical’ Anna Wintour
‘Into the blender go Bridget Jones, Anita Loos, Sex and the City and Clueless; out comes a diabolically amusing concoction’ Janet Maslin, New York Times
CRIME 31 Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love James Runcie
The sixth book in the beloved Grantchester Mysteries series featuring full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers
t is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into Isummer. Attending to his paternal duties, Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna when they stumble upon a body. Beside the dead man lies a basket of wild flowers, all poisonous. And so Sidney is thrust into another murder investigation, entering a world of hippies, folk singers and psychedelic plants, where love triangles and permissive behaviour seem to hide something darker.
As always, Sidney must grapple with the divine mysteries of life and love while wrestling with earthly problems – from parish scandals and an alarmingly progressive new secretary to his own domestic misdemeanours, the challenges of parenthood and a great loss.
04 MAY 2017 James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker, Commissioning HARDBACK • 9781408879023 • £14.99 Editor for Arts at BBC Radio 4, and the author of eight novels. EBOOK • 9781408879030 • £12.99 Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death was published in 2012, TERRITORY: WO soon followed by four more in the Grantchester Mysteries series. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY In 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time series starring ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 James Norton. The third season is scheduled for spring 2017. He HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $34.99 lives in London and Edinburgh.
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‘There is no denying the winning charm of these artfully fashioned mysteries’ Independent
‘Perfect reading for a sunny English garden’
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32 CRIME The Vanished
A Konrad Simonsen Thriller Lotte Hammer & Søren Hammer Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken
The third in the international bestselling Konrad Simonsen series, a chilling tale from the authors of The Hanging
man is found dead at the bottom of his stairs. His death appears to have been A a tragic accident. However when images of a vanished girl are found on the walls of the dead man’s attic, the case takes a sinister turn. Soon the homicide team find themselves delving into the past, but as they approach the truth, Simonsen is forced to confront long-hidden skeletons in his own cupboard. 23 MARCH 2017 Lotte and Søren Hammer are siblings from Denmark. Sister Lotte worked as a nurse PAPERBACK • 9781408860328 • £7.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408860304 • £12.99 and brother Søren was a trained teacher and lecturer at the Copenhagen University EBOOK • 9781408860311 • £7.99 College of Engineering. Together, they have written six books in this series. TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE GYLDENDAL Martin Aitken is an acclaimed translator of Danish literature. Recent translations GROUP AGENCY include fiction by Helle Helle and Jussi Adler-Olsen. ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $16.99 • NZ $18.99 hammerhammer.com
PAPERBACK CRIME 33 Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation James Runcie
‘Those who would like an engaging summer read should pack James Runcie’s latest tale of clerical detection’ Alexander McCall Smith
t’s the summer of love in late 1960s England, and Sidney IChambers, now Archdeacon of Ely Cathedral, is still up to his amateur sleuthing investigations. A bewitching divorcee enlists Sidney’s help in convincing her son to leave a hippy commune; at a May Week celebration a student is divested of a family heirloom; Amanda’s marriage runs into trouble; Sidney and Hildegard holiday behind the Iron Curtain; Mrs Maguire’s husband returns from the dead and an arson attack in Cambridge leads to a cruel case of blackmail. Charming, witty, intelligent – these six new stories are guaranteed to satisfy and delight this clerical detective’s many fans.
06 APRIL 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781408870235 • £7.99 James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author EBOOK • 9781408870242 • £7.99 of seven novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY was published in 2012, and soon followed by three more in the Grantchester Mysteries series. In 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 a prime-time series starring James Norton. The third season will PAPERBACK • AUS $16.99 • NZ $17.99 air in spring 2017. James Runcie lives in London and Edinburgh.
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‘An Anglican Father Brown ... Each tale is beautifully crafted and surprising. I hope for many more volumes’ A. N. Wilson, Spectator
‘We should welcome him to the ranks of classic detectives’ Daily Mail
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34 PAPERBACK CRIME The Secrets of Wishtide
A Laetitia Rodd Mystery Kate Saunders
‘A Dickensian glow pervades this immensely satisfying novel. Hugely enjoyable’ James Runcie
rs Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the impoverished widow of an Marchdeacon – who just so happens to make her living as a private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, finds the cases, and Mrs Rodd solves them, using her arch-intelligence and iron discretion. When Frederick brings her a case involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Mrs Rodd heads to Lincolnshire, to pose as the family’s new governess. But the seemingly simple case – looking into young Charles Calderstone’s inappropriate love interest – soon takes an unpleasant turn, and as the family’s secrets unfold, Mrs Rodd discovers the Calderstones have more to hide than most.
Kate Saunders is an author and journalist. She has written numerous books for adults and children, including the bestselling
Night Shall Overtake Us and Five Children on the Western Front, 01 JUNE 2017 which won the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2014. She lives PAPERBACK • 9781408866870 • £7.99 in London. EXPORT TPB • 9781408879160 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408866887 • £7.99 TERRITORY: WE ‘Saunders’s prose is precise and a pleasure to read. The plot TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP WATT twists and turns, and Laetitia is a warm and engaging heroine’ The Times ANZ PUB DATE 01 AUGUST 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $16.99 • NZ $18.99 ‘Pure delight’ Sunday Times Crime Club
PAPERBACK CRIME 35 Breaking Cover
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
ack in London after a gruelling operation in Paris, Liz Carlyle Bhas been posted to MI5’s counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the new position will give her some breathing space, but they haven’t counted on the fallout from Putin’s incursions into the Ukraine. Discovering that an elusive Russian spy has entered the UK, Liz needs to track him down before he completes his fatal mission – and plunges Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War.
Gripping, nail-bitingly tense and drawn from her own experience as Head of MI5, Stella Rimington’s latest thriller brings the new Cold War vividly to life.
15 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781408859735 • £7.99 Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. EXPORT TPB • 9781408859711 • £12.99 During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: EBOOK • 9781408859728 • £7.99 counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CAPEL & LAND was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and nine Liz Carlyle ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 novels. She lives in London and Norfolk. PAPERBACK • AUS $16.99 • NZ $18.99 ‘This is something rare: the spy novel that prizes authenticity over fabrication, that is true to the character and spirit of intelligence work’ Mail on Sunday
‘Damn good … I’d certainly take any sequel she writes’ Daily Telegraph
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36 PAPERBACK CRIME Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) C. Joseph Greaves
A gripping novelisation of one of the most colourful courtroom showdowns in US history
he year is 1936. Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano is the most feared gangster in America. TThomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor hired to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown – grifter, heroin addict, and sometimes prostitute – is the witness who claims she can do it. Only George Morton Levy, a charismatic defence attorney, stands between Lucky and a life behind bars; between Dewey and a run for the White House. 29 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781620407868 • £10.99 C. Joseph Greaves is a former LA trial lawyer now living in Colorado. His first EBOOK • 9781408863411 • £10.99 novel, Hard Twisted, was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction and TERRITORY: WO was named Best Historical Novel in the SouthWest Writers’ International Writing TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Contest, in which Greaves was also honoured with the Grand Prize Storyteller ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 Award. PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 chuckgreaves.com
PAPERBACK CRIME 37 Indelible Adelia Saunders
A masterful debut novel from a dazzling new talent about fate, family secrets and human connection
agdalena possesses an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written Mon their skin – names, dates, details both banal and profound. When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek, and soon she is drawn into a family drama that began decades before, when Neil’s father, Richard, was abandoned at birth by his mother, a famous expatriate novelist. Magdalena may be the key to the truth that has long eluded their family.
Indelible, pulsing with humanity and breathing life into unexpected fragments 23 MARCH 2017 of history, is an exquisite illustration of our urgent need to connect with others HARDBACK • 9781632863942 • £18.99 and the past. TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: REGAL HOFFMAN & ASSOCIATES Adelia Saunders has a Master’s degree from Georgetown University and a Bachelor’s from New York University. She taught English in Paris, has written ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 for an independent newswire at the United Nations and assisted an agricultural HARDBACK • AUS $35.00 • NZ $39.99 economist in Uganda. She currently lives in New York City, where she works for an international think tank. Indelible is her first novel.
@adelia_saunders
The Coming David Osborne
A sweeping historical novel of the American West, following the dramatic life of Daytime Smoke, son of explorer William Clark
n 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation. IThe Nez Perce tribe comes to the explorers’ aid, leading them back across the snowbound mountains. Daytime Smoke is born not long after, and the tribe of his youth continues a deep friendship with white Americans. But when gold is discovered on Nez Perce land in 1860, it sets an inevitable tragedy in motion.
The Coming is an epic novel of native–white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke – the real-life red-haired son of William 20 APRIL 2017 Clark and a Nez Perce woman. HARDBACK • 9781632863850 • £18.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY David Osborne is the author of five books: Laboratories of Democracy; Reinventing Government, Banishing Bureaucracy; The Reinventor’s Fieldbook; and The Price ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 of Government. He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $35.00 Harper’s, and many other publications. Osborne is currently a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, directing the Reinventing America’s Schools Project. He lives in Essex, Massachusetts.
38 FICTION (ALSO AVAILABLE) The Violated Bill Pronzini
An electrifying new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series
he mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found in Echo Park, California. A Tregistered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes. Police chief Griffin Kells and Detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public who are demanding results in this complex case.
Unfolding through alternating perspectives – Torrey’s wife, caught between grief and fear of her husband’s guilt; the husbands of the violated women; the editor of the local paper; the mayor concerned with his ratings; the detectives, spinning in circles – The Violated will keep you guessing until the very end. 18 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781632866608 • £18.99 TERRITORY: WO Bill Pronzini is the author of more than 80 novels and is the creator of the Nameless TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Detective series. A six-time nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Pronzini is also the recipient of three Shamus Awards. He received a Grand Master Award ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 from the Mystery Writers of America in May 2008. He lives in Northern California. HARDBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99
FICTION (ALSO AVAILABLE) 39 Man of Iron
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain Julian Glover
The enthralling biography of the man whose revolutionary engineering changed the world and from whose genius we still benefit today
ew people have done more than Thomas Telford to shape Four nation. A stonemason turned architect turned engineer, he created the backbone of our national road network while his bridges are some of the most dramatic and beautiful ever built. He cherished a vision of a country connected to transform mobility and commerce: his radical politics lay not in ideas but the creation of useful, solid things. Almost everything he built remains in use today.
Drawing on contemporary accounts, this, the first full modern biography of Telford, the greatest engineer Britain has ever produced, is utterly original, inspiring and illuminating. 26 JANUARY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408837467 • £20.00 Julian Glover is a journalist, speechwriter and special adviser. EBOOK • 9781408837474 • £17.99 Previously a columnist for the Guardian, in 2011 he was appointed TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY chief speechwriter to David Cameron before in 2012 being made special adviser in the UK Department for Transport. He is married ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 to The Times columnist and former Conservative MP Matthew HARDBACK • AUS $35.00 • NZ $39.99 Parris.
‘A biography of great verve, infectious enthusiasm and subtle, lightly-worn learning and wisdom’ Andrew Marr
40 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION The Locomotive of War
Money, Empire, Power and Guilt Peter Clarke
A fresh and fascinating reappraisal of the first half of the twentieth century from one of our foremost historians
n exploration of the idea that war, rather than inexorable socioeconomic Aforces, has been a prime mover of history in the twentieth century. Through the prism of the tragedy of two World Wars, Peter Clarke examines the interplay between key figures with a sophisticated analysis of their writings, decisions and pronouncements, alongside the broader dynamics of history of this extraordinary period. Clarke illuminates some crucial historical controversies, putting the question of how a world war started in 1914, and the issue of Germany’s ‘war 09 FEBRUARY 2017 guilt’, into a challenging new perspective. Revealing and insightful, this is history HARDBACK • 9781408851654 • £20.00 of the highest calibre. EBOOK • 9781408851647 • £18.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Peter Clarke was formerly a professor of Modern History and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include Keynes: The Twentieth Century’s ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 Most Influential Economist, the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of HARDBACK • AUS $35.00 • NZ $39.99 Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900–2000 and Mr Churchill’s Profession, a study of Churchill as writer. He is now resident in Cambridge.
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 41 Isabella of Castile
Europe’s First Great Queen Giles Tremlett
A major biography of the queen whose reign united Spain, setting the stage for its golden era of global dominance
n 1474, Isabella, only 23 years old, ascended the throne of Castile I– a kingdom riddled with crime, religious tension and political factionism. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon united two kingdoms and created a formidable partnership. Harnessing the newest ideas and tools of the early Renaissance, they built a truly modern state, sending Columbus to discover the Americas, unleashing the Spanish Inquisition, expelling Spain’s Jews and forcibly converting its Moslems. With commanding flair, acclaimed historian Giles Tremlett relates the story of this legendary and controversial queen whose pivotal and transformative reign established one of the world’s greatest empires.
Giles Tremlett is Contributing Editor to the Guardian and Fellow 09 FEBRUARY 2017 of the Cañada Blanch Centre at the London School of Economics. HARDBACK • 9781408853955 • £25.00 He has lived in and written about Spain for the Guardian and the EXPORT TPB • 9781408853979 • £12.99 Economist for the past twenty years, and is the author of Ghosts of EBOOK • 9781408853962 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WE Spain and Catherine of Aragon. He lives in Madrid with his family. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CAPEL & LAND @gilestremlett ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 Praise for Catherine of Aragon
‘Enthralling … Tremlett brilliantly breathes life into the shadowy figure of a stubborn and finally heroic woman’ Miranda Seymour, Daily Telegraph
‘Rigorous yet accessible ... Tremlett has done an excellent job of accessing Catherine of Aragon’s more private moments’ Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
42 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Dead Zone
Where the Wild Things Were Philip Lymbery
A tour of some of the world’s most iconic and endangered species, and what we can do to save them
rom the author of the internationally acclaimed Farmageddon, Dead Zone takes Fus on an eye-opening investigative journey across the globe, focussing on a dozen iconic species to examine the role that industrial farming is playing in their plight. The impact of consumer demand for cheap meat is devastating: it is vital that we confront this problem in order to reduce its effect on the world around us. This is a passionate wake-up call for us all, laying bare the myths that prop up factory farming before exploring what we can do to save the planet with healthy food. 09 MARCH 2017 EXPORT TPB • 9781408868263 • £12.99 Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organisation EBOOK • 9781408868270 • £10.99 TERRITORY: WO Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY industrial farming. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 @philip_ciwf TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $29.99
Out of the Shadows
Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day Neill Lochery
An incisive and dramatic account of Portugal in the last decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first
ut of the Shadows captures in vivid detail the emergence of democratic Portugal, O beginning with the Carnation Revolution in April 1974 and using previously unseen material from documentary sources and files from the National Archive in Kew. In a departure from the numerous accounts depicting Portugal as a golden imperial power, now lacklustre, or as the modern-day ‘poor man of Europe’, Lochery argues that Portugal’s best days are far from behind her. Instead, this is a nation emerging from the ashes of the financial crisis, one of increasing relevance on the 23 FEBRUARY 2017 world stage, and with much to offer. HARDBACK • 9781472934208 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472934215 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WO EX PORTUGUESE Professor Neill Lochery is the Catherine Lewis Professor of Mediterranean and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Middle Eastern Studies at University College London and the author of more than a dozen books including Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light 1939–45, Brazil: The Fortunes of War and The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu. neill-lochery.com • @NeillLochery
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 43 Reformation Divided
Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England Eamon Duffy
A new perspective on the Catholic and Protestant reformations from eminent historian Professor Eamon Duffy
ublished to mark 500 years since the Reformation in England, Reformation PDivided argues that the process was far more complex than previously thought – England did not become Protestant overnight. In fact, the country and church were propelled by the great forces of Reformation and Counter-Reformation as both Catholics and Protestants responded to the seismic changes of the early sixteenth century. 23 FEBRUARY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472934369 • £20.00 A natural companion to his previous books on this period, in this new publication EBOOK • 9781472934376 • £17.99 TERRITORY: WO Professor Duffy proves that he is that rare phenomenon – a major Reformation TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY historian who writes exquisitely, commanding the attention of a wide readership.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of Christian History at Cambridge HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $43.00 University and a past President of Magdalene College. His previous books include The Stripping of the Altars (Yale UP) and Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition (Bloomsbury Continuum).
A Secret Well Kept
The Untold Story of Sir Vernon Kell, Founder of MI5 Lady Constance Kell
An unparalleled insight into the personal life of Sir Vernon Kell, founder of MI5, from his wife Lady Constance Kell
Secret Well Kept is a highly personal biography of Sir Vernon Kell, an extremely A powerful and important man in the history of Britain’s domestic intelligence service, written in the 1940s by the one person who knew him most intimately.
In the book we learn a great deal about the background, talents and character of the man who founded MI5 and directed it for over 30 years, including key characters, events and major spy cases during Kell’s career. A modern-day introduction, 23 FEBRUARY 2017 footnotes and photographs offer further insight into Kell’s fascinating life. HARDBACK • 9781844864355 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781844864348 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WO Constance Kell was Sir Vernon Kell’s wife for over 40 years. She wrote A Secret TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Well Kept after his death in 1942.
An introduction to the biography is written by Dr Chris Northcott. Dr Northcott has taught Intelligence and Security Studies at the universities of Salford and Bedfordshire and is author of MI5 at War 1909–1918 (2015).
44 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION A Bitter Pill
A Doctor’s Insight into Medical Corruption Dr Aseem Malhotra
One doctor’s mission to expose the corruption threatening the heart of medical practice today
shocking tale of over treatment, an over-burdened health service and collusion A for financial gain. Dr Aseem Malhotra tells his incredible story – of a cardiologist taking on and exposing the manipulations of those vested interests that are benefiting from an increasingly fat and sick society. Millions of people are taking drugs and undergoing tests and operations that will give them no benefit, and this truth is being hidden from them. This epidemic of misinformation will have devastating consequences for our health worldwide.The system is broken. We 09 MARCH 2017 EXPORT TPB • 9781472935243 • £12.99 need to fix it. EBOOK • 9781472935274 • £10.99 TERRITORY: WO Dr Aseem Malhotra MBChB, MRCP, Consultant Cardiologist, is the former Science TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Director of the group Action on Sugar and an adviser for the National Obesity ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 Forum. He has also become one of the most influential and effective campaigning TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $26.99 doctors in the world on issues that affect obesity, heart disease and population health.
@draseemmalhotra
Arthur & Sherlock
Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes Michael Sims
The fascinating true account of the inspiration behind Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective story
rthur Conan Doyle studied Medicine under Dr Joseph Bell at the University Aof Edinburgh. Doyle observed as Dr Bell identified a patient’s occupation, hometown and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Young Doyle did not know that he was cultivating knowledge that later would inspire him to redefine the detective novel.
From his early years of poverty to the first triumphs of Sherlock Holmes, Sims 09 MARCH 2017 tracks the father of the modern mystery. Through deft interweaving of Doyle’s HARDBACK • 9781408858530 • £18.99 real-world and literary influences, this lively and engaging narrative brings Doyle EXPORT TPB • 9781408858547 • £12.99 to life as vividly as he conjured his most famous creation. EBOOK • 9781408858561 • £16.99 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SANFORD J. Michael Sims is the acclaimed author of The Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The GREENBURGER Story of Charlotte’s Web, Apollo’s Fire, Adam’s Navel and editor of Dracula’s Guest, The Dead Witness and The Phantom Coach. He lives in western Pennsylvania. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 michaelsimsbooks.com • @MichaelSimsBook
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 45 The Folded Clock
A Diary Heidi Julavits
A dazzling meditation on time, relationships and identity; ‘A work so artful that it appears to be without artifice’ New York Times
ike many young people, Heidi Julavits kept diaries. Decades later she found them Lin a storage bin and hoped to discover early evidence of the writer she’d since become. Instead, they ‘revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor’.
Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her life as a 40-something woman, wife, mother and writer. The diary form becomes a brilliant reflection on time and self, youth and ageing, friendship and romance, art and ambition. Playful and 09 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408884294 • £14.99 brilliant, this is a tour-de-force by a gifted prose stylist. EXPORT TPB • 9781408884287 • £14.99 EBOOK • 9781408884300 • £12.99 Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels and co-editor of the TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE Magazine, McSweeney’s and The Best American Short Stories. She is a founding ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. TPB • AUS $24.99 She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Manhattan.
The Dog’s Last Walk
(and Other Pieces) Howard Jacobson
A gloriously rich and varied second collection of essays from the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize
n his own inimitable style, Howard Jacobson reflects on the world around him. IFrom the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes about it all from a deeply personal point of view, with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Heartbreaking, provocative and affecting, Jacobson’s irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. Taken alone, each essay throws new light on its subject; read together, they are a 09 MARCH 2017 layered, rewarding and enriching reflection of a great mind working at the peak HARDBACK • 9781408845288 • £18.99 of its powers. EXPORT TPB • 9781408845295 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408845301 • £16.99 TERRITORY: WE Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester and lectured in English Literature before TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN becoming a full-time writer. His novels include The Mighty Walzer, Zoo Time (both winners of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 for the Man Booker Prize), J (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and The Finkler TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $36.99 Question, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2010.
46 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION The Art of the Affair
An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence Catherine Lacey & Forsyth Harmon
A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements between some of the foremost writers and artists of the twentieth century
long thread of love, affection and artistic influences weaves its way through The 09 MARCH 2017 A Art of the Affair, beautiful watercolour portraits on every page helping to bring HARDBACK • 9781632866554 • £14.99 each character vividly to life. And what a chain of names. From Robert Lowell to TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Anaïs Nin, Frida Kahlo to Hemingway, Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Dali to Miles Davis… Scrupulously researched but playfully prurient, cleverly designed and ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 colourfully illustrated, it’s a fascinating, unique and charming creation. HARDBACK • AUS $28.00 • NZ $32.99
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers. Named a Granta New Voice, her work has appeared in McSweeney’s and the New York Times.
Forsyth Harmon earned a BA in visual arts and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She is working on her first novel. catherinelacey.com • @_catherinelacey • forsythharmon.com • @ForsythHarmon
Havana
A Subtropical Delirium Mark Kurlansky
A city of tropical heat, sweat, music and religion, brought to pulsing life
ew York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider’s view N of Havana. A rich history informing the vibrant place it is today, Havana is a place of extremes: a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since the revolution.
Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, photographs and Kurlansky’s own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city’s singular music, literature, baseball and food; its outstanding architecture and its extraordinary 09 MARCH 2017 blend of cultures. This is a multi-layered and electrifying portrait of a seductive city. HARDBACK • 9781632863911 • £16.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 the Year Award, the James Beard Award and the Glenfiddich Award. Caribbean HARDBACK • AUS $36.00 • NZ $38.99 correspondent for the Chicago Tribune for ten years, he now lives in New York City. markkurlansky.com • @codlansky
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 47 Crafted in Britain
The Survival of Britain’s Traditional Industries Anthony Burton & Rob Scott
Celebrating Britain’s unique surviving industries and crafts, the people who practise them today, and the wonderful objects they create
he authors have travelled the country, from the Spey valley in Scotland where 09 FEBRUARY 2017 Tthey visited a traditional whisky distillery, to Cornwall and the studio of a HARDBACK • 9781472922830 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472922816 • £21.99 specialist pub sign painter. They’ve gone underground with a Free Miner of the TERRITORY: WO Forest of Dean and seen molten metal being poured to create majestic church TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY bells. Crafted in Britain delights in the variety and individuality of the different
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 traditional industries that have survived into the modern world, and flourished. In HARDBACK • AUS $53.99 • NZ $56.99 an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places, where craftsmanship and personal skills are still valued.
Anthony Burton is a regular contributor to Countryfile Magazine, has written various books on Britain’s industrial heritage and has written and presented for the BBC.
Rob Scott has worked as a photojournalist all over the world. His work regularly appears in Countryfile Magazine, BBC Music Magazine and on album covers for artists such as the Arctic Monkeys and Feeder.
Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to the Present Day
The Titan With Many Faces Jonathan Black
The evolution of Churchill’s public image that explores how complicit he was in its production
he memory today of Churchill as a great leader, war hero and literary Theavyweight is the latest in a long-evolving identity, which at times sustained his power, enhanced his popularity and enabled him to personify aspects of British national identity. Containing rare images of Churchill, this illustrated 09 MARCH 2017 book considers his changing image in visual art, from cartoons and paintings to HARDBACK • 9781472592392 • £20.00 EBOOK • 9781472592415 • £24.99 photographs and sculptures, asking why it has devoloped up until today and looking TERRITORY: WO at the extent to which Churchill was complicit in its production. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Jonathan Black is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University. ANZ PUB DATE 09 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $40.00 • NZ $45.00 A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, he became interested in the image of Churchill when studying the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, who was responsible for the iconic statue of Churchill in Parliament Square.
48 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Europe: An Obituary? Douglas Murray
A controversial and devastatingly honest depiction of the fall of Europe
urope: An Obituary? is a highly personal account of a continent and culture E caught in the act of self-destruction. Declining birth rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their alteration as a society.
In this book Murray looks at the deeper issues which lie behind a continent’s possible fate, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks to the steady erosion of our freedoms. He ends with an outline for a new Europe utterly different to anything we have known. 23 MARCH 2017 Douglas Murray is a regular columnist for both the Spectator and Standpoint and HARDBACK • 9781472942241 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472942258 • £14.99 writes frequently for a variety of other publications, including the Sunday Times TERRITORY: WO and the Wall Street Journal. A prolific debater, Douglas has spoken on a variety TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY of prominent platforms, including at the British and European Parliaments and the White House. ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $34.99 • NZ $36.99
@DouglasKMurray
Do You Know Who I Am?
A Memoir Tim Pigott-Smith
A memoir of theatrical life and more by one of the best-known actors of his generation
ver since he hit the headlines playing the part of Merrick in the TV adaptation Eof The Jewel in the Crown, Tim Pigott-Smith has been consistently employed on stage and film in an astonishing variety of roles, including Mike Bartlett’s hit play King Charles III, Miranda, Enron and V for Vendetta.
Pigott-Smith captivates with his descriptions of theatrical technique and reveals often amusing anecdotes about those he has worked with – Peggy Ashcroft, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and countless others. Accompanied by 06 APRIL 2017 photographs, Do You Know Who I Am? is a rare memento of a life treading the HARDBACK • 9781472934246 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781472934253 • £16.99 boards. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Tim Pigott-Smith is a British actor who trained at the Bristol Old Vic before beginning a career in television, film and on stage. Most recently he played the ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $42.99 title role in the Tony Award-nominated play King Charles III at the Almeida Theatre, which transferred to Wyndham’s Theatre before moving to Broadway. This is Tim’s fifth book; he lives in London.
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 49 So High a Blood
The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox Morgan Ring
The overlooked and enthralling story of Lady Margaret Douglas, would-be architect of a united Catholic Britain
midst the Christmas revels of 1530, a 15-year-old girl arrived at the court of Henry AVIII. Half-English, half-Scottish, she was his niece, Margaret Douglas. For five decades, she held a dangerous place in the palaces of Henry and his children. As the Reformation engulfed the British Isles and the Tudors struggled to produce heirs, Margaret had plans of her own. She longed to see her family rule a united, Catholic Britain. 06 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408859667 • £20.00 Based on previously unexamined archival sources, So High a Blood is the story of EXPORT TPB • 9781408859674 • £14.99 one woman’s ambitions for her family, her faith and her countries. EBOOK • 9781408859681 • £17.99 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JOHNSON & ALCOCK Morgan Ring was born and raised in Toronto. She read History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, winning a Senior Scholarship and the Gonville Studentship. ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 So High a Blood is her first book. TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $36.99
Identity Unknown
Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists Donna Seaman
An award-winning critic rescues seven women artists from oblivion – their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation
n too many art books, women artists have been marginalised with cold efficiency. IDonna Seaman here brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten American artists. In brilliant, compassionate prose, Seaman reveals what drove them, how they worked and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects – not makers – of art. Featuring stunning examples of the artists’ work, Identity Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and 06 APRIL 2017 the challenges and struggles they face to be taken seriously in whatever their HARDBACK • 9781620407585 • £25.00 chosen field. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Donna Seaman has degrees in the fine arts and English. An editor at Booklist, she ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 reviews books for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, among others. She HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $35.00 has written bio-critical essays for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and American Writers, and has published in TriQuarterly and Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Chicago.
donnaseaman.com • @Booklist_Donna
50 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Nits and Other Nasties Mumsnet
Everything you always wanted to know about childhood ‘nasties’ (but were afraid to ask)
he all-seeing, all-knowing powerhouse that is Mumsnet brings you the ultimate 06 APRIL 2017 Tguide to the most testing of childhood ailments, leaving you armed and ready PAPERBACK • 9781408862155 • £8.99 for combat whenever mini-beasts, bacteria and viruses strike. EBOOK • 9781408862162 • £8.99 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN, OM Brimming with first-hand experience, this little book is full of tips, ranging from TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANKLOW & NESBIT how to deal with a poonami to how to be your child’s bedtime hero, all accompanied ANZ PUB DATE 01 AUGUST 2017 by wry words of hope and encouragement. ‘Nasties’ tackled include nits, PAPERBACK • AUS $18.99 threadworm, ringworm, warts, molluscum, conjunctivitis, foreign objects, vomit, poo and dragons under the bed. Light-hearted, funny and utterly indispensable, this comprehensive guide will be your pocket-sized lifesaver.
Conceived in 2000 by Justine Roberts as an online destination where parents could pool their wisdom, Mumsnet is widely regarded as the UK’s leading online community. It has nearly ten million monthly visitors and racks up 90 million views per month. Its members are highly engaged, loyal, active and passionate about the site. mumsnet.com • @MumsnetTowers
At the Edge of the World
The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion Jean-Vincent Blanchard
The remarkable and dramatic story of the French Foreign Legion and its most committed champion, Maréchal Hubert Lyautey
n aura of romance surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps Aof the French Army, founded in 1831. Despite its reputation for its gruelling training and missions, the legion continues to attract men from across the world to this day.
Drawing from archives and tracing the fascinating career of Hubert Lyautey, France’s first resident-general in Morocco, At the Edge of the World chronicles the rise to 20 APRIL 2017 power of the Foreign Legion and its time at the height of its renown when it became HARDBACK • 9780802743879 • £20.00 TERRITORY: WE the symbol of a triumphant colonialism and the stuff of legend. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: LIPPINCOTT MASSIE MCQUILKIN Jean-Vincent Blanchard is Professor of French Studies at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books published in Canada ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $35.00 • NZ $39.99 and France, as well as Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France.
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 51 Buddhist Economics
An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science Clair Brown
Renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability and right living
raditional economics measures how we spend our income without attributing Tworth to the human interactions that give our lives meaning.
Buddhist economics leads us to think mindfully in our daily routines and to appreciate how our actions affect the welfare of others. By replacing the endless cycle of desire with more positive collective priorities, our lives can become happier 20 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • 9781632863669 • £18.99 and more meaningful. Inspired by the popular course Brown developed for UC TERRITORY: WO Berkeley that has garnered international attention, Buddhist Economics represents TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY an enlightened approach to our modern world infused with ancient wisdom, with benefits personal and global for generations to come. ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $39.99 Clair Brown is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. An economist focusing on work and economic justice, she is a former Director of the Institute of International Relations at Berkeley, and Chair of the Committee on Education Policy of the UCB Academic Senate.
52 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION The Exile
The Flight of Osama Bin Laden Catherine Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy
An intimate insider’s story of Osama bin Laden’s retinue in the years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war
n the years following the attacks of 9/11, intelligence services Iand Special Forces units spent millions of dollars hunting down Osama bin Laden. The Exile is the extraordinary story of that decade leading up to his death told by those who witnessed it – bin Laden’s family and deputies, the CIA, Pakistan’s ISI and many others who have never before told their stories.
As authoritative in scope and detail as it is compulsively readable, The Exile is a landmark work of investigative reportage, its revelations essential reading for anyone concerned with history, security and future relations with the Islamic world.
Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are the authors of, among other books, the acclaimed The Siege: Trapped Inside the Taj Hotel. For 01 JUNE 2017 16 years they worked as foreign correspondents and investigative HARDBACK • 9781408858769 • £20.00 reporters for the Sunday Times and the Guardian. One World EBOOK • 9781408858783 • £17.99 Trust named them Foreign Correspondents of the Year and British TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Journalists of the Year in 2004 and 2009 respectively. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 Praise for The Siege HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $45.00
‘Propulsive, intense, exceedingly well-reported . . . a tragedy and a thriller with concussive human and political resonance. I read it in what felt like three blinks’ New York Times
‘Absolutely spine-chilling, breathless, heart-rending, astonishing’ Sunday Times
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 53 Abandon Me Melissa Febos
An impassioned work about art and addiction, family and identity, sex and love – about giving in to abandonment and getting free
bandonment takes many forms. For Melissa Febos, it began with the birth father Athat left her with a Native American heritage but little connection to it. Then the loving sea captain that raised her, but was routinely away at sea. She spent her youth losing herself in recreational drugs, then to a relationship – one of mutual abandonment in passion, of long-distance co-dependence and shared identity, of obsessed attentiveness that ultimately turned to manipulation.
At once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive, wide-ranging look at art, 20 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • 9781632866578 • £16.99 love and identity – Abandon Me reveals intellectual and emotional truths that TERRITORY: WE feel startlingly universal. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: LIPPINCOTT MASSIE MCQUILKIN Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Whip Smart. Her
ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 writing has appeared in Glamour, Salon and the New York Times, and she was HARDBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 a contributor to the 2015 Best American Essays anthology. Febos is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and on the MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Brooklyn.
melissafebos.com • @melissafebos
Insomniac City
New York, Oliver, and Me Bill Hayes
A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls ‘the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected’ of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks
rieving over the death of his partner, Bill Hayes came to New York City in G2009 with little idea of how he would get by. He discovered the profound consolations of the city and New Yorkers themselves, kindred spirits that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his neighbour Oliver Sacks. Filled with Hayes’s 20 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • 9781620404935 • £18.99 distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, Insomniac City is a love song TERRITORY: WO to the city, a beautiful and personal portrait of Oliver Sacks, a meditation on grief TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY and a celebration of life.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 Bill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist, Five Quarts, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, among many others. He lives in New York.
billhayes.com
54 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Overmapped and Uncharted
Ten Years of Writings from the Palestine Festival of Literature Edited by Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton
Featuring Suad Amiry, J. M. Coetzee, Richard Ford, Claire Messud, Michael Palin, Raja Shehadeh, and more
or ten years the Palestine Festival of Literature has conducted an annual cultural Froadshow that crosses military checkpoints to stage events in cities across occupied Palestine. Overmapped and Uncharted is a collection of essays, short stories and poems from some of the world’s most exciting writers. It is a mosaic of ideas, a sequence of impressions and a set of tools with which the reader can better see, hear and understand the injustice at the heart of the modern world. 04 MAY 2017 EXPORT TPB • 9781408884980 • £12.99 Ahdaf Soueif is the author of several books, including the bestselling novel The EBOOK • 9781408885000 • £10.99 TERRITORY: WO Map of Love, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. A co-founder of PalFest, she TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY lives in London and Cairo.
Omar Robert Hamilton is an award-winning film-maker, writer and co-founder of PalFest. His debut novel, The City Always Wins, will be published in 2017. ahdafsoueif.com • @asoueif • orhamilton.com • @ORHamilton
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 55 The Doomsday Machine
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg
From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America’s hidden nuclear policy
hen former presidential adviser Daniel Ellsberg famously Wleaked the Pentagon Papers, he also took a cache of top-secret documents related to America’s nuclear programme in the 1960s. Here for the first time he reveals their contents – and their chilling continued relevance.
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg’s hair-raising insider’s account of the most dangerous arms build-up in history, whose legacy – and recent renewal – threatens our very survival. Ellsberg offers steps we can take under a new administration to avoid nuclear catastrophe. Framed as a memoir, this gripping exposé is ultimately hopeful – and powerfully important.
04 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781608196708 • £20.00 In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg drafted Secretary Robert McNamara’s TERRITORY: WO plans for nuclear war. Later he leaked the Pentagon Papers. A TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ellsberg is
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 the author of Secrets and the subject of the Emmy Award-winning HARDBACK • AUS documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America. He lives in California.
ellsberg.net • @DanielEllsberg
Praise for The Secret
‘Fascinating, meticulous; every scene is thoroughly researched and carefully paced … The Pentagon section of Secrets is a wonderful evocation of the intoxicatingly frantic routine of the overachievers who populate the next-to-the-top level of government’ New Yorker
56 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Between Them
Remembering My Parents Richard Ford
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Canada and Independence Day comes a moving remembrance of Richard Ford’s parents – which enacts a vivid portrait of mid-twentieth- century American life
ichard Ford’s parents were not practised self-explainers or Rconfiders. He has therefore investigated their lives – and his – from anecdote, history and conjecture. Ford’s mother, a dark-eyed Arkansas beauty whose education was cut short by her colourful itinerant parents, fell in love with Ford’s first-generation Irish father at only 17. They took to the road together as kids across the American South, coming to a halt only when a son was born.
Written with precision, power, humanity and intelligence, Between Them is both a son’s act of great love and a searing meditation on family. 04 MAY 2017 Richard Ford is the author of eight novels and four collections of HARDBACK • 9781408884690 • £10.00 EBOOK • 9781408884683 • £9.99 stories. His work has been translated into 28 languages and most TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM recently was awarded the Prix Femina Étranger in France and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROGERS, COLERIDGE AND WHITE the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature in Spain. He lives in Boothbay, Maine. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $23.99 • NZ $25.99
‘Ford is possessed of a writer’s greatest gifts … Pure vocal grace, quiet humour, precise and calm observation’ Lorrie Moore
‘A marvellous writer’ John Banville
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ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 57 The Good Bohemian
The Letters of Ida John Edited by Rebecca John & Michael Holroyd
Captivating and intimate letters reveal the story of life with one of the great artists of the last century
hen Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in 1901 it was Wagainst the wishes of her parents. But Ida was in love with this flamboyant and charismatic man who would become one of the most famous artists of his time. A naturally gifted writer, it is with a candour and social intelligence extraordinary for a woman of her period that Ida opens up her world, revealing her anguish when Augustus falls in love with another woman and her courage in deciding to live in a ménage à trois.
‘You are the one outside who calls the man to apparent freedom & wild rocks & wind & air & I am the one inside who says come to dinner & whom to live with is apparent slavery’, Ida wrote to 04 MAY 2017 Dorelia McNeill, in 1905. HARDBACK • 9781408873625 • £25.00 EXPORT TPB • 9781408873632 • £14.99 These deeply personal, funny and sometimes devastatingly sad EBOOK • 9781408873601 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WO letters bring Ida vividly to life. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Rebecca John is an artist and granddaughter of Augustus and Ida ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 John. She lives in London. TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99
Michael Holroyd is recognised as one of the great biographers of our time. His life of Augustus John was published in 1996 and he was awarded a knighthood for services to English Literature in 2007. He lives in London and Somerset.
