NOVEMBER 2016 Appetites Anthony Bourdain
Brash, wild, original and badass. This is Anthony Bourdain's interpretation of a normal cookbook.
Description As a restaurant professional, Bourdain spent his life on the fringes of normality - he worked while normal people played, and played while normal people slept. Since then he has settled (kind of) into family life and is cooking for the people he loves rather than people who pay. These are the recipes he turns to when called in for pancake service at sleepover parties or when preparing a violence-free family dinner.
Each and every word is informed by his years in the industry and a life dedicated to food. This is a man who has declared the club sandwich as America's Enemy and wants you to understand the principles of Bad Sandwich Theory. He has distilled his views on dessert to this: it should always be Stilton.
Illustrated with photography that somehow manages to be both strangely beautiful and utterly grotesque, this cookbook - Bourdain's first in ten years - is a home-cooking, home-entertaining cookbook like no other.
About the Author Anthony Bourdain is the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, and the author of the novels: Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories and Gone Bamboo. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Food Arts magazine. He is the host of the international CNN television series: Parts Unknown.
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 John le Carre: The Biography Adam Sisman
The definitive, fascinating biography of one of the world's most famous living writers, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional world of his books
Description Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carr. a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem to offer tantalizing glimpses of their author - but in the narrative of his life fact and fiction have become intertwined, and little is really known of one of the world's most successful writers.
In Cornwell's lonely childhood Adam Sisman uncovers the origins of the themes of love and abandonment which have dominated le Carr.'s fiction: the departure of his mother when he was five, followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care of his father, a man of energy and charm, a serial seducer and conman who hid the Bentleys in the trees when the bailiffs came calling - a 'totally incomprehensible father' who could 'put a hand on your shoulder and the other in your pocket, both gestures equally sincere'. And in Cornwell's adult life - from recruitment by both MI5 and MI6, through marriage and family life, to his emergence as the master of the spy novel - Sisman explores the idea of espionage and its significance in human terms; the extent to which betrayal is acceptable in exchange for love; and the endless need for forgiveness, especially from oneself.
Written with exclusive access to David Cornwell himself, to his private archive and to the most important people in his life - family, friends, enemies, intelligence ex-colleagues and ex-lovers - and featuring a wealth of previously unseen photographic material, Adam Sisman's extraordinarily insightful and constantly revealing biography brings in from the cold a man whose own life has been as complex and confounding and filled with treachery as any of his novels. 'I'm a liar,' Cornwell has written. 'Born to lying, bred to it, trained to it by an industry that lies for a living, practised in it as a novelist.'
This is the definitive biography of a major writer, described by Ian McEwan as 'perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain'.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408849460 About the Author Format: Paperback Adam Sisman is an award-winning writer, author of Boswell's Presumptuous Task, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and Dimensions: 198x129mm winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and biographer of A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor- Extent: 672 pages Roper. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BG Biography: General in Bristol. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons Raymond Blanc
A gorgeously illustrated journey through the year at Raymond Blanc's legendary hotel and restaurant
Description Set in the rolling Oxfordshire hills, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons is a bastion of haute cuisine and a beacon of l'art de vivre. The only country house hotel in Britain to have held two Michelin stars for more than three decades, it is the result of an Anglo-French love affair which began in 1982 when a young chef called Raymond Blanc first set eyes on an ancient manor house and decided, there and then, to transform it into the restaurant-hotel of his dreams.
Enter the iron gates and embark on a personal tour of Le Manoir through the four seasons. Discover Raymond's most celebrated dishes as he gently guides you through sumptuous recipes that can be prepared at home - such as Soupe au pistou and Souffl. de rhubarbe - and the extraordinary examples of haute cuisine - including Th.me sur la tomate and Cassolette d'abricot - which have earned the restaurant its status as one of the world's legendary gastronomic destinations.
With spectacular photography of the luxurious rooms and the ravishing gardens, as well as beautiful and witty illustrations, this is a landmark book to covet and cherish.
About the Author Raymond Blanc is one of the world's great chefs. Entirely self-taught, his passion for food was sparked at an early age by the terroir of his native Franche-Comt.. Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Raymond's finest achievement, is the only country house hotel in Britain to have retained two Michelin stars for more than three decades.
Over the years, Raymond has made a number of acclaimed BBC television series and written many books, including Blanc Mange, Blanc Vite and Kitchen Secrets. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary OBE for his services to culinary excellence, and in 2013 he received the Ordre National de la L.gion d'Honneur, the highest decoration in France.
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons Raymond Blanc
An exclusive special edition of the stunningly illustrated journey through the year at Raymond Blanc's legendary Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons
Description Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons is one of the finest hotel-restaurants in the world. This is a chance to step behind the walls for Raymond's personal tour, season by season. He reveals how every element of the place - from the Japanese garden to the Citronelle bedroom - came into being, and leads you into the kitchen to show you the culinary secrets of this two- Michelin-starred restaurant.
The book features recipes for 120 of Raymond Blanc's most celebrated dishes, including ricotta agnolotti, venison grand veneur, blood orange carpaccio, and apple tart Maman Blanc. With spectacular photography and elegant illustrations, this book will allow you to bring a taste of Le Manoir into your own home.
About the Author Totally self-taught, Raymond Blanc is one of Britain's most respected chefs. His hotel-restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxford has been awarded two Michelin stars for the past 26 years, and in 2007 he was awarded an OBE for services to culinary excellence. He is the bestselling author of several books, including Kitchen Secrets.
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 The Essential Oyster: A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation Rowan Jacobsen
From America's go-to expert, the author of the trailblazing A Geography of Oysters, the ultimate oyster guide-- a gorgeous, full-color, must-have book.
Description A decade ago, Rowan Jacobsen wrote a book called A Geography of Oysters that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal rush of slurping a raw denizen of the sea, and the mysteries of molluscan terroir. The book struck a chord, and American oyster culture has been on a gravity-defying trajectory ever since.
With lavish four-color photos throughout by renowned photographer David Malosh, The Essential Oyster is the definitive book for oyster-lovers everywhere, featuring stunning portraits, tasting notes, and backstories of all the top oysters, as well as recipes from America's top oyster chefs and a guide to the best oyster bars. Spotlighting more than a hundred of North America's greatest oysters--the unique, the historically significant, the flat-out yummiest--The Essential Oyster introduces the oyster culture and history of every region of North America, as well as overseas. There is no coastline from British Columbia to Baja, from New Iberia to New Brunswick, that isn't producing great oysters. For the most part, these are deeper cupped, stronger shelled, finer flavored, and more stylish than their predecessors. Some have colorful stories to tell. Some have quirks. All have character. The Essential Oyster will help you find the best, and help you to cherish them better. That is what's captured--and celebrated--in these pages.
About the Author Rowan Jacobson's first book on oysters, A Geography of Oysters, won the James Beard Award in 2007 and helped trigger the oyster mania we now find ourselves in. He is the author of Apples of Uncommon Character, Fruitless Fall, The Living Shore, and American Terroir. He has written for the New York Times, Harper's, Outside, Mother Jones, and others. He maintains the world's two leading web sources on oysters: Oysterguide (for his opinions) and Oysterater (for everybody else's). He lives in Vermont.
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put Vivian Swift
A charming, illustrated celebration of puttering, doodling, daydreaming, and settling down after years on the road.
Description Following a lifetime of trekking across the globe, Vivian Swift, a freelance designer who racked up 23 temporary addresses in 20 years, finally dropped her well-worn futon mattress and rucksack in a small town on the edge of the Long Island Sound. She spent the next decade quietly taking stock of her life, her immediate surroundings, and, finally, what it means to call a place a home. The result is When Wanderers Cease to Roam. Filled with watercolors of beautiful local landscapes, seasonal activities, and small, overlooked pleasures of easy living, each chapter chronicles the perks of remaining at home, including recipes, hobbies, and prized possessions of the small town lifestyle. At once gorgeously rendered and wholly original, this delightful and masterfully observed year of staying put conjures everything from youthful yearnings and romantic travels to lumpy, homemade sweaters and the gradations of March mud.
About the Author Vivian Swift is a freelance writer and former assistant vice president of Christie's Inc. This is her first book.
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 Kew A Year in the Garden Colouring Book
Follow the seasons in this magical colouring book from Kew Royal Botanic Gardens.
Description With over 90 delicate illustrations to colour in, these beautiful line drawings follow the calendar year. Journey through the garden with delicate flowers, exciting wildlife and seasonal garden pictures for you to bring to life. Hop through the snowflakes and berries, delve into the tropical palm house and finish off a beautiful bluebell carpet as you travel through the seasons with this gorgeous colouring book. You will find little things to spot and find as you go along.
Take inspiration from Clair Rossiter's stunning illustrations or make this book your own: with colour and black and white illustrations, this is a beautiful book to treasure.
About the Author Clair Rossiter is an illustrator based just outside of London. She especially enjoys painting and collaging, hand-rendered typography and inventing characters with wobbly limbs. She was a 2015 Henries Finalist, 'Most Promising Young Designer', and shortlisted for the Aoi Serco Prize for illustration 2014.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408879290 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 250x210mm Extent: 96 pages
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 Churchill's Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World Alan Watson
Churchill's role in restoring European unity from the perspective of his two key speeches in 1946 at Fulton and Zurich
Description Churchill's Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946. Having first helped bring victory to the Allies in 1945, Churchill went on to preserve the freedom of the world by gaining the support of the United States in the restoration of Europe.
In Fulton Missouri, Churchill alerted America to the reality of 'Uncle Joe' - a tyrant determined to dominate Europe at any cost. Churchill called for an Anglo-American alliance based on their shared values and the deterrent of America's possession of the atomic bomb. Churchill also urged the Americans to recognise the debt they owed Britain for opposing Hitler in 1940. In doing so, he contributed to the US thinking behind the need for the Marshall Plan.
In Zurich, Churchill boldly proposed a partnership between France and Germany: a United States of Europe. The hatred stirred up by the war had to be replaced by partnership for Europe to recover its economic vitality and regain its moral stature. Together, the Anglo-American Alliance and a United States of Europe led by France and Germany would have the power to 'smite the crocodile' of Soviet ambition. To understand what Churchill intended with these two speeches requires perspective. The daring of his imagination and the scale of his architecture for a new Western Alliance was extraordinary. At the time, not many recognized the symmetry of what was proposed. At Churchill's funeral in 1965, commentators bemoaned the end of an era. In truth, Churchill was the catalyst of a new era-one built upon effective defence, economic revival, and European unity. His speeches have been added to UNESCO'S International Memory of the World Register.
About the Author Alan Watson is a broadcaster, author, High Steward of Cambridge University, former President of the Liberal Party, public relations consultant and Peer. An accomplished public speaker, presenter, campaigner and consultant, his fascination with Churchill has been lifelong. His enthusiasm for Britain at the interface of Churchill's three circles - Europe, America, Price: $30.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781408880210 and the English-speaking world - remains unmatched. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future Abby Smith Rumsey
What is the future of the forty-thousand year old project of human memory?
Description Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our culture--can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Our enduring culture and restless curiosity have enabled us to invent powerful information technologies that give us invaluable perspective on our past and define our future. Today, we stand at the very edge of a vast, uncharted digital landscape, where our collective memory is stored in ephemeral bits and bytes and lives in air-conditioned server rooms. What sources will historians turn to in 100, let alone 1,000 years to understand our own time if all of our memory lives in digital codes that may no longer be decipherable?
In When We Are No More Abby Smith Rumsey explores human memory from pre-history to the present to shed light on the grand challenge facing our world--the abundance of information and scarcity of human attention. Tracing the story from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls, to movable type, books, and the birth of the Library of Congress, Rumsey weaves a compelling narrative that explores how humans have dealt with the problem of too much information throughout our history, and indeed how we might begin solve the same problem for our digital future. Serving as a call to consciousness, When We Are No More explains why data storage is not memory; why forgetting is the first step towards remembering; and above all, why memory is about the future, not the past.
If we're thinking 1,000 years, 3,000 years ahead in the future, we have to ask ourselves, how do we preserve all the bits that we need in order to correctly interpret the digital objects we create? We are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realizing it. --Vint Cerf, Chief Evangelist at Google, at a press conference in February, 2015.
About the Author Abby Smith Rumsey is a historian who writes about how ideas and information technologies shape perceptions of history, of time, and of personal and cultural identity. Trained at Harvard as a Russian scholar, she has worked in Soviet-era archives, spent a decade at the Library of Congress, and has consulted on digital collecting and curation, intellectual Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781620408025 property issues, and the economics of digital information for a variety of universities and the National Science Foundation. Format: Hard Cover She lives in San Francisco. Dimensions: 235x156mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters Mark Edmundson
From one of America's great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?--an inspiring exploration of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes.
Description Why write?
Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mindbreaking, lonely work. So why?
Because writing, as celebrated professor Mark Edmundson explains, is one of the greatest human goods. Real writing can do what critic R. P. Blackmur said it could: add to the stock of available reality. Writing teaches us to think; it can bring our minds to birth. And once we're at home with words, there are few more pleasurable human activities than writing. Because this is something he believes everyone ought to know, Edmundson offers us Why Write?, essential reading-- both practical and inspiring--for anyone who yearns to be a writer, anyone who simply needs to know how to get an idea across, and anyone in between--in short, everyone.
About the Author Mark Edmundson teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is university professor. A prizewinning scholar, he is also the author of Why Teach?, Why Read?, Teacher, The Death of Sigmund Freud, and The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Nation, the American Scholar, Raritan, and Harper's. He lives in Batesville, Virginia.
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 Lost Champions: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football's Color Line Gretchen Atwood
The story of the integration of professional football--the year before Jackie Robinson did the same for baseball--has been overlooked for too long.
Description Many know the story of Jackie Robinson integrating major league baseball in 1947. But few know that the NFL integrated a year earlier, when Kenny Washington stepped on the field for the Los Angeles Rams. He wasn't the only one. Four men broke pro football's color line in 1946, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode with the Los Angeles Rams and Bill Willis and Marion Motley with the Cleveland Browns. Lost Champions traces this history from the early 1930s--when NFL owners first instituted a ban on black players-- through pro football's re-integration, to the 1950 NFL Championship Game, which pitted the Rams and Browns against each other in a showdown of the most prolific and advanced offenses pro football had ever seen. But the battle wasn't just waged on the gridiron. Lost Champions shows how efforts to integrate sports sits within the often-ignored history of the civil rights movement in the 1940s. The four players faced animosity and death threats for their role in integration while they and all black Americans were threatened in 1946 by a spike in lynchings, threat of legal expulsion from their own homes, and segregation all the way down to the simple act of going to an amusement park for a bit of relaxation. Finally, Lost Champions explains why these men and their stories have for so long languished in the shadow of Jackie Robinson, and why they too deserve widespread acclaim for integrating what is arguably the most popular sport in America.
About the Author Gretchen Atwood is a former sports journalist with a passion for football, civil rights and American history. She lives in San Francisco.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781620406007 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 235x156mm Extent: 288 pages
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting Anne Trubek
The future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history, however, shows how much it has affected culture and civilization for millennia.
Description In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication.
Now, in The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years ago and the invention of the alphabet as we know it, to the rising value of handwritten manuscripts today. Each innovation over the millennia has threatened existing standards and entrenched interests: Indeed, in ancient Athens, Socrates and his followers decried the very use of handwriting, claiming memory would be destroyed; while Gutenberg's printing press ultimately overturned the livelihood of the monks who created books in the pre-printing era. And yet new methods of writing and communication have always appeared. Establishing a novel link between our deep past and emerging future, Anne Trubek offers a colorful lens through which to view our shared social experience.
About the Author Anne Trubek is the editor in chief of Belt magazine and publisher of Belt Publishing. She has published articles in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, and many other publications. She is the author of A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson Ph.D.
From the Civil War to our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
Description As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as black rage, historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames, she writes, everyone had ignored the kindling.
Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House.
Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.
About the Author Carol Anderson is professor of African American studies at Emory University. She is the author of many books and articles, including Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 and Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights: 1944-1955. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Price: $38.99 (NZ$40.99) ISBN: 9781632864123 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 235x156mm Extent: 256 pages
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald Robert D. Richardson
Weaving together the biographies of two poets separated by nearly a thousand years, Robert Richardson brings to life one of the most famous--and ancient--works of poetry in all existence.
Description Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam's quatrains, known as rubai, were written individually for an audience at court, and explored the meanings of life, love, and friendship. They were almost completely unknown in the West until Edward FitzGerald--himself a relatively obscure critic--translated and organized some one hundred of them into a unified whole that he called The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which he published anonymously in 1859. Ignored initially, it soon became a sensation--and FitzGerald with it, his work now translated into seventy languages--and one of the most- read works of literature of all time.
Deftly and eloquently recounting in turn the life stories of Khayyam and FitzGerald, linking them over the span of eight centuries, acclaimed biographer Robert Richardson has crafted the story of the legendary Rubaiyat itself, illuminating a literary classic and reinforcing its place in the canon of great world literature.
About the Author Robert D. Richardson is the acclaimed author of several biographies, including William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. He has edited anthologies such as Three Centuries of American Poetry and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems, and has taught at Harvard, Yale, the University of Denver, and UNC-Chapel Hill, among many others. He and his wife, Annie Dillard, live in Key West; Cripple Creek, Virginia; and South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters edited by Fergus Fleming
The witty and engaging letters of the man who created the world's most famous spy - James Bond
Description On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, 'My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold'. He had bought the gold-plated typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked in glamorous style the arrival of James Bond, agent 007, and the start of a career that saw Fleming become one of the world's most celebrated thriller writers. And he did write golden words. Before his death in 1964 he produced fourteen bestselling Bond books, two works of non-fiction and the famous children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.
Fleming's output was matched by an equally energetic flow of letters. He wrote constantly, to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007's progress with correspondence that ranged from badgering Jonathan Cape about his quota of free copies .- a coin was tossed; Fleming lost - to apologising for having mistaken a certain brand of perfume and for equipping Bond with the wrong kind of gun. His letters also reflect his friendships with contemporaries such as Raymond Chandler, No.l Coward and Somerset Maugham.
Before the world-famous films came the world-famous novels. This books tells the story of the man who wrote them and how he created spy fiction's most compelling hero.
About the Author Fergus Fleming is Ian Fleming's nephew. He is the author of several other non-fiction books including Barrow's Boys, Killing Dragons and Ninety Degrees North. He is also the co-publisher of Queen Anne Press.
