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PENGUIN GENERAL 2020 AUTUMN CATALOGUE JULY – DECEMBER CONTENTS July 2 August 15 September 26 October 43 November 54 Paperbacks 65 Penguin General Books 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London SW1V 2SA TEL: 0207139 3000 For details on US, translation, serial and film and TV rights please visit: www.penguinrights.co.uk For up-to-the-minute information visit: www.penguincatalogue.co.uk www.penguin.co.uk 1 JULY 2020 2 Penguin The Tuscan Contessa A heartbreaking new novel set in wartime Tuscany Dinah Jefferies A sweeping new novel from the Number One bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife, set in wartime Tuscany In 1943, Contessa Sofia de' Corsi's peaceful Tuscan villa among the olive groves is upturned by the sudden arrival of German soldiers. Desperate to fight back, she agrees to shelter a wounded British radio engineer in her home, keeping him hidden from her husband Lorenzo - knowing that she is putting all of their lives at risk. When Maxine, an Italian-American working for the resistance, arrives on Sofia's doorstep, the pair forge an uneasy alliance. Feisty, independent Maxine promised herself never to fall in love. But when she meets a handsome partisan named Marco, she realizes it's a promise she can't keep... Before long, the two women find themselves entangled in a dangerous game with the Nazis. Will they be discovered? And will they both be able to save the ones they love? Dinah Jefferies is the author of seven novels: The Separation; The Tea Planter's Wife, a Number One Sunday Times bestseller; The Silk Merchant's Daughter; Before the Rains; The Sapphire Widow; The Missing Sister and The Tuscan Contessa. She lives in Gloucestershire. July 2020 9780241987315 B Format £7.99 : Paperback 368 pages 3 Fig Tree Belladonna Anbara Salam A coming-of-age novel about young love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s Italy It is summer, 1956, when fifteen-year-old Bridget first meets Isabella. In their conservative Connecticut town, Isabella is a breath of fresh air. She is worldly, alluring and brazen: an enigma. When they receive an offer to study at the Academy in Italy, Bridget is thrilled. This is her ticket to Europe and - better still - a chance to spend nine whole months with her glamorous and unpredictable best friend. There, lodged in a convent of nuns who have taken a vow of silence, the two girls move towards a passionate but fragile intimacy. As the year rolls on, Bridget grows increasingly fearful that she will lose Isabella's affections - and the more desperate she gets, the greater the lengths she will go to keep her. Belladonna is a hypnotizing coming-of age story set against the stunning and evocative backdrop of rural Northern Italy. Anbara Salam tells a story of friendship and obsession, desire and betrayal, and the lies we tell in order to belong. Anbara Salam is half-Palestinian and half-Scottish, and grew up in London. She has a PhD in Theology and now lives and works in Oxford. Her first novel, Things Bright and Beautiful, is also published by Penguin. July 2020 9780241404799 Demy Octavo £14.99 : Trade Paperback 352 pages 4 Viking If I Had Your Face 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX Frances Cha A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel about four young women struggling to survive in South Korea If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret 'room salons' to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours, where K-Pop stars are the object of all-consuming obsession, and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move. Navigating this cut-throat city are four young women balancing on the razor-edge of survival: Kyuri, an exquisitely beautiful woman whose hard-won status at an exclusive 'room salon' is threatened by an impulsive mistake with a client; her flatmate Miho, an orphan who wins a scholarship to a prestigious art school in New York, where her life becomes tragically enmeshed with the super-wealthy offspring of the Korean elite; Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they will afford to raise in a fiercely competitive economy; and Ara, a hair stylist living down the hall, whose infatuation with a fresh-faced K-Pop star drives her to violent extremes. Frances Cha is a former travel and culture digital editor for CNN in Seoul. She grew up in the United States, Hong Kong July 2020 and South Korea. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the 9780241396070 Columbia University MFA writing programme, she has written Demy Octavo for The Atlantic, The Believer, Yonhap News and other £12.99 : Trade Paperback publications, and has lectured at Columbia University, Ewha 288 pages University, Seoul National University and Yonsei University. She lives in Brooklyn. If I Had Your Face is her first novel. 5 Hamish Hamilton Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her. This is a love story and it is a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Avni Doshi tests the limits of what we can know for certain about those we are closest to, and by extension, about ourselves. Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey in 1982 and is currently based in Dubai. She won the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 and a Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 2014. Her debut novel is published in India by Fourth Estate under the title Girl in White Cotton. July 2020 9780241441510 Demy Octavo £14.99 : Trade Paperback 240 pages 6 Penguin Supporting Cast Kit de Waal A deeply moving collection of stories featuring characters from My Name is Leon and The Trick to Time As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding day celebrates the pursuit of love. And a young man leaves prison with only one desire - to see his son again. Kit de Waal's characters light up the page in vivid stories of thwarted desire, love and loss. With power and precision, humanity and insight, Supporting Cast captures the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives, and the darkness and the joy of the everyday. Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the 60's and 70's. Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was longlisted for the Women's Prize and her young adult novel Becoming Dinah is shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020. She also crowdfunded and edited an anthology of working class memoir, Common People, which was published in 2018. Kit was named the FutureBook Person of the Year in 2019. July 2020 9780241973424 B Format £8.99 : Paperback 144 pages 7 Sandycove Nothing But Blue Sky Kathleen MacMahon A wise, thoughtful, beautifully observed and impossible-to- put-down portrait of a marriage Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their twenty years together David sees that the ground beneath them had shifted and he simply hadn't noticed. Or had chosen not to. Figuring out who Mary Rose really was and the secrets that she kept - some of these hidden in plain sight - makes David wonder if he really knew her. Did he even know himself? Nothing But Blue Sky is a precise and tender story of love in marriage - a gripping examination of what binds couples together and of what keeps them apart. Nothing But Blue Sky is Kathleen MacMahon's third novel. Her first, This is How it Ends, published in 2012, was translated into more than twenty languages, spent five weeks at the top of the bestseller lists in Ireland, and was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice in the UK. Her second novel, The Long, Hot Summer was published to much acclaim in 2015 and was also a bestseller in Ireland. Kathleen is a former radio and television journalist with Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ, and she lives in Dublin with her family. July 2020 9781844884759 Demy Octavo £12.99 : Trade Paperback 320 pages 8 Penguin Life The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone Over 200 Delicious Recipes That Anyone Can Make David and Stephen Flynn The bestselling Happy Pear authors are back with an inspiring one-stop guide for everyone who wants to master vegan cooking If you have decided you want to be vegan, where do you start? Or if you are an experienced cook, how do you make plant-based meals that are delicious and full of variety? And if you are already vegan, but looking for inspiration, are there simple principles to help you come up with your own dishes? The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone is the answer to your questions.