58 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION The Sagrada Familia
Gaudí’s Heaven on Earth Gijs van Hensbergen
The definitive biography of the most famously unfinished building in the world, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, and Gaudí, its extraordinary creator
ts scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up to the heavens, dominating the Barcelona Iskyline and drawing in millions of visitors every year. The first stone was laid in 1882, with Antoni Gaudí as its creator. With work ongoing to this day, it has therefore lived through momentous changes in society, culture and history. Gijs van Hensbergen engagingly explores the evolution of this remarkable building and the role and influence of Gaudí in its construction and legacy. It is at once both a guidebook and a chronological history, and a fascinating socio-religious study of man’s desire and need to aspire towards the divine. 18 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408854778 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781408854785 • £14.99 Gijs van Hensbergen is a Dutch art historian, food critic and Hispanist. Author TERRITORY: WE of five books, including Antoni Gaudí: A Biography, van Hensbergen is a former TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PENGUIN RANDOM Harry Ransom Research Fellow, has given lectures across the world and contributed HOUSE SPAIN to, amongst others, Radio 4, TV España, The Times, El Pais and the Economist. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 He lives in Dorset. HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $35.00 gijsvanhensbergen.com • @GvanHensbergen
Scribbles in the Margins
50 Eternal Delights of Books Daniel Gray
A collection of sweet-nothings whispered to handwritten dedications, afternoons lost in bookshops, and 48 other reminders of why we love books
here has the joy and relaxation gone from our daily lives? Scribbles in the Margins Woffers a glorious antidote to the relentless modern-day information churn. It is here to remind you that books and bookshops can still sing to your heart.
Fifty warm and witty short essays of prose poetry are dedicated to the simple joy to be found in reading and the rituals around it: impromptu bookmarks, reading in bed and visiting someone’s home and inspecting the bookshelves. Scribbles in the Margins is 18 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408883945 • £9.99 an attempt to fondly weigh up what makes a book so much more than paper and ink. EBOOK • 9781408883938 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO Scribbles in the Margins is Daniel Gray’s sixth book, and the second in his series of TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ‘Delights’. His first book, Homage to Caledonia, was turned into a television mini- ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 series, and he continues to present history on Scottish TV. He is currently writing and HARDBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $23.99 producing a BBC whisky series, and his work has appeared across various newspapers, magazines and radio.
@d_gray_writer
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 59 Letter to a Young Writer
© Dustin Aksland (And You Too) Colum McCann
An inspiring and practical book of writing advice from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author
n January 2016, Colum McCann began giving weekly advice to budding writers on Ihis blog – short, lyrical, impassioned pieces that provoke and resonate. Comprising 52 such missives, Letter to a Young Writer (And You Too) addresses the professional, artistic and philosophical concerns that challenge an author. Advising on practical matters such as finding an agent and handling bad reviews, McCann also celebrates 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408885031 • £12.99 the moral need that writing fulfils, meditates on the trials of the writer’s life and EBOOK • 9781408885017 • £10.99 discusses technique and structure. At once a helpful guide and a heartfelt love song TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM to the adventure of creativity, this is an essential new bible for writers. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE
ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 Colum McCann is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. His HARDBACK • AUS most recent novel, TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and his previous novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in New York.
colummccann.com
Hats Clair Hughes
From baseball caps to the female turban, this is the history of hats from the eighteenth century to today
owlers, berets and beyond, this is the ultimate guide to hats through history. BFrom the lavish fashion hats of Marie Antoinette’s court to the experimental millinery of Stephen Jones, over 150 images take us on an illustrated journey through class conflict, gendered etiquette and national allegiances to reveal the complex cultures from which each style emerged. Including head-turning designs at world-famous horse races, the hat habits of royal family members, literary mad 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9780857851611 • £25.00 hatters and French high-fashion millinery by the likes of Poiret and Chanel, this EBOOK • 9780857851581 • £24.99 is the authoritative guide to one of the most culturally rich accessories in fashion. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Clair Hughes is an independent scholar living in Ireland.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $50.00 • NZ $55.00
60 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Chief Engineer
The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge Erica Wagner
An unparalleled biography of Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, giant of American civil engineering history
‘I have worked for the bridge when I could scarcely eat speak or move … I have done my duty in every way as far as my strength would let me’ Washington Roebling, letter to C. C. Martin, 1882
s much a part of the New York skyline as the Statue of Liberty Aand the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge is instantly and internationally recognisable. Yet as iconic as it is, its builder, Washington Roebling, is too often forgotten. The Brooklyn Bridge took 14 dramatic years to complete and here the personal story which lies behind that construction is told for the first time.
Meticulously researched, written with revealing archival material only recently uncovered, this is an engaging and illuminating portrait of a brilliant and driven man, and of the era in which 01 JUNE 2017 he lived. HARDBACK • 9781408843772 • £20.00 EBOOK • 9781408837757 • £17.99 Erica Wagner is the author of, amongst others, Ariel’s Gift: Ted TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for 17 ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2018 years and now contributes to the New Statesman and is consulting HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $45.00 literary editor for Harper’s Bazaar. She lives in London. ericawagner.co.uk • @EricaWagnr
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 61 Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge
A powerful, provocative argument on the role that race and racism play in modern Britain, by award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge
n 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge posted an impassioned piece online about her frustration Iwith the way discussions of racism were being shut down by those who weren’t affected by it. The post went viral, and responses from those desperate to speak up about their own, similar experiences flooded in. Galvanised, Eddo-Lodge decided to dive into the source of these feelings; the result is a searing exploration of what it means to be a person of colour in Britain today. From eradicated history to white privilege, the fallacy of ‘meritocracy’ to white-washed feminism, to the inextricable 01 JUNE 2017 link between class and race, this is a timely, essential book by a vital new voice. HARDBACK • 9781408870556 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408870563 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408870570 • £12.99 Reni Eddo-Lodge is an award-winning journalist and black feminist. She has TERRITORY: WE written for the New York Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Independent among many TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RUPERT HEATH others. She is the winner of an MHP 30 to Watch Award and was chosen as one of AGENCY the Top 30 Young People in Digital Media by the Guardian. She lives in London.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 TPB • AUS $24.99 renieddolodge.co.uk • @renireni
Walking to Listen
4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time Andrew Forsthoefel
One young man’s coming-of-age memoir told through the stories of the people he meets on a trek across America
t 23, Andrew Forsthoefel walked out of his home with a backpack, an audio Arecorder and a sign that read ‘Walking to Listen’. Recently graduated, he didn’t know how to begin his adult life. So he began to walk. Battling extremes of weather and his own loneliness and doubts, he encountered the most incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories and raised questions small and profound for which Andrew couldn’t always find a response. Yet gradually he 01 JUNE 2017 began to find the answers. This is a book that sings with heart, hope and humanity. HARDBACK • 9781632867001 • £18.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Andrew Forsthoefel is a writer, radio producer and public speaker. After graduating from Middlebury College in 2011, he spent nearly a year walking across the United ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 States. He now facilitates workshops on walking and listening as practices in HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 personal transformation, interconnection and conflict resolution. He is currently based in Massachusetts.
walkingtolisten.com • @aforstho
62 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Reading the Rocks
How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life Brenda Maddox
A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists from critically acclaimed biographer Brenda Maddox
he first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of Tgentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests. However, boosting their numbers and increasing their learning and findings were clergymen, academics – and women. This eclectic collection of characters brought passion, eccentricity and towering intellect to geology.
Their individual stories, the theological, philosophical and scientific debates their findings provoked and the way that as a group they were to change irrevocably and dramatically our understanding of the world, is told by Brenda Maddox with a storyteller’s skill and a fellow scientist’s understanding. The effect is absorbing, revelatory and strikingly original. 29 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9781408879580 • £20.00 Born in Massachusetts, Brenda Maddox, FRSL, has lived in the EXPORT TPB • 9781408879603 • £14.99 UK since 1959. Her widely acclaimed books include biographies EBOOK • 9781408879610 • £17.99 of W. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin. She has won the Los Angeles TERRITORY: WE Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP WATT du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the Whitbread Biography Prize. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 She lives in Wales. TPB • AUS $29.99
Praise for Yeats’s Ghosts
‘A blithe, energetic, jolly, debunking operation’ Hermione Lee, New York Times
Praise for George Eliot
‘We get a clear and absorbing sense of Eliot, not as public intellectual or thinker, but as a human being’ Philip Hensher
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 63 The Planet Factory
Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth Elizabeth Tasker
Forget about rockets to Mars – the study of exoplanets is the future of astronomy
ifteen years ago, the search for planets – and life – outside the Solar System was Fa job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it’s one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy; more than 4,600 ‘exoplanets’ have now been discovered to date.
The Planet Factory tells the story of exoplanets. It discusses the way planets form, their structure and features, and describes in detail the modern detection techniques being used. What can we learn about these faraway surface environments and planetary atmospheres? And do the results hint at the tantalising possibility of 05 OCTOBER 2017 alien life? HARDBACK • 9781472917720 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472917737 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472917751 • £14.99 Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist specialising in computational simulations of TERRITORY: WO star formation in galaxies. Elizabeth has been a keen science communicator for TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY many years, dating back to winning the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writers
ANZ PUB DATE 01 NOVEMBER 2017 Award in 1999. Since then she has written blogs for Scientific American and Physics TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $26.99 Focus.
@girlandkat
Built on Bones
15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death Brenna Hassett
The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it’s probably killing you, too – this book tells you why
ome 12,000 years ago our hunter-gatherer ancestors made a choice to Ssignificantly adjust their lifestyles to live in settlements. But urban life was short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; children were sickly and risked a violent death at the point of a spear. So why did they make this move? Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our recent evolution. It tells the story of shifts in human longevity, growth and health that occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a 23 FEBRUARY 2017 largely settled species. HARDBACK • 9781472922939 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472922946 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472922953 • £14.99 Brenna Hassett is an archaeologist who specialises in using clues from the human TERRITORY: WO skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. Originally from the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY USA, she completed her doctorate at UCL, and is now based at London’s Natural History Museum. Brenna is one quarter of the TrowelBlazers project, which ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 TPB • AUS $28.00 • NZ $32.99 celebrates women’s contributions to the trowel-wielding arts.
@brennawalks
64 POPULAR SCIENCE My European Family
The First 54,000 Years Karin Bojs
The story of Europe and its people, told through its genetic legacy
arin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family, and decided to Kuse DNA research to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we’re all related. In a sense, we are all family.
My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its genetic legacy, weaving in the latest archaeological findings. By having her DNA sequenced and tested, and effectively becoming an experimental subject, Bojs was able to trace the path of her ancestors back some 50,000 years to a time when Neanderthals and other human relatives shared the planet with us. This book looks at genetics from a uniquely pan-European perspective, and the author meets dozens of geneticists, historians and archaeologists over 23 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472941473 • £16.99 the course of her research. The genes of this seemingly ordinary, EXPORT TPB • 9781472941466 • £12.99 modern European woman have a truly fascinating story to tell. EBOOK • 9781472941497 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WE Karin Bojs is an author and science journalist. She was head of the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: KONTEXT AGENCY science desk at Dagens Nyheter, the leading daily newspaper in ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 Sweden, for nearly two decades. Karin has an honorary doctorate TPB • AUS $24.99K from Stockholm University, and has received several awards, including the 2015 Swedish August Prize for My European Family. She has published three other books and has written articles on a broad range of topics in natural sciences. Her books have been translated into seven languages.
@KarinBojs
POPULAR SCIENCE 65 4th Rock from the Sun
The Story of Mars Nicky Jenner
Everything you ever wanted to know about the red planet revealed in an up-close and personal tour of Mars
ars, the red planet, is ingrained in our culture, from David Bowie’s extra- Mterrestrial spiders to Captain Scarlet to War of the Worlds. It has inspired hundreds of authors, scientists and science-fiction writers – but why? What is it about this particular planet that makes it so intriguing?
Nicky Jenner’s 4th Rock from the Sun reviews Mars in its entirety – its nature, attributes, and impact on 3rd Rock-culture, its environmental science and geology, and its potential for a human colony – everything you need to know about the red 06 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472922496 • £16.99 planet (and quite a few things you don’t). EXPORT TPB • 9781472922502 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472922519 • £14.99 Nicky Jenner is a freelance writer and editor. Her news stories, features, interviews TERRITORY: WO and reviews have appeared in a variety of international popular science magazines, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY including New Scientist, Nature, BBC Sky at Night, Astronomy Now, The Times, Eureka, and Physics World.
nickyjenner.com • @nickyjenner1
Systematic
How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine James R. Valcourt
Introducing a fascinating emerging field that is changing our understanding of how the body works and the way we can approach healing
ystematic is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which S is revolutionising medical research and treatments. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but a systems biologist studies how the surrounding biological network or system affects the protein’s function – how it promotes health and how to remedy the situation when the protein isn’t working properly. In accessible prose, Systematic sheds light 20 APRIL 2017 not only on how systems within the body work, but also how research is yielding HARDBACK • 9781632860293 • £16.99 new kinds of remedies that enhance and harness the body’s own defences. EBOOK • 9781632860316 • £13.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY James R. Valcourt is pursuing a doctorate in biology at Harvard University. A former researcher at D. E. Shaw Research in New York City working on drug ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 discoveries using supercomputer simulations to study cellular receptors, he was HARDBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $35.00 also a recipient of the quarter-million-dollar John and Fannie Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
@jrvalcourt
66 POPULAR SCIENCE Patient H69
The Story of My Second Sight Vanessa Potter
A gripping human story, made more real by the unique response of one patient and the science she uncovers
magine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that Iyou were suddenly blind and completely paralysed. This is what happened to Patient H69. Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly recovered her vision. Opening her eyes onto a watery, two-dimensional landscape, she saw an unrecognisably monochromatic world.
This mesmerising account tells the story of Patient H69 in her own words, based on audio diaries she kept during her time of blindness and over the two years of scientific research that followed. It provides a unique story – of torment in the beginning, moving onto scientific discovery, some weird neurobiology and a woman battling against all the odds, turning herself into a science sleuth to uncover the mechanics of her brain. 04 MAY 2017 Vanessa Potter spent 16 years as an award-winning broadcast HARDBACK • 9781472936103 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472936110 • £12.99 producer in London’s advertising industry, before one day fate EBOOK • 9781472936134 • £14.99 conspired to turn the lights out on her. Suddenly losing then TERRITORY: WO slowly regaining her sight led Vanessa to change direction, turning TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY the camera upon herself to tell her story via immersive art and ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 storytelling. TPB • AUS $24.99 patienth69.com • @patienth69
POPULAR SCIENCE 67 Wonders Beyond Numbers
A History of All Things Mathematical Johnny Ball
An all-encompassing history of maths from household name Johnny Ball
ohnny Ball has been a well-loved name in mathematics for many Jyears. Wonders Beyond Numbers is his magnum opus, and his first book for more than ten years. It will help spark (or re-spark) the reader’s love of maths in its many facets.
Running in chronological order, this book shows that every breakthrough in maths represents a single step forward, resting on the work of others, and brings to life the importance of numbers, shapes and patterns in the world around us. It’s all-encompassing, yet written in a light and reader-friendly fashion, and filled with diagrams to help explain the principles. Dotted throughout are stories from Johnny’s life, both in front of the camera and in the
01 JUNE 2017 real world too. HARDBACK • 9781472939999 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472939982 • £12.99 A life-long maths obsessive, Johnny Ball started out as a Butlin’s EBOOK • 9781472939968 • £14.99 redcoat and stand-up comic before appearing on BBC TV’s Play TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY School from 1967. His real break, though, came in 1977, with the first series of Think of a Number, a tea-time popular maths show. A smash hit, this spawned various other shows, as Johnny quickly became one of the most famous faces on British television.
Johnny remains a regular fixture on TV and radio, and is comfortably Britain’s most famous mathematician.
68 POPULAR SCIENCE The Robber of Youth
Tuberculosis Past, Present and Future Kathryn Lougheed
A biography of tuberculosis, the ‘robber of youth’ – an ancient disease, but not a disease of history
ith more than a million victims every year and antibiotic resistance now found Win every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving to be one of the smartest killers humanity has ever faced.
The Robber of Youth follows the history of TB, from its time as an infection of hunter-gatherers to the first human villages, which set it up with everything it needed to become the monstrous disease it is today, through to the perils of industrialisation. It goes on to look at the latest research, interviews with doctors 29 JUNE 2017 treating the disease, and the personal experiences of those affected. HARDBACK • 9781472930330 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472930347 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472930361 • £14.99 Kathryn Lougheed worked in tuberculosis research for more than ten years, TERRITORY: WO focusing on the biological mechanisms of latent tuberculosis and small molecule TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY drug discovery. She completed her doctorate at Imperial College London in 2006, before moving to the National Institute for Medical Research. germzoo.blogspot.co.uk • @ilovebacteria
POPULAR SCIENCE 69 The Way of the Hare Marianne Taylor
An exploration of the relationship between humans and the charismatic and elusive hare
he Brown Hare is an animal we all know but rarely see; the Mountain Hare is an Teven greater mystery, living on bleak and remote uplands. This book explores the lives of both of these hares, in life and in story, and attempts to unravel the 12 JANUARY 2017 real animal from its image in our collective imagination, and examines why it HARDBACK • 9781472909893 • £16.99 holds such fascination for us. It includes accounts of first-hand encounters with EBOOK • 9781472909909 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WO wild hares, and interviews with those who have worked with and studied them. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY It is illustrated with line drawings and a section of beautiful colour photographs taken by the author. ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 Marianne Taylor is a writer and photographer who has written many books on natural history subjects including RSPB British Birds of Prey, Owls, Dragonflight, RSPB NatureWatch.
In Search of Songbirds Dominic Couzens
A journey of discovery with the birds that make up the choir of the dawn chorus
he dawn chorus: a single voice cutting through the morning mist soon develops Tinto a symphony of different songs hailing the new day. Many of these songbirds are familiar and iconic features of British wildlife, and yet much about their lives remains mysterious, even to scientists. There is a simple pleasure in listening to 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472909916 • £16.99 birdsong, but curiosity on this enchanting phenomena will soon see you asking EBOOK • 9781472909923 • £14.99 questions about every aspect of these birds’ lives: from courting a potential mate TERRITORY: WO and defending a territory, to mimicry and migration. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Dominic Couzens has written a wide range of books about birds and other animals including, for Bloomsbury, The Secret Lives of Puffins, RSPB The Secret Lives of British Birds, RSPB The Secret Lives of Garden Birdsand RSPB The Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife.
70 NATURE WRITING & OUTDOORS Mark Carwardine’s Guide to Whale Watching in North America Mark Carwardine
The definitive guide for anyone hoping to see whales, dolphins and porpoises in the USA, Canada and Mexico
his essential guide from bestselling author and zoologist Mark Carwardine Tfeatures every whale-watching location in North America, from Boston to Baffin Island, provides a fascinating introduction to whales and whale-watching, and includes a detailed field guide with spectacular illustrations, photographs, 01 JUNE 2017 identification tips and distribution maps for all the cetaceans found in the region. PAPERBACK • 9781472930699 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781472930705 • £16.99 Whether you want to tickle friendly Grey Whales in Mexico’s San Ignacio Lagoon, TERRITORY: WO or watch Killer Whales off Vancouver Island, this comprehensive guide is the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ideal companion. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $39.99 Mark Carwardine has been studying, protecting and photographing whales and dolphins for 30 years, and has written many books on the subject, including Whale Watching in Britain and Europe. He presented the weekly programme Nature on BBC Radio 4 for many years, and the BBC television series Last Chance to See and Museum of Life.