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 1916: A Global History Keith Jeffery
A fascinating examination of the First World War beyond the Western Front, told through the significant global events of 1916, events that dramatically altered the fate of many nations
Description The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course.
Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations and shows how they reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such as Gallipoli, Verdun and the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia and Russia, where the killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country's empire. And, in charting a wide range of wartime experience, he studies the 'intelligence war', naval engagements at Jutland and elsewhere, as well as the political consequences that ensued from the momentous US presidential election.
Using an extraordinary range of military, social and cultural sources, and relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider developments, these are the stories lost to history, the conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Europe and the moments that transformed the war.
About the Author Keith Jeffery is Professor of British History at Queen's University, Belfast, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. In 1998, he was the Lees Knowles Lecturer in Military Science at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2003-4, Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of fourteen previous books, including MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949. Keith Jeffery lives in Northern Ireland.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408834329 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Thatcher's Trial: Six Months That Defined a Leader Kwasi Kwarteng
A fascinating examination of the leadership of Britain's most controversial post-war Prime Minister from acclaimed historian Kwasi Kwarteng
Description Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister in 1979, the first woman to hold the position, and the first woman in the Western world to lead a nation.
Within two years she was beset by troubles, and it seemed her historic government would be short-lived. In 1981 unemployment had risen to levels not seen since the 1930s and public finances foundered in their worst state since 1945. The 'no hope' budget delivered by Chancellor Geoffrey Howe in March marked the beginning of a six-month period which witnessed pressures in Northern Ireland, hunger strikes, urban riots and unprecedented unrest within the Conservative Party.
By the Cabinet reshuffle of 14 September, in which mutinous grandees were removed, Thatcher had firmly reasserted her authority. This extraordinary six-month period would come to define the Conservative Party's most successful and divisive modern figure: to her detractors a harsh, uncaring and dogmatic leader who made the country a more unequal, materialistic and brutal place; to her supporters, the saviour of a Britain which was becoming an ungovernable socialist state. The 1983 general election would prove a triumph.
Kwasi Kwarteng here captures this shopkeeper's daughter's unique leadership qualities - from her pulpit style and New Testament imagery to her emphasis on personal moral responsibility - in some of the most adverse conditions facing any statesman in modern peacetime to offer a compelling study of arguably the most significant six months in British post-war history.
About the Author Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and is the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Ghosts of Empire and War and Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408859186 Gold. Thatcher's Trial is his third book. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink
Two leading scientists offer a provocative account, based on the latest scientific research, on how life on our planet evolved--the first major new synthesis for general readers in two decades.
Description Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life--but scientific advances of recent decades have radically altered that. Now two pioneering scientists draw on their years of experience in paleontology, biology, chemistry, and astrobiology to deliver an eye-opening narrative using a generation's worth of insights culled from new research.
Writing with zest, humor, and clarity, Ward and Kirschvink show that many of our long-held beliefs about the history of life are wrong. Three central themes emerge. First, Ward and Kirschvink argue that catastrophe shaped life's history more than all other forces combined--from notorious events like the sudden extinction of dinosaurs to the recently discovered Snowball Earth and the Great Oxygenation Event. Second, life consists of carbon, but oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide determined how it evolved. Third, ever since Darwin we have thought of evolution in terms of species. Yet it is the evolution of ecosystems--from deep-ocean vents to rainforests--that has formed the living world as we know it. Ward and Kirschvink tell a story of life on Earth that is at once fabulous and familiar. And in a provocative coda, they assemble discoveries from the latest cutting-edge research to imagine how the history of life might unfold deep into the future.
About the Author Peter Ward, professor of biology and earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, has authored seventeen books, including the prizewinning RARE EARTH with Donald Brownlee. A recipient of the Jim Shea Award for popular science writing, Ward lives in Washington. Joe Kirschvink, who pioneered the Snowball Earth hypothesis, is a professor of Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He lives in Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) Pasadena, California. ISBN: 9781608199105 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x140mm Extent: 400 pages
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 Coventry: Thursday, 14 November 1940 Frederick Taylor
The definitive account of the bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940 - a companion volume to the same author's acclaimed Dresden
Description On 14 November 1940 the historic city of Coventry was subjected to the longest and most devastating air raid Britain had yet witnessed. After eleven hours of relentless bombardment by the German Luftwaffe, residents emerged from shelters to find their city obliterated and unrecognisable.
Yet the impact of the attack amounted to far more than physical ruin and loss of life. The Coventry raid marked a crucial moment in the Second World War, providing America with the final incentive needed to join forces and Britain with a 'blueprint for obliteration' to be altered and turned against Germany. Seventy-six years on, acclaimed historian Frederick Taylor exposes the real impact of the Coventry bombings, drawing on extensive archive material and a mass of previously unreleased BBC eye witness recordings. He exposes the truth behind the conspiracy theories and lays out in chilling detail how this momentous night of destruction changed the face of modern aerial warfare.
About the Author Frederick Taylor was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School, read History and Modern Languages at Oxford and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries 1939-41 and is the author of four acclaimed books of narrative history, Dresden, The Berlin Wall, Exorcising Hitler and most recently The Downfall of Money. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives in Cornwall.
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 Girls & Sex Peggy Orenstein
Journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face-and reveals how they are negotiating it.
Description A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Mothers and fathers have little idea about the pressures and expectations their daughters face or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist and bestselling author Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths and hard lessons of girls' sex lives in the modern world. In Girls and Sex, Peggy Orenstein opens up a dialogue and offers a cleareyed picture of the new sexual landscape facing today's teens -and reveals how they are negotiating it.
About the Author Peggy Orenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Waiting for Daisy, Flux, and Schoolgirls. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, she has been published in USA Today, Parenting, Salon, the New Yorker, and other publications. She has also contributed commentary to NPR's All Things Considered. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781786070494 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 Progress: Ten Problems Humanity Has Almost Solved Johan Norberg
By the time you read the first chapter, over 2,000 people will have escaped poverty
Description It's on the televisions, in the papers and in our minds. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is - financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.
Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define our species. While it's true that not every problem has been solved, we do now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will take to see this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting and counter-intuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world.
About the Author Johan Norberg is a lecturer, documentary filmmaker and internationally acclaimed author. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. A frequent commentator in Swedish and international media, he has a weekly column in Sweden's biggest daily, Metro. He lives in Malmo.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781780749501 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself Sean Carroll
Set to put Carroll alongside our greatest humanist thinkers from Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan to Daniel Dennett and E.O. Wilson
Description Over the last few hundred years an avalanche of discoveries have changed our world dramatically, having a profound effect on what we think really matters. Now, in his most ambitious book yet, Sean Carroll breaks down how the universe works at the quantum, cosmic and human levels to reveal how our everyday lives connect to the underlying laws of nature.
A synthesis of cosmos-sprawling science and the most profound questions about life, death and our place in it all, The Big Picture is the ultimate guide to the scientific revolution that has taken us from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness and the universe. Carroll demonstrates that while our lives may forever be dwarfed by the immensity of the universe, they can be redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.
About the Author Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. In addition to the Royal Society Winton Prize, he has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game Dan Ackerman
In the dying days of the USSR, battlelines have shifted from spycraft to the cut-throat capitalism and it's intellectual property, not state secrets, that are to be bought, sold, stolen and fought over
Description February 21, 1989. A self-made software magnate with a street hustler's flair, the privileged son of a hard-charging media mogul and a globe-trotting game programmer land in Moscow within hours of each other. Their goal? To undercut one another and strike a deal with the Soviets for the most lucrative piece of intellectual property to ever escape from behind the Iron Curtain - the rights to the game Tetris. Technology reporter Dan Ackerman brings us the gripping tale behind a game so addictive that scientists termed it the world's first 'pharmatronic'.
Combining elements of a fast-paced cold war thriller with corporate espionage, courtroom drama and international conspiracies, The Tetris Effect is also the story of a one-in-a-million software startup, a unique example of an idea, a product, and an era coming together at exactly the right moment. Tetris was perfectly (if accidentally) crafted to hit primal triggers of human experience and in Ackerman's hands it becomes unputdownable once again.
About the Author Dan Ackerman is a section editor at leading technology news site CNET. He regularly appears as a technology correspondent on major news outlets including CNN, the BBC and CBS where he is CBS This Morning's in-house technology expert. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War Mary Roach
The bestselling author of Gulp and Packing for Mars explores the military's odd and obscure adversaries and the scientists who seek to conquer them
Description grunt • n. informal a low-ranking soldier
At a converted movie studio amputee actors help prepare army medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds, while at the base for anti-terror operations in East Africa diarrhoea threatens national security. Beyond weapons and strategy, this is about the other side of war - how to tackle the challenging adversaries of panic, exhaustion, heat and noise.
From maggot debridement therapy to the slightly tricky ethics of testicular transplants, Roach takes us on a rollicking ride full of insights that fascinate as much as they disgust. Not one to shrink away from the gritty details, she samples caffeinated meat, sniffs archival World War II stink bombs, dodges enemy fire with the Marine Corps' paintball team and stays up all night with the sleep-deprived crew of a nuclear submarine.
Revealing answers to questions you'd never even think to ask, Grunt is the inside guide to the memorable, maddening and brilliant science that seeks to keep human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected and uninfested on the battlefield.
About the Author Mary Roach is the New York Times bestselling author of several popular science books. She has written for the Guardian, Wired, BBC Focus, GQ and Vogue. She lives in California.
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 Head in the Cloud: The Power of Knowledge in the Age of Google William Poundstone
A witty, practical guide to succeeding in a culturally illiterate age
Description What's the point of knowing anything when facts are so easy to look up? Just reach for your computer, tablet or mobile and ask the sky. We're living in the golden age of rational ignorance where more people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was and most of us can't name the largest ocean on the planet. Yet the latest research indicates that the better informed are healthier, happier and often dramatically wealthier.
Bestselling author William Poundstone conducts a hilarious and humbling investigation into the true worth of knowledge. What does it tell you, for example, when those who can pinpoint a country on a map are less likely to favour invading it? Underpinned by big data analysis and illustrated with eyeopening anecdotes, Poundstone's Head in the Cloud is an entertaining manifesto on the surprising benefits of broadening your horizons, as well as a warning of the dangers of an ill-informed electorate.
About the Author William Poundstone is the author of fourteen books, including the international bestseller Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? He lives in Los Angeles.
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 The Cure for Catastrophe Robert Muir-Wood
Traversing continents and history, Muir-Wood blends gripping storytelling with scientific insights to dissect the threat posed by natural disasters and tell us what we can do about it
Description Why did no one consider that a tsunami could disable the nuclear power plant in Fukushima? Why did so many die when Katrina flooded New Orleans? Not so long ago we could only focus on rescuing and sheltering survivors - now we can anticipate many natural disasters and plan for them. In dozens of cities around the world, we're able to identify the specific buildings that will be shaken apart, blown down or reduced to rubble. Yet every year, for reasons of politics and inertia, we fail to act.
Despite a revolution in our understanding of these catastrophes, since 2000 they've killed more people than ever before. Taking us on a fascinating journey through the history of catastrophe science, with forensic examinations of the most devastating cataclysms in living memory, Robert Muir-Wood provides a riveting account of our attempts to tame the most extreme forces of nature. Combining a global span with insights from the latest climate and catastrophe modelling, The Cure for Catastrophe explores the extraordinary opportunity we now have to transform what we build, where we live and how warnings are communicated - decisions that could save millions of lives.
About the Author Robert Muir-Wood is head of research at the world's largest catastrophe modelling company, RMS, and a visiting professor at UCL's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. A lead author on climate and catastrophe risk for two IPCC reports, including the Nobel Peace Prize-winning 4th Assessment, his expertise is sought worldwide. He lives in London.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$42.99) ISBN: 9781786070050 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 356 pages
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey Into The Minds of Our Greatest Writers Richard Cohen
A charming, eloquent love letter to the stories we adore
Description What made Norman Mailer change from first person to third? Which authors borrowed plots and characters from people they knew? Why did Turgenev envy Tolstoy, and what does that say about how fiction writers create characters?
Richard Cohen takes readers on an enchanting journey into the minds, techniques, concerns, tricks and flaws of the world's greatest writers. He reveals how literary legends such as Eliot, Dickens, Woolf, Amis, King and Morrison grappled with problems, questioned themselves and occasionally changed their minds to dramatic effect as they created the stories we love.
Playful, profound and brimming with insights, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a charming guide to the writer's craft, disclosing the fascinating stories behind the finest novels we've ever known. Includes revealing insights from the literary lives of Vladimir Nabokov, Fay Weldon, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell, J. D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Kate Atkinson, Philip Roth, Emily Bronte, Ali Smith, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Agatha Christie and many more.
About the Author Richard Cohen is the former publishing director of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton and the founder of Richard Cohen Books. A five-time national sabre champion, he has represented Britain in fencing at four Olympics. The author of Chasing the Sun and By the Sword, he lives in New York.
Price: $35.00 (NZ$38.99) ISBN: 9781786070210 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 225x146mm Extent: 336 pages
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 Iraq: A History John Robertson
A unique account of Iraq - cradle of great civilizations and birthplace of the first cities
Description In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today.
Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account of a country and its people explores the greatness and grandeur of Iraq's achievements, the brutality and magnificence of its ancient empires, its contributions to the emergence of the world's enduring monotheistic faiths, and the role the great Arab caliphs of Baghdad played in the medieval cultural flowering that contributed so much to the European Renaissance and the eventual rise of the West.
Fascinating and thought-provoking, Robertson's work sheds light on a remarkable story of world history, one that has been too often overlooked. Wide-ranging and extensive in approach, it is sure to be greatly appreciated by historians, students and all those with an interest in this diverse and enigmatic country.
About the Author John F. Robertson is Professor of Ancient and Middle Eastern Studies at the Central Michigan University.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$34.99) ISBN: 9781780749495 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 The Trials of the King of Hampshire Elizabeth Foyster
The fantastic story, both tragic and filmic, of an aristocratic family desperate to prove that one of their own is insane
Description The 3rd Earl of Portsmouth voted in the House of Lords, took county positions, invited Jane Austen to his balls, counted William Cobbett as one of his Hampshire neighbours and had Lord Byron as a key witness to his second marriage. Then, at the age of fifty-five, his own family launched a case citing him as a danger not only to the peerage but to himself.
Historian Elizabeth Foyster invites us into the jury box for the lengthiest, most expensive and vastly controversial British insanity trial ever heard, including accusations of abductions, sodomy, blackmail and domestic violence. Presenting all the evidence heard by the jury, and uncovering private letters and personal testimony never examined before, Foyster goes beyond the fate of the Earl himself to deeper questions regarding the treatment of the mentally ill and society's need to qualify the abilities of those who are 'not normal.' Innovative in its retelling of the case, both provocative and heart- rending, The Trials of the King of Hampshire is a truly original piece of narrative non- fiction.
About the Author Elizabeth Foyster is a social historian specialising in family history, including childhood, married life, sex, relationships with siblings and parents, masculinity, old age and widowhood - the sorts of subjects that have often been left out of history books. She is a senior college lecturer and director of studies at Clare College, Cambridge.
Price: $42.99 (NZ$45.99) ISBN: 9781780749600 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 Gender Medicine: The Groundbreaking New Science of Sex-Related Diagnosis and Treatment Marek Glezerman
The revolutionary call for reform, challenging dangerous assumptions that male and female patients can be effectively treated in the same way.
Description Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional gender roles. But they are nevertheless very real, and they go well beyond the obvious sexual and reproductive variances: men and women differ in terms of digestion, which affects the way medications are absorbed. Sensitivity to pain is dependent on gender. Even the symptoms of a heart attack manifest differently in a man than in a woman.
And yet the medical establishment largely treats male and female patients as though their needs are identical. In fact, medical research is still done predominately on men, and the results are then applied to the treatment of women. This is clearly problematic and calls for a paradigm shift?that is the purpose of Gender Medicine.
About the Author Marek Glezerman, M.D. is the President of the International Society of Gender Medicine and Director of the Research Center of Gender Medicine at Rabin Medical Center in Israel. He is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and one of the most senior Obstetricians/Gynaecologists in Israel.
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BLM Overlook NOVEMBER 2016 The Jolly Roger Social Club Nick Foster
The extraordinary true crime story fuelled by greed, drink, drugs and money.
Description In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert - known as 'Wild Bill' - is currently awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American expats. Wild Bill's first victims were the Brown family, who lived on a remote island in the area's Darklands. There, Holbert turned their home into drinking den called the 'Jolly Roger Social Club', using booze and drug fuelled parties to get to know the ex-pat community. With so many in Panama living under assumed names or desperate to leave their old lives behind, people really do sometimes just disappear, and Holbert used that to his advantage... Nick Foster has unique access to the story having interviewed Holbert in prison and thoroughly researched his life. The Jolly Roger Social Club is an eye-opening read, revealing Holbert to be an apathetic, selfish character, willing to kill to live in a lifestyle he had become accustomed to. Foster also weaves through the story of Panama - a gateway country which is in itself a paradox, a seeming paradise with a sinister underbelly.
About the Author Nick Foster has worked in Latin America for a decade as a journalist and as an EU diplomat. He writes features for the Financial Times and the International New York Times amongst others, and is a film producer.
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 The First Nazi Will Brownell
The incredible true story of the World War I General who inspired Hitler's rise to power.
Description General Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important military individuals of the last century, yet today, he is one of the least known. One of the top two German generals of World War I, Ludendorff dominated not only his superior-General Paul von Hindenburg-but also Germany's head of state, Kaiser Wilhelm II.
For years, Ludendorff was the military dictator of Germany. Ludendorff not only dictated all aspects of World War I, he refused all opportunities to make peace; he antagonised the Americans until they declared war; he sent Lenin into Russia to forge a revolution to shut down the Russian front; and then pushed for total military victory in 1918, in a rabid slaughter known as 'The Ludendorff Offensive.'
Shortly after Germany lost the War in 1918, Ludendorff created the murderous legend that Germany had lost this war only because Jews had conspired on the home front. He soon forged an alliance with Hitler, endorsed the Nazis, and wrote maniacally about how Germans needed a new world war to redeem the Fatherland. This savage man had staggering designs to build a gigantic state that would dwarf even the British Empire. Simply stated, he wanted the world. The First Nazi is a fascinating read, opening a whole new window on the World Wars and providing a chilling view into the mind of a man who had a profound impact on the 20th century.
