BLOOMSBUR BLOOMSBURY NEW TITLES Y NEW TITLES • JANUAR bloomsbury.com Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP Y Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 5600 –JUNE 2017 Fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5800 @BloomsburyBooks For Australia & New Zealand enquiries: Tel: +61 2 8820 4900 @BloomsburySyd Prices, publication dates and jackets are subject to change and may vary JANUARY–JUNE 2017 To view the online version of this catalogue please visit: bloomsbury.com/uk/catalogues January – June 2017 2 Original Fiction 13 Paperback Fiction 29 Crime 33 Paperback Crime 38 Fiction (Also Available) 40 Original Non-fiction 64 Popular Science 70 Nature Writing & Outdoors 72 Food 79 Sport 87 Wellbeing 90 Business 96 Paperback Non-fiction 123 Social Media Contacts 124 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales 126 Index 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 ALSO AVAILABLE PAPERBACK PAPERBACK 9781408884102 • £8.99 9780747592693 • £7.99 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 ALSO AVAILABLE HARDBACK PAPERBACK PAPERBACK 9781408859643 • £12.99 9780747594802 • £7.99 9781408841754 • £6.99 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 ALSO AVAILABLE EBOOK PAPERBACK PAPERBACK 9781408884171 • £1.99 9781408882528 • £7.99 9781408882511 • £7.99 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.