NATURE WRITING & OUTDOORS 71 The Detox Kitchen Bible Lily Simpson & Rob Hobson
The cookbook that will leave you feeling cleansed from the inside out – with 200 delicious recipes and tailored detox plans
he Detox Kitchen philosophy is all about bright, inspiring and nutritious food Tthat will make your skin glow, your hair shine, your stress levels fall and your energy increase. Using mouth-watering flavour combinations and an encyclopaedic knowledge of ingredients, chef Lily Simpson and nutritionist Rob Hobson bring you this ultimate bible of detox food. The 200 vibrant recipes are all free from wheat, dairy and refined sugar, and include Pad Thai with brown rice noodles, turkey burgers with cabbage slaw, salmon and dill fishcakes and beetroot brownies. With exquisite photography, this is the definitive guide to eating your way to radiant 29 DECEMBER 2016 TPB • 9781408852927 • £14.99 health. EBOOK • 9781408852866 • £12.99 TERRITORY: WO A unique detox food delivery service, and now with two delis in London, The TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Detox Kitchen was founded by inventive chef Lily Simpson in 2012, and launched
ANZ PUB DATE 01 JANUARY 2017 to dazzling success and a loyal following of celebrity clients. Rob Hobson is an TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 expert nutritionist who runs two consultancies in London. Together they are a unique team shaking up the food industry.
detoxkitchen.co.uk • @TheDetoxKitchen
Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet
My low-carb, high-flavour, stay-happy way to lose weight Tom Kerridge
How to diet by keeping all of the good stuff and none of the boring stuff – from Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge
ver the past three years Tom Kerridge has positively transformed his life, Oshedding 12 stone and getting his weight firmly under control.Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet reveals the secret of his success – achieved by weaning himself off empty carbs and booze, and focusing on foods that are especially rich in flavour and have been scientifically proven to trigger the release of dopamine, the ‘happy’ chemical: ‘I’m just going to give you a load of recipes that are fairly low on carbohydrates and high in the amino acid tyrosine, which has the potential to increase 12 JANUARY 2017 the dopamine levels in the brain. Meaning that you will enjoy eating it. It is that easy.’ HARDBACK • 9781472935410 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472935434 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WO Tom Kerridge opened The Hand & Flowers with his wife Beth in 2005; it is the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY only pub in the world to have acquired two Michelin stars. In 2014 he opened The Coach, his second pub in Marlow. Tom has hosted several BBC television series, ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2018 including two of his own, and was named Observer Food Monthly’s Best Food TPB • AUS $35.00 Personality in 2015.
thehandandflowers.co.uk • @ChefTomKerridge
72 FOOD Cook Japan, Stay Slim, Live Longer Reiko Hashimoto
Reiko Hashimoto’s new book is packed full of delicious dishes for a sustainable, slimming diet and long healthy lifestyle
eiko Hashimoto explores the benefits of the Japanese diet – slim physique, stable Rblood sugar, increased joint flexibility and a longer lifespan – and provides an insight into key Japanese fresh and store-cupboard essentials. Debunking the myths surrounding the complexity and accessibility of Japanese food, the recipes are constructed with easy-to-follow instructions and vary from basics to technically 12 JANUARY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472933232 • £20.00 complex, perfect for all those wishing to perfect the art of Japanese home cooking. EBOOK • 9781472933249 • £17.99 With Japanese food so enjoyed in restaurants across the country this is the perfect TERRITORY: WO book for home cooks. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 Reiko Hashimoto was born and grew up in Kyoto, Japan and counts herself as HARDBACK • AUS $35.00 • NZ $39.99 fortunate to have had a mother who cooked fresh food for every meal and instilled in her a dedication to authentic Japanese flavours. Reiko now lives in London and runs a cookery school, Hashi Cooking, where she teaches beautiful, traditional and healthy Japanese cooking. hashicooking.co.uk • @hashicooking
Risotto! Risotto! Valentina Harris
A fully revised and updated edition of Valentina Harris’ seminal work on one of Italy’s most iconic dishes
rized for its texture, flavour and versatility, risotto has been part of the Italian Pdiet since the eighth century and is one of Italy’s most famous dishes. With an updated introduction and new recipes, Risotto! Risotto! shows you how to prepare, cook and serve this iconic dish using ingredients from the humble tomato to the much-sought-after truffle.
As well as exploring the history of risotto, Valentina provides information on 09 FEBRUARY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472933201 • £20.00 the variety of rice that can be used and how to make the all-important stock. EBOOK • 9781472933218 • £17.99 Recipes are supplemented by beautiful photography and a step-by-step guide to TERRITORY: WO the perfect risotto. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 Educated in Italy, renowned cookery writer Valentina Harris has published more HARDBACK • AUS $40.00 • NZ $44.00 than 30 award-winning cookery books, becoming an authority on Italian cuisine. She now offers culinary adventures across Europe, sharing her passion for food by hosting bespoke cookery courses and private catering commissions, and is often found at food festivals in the UK. valentinaharris.com • @ChefValentina
FOOD 73 30 Minute Curries Atul Kochhar
BBC’s Saturday Kitchen favourite Atul Kochhar shows you how to create simple, beautiful curries at home in just 30 minutes
urry is the nation’s favourite dish, but too often it can seem daunting to Cattempt at home. However, this beautiful new book by Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar promises to transform boring weeknight dinners, with 80 delicious curries. Complementing the curries, Atul provides an introduction to spice mixes and bases, and the best way to store these ready for use in the quick and easy recipes.
18 MAY 2017 Each of the curries is accompanied by stunning photography by Mike Cooper. HARDBACK • 9781472937773 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472937766 • £21.99 This is a book for curry lovers everywhere, and one you will cook from time and TERRITORY: WO time again. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Atul Kochhar is one of the finest Indian chefs in Britain, renowned for the vibrancy ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $50.00 • NZ $55.00 of his food and the subtlety of his flavours. He was one of the first Indian chefs to be awarded a Michelin star and has fast become the face of Indian cuisine on British television, with regular appearances on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen.
atulkochhar.com • @atulkochhar
Vivek’s Indian Festival Feasts Vivek Singh
A beautiful gastronomic celebration of some of India’s most famous festivals
n this tour of Indian festival cuisine executive chef of London’s acclaimed The ICinnamon Collection Vivek Singh brings his unique touch to traditional festival recipes and gives his insight into the significance of food from a country with a history of such diverse religions and cultures.
Chapters feature the most popular Indian festivals celebrated across the world, such as Holi, Onam and Diwali, covering all religions and geographical areas within India. As well as new recipes, the history and culture surrounding each festival will be explored in colourful detail. Accompanying photography brings alive the beauty and vibrancy of these incredible celebrations. 23 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472938466 • £26.00 EBOOK • 9781472938473 • £23.99 Vivek Singh is one of Britain’s best-known and respected Indian chefs. As well TERRITORY: WO as being an award-winning author, he is often on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Masterchef. He has been executive chef of The Cinnamon Collection since its launch
ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 in 2001, where his food is famous for its blend of authentic Indian spicing and HARDBACK • AUS $53.99 • NZ $59.99 Western techniques.
viveksingh.co.uk • @chefviveksingh
74 FOOD Junk Food Japan
Addictive Food from Kurobuta Scott Hallsworth
Scott Hallsworth presents the incredible food that is making Kurobuta one of the most talked-about places to eat in London
acking a heavy punch and offering a fresh new look at Japanese food, Junk PFood Japan showcases Kurobuta’s ‘insanely delicious delicacies’ (Jay Rayner, Observer), which are incredibly inventive yet comfortingly familiar. Signature dishes featured include Barbecued Pork Belly in Steamed Buns, Tea Smoked Lamb, and 06 APRIL 2017 Kombu and Roasted Chilean Sea Bass. This is food full of flavour, guaranteed to HARDBACK • 9781472919922 • £26.00 wow friends, family and hungry gate-crashers. One hundred recipes display Scott’s EBOOK • 9781472919939 • £22.99 TERRITORY: WO wild and inventive style, with Japanese classics sitting alongside new, stunning TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Scott-conceived dishes, such as Tuna Sashimi Pizza and Wagyu Beef Sliders, all complemented by superb photography from David Loftus. ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $52.99 • NZ $53.99 Scott Hallsworth has been forging a mighty path in Japanese cuisine for nearly two decades, having worked for many years as Head Chef at the legendary Nobu restaurant in London and then opening Nobu in Melbourne in his native Australia. He has appeared on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. kurobuta-london.com • @KurobutaLondon • @scotthallsworth
MasterChef: Street Food of the World Genevieve Taylor
A celebration of a food trend that continues to excite and entice foodies
rom burritos and pretzels to pad Thai or aromatic buns, it is estimated that 2.5 Fbillion people per day eat street food across the world. This collection focuses on the celebration of fresh and local ingredients and different cultures and cuisines. Often quick and easy to make, these recipes will delight home cooks who want to create sensational street food snacks in their own kitchens. With stunning 09 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472909169 • £26.00 photography from the legendary David Loftus, the book also features recipe TERRITORY: WO contributions from MasterChef winners from across the world. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
Genevieve Taylor is an author, food stylist and cookery presenter. She lives in ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $49.99 Bristol with her husband and two children. genevievetaylor.co.uk • @genevieveeats
Contributions from Andy Allen (Australia), Tim Anderson (UK), Dhruv Baker (UK), Marc Boissieux (France), Ping Coombes (UK), Christine Hà (US), Anders Halskov- Jensen (Denmark), Woo Wai Leong (Singapore), Adam Liaw (Australia), Luca Manfe (US), Brent Owens (Australia), Claudia Sandoval (US), Simon Wood (UK).
FOOD 75 Cow Pie and Other Stories Jesse Dunford Wood © Lauren McClean
Jesse Dunford Wood presents his fun, unique riffs on classic British dishes
ith his infectious humour and brilliant writing style, Jesse Dunford Wood Wpresents a delightfully wacky, delicious and irresistible collection of British classics with a twist and a turn, based around the premise that food should be fun for all and that flavour is key. Cow Pie sits alongside retro favourites such as Chicken Kyiv and a wealth of wittily conceived, much-loved British dishes, beautifully realised through great photography.
Cow Pie and Other Stories is intended to be the ultimate fun cookery book, great to give and great to receive. A cookery book to make you smile and to make you
06 JULY 2017 hungry. HARDBACK • 9781472938497 • £20.00 EBOOK • 9781472938503 • £17.99 Jesse Dunford Wood is considered an expert on British food. He has worked with TERRITORY: WO top chefs including Michael Caines, Charlie Trotter, Rowley Leigh and Mark Hix. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY In 2007 he teamed up with Oliver Peyton to open The National Dining Rooms ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 at the National Gallery. He is now the owner and chef of Parlour, Kensal Green. HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $42.99 parlourkensal.com • @ParlourUK • @dunfordwood
Cheese & Dairy
River Cottage Handbook No.16 Steven Lamb
In the sixteenth River Cottage Handbook, Steven Lamb offers a comprehensive guide to buying, making and eating cheese and dairy products
his handy little book covers all areas of cheese and dairy in the inimitably clear, Tconcise and charming River Cottage style. Features include how to make your own dairy produce such as butter and yoghurt; how to make your own cheeses, from fresh to matured; types of cheese and their characteristics; the history of famous British cheeses such as Cheddar; and sweet and savoury recipes with cheese in the starring role. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and colour photography throughout, this book is the indispensable guide to enjoying 01 JUNE 2017 and making the most of cheese and dairy products. HARDBACK • 9781408873472 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Steven Lamb has been involved with River Cottage since the very beginning, hosting events and appearing regularly in the TV series and online. He is the author of ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 Curing and Smoking and works closely with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $34.99 teaches regularly at the cookery school and represents River Cottage in the UK and abroad.
rivercottage.net • @lambposts
76 FOOD Delicious Gifts Rob Kirby
Eighty beautifully presented, delectable handcrafted treats to make at home as perfect gifts
elicious Gifts celebrates the best, beautifully styled, handcrafted food gifts for all D occasions. Eighty delightful recipes are accompanied by stunning photography from Jodi Hinds, along with inspiration, guidance and ideas for how best to wrap and package these thoughtful gifts.
Whether you’re looking for a unique Christmas present, something romantic or a healthy treat for loved ones, this book has plenty of ideas to inspire you. Recipes 09 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472930088 • £18.99 range from something simple for the family to enjoy making together, such as EBOOK • 9781472930095 • £14.98 biscuits, chocolate-dipped strawberries and rose-petal sugar, to treats such as meal TERRITORY: WO kits, marinades, rubs and relishes, chutneys and champagne jellies. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 Rob Kirby is the Chef Director of Lexington Catering and a leading member of HARDBACK • AUS $38.99 • NZ $40.99 the Academy of Culinary Arts. A well-respected figure in the industry, Rob often appears on television, from BBC Breakfast to Saturday Kitchen. His first book, Cook with Kids (2011), was the winner of Best Fundraising and Charity Cookbook at the Gourmand Awards in 2012.
@DeliciousKirby
On the Side Ed Smith
An inspiring selection of superb side dishes
ides should be celebrated – they’re often the best bit of the meal, so it’s about Stime they were put to the centre and given the star billing they deserve.
On the Side hosts recipes to spark a whole meal (za’atar mushrooms and curd), intriguing twists and garnishes (asparagus with cured egg yolk) and essential classics (like caponata and bread sauce). In addition, the cookbook includes short essays, thoughtful indexes and cross-references to encourage and inspire. Inventive, playful and hardworking, On the Side establishes Ed Smith as a major new name 04 MAY 2017 in British food writing. HARDBACK • 9781408873151 • £20.00 EBOOK • 9781408873168 • £17.99 TERRITORY: WO Ed Smith is the author of the celebrated food blog Rocket & Squash. He has featured TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY as resident chef in the Guardian’s Cook supplement, and guest cookery writer at the Independent on Sunday. Ed was named Best Online Restaurant Writer and ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 shortlisted for Best Cookery Writer at the 2015 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink HARDBACK • AUS $42.99 • NZ $44.99 Awards. On the Side was shortlisted for the inaugural Jane Grigson Trust Award. rocketandsquash.com • @rocketandsquash
FOOD 77 The Magic Fridge © Peter Knab (and the Fantastic Freezer) Alex Mackay
A treasure chest of tips and tricks to bring magic into your everyday meals
n his follow up to Everybody, Everyday, the irrepressible culinary wizard Alex IMackay reveals how to create easy and delicious sauces, pastes and bases that you can keep in your fridge or freezer, ready to be turned into lunch, tea or supper at a moment’s notice. This is convenience food done the right way – using one big batch of a delicious base recipe to create a multitude of meals, thus minimising the work and maximising the flavour. With recipes that include Chicken bone broth, Tomato 15 JUNE 2017 chilli relish, Salsa verde and Almond cream, The Magic Fridge (and the Fantastic HARDBACK • 9781408862377 • £20 Freezer) reveals tips and tricks for transforming simple, everyday cooking into an EBOOK • 9781408863718 • £17.99 TERRITORY: WO exciting spectrum of sweet and savoury dishes. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Alex Mackay has worked as a chef at Michelin-starred restaurants in France, Italy ANZ PUB DATE 1 JULY 2017 and the UK. Having run Raymond Blanc’s cookery school and taught alongside HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $49.99 Delia Smith, he now cooks for Merchant Gourmet and is a patron of the Kids Cookery School. His first book, Cooking in Provence, was a winner at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
The Little Viet Kitchen Thuy Pham-Kelly
Dynamic and engaging, The Little Viet Kitchen brings a taste of Vietnamese cuisine to your home
ffering a fresh insight into classic Vietnamese dishes and cooking techniques, OThuy Pham-Kelly’s expertise and memories are at the heart of each recipe in this collection. Embracing all elements of Vietnamese cuisine, Thuy’s food enhances and showcases the natural goodness and flavours of the ingredients she uses.
This book delves into Thuy’s personal journey from Vietnam to England, celebrating her love of Vietnamese cooking, culture and way of life. A feast for the eyes as 29 JUNE 2017 well as the tastebuds, Thuy’s easy-to-follow recipes will turn everybody’s kitchen HARDBACK • 9781472936035 • £20.00 into a little Viet kitchen. Beautiful photography accompanies every recipe, styled TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY by Thuy herself.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 Thuy Pham-Kelly spent her early years in Vietnam before moving to the UK when HARDBACK • AUS $42.99 • NZ $44.99 she was seven years old. Thuy learnt her craft through studying traditional recipes and techniques, passed down by her mother and other family members. In 2015, along with her husband Dave, Thuy opened The Little Viet Kitchen in Islington, London.
thelittlevietkitchen.com • @LVK_ISLINGTON • @ThuyDiemPham
78 FOOD Herding Cats
The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy Charlie Campbell
An entertaining guide to the trials and tribulations of amateur cricket captaincy
n 1985 Mike Brearley published The Art of Captaincy, revealing how he steered IMiddlesex and England to victory, extracting the best from his team of first-class cricketers. Herding Cats is Charlie Campbell’s witty companion title as he guides us through the realities of captaining an amateur team instead. How does the Sunday captain keep his side happy when they all want to bat at four? And how can he win when some of his team haven’t taken a catch in years? Coupled with insights from captains at the top of the sport, Herding Cats is perfect for those of us who appreciate the shambling joys of amateur cricket. 09 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472925718 • £16.99 Charlie Campbell is captain of the Authors Cricket Club and edited their book EBOOK • 9781472925732 • £14.99 The Authors XI.He has led his team in over 125 consecutive games and on five TERRITORY: WE foreign tours, facing the might of the Rajasthan Royals, the Vatican and the national TRANSLATION RIGHTS: GREENE & HEATON team of Japan along the way. He has written for the Observer, Wisden India, The ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 Nightwatchman, Time Out and Literary Review. HARDBACK • AUS $28.00 • NZ $29.99
@AuthorsCC
Sixty Years of Jump Racing
From Arkle to McCoy Robin Oakley with foreword by Edward Gillespie
An elegant history of the majestic sport of jump racing, packed with photographs and featuring interviews with key horseracing figures
obin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping Rhorses. A beautiful book, filled with gripping images, The History of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport’s ups and downs – from the development of sponsorships and syndicate ownership, the growing domination of the Cheltenham Festival to the growth of all-weather 09 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472935090 • £25.00 racing to meet the bookies’ demands for betting-shop fodder. Famous rivalries and EBOOK • 9781472935120 • £21.99 memorable races are relived and key victories revisited in portraits and interviews TERRITORY: WO with the owners, jockeys and trainers who have dominated the sport. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 Robin Oakley wrote for several newspapers before becoming Political Editor of HARDBACK • AUS $49.99 The Times and then the BBC. He contributes to CNN and has written the ‘Turf’ column in the Spectator since 1995.
Edward Gillespie (Foreword) was Managing Director at Cheltenham Racecourse for 32 years. He is currently a member of the Jockey Club and chair of the Pony Racing Authority.
SPORT 79 Re:Cyclists
200 Years on Two Wheels Michael Hutchinson
A bumpy ride through two centuries of cycling
omewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer Sfor centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less instant. In Re:Cyclists, Michael Hutchinson picks his way through the next 200 years of wheeling through town and country: from penny-farthing riders roaming the lonely roads during the railway era, to the Victorian high-society bicycle craze of the 1890s, through the despair of the 1970s when cycling almost vanished, to the twenty-first-century revival.Re:Cyclists examines how cycling became the sport, 23 MARCH 2017 the pastime and the love affair of millions of ordinary people. HARDBACK • 9781472925596 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472925619 • £14.99 Michael Hutchinson is a former professional cyclist. He has won multiple national TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY titles in both Britain and Ireland, and represented both countries internationally. He is now the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly. Re:Cyclists is the follow-up ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 to his previous critically acclaimed book Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $39.99 behind the World’s Fastest Cyclists and the award-winning The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way.
@Doctor_Hutch
Ultra-Distance Cycling
An Expert Guide to Endurance Cycling Simon Jobson & Dominic Irvine
This authoritative manual provides cyclists with everything they need to ride longer and faster, and to excel at ultra-distance cycling events
p and down the country, thousands of cyclists are stepping up to the challenge, Ucycling up to and over 100 miles for their ultra-distance fix. This science and experience-based handbook gives comprehensive advice for cyclists to enhance 06 APRIL 2017 their performance and step up to the endurance challenge. With detailed sections on PAPERBACK • 9781472919878 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472919892 • £14.99 fitness, mental approach and equipment, it’s the ultimate guide for the competitive TERRITORY: WO ultra-distance cyclist. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Simon Jobson is Professor of Sport and Exercise Physiology at the University of ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 Winchester, UK. As a BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist, he provides sport science support for a number of top cyclists.
Dominic Irvine is a leading ultra-distance cyclist. He has successfully completed events including the Race Across the Alps and London–Edinburgh–London.
@ProfSimonJobson • @DomIrvine
80 SPORT Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2017
The 154th edition of the world’s most famous sports book, published every year since 1864
perennial bestseller loved by cricket fans and bibliophiles around the world A and published every single year since its first edition in 1864, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, as ever, contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with some of the finest sports writing of the year. Together with Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the brilliant obituaries, Wisden’s trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records make it a ‘must-have’ for every cricket fan.