About the Author Will Brownell, Ph.D. is an expert in European military history and the author of So Close to Greatness, the biography of William C. Bullitt, the first US Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Denise Drace-Brownell is a technologist, inventor, and international business executive, educated at Columbia and Rutgers, as well as the Universities of Pennsylvania and Illinois.
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 The Bonjour Effect Barlow Julie
The engaging, funny and extremely useful book on how to communicate with the French.
Description Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow, bestselling authors of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language.
In The Bonjour Effect, Julie and Jean-Benoit chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. In a book as fizzy as a bottle of the finest French champagne, they explain the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they converse. To understand and speak French well, one must understand that French conversation runs on a set of rules that go to the heart of French culture.
Jean-Benoit and Julie explain why, culturally and historically, conversation with the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting. After reading The Bonjour Effect, even readers with a modicum of French language ability will be able to hold their own the next time they step into a bistro on the Left Bank.
About the Author Julie Barlow & Jean-Benoit Nadeau are the award-winning authors of The Story of French, The Story of Spanish, and the bestselling Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780715651254 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 320 pages
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 A Matter of Breeding Michael Brandlow
The provocative look at the 'cult of pedigree' and an eye-opening and entertaining social history of purebred dogs.
Description Why would anyone want a bulldog with a snout so deformed it can hardly breathe? What's so alluring about a retriever with a pedigree so hobbled by hip dysplasia that it can't even play fetch? What force is so powerful that it can compel people to go against all rationality and morality when selecting a pet? Why, good old-fashioned snobbery! In his social history A Matter of Breeding, Michael Brandow examines this peculiarly popular form of elitism. Equal parts amusing and horrifying, his biting critique shows what outrageous lengths humans have gone to, moulding dogs into almost unimaginable shapes and sizes to increase their own social status. This obsession has had far-reaching consequences not only for our so-called best friend but also for us, as it preserves beliefs about racial purity and class that we're no longer supposed to have.
About the Author Michael Brandow has a background in journalism, dog care, and community activism, making him a sought-after commentator on dog-related issues and has written for publications including ARTNews, The New York Times, Town & Country, the BARk, and Animal Fair.
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Cosmosapiens John Hands
The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.
Description Cosmosapiens takes us on a quest to ascertain what science can reliably tell us about how and why we evolved from the origin of the universe and whether what we are makes us different from all other animals.
John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness, and humankind. From examining theories such as the Big Bang, Darwin's theory of evolution, dark matter and the selfish gene, John Hands challenges what we think we know, asking: are some theories of scientific dogma actually correct?
This groundbreaking book is destined to become a classic of scientific thinking.
About the Author John Hands devoted more than ten years of his life to evaluating scientific theories about human evolution from the origin of the universe. He graduated in Chemistry from the University of London and tutored in both Physics and Management Studies for the Open University and was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at University College London. He lives in London.
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Angela Merkel Matthew Qvortrup
This is a timely and insightful new biography of Angela Merkel, full of exclusive new sources and the latest research, featuring insights into the Syrian refugee crisis and publishing before the EU referendum.
Description Angela Merkel has transformed German and European politics. Her achievements at home and abroad have seen her top Forbes' most powerful women list ten times and she is still going strong after over ten years in office- yet she may also be the least understood ruler in the world. Her government's hard approach to the crisis in Greece has seen her receive mass criticism worldwide and could well determine the future of the European Union.
Based on more than ten years' of study and original archival research (including from the Stasi-archives in Berlin), Matthew Qvortrup gives an account of the cultural, historical and political influences that shaped the life of this incredible woman, combining the narrative of Merkel's life with a lively account of the history of Germany from 1945 to the present day. How did she - a trained scientist with absolutely no political experience - succeed in becoming the first female leader of a German political party, unseating her patron Helmut Kohl?
How do she and her staff of mostly female advisors repeatedly outsmart the old boys network of conservative male politicians in Germany?
As one of the architects of the harsh gospel of austerity-politics, as the guarantor of stability in the Euro-zone, and latterly chief negotiator over the future of Eastern Ukraine, understanding Merkel is essential for anyone interested in current affairs. With a UK referendum on the way and her stance on debt relief and Greece, could she end up destroying the European Union?
About the Author Matt Qvortrup is Professor of Political Science at Coventry University. Described by the BBC as 'the world's leading authority on referendums', Professor Qvortrup has published extensively on European politics and history. He has often appeared as an expert for BBC, and he has worked as a consultant for the US State Department. He lives in London. Price: $45.00 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9780715650622 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: pages
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Standard Deviations Gary Smith
The lively deconstruction of statistical lies we so easily lap up and the damage they do, bringing into stark relief the fraud that surrounds us all.
Description Did you know that having a messy room will make you racist? Or that human beings possess the ability to postpone death until after important ceremonial occasions? These 'facts' have been argued with a straight face by researchers and backed up with reams of data and convincing statistics.
In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories. Today, data is so plentiful that researchers spend precious little time distinguishing between good, meaningful deductions and total rubbish.
Drawing on breakthrough research in behavioural economics by luminaries like Daniel Kahneman and Dan Ariely, and taking to task some of the conclusions of Freakonomics, Standard Deviations exposes the science behind statistics and makes it easy to spot the fraud all around us.
About the Author Gary Smith received his PhD in Economics from Yale University and taught there for seven years. He is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9780715651032 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 304 pages
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Wilde's Women Eleanor Fitzsimons
The fresh, revealing and entertaining account of Oscar Wilde, the most influential writer of his age, and the women who inspired him.
Description Hailed as a gay icon and pioneer of individualism, Oscar Wilde's insistence that 'there should be no law for anybody' made him a staunch defender of gender equality. Women were a source of inspiration shaping his life and career.
Wilde's Women is the first book to tell the story of his female friends and colleagues who not only traded witticisms with Wilde but gave him access to vital publicity and informed his social commentaries. Eleanor Fitzsimons reframes Wilde's story and his legacy through the women in his life including such fascinating figures as Florence Balcombe, who left him for Bram Stoker, his inseperable friend, actress Lillie Langtry, and his tragic and witty niece Dolly who loved fast cars, cocaine and foreign women.
Replete with fascinating detail and anecdotes, Wilde's Women relates the untold story of how the writer played a vitally sympathetic role on behalf of many women and how they supported him in the midst of a changing Victorian society.
About the Author WC Eleanor Fitzsimons is a researcher, writer, journalist and occasional broadcaster, specialising in historical and current feminist issues. Her work has been published in a range of newspapers and journals including The Sunday Times, Guardian and The Irish Times and she is a regular radio and television contributor.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9780715651193 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 320 pages
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Queen of Spies Paddy Hayes
The fascinating and revealing biography of Daphne Park, Britain's most celebrated female spy, highlighting the clandestine workings of the Secret Intelligence Service
Description From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life-one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s she was appointed to the most senior operational rank of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) as one of its seven Area Controllers-an extraordinary achievement for a women working within this most male-dominated and secretive of organisations.
Paddy Hayes recounts the fascinating story of the evolution of the SIS from World War II to the Cold War and beyond through the eyes of one of its outstanding and most unusual operatives. He provides the reader with one of the most intimate narratives yet of how the modern SIS actually went about its business whether in Moscow, Hanoi or the Congo. Queen of Spies, the first and only biography of Daphne Park, captures the paranoia and the real life 'wilderness of mirrors' aspect of intelligence work, finally unveiling all that it may be possible to know about the life of one of Britain's most celebrated spies.
About the Author Paddy Hayes was educated in Dublin and at Harvard University. As the founder of an international research practice, he has been a close observer of the clandestine operations of secret intelligence services. His work took him behind the Iron Curtain to Moscow and to East Berlin and he brings this knowledge to his writing.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9780715651223 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 336 pages
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Jheronimus: The Road to Heaven and Hell Gary Schwartz
The clearest and most complete introduction available to the visionary art of Hieronymous Bosch, an individualistic painter with deep insight into man's desires and deepest fears.
Description Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1450-1516) was a remarkable artist from the Netherlands who left an indelible mark on the imagination of the world. He was one of the few artists who rose above the conventions of his time and created a new visual language of macabre symbolism, sometimes a literal translation of verbal metaphors found in the Bible.
He gave his imagination free rein in works, his paintings populated with grotesque scenes using images of demons and other fantastical creatures to portray the lacking morality of man. Bosch produced at least sixteen triptychs, of which eight are fully intact, and another five in fragments. His most famous work, The Garden of Earthly Delights, depicts the decline of the world through sin, a beautiful garden becoming a dark, fiery nightmare. Like so many of his pieces, it serves as a visual lecture on morality.
Hertogenbosch, a city in the Netherlands and Bosch's hometown, celebrates the life and works of the artist in 2016, starting with the largest retrospective ever of Bosch's work being exhibited at the Noordbrabants Museum, 12th February - 8th May. Theatre, dance and musical extravaganzas inspired by Bosch's work will be performed around the city, including a spectacular light show that will be presented on the city's market square.
Jheronimus: The Road to Heaven and Hell is essential reading for all Bosch enthusiasts and a perfect introduction for those new to this incredible artist.
Price: $90.00 (NZ$96.00) About the Author ISBN: 9780715651247 Gary Schwartz is an art historian and one of today's best-known writers on Dutch art. His earlier books on Rembrandt Format: Hard Cover have sold more than a quarter of million copies worldwide, and he writes a popular column on museums and art history in Dimensions: xmm Extent: 256 pages a Dutch daily newspaper. He was born and raised in New York and now lives in Maarssen, the Netherlands.
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 The WikiLeaks Files Julian Assange
What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire
Description WikiLeaks came to prominence in 2010 with the release of 251,287 top-secret State Department cables, which revealed to the world what the US government really thinks about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies. It brought to the surface the dark truths of crimes committed in our name: human rights violations, covert operations, and cover-ups.
The WikiLeaks Files presents expert analysis on the most important cables and outlines their historical importance. In a series of chapters dedicated to the various regions of the world, the book explores the machinations of the United States as it imposes its agenda on other nations: a new form of imperialism founded on varied tactics from torture to military action, to trade deals and soft power, in the perpetual pursuit of expanding influence. It illustrates the close relationship between government and big business in promoting US trade.
An introduction by Julian Assange-writing on the subject for the first time-exposes the ongoing debates about freedom of information, international surveillance, and justice.
About the Author JULIAN ASSANGE has been the Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks since 2006. Since 2010 when the website published thousands of US military and diplomatic documents, he has been under investigation by the United States.
Price: $26.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781784786212 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 624 pages
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Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Violent Borders Reece Jones
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are policed
Description Forty thousand human beings died trying to cross international borders in the past decade,with the high profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. In Violent Borders, Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional,but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. 'We may live in an era of globalization,' he writes, 'but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.'
In Violent Borders, Jones travels the border regions of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects, and their dire consequences for the majority of the people in the world. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slums and the aftershocks of decolonization, the wealthy travel freely, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures,argues Jones, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change, the growth of slums, and the persistence of global wealth inequality.
About the Author REECE JONES is a professor of geography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, and the author of Border Walls.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781786631831 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 235x156mm Extent: 208 pages
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Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties Mike Marqusee
Muhammad Ali: a true legend
Description Is there a more characteristic figure of the sixties than Muhammad Ali-playful and political, popular and non-conformist, defiant and triumphant? In a unique new book, Mike Marqusee puts the great boxer back in his true historical context to explore a crucial moment at the cross-roads of popular culture and mass resistance. He traces Ali's interaction with the evolving black liberation and anti-war movements, including his brief but fascinating liaison with Malcolm X, as well as his encounters with Martin Luther King. Marqusee's elegant and forceful narrative explores the origins and impact of Ali's dramatic public stands on race and the draft, and reinterprets the 'Rumble in the Jungle,' shedding new light on its triumph and tragedy. Above all, he imbues Ali's story with a long-neglected international dimension, revealing why he was embraced with such warmth by diverse peoples across the globe.
In this timely antidote to the apolitical celebration of Muhammad Ali as 'a great American', Mike Marqusee puts the great boxer back in his true historical context, to explore a crucial moment at the crossroads of popular culture and mass resistance. And, in a new afterword for this second edition, he reflects on Ali's legacy in the era of the 'war on terror'.
About the Author Mike Marqusee's books include Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, War Minus the Shooting, Anyone but England and If I Am Not for Myself. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian and writes a fortnightly column for the Indian newspaper The Hindu. He lives in London.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781844675272 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 191x137mm Extent: pages
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Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 The Verso Book of Dissent edited by Andrew Hsiao, Audrea Lim foreword by Tariq Ali
RELEASED IN JANUARY 2017
Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance: Fully updated compendium of revolt and resistance
Description Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti- Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from London and Hong Kong to Athens and New York City.
This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent is an invaluable resource, reminding today's rebels that these traditions will never die.
About the Author ANDREW HSIAO and AUDREA LIM are editors at Verso Books.
TARIQ ALI is the author of The Extreme Centre, The Clash of Fundamentalisms, and The Islam Quintet.
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Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 2017 Verso Radical Diary Verso
A stylishly designed diary including dates from across worldwide radical history
Description The largest English independent radical publishing house in the English-speaking world has been publishing key books of international history and politics for the Left for almost 50 years.
The 2017 Verso Radical Diary is not just a beautifully designed week-to-view planner where you can keep track of your coming year, including international holidays, it also includes significant dates in radical history from Spartacus to #blacklivesmatter - from the English Civil War to the American War of Independence, to the Russian Revolution, slave rebellions and the movements of '68, and from trade unionism to Occupy. The body of the diary is cleanly set apart to prioritize utility, while the marginalia is brought to life through beautiful illustrations, galvanizing quotes, and grounding context.
The 2017 Verso Radical Diary is the perfect resource for the politically-conscious to stay historically in-the-know through the everyday use of a beautifullydesigned, grab-and-go personal planner.
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Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Grand Hotel Abyss Stuart Jeffries
Who were the Frankfurt School? And why do they matter today? This brilliant group biography brings the ideas, lives and drama to life
Description The Frankfurt Institute of Social Research, founded in 1923, but later moving to the US during the war, were a group of thinkers whose lives and philosophies profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped the shattering events of the 20th century. Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jurgen Habermas and others have changed not just how we think but what we think about. Stuart Jeffries tells a gripping narrative that bring these thinkers to life, showing how their ideas developed out of their times: from the terrors of Nazi Germany to the blissed-out California of the 1960s.
Grand Hotel Abyss shows us how culture - ideas, music, film, shopping - became the battleground for political struggle. Combining biography, philosophy and storytelling we discover the day to day goings-on in the Institute, how Benjamin had to flee Paris from Nazi soldiers and eventually committed suicide on the Spanish border; the travails of exile for the other thinkers who fled to the United States; what happened when Adorno met Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood; and how Marcuse's The One Dimensional Man become the hippy bible in the 1960s. Both a fascinating portrait of intellectual Europe and a call to revisit a fascinating body of thought that still has much to tell us in an age of social media and consumerism.
About the Author STUART JEFFRIES worked for the Guardian for twenty years, and has written for many media outlets including the Financial Times and Psychologies. He is based in London.
Price: $38.99 (NZ$42.00) ISBN: 9781784785680 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 The ABCs of Socialism Bhaskar Sunkara
Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine
Description The remarkable run of self-proclaimed 'democratic socialist' Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted-for the first time in decades and to the shock of many-a national conversation about socialism. A New York Times poll in late November found that a majority of Democrats had a favorable view of socialism, and in New Hampshire in February, more than half of Democratic voters under 35 told the Boston Globe they call themselves socialists. It's unclear exactly what socialism means to this generation, but couple with the ascendancy of longtime leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party in the UK, it's clear there's a historic, generational shift underway. This book steps into this moment to offer a clear, accessible, informative, and irreverent guide to socialism for the uninitiated. Written by young writers from the dynamic magazine Jacobin, alongside several distinguished scholars, The ABCs of Socialism answers basic questions, including ones that many want to know but might be afraid to ask ('Doesn't socialism always end up in dictatorship?', 'Will socialists take my Kenny Loggins records?'). Disarming and pitched to a general readership without sacrificing intellectual depth, this will be the best introduction an idea whose time seems to have come again.
About the Author BHASKAR SUNKARA is the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine.
Price: $13.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781784787264 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: pages
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Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Revolutionary Yiddishland Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg
RELEASED JANUARY 2017
Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition
Description They were on the barricades from the avenues of Petrograd to the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto, from the anti-Franco struggle to the anti-Nazi resistance.
Before the Holocaust Yiddishland was a vast expanse of Eastern Europe running from the Baltic Sea to the western edge of Russia and featured hundreds of Jewish communities, numbering some 11 million people. Within this territory revolutionaries arose from the Jewish misery of eastern and central Europe; they were raised in the fear of God and respect for religious tradition, but then caught up in the great current of revolutionary utopia. Socialists, Communists, Bundists, Zionists, Trotskyists, manual workers and intellectuals, they embodied the multifarious activity and radicalism of a Jewish working class that glimpsed the Messiah in the folds of the red flag.
Today, the world from which they came has disappeared, dismantled and destroyed by the Nazi genocide. After this irremediable break, there remain only survivors, and the work of memory for red Yiddishland. This book traces the struggles of these militants, their singular trajectories, their oscillation between great hope and doubt, their lost illusions. A red and Jewish gaze on the history of the twentieth century.
About the Author ALAIN BROSSAT is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and long-time activist. SYLVIA KLINGBERG is a French sociologist.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781784786069 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Pocket Pantheon Alain Badiou, translated by David Macey
A journey through twentieth-century philosophy with the titan of French thought
Description In Pocket Pantheon Alain Badiou, one of today's leading political and philosophical minds, invites readers to engage with some of the great thinkers of the postwar Western tradition such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault. Drawing on his own encounters with this pantheon - his teachers, opponents and allies - he is able to offer unique insights into both the authors and their work. These studies form an accessible, authoritative distillation of continental theory and a capsule history of a period in Western thought.
About the Author ALAIN BADIOU teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several seminal works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Manifesto for Philosophy. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, and The Communist Hypothesis.
Price: $16.99 (NZ$17.99) ISBN: 9781784786250 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 196 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Dialectic of Enlightenment Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
A classic of twentieth-century thought
Description Dialectic of Enlightenment is, quite justifiably, one of the most celebrated and often cited works of modern social philosophy. It has been identified as the keystone of the 'Frankfurt School' of which Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer were the leading members, and does not cease to impress in its wide-randing ambition and panache.
Adorno and Horkheimer addressed themselves to a question which went to the very heart of the modern age, namely 'why mankind, instead of entering into a truly human condition, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism'. Modernity, far from redeeming the promises and hopes of the Enlightenment, had resulted in a stultification of mankind and administered society, characterised by simulation and candy-floss entertainment.
To seek an answer to the questions of how such a condition could arise, Adorno and Horkheimer subjected the whole history of Western categories of reason and nature, from Homer to Nietzche, to a searching philosophical and psychological critique. Drawing on psychoanalytical insights, their own work on the 'culture industry', deep knowledge of the key Enlightenment and anti-Enlightenment thinkers, as well as fascinating considerations on the relationship between reason and myth - the rational and the irrational - the authors exposed the domination and violence towards both nature and humanity that underpin the Enlightenment project.
About the Author Theodor Adorno was director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death in 1969. His works include In Search of Wagner; Aesthetic Theory; Negative Dialectics; and (with Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment and Towards a New Manifesto.
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a philosopher and sociologist.
Price: $26.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781784786793 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 270 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Money and Class in America Lewis Lapham
Moving to November 2017.
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About the Author Lewis Lapham is the founding editor of Lapham's Quarterly, previously the editor of Harper's Magazine. His other books include Money and Class in America, Fortune's Child, Imperial Masquerade, The Wish for Kings, Hotel America, Waiting for the Barbarians, Theater of War, The Agony of Mammon, Gag Rule, and Pretensions to Empire.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9781786630476 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 448 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Against Everything Mark Greif
A brilliant collection of essays from one of the most highly acclaimed young writers in the US
Description Mark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In Against Everything, he make us rethink the ordinary, taking our own lives seriously, exploring how we might live an honest life in these dishonest times. In a series of coruscating set pieces he asks why we put ourselves through the pains of exercise, what shopping in organic supermarkets does for our sense of self-worth, what the political identity of the hipster might be, and what happens to us when we listen to too much Radiohead. From such counter-intuitive observations, Greif exposes the fundamental contradictions between our actions, desires and the excuses that we make to ourselves in hope of consolation. With the wit and seriousness of David Foster Wallace, Against Everything is the most thought-provoking study and essential guide to everyday life under 21st century capitalism.
About the Author MARK GREIF is assistant professor of literary studies at the New School. He is a founder and editor of the journal n+1. He lives and works in New York. His criticism and journalism have appeared in publications including the London Review of Books, TLS, Guardian and New Statesman.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781784785925 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 The Terranauts T. C. Boyle
Eight people take part in an ecological experiment in 1990s Arizona. Inspired by real events, The Terranauts places human behaviour under the microscope to spellbinding effect
Description Linda is desperate to be chosen, one of the lucky eight to take part in the world's most pioneering ecological experiment. Who better-equipped than she to survive under the glass dome of Ecosphere Two, which rises like a spaceship from the Arizona desert? Competition is fierce between the hopefuls, among them smooth-talking PR man Ramsay and innocent beauty Dawn, Linda's best friend. All are certain that they would never, ever, break closure before two years are up - unlike their discredited Mission One predecessors.
Inside this humid microcosm, with its medley of ecosystems, the terranauts' labours over crops and livestock, their battles with unexpected creepy crawlies, their sexual dalliances, tensions and hostilities - all can be observed by the stream of tourists who come to gawp, Mission Control's cameras and the watchful eye of the media. As the crewmembers struggle to control nature, and hunger sets in, the snake in this manmade Eden starts to look unmistakably human.
Inspired by real-life events, The Terranauts is an acutely insightful, darkly comic story of human behaviour, animal instincts, idealism and ambition. Putting utopian visions and individual motives under the microscope, this is T. C. Boyle at his acerbic, pitch-perfect best.
About the Author T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fifteen novels, most recently, The Harder They Come and the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.
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Price: $32.99 (NZ$34.99) ISBN: 9781408881750 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 528 pages
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 The Virginity of Famous Men Christine Sneed
This intimate, psychologically astute story collection from the winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction asks the question, what compels two people to fall in love?
Description The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed's deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the paths they have taken thus far. In The Prettiest Girls, a location scout for a Hollywood film studio falls in love with a young Mexican woman who is more in love with the idea of stardom than with this older American man who takes her with him back to California. Clear Conscience focuses on the themes of family loyalty, divorce, motherhood, and whether doing the right thing is, in fact, always the right thing to do. In Beach Vacation, a mother realizes that her popular and coddled teenaged son has become someone she has difficulty relating to, let alone loving with the same maternal fervor that once was second nature to her. The title story, The Virginity of Famous Men, explores family and fortune.
Long intrigued by love and loneliness, Sneed leads readers through emotional landscapes both familiar and uncharted. These probing stories are explorations of the compassionate and passionate impulses that are inherent in--and often the source of--both abiding joy and serious distress in every human life.
About the Author Christine Sneed has published the novels Paris, He Said and Little Known Facts, and the story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry. She received the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, Ploughshares' Zacharis Prize, the Chicago Writers Association's Book of the Year Award, and the Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Adult Fiction of 2013. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, New England Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Price: $36.99 (NZ$38.99) ISBN: 9781620406953 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x140mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 Love, Fred Astaire Jo-Ann Mapson
A cache of love letters reveals secrets that force two sisters to question everything about their past in this page-turning new novel by the author of Solomon's Oak and Finding Casey.
Description After the death of her beloved Aunt Ellie, Margaret Yearwood discovers a hidden bundle of love letters addressed to her aunt. At least Margaret and her sister Norah thought she was their aunt. The letters, however, reveal a shocking secret: that Ellie, a footloose woman with an insatiable wanderlust, was actually their biological mother--and the parents who raised them were their aunt and uncle. But who was their father? The love letters are signed Love, Fred Astaire, and the only return addresses are hotels and postmarks from all over the world.
Margaret takes it in stride--she is finally marrying her longtime love, Owen Garrett, and heading off on a romantic honeymoon in Australia, leaving Norah in charge of the house, the animals, and the garden. Norah, just coming out of a love affair with a married man that cost her a job and her reputation, is desperately lonely and brimming with jealousy over her sister's happiness. So she turns her focus to another relationship--the one between her newly discovered mother and mysterious father. Full of secrets and romance and intrigue, Love, Fred Astaire is a story about sisters, about what makes us who we are.
About the Author Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of twelve previous novels, including the beloved Owen's Daughter, Finding Casey, Solomon's Oak, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo (CBS TV movie), and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their three dogs. Visit her website at www. joannmapson.com.
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 The Ninth Life of Louis Drax: Film Tie-in Liz Jensen
A spellbinding tale about what the human heart can inflict and the mind endure
Description Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall - and he can't communicate. Or can he?
About the Author Liz Jensen is the acclaimed author of The Paper Eater, Egg Dancing, Ark Baby (shortlisted for The Guardian Fiction Prize) and most recently War Crimes for the Home. She lives in London.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408865934 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Thirteen Ways of Looking Colum McCann
From the National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, comes a novella and three stories of immediate power and grace
Description A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award
As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.
It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. Old and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in Lithuania and Dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, Eileen. Later he leaves the house to meet his son Elliot for lunch, and when Eliot departs mid-meal, Mendelssohn continues eating alone as the snow falls heavily outside.
Moments after he leaves the restaurant he is brutally attacked. The detectives working on the case search through the footage of Mendelssohn's movements, captured by cameras in his home and on the street. Their work is like that of a poet: the search for a random word that, included at the right instance, will suddenly make sense of everything.
Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking novella of true resonance. Accompanied by three equally powerful stories set in Afghanistan, Galway and London, this is a tribute to humanity's search for meaning and grace, from a writer at the height of his form, capable of imagining immensities even in the smallest corners of our lives.
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 The Drowned Detective Neil Jordan
The chilling new novel from the Oscar-winning novelist and film director blends crime and romance in a haunting love story
Description Jonathan is a private investigator in a decaying eastern European city, consumed by his work and his failing marriage. Approached one day by an elderly couple, he is presented with a faded photograph of their daughter, missing for nearly two decades. Troubled by the image of the little girl, who was the same age when she vanished as his own daughter is now - he is compelled to find her.
But one night, soon after taking on the case, as he walks across the bridge spanning the river that divides the city, he encounters a young woman crouched at the foot of a stone angel - a woman who suddenly leaps into the icy water below. Without thinking, Jonathan plunges after her, and is soon drawn into her ghostly world of confusion, coincidence and intrigue, and the city he thought he knew turns strange and threatening.
Haunting and deeply moving, The Drowned Detective is an intoxicating, atmospheric exploration of relationships, lies and betrayal - confirming Neil Jordon as a master storyteller and a vital literary voice.
About the Author Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. His first book of stories, Night in Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979, and his subsequent critically acclaimed novels include The Past, Sunrise with Sea Monster, Shade and Mistaken. The films he has written and directed have won multiple awards, including an Academy Award (The Crying Game), a Golden Bear at Venice (Michael Collins), a Silver Bear at Berlin (The Butcher Boy) and several BAFTAS (Mona Lisa and The End of the Affair). He lives in Dublin.
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Incredible Bodies Ian McGuire
Alienation and adultery, Pampers and plagiarism, and lashings of sex and satire in a brilliantly funny first novel
Description Thirty-something Morris Gutman is a chronically indecisive temporary lecturer at the University of Coketown. Life hasn't turned out as he planned: he has a demanding wife, an insomniac child and teaches demeaning courses to ungrateful English students. However, he is willing to do whatever it takes to negotiate a permanent departmental job, even if it means finding his way through the minefield that is academia and winning over the alluring and manipulative research fellow Zoe Cable.
About the Author Ian McGuire grew up near Hull and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia, USA. He is a founder and co-director of the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. His stories have been published in the Chicago Review, Paris Review and elsewhere. He is the author of Incredible Bodies (2006) and, most recently, the acclaimed The North Water.
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective Malcolm Pryce
From the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth novels comes a Boy's Own adventure of disappearing nuns, trainspotting and derring-do - and the introduction of an unforgettable new detective
Description Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God's Wonderful Railway, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German spies and ladies of the night.
But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. It reaches up to the corridors of power and into the labyrinth of the greatest mystery in all the annals of railway lore - the disappearance in 1915 of twenty-three nuns from the 7.25 Swindon to Bristol Temple Meads, or the case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste.
Shady government agents, drunken riverboat captains, a missing manuscript and a melancholic gorilla all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.
About the Author Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and travelling abroad. He has been, at various times, a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up, a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the world's worst aluminium salesman. In 1998 he gave up his day job and booked a passage on a banana boat bound for South America in order to write Aberystwyth Mon Amour. He spent the next seven years living in Bangkok, where he wrote three more novels in the series, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth and Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth. In 2007 he moved back to the UK and now lives in Oxford, where he wrote From Aberystwyth with Love, The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still, and, most recently, The Case of the Hail Mary Price: $18.99 (NZ$19.99) Celeste. ISBN: 9781408851975 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm malcolmpryce.com / @exogamist Extent: 352 pages Main Category: FF Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 The Rider Tim Krabbe
A literary sports classic
Description At the start of the 137-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual, Tim Krabb. glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators. 'Non-racers,' he writes. 'The emptiness of those lives shocks me.' Immediate and gripping from the first page, we race with the author as he struggles up the hills and clings on during descents in the unforgiving French mountains.
Originally published in 1978, The Rider is a modern-day classic that is recognised as one of the best books ever written about the sport. Brilliantly conceived and best read at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative and passionate tribute to the art of cycle racing.
About the Author Tim Krabbe is one of Holland's leading writers. His many books include The Vanishing and The Cave, both of which were made into films. He lives in Amsterdam.
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 The Tao Deception: A Tori Swyft Thriller John M. Green
'The Da Vinci Code meets James Bond'. An explosive tale of espionage and international political intrigue from John M. Green
Description Today's Conspiracy Theory ... Tomorrow's Reality
The pope is assassinated ... Death by drone. A Chinese Uyghur terrorist group claims responsibility.
Dr Tori Swyft, Australian corporate dealmaker and ex-spy uncovers a Chinese technology company stashing billions into secret accounts.
The money trail leads Tori to China's North Korean border and an explosive conspiracy aiming to wipe out the Western world.
With the clock ticking, Tori Swyft confronts the ultimate decision ... save her own life or sacrifice it for millions of others.
About the Author When it dawned on John M. Green that the reason he got up in the morning was to write, he quit his job. He spent 30 years as executive director in a leading investment bank and partner in two law firms. A well-known business writer and commentator, his insightful observations are sought after locally and internationally. As a co-founder of Pantera Press, John serves on the governing council of the National Library of Australia, and is a board member of two stock-exchange- listed corporations and not-for-profits. He lives in Sydney with his wife, an award-winning sculptor. John is the author of Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Nowhere Man, Born to Run and The Trusted. ISBN: 9781921997464 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages
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Pantera Press NOVEMBER 2016 The Tao Deception 8 copy pack
Includes 8 copies The Tao Deception plus a free reading copy.
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 The Return of the Young Prince A.G. Roemmers and Ollie Brock
A beautiful tribute to the international bestseller The Little Prince, with specially commissioned illustrations by Pietari Posti and a foreword by a member of Antoine de Saint- Exupery's family.
Description Even princes from faraway planets do not always remain small. Eventually they grow up and - no longer content with their tiny planet - set off once again to explore the universe anew. So the Little Prince, now a teenager, one day returns to Earth and finds himself on a lonely country road in the vast, desolate plains of Patagonia. There he meets the narrator of this novel, who rescues him and takes him on a journey. Slowly the Prince shares the stories of his adventures, and together they begin to explore some of life's most important questions, taking readers along with them on a wonderful spiritual journey. An inspiring, life-changing book.
About the Author Alejandro Guillermo Roemmers was born in Buenos Aires in 1958. He was already a successful businessman when the first publication of The Return of the Young Prince brought him international recognition as an author.
Ollie Brock is a translator and former Online Editor at Granta. He lives in London, England.
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 A Cast of Falcons Steve Burrows
Book 3 in Steve Burrows' fabulous 'Birder Murder' mystery series
Description The threat from above casts a dark shadow.
A man falls to his death from a cliff face in western Scotland. From a distance, another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book into the dead man's pocket, and leaves.
When the Scottish police show visiting Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune the book, he recognizes it as a call for help. But he also knows that answering that call could destroy the life he and his girlfriend Lindy have built for themselves in the village of Saltmarsh, in north Norfolk.
Back in Saltmarsh, the brutal murder of a researcher involved in a local climate change project has everyone looking at the man's controversial studies as a motive. But Sergeant Danny Maik, heading the investigation in Jejeune's absence, believes a huge cash incentive being offered for the research may play a crucial role.
With their beleaguered Chief Superintendent blocking every attempt to interview the project's uber-wealthy owners, Jejeune and Maik must work together to find their answers. But will the men's partnership survive when the danger from above begins to cast its dark shadow?
About the Author Steve Burrows has pursued his birdwatching hobby across five continents. The former editor of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society Magazine and a contributing field editor for Asian Geographic, he now lives in Oshawa, Ontario.
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 By Gaslight Steven Price
For fans of Conan Doyle and Sarah Waters comes this literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminal
Description London, 1885. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men's futures - a man of smoke. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of a brutal detective, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead. His father died without ever tracing Shade; William, still reeling from his loss, is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows.
Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair ten years gone. When he receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns to London in search of her; what he learns of her fate, and its connection to the man known as Shade, will force him to confront a grief he thought longburied.
What follows is a fog-enshrouded hunt through sewers, opium dens, drawing rooms, and seance halls. Above all, it is the story of the most unlikely of bonds: between William Pinkerton, the greatest detective of his age, and Adam Foole, the one man who may hold the key to finding Edward Shade.
Epic in scope, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly written, Steven Price's By Gaslight is a riveting, atmospheric portrait of two men on the brink. Moving from the diamond mines of South Africa to the battlefields of the Civil War, the novel is a journey into a cityscape of grief, trust, and its breaking, where what we share can bind us even against our darker selves.
About the Author Steven Price's first collection of poems, Anatomy of Keys, won Canada's 2007 Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the BC Poetry Prize and was named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year. His first novel, Into That Darkness, was shortlisted for the BC Fiction Prize. His second collection of poems, Omens in the Year of the Ox, won the ReLit Award. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Oneworld NOVEMBER 2016 Tales of Horror Edgar Allan Poe
A classic collection of horror stories from the master
Description A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood- stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried alive - these are only some of the memorable characters and stories included in this volume, which exemplify Poe' s inventiveness and natural talent as a storyteller.
Immensely popular both during and after his lifetime, and a powerful influence on generations of writers and film-makers to this day, Edgar Allan Poe is still counted among the greatest short-story writers of all time and seen as one of the initiators of the detective, horror and science-fiction genres.
About the Author Born in Boston, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was brought up by the Allan merchant family after the death of his mother and being abandoned by his father. While studying at the University of Virginia he started self-publishing volumes of poetry, and after a stint in the military began writing essays and fiction for a living. He died of unknown causes - with rabies, cholera, alcoholism and tuberculosis among the hypotheses - in Baltimore.
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Alma Books NOVEMBER 2016 After Supper Ghost Stories Jerome K. Jerome
Ghost stories from a comedic Gothic master
Description As they relax after dinner on Christmas Eve, the members of a family and their guests turn to telling ghost stories. These ghoulish accounts range from the melancholy to the macabre, and get increasingly bizarre as the ghosts leap out of the tales and make an appearance in the family’s home. Fact and fiction, the real and unreal collide, until the reader is not sure who is haunting whom.
A masterful work of comic horror, Jerome K. Jerome’s After-Supper Ghost Stories is a witty look at why Christmas Eve is so perfect for ghost stories and why ghosts love the Yuletide season.
About the Author A English writer and humorist, Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) wrote a range of plays, essays and novels during his lifetime and is best known for the classic comic work Three Men in a Boat.
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Alma Books NOVEMBER 2016 The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories Oscar Wilde
New edition of the classic Oscar Wilde horror and mystery short stories.
Description When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains in the hallways and the appearance of mysterious bloodstains in the living room. However, the ghost struggles to intimidate his new victims, as they counter his ghoulish behaviour with typically transatlantic pragmatism, offering lubricator for his chains and cleaning up the stains with detergent. As the spirit is deserted by his capacity to scare, Virginia, the Otises' daughter, gets to know him and learns the tragic tale behind his sad fate.
Sparkling with his trademark wit, this classic tale is one of Oscar Wilde's finest stories and is presented here with three other comic mystery stories, 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime', 'The Sphinx without a Secret' and 'The Model Millionaire', all of which were first published together in 1891.