This is Lawrence Booth’s sixth year as Editor of Wisden. He is also cricket writer for 06 APRIL 2017 the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is one HARDBACK • 9781472935199 • £50.00 of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY @WisdenAlmanack
Giro 100
A History of Cycling’s Most Brutal and Beautiful Grand Tour Brendan Gallagher
A vibrant history of the Giro d’Italia in its 100th edition
he Giro d’Italia is the cooler, tougher brother of the Tour de France. First staged Tin 1909, and only pausing for two World Wars, its hundredth edition takes place in 2017. From its first years the Giro pushed riders to their limits with brutal climbs, treacherous road conditions and epic distances.
The history of the Giro is the history of cycling’s superstars and all previous winners are covered in Giro 100: from Luigi Ganna and Fausto Coppi, to Vincenzo Nibali and Alberto Contador. Brendan Gallagher skilfully combines history, anecdote and 20 APRIL 2017 analysis to bring this ultimate test of endurance vividly to life. EXPORT TPB • 9781472918802 • £14.99 EBOOK • 9781472918819 • £12.99 TERRITORY: WE Brendan Gallagher is a sports journalist who specialises in cycling, rugby and all TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID LUXTON things Olympic. He has written numerous books, including In Pursuit of Glory with Bradley Wiggins. He lives in Sussex. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 TPB • AUS $28.00 • NZ $32.99 @gallagherbren
SPORT 81 Barry Sheene
The Official Photographic Celebration of Britain’s Greatest Motorcycle Champion Rick Broadbent
A landmark photographic book charting the private and public lives of one of motorsport’s best-loved and most charismatic figures
04 MAY 2017 arry Sheene is the greatest British motorcycle racing rider of all time. A chancer, HARDBACK • 9781472944580 • £20.00 EBOOK • 9781472944597 • £17.99 Blovable rogue and the leading sports star of his era, adored by the public and TERRITORY: WO press alike, he won two world motorcycle championships in 1976 and 1977. For TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY the first time Barry’s family have agreed to open up their personal archive to give an unprecedented insight into the world champion. Via private photographs, ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $45.00 memorabilia and letters, award-winning journalist Rick Broadbent tells the story of a remarkable man in unprecedented fashion.
This is the Barry Sheene story as told like never before.
Rick Broadbent is an award-winning journalist and author. He has worked at The Times for 10 years and has written nine books. His previous titles on motorcycle racing include That Near-Death Thing, winner at the British Sports Book Awards 2013 and shortlisted for the William Hill prize, and Ring of Fire, also shortlisted for the William Hill Prize.
Quiet Genius
Bob Paisley, British Football’s Greatest Manager Ian Herbert
The untold story of the manager who produced the greatest club team British football has ever known
ob Paisley was the quiet man who swept all domestic and European opposition Baside as the manager of Liverpool Football Club between 1974 and 1983. He won trophies at a rate per season that dwarfs even Sir Alex Ferguson’s achievements at Manchester United, and he remains the only Briton to have lead a team to three European Cups. Yet, 30 years on from Paisley’s death, the life of this shrewd, visionary, modest football man has still never been fully explored. Based on 04 MAY 2017 in-depth interviews with his family, players and opponents, Quiet Genius is the HARDBACK • 9781472937322 • £20.00 first biography to examine the secrets of Paisley’s success. EXPORT TPB • 9781472937315 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472937353 • £17.99 TERRITORY: WE Ian Herbert is the Independent’s chief sportswriter, and has covered Liverpool’s TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID LUXTON frustrated attempts to rediscover the glory of the Paisley years. During ten years at the Liverpool Daily Post, where he became Deputy Editor, he witnessed the club’s ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 early decline from the standards Paisley set. HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $45.00
@ianherbs
82 SPORT Swell
A Waterbiography Jenny Landreth
A funny, bold account of how women fought their way into the water and the delights to be found there
wimming seems like the most egalitarian of pastimes, open to anyone with a Sswimsuit. Yet, like pretty much everything, swimming used to be exclusively a male domain. Even by the mid-1800s, access to pools was a luxury limited both by gender and class. Part social history, part memoir, Swell is a joyful celebration of the water as Jenny Landreth uncovers a world of secret swimmers: the foremothers who collectively made it possible for us to plunge in anywhere we chose. Looking back at her own swimming story, Landreth explores what it is that attracts so many women into the water. 04 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472938947 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472938978 • £14.99 Jenny Landreth is a script editor and writer. She was the main contributor to the TERRITORY: WE Guardian’s weekly swimming blog, writing on everything from pool rules to ice TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JOHNSON & ALCOCK swimming, and she’s swum in and written about many pools round the country. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 She reviews TV for the New Statesman online when there’s something on she feels HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $35.00 passionate about. Swell is her third book.
@jennylandreth
A History of Cycling in 100 Objects Suze Clemitson
An alternative insight into the two-wheeled revolution
fascinating and quirky look at the history of cycling, seen through 100 objects A that have been pivotal in the development of cycling and bike design. Charting the journey from the laufmachine to the Brompton, through the early prototypes and the evolution of the two-wheeled toys of the aristocracy to the speed machines we know today. 18 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472918888 • £20.00 Beautifully illustrated throughout with accompanying text and trivia, dip into the EBOOK • 9781472918895 • £17.99 weird and wonderful history of the cycling revolution – from the broom wagon TERRITORY: WO to the cobbles, via steak, cuddly lions and ball bearings. The perfect gift for the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY cyclist in your life. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $36.99 • NZ $39.99 Suze Clemitson is a cycling journalist and commentator. Suze is author of P Is for Peloton, with artist Mark Fairhurst, and edited the volume on women’s cycling Ride the Revolution.
@festinagirl
SPORT 83 The Billionaires Club
The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners James Montague
A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-rich
nce upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the Oplaything of billionaire oligarchs, made staggeringly wealthy from oil, royalty and murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe, and what do they want with our beautiful game? The Billionaires Club delves deeper than anyone else has dared, to tell this story for the first time. It is part history of club ownership, part in-depth investigation into the money and influence that connects the super-rich around the world, and part travel book as Montague crosses the 18 MAY 2017 globe in an attempt to reveal the real force behind modern-day football. HARDBACK • 9781472923103 • £16.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472923110 • £12.99 James Montague is an award-winning journalist who writes primarily about sport EBOOK • 9781472923134 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WO and politics. He writes for the New York Times, CNN and World Soccer and is a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY regular voice on the BBC World Service’s World Football show. His previous books are When Friday Comes: Football, War & Revolution in the Middle East and Thirty- ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 One Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders. TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $27.99
@JamesPiotr
The Cycling Cartoonist
An Illustrated Guide to Life on Two Wheels Dave Walker
Celebrate the joys of cycling with this humorous collection of cycling cartoons
delightful celebration of cycling from renowned cartoonist and multiple- A bike owner Dave Walker. An affectionate take on cycling and everything it is 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472938893 • £10.99 associated with, featuring 100 cartoons about every aspect of life on two wheels, EBOOK • 9781472938886 • £10.99 from racing to commuting, to the simple pleasure of getting from A to B. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Dave Walker is a cartoonist. He has had cycling cartoons published by Cycling
ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 Weekly, CTC and others. Dave has had a weekly cartoon in the Church Times HARDBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 newspaper since 2005.
davewalker.com • @davewalker
84 SPORT Edging Towards Darkness
The Story of the Last Timeless Test John Lazenby
A compelling and beautifully drawn social history of the longest cricket match in history set against the backdrop of impending war
ricket matches didn’t always top out at five days; they used to be ‘timeless’, with Cplay continuing until one team won. In 1939 the final ‘timeless’ Test lasted ten days – quite simply the longest Test ever played. A litany of records also perished in its wake and ‘whole pages of Wisden were ruthlessly made obsolete’.
Edging Towards Darkness tells the story of that Test for the first time. Set in its historical and social context, the story balances the game against the threat of encroaching World War, before bringing these two disparate strands together in 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472941305 • £16.99 an evocative and vibrant denouement. EBOOK • 9781472941299 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WO John Lazenby is a freelance journalist who has worked for The Times, the Sunday TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Times, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph and the Independent on Sunday, and ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 as a sports broadcaster for both radio and television. His first book, Test of Time, HARDBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 was longlisted for the William Hill Prize, and his last book, The Strangers Who Came Home, was published to critical acclaim.
Wisden at The Oval
An Anthology Edited by Jon Surtees
A celebration of the greatest players, matches and rivalries showcased at The Oval during 100 Tests
he Oval in Kennington, south London, is so iconic a cricket venue that the Tmodern-day history of the game can be told purely by referencing events that have taken place at the ground or players who have called The Oval home.
Delving into the archive of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Wisden at The Oval showcases remarkable matches and series – from that first Test match in England and the subsequent birth of the Ashes to The Oval’s key role in the birth of Twenty20 15 JUNE 2017 in 2003 – and argues that more memorable events have happened at The Oval than HARDBACK • 9781472942654 • £20.00 any other ground in the world. EBOOK • 9781472942647 • £17.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Jon Surtees is a former journalist and now communications manager at Surrey CCC.
SPORT 85 Fuelling the Cycling Revolution
The Nutritional Strategies and Recipes Behind Grand Tour Wins and Olympic Gold Medals Nigel Mitchell
The must-read practical guide to what to eat for any cyclist looking for a training or performance advantage
hey say you are what you eat – and for an elite-level cyclist this is even more Timportant. Nigel Mitchell, performance nutritionist for some of the top cyclists 15 JUNE 2017 in the world, knows that if you train hard and expect results your diet is even more PAPERBACK • 9781472936936 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472936943 • £14.99 crucial. Get it wrong and you can feel sluggish and below par – but eating right, on TERRITORY: WO and off the bike, will make your training and preparation even more worthwhile. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Follow Nigel’s expertise and this no-nonsense and non-faddy approach to get the most from your diet, fuel your ride and get that ever-important performance advantage. Real rider anecdotes and case studies are also used throughout the book.
Nigel Mitchell has over 25 years of clinical and elite sport nutrition experience. He has provided nutritional support to Olympic Gold medallists, World Champions and Tour de France winners. Previously attached to Team Sky and British Cycling, Nigel is currently working for Cannondale Pro Cycling, and the English Institute of Sport.
@Nuttynige
86 SPORT Breaking Mad
The Survivor’s Guide to Coping with Anxiety Anna Williamson
An honest guide to getting one over on anxiety, stress and other conditions
reaking Mad is a therapist in your pocket – a friendly manual to help you B through the worst times – by someone who has been there and now works as a therapist herself. Find helpful advice every step of the way – from recognising the first warning signs of anxiety, to coping with a panic attack. Simple, straightforward guidance, whenever and wherever you might need it – at home, on the bus, at college or even having a meltdown in the work toilet cubicle. Breaking Mad is here for you. So, welcome to the club – time to tackle anxiety head on!
Anna Williamson is a counsellor, Master NLP practitioner and performance coach 23 FEBRUARY 2017 and is qualified in this field to a Level 5 (the highest level) and is also a member EXPORT TPB • 9781472937681 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472937711 • £10.99 of the NCP (National Council of Psychotherapists). She uses these skills as a TERRITORY: WO regular expert and agony aunt on TV. Also including contributions from clinical TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY psychiatrist, Dr Reetta Newell. ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $28.99 @annawilliamsTV
My Sugar Free Baby and Me Sarah Schenker
Packed with healthy weaning ideas and delicious, balanced, sugar-free recipes for both you and your baby
any new mums find weaning daunting and confusing and are keen to make Msure their baby eats healthily. But they often forget to look after themselves, and can end up grabbing unhealthy, empty calories on the go. But by sharing ingredients like avocado or butternut squash, it means both you and your baby can eat well, there is less waste and it takes less time. The recipes are very simple, quick to prepare and above all nutritious and delicious. 04 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472939005 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472939012 • £14.99 Find out everything you need to know to create healthy, sugar-free meals – it’s TERRITORY: WO much easier than you think. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
Dr Sarah Schenker is a registered dietitian and nutritionist, and mum of two boys. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2016 HARDBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 She was the nutritional adviser for the Fast Diet Recipe Book. She is also a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Top Sante and Glamour, and This Morning, Watchdog and BBC Radio.
@SarahSchenker
WELLBEING 87 The Wealthy Body in Business
Earn More Money by Being in Better Shape Anne Laing & Tim Bean
A healthy body equals a healthy mind – drop the excuses and get in shape to maximise career success and financial reward
eople who are in better shape age better with more energy. They sleep better, Pwork better, are on top of their game and will always be more successful in business and in life. The Wealthy Body in Business reveals the authors’ most successful strategies, tips and best practices that have been used successfully with private clients at the top levels of business for many years. In applying these simple but robust remedies, you will find yourself leaner, stronger, smarter, sharper, more 20 APRIL 2017 confident and a whole lot less stressed than you’ve ever been. EXPORT TPB • 9781472935144 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472935151 • £10.99 Tim Bean is a longevity specialist, keynote speaker, TV presenter and author. Tim TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY is on the senior faculty for Duke Corporate Education, and lectures at corporate events, medical conferences and business universities around the world. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 TPB • AUS $24.99 • NZ $27.99 Anne Laing is a researcher, health club owner and health campaigner, specialising in weight loss, well-being and anti-ageing
@Tim_Bean • @annelaing2016
Sorted: The Active Woman’s Guide to Health Juliet McGrattan
A no-nonsense guide to keeping women active, covering common women’s health issues, written by a practising GP
uliet talks with you, not at you, and her enthusiasm for the joys of an active ‘Jlifestyle are bound to inspire millions of women of all ages to lead healthier, fitter and much happier lives.’ Lisa Jackson, author of Your Pace or Mine? What Running Taught Me About Life, Laughter and Coming Last
A friendly, accessible handbook that gives you a top-to-toe MOT to help you stay fit 06 APRIL 2017 and well. From wearing the right bra or exercising during your period, to recovering PAPERBACK • 9781472924797 • £16.99 from injury or exercising during pregnancy, Juliet’s advice will soon have you sorted EBOOK • 9781472924803 • £14.99 and on the road to health. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Juliet McGrattan is a GP and runner, and writes for Women’s Running magazine ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 and website. Her passion is improving health and wellbeing through exercise. PAPERBACK • AUS $34.99 • NZ $32.99 @JulietMcGrattan
88 WELLBEING Sod Sitting, Get Moving!
Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond Muir Gray & Diana Moran Illustrated by David Mostyn
Down with sofas and up with stairs! Are you sixty plus? It’s time to get moving!
ours spent on sofas and sitting at computers have caused multiple health issues, Hand the rise of the Internet means many of us roll out of bed into a chair or car, then to our desks or other sedentary activities, and don’t break our sitting marathon until it’s time to move to the sofa for more sitting. Sod Sitting, Get Moving! is filled with simple, clear exercises to help improve your stamina, strength and balance, to get strong and fit for the years ahead – and to feel better, with more energy! MARCH 2022 HARDBACK • 9781472943767 • £12.99 Sir Muir Gray is one of Britain’s most senior medical figures. He is also author/ EBOOK • 9781472943774 • £10.99 co-author of Sod 70!, Sod 60! and Sod it! Eat Well! TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Diana Moran introduced fitness to Britain in the 1980s as the BBC’s ‘Green Goddess’. A well published author, she manages her own web community at primetimelife.tv and is the Health Editor of The Lady.
@muirgray
WELLBEING 89 Taking Charge of Your Career
The Essential Guide to Finding the Job That’s Right for You Camilla Arnold & Jane Barrett
A comprehensive, practical guide on finding and succeeding in the perfect career
n this action-oriented and pragmatic book, expert career coaches Camilla Arnold Iand Jane Barrett address the common barriers to career change and give readers a proven and effective roadmap to achieve their new job goals. Taking Charge of Your Career includes first-hand experiences of successful career change, but also quizzes, exercises and self-assessment tools to help readers make the best choices for them. This edition has been updated to reflect new social media demands and the modern challenges faced when changing career. 12 JANUARY 2017 TPB • 9781472929921 • £12.99 Camilla Arnold started in corporate finance before becoming a recruitment EBOOK • 9781472933355 • £9.99 consultant in London and Sydney. She has been a fully qualified coach for over TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ten years, specialising in career change and transition.
ANZ PUB DATE 23 FEBRUARY 2017 Jane Barrett is co-founder of The Career Farm, a career development company TPB • AUS $28.00 • NZ $29.99 which provides individuals with the tools and inspiration to proactively grow their careers.
thecareerfarm.com • @TheCareerFarm
The HR Paradox
A Manifesto for Change Scott McArthur & Cary L. Cooper
Reviewing current HR practices, this book offers a thought-provoking manifesto for change and improvement
or decades HR has attempted to enable the best possible work environment, Fwhilst claiming a strategic corporate role. Despite recent financial crises, HR continues to be focused on process and the deployment of techniques that range from being effective to pseudoscientific, thus creating the ‘HR Paradox’. This book considers the impact of the HR Paradox on both the profession and its reputation. It reviews the assumed key disciplines, including employee engagement, recruitment, 23 MARCH 2017 performance management and people development, and reflects on whether the HARDBACK • 9781472905024 • £25.00 current methods used are fit for purpose. EBOOK • 9781472905031 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Scott McArthur is an organisational development consultant, leadership trainer, facilitator and coach, with 25 years’ experience in industry. Scott frequently ANZ PUB DATE 04 MAY 2017 contributes to leading magazines and newspapers. HARDBACK • AUS $50.00 • NZ $57.00 Sir Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at Manchester Business School, Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences and President of RELATE.
90 BUSINESS Inspiring Leadership
Becoming a Dynamic and Engaging Leader Kerrie Fleming & Roger Delves
Inspiring Leadership is an edited collection of reflections, research and practice from the leadership faculty at Ashridge/Hult International Business School
nspiring Leadership showcases the best of leadership development practice I and the most effective leadership styles that have evolved in recent years or are currently gaining attention. This book maps out the context of the past, present and future of leadership, including a focus on values, developing authenticity and using emotional intelligence to develop a high level of self-awareness. Inspiring Leadership offers insight on how best to ‘practise leadership’ using the techniques 26 JANUARY 2017 and leadership perspectives that are most commonly used in business school HARDBACK • 9781472932075 • £25.00 interventions around the world. EBOOK • 9781472932082 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WO Dr Kerrie Fleming is Director of Ashridge’s Leadership Research Centre. She TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY specialises in leadership development, including leader emotional intelligence ANZ PUB DATE 09 MARCH 2017 and its practical applications. HARDBACK • AUS $50.00 • NZ $55.00
Roger Delves is Head of the Leadership and People Faculty at Ashridge and leads on employability and personal impact for the Ashridge MBA. He specialises in authenticity, emotional intelligence and integrity in leadership and management.
Infinite Value
Accelerating Profitable Growth Through Value-based Selling Mark Davies
Infinite Valuepresents a practical framework to help organisations become value-based, so as to boost sales and generate new business
nfinite Value argues that a value-based approach is the best way forward in order I for a business to thrive and grow in the modern economy. Although a value- based business strategy provides stronger competitive advantage and long-term profits for both the supplier and the customer, few organisations manage to work in this way for sustained periods. This book offers a seven-pillar model to help organisations understand and implement the concepts of value-based selling. 26 JANUARY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472935298 • £25.00 For any business, regardless of size, Infinite Value offers a unique perspective EBOOK • 9781472935328 • £21.99 on proactive selling techniques and effective practices in client relationship TERRITORY: WO management. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 Mark Davies is MD of Segment Pulse Limited, a Visiting Fellow with Cranfield HARDBACK • AUS $50.00 • NZ $55.00 School of Management, and a Visiting Fellow with Aston Business School. Mark has an MBA and an MSc in Advanced Manufacturing Systems; he is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Institute of Marketing.