CONTAINS THE STORIES The Canterville Ghost, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Sphinx Without a Secret, and The Model Millionaire
About the Author Famed for his brilliant wit, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a prolific writer and one of the most successful playwrights of Victorian Britain, as well as a champion for the values of Aestheticism.
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Alma Books NOVEMBER 2016 The Double Fyodor Dostoevsky
A beautiful new edition of Dostoevsky's timeless classic
Description Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement.
The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortu - nate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.
About the Author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is considered one of the greatest writers of all times. His works include such seminal novels as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Karamazov Brothers.
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Alma Books NOVEMBER 2016 Mansfield Park Jane Austen
One of Austen's most beloved classics
Description Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Treated as an inferior by most of the family, Fanny forms a close attachment to her cousin Edmund, the only person to show her kindness. With the departure of her uncle to the West Indies and the arrival from London of the fashionable Henry and Mary Crawford, flirtation and romantic intrigue abound.
As Fanny becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the conduct of her companions, she finds herself isolated and forced to face the conflict between her sense of integrity and social expectation.
About the Author The witty and sharply satirical novels of Jane Austen (1775-1817) have an influence that shows no sign of waning, with continual adaptations and echoes in contemporary culture, and an ever-enthusiastic audience.
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Alma Classics NOVEMBER 2016 The Railway Children E. Nesbit and Peter Bailey
Description Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch of railway track and the station nearby, and befriend the railway porter, who teaches them about running the station, and an old gentleman who takes the 9.15 train every day. Through this love of the trains they are led on many exciting adventures, including a quest to discover the secret of their father’s disappearance.
One of the most popular children’s books ever written, E. Nesbit’s tale has enchanted generations of readers since it was first released in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen and the stage many times, and its story of innocence, intrigue and discovery remains perfectly poignant today.
About the Author English author and poet Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) is best remembered as E. Nesbit, the name she used for all of her children’s books and stories. She achieving fame for Five Children and It, The House of Arden and The Railway Children, which has become one of the most cherished classics of English literature.
Peter Bailey was born in India and grew up in London. Since graduating from Brighton College of Art, his career has seen him illustrate books by some of Britain’s best known authors including Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Joan Aiken and Tony Mitton. For twenty years he also taught illustration at Liverpool School Of Art.
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Alma Classics NOVEMBER 2016 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
A festive classic, beautifully repackaged in just enough time for Christmas
Description Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as 'humbug'. One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a series of ghosts who reveal to him the innocence he has lost, the wretchedness of his future and the poverty of the present, which he has so far ignored. This experience teaches Scrooge the true meaning of the holiday and leaves him a transfor med man.
With its memorable cast of characters such as Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is the most heart-warming of seasonal tales, a timeless classic that continues to enchant readers around the world and a lesson in charity and hopefulness that is as powerful today as when it was first written in 1843.
About the Author A literary phenomenon in his lifetime and renowned as much for his journalism and public speaking as for his novels, Charles Dickens now ranks as the most important Victorian writer and one of the most influential and popular authors in the English language. His memorable and vividly rendered characters and his combination of humour, trenchant satire and compassion have left an indelible mark on our collective imagination.
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Alma Classics NOVEMBER 2016 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift's superb satire resonates through the ages
Description Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses.
Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly, merciless satire on Western society and human nature.
About the Author Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer of prose, poetry, essays and political pamphlets, and is probably the best-known satirist in the English language. His novel Gulliver's Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature.
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Alma Classics NOVEMBER 2016 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Mark Twain's seminal American classic
Description Widely considered one of the greatest American novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn and his companion, the slave Jim, as they journey down the Mississippi river after running away from Huck's alcoholic father and Jim's owners. As they travel, they encounter a floating house, feuding families and cunning grifters, but more importantly Huck gets to know Jim and regard him as a friend and equal, overcoming the racial prejudices of the time, in a landmark narrative which poignantly addresses the issues of growing up and finding freedom.
About the Author Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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Alma Classics NOVEMBER 2016 The White Guard Mikhail Bulgakov
From the author of The Master and Margarita
Description Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov’s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy domesticity of family life on the one hand, and wide-ranging and destructive historical events on the other.
The result is a disturbing, often shocking story, illuminated, however, by shafts of light that testify to people’s resilience, humanity and ability to love in even the most adverse circumstances.
About the Author Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891--1940) is one of the foremost satirists of the twentieth century and is most famous for The Master and Margarita.
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Alma Classics NOVEMBER 2016 Go With Me Castle Freeman
Lillian, a young woman, refuses to back down in the face of threats from a potentially lethal local villain. Now a movie starring Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles and Alexander Ludwig.
Description Somewhere in backwoods Vermont, a young woman refuses to back down in the face of threats from a violent local villain. Her boyfriend has fled the state in fear, and local law enforcement can do nothing to protect her. And so she resolves not only to stand her ground, but also to fight back. A pair of unlikely allies: Lester, a crafty old-timer, and Nate, built like a tractor and not much smarter - join her cause, willing to do whatever it takes. An eccentric Greek chorus of locals - wry, witty, sceptical, and not always entirely sober - keep a running commentary in the background as the threesome's quest reaches its terrifying conclusion.
About the Author Castle Freeman is the author of four other novels including ALL THAT I HAVE, two collections of short stories, and many essays and other nonfiction. His stories have been mentioned or included in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES and other major collections. He lives in southeastern Vermont.
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Black Fridays Michael Sears
Big money fosters even greater greed in this explosive debut thriller, set in the corrupt financial underworld.
Description Meet Jason Stafford, a former Wall Street hotshot who has made some bad moves and paid the price. After two years in prison, Jason is no longer welcome on Wall Street, but his financial crime expertise gains the attention of one firm that wants him to quietly look for irregularities in the books of one of their junior traders, whose body was just pulled from the Long Island Sound. Raising an autistic five-year-old alone, Stafford can't refuse the lucrative offer. The job is supposed to last two weeks, but he's soon faced with intimidation and threats, and suddenly people connected to the investigation are dying. Stafford must fight for his life-while struggling to save his son from a different kind of danger...
About the Author Michael Sears was a Managing Director of two different Wall Street firms, where he worked in the bond market for twenty years and, earlier, in foreign exchange and derivatives.
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Arcadian Nights: Greek Myths Reimagined John Spurling
The vibrant, gripping and often grisly retelling of Greek myths by the prize-winning author.
Description The classical Greek intellectual tradition pervades nearly every aspect of our modern Western civilisation. Our logic and science, our philosophy, politics, literature, architecture, and art are all indebted to the ancient inhabitants of the small mountainous Mediterranean country.
Taking as his starting point many of the famous tourist sites in the Peloponnese where the stories are set, John Spurling, winner of the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon, including tales of the doomed house of Atreus; of the god Apollo; Theseus, scourge of the Minotaur; the Twelve Labors of Heracles; and Perseus, rescuer of Andromeda.
Stories of murder, power, revenge, love, and traumatic family relationships are made new again for our time, while staying true to the spirit of the original myth, with wit and relish by a gifted author.
About the Author John Spurling won the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for his historical novel The Ten Thousand Things. Spurling is a reviewer and for twelve years was the art critic at the New Statesman. He lives in London and Arcadia, Greece, and is married to the biographer Hilary Spurling
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 The Napoleon Complex Ed Davey
What if the key to foretelling the future fell into the wrong hands? The new thriller by E.M. Davey is an action- packed, high-adrenaline adventure.
Description Reporter Jake Wosley has seen things he never thought possible. After stumbling across secret documents showing Winston Churchill's interest in the ancient Etruscan civilisation, his life changed forever. Now he lies in hiding in Thailand, trying to put the past behind him.
When a letter arrives, featuring genuine quotes from Napoleon about fate and destiny, he has no idea who it's from but knows he is no longer safe. And when Jenny, his former lover and confidant reaches out to him, in terrible danger, Jake has no choice but to come to her aid. Unearthing secrets many want to get their hands on, can Wosley evade Washington and MI6? And if he really has discovered the key to foretelling destiny, what happens if this knowledge falls into the wrong hands...?
Following Foretold by Thunder, The Napoleon Complex journeys to Sierra Leone, Israel, Egypt, Austria, Tanzania and Burundi, and peers back into the smoky Westminster drawing rooms of leading Victorian statesmen. Ideal for fans of Dan Brown and Robert Harris, E. M. Davey takes the reader on a fast-paced and thrilling adventure.
About the Author E. M. Davey is a 32-year-old journalist at the BBC specialising in undercover investigative journalism. When not working he enjoys travelling to far-flung and occasionally dangerous spots to research his fiction and just for the heck of it.
Price: $16.99 (NZ$17.99) ISBN: 9780715651087 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 352 pages
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Duckworth NOVEMBER 2016 Septimania Jonathan Levi
A strange and magical picaresque romance by master storyteller, Jonathan Levi.
Description On an idyllic spring day in 1978 in a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to Louiza, a dyslexic math genius. When she disappears, Malory follows her trail to Rome. The quest to find his love is sidetracked when he is declared the heir to the Kingdom of Septimania, given by Charlemagne to the Jews of 8th- century France. In the midst of a Rome reeling from the kidnappings and bombs of the Red Brigades, Malory is crowned King of the Jews, Holy Roman Emperor and possibly Caliph of all Islam.
Over the next fifty years, Malory's search for Louiza leads to encounters with Pope John Paul II, a band of lost Romanians, a magical Bernini statue, Haroun al Rashid of Arabian Nights fame, a shadowy U.S. spy agency and one of the 9/11 bombers, an appleseed from the original Tree of Knowledge, and the secret history of Isaac Newton and his discovery of a Grand Unified Theory that explains everything. Septimania is the quest for love and knowledge, perfect for fans of Garcia Marquez, David Mitchell and Salman Rushdie.
About the Author Jonathan Levi is an American writer and producer, and author of A Guide for the Perplexed. His short stories and articles have also appeared in many magazines including Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Terra Nova, The Nation, and The New York Times. Born in New York, he now lives in Rome.
Price: $38.99 (NZ$42.99) ISBN: 9780715650967 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 336 pages
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BLM Overlook NOVEMBER 2016 Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook Anthony Bourdain
The classic bistro cookbook written by the inimitable Anthony Bourdain of Kitchen Confidential fame
Description No one writes about food or cooking quite like Anthony Bourdain. In his books Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour, Bourdain captivated readers all over the world with his gritty, action-packed tales of the kitchen. Now he brings his inimitable style and energy to Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook.
It features over a hundred mouth watering recipes from lobster bisque to cassoulet, and from boeuf bourguignon to creme brulee, all from Anthony's own restaurant, the Brasserie Les Halles in New York. Also including Anthony's words of wisdom and general principles, this is guaranteed to be as much a good read as a guide to cooking up a storm in the kitchen.
About the Author Anthony Bourdain is the author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential, Typhoid Mary, and A Cook's Tour, which was turned into a successful series by the same name for the Food Network. His fiction includes The Bobby Gold Stories, Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.
Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780747580126 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 232x178mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain's long-awaited sequel to Kitchen Confidential, the worldwide bestseller
Description A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he's seen and what he's seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: 'Why cook?' Or the harder one to answer: 'Why cook well?' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds- barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.
'As ferociously rude as anything Bourdain has done before.'-Guardian.
'Terrific . his love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings as it once did in Kitchen Confidential.'-Daily Telegraph.
'Bourdain has insight, access and good taste, and he' s a naturally engaging writer . [he] is a hopeless romantic when it comes to food and the people who cook.'-New York Times.
'Bourdain is a vivid, bawdy and often foul-mouthed writer. He thrills in the attack, but he is also an enthusiast who writes well about things he holds dear.'-Wall Street Journal.
About the Author Anthony Bourdain's books include the mega-bestseller Kitchen Confidential, A Cook's Tour and Anthony Bourdain's Les Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) Halles Cookbook. His work has appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker, and he is a contributing authority ISBN: 9781408809747 for Food Arts magazine. He is also the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show No Reservations. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x128mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: No New Messages (2009), Gone Bamboo (2008), Bobby Gold Stories (2008), Kitchen Confidential (2008), The Nasty Bits (2008), Bone in the Throat (2008), No Reservations (2007), Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook (2006) Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Nasty Bits Anthony Bourdain
Collected cuts, useable trim, scraps and bones . from the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential
Description For all those Anthony Bourdain fans who are hungering for more, here is The Nasty Bits - a collection of his journalism. As usual Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, hanging out with Australia's big name chefs in Sydney and Melbourne, revealing what you didn't want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever. The Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike. Praise for The Nasty Bits 'Fantastic: as lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and aioli.' Daily Telegraph 'Bawdie, bolshy and bursting with energy.' Daily Mail
About the Author Anthony Bourdain is the author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential, Typhoid Mary, and A Cook's Tour, which was turned into a successful series by the same name for the Food Network. His fiction includes The Bobby Gold Stories, Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.
Price: $24.95 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780747579816 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition Anthony Bourdain
A new edition of the bestselling classic, hand-annotated throughout by Anthony Bourdain
Description After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.
About the Author Anthony Bourdain is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City. He is also the author of two novels GONE BAMBOO and BONE IN THE THROAT to be published by Cannongate in March 2000. His expose of New York restaurants 'Don't Eat Before Reading This' was published in the NEW YORKER in 1999 attracting huge attention in America and the U.K. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL was his first book of non-fiction and was followed by the bestselling MEDIUM RAW.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408845042 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Kitchen Secrets Raymond Blanc
The tie-in to the highly acclaimed series of the same name.
Description Raymond Blanc is revered as a culinary legend, whose love of delicious food is lifelong. Years of experience have given him a rich store of knowledge and the skill to create fantastic dishes that work time after time. With a range of achievable and inspirational recipes for cooks of all abilities, Kitchen Secrets is all about bringing Gallic passion and precision into the home kitchen. Raymond has done all the hard work, refining recipes over months and even years until they are quite perfect. Every recipe includes explanations and hints to ensure that your results are consistently brilliant.
Dishes that once seemed plain, or impossibly complex, suddenly become simple and elegant; the book's sixteen chapters include classics like watercress soup, chicory and Roquefort salad, cep ravioli, greengage cassoulet, chicken liver parfait, confit salmon, moules marniOere, grilled dover sole, home cured ham, pot au feu, lambs liver persillade, roast wild duck, lamb cutlets, galette des Rois, cherry clafoutis and Maman Blanc's own chocolate mousse.
With more than 100 recipes from both series of Kitchen Secrets, this is guaranteed to be a must-have for anybody with a love of French cuisine and finesse.
About the Author Totally self-taught, Raymond Blanc is one of Britain's best-respected chefs. His hotel-restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons in Oxford has been awarded two Michelin stars for the past 26 years and in 2007 he was awarded an OBE for services to culinary excellence.
Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781408822111 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 246x193mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: WB Food And Drink Sub Category: WBA General Cookery And Recipes Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening Vivian Swift
An illustrated, round-the-world tour of idiosyncratic gardens from beloved traveler/writer/watercolorist Vivian Swift.
Description Nine masterpiece gardens. Nine stories of grandeur, sorrow, disaster, triumph, discovery, and joy. From Scotland to Key West, from Brazil to Paris--even right next door--there is always something to learn about being human from a great garden.
About the Author Vivian Swift is the author of When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put and Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France. When not traveling, she lives on Long Island Sound with her husband.
Price: $38.99 (NZ$40.99) ISBN: 9781632860279 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 229x203mm Extent: 176 pages
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Bloomsbury USA NOVEMBER 2016 Owen's Daughter Jo-Ann Mapson
A redemptive tale of family, love and what it means to be a parent, from the bestselling author of Finding Casey and Solomon's Oak
Description It's been years since Skye Elliot has seen her biological father. He left when she was twelve, breaking her heart, and her life has not exactly been going uphill since. A drug user and alcoholic, Skye is given a choice after a car accident: jail or rehab. It takes eight months to get clean, but the day Skye is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother to her four- year-old daughter, Gracie. But first she has to find her. As she sets out on her unsettling, life-changing quest, she is joined by the last person in the world she ever expected to help her.
'If you haven't discovered Jo-Ann Mapson yet, you're in for the finest of treats - her books will move you from out-loud laughter to bittersweet tears.' - Jodi Picoult
About the Author Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of eleven previous novels, including Finding Casey, Solomon's Oak, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo (CBS TV movie) and theLos Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sistersand Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their four dogs.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408840986 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Finding Casey Jo-Ann Mapson
A ghost, a birthday gift, and an ailing child are parts to a puzzle that will change the lives of one New Mexico family forever - from the bestselling author of Solomon's Oak
Description Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at 41, is nesting in the home she and her husband Joseph have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unknown to them is rumored to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter Juniper is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time, quickly learning how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier when her sister Casey disappeared-in a time before she'd ever met Glory and Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo only a few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she thought she'd finally buried.
A love story, a family story, a story of searching and the bond between sisters, Finding Casey is a testament to human resilience.
About the Author Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of ten previous novels, including the beloved Solomon's Oak, winner of the American Library Association's 2011 RUSA Award for Women's Fiction, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo (CBS TV movie), and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their four dogs. Visit www.joannmapson.com.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408831083 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: F Fiction
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 The Harder They Come T.C. Boyle
A thought provoking look at the fine line between heroism and savagery from the New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle
Description Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principle and his wife Carolee are on a cruise to Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked by local youths and they're robbed at gun point. In an astonishing act of bravery Sten's military training kicks in and within moments one of the attackers lays dead, the rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group, the Costa Rican authorities and everyone back home.
Meanwhile, in the woods just outside San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to be controlled by the government - fails to cooperate with police after being pulled over and winds up with her car impounded, her dog stuck in the pound and her best friend having to post her bail. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fueled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with eighteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behavior become steadily more extreme he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that it is impossible for his family or Sara to halt.
The latest novel by multi-award winning author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come, is a thought provoking look at the fine line between heroism and savagery and how far a parent can be held accountable for the actions of the their child.
About the Author T.C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of nine collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the collection of stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781408859933 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt Kwasi Kwarteng
Eminent historian Kwasi Kwarteng takes a unique look at the financial world and its troubled history, from the disaster that befell Spain in the sixteenth century to the 2008 global financial crisis
Description In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history has been echoed many times, from the French Revolution to both World Wars, right up to the present day, when our own financial crisis saw many of our great nations slip into financial trouble. Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world as we know it, that between war and gold.
About the Author Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and was recently elected as the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. Ghosts of Empire is his first book.
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Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408831687 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb NOVEMBER 2016 Paris, He Said Christine Sneed
Set in Paris, from the award-winning author of Little Known Facts, an effervescent new novel about a woman in thrall to a powerful older man
Description Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college she is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries: one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and also challenges her to see who and what she will become if she meets her artistic potential. Laurent, however, seems to have other women in his life and Jayne, too, has an ex-boyfriend, much closer to her own age, whom she still has feelings for.
Bringing Paris gloriously to life, Paris, He Said is a novel about desire, beauty and its appreciation, and of finding yourself presented with the things you believe you've always wanted, only to wonder where true happiness lies.
About the Author Christine Sneed's story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry won the Grace Paley Prize, Ploughshares' John C. Zacharis Prize and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her debut novel Little Known Facts won the Society of Midland Authors award for best adult fiction and was named a top ten debut novel of 2013 by Booklist. She lives in Evanston, Illinois and teaches for the graduate writing programs at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781408868072 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat Louise Gray
By only eating animals she has killed herself for a year, Louise Gray explores our relationship with the animals we eat and how we might reconnect with the natural world through food.
Description Louise Gray's first kill is a disaster. She injures a rabbit and thinks it has died in agony. But the experience teaches her a lesson and, when she subsequently finds the extraordinary 'rabbit with a white blaze', she vows to do its death justice and continue her quest to find out what it really means to kill and eat animals. Inspired by the hand-wringing at middle class dinner parties, where everyone claims to care about animal welfare, Louise Gray sets out to find exactly where our meat comes from. The Ethical Carnivore takes the reader on the entire journey from field to fork, including the moment of death. At times shocking and always enlightening, the story promises to make us fully appreciate not only the farmers and fishermen behind our meals, but most of all the animals themselves. Starting small, Louise shoots and traps game such as pigeon and squirrels, and learns how to skin and cook them in the traditional way. Louise infiltrates elite shoots and considers whether killing game birds can ever be justified. She bravely visits halal and non-halal slaughterhouses and finds out how animals are killed and processed, and the effect it has on the men and women who do it on our behalf. The biggest animal Louise kills is a stag, in a chapter about blood lust, the question of masculinity and whether we are really meant to hunt and kill. At the end of the year, Louise goes wild fowling on the Isle of Lewis to shoot a goose for Christmas and reflects on how she has become more connected to nature and as a result a more compassionate person. Confronting current anxiety about the modern food system, Louise Gray's frank and funny writing encourages us all to reconnect with the countryside and take responsibility for the animals on our plates.
About the Author Louise Gray is former Environment Correspondent on The Daily Telegraph. Since 2014 she has been freelance, writing for the BBC, Scottish Field, Sunday Times, the Guardian, Country Life and the Spectator, among others. She specialises in writing about the countryside and climate change.
@loubgray / www.louisebgray.com Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781472935540 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: JFCV
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Bloomsbury Natural History NOVEMBER 2016 Brand Desire: How to Create Consumer Involvement and Inspiration Nicholas Ind and Oriol Iglesias
Using internationally-recognized case studies, including brands such as BMW and Burberry, this book explains how companies can use specific strategies and tools to develop and maintain brand desire among new and existing customers.
Description Desire is big business. If companies can create true desirability for their brand, customers will not only express preference and loyalty, they also show a willingness to act as brand champions, participate in online communities, co-create innovative ideas, and show the sort of commitment that is normally associated with fervent employees.
However, desire doesn't just happen. Brands need to nurture it by offering security and surprise. Consumers should feel secure when they buy and use a brand; they should be able to trust what a brand says about itself. Alongside this, brands also need to provide novelty, risk, adventure and the unexpected. This isn't just about marketing; this needs to be an organization-wide culture and perspective.
Using international case studies from brands including BMW and Burberry, this book explains how companies can build and maintain brand desire through specific strategies and tools, such as: - creating a supportive culture that encourages the active participation of people in brand development; - providing an opportunity for people to communicate more with each other and to encourage socialization through communities and events; and - being consistent in delivery, from first communications through to after-sales service and support; desirable brands are about desirable experiences.
About the Author Nicholas Ind is Associate Professor at the Oslo School of Management and a partner in Equilibrium Consulting. Previously he ran Icon Medialab's brand consultancy arm in Sweden. Before he joined Icon, Nicholas had his own branding consultancy in the UK, was a director of a design group and was an account director in an advertising agency.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Nicholas is the author of 11 books. ISBN: 9781472936233 Format: Paperback - C format Oriol Iglesias is Associate Professor and Director at the Department of Marketing Management at ESADE Business Dimensions: 234x156mm School in Spain, and also the Director of the ESADE Brand Institute. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Extent: 256 pages
Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt European Academy of Marketing (EMAC), and member of the Academy of Marketing's Scientific Committee of the Sub Category: KJ Business Special Interest Group on Brand, Identity, and Corporate Reputation. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Illustrations: Journal of Brand Management and the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Product and Brand Management. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Information NOVEMBER 2016 The Wenger Revolution: Twenty Years of Arsenal Amy Lawrence, photographs by Stuart MacFarlane
A stunning photographic celebration of Arsene Wenger's twenty years at Arsenal.
Description In September 1996 a Frenchman, so little known in English football that one newspaper ran the headline Arsene Who?, walked into Arsenal. In the subsequent twenty years as manager he has transformed the club. English football's longest serving manager has overseen a period of radical change and his experience spans across the spectrum from complex challenges to historic success.
The Wenger Revolution chronicles this fascinating era through the combination of distinctive photographs taken from the inner sanctum, alongside words from Arsene Wenger himself - as he reminisces about key images throughout his career at the club, and from Amy Lawrence, a renowned football writer whose book Invincble: Inside Arsenal's Unbeaten 2003 -04 Season was a bestseller and earned critical acclaim.
This is a stunning photographic journey, based on the images captured by official club photographer Stuart MacFarlane, who has had exclusive access for many years. These images tell the story of the changes within the club, and depict the significant people and moments that have defined the Wenger period.
Publication coincides with the twentieth anniversary of Wenger's arrival in England. The Arsenal he joined bears little resemblance to how the club looks today. A total renovation in terms of training, stadium, style, economics and a global audience has taken place under Wenger's instruction.
The Wenger Revolution is worth commemorating, and this book, through the blend of pictures and words, will do so in style.
About the Author Amy Lawrence has watched football avidly since her first trip to Highbury at the age of six. She has written about the game, mostly for the Guardian and the Observer, for over 20 years, and broadcasts, mostly for BBC 5 Live, on radio and Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781472933874 television. She was the FSF Football Writer of the Year in 2014. She has written two acclaimed books about Arsenal, Format: Hard Cover Proud to Say That Name and Invincible. Dimensions: 246x189mm Extent: 208 pages Stuart MacFarlane has been a sports photographer for over 25 years. Stuart's first commissioned shoot for Arsenal was in Main Category: WS Sport
Sub Category: WSJA Football (soccer, Association Football) 1990 and in January 2001 he joined the Club as their Staff Photographer. Most of Stuart's time is spent around the 1st Illustrations: team squad covering matches, training sessions, player features and exclusive behind the scenes images of the players Previous Titles: and staff. Author now living: Stuart has won a number of awards but the most notable is Life magazine's Best image covering the world of sports in 1999.
BLM Sport NOVEMBER 2016 Golden Kicks: The Shoes that Changed Sport Jason Coles
Golden Kicks reveals the fascinating histories behind the most significant sports shoes ever made and the role they played in some of sport's greatest moments.
Description Sports shoes are now a part of mainstream fashion and have been widely adopted as streetwear. The Converse All Star, Adidas Stan Smith, Reebok Classic or Nike Air Jordan are nowadays considered everyday footwear and have lost much of their sporting connection. Lost in the transition from sports shoe to fashion are the fascinating histories and sporting origins of our shoes and the way they played a significant role in some of the most important events in the development of sport. Golden Kicks will reveal these extraordinary stories, many of which have never been told before.
Join us on a global journey that begins in the early 1900s and ends in the present day, charting the development of sports shoes and sport itself through the ages. Through lavish photography and archive images we travel from the spikes made by Adidas founder Adi Dassler in which Jessie Owens destroyed Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy, to the gold Puma Complete Theseus shoes in which Usain Bolt destroyed world records. Both sports fans and sneakerheads will discover the amazing stories behind the shoes, the people who made them and the athletes who wore them.
About the Author Jason Coles has been in the sports industry his whole working life and has worked with some of the biggest brands, events and athletes in the business. He now runs his own content production company and is currently working on a documentary about the rival brothers who started Adidas and Puma. A self-confessed sneaker-head, Jason is a walking encyclopaedia of knowledge about the history of sports shoes (and is rarely seen out of his Adidas Superstars).
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781472937049 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 195x250mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport NOVEMBER 2016 Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football Daniel Gray
A collection of lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to club shops, floodlights, outfield players in goal and 47 other reminders of why we love football
Description Overpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices. Non-black boots. Football's menu of ills is long. Where has the joy gone? Why do we bother? Saturday, 3pm offers a glorious antidote. It is here to remind you that football can still sing to your heart.
Warm, heartfelt and witty, here are fifty short essays of prose poetry dedicated to what is good in the game. These are not wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain sweet and right: seeing a ground from the train, brackets on vidiprinters, ball hitting bar, Jimmy Armfield's voice, listening to the results in a traffic jam, football towns and autograph-hunters. This is fan culture at its finest, words to transport you somewhere else and identify with, words to hide away in a pub and luxuriate in.
Saturday, 3pm is a book of love letters to football and a clarion call, helping us find the romance in the game all over again.
About the Author Saturday, 3pm is Daniel Gray's third football book, and fifth book overall. His first, Homage to Caledonia was turned into a television miniseries when Gray was just 27, and he continues to present history on Scottish TV. His previous book, Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England's Football Provinces, won widespread acclaim across the football and literary press. He writes a travel column for The Leither magazine, and his work has appeared across various newspapers and on BBC radio.
Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781472925114 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 180x120mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Sport NOVEMBER 2016 How to Win at 5-a-Side: Take Your Team to the Next Level Nick Ascroft
The first book aimed specifically at five-a-side players
Description The ideal companion for social and league five-a-side players, this is a players' guide to improving their game, aimed at the playing majority: social footballers who play five-a-side in 'cages' with no out-of-play zone. The book has quotes from professional players and coaches, and top five-a-side amateurs, and covers every aspect of the game thoroughly and informatively. Highly accessible, this riveting read treats the game as social players treat it: seriously but not too seriously. Photographs and diagrams are used to show gameplay situations, showing positioning, drills and tactics, as well as perspectives from players/coaches/pros/tactical experts and factoids.
Wanting to improve your game? This book will not only help you win, but move up the league tables.
About the Author Nick Ascroft is a former sports editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, writing regularly for the Bloomsbury Sports blog, and is a keen amateur 5-a-side goalkeeper. Other contributors include current and former professional footballers and coaches and sports professionals, as well as top 5-a-side amateurs.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781472917379 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 208 pages
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BLM Sport NOVEMBER 2016 You Say You Want A Revolution? Geoff Marsh and Vicky Broackes
Published to accompany the V&A's major autumn exhibition, You Say You Want a Revolution? Records & Rebels 1966-70
Description The late 1960s were a period of great turbulence and rapid social and political change. You Say You Want a Revolution? examines that moment when youth culture drove an optimistic idealism, motivating people to come together and question established power structures across every area of society.
It shows how many of the issues that dominate contemporary discourse - environmentalism, globalization, individualism or mass-communication - have roots that can be traced back to the 1960s. 1960s design culture culminated in an orgy of colour and form: a sensorial overload of Barbarella-style inflatables, plush Verner Panton playrooms and high-tech 2001: Space Odyssey furniture systems.
Here, essays on music, politics, the counter-culture, social living, mind-altering experiences, festivals and more chart these revolutions across media and culture, illustrated throughout with some of the most iconic images of the time - including the records that provided both the soundtrack and the key markers of group identity.
The idealism of the period informed such disparate phenomena as the high-tech innovations of Silicon Valley and the environmental movement. Half a century later, we can reassess the genesis of these movements and explore whether the revolutions they started can be considered complete, ongoing or interrupted.
About the Author Victoria Broackes is a Curator and the Head of Exhibitions for the Department of Theatre and Performance at the V&A. Geoffrey Marsh is the Director of the Department of Theatre and Performance at the V&A. They have previously produced a number of successful touring exhibitions, including the immensely popular David Bowie Is.
Price: $79.99 (NZ$85.99) ISBN: 9781851778911 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
V&A Publications NOVEMBER 2016 Maps of War: Mapping Conflict Through the Centuries Jeremy Black
A magnificent visual survey of how conflict was recorded and planned, using maps produced at the time to reveal how warfare and its documentation has changed through the centuries.
Description There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onwards, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were involved and later, to use mapping to actually plan the progress of a conflict. Using contemporary maps, this sumptuous new volume covers the history of the mapping of war on land and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war.
Content includes: The beginnings of military mapping up to 1600 including the impact of printing and the introduction of gunpowder The seventeenth century: The focus is on maps to illustrate war, rather than as a planning tool and the chapter considers the particular significance of maps of fortifications. The eighteenth century: The growing need for maps on a world scale reflects the spread of European power and of transoceanic conflict between Europeans. This chapter focuses in particular on the American War of Independence. The nineteenth century: Key developments included contouring and the creation of military surveying. Subjects include the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War The twentieth century including extended features on the First and Second World Wars including maps showing trench warfare and aerial reconnaissance. Much of the chapter focuses on the period from 1945 to the present day including special sections on the Vietnam War and the Gulf Wars.
About the Author Jeremy Black is Professor of History at Exeter University and the prolific author of more than 100 books including Metropolis (Bloomsbury 2015). He is an acknowledged expert on the history of mapping. He teaches and lectures regularly in the US and has been visiting chair at several American universities. He is a winner of the Morrison Prize at the Society of Military History.
Price: $59.99 (NZ$64.99) ISBN: 9781844863440 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 280x280mm Extent: 224 pages
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Conway Publishing NOVEMBER 2016 When the Office Went to War: War letters from men of the Great Western Railway Clare Horrie and Kathryn Peterson
Letters from the First World War by the men of the Great Western Railway to their colleagues back home.
Description During the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway’s Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington, which were in turn collated into monthly “newsletters” by those who stayed at home to keep Britain moving. Today these newsletters give a unique insight into the Great War – these soldiers were writing to inform and entertain their colleagues rather than to comfort a worrying parent or to confess their love to a distant partner – and bring a distinct band of individuals to life. The story is told chronologically to recreate the suspense in the Audit Office as the remaining few waited to hear from their colleagues at the Front.
About the Author The collection is edited by and has a commentary from specialist archivists at The National Archives.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781844862801 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages
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Conway Publishing NOVEMBER 2016 Pack Up Your Troubles: How Humorous Postcards Helped to Win World War I James Taylor
A fascinating illustrated exploration into the remarkable story of how artist-drawn humorous postcards played a crucial role in winning World War One
Description Artist-drawn humorous postcards were growing considerably in popularity at the start of the 20th century. When war broke out in 1914 trade in them soared as the government utilised them as a widespread means of communication, to bolster morale, stiffen resolve and lift up the spirits in the field, at sea and on the home front from 1914 to 1919.
They were also an excellent tool for recording and commenting on military and civilian events as they unfolded. Although the conflict was no laughing matter, humour helped to bring people together and feel stronger during a time of suffering; these postcards helped achieved this and they are therefore considered as significant historical documents.
Pack Up Your Troubles is the first book of this kind to focus exclusively on the impact of British humour in the art of the picture postcards of World War One, both in the field and on the home front. The book is divided into themed chapters of the era, from Camp Life and Training to The Western Front through to Women at War and many more in between. Each section shows approximately 20 postcards within that theme, each with an explanatory caption.
This book would be an ideal gift for anyone with an interest in war and military history, art and design, cartoons, and anyone who enjoys humour and laughing.
About the Author Dr James Taylor FRSA is an accredited lecturer for the National Association of Fine and Decorative Arts; a former curator of paintings, drawings and prints, organiser of exhibitions and galleries and corporate membership manager at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; and Victorian paintings specialist with Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers. He is an avid collector of artist-drawn picture postcards. Price: $19.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9781844863419 Publications include: Marine Painting (1995), Yachts on Canvas (1998), Rule Britannia! Art, Power and Royalty (2007); Format: Paperback Dimensions: 147x193mm The Voyage of the Beagle (2008); Careless Talk Costs Lives: Fougasse and the Art of Public Information (2010) and Extent: 160 pages Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster (2013). Main Category: HB History
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Conway Publishing NOVEMBER 2016 The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945 Christopher Westhorp
A fascinating insight into the training of the special service volunteer soldiers who formed the Commandos.
Description The Commandos were created by Winston Churchill in 1940 as a 'butcher and bolt' raiding unit to destroy vital targets in German occupied Europe. Recruits for this 'special service' were all volunteers, drawn from the British Army, and later from the Royal Marines and other Allied armies. Commando training was extremely demanding - men had to be physically fit and show initiative, mental toughness and adaptability. The training courses were designed to cultivate these qualities and to simulate real battle experiences, which included the use of live ammunition. Commandos learned a diverse range of skills at dedicated training centres in the remote Scottish Highlands.
This pocket-book draws on authentic training manuals, lecture notes, course literature and other material from the commando schools to give a real insight into this highly specialised fighting unit - demonstrating how commandos were taught to live, fight and move on offensive operations, initially as raiding parties, and later as skilled assault infantry. Sections of the book cover survival and fieldcraft skills; night operations; assaulting obstacles; use of equipment - such as the COPPS canoe for beach reconnaissance and sabotage; and weapons training, including the Thompson submachine gun, the Bren gun, and the famous emblem of the commandos - the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife.
About the Author Chris Westhorp is an experienced freelance editor, writer and researcher. Formerly of Arms and Armour Press and Duncan Baird Publishing, he is a specialist interest in military history and aviation.
Price: $18.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9781844861590 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 180x120mm Extent: 128 pages
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Conway Publishing NOVEMBER 2016 Ship: A History in Art & Photography Andrew D. Lambert
An epic, stylish and beautifully illustrated compendium of 360 of the most famous river, sea and ocean bound vessels throughout the course of history.