BUSINESS 91 21st Century Workforces and Workplaces Stephen Bevan, Ian Brinkley & Cary L. Cooper
Essential reading for anyone wondering what employment and work may look like by 2025
hat does the future of work look like? Analysing developments over the past Wfive years, which have rewritten much of what we thought we knew about employment and how workplaces respond to pressure, the considerable expertise of the authors are combined to discuss the critical questions facing any member of any workforce, including: Does work have to be a ‘place’? What is the future for trade unions? Is this the end of retirement? 23 FEBRUARY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472904997 • £25.00 Stephen Bevan is Director of the Centre for Workforce Effectiveness in The Work EXPORT TPB • 9781472943033 • £18.99 Foundation, and Honorary Professor at Lancaster University. EBOOK • 9781472905000 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Ian Brinkley was formerly the Chief Economist at The Work Foundation.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 Sir Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology TPB • AUS $37.99 • NZ $41.99 at Manchester Business School and President of RELATE.
theworkfoundation.com • @StephenBevan • @ProfCaryCooper • @WorkFoundation
The Leadership of Teams
How to Develop and Inspire High-performance Teamwork Mike Brent & Fiona Elsa Dent
Exploring common challenges faced when operating in complex team situations, with a particular focus on the role of the leader
eams can succeed or fail on the quality and effectiveness of their leader, so Twhat can leaders do to ensure that their teams collaborate effectively and are committed to the right goals? Utilising the authors’ access to leaders and team members working in sport, the military, business and the charity sector, The Leadership of Teams looks at all aspects of teamwork, focusing on the role of the leader and examining the most common challenges facing both teams and leaders, 18 MAY 2017 including: interpersonal challenges; working in a global context; different roles in TPB • 9781472935878 • £14.99 different teams; multicultural teams; and coaching and developing team members. EBOOK • 9781472935892 • £11.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Mike Brent is Head of Experiential Learning at Ashridge/Hult International Business School, specialising in leadership, team-building, influencing, coaching ANZ PUB DATE 29 JUNE 2017 and cross-cultural management. TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 Fiona Elsa Dent has Programme and Client Director experience at Ashridge, and works with a range of organisations and clients on a national and international basis.
92 BUSINESS Fully Connected
Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload Julia Hobsbawm
The first book defining social health in the modern workplace, exploring the implications for individuals and society in our hyper-connected world
he challenges, threats and opportunities of the Internet and social media on Temployee and workplace health will only continue to increase. Julia Hobsbawm argues that developing ‘social health’ will help employees become more efficiently engaged with each other and their work, and help employers create workplaces that support greater productivity. Drawing on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, Fully Connected provides a blueprint for how to use social health to foster wellbeing and productivity, as well as reclaim time, space and identity in 20 APRIL 2017 our hyper-connected world. HARDBACK • 9781472926845 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781472926852 • £16.99 TERRITORY: WO Julia Hobsbawm OBE is a renowned expert on networking and social health. She TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY is Professor of Networking at Cass Business School, London. She was awarded an OBE for Services to Business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2015. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $45.00 • NZ $49.99 juliahobsbawm.com • juliahobsbawm.wordpress.com • @juliahobsbawm
Direct and Digital Marketing in Practice Brian Thomas & Matthew Housden
The essential manual for those needing to utilise the latest and most powerful marketing techniques
ully updated to reflect the continuing impact and future implications of the FInternet on marketing, this third edition is one of the only comprehensive textbooks written entirely by practising professionals. It covers vital issues such as the new marketing landscape, gaining customer insight, integrating traditional 20 APRIL 2017 and digital media, and campaign planning and budgeting. An ideal reference tool PAPERBACK • 9781472939098 • £40.00 for students and marketing professionals, the book presents detailed explanations EBOOK • 9781472939081 • £35.99 of key concepts with practical examples and case studies. For managers looking to TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY improve customer reach, and current students of marketing, this book provides invaluable and up-to-date guidance on both theory and best practice. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $75.00 • NZ $79.99 Brian Thomas has had a career in marketing spanning more than 40 years, and is Course Director for the IDM’s Diploma in Direct & Interactive Marketing.
Matthew Housden is a marketing consultant, author, academic and trainer. He has worked in marketing for 25 years, with a client list that includes IBM, Barclays and Microsoft.
BUSINESS 93 Boards That Dare
Unleashing the Strategic Potential of Your Directors Marc Stitger & Cary L. Cooper
Offers actionable solutions to help board directors, chairs and CEOs tackle challenges and opportunities, and develop a successful organisational strategy
n today’s volatile and uncertain world, boards need to become more proactive Iand collaborative in their approach to organisational strategy. Boards That Dare explores how organisations can create boards that have the strategic capability, the desire and the sheer guts to identify and deliver successful strategic change. Based on the authors’ first-hand experiences, as well as their own research and interviews with board members and chairs of international private, public and not-for-profit 18 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472938060 • £25.00 organisations, this highly practical and accessible book delivers the necessary answers EBOOK • 9781472938077 • £21.99 as to how boards can and should contribute to organisational strategy. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Sir Cary Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology
ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 and Health at Manchester Business School. He was awarded a knighthood in the HARDBACK • AUS $45.00 • NZ $49.99 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to social sciences.
Marc Stitger is an Honorary Senior fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Business and Economics, and Associate Director at Melbourne Business School.
Branded Britain
How the Best of British Brands Were Created and Built Dave Meneer & Roger Delves
Branded Britain looks behind the logos to the insights and techniques of branding that have shaped the world-famous British brandscape
ritain has long been viewed as a market leader in terms of advertising, design Band branding – with globally-recognised brands such as the Mini Cooper, David Beckham and Doc Martens. But what are the creative forces behind a winning brand? And how can the success of brands be maintained over the course of years or even decades? This new title uses case studies of successful British brands to identify 18 MAY 2017 and illustrate the common threads that link all successful branding exercises. Topics PAPERBACK • 9781472942555 • £20.00 covered include leadership, timing, the rise of social media, branded houses versus EBOOK • 9781472942579 • £17.99 a house of brands, and brand failures. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Dave Meneer worked in major league advertising agencies for over 25 years. He ANZ PUB DATE 29 JUNE 2017 was the first Marketing Director of the Eden Project, followed by five years as CEO PAPERBACK • AUS $42.99 • NZ $44.99 of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen in Cornwall.
Roger Delves is a faculty member of Ashridge/Hult International Business School and Dean of Qualifications, with advertising experience with companies such as General Food, Sony and Mars.
94 BUSINESS Leadersmithing
An Apprenticeship Approach to Making Great Leaders Eve Poole
This new title examines the foundational practices of leaders, explaining how leaders-in-training can incorporate apprentice-style thinking into their working lives
n many trades and professions, mastery of the subject can take a lifetime; Ileadership is no different. Leadersmithing shows how an apprenticeship approach can reinvigorate the development of leaders in learning the art of being a great leader.
Using insights gained by Ashridge/Hult International Business School about how 29 JUNE 2017 TPB • 9781472941237 • £16.99 leaders really learn, Leadersmithing guides readers through the process of becoming EBOOK • 9781472941213 • £14.99 more precisely job-ready and more effectively resourced for the challenges they TERRITORY: WO face. The result is a more confident leader, more perceptive as to their vocation TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY and mandate, and better able to maintain the most effective position at the very ANZ PUB DATE 10 AUGUST 2017 top of their game. TPB • AUS $34.99 • NZ $36.99
Eve Poole joined Ashridge from Deloitte in 2002. Now an Ashridge Associate, Eve has taught across the Ashridge portfolio of open and custom programmes, as well as in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
BUSINESS 95 Gangster Warlords
Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America Ioan Grillo
‘Grillo is a breathtakingly intrepid reporter, diving in where police fear to tread … Enthralling ****’ Mail on Sunday
new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, part rock A star. Unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments and taking over much of the world’s trade in narcotics, guns and humans, who are these new masters of death? What has happened in the Americas to allow them to flourish so? Ioan Grillo has gained access to every level of the cartel chain of command 12 JANUARY 2017 in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. He provides a disturbing PAPERBACK • 9781408845912 • £9.99 understanding of a war that has spiralled out of control – one that people across EXPORT TPB • 9781408846056 • £12.99 the political spectrum must confront now. EBOOK • 9781408846032 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Ioan Grillo has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines and TV stations in the US and UK. Educated in Britain, he reports for Time Magazine ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 and regularly appears on radio and TV, commenting on Mexican crime and other PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 issues. He lives in Mexico.
ioangrillo.com • @ioangrillo
96 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION In Gratitude Jenny Diski
‘Clear-sighted, defiant and written with Diski’s customary furious elegance, it is a remarkable last word from a writer who survived to live and love, almost despite herself’ Daily Mail
n August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung Icancer and given ‘two or three years’ to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience – and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. Splicing childhood memories with present day realities, Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers – Lessing and herself.
Jenny Diski died a week after the publication of In Gratitude. A cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid memoir, it is her final masterpiece.
Jenny Diski was the author of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, including Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica, 12 JANUARY 2017 two volumes of essays and a short-story collection. Her journalism PAPERBACK • 9781408879948 • £9.99 appeared in publications including the Observer and the London EXPORT TPB • 9781408879917 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408879924 • £9.99 Review of Books, to which she contributed more than 200 articles. TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROGERS, COLERIDGE & WHITE jennydiski.co.uk ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 ‘Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … In Gratitude amounts to the inner monologue of a highly intelligent, furiously funny, traumatised woman, “trembling at the prospect of extinction” … She cannot be subsumed into the wider narrative or by Lessing. In Gratitude assures Diski the last word’ Sunday Times
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 97 Bad News
Last Journalists in a Dictatorship Anjan Sundaram
‘Powerful and shocking’ Sunday Times
terrifying blast, and Anjan Sundaram heads uphill towards the sound, but when A he arrives, it is as though nothing has happened. A clean-up has taken place, a cloaking of the discontent in Kigali.
Bad News is an intense account of the battle for free speech in modern-day Rwanda, following those journalists who stayed, despite fearing torture or death, and those reporting from exile. It is the story of papers shut down, of lies told to please foreign 12 JANUARY 2017 delegates, of corrupted elections. In the face of powerful forces, it tells of the fight PAPERBACK • 9781408866474 • £9.99 to make explosions heard. EXPORT TPB • 9781408866467 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408866481 • £9.99 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN, OM Anjan Sundaram has reported from Africa for the New York Times and the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE Associated Press, with writing appearing in Granta, the Observer and more. He received a 2006 Reuters journalism award for his reporting on Pygmy tribes in ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 Congo’s rainforest, and his first book, Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo, PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 was published to critical acclaim.
anjansundaram.com • @anjansun
Farmageddon in Pictures
The True Cost of Cheap Meat – in bite-sized pieces Philip Lymbery
A stunningly illustrated, infographic version of the bestselling, fascinating and thought-provoking Farmageddon by Philip Lymbery
armageddon in Pictures is a wake-up call to change our current food production F and eating practices – delivered in handy, bite-sized pieces. Clear, direct text, lavishly illustrated with full-colour photography and infographics, this is a 09 MARCH 2017 fascinating and terrifying investigation behind the closed doors of a global runaway PAPERBACK • 9781408873465 • £12.99 industry. How do we find a way to a better farming future? TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 organisation, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 the effects of industrial farming.
@philip_ciwf
98 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Electronic Dreams
How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer Tom Lean
‘The first good book on the subject’ Esquire
emember the ZX Spectrum? Ever have a go at programming with its stretchy Rrubber keys? How about the BBC Micro or Acorn Electron? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite or lose yourself in the surreal caverns of Manic Miner?
For anyone who was a kid in the 1980s, these iconic computer brands are the stuff of legend. In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the wonder-technology of the 1980s. 12 JANUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781472918345 • £9.99 Tom Lean is a historian of science based at the British Library, where he works EBOOK • 9781472918352 • £9.99 on the Oral History of British Science, a major project concerned with archiving TERRITORY: WE interviews with 100 figures from the recent history of science and technology. His TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DIANE BANKS fascination with computer technology culminated in his doctorate at the University ASSOCIATES of Manchester on popular computing in 1980s Britain. ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $22.99 @reggitsti
Breaking the Chains of Gravity
The Story of Spaceflight before NASA Amy Shira Teitel
‘Teitel delivers on detail, such as the exploits of supersonic-flight pioneer Chuck Yeager’ Nature
ASA’s history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully Nlanding men on the Moon in 1969. But its prehistory is largely absent from the popular space-age literature.
America’s space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. From Wernher von Braun fleeing the ruins of Berlin to the Mercury programme, tests of new technology by pilots such as Neil Armstrong and, in the shadow of Sputnik and an ever-cooling Cold War, the final creation of NASA. 12 JANUARY 2017 Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the full story of NASA’s roots. PAPERBACK • 9781472911247 • £9.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472911186 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472911193 • £9.99 Amy Shira Teitel is an author and expert in the history of science, with a lifelong TERRITORY: WO passion for spaceflight. An accomplished science communicator, Amy regularly TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY appears on Discovery News and Al-Jazeera. ANZ PUB DATE 16 MARCH 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 amyshirateitel.com • @astVintageSpace
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 99 Don’t Stop Me Now
26.2 Tales of a Runner’s Obsession Vassos Alexander
Funny, inspiring, honest – the perfect read for anyone in love with running (or thinking about starting!)
assos Alexander shares the highs and lows of falling in love with running, from Vthe first stumbling (and sweaty) steps on the running machine to the ultra- distance runner he is today.
Each chapter also features a fascinating insight into how others first started – from Paula Radcliffe to Steve Cram, the Brownlees to Jenson Button, Nicky Campbell 12 JANUARY 2017 and Nell McAndrew. Funny, inspiring, honest – the perfect read for anyone with PAPERBACK • 9781472921543 • £8.99 a pair of well-worn trainers by the door (or thinking of buying some...). EXPORT TPB • 9781472921536 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472921550 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WO Vassos Alexander is one of the UK’s best known sports broadcasters. Every morning TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY he’s heard by ten million people as an integral part of the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio2. He can also be seen presenting on TV, and he commentates ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 on everything from tennis to triathlon, diving to darts. He lives in London with PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 his young family.
@VassosA
World Without End Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. & Lucette Verboven
Thomas Keating, bestselling author and father of the Centering Prayer Movement, reflects on his life and Christian practice
n these conversations with film-maker and writer Lucette Verboven, Father IThomas Keating – author, Trappist monk and director of Contemplative Outreach – looks back on his spiritual development. Following on from his previous books Invitation to Love, Open Mind, Open Heart and The Mystery of Christ, Father Keating now turns his attention to the themes of awakening, the nature of true happiness and the character and purpose of death.
Identity, transformation, silence, nature and the cosmos – the themes which Father 26 JANUARY 2017 Keating here explores are universal and applicable to all those searching for a PAPERBACK • 9781472942487 • £10.99 deeper and more meaningful life. EBOOK • 9781472942494 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Father Thomas Keating is known throughout the world as an exponent, teacher, and writer on contemplative prayer. A Cistercian (Trappist) monk of St Benedict’s ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado, he is a founder of the Centering Prayer Movement PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 and a well known author.
Lucette Verboven is a Flemish film producer and the author of a number of books, including The Dominican Way.
100 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION The Sacred Combe
A Search for Humanity’s Heartland Simon Barnes
Reflections on the natural world here and in Africa from one of our finest natural history writers
e’ve all got one. A secret, special place. Hidden. Enclosed. A little greener and Wmore fertile than the world outside. Here the birds are slightly more exotic, slightly more confiding, the grass greener and the fruit sweeter. To know such a place, to love such a place, is part of being human.
Simon Barnes found such a place when he first awoke in the Luangwa Valley to find elephants eating the roof of his hut. This book explores the special places 26 JANUARY 2017 of the mind and the world; it’s about the eternal human search to find such a PAPERBACK • 9781472914033 • £8.99 paradise everywhere. EBOOK • 9781472914040 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning author of 20 or so books, including three novels and the bestselling How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher. Formerly the chief ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 sportswriter at The Times, for whom he also wrote two columns on wildlife, Simon PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 now lives in Norfolk with his family and four horses, beside a marsh.
@simonbarneswild
Geological Structures
A Photographic Field Guide Chris and Helen Pellant
An ideal handbook for anyone interested in learning more about the Earth’s pre-history and these fascinating natural phenomenas
eological Structures is an easy to use, highly informative guide exploring and G explaining the wide range of geological features that can be found all around us.
Helpfully divided into the three main rock groups, landforms such as escarpments, waterfalls, stacks, caves, arches and sink holes are featured in this essential guide. The authors’ beautiful photography, extended captions and concise text make exploring the subject of geological structures and related landforms accessible to 26 JANUARY 2017 both amateur enthusiasts and expert geologists alike for the first time. PAPERBACK • 9781472927262 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472927279 • £10.99 TERRITORY: WO Chris and Helen Pellant are based in North Yorkshire and they began writing TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY books together in the 1980s. They have written a number of earth science books, and also run their own photographic library (picsandwords.com). They are keen ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2017 conservationists, studying and recording everything from plants and lepidoptera PAPERBACK • AUS $24.99 • NZ $29.99 to marine life.
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 101 The Naked Shore
Of the North Sea Tom Blass
‘Intensely rewarding’ Independent
s playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, the North Sea has Ashaped the world in myriad ways, forged villains and heroes, and determined the fates of nations. But it’s not all grim: the seaside holiday was born on North Sea beaches, and artists and writers have been inspired by glinting sun on the wave-tops.
With a wry eye and a warm coat, Tom Blass travels the edges of the North Sea 26 JANUARY 2017 meeting fishermen, artists, bomb disposal experts and bürgermeisters. In doing PAPERBACK • 9781408834039 • £9.99 so he attempts to piece together its manifold histories and to reveal truths, half- EBOOK • 9781408834022 • £9.99 truths and fictions otherwise submerged. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Tom Blass studied anthropology, law and politics, and has earned his living as a ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 journalist and editor specialising in issues relating to business, law, human rights PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 and foreign policy. He lives with his family in Hastings.
Guilty Thing
A Life of Thomas De Quincey Frances Wilson
‘Stunning … A brilliant, giddy-making portrait … Energetic and wonderfully compelling *****’ Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
homas De Quincey – opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional Tdoppelgänger – is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the poet’s former cottage in Grasmere and turned it into an opium den. Here, increasingly detached from the world, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and his obsession with murder as one of the fine arts. In this spectacular new biography, 26 JANUARY 2017 Frances Wilson tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dizzying complexity and PAPERBACK • 9781408840139 • £9.99 dazzling originality, whose rackety life was lived on the run. EBOOK • 9781408839768 • £9.99 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE Frances Wilson is a critic, journalist and author of four former biographies; Literary Seductions, The Courtesan’s Revenge, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, which ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2009, and How To Survive the Titanic; or PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for historical biography in 2012. She lives in London.
102 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks Clare Nina Norelli
Marking Twin Peaks’ 2017 return, this is the first book to explore the soundtrack’s role in its cult status
cult sensation, key to Twin Peaks’ success was an unforgettable soundtrack A by Angelo Badalamenti, a reoccurring collaborator within the David Lynch universe. Badalamenti’s evocative music served as a constant in a narrative that was consistently unhinged and went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide.
How did a unique collaborative process result in a perfectly post-modern 09 FEBRUARY 2017 soundtrack and how did Badalamenti’s musical cues work with Lynch’s visuals PAPERBACK • 9781501323010 • £9.99 for Twin Peaks; having the ability to break with television convention, eliciting TERRITORY: WO unexpected responses in its audience? Clare Nina Norelli delves deep into the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
Lynchian underworld answering all these questions and more. ANZ PUB DATE 09 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $22.99 Clare Nina Norelli is an Australian writer and music practitioner. She has composed music for ensembles and film, and her writing has appeared in various publications.