Description Ship brings together 360 of the most celebrated ships in history and fiction in one stylishly produced volume. Each has its unique tale to tell, the dramatic stories immortalised in evocative artworks or captured in startling photography. Themes include exploration and scientific discovery; mutiny and piracy; shipwreck, cannibalism and survival. Ships that excelled in battle or that were lost in devastating circumstances are represented, along with those that heralded revolutionary developments in maritime or naval architecture - perhaps the first of their kind; or simply larger, stronger, more powerful, or faster than ever before..International in scope, the book uses a signature image of each ship as a starting point, with 250 words of text to outline the unique event that merits the ship's inclusion and full vessel specifications. Experts in the fields of sailing warships, battleships, ancient and medieval vessels, expeditionary ships, liners and famous literary ships have all contributed to a remarkable volume that is both a scholarly achievement and a visual marvel.
About the Author Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. He has written numerous historical works, including the recent bestsellers Admirals: The Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great (Faber, 2008) and Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation (Faber, 2009).
Price: $59.99 (NZ$65.00) ISBN: 9781844860760 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 280x240mm Extent: 384 pages
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Conway Publishing NOVEMBER 2016 Steaming Through Britain: A History of the Nation's Railways Chris Ellis
This lavish new volume explores Britain's extensive railway heritage, offering a comprehensive history of their construction, use and subsequent preservation, from famous steam locomotives through to wartime service, nationalisation, diesels and electrification.
Description This lavish new volume explores Britain's extensive railway heritage, offering a comprehensive history of their construction, use and subsequent preservation. The book outlines the development of Britain's railways from the coming of steam through to the first age of the train, the 'big four', wartime service, the nationalisation of the network and the advent of diesels and electrification. It incorporates evocative photographs and artworks from the extensive archives of the National Railway Museum. Examples of steam preservation lines featured in the book include the.North Yorkshire Moors Railway,.North Norfolk Railway,.Bluebell Railway,.Nene Valley Railway,.Severn Valley Railway and.Paignton and Dartmouth Railway, which are presented in a useful appendix, with contact details and opening times for attractions.
About the Author Chris Ellis has been a steam and model railway enthusiast since his school days. He has nearly fifty years of experience as a writer and editor, having started out in the early 1960s as editor of Airfix Magazine. In 1980 he founded Model Trains, which he continues to edit today as Model Trains International. Chris Ellis has also written numerous railway and scenic modelling books along with articles on miltary, aviation and transport subjects.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781844861217 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 281x218mm Extent: 192 pages
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Conway Publishing NOVEMBER 2016 Arctic with Bruce Parry Bruce Parry and Huw Lewis-Jones
An epic story of opportunity and challenge in the world's last great wilderness, Arctic Circle with Bruce Parry perfectly compliments the BBC2 series, whilst holding its own as an important standalone piece of work.
Description Explorer Bruce Parry takes an epic Arctic journey, following the six-month Polar summer through Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia and Scandinavia to document a vital part of our world at a point of extraordinary change.
In this companion to a landmark series, Bruce tells the stories of traditional Arctic inhabitants along with the oilworkers, miners and scientists who have been attracted to this dramatic yet hostile landscape in search of the wealth of natural resources and ecological data it can provide. He highlights the friction between old and new ways as traditional lifestyles are threatened by many factors:climate change, new legislation and the intrusion of big business.
Within engaging, intimate text and specially commissioned photography along with stills from the series, this book provides a human focus in an environmental context. Immersing himself in the cultures of peoples like the Chukchi, the Sami, the hunters of Qaanaaq and the Gwitchin tribes of the Canadian north, Bruce stresses their connection to the lands and hunting grounds that sustain them while exposing the issues they face.
Rich in content and narrative, Arctic Circle with Bruce Parry brings human stories and global issues to the fore, pinpointing cultures on the brink of irreversible change.
About the Author Bruce Parry is one of the UK's best-known TV presenters and adventurers, known particularly for the seminal BBC and Discovery Channel series 'Tribe' and 'Amazon' in which he became a member of several indigenous tribes to fully enter into their culture, traditions and rituals.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781844861309 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 245x190mm Extent: 272 pages
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Conway Publishing NOVEMBER 2016 In Search of the South Pole Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
A stunning and fascinating visual history of a cultural phenomenon, a biography not of Captain Scott but of the South Pole itself. The words of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, Edmund Hillary, Vivian Fuchs and Ranulph Fiennes ring from its pages, illustrated with unique photos from Frank Hurley and Herbert Ponting.
Description In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very end of the earth, as two men raced to conquer the South Pole. A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's triumph and Robert Scott's tragic demise, our fascination with the Antarctic remains as acute as ever. On the centenary of their epic expeditions, this book traces our search for the South Pole, from the earliest encounters with Antarctica's icy waters, through the Heroic Age to modern times. In addition to the words of Scott and Amundsen, vivid descriptions from the logbooks, journals and narratives of pioneers such as Carsten Borchgrevink, Ernest Shackleton and Douglas Mawson provide first-hand experiences of this enigmatic and unforgiving region. In our own times, there is commentary from modern explorers and travellers, writers and scientists, who explain what the South Pole means to them. Among those featured are Edmund Hillary, Vivian Fuchs, Ranulph Fiennes and Borge Ousland. Stunning images by Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, and from the personal collections of explorers and adventure photographers, as well as contemporary ephemera and artefacts, illustrate the hardships of life on the ice. The authors have woven together the narrative of this enduring human quest with individual stories to place the Scott-Amundsen race in historical context and consider its legacy in the manhaulers, extreme skiers and adventure tourists of today. In the 21st century the South Pole remains an international stage for ambition and personal endeavour. For anyone who has felt the pull of this magnetic place - this is the book for you.
About the Author Dr Huw Lewis-Jones is a historian and editor with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Huw was Curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute and the National Maritime Museum and is now an award-winning author who writes and lectures widely about maritime history, exploration and the visual arts. His books include Arctic, Ocean Portraits, In Search of the South Pole, and Mountain Heroes, which won Adventure Book of the Year at the World ITB Awards in Germany. n 2015
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) he was awarded the Leif Erikson Exploration History Award by The Exploration Museum in Iceland for his commitment to ISBN: 9781844861378 the history of exploration. Huw is currently Editorial Director of the indie publisher Polarworld. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 267x197mm Kari Herbert first started travelling at the age of 10 months with her father, the pioneering explorer Sir Wally Herbert. Her Extent: 192 pages
Main Category: HB History first book, The Explorer's Daughter, was chosen as 'Book of the Week' by BBC Radio 4.
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Conway Publishing NOVEMBER 2016 Rogue Stars: Skirmish Wargaming in a Science Fiction Underworld Andrea Sfiligoi, illustrated by Johan Egerkrans
Smuggle, hunt fugitives and struggle to survive on the fringes of the galaxy in this skirmish game for the darker side of science fiction.
Description Rogue Stars is a character-based science fiction skirmish wargame, where players command crews of bounty hunters, space pirates, merchants, prospectors, smugglers, mercenary outfits, planetary police and other such shady factions from the fringes of galactic civilisation. Crews can vary in size, typically from four to six, and the character and crew creation systems allow for practically any concept to be built. Detailed environmental rules that include options for flora, fauna, gravity, dangerous terrain and atmosphere, and scenario design rules that ensure that missions are varied and demand adaptation and cunning on the parts of the combatants, make practically any encounter possible. Run contraband tech to rebel fighters on an ocean world while hunted by an alien kill-team or hunt down a research vessel and fight zero-gravity boarding actions in the cold depths of space - whatever you can imagine, you can do.
About the Author Andrea Sfiligoi is one of those few lucky fellows who can claim they are 'working' while playing with toy soldiers. The success of his Song of Blades and Heroes line of wargame and roleplaying books, published by Ganesha Games, convinced him to stop doing what he was doing before and write games for a living.
Johan Egerkrans is a Swedish illustrator who has been drawing monsters since he was able to pick up a pencil. He has worked as a professional illustrator for more than 15 years, providing illustrations and concept art for games, comics, films, fashion and books. In 2013 he wrote and illustrated Nordiska Vaesen, a book about creatures in Scandinavian folklore, which has sold more than 30,000 copies in Sweden alone. Johan lives and works in Stockholm.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781472810779 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 64 pages
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Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 The Mosin-Nagant Rifle Bill Harriman, illustrated by Johnny Shumate illustrated by Alan Gilliland
The rugged and formidable Mosin-Nagant rifle has been used in conflicts across the globe over the last 120 years and remains in use to this day. Immortalized in films and video games set on the Eastern Front, this fully illustrated study is ideal for all those interested in modern small arms and military sniping.
Description The Mosin-Nagant is the world's longest-surviving and most widely distributed military rifle, having armed the forces of Russia and many other countries for over a century. It has seen action from World War I to the present day, but is most famous for its role during World War II where it proved to be an excellent sniping weapon in the hands of marksmen such as Vasili Zaitsev and Simo H.yh.. This study covers the rifles entire combat history, from its early development through to its service in combat and the impact it has had on modern firearms. Dramatic battle reports and specially-commissioned artwork complement the meticulously researched examination of the Mosin-Nagant provided by author Bill Harriman as he delves into the history of one of the most iconic rifles of World War II.
About the Author Bill Harriman is Director of Firearms at the British Association for Shooting, and appears regularly on British television as part of the team of experts on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow programme. A former Territorial Army officer with 18 years' service, he is also a forensic scientist dealing with cases involving firearms, ammunition and other weapons. This is Bill's first book for Osprey.
Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and .douard Detaille. Born in Malaya in 1949, Alan Gilliland spent 18 years as the graphics editor of The Daily Telegraph, winning 19 awards in that time. He now illustrates for a variety of publishers (www.alangilliland. com).
Price: $22.99 (NZ$31.00) ISBN: 9781472814159 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 80 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain's empire in the East Mark Stille, illustrated by Peter Dennis
The complete story of the Imperial Japanese Army's stunning victory over the British forces during World War II, with a particular focus on the significance of the aerial campaign that saw Japan claim air superiority.
Description For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Army's invincibility, the victory left both Burma and India open to invasion. Although heavily outnumbered, the Japanese Army fought fiercely to overcome the inept and shambolic defence offered by the British and Commonwealth forces. Detailed analysis of the conflict, combined with a heavy focus on the significance of the aerial campaign, help tell the fascinating story of the Japanese victory, from the initial landings in Thailand and Malaya through to the destruction of the Royal Navy's Force Z and the final fall of Singapore itself.
About the Author Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) received his BA in History from the University of Maryland and also holds an MA from the Naval War College. He has worked in the intelligence community for 35 years including tours on the faculty of the Naval War College, on the Joint Staff and on US Navy ships. He is currently a senior analyst working in the Washington DC area. He is the author of numerous Osprey titles, focusing on naval history in the Pacific.
Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$35.99) ISBN: 9781472811226 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 96 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 Bloodstained Sands: US Amphibious Operations in World War II Michael G. Walling
Bloodstained Sands tells the untold story of the men who stormed beaches around the globe during World War II, from the Sword and Juno Beaches on D-Day to the sands of Iwo Jima. Filled with first-hand interviews these tales of the US Amphibious Forces will resonate with veterans and readers with an interest in World War II.
Description For the men who served in America's Amphibious Forces during World War II, the conflict was an unceasing series of D- Days. They were responsible for putting men ashore in more than 200 landings throughout the conflict, most against well- entrenched enemy positions. Bloodstained Sands: US Amphibious Operations in World War II tells the story of these forgotten men for the first time, tracing their operational history from Guadalcanal to Casablanca, Sicily, Normandy, Iwo Jima and finally Okinawa. The men's stories are told in their own voices, with fascinating accounts from Underwater Demolition Teams, Attack Transport crews and many other unsung heroes of World War II.
First-hand interviews, entries from personal diaries and Action Reports create a unique history, perfectly complemented by historic illustrations and detailed maps. These are timeless tales of determination, sacrifice, and triumph of the human spirit - tales of US Amphibious Forces that for too long have gone forgotten and untold.
About the Author Michael G. Walling is author of several books, including Bloodstained Sea, winner of the 2005 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. An internationally recognized World War II expert, Walling is a contributing author to the US Naval Institute's Naval History magazine and has appeared on The History Channel and PBS as an aviation and naval expert. After graduating from Montclair State College with a BA in Biology, Walling served in the US Coast Guard for six years as a commissioned officer and a senior petty officer. He has spent more than 45 years collecting stories from veterans from World War II, Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq as well as those of pilots, merchant seamen, and civilian personnel with NATO and EUFOR in the Balkans. His research has included visits to London; Sarajevo; Baska Voda, Croatia; Halifax, Nova Scotia; St John's, Newfoundland; and New Orleans.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$47.99) ISBN: 9781472814395 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x152mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume 2: 1943-45 Thomas Anderson
A comprehensive history of the legendary armoured vehicles of the Panzerwaffe, Germany's most famous fighting force. Focusing on the later years of World War II, which saw the huge Allied invasion of Normandy, this book is a must for modelling and armour enthusiasts, as well as anyone with an interest in World War II.
Description The final years of World War II saw the legendary Panzerwaffe face its most difficult challenges, with Allied troops landing at Normandy and storming across the continent and the Russians gaining the upper hand on the Eastern Front. As Germany fought fiercely to hold on to the advantages gained in the early years, they relied heavily on the Panzer IV, the Panzer V Panther and the StuG III - the backbone of their infamous armoured divisions - to hold back their advancing opponents. This second volume on the Panzerwaffe offers a comprehensive guide to the final years of Germany's most famous fighting force, covering the further use of the Panzer IV, the role played by the StuG III assault gun and the battlefield debut of the formidable Panther. Explosive combat reports and rare archive photographs help uncover the final years of the Panzers, from their defence against the D-Day landings and the role they played in the Ardennes Offensive to their valiant last stand in Berlin.
About the Author A German national, Thomas Anderson is a specialist on the German Armoured Fighting Vehicles of World War II. He has spent decades trawling the archives throughout Germany and the rest of Europe to discover little-known facts and never previously published photographs of the might of the Blitzkrieg. A modeller, he regularly contributes to popular modelling and historical magazines across the globe, including Military Modelcraft International (UK), Steel Art (Italy), Historia Militar (Spain) and Batailles & Blindes (France) as well as many others.
Price: $59.99 (NZ$72.00) ISBN: 9781472814487 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 242190x190mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 Nile River Gunboats 1882-1918 Angus Konstam, illustrated by Peter Dennis
The first illustrated book to cover the Nile river gunboats in detail, this fascinating account of these imperial war machines will appeal to enthusiasts of naval and military history, as well as colonial-era wargamers and modellers.
Description For more than 30 years the Nile river gunboat was an indispensable tool of empire, policing the great river and acting as floating symbols of British imperial power. They participated in every significant colonial campaign in the region, from the British invasion of Egypt in 1882 to the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, when Britain finally won control of the Sudan. After that, the gunboats helped maintain British control over both Egypt and the Sudan, and played a key role in safeguarding British interests around the headwaters of the Nile - a region hotly contested by several European powers. Featuring specially commissioned artwork, this comprehensive volume offers a detailed analysis of the Nile river gunboats' entire career, from policing British colonial interests along the great river to defending Egypt against the Ottoman Turks in World War I.
About the Author Angus Konstam hails from the Orkney Islands, and is the author of over 50 books, 30 of which are published by Osprey. This acclaimed and widely published author has written several books on piracy, including The History of Pirates, and Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate. A former naval officer and museum professional, he worked as the Curator of Weapons at the Tower of London and as the Chief Curator of the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida. He now works as a full-time author and historian, and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.
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Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 The Hindenburg Line Marc Romanych, illustrated by Adam Hook and Patrick R. Osborn
Covering the development and construction of the epic Hindenburg Line, as well as the climactic battles that took place around it, this highly illustrated volume appeals to enthusiasts of military history and anyone interested in World War I.
Description Jagging across north-western Europe like an ugly scar, the Hindenburg Line was Germany's most formidable line of defence in World War I. Its fearsome reputation was matched only by its cunning design, with deep zigzagging trenches, concrete fieldworks, barbed wire and devilish booby traps forming an intimidating barrier for any attacking army. Through meticulous research, this volume explores each of the major portions of the Hindenburg Line, paying particular attention to three examples of Allied operations against it towards the end of the war: the critical flanking of the Drocourt-Qeant Switch; the daring but costly rupture of the line of the St Quentin Canal; and the bloody battles of the Meuse-Argonne. Specially commissioned artwork and historical photographs perfectly complement the analysis provided by the authors as they trace the life of the Hindenburg Line from its seemingly invulnerable early years through to the audacious tactics used by the Allies to achieve a bitter victory in 1918.
About the Author Marc Romanych is a retired US Army combat arms officer. He has a BA in History from the University of Maryland and an MA in International Relations from St Mary's University. Interested in the Maginot Line since 1995, Marc has extensively explored its fortifications. He is a member of Association du P.O. de Sentzich, a Maginot Line preservation group. Patrick R. Osborn is a veteran archivist. A member of the Society for Military History since 2003, he is working on a comprehensive history of American armored warfare in the First World War. He obtained his Master of Arts in history from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializes in detailed historical reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, the Ancient Greeks, Roman battle tactics, several 19th-century American subjects, the modern Chinese Army, and a number of books in the Fortress series.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) His work features in exhibitions and publications throughout the world. ISBN: 9781472814791 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 64 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 Robert Forczyk
We March Against England tells the thrilling tale of Operation Sea Lion, Hitler's plan to invade Britain and end its involvement in World War II. This in-depth examination of the German plan for invasion will shed new light on the greatest threat to the British Isles in over 100 years.
Description In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the channel of mines, and the wearing down of the Royal Naval defenders two German army groups were set to storm the beaches of southern England. Despite near-constant British fears from August to October, the invasion never took place after first being postponed to spring 1941 before finally being abandoned entirely.
Robert Forcyzk, author of Where the Iron Crosses Grow, looks beyond the traditional British account of Operation Sea lion, complete with plucky Home Guards and courageous Spitfire pilots, at the real scale of German ambition, plans and capabilities. He examines, in depth, how Operation Sea Lion fitted in with German air-sea actions around the British Isles as he shows exactly what stopped Hitler from invading Britain.
About the Author Robert Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the US Army Reserves having served 18 years as an armour officer in the US 2nd and 4th Infantry Divisions and as an intelligence officer in the 29th Infantry Division (Light). Dr Forczyk is currently a consultant in the Washington, DC area.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$47.99) ISBN: 9781472814852 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x152mm Extent: 400 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 World War II Infantry Fire Support Tactics Gordon L. Rottman, illustrated by Peter Dennis
Focusing on the US, British, German and Soviet troops, this title looks at Infantry Fire Support tactics during World War II. Specially commissioned artwork and detailed analysis of the battlefield use of machine guns, mortars and light guns make this a perfect volume for modellers and wargamers, as well as all students of World War II battles.
Description As infantry units advanced across Europe the only support they could rely on from day to day was that provided by the heavy weapons of their own units. While thundering tanks struck fear into the hearts of their enemies it was the machine guns, mortars and light cannon that proved to be most important, causing the majority of casualties suffered during World War II. Common principles were shared across units but the wide variety of weapons available to the different armies altered the way they were used in battle.
Focusing on the US, British, German and Soviet troops, this title offers a comprehensive guide to infantry fire support tactics used through World War II. Combat reports are complemented by specially commissioned artwork to show the way in which tactics varied, and highlight how developments obliged opposing armies to review their own methods.
About the Author Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long- range patrol and intelligence assignments until retiring after 26 years. He was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas.
Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781472815460 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 64 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 War over the Steppes: The air campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941 -45 E. R. Hooton, edited by Tony Holmes
This titanic clash between the pilots of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 remains one of the greatest conflicts in modern history, and holds perennial interest among students of military history and aviation enthusiasts, as well as anyone interested in World War II on the Eastern Front.
Description The air war over the Steppes was more than a brutal clash in which might alone triumphed. It was a conflict that saw tactical and technological innovation as the Soviet air force faced off against Herman G.ring's Luftwaffe. As Germany and the Soviet Union battled for victory on the Eastern Front they had to overcome significant strategic and industrial problems, as well as fighting against the extreme weather conditions of the East. These factors combined with the huge array of aircraft used on the Eastern Front to create one of the most compelling conflicts of the war.
Told primarily from the strategic and command perspective, this account offers a detailed analysis of this oft-overlooked air war, tracing the clashes between Germany and the Soviet Union over the course of World War II. Historical photographs complement the examination as author E. R. Hooton explores these epic aerial battles between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union.
About the Author E. R. (Ted) Hooton has been a journalist for 40 years and a defence journalist for about 25 years. He has written numerous articles on military history and three highly regarded books on the history of the Luftwaffe - The Luftwaffe: A Study in Air Power 1933-1945 (2010), Phoenix Triumphant: The Rise and Rise of the Luftwaffe (1992) and Eagle in Flames: The Fall of the Luftwaffe (1997), as well as contributing to several others. He has also written a detailed history of air operations over the Western Front, War over the Trenches - Air Power and the Western Front Campaigns 1916-1918 (2010) and Stalin's Claws (2012), an account of Stalin's military purges and the Soviet wars prior to Barbarossa.
Price: $49.99 (NZ$59.99) ISBN: 9781472815620 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x152mm Extent: 288 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 British Light Infantry & Rifle Tactics of the Napoleonic Wars Philip Haythornthwaite, illustrated by Adam Hook
Explains and illustrates the training and tactics of the Light Infantry and Rifle regiments, famously dramatized in the 'Sharpe' novels and TV films. This comprehensive guide will certainly appeal to modellers, wargamers, re-enactors and anyone interested in the Napoleonic wars.
Description In an age when infantry units manoeuvred and fought in rigid blocks, the idea of encouraging initiative and allowing a unit to 'skirmish' was regarded as revolutionary and fell out of favour in the years following the French-Indian and American Revolutionary wars. It was revived by far-sighted British and foreign-mercenary officers, who observed the way in which French Revolutionary armies deployed skirmishers to prepare the way for their assault columns. Offering a detailed analysis of the tactics, this book is studded with period 'battle descriptions' quoted from eye-witness accounts, creating a comprehensive guide to the Light and Rifles units of Wellington's Light Division. As the result of the first tentative experiments in skirmishing the units achieved an unsurpassed peak of efficiency - they marched faster, were versatile in any sort of tactical situation and could shoot more accurately than either friend or foe. No other national army, either allied or enemy, achieved these standards.
About the Author Philip Haythornthwaite is an internationally respected author and historical consultant specializing in the military history, uniforms and equipment of the 18th and 19th centuries. His main area of research covers the Napoleonic Wars. He has written some 40 books, including more than 20 Osprey titles, and numerous articles and papers on military history - but still finds time to indulge in his other great passion, cricket.
Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializes in detailed historical reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, the Ancient Greeks, Roman battle tactics, several 19th-century American subjects, the modern Chinese Army, and a number of books in the Fortress series. His work features in exhibitions and publications throughout the world.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781472816061 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 64 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Winter War 1939-40 David Campbell, illustrated by Johnny Shumate
The Winter War was an epic David-and-Goliath conflict that saw a small Finnish force stand against the full force of the Red Army. Focusing on three key battles, this illustrated study assesses the combat performance of the Finnish and Soviet forces during this short but savage war.
Description The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million Russian troops, but rather than sweeping across their neighbours the Soviet troops stumbled blindly, constantly wrong-footed and then bloodied by their seemingly insignificant foe. Drawing on a wide range of sources this study looks at three key battles, drawing a stark contrast between the poorly prepared Russian troops and the Finns, who made excellent use of terrain and innovative guerrilla tactics as they defended their homeland. Detailed maps and specially commissioned artwork highlight key moments in the Winter War, a David-and-Goliath conflict that saw the Soviet Union suffer horrendous losses as they tried to recover from each disastrous defeat.
About the Author David Campbell has worked as a freelance new media producer and content specialist for many years, including roles at IBM, the BBC, various internet consultancies and the civil service. He has a broad range of interests in literature and history, including the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic era, naval warfare, and the genesis of the 'military revolution'. He is the author of CBT 007 German Infantryman vs Soviet Rifleman.
Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and .douard Detaille.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$31.00) ISBN: 9781472813244 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 80 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey NOVEMBER 2016 The Scout: The Definitive Account of David Headley and the Mumbai Attacks Shirish Thorat and Sachin Waze
The Scout traces the journey of David Headley, son of a Pakistani aristocrat and an American mother who easily straddled both the Islamic and the western worlds. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, the book follows the trail of a drug addict turned trafficker and DEA informant who then joined the ranks of the Lashkar e Toiba. From there he played a key role in orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks which claimed 173 lives.
Description The Scout traces the journey of David Headley, son of a Pakistani aristocrat and an American mother who easily straddled both the Islamic and the western worlds. It is a tale of deception and deceit, of audacity and ingenuity and a detailed account of a man who coldly and systematically conducted a series of reconnaissance missions that perfected the most vicious and daring assault ever on the city of Mumbai.Investigated by two professionals in the field of anti terrorist operations, the Scout is a painstakingly researched and authentic account of the life and times of David Headley right until the time of his arrest whilst collaborating with the Al Queda and planning a public massacre in Denmark. The book includes heretofore unknown documents, emails and pictures and exclusive details which offer fascinating reading to everyone from the common man to law enforcement and intelligence officials worldwide.
About the Author Shirish Thorat served with the Goa Police for a decade before travelling to UK to study at the Royal Military college at Cranfield university. After a stint in the aviation sector in the Middle East he returned to India where he was a consultant subject matter expert in security and risk and also ventured into the innovative software applications sector for law enforcement agencies. Shirish is considered an authority on terrorism, money laundering and risk mitigation. He is also an ICAO certified aviation security professional. He now resides in New Jersey-USA where he is an independent contractor for risk/threat intervention.
In the evenings he is found walking Maximus, his German shepherd in the park near his home. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9789385436666 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 216x140mm Sachin Waze is a police officer in the Maharashtra Police Force. He had killed Extent: 232 pages several gangsters of top criminal organisations like Chotta Rajan and Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company. Sachin Waze had Main Category: Sub Category: been instrumental in research of various books of well known authors such as Adrian Levy, Jason Burke and Hussain Illustrations: Zaidi. Sachin himself had written a Marathi bestseller (a book about the 26/11 attacks). Previous Titles: Author now living: Sachin Waze is an authority on cyber crime and has developed several analytical softwares. When not crisscrossing the country on his motorcycle, Sachin enjoys music by RD Burman and cricket.
Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 The Rider Tim Krabbe
'Nothing better is ever likely to be written on the subjective experience of cycle-racing' Guardian
Description At the start of the 137-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual, Tim Krabb. glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators. 'Non-racers,' he writes. 'The emptiness of those lives shocks me.' Immediate and gripping from the first page, we race with the author as he struggles up the hills and clings on during descents in the unforgiving French mountains.
Originally published in 1978, The Rider is a modern-day classic that is recognised as one of the best books ever written about the sport. Brilliantly conceived and best read at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative and passionate tribute to the art of cycle racing.
About the Author Tim Krabbe is one of Holland's leading writers. His many books include The Vanishing and The Cave, both of which were made into films. He lives in Amsterdam.
Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781408881705 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 UTSAV: A Culinary Epic of Indian Festivals Vikas Khanna
Utsav is an exciting and colourful combination of the festivals, food and celebrations of the many communities of a magical country. Chef Vikas explores India through its many festivals to create a kaleidoscope of delectable recipes and delightful photographs.
Description India is a land of festivals. Festivals are a way of life in the country, a celebration of India's unique culture. Every day is a celebration: of life, victory, light and love, that takes you down the lanes of history and tradition. It is also a celebration of a country that has embraced everyone, from those who came to conquer her to the ones who needed shelter. Festivals in India are a time for bringing family and friends together even as they mark milestones of time. Utsav is an exciting and colourful combination of the festivals, food and celebrations of the many communities of a magical country. Chef Vikas explores India through its many festivals to create a kaleidoscope of delectable recipes and delightful photographs. In the chef's own words, Utsav is the tribute of a son to his motherland: 'I celebrate her every day as a festival. The festival may belong to any religion, belief . but for me it only belongs to you, Mother India.'
About the Author Vikas Khanna is an award-winning Michelin-Star Indian chef, restaurateur, food writer, film-maker, humanitarian and the host of MasterChef India, Junior MasterChef India and Twist of Taste on FOX Traveller. Vikas was raised in Amritsar, India, where he grew up surrounded by large family feasts, and seasonal produce fresh from the fields of Punjab and, of course, his grandmother's traditional home cooking, which became the foundation of his cooking career. He started his own banquet and catering business, Lawrence Gardens, and then later went on to graduate from the Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal. He also studied at Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, and Culinary Institute of America. Vikas has received the prestigious Michelin Star for his restaurant Junoon for four consecutive years. He was honored with the Rising Star Chef Award by Star Chefs for his role in shaping the future of American Cuisine. He has received several international awards for his books. He lives in New York City.
Price: $350.00 (NZ$380.00) ISBN: 9789384052317 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 305x305mm Extent: 1200 pages
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Bloomsbury NOVEMBER 2016 Brand Desire: How to Create Consumer Involvement and Inspiration Nicholas Ind and Oriol Iglesias
Using internationally-recognized case studies, including brands such as BMW and Burberry, this book explains how companies can use specific strategies and tools to develop and maintain brand desire among new and existing customers.
Description Desire is big business. If companies can create true desirability for their brand, customers will not only express preference and loyalty, they also show a willingness to act as brand champions, participate in online communities, co-create innovative ideas, and show the sort of commitment that is normally associated with fervent employees.
However, desire doesn't just happen. Brands need to nurture it by offering security and surprise. Consumers should feel secure when they buy and use a brand; they should be able to trust what a brand says about itself. Alongside this, brands also need to provide novelty, risk, adventure and the unexpected. This isn't just about marketing; this needs to be an organization-wide culture and perspective.
Using international case studies from brands including BMW and Burberry, this book explains how companies can build and maintain brand desire through specific strategies and tools, such as: - creating a supportive culture that encourages the active participation of people in brand development; - providing an opportunity for people to communicate more with each other and to encourage socialization through communities and events; and - being consistent in delivery, from first communications through to after-sales service and support; desirable brands are about desirable experiences.
About the Author Nicholas Ind is Associate Professor at the Oslo School of Management and a partner in Equilibrium Consulting. Previously he ran Icon Medialab's brand consultancy arm in Sweden. Before he joined Icon, Nicholas had his own branding consultancy in the UK, was a director of a design group and was an account director in an advertising agency.
Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.00) Nicholas is the author of 11 books. ISBN: 9781472925350 Format: Hard Cover Oriol Iglesias is Associate Professor and Director at the Department of Marketing Management at ESADE Business Dimensions: 234x156mm School in Spain, and also the Director of the ESADE Brand Institute. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Extent: 256 pages Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt European Academy of Marketing (EMAC), and member of the Academy of Marketing's Scientific Committee of the Sub Category: Special Interest Group on Brand, Identity, and Corporate Reputation. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Illustrations: Journal of Brand Management and the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Product and Brand Management. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Information NOVEMBER 2016 The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat Louise Gray
By only eating animals she has killed herself for a year, Louise Gray explores our relationship with the animals we eat and how we might reconnect with the natural world through food.
Description Louise Gray's first kill is a disaster. She injures a rabbit and thinks it has died in agony. But the experience teaches her a lesson and, when she subsequently finds the extraordinary 'rabbit with a white blaze', she vows to do its death justice and continue her quest to find out what it really means to kill and eat animals. Inspired by the hand-wringing at middle class dinner parties, where everyone claims to care about animal welfare, Louise Gray sets out to find exactly where our meat comes from. The Ethical Carnivore takes the reader on the entire journey from field to fork, including the moment of death. At times shocking and always enlightening, the story promises to make us fully appreciate not only the farmers and fishermen behind our meals, but most of all the animals themselves. Starting small, Louise shoots and traps game such as pigeon and squirrels, and learns how to skin and cook them in the traditional way. Louise infiltrates elite shoots and considers whether killing game birds can ever be justified. She bravely visits halal and non-halal slaughterhouses and finds out how animals are killed and processed, and the effect it has on the men and women who do it on our behalf. The biggest animal Louise kills is a stag, in a chapter about blood lust, the question of masculinity and whether we are really meant to hunt and kill. At the end of the year, Louise goes wild fowling on the Isle of Lewis to shoot a goose for Christmas and reflects on how she has become more connected to nature and as a result a more compassionate person. Confronting current anxiety about the modern food system, Louise Gray's frank and funny writing encourages us all to reconnect with the countryside and take responsibility for the animals on our plates.
About the Author Louise Gray is former Environment Correspondent on The Daily Telegraph. Since 2014 she has been freelance, writing for the BBC, Scottish Field, Sunday Times, the Guardian, Country Life and the Spectator, among others. She specialises in writing about the countryside and climate change.
@loubgray / www.louisebgray.com Price: $34.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781472938398 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages
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Bloomsbury Natural History NOVEMBER 2016 The Pacific Crossing Guide Kitty Van Hagen
An essential reference for anyone contemplating sailing the Pacific in their own boat. It offers invaluable advice on all the issues involved in the venture, including ideal timing, routes, suitable boats, on board power, methods of communication, provisioning, health, seasonal weather, departure and arrival ports, facilities, likely costs, and dangers.
Description The Pacific Crossing Guide is a complete reference for anyone contemplating sailing the Pacific in their own boat. From ideal timing, suitable boats, routes, methods of communication, health and provisioning to seasonal weather, departure and arrival ports, facilities, likely costs and dangers, the comprehensiveness of this new edition will both inspire dreamers and instil confidence in those about to depart.
This new edition has been completely restructured with Part 1 covering thorough preparation for a Pacific crossing and Part 2 covering Pacific weather patterns, major routes and landfall ports, with useful website links throughout. There are completely new sections on rallies, coral atolls and atoll navigation, the cyclone season and laying up, use of electronic charts, satellite phones versus HF radio, ongoing maintenance, and Pacific festivals.
Completely updated, expanded and refreshed for the new generation of Pacific cruisers, this is the definitive reference, relied upon by many thousands of cruisers.
About the Author The Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation was founded in 1976 with the objective of advancing 'the education of the public in the science and practice of navigation'. Its members write - and keep continually updated - pilot books covering many different parts of the world.
In the past twenty years Kitty Van Hagen has cruised the Pacific extensively with her husband, Simon; through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos and on to Hawaii; up to Kodiak and the Pacific Northwest; a season cruising round Price: $106.99 (NZ$114.99) Vancouver Island before heading south to San Francisco; to Mexico and a year spent exploring the Baha; from Mexico to ISBN: 9781472935342 New Zealand via French Polynesia; three years making the seasonal run between New Zealand and the island groups of Format: Hard Cover the Cook Islands, Fiji, Tonga and New Caledonia before sailing on to Australia; then a return to New Zealand where they Dimensions: 297x210mm Extent: 256 pages continued to be based for several years, sailing round North and South Island as well as the Chatham Islands and Main Category: TRLN Stewart Island and across to Tasmania. Kitty is co-author of Yachting Monthly's highly acclaimed Classic Passages and Sub Category: author of The Sailing Cook Book (Collins) and The Happy Ship (Faber and Faber). Kitty has also written various articles Illustrations: for Cruising World, Sail and Yachting Monthly magazines. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Adlard Coles Nautica NOVEMBER 2016 Violent Borders Reece Jones
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focussing on how borders are policed
Description Forty thousand human beings died trying to cross international borders in the past decade,with the high profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. In Violent Borders, Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional,but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. 'We may live in an era of globalization,' he writes, 'but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.'
In Violent Borders, Jones travels the border regions of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects, and their dire consequences for the majority of the people in the world. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slums and the aftershocks of decolonization, the wealthy travel freely, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures,argues Jones, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change, the growth of slums, and the persistence of global wealth inequality.
About the Author REECE JONES is a professor of geography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, and the author of Border Walls.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781784784713 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 208 pages
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Verso Trade NOVEMBER 2016 Age of Folly Lewis Lapham
America's leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, amidst the paranoid fire and smoke of the war on terror
Description Lewis Lapham is one of the giants of American letters. Formerly the editor of Harper's Magazine and now the editor of Lapham's Quarterly, his essays are renowned for their acerbic wit and pinpoint accuracy. In this latest collection of his essays he reviews the course of American democracy from the beginning of the War on Terror to the present day: from the bombastic spectacle of US elections, bought and paid for in advance, to the surveillance and suppression of dissent in the age of Snowden and the NSA.
About the Author LEWIS LAPHAM, is the author of numerous books and is the editor of Lapham's Quarterly and formerly the editor of Harper's Magazine, has been described in Vanity Fair as a journalist 'in the tradition of Mencken and Twain.'
Price: $39.99 (NZ$42.99) ISBN: 9781784787110 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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