The Cultural Revolution
A People’s History, 1962 –1976 Frank Dikötter
‘Magnificent’ Sunday Times
n 1966 an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to consolidate his legacy, Iunleashing Red Guards against all remnants of old Chinese culture. Soon rival factions were fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. The military intervened, turning the country into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that killed as many as one in fifty people. But after the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary villagers saw an opportunity to undermine the planned economy and resurrect the market. As fresh evidence from the archives shows, they quietly buried Maoism. 09 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781408856529 • £9.99 Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. EXPORT TPB • 9781408856505 • £14.99 EBOOK • 9781408856512 • £9.99 From the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China (1992) to Mao’s Great TERRITORY: WE Famine (2010), winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, and The Tragedy of Liberation TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE (2013), shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize, his books have changed the way historians view China. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 frankdikotter.com
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 103 Landskipping
Painters, Ploughmen and Places Anna Pavord
‘Impeccably informed, fervently opinionated, gently witty and incurably passionate’ The Times
n the late eighteenth century, landscape began to emerge as a cultural phenomenon Iin Britain. Tourist, theoretician and artist alike all sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall, lake and fell.
In a spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the emotional and artistic resonances of nature, and the sculpting of its lines by man and economic endeavour. 09 FEBRUARY 2017 An exquisite foray across mountains and rivers, valleys and pastures, Landskipping PAPERBACK • 9781408868935 • £9.99 is a celebration of landscape, the stunning diversity of our scenery and its potential EBOOK • 9781408868942 • £9.99 to comfort, awe and mesmerise. TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP WATT Anna Pavord’s books include the bestselling The Tulip, The Naming of Names, ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 and her most recent work, The Curious Gardener. Her column appeared in the PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 Independent for its full 30 years. She writes and presents programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for ten years on the Gardens Panel of the National Trust, the last five as Chair.
In Other Words Jhumpa Lahiri
‘As an insight into ruthless creative daring and obsession with language, In Other Words is superb’ Horatio Clare, Daily Telegraph
n Other Words is at heart a love story: that of a writer for another language. I For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. In 2012 she decided to move to Rome with her family, for ‘a trial by fire, a sort of baptism’ into a new language and world.
Presented in a dual-language format, In Other Words is a book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Nabokov. It is a surprising, powerful and eloquent book. 09 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781408866139 • £9.99 Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Interpreter of Maladies, EBOOK • 9781408866146 • £9.99 TERRITORY: COMM/EXCAN & INDIA/UK, OM The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and, most recently, The Lowland, which was TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WILLIAM MORRIS shortlisted for the Man Booker and Baileys Prize in 2014, and won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 and Letters in 2012. PAPERBACK • AUS $22.99 • NZ $24.99
104 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Redeemable
A Memoir of Darkness and Hope Erwin James
‘This is how redemption should be done. James has done us a great service’ John Bird, Big Issue
orn in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he Bwas seven, turning his father to alcohol and violence. At the age of ten he was sleeping rough when he committed his first crime of breaking and entering. As he grew older his petty crime turned violent, ending with a life sentence in 1984 for two murders. It wasn’t until he met Joan, a prison psychologist, that Erwin began to confront his past. Her sessions would turn his life around, showing no matter how far a person falls, redemption is possible with the right kind of help. 09 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781408849323 • £9.99 Erwin James is a Guardian columnist and author. A trustee of the Prison Reform EXPORT TPB • 9781408872956 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408849330 • £9.99 Trust, he has given keynote addresses to the Royal Society in Edinburgh, the Danish TERRITORY: WE parliament, and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House. He is TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID GODWIN a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and an Honorary Master of the Open University. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 erwinjames.co.uk • @TheErwinJames
Herding Hemingway’s Cats
Understanding How Our Genes Work Kat Arney
‘Arney’s chirpy tour through the mysteries of modern genetics is engrossing and fun’ Guardian
he language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your Teyes blue or your hair curly. We’re told that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer’s. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted, and gene-based advances in medicine hold huge promise. Drawing on stories from six-toed cats and stickleback hips to Mickey Mouse mice and zombie genes – told by researchers working at the cutting edge of genetics – Kat Arney explores the mysteries in our genomes with clarity, flair and wit, creating a companion reader 09 FEBRUARY 2017 to the book of life itself. PAPERBACK • 9781472910073 • £9.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472910059 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472910066 • £9.99 Following a doctorate in Developmental Genetics at Cambridge University and a TERRITORY: WO research career, Kat Arney is now Science Communications Manager at Cancer TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Research UK where she translates science-speak into plain English for the media and the general public. Kat is also a freelance science writer and broadcaster, whose ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $23.99 work has appeared in the Guardian and New Scientist.
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PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 105 Isms: Understanding Photography Emma Lewis
Clear and concise, this pocket-sized introduction to photography is perfect for the general reader and student, covering key trends and movements from the nineteenth century to the present day
he latest in the bestselling Isms series. Concisely written, Isms: Understanding TPhotography packs an enormous amount of detail into a handy and attractive format tracing the evolution of photography through a series of interconnected trends, groups, themes and movements, from the invention of the photographic process to the post-Internet age. Completely international and comprehensive 09 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781474277594 • £9.99 in scope, Isms: Understanding Photography is an essential purchase for anyone TERRITORY: ACOMM/EUEXCAN, OM interested in this subject, one that in the Instagram age is of more resonance and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: IQON EDITIONS general interest than ever before.
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 Emma Lewis is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, London, where she has worked on photographic acquisitions, curated collection displays – including Italian Modernist Photography (2014) and Otto Steinert (2015) and is currently researching a major monographic photography exhibition opening in Spring 2017.
Captain of the Carpathia The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron Eric L. Clements
The first full-length biography of the master mariner whose ship came to the rescue of Titanic’s survivors
enry Arthur Rostron was the captain of Carpathia the first ship to reach the Hdistressed Titanic, defying the ship’s limitations to rescue 706 survivors. Following the rescue Rostron became the most celebrated master mariner of his generation, winning a Congressional Gold Medal. During the First World War, he captained the Cunard liner Mauretania as a hospital and troop ship. Using original documents, newspapers and contemporary publications, the book considers 09 FEBRUARY 2017 Rostron’s life and seafaring in his era. It looks too at the wider history in which he PAPERBACK • 9781844864492 • £9.99 was involved, the evolution of the transatlantic passenger trade, and the celebrated EBOOK • 9781844862900 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO ships in which he served and he commanded. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Eric L. Clements is professor of history at Missouri State University. The Atlantic ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 liners were his first historical interest and he also served a hitch in the U.S. Coast PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $23.99 Guard.
106 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Reach the Top in Finance
The Ambitious Accountant’s Guide to Career Success Sally Percy
Provides finance professionals around the world with a detailed blueprint for making it to the top of their chosen career
n an increasingly global marketplace, finance is a highly competitive industry Iand it can be tough to reach the top. Those who are able to make it to the most senior positions require a unique skill set, covering areas that extend far beyond just crunching numbers.
This book features commentary from, and interviews with, current and former CFOs in the UK and overseas, as well as from related groups such as recruiters and 23 FEBRUARY 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781472938107 • £20.00 headhunters. The book will provide the ambitious finance professional of today EBOOK • 9781472938114 • £15.99 with the knowledge, insight and guidance they need to become the respected TERRITORY: WO CFO of tomorrow. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 Sally Percy is a journalist with over ten years of experience, mostly writing for PAPERBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $42.99 the finance sector. With a high profile in the field, she has edited two journals (Accountancy and the Treasurer) and written a number of white papers for companies such as Ernst & Young and Hays.
The Art of Content Marketing
Building an Agile and Sustainable Brand Story Alex Reeve
A complete guide for marketers looking to maximise the impact and value of their content strategy
ne of the most analyzed areas in modern business, content marketing is seen Oas an essential way to engage customers, win new business, and encourage loyalty and advocacy. The Art of Content Marketing outlines how companies can create a more authentic culture and develop an operating model that is attuned to the needs and behaviour of its target customers.
Not simply a guide to the mechanics of digital marketing, this book looks beyond 29 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781472936554 • £20.00 the latest trends in social media to provide a fresh perspective on the core principles, EBOOK • 9781472936561 • £16.99 with the longer-term goal of inspiring, engaging and retaining customers. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Alex Reeve is a lecturer at Ashridge/Hult International Business School, where ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 he teaches courses on agile marketing, digital marketing and new product PAPERBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $42.99 development for the Masters in Marketing and Masters in International Business programmes. Alex was VP of Marketing at Pearson; prior to that, he was with Microsoft UK, as a director of the Windows phone division.
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 107 The Age of Genius
The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind A. C. Grayling
‘The Age of Genius excels. Its scope is remarkable and it wears its learning lightly’ Literary Review
n the seventeenth century science moved from the alchemy and astrology of IJohn Dee to the observation and astronomy of Galileo, from the classicism of Aristotle to the evidence-based, collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon. And if the old ways still lingered, affecting the new mind set – Descartes’ dualism, an attempt to square the new philosophy with religious belief; Newton, the man who understood gravity and the laws of motion, yet fascinated to the end of his life by 23 FEBRUARY 2017 alchemy – by the end of that tumultuous century ‘the greatest ever change in the PAPERBACK • 9781408870020 • £10.99 mental outlook of humanity’ had irrevocably taken place. EXPORT TPB • 9781408870389 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408843291 • £10.99 TERRITORY: WE A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities. He has written and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: FELICITY BRYAN edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 Times, Observer and Independent on Sunday, and is a frequent contributor to radio PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 and television programmes.
acgrayling.com • @acgrayling
The Morning They Came for Us
Dispatches from Syria Janine di Giovanni
‘Heartbreaking … A testimony of the power of empathy, conscience and understanding’ Elif Shafak, Financial Times
n May 2011, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria, a region she had worked in for Iover 20 years. It marked the beginning of an intense relationship, as she began reporting from both sides of the Syrian conflict, through its descent into bloody war, and up until March 2015. Talking to people from every sector of society – villages to cities, government officials to opposition fighters – and working with the UN’s refugee agency, the country consumed all of her work and emotion. Delivered
23 FEBRUARY 2017 with passion and fearlessness, The Morning They Came For Us is an unflinching PAPERBACK • 9781408851104 • £9.99 account of a nation on the brink of disintegration – and an unforgettable testament EXPORT TPB • 9781408868294 • £12.99 to human resilience in the face of unimaginable horrors. EBOOK • 9781408851098 • £9.99 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: INKWELL Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for 25 years and is the winner of the MANAGEMENT 2016 Courage in Journalism Award. She is the author of seven books including Madness Visible and Ghosts by Daylight, the Middle East Editor of Newsweek and ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. She lives in Paris. PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $22.99
janinedigiovanni.com • @janinedigi
108 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Out of Time
1966 and the End of Old-fashioned Britain Peter Chapman
A captivating portrait of the summer of 1966 – as a man, a team and a country all teetered on the cusp of momentous change
n the summer of 1966 Peter Chapman was a naive 18-year-old Londoner, having Irecently discovered he would not be fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional footballer. On the brink of adulthood, he found himself in a country also on the brink of huge change – and about to have one of the most significant sporting successes in its history. Focused around England’s World Cup victory, Out of Time tells the story of that summer – both the football and the country’s broader political, social and economic picture – through his 18-year-old eyes, and offers a vivid and 09 MARCH 2017 beautifully written portrait of what life was like in 1966. PAPERBACK • 9781472917171 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781472917164 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WO Peter Chapman was brought up in Islington, north London. In the mid-1960s, he TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY played in goal for Leyton Orient junior and colts teams. He was a correspondent for the BBC, Guardian and Observer in Central America and Mexico from 1981 ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 to 1986, and covered two World Cups for ITV. He is now a reporter and feature writer at the Financial Times.
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 109 The Wicked Boy
The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer Kate Summerscale
‘Unexpectedly touching … A fascinating account of a murder and its endless reverberations’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
n Monday 8 July 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his Obrother Nattie set out from their home in east London to watch a cricket match. Over the next ten days they spent extravagantly, visiting the theatre and eating out; their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, and nobody had seen their mother since. But when an awful smell arose from the boys’ house, the police were called to investigate. The Wicked Boy is the fascinating true story of a murder, and also of its astonishing aftermath.
Kate Summerscale is the author of The Queen of Whale Cay, winner of the Somerset Maugham award; The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick; and Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, a Sunday Times bestseller. 09 MARCH 2017 She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. PAPERBACK • 9781408851166 • £8.99 She lives in London. EXPORT TPB • 9781408851159 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408851135 • £8.99 TERRITORY: COMM/EUEXCAN, OM katesummerscale.com TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROGERS, COLERIDGE & WHITE ‘Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $18.99 atmospheric, but what is most heartening about this truly remarkable book is the story of real-life redemption that it brings to light’ John Carey, Sunday Times
‘Gripping ... Summerscale is an exquisite storyteller’ Daisy Goodwin, The Times
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110 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION No Way But Gentlenesse
A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life Richard Hines
‘A work of enchanting honesty and tenderness … Rich with history, lit with humour and passionate social concern’ Helen Macdonald
arry and Richard Hines both grew up in Hoyland Common, a South Yorkshire Bmining village. But after 11+ exams, their paths diverged. While Barry passed and went to grammar school, Richard failed and was left without hope of academic achievement.
Richard read T. H. White’s book, The Goshawk. Enthralled, he sought a falconry book in the library and trained a kestrel taken from a nest in a ruined sixteenth- 09 MARCH 2017 century hall. This obsession was to shape the course of his life. PAPERBACK • 9781408868027 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781408868034 • £8.99 No Way But Gentlenesse is a moving tale of one boy’s attempt to find salvation in TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY the natural world. ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 Richard Hines was raised in Hoyland Common, a village in South Yorkshire. He was PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 Deputy Head in a school but has spent most of his career as a documentary film- maker, working for the BBC and Channel 4, before becoming a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in Sheffield and frequently walks on the nearby moors.
Full Marks for Trying
An Unlikely Journey from the Raj to the Rag Trade Brigid Keenan
‘Poignant insights into a Britain now long gone ... Charming’ The Times
rom Brigid Keenan’s early beginnings – a technicolour childhood in India, to a Ffinishing school in Paris – ordinary just wasn’t for her. Moving to swinging 60s London, Brigid fell into a career and found herself, at just 21, a Fashion Editor at the Sunday Times. Working with David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton, chatting with Vidal Sassoon, to turning up to report on the Vietnam War dressed in a miniskirt, Brigid Keenan’s enthusiasm – and naivety – have led to a succession of hilarious mishaps, as well as marvellous triumphs.
Brigid Keenan is an author and journalist. Now Fashion Editor at the Oldie, she has 09 MARCH 2017 worked as an editor on Nova, the Observer and the Sunday Times. She has published PAPERBACK • 9781408852309 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781408852262 • £8.99 two fashion histories as well as Travels in Kashmir, Damascus, the bestselling TERRITORY: WE Diplomatic Baggage, and, most recently, the companion memoir Packing Up. Brigid TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID GODWIN Keenan is a founding board member of the Palestine Festival of Literature. She lives with her husband in Pimlico and Somerset. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $20.00 • NZ $21.99
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 111 The Most Perfect Thing
Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg Tim Birkhead
‘You’ll never dip your morning soldiers without a shiver of wonder at the complexity of the humble egg’ Observer
hich end of an egg is laid first, the blunt end or the pointed end? How are eggs Wof different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? These are just some of the questions Tim Birkhead answers in his fascinating new book, placing current scientific knowledge within an historical context and taking the reader on a captivating journey from the creation and fertilisation of eggs, to their development 09 MARCH 2017 and eventual hatching, revealing many weird and wonderful facts along the way. PAPERBACK • 9781408851272 • £9.99 EBOOK • 9781408851265 • £9.99 Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Society of London. Among his other books are The Red Canary, which won the Consul Cremer Prize, The Wisdom of Birds and Bird Sense. He is married with ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 three children and lives in Sheffield. PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $24.99 bird-sense.com • @TimBirkhead1
Sorting the Beef from the Bull
The Science of Food Fraud Forensics Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple
‘A must-read’ Financial Times
orsemeat in burgers, melamine in infant’s milk, artificial colours in our fish Hand fruit … as our urban lifestyle takes us ever further from our food sources, there are increasing opportunities for dishonest, profit-making shortcuts. Food adulteration costs the food industry billions of dollars annually; the price to consumers may be even higher, with some paying for these crimes with their health and maybe even their lives.
23 MARCH 2017 This book explains the tools used in the fight against the fraudsters. Exploring the PAPERBACK • 9781472911353 • £9.99 arms race between scientists and criminals, it brings the story of this fascinating EXPORT TPB • 9781472921369 • £12.99 and under-reported applied science to light. EBOOK • 9781472911346 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Richard Evershed FRS is Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of Bristol. Having been at the forefront of analytical chemistry for more than 30 years, his ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 methodologies have been crucial in the fight against food fraudsters. Nicola Temple PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 is a biologist, conservationist and science writer.
nicolatemple.com • @nicolatemple
112 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic Sam Jefferson
The story of the first ever offshore yacht race, and the notorious New York playboy who won it
he 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their Tway across the Atlantic in the dead of winter in pursuit of a $90,000 prize. Six men died in the brutal and close-fought contest, and the event changed the perception of yachting from a slightly effete gentlemen’s pursuit into something altogether more rugged and adventurous.
This book tells the exhilarating true story of the race, focussing on the victorious 09 FEBRUARY 2017 yacht Henrietta and her owner James Gordon Bennett, a notorious playboy. There’s PAPERBACK • 9781472941022 • £8.99 ample drama, eccentric characters and plenty of scandal and adventure. EBOOK • 9781472916747 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Sam Jefferson is a journalist and maritime historian, and the author of Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail and Sea Fever. He is a former Deputy Editor of Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today and Traditional Boats and Tall Ships.
Jacobites
A New History of the ’45 Rebellion Jacqueline Riding
‘A gripping, panoramic and timely account of the greatest eighteenth-century crisis to menace the Union of Great Britain’ Tom Holland
he 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. At its height it Tthreatened to completely destabilise the British state, while disrupting her military capability in Europe and colonial activities in America and beyond. Yet the reality of this crucial episode continues to be obscured by fiction and myth: the heroic, doomed ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’; the heartless ‘Butcher’ Cumberland. This magnificent, wide- ranging account draws extensively on contemporary sources, revealing the thoughts of key players and eyewitnesses as these remarkable events played out. It presents a 06 APRIL 2017 story more complex, paradoxical and even tragic than the myth suggests. PAPERBACK • 9781408867648 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781408819692 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE Dr Jacqueline Riding specialises in Georgian and early-Victorian history and art. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH She was founding Director of the Handel House Museum, London, and has worked as a curator at both the Guards Museum and the Palace of Westminster. Historian ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 and adviser on Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner (2014), she is now working on his next PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 film project Peterloo. jacquelineriding.com • @JacRiding
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 113 The Great Acceleration
How the World is Getting Faster, Faster Robert Colvile
‘Really an excellent book*****’ The Times, Book of the Week
nstant messaging. Superfast broadband. High-frequency trading. ‘Move fast and Ibreak things,’ advises Mark Zuckerberg. The world is, undeniably, accelerating. In this revelatory study of modern living, Robert Colvile examines the effect of this speed on our minds and bodies, studying the opportunities that faster communication and operation could bring not just to the universe of social media but to everything – from music, film and books, to transport, politics and the government. The Great Acceleration explains how the positives outnumber the 06 APRIL 2017 negatives and why, if this speeding up is inevitable, we should rush to embrace it. PAPERBACK • 9781408840214 • £9.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408840085 • £12.99 Robert Colvile is one of Britain’s brightest young writers and editors. A regular EBOOK • 9781408840061 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO commentator on politics, culture and technology, he has also been News Director TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY at BuzzFeed UK, Head of Comment at the Daily Telegraph and telegraph.co.uk and Comment Editor of the Sunday Telegraph. ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $20.99 • NZ $21.99 robertcolvile.com • @rcolvile
Following On
A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket Emma John
1993 saw the start of the England cricket team’s worst ever streak and – inexplicably – the moment Emma John fell utterly in love with them
n 1993 the England cricket team were becoming infamous for their ineptitude. IWith spectacularly poor timing, 14-year-old Emma John chose that summer to fall in love with cricket and, mystifyingly, with that terrible England cricket team. Nearly a quarter of a century on, she goes back to meet her teenage heroes and find out just what was going on in The Worst England Cricket Team of All Time. As she traipses back through her adolescence, Following On is also a personal memoir of 20 APRIL 2017 what it was like to grow up following a team that always lost – and why on Earth PAPERBACK • 9781472916891 • £9.99 anyone would choose to do it. EBOOK • 9781472916884 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Emma John is Deputy Editor of the Observer Magazine and writes a regular back- page column for Observer Sport and a sport-on-TV column, ‘Armchair View’. She ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 is former Deputy Editor of Observer Sport Monthly and The Wisden Cricketer, and PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 was named Young Sportswriter of the Year in 2008. She has also written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Times and Independent on Sunday.
@em_john
114 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION The Fall of the House of Wilde
Oscar Wilde and His Family Emer O’Sullivan
‘An indispensable contribution to Wildean literature ... Compelling, informative and fascinating’ Stephen Fry
scar Wilde’s father – scientist, surgeon, archeologist, writer – was one of the Omost eminent men of his generation. His mother – poet, journalist, translator – hosted an influential salon at 1 Merrion Square. Together they were one of Victorian Ireland’s most dazzling and enlightened couples. When in 1864 Sir William Wilde was accused of sexually assaulting a female patient, it sent shock waves through Dublin society. After his death, some ten years later, Jane attempted to re-establish the family in London, where Oscar burst upon the scene and became the first 04 MAY 2017 modern celebrity. His own fall in a trial as public as his father’s marked the end PAPERBACK • 9781408863169 • £9.99 of fin-de-siècle decadence. EXPORT TPB • 9781408880128 • £14.99 EBOOK • 9781408843581 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO Emer O’Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf’s literature at UEA, where she also lectured in English Literature. This is her first book. She lives in London. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $23.99
The Last Royal Rebel
The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth Anna Keay
‘The best royal biography I have read in years’ A. N. Wilson
he favourite illegitimate son of Charles II, James, Duke of Monmouth, was born Tin exile the year the English monarchy was abolished. He emerged from the boarding houses of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of London, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders.
His story is one of the bond between father and son, the power struggle between King and Parliament and the conflict between love and honour. Monmouth’s thrilling life, culminating in his fateful invasion, brings alive the turbulent decades 04 MAY 2017 following the civil war in which England as we know it was forged. PAPERBACK • 9781408845936 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781408846087 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE Anna Keay read history at Magdalen College, Oxford. She has a PhD from the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID HIGHAM University of London on court ceremonial in Charles II’s reign. Historian, writer and presenter, Anna has worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces, Curatorial ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 Director of English Heritage and is currently Director of the Landmark Trust. PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99
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PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 115 The End of the Road
The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked Cycling Alasdair Fotheringham
The first detailed account of the Festina Affair, which ripped apart the 1998 Tour de France and irrevocably changed cycling
s the opening stages of the 1998 Tour de France unfolded, the Festina team’s Asoigneur was arrested on the border with a car-load of drugs, triggering sport’s biggest mass doping controversy – what became known as the Festina Affair. It all but destroyed professional cycling.
The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth analysis 04 MAY 2017 and a colourful evocation of those tumultuous events. Alasdair Fotheringham PAPERBACK • 9781472913043 • £9.99 uncovers, step by step, how the world’s biggest bike race sank into a nightmarish EXPORT TPB • 9781472913036 • £12.99 series of scandals that left the sport on its knees. He explores its long-term EBOOK • 9781472913050 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO consequences – and what, if any, lessons were learned. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Alasdair Fotheringham has covered 24 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain. ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 He was the Independent and the Independent on Sunday’s cycling correspondent PAPERBACK • AUS $18.99 from 2001 to 2016, and is a regular contributor to a number of leading cycling magazines. He has written two cycling books: The Eagle of Toledo and Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocana.
The Stress Test
How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper Ian Robertson
‘You can change, and here’s the proof’ Oliver James
hile some people rise to a challenge and function better in difficult situations, Wothers fall apart. The difference between too much pressure and too little can result in either debilitating stress or demotivation. The right level of challenge, however, can help people flourish. This level varies hugely between individuals and situations but when reached it is what Robertson refers to as the ‘sweet spot’. This spot can be changed, and in this book, based on his own research and clinical observations, Robertson reveals how we can use the sweet spot to control stress 18 MAY 2017 and boost performance. PAPERBACK • 9781408860397 • £8.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408860373 • £12.99 A neuroscientist and trained clinical psychologist, Ian Robertson is an international EBOOK • 9781408860380 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WE expert on neuropsychology. Currently Professor of Psychology at Trinity College TRANSLATION RIGHTS: FELICITY BRYAN Dublin, and formerly Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, he holds visiting professorships at the University of Toronto, University College London and the ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 University of Wales. He has written three books for the general reader, including PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $21.99 The Winner Effect.
116 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION We Chose to Speak of War and Strife
The World of the Foreign Correspondent John Simpson
From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of those bringing home news of the troubled world
cross the world, where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed, foreign Acorrespondents have for centuries been engaged in uncovering the latest news and – despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent – relaying it home.
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife brings us pivotal moments in our history through the eyes of those who risked life and limb to witness them first hand, and the astonishing tales of what it took to report them. Weaving the tales of the greats of yesterday and today with extraordinary accounts from his own lifetime on the front lines, this is a deeply personal book from a true master 01 JUNE 2017 of the profession. PAPERBACK • 9781408872246 • £9.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408872239 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408872253 • £9.99 John Simpson CBE is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor. In a BBC TERRITORY: WE career spanning 50 years he has twice been the Royal Television TRANSLATION RIGHTS: LAW Society’s Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs, an ANZ PUB DATE 01 NOVEMBER 2017 International Emmy, and a wide range of other British, German, PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 French and other awards for his reporting. He lives in Oxford.
@JohnSimpsonNews
Praise for Strange Places, Questionable People
‘Great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious’ Daily Telegraph
Praise for Days from a Different World
‘Superlative … Tangy, sensuous prose … The rationed, soot-black world of the late 1940s is beautifully evoked’ Sunday Times
PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 117 The Jane Austen Writers’ Club
Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-Loved Novelist Rebecca Smith
‘Winning and beguiling ... Smith shares Jane Austen’s clarity and gentle irony’ Independent
ane Austen is the most beloved writer of the English literary canon. Her six novels Jchanged the landscape of fiction forever – and her writing remains as fresh, entertaining and witty as when her books were first published. Now, you can learn her methods and how to live well as a writer with this illuminating and entertaining new book. Writing exercises sit alongside beautiful illustrations and quotes from Austen’s novels – highlighting the techniques of plotting and characterisation, 08 JUNE 2017 through to dialogue and suspense. This remarkable guide will appeal to all those PAPERBACK • 9781408866054 • £9.99 who love and enjoy Jane Austen’s work – and aspiring writers everywhere. EBOOK • 9781408866061 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: LUTYENS & Rebecca Smith teaches creative writing at the University of Southampton, and RUBINSTEIN is the author of three novels and one work of non-fiction, Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Dilemmas. A Writer in Residence at Jane Austen’s House Museum in ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 Chawton, she has run many Austen-inspired writing workshops at the museum and other venues. She lives in Hampshire.
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Soccermatics
Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game David Sumpter
‘Football looked at in a very different way’ Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst
ootball – the most mathematical of sports – is riddled with numbers, patterns Fand shapes. How to make sense of them? The answer lies in mathematical modelling, an applied science with applications in a host of biological systems. Soccermatics brings the two together in a thrilling, mind-bending synthesis. What’s the similarity between an ant colony and Total Football, Dutch style? How is the Barcelona midfield linked geometrically? And how can we relate the mechanics of a Mexican Wave to singing cicadas in an Australian valley? Welcome to the world 09 MARCH 2017 of modelling, expressed brilliantly by David Sumpter through the prism of football. PAPERBACK • 9781472924148 • £9.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472924131 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472924155 • £9.99 David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, TERRITORY: WO Sweden. Some applied mathematics research projects on which he has worked TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY include the traffic of Cuban leaf-cutter ants; swarms of locusts traveling across
ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2017 the Sahara; dancing honey bees from Sydney; and the tubular structures built by PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 Japanese slime moulds.
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118 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Endurance
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek Rick Broadbent
The story of the greatest long-distance athlete in history – a tale of running, redemption and political exile
oted the ‘greatest runner of all time’ by Runner’s World in 2013, the ‘Czech VLocomotive’ became a global hero due to his success on the track but – at a time of political instability – Zátopek risked everything for the love of his friends and country, and soon found himself cast adrift into political exile. With traces of Chariots of Fire and Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, this is both a wonderful love story and a landmark tale of hope and strength in the face of crushing injustices – all against the backdrop of political revolution and the golden era of athletics. 15 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781472920232 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781472920249 • £8.99 Rick Broadbent is an award-winning journalist and author. He has been staff writer TERRITORY: WO at The Times for ten years and spent 2007–13 as the paper’s athletics correspondent. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY He has written eight books including That Near-Death Thing and Ring of Fire, both shortlisted for the William Hill Prize. He was also the ghost-writer of Jessica Ennis’s ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $22.99 Sunday Times top-10 bestselling autobiography.
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs David Hone
‘Gripping and wonderfully informative’ Tom Holland, New Statesman
yrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world. It topped six tons, T was more than 12 metres long, and had the largest head and most powerful bite of any land animal, ever.
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles tracks the rise of these dinosaurs, and presents the latest research into their biology, showing off more than just their impressive statistics – tyrannosaurs had feathers and fought and even ate each other. It explores how tyrannosaurs came to be the dominant terrestrial predators of the Mesozoic and, 20 APRIL 2017 in more recent times, one of the great icons of biology. PAPERBACK • 9781472911285 • £9.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472911261 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472911278 • £9.99 David Hone is lecturer in Zoology at Queen Mary University, London. He has TERRITORY: WO published more than 50 academic papers on dinosaur biology and behaviour, with TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY a particular interest in the tyrannosaurs, while his fieldwork has included time on the famous Chinese feathered dinosaur deposits. David writes a regular blog for ANZ PUB DATE 01 JULY 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $23.99 the Guardian, Lost Worlds. davehone.co.uk • @Dave_Hone
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A Lifetime in Pursuit of Sporting Excellence Simon Barnes
Warm and witty reassurance that sometimes it really is the ‘taking part’ that counts
imon Barnes has taken part in seven summer Olympic Games, five World SCups and ten Ashes series. Well, not exactly taken part, but he was there and writing hard. And behind every victory and every defeat he recorded, there was the reference of his own amateur sporting career. His adventures taught him about sport: why we do it, what is required to be very good at it; about the relationship of physical and mental skills, about fear and courage and physical pain; about the team thing, the ‘me’ thing. His sporting failure has been a joyous and profoundly 04 MAY 2017 informative part of his life, and here he tells the story of it. PAPERBACK • 9781472918789 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781472918796 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WO Simon Barnes is a multi-award-winning writer with more than 20 books to his TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY name, including The Meaning of Sport and How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher. He was the Chief Sports Writer of The Times until 2014, and has written sports columns ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $20.99 for GQ, the Spectator and many others.
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Death on Earth
Adventures in Evolution and Mortality Jules Howard
‘An altogether eye-opening, engaging, and enjoyably humorous (but never distasteful) guided tour through the world of death’ Science
atural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal Non Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre.
With a narrative featuring a fish with a fake eye, the immortal jellyfish and some of the world’s top death-investigating biologists, Death on Earth explores the never- ending cycle of death and the impact it has on the living. Why are we so weird 18 MAY 2017 about death? Where does this fear come from? And how might knowledge of PAPERBACK • 9781472915092 • £9.99 ageing in other animals help us live better lives, free from the diseases of old age? EXPORT TPB • 9781472915085 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781472915108 • £9.99 TERRITORY: WO Jules Howard is a zoologist, writer, blogger and broadcaster who writes on a host TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY of topics relating to zoology and wildlife conservation. He appears regularly in BBC Wildlife Magazine and on TV and radio including on BBC’s The One Show, ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 Nature and Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch as well as BBC Breakfast and Radio 4’s PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99 Today programme.
juleshoward.co.uk • @juleslhoward
120 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Big Data
Does Size Matter? Timandra Harkness
‘Harkness has the perfect combination of wit, charm and statistical insight to crunch big data’ Matt Parker, Stand-up Mathematician
ig data knows where you’ve been and who your friends are. It can predict what Byou’ll buy and where you’ll be a victim of crime. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims. But how well do you know big data?
Timandra Harkness takes us on a whirlwind tour of how people are using big data today: from science to smart cities and business to politics. She asks the big questions about where it’s taking us, leaving you armed and ready to decide what you think about one of the decade’s big ideas: big data. 15 JUNE 2017 PAPERBACK • 9781472920072 • £9.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472935830 • £12.99 Timandra Harkness is a writer, comedian and broadcaster, who has been EBOOK • 9781472920065 • £9.99 performing on scientific, mathematical and statistical topics since the latter days TERRITORY: WO of the twentieth century. She is a regular on BBC Radio, resident reporter on The TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY
Human Zoo as well as writing and presenting documentaries including BBC Radio ANZ PUB DATE 01 JUNE 2017 4’s Data, Data Everywhere and FutureProofing series. PAPERBACK • AUS $21.99 • NZ $22.99 timandraharkness.com • @TimandraHarknes
Hope
My Life in Football Hope Powell
The story of the pioneering England women’s football manager
ope Powell always wanted to play football as a child but was told it was not a Hsuitable game for little girls. The original Bend It Like Beckham tale, hers is the inspiring story of how a kid from a south London housing estate became one of the most influential figures in world football.
A true role model, Powell relives the highlights of a lifelong career in the sport – from her playing days, through her incredible 15-year tenure as England manager and her work revolutionising how the women’s game was run and perceived, to 01 JUNE 2017 being the first woman to gain the UEFA Pro Licence coaching qualification, and PAPERBACK • 9781472925572 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781472925589 • £8.99 her time managing Great Britain Women at the 2012 Olympics. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Hope Powell is the first female Coach Educator at the Professional Footballers’ Association, and works as an advocate for change and development in women’s football. She lives in London.
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0–9 C F 4th Rock from the Sun 66 Captain of the Carpathia 106 Fall of the House of Wilde, The 115 21st Century Workforces and Carnivalesque 7 Farmageddon in Pictures 98 Workplaces 92 Cheese & Dairy 76 Folded Clock, The 46 30 Minute Curries 74 Chief Engineer 61 Following On 114 Coming, The 38 Forensic Records Society, The 9 A Commonwealth 24 Fuelling the Cycling Revolution 86 Cook Japan, Stay Slim, Full Marks for Trying 111 Abandon Me 54 Live Longer 73 Fully Connected 93 Age of Genius, The 108 Cow Pie and Other Stories 76 All the Beloved Ghosts 8 Crafted in Britain 48 Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack G Cultural Revolution, The 103 from Twin Peaks 103 Gangster Warlords 96 Cycling Cartoonist, The 84 Arthur & Sherlock 45 Geological Structures 101 Art of Content Marketing, The 107 Giro 100 81 Art of the Affair, The 47 D Gods and Angels 27 At the Edge of the World 51 Dead Zone 43 Good Bohemian, The 58 Death on Earth 120 Gordon Bennett and the B Delicious Gifts 77 First Yacht Race Across the Detox Kitchen Bible, The 72 Atlantic 113 Bad News 98 Direct and Digital Marketing Gravel Heart 9 Barry Sheene 82 in Practice 93 Great Acceleration, The 114 Based on a True Story 8 Dog’s Last Walk, The 46 Guilty Thing 102 Between Them 57 Don’t Stop Me Now 100 Gun Room, The 23 Big Data 121 Doomsday Machine, The 56 Billionaires Club, The 84 Doubter’s Almanac, A 20 Bitter Pill, A 45 H Do You Know Who I Am? 49 Boards That Dare 94 Hats 60 Dust of Promises, The 13 Branded Britain 94 Havana 47 Breaking Cover 36 Herding Cats 79 Breaking Mad 87 E Herding Hemingway’s Cats 105 Breaking the Chains of Gravity 99 Edging Towards Darkness 85 History of Cycling in 100 Bricks that Built the Electronic Dreams 99 Objects, A 83 Houses, The 21 End of the Road, The 116 Hope 121 Buddhist Economics 52 Endurance 119 Horseman, The 2 Built on Bones 64 Europe: An Obituary? 49 House at Bishopsgate, The 3 Burning Ground, The 3 Everything Love Is 25 HR Paradox, The 90 Exile, The 53
126 INDEX Index
I Mark Carwardine’s Guide to R Identity Unknown 50 Whale Watching in North Reach the Top in Finance 107 Indelible 38 America 71 Reading the Rocks 63 Infinite Value 91 MasterChef: Street Food of Re:Cyclists 80 In Gratitude 97 the World 75 Redeemable 105 In Other Words 104 Morning They Came for Us, Reformation Divided 44 In Search of Songbirds 70 The 108 Reputations 25 Insomniac City 54 Most Perfect Thing, The 112 Risotto! Risotto! 73 Inspiring Leadership 91 Mr Toppit 26 River at Night, The 29 Isabella of Castile 42 My European Family 65 River of Ink 16 Isms: Understanding My Own Dear Brother 13 Robber of Youth, The 69 Photography 106 My Sugar Free Baby and Me 87 S J N Sacred Combe, The 101 Jacobites 113 Naked Shore, The 102 Sagrada Familia, The 59 Jane Austen Writers’ Club, The 118 Nice Work (If You Can Get It) 15 Scary Old Sex 18 Jonathan Unleashed 17 Nits and Other Nasties 51 Scribbles in the Margins 59 Junk Food Japan 75 Norse Mythology 4 Secrets of Wishtide, The 35 No Way But Gentlenesse 111 Secret Well Kept, A 44 L Shadowless 12 Show Me A Mountain 28 Lake, The 30 O Sidney Chambers and The Landskipping 104 On the Side 77 Dangers of Temptation 34 Last Royal Rebel, The 115 Our Young Man 26 Sidney Chambers and the Leadership of Teams, The 92 Out of the Shadows 43 Persistence of Love 32 Leadersmithing 95 Out of Time 109 Sixty Years of Jump Racing 79 Letter to a Young Writer Overmapped and Uncharted 55 Soccermatics 118 (And You Too) 60 Sod Sitting, Get Moving! 89 Lincoln in the Bardo 6 P So High a Blood 50 Little Viet Kitchen, The 78 Party Girls Die in Pearls 31 Song Rising, The 5 Locomotive of War, The 41 Patient H69 67 Songs, The 11 Losing It 120 Photographer’s Wife, The 22 Sorted: The Active Woman’s Planet Factory, The 64 Guide to Health 88 M Please Do Not Disturb 28 Sorting the Beef from the Bull 112 Magic Fridge, The 78 Stress Test, The 116 Man of Iron 40 Q Summer Before the War, The 19 Many Selves of Katherine Swell 83 Quiet Genius 82 North, The 27 Systematic 66
INDEX 127 Index
T W Taking Charge of Your Career 90 Walking to Listen 62 Theoretical Foot, The 23 Walworth Beauty, The 10 They are Trying to Break Way of the Hare, The 70 Your Heart 22 Wealthy Body In Business, The 88 This is the Ritual 16 We Chose to Speak of War Thousand Cuts, A 30 and Strife 117 Thousand Paper Birds, A 12 Why I’m No Longer Talking to Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet 72 White People About Race 62 Tom & Lucky (and George & Wicked Boy, The 110 Cokey Flo) 37 Winston Churchill in British Tyrannosaur Chronicles, The 119 Art, 1900 to the Present Day 48 Wisden at The Oval 85 U Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2017 81 Ultra-Distance Cycling 80 Wonders Beyond Numbers 68 World Without End 100 V World Without Us, The 14 Vanished, The 33 Violated, The 39 Vivek’s Indian Festival Feasts 74
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