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export information ME O open market edition, A format (dimensions 178 mm x 111 mm) B P B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm) B TP trade paperback, original titles only HB hardback And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini

From the no. 1 bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, the book that readers everywhere have been waiting for: his first novel in six years

haled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world. KHis novels have sold over 38 million copies in more than seventy countries. Now Hosseini returns with a book that is broader in scope and setting than anything he’s ever written before. A multi-generational family story revolving around brothers and sisters, it is an emotional, provocative and unforgettable novel about how we love, how we take care of one another and how the choices we make resonate through generations. With profound wisdom, insight and compassion, Hosseini PRICE: £18.99 demonstrates once again his deeply felt understanding of the bonds that define FORMAT: HARDBACK us and shape our lives – and of what it means to be human. ISBN: 9781408842423 EBOOK: 9781408842447 PUB DATE: 21 MAY 2013 Khaled Hosseini is the author of bestsellers The Kite Runner and A Thousand TERRITORY: COMM/UKEX-CAN, OM Splendid Suns. The Kite Runner was made into a film in 2007. A Thousand Splendid TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID Suns was a Richard & Judy Book Club choice. Hosseini is a Goodwill Envoy to GROSSMAN EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408842430 the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini (CLOSED MARKETS ONLY) Foundation, a nonprofit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to PRICE: £12.99 the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and lives in northern California. www.khaledhosseini.com

TransAtlantic Colum McCann

The astonishing new novel from Colum McCann, the National Book Award- winning author of Let the Great World Spin

n 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge Ifrom the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace.

Can we cross from the new world to the old? Stitching these stories intricately PRICE: £18.99 together in an outstanding act of literary bravura, Colum McCann sets out to FORMAT: HARDBACK explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled ISBN: 9781408829370 EBOOK: 9781408834152 skein of connections that make up our lives. PUB DATE: 23 MAY 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK/EX-CAN, OM Colum McCann, from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of six novels and two collections TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE of stories. His most recent novel, Let the Great World Spin, sold a million copies EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408841266 PRICE: £12.99 worldwide, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and several other international awards. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in New York. www.colummccann.com

2 ORIGINAL FICTION A Girl Like You Maureen Lindley

A poignant coming-of-age tale that sheds light on a dark moment in American history and the difficulty of finding your home in the ruins of war

939, west-coast California. Thirteen-year-old Satomi Baker is used to being 1different. Being half-white, half-Japanese gets you noticed. Although she has never felt she quite fits in, her striking looks have caught the eye of the most popular boy at school.

When war is declared, Satomi’s father Aaron is sent to the base at Pearl Harbour. He never returns. Now the community that has tolerated its foreign residents for decades suddenly turns on them, and along with thousands of other Japanese- American citizens they are sent to a brutal labour camp in the wilderness which PRICE: £11.99 future generations will choose to forget. FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408802311 EBOOK: 9781408834053 Maureen Lindley was born in Berkshire and grew up in Scotland. She was trained PUB DATE: 06 JUN 2013 as a psychotherapist and also worked as a photographer, antique dealer and a dress TERRITORY: WO designer before writing her first book, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel. Maureen TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY lives in the Wye valley on the Welsh borders with her husband.

The Measures Between Us Ethan Hauser

At once intimate and revelatory: a deeply moving debut novel about family and friendship, absence and belonging

n the East Coast of America a punishing storm is bearing down, and as clouds Ogather on the horizon the inhabitants of a small Boston suburb feel their lives begin to unravel. A school teacher faces a wrenching decision about his only daughter. A psychology professor tests the boundary of his marriage, whilst his pregnant wife harbours her own secret. A researcher gathers climate data and dreams of ways to bridge the distance between himself and his increasingly absent girlfriend. And connected to them all, as their paths are reshaped by the changing world around them, is Cynthia, a young woman uncertain of everything but her PRICE: £12.99 sadness. FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408837092 EBOOK: 9781620401163 Ethan Hauser received his MFA from the University of North Carolina at PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 Greensboro. His fiction has been published in Esquire, Playboy, and New Stories TERRITORY: WE From the South: The Year’s Best, and he has won a Nelson Algren prize from the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: MARKSON THOMA AGENCY Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York and is an editor at the New York Times, where his journalism also appears.

ORIGINAL FICTION 3 Flora Gail Godwin

‘A present-day George Eliot – our keenest observer of lifelong, tragically unwitting decisions. This is a luminously written, heartbreaking book’ John Irving

en-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in THelen’s decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work during the final months of World War Two. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother’s twenty-two-year old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America, will haunt Helen for the rest of her life. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author ISBN: 9781408840863 EBOOK: 9781408840887 of twelve critically acclaimed novels. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and TERRITORY: WE the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JOHN HAWKINS in Woodstock, New York. & ASSOC. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408840870 PRICE: £11.99 PUB DATE: 09 MAY 2013

The Innocence Game Michael Harvey

Master crime writer Michael Harvey returns to the city of Chicago in this tense and fast-paced stand-alone thriller

he first day of class for Ian Joyce and Sarah Gold starts like any other, until a Tfellow student, Jake Havens, pulls a wrinkled envelope from his jacket. Inside is a blood-stained scrap of shirt from a boy murdered fourteen years ago and an anonymous note taking credit for the killing. But the man convicted of the murder is already dead.

As the case unravels, the bodies and questions begin to pile up. And as the search for a serial killer unfolds, the students realise they too are being hunted… PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK Michael Harvey is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third ISBN: 9781408835166 EBOOK: 9781408835173 Rail and We All Fall Down, and is also a journalist and documentary producer. PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 His work has won numerous national and international awards. He lives in TERRITORY: COMM/UKEX-CAN, OM Chicago. @TheChicagoWay / www.michaelharveybooks.com TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ABNER STEIN

4 ORIGINAL FICTION Nothing Holds Back the Night

Translated from the French by George Miller Delphine de Vigan

Based on her childhood, Nothing Holds Back the Night is the moving and surprising new novel from Delphine de Vigan, author of Richard and Judy- selected No and Me and the Goncourt Prize-shortlisted Underground Time

n this engaging autobiographical novel, the narrator’s mother, Lucile, raises her Itwo daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful. But as the years pass her occasional sadness gives way to overwhelming despair and delusion. This is a story of luminous beauty and PRICE: £12.99 rambunctious joy, of dark secrets and silences, revelations and, ultimately, the FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408825730 unknowability of even those closest to us. And in the face of the unknowable, EBOOK: 9781408839874 personal history becomes fiction: a life reconstructed using the imagination, acute PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 self-awareness, humour and marvellous sympathy; a story universally recognisable TERRITORY: WE and singularly heartbreaking. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: EDITIONS J C LATTES

Delphine de Vigan is the author of the bestselling No and Me and Underground Time. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages. George Miller is the translator of No and Me and Underground Time, and also of Disordered World by Amin Maalouf.

Blue Lorries Radwa Ashour Courtesy of the author An intimate portrait of a young woman’s passage from childhood to adulthood, tracing three generations of political activism in Egypt

ada, the daughter of an Egyptian father and a French mother, tells the story Nof her life as the daughter of a political detainee in the late 1950s, her own activism and arrest as a university student in the 1970s, and finally the arrest of her younger brother during demonstrations against the war in Iraq in 2003. Blue PRICE: £8.99 Lorries, named for the trucks used for transporting Egyptian prisoners, is the FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9789992194485 story of Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century as well as the story of a EBOOK: 9781408835173 remarkable, unconventional and quietly defiant woman. PUB DATE: 18 JUL 2013 TERRITORY: WE Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian writer and scholar, author of numerous novels, short story collections and academic works. A long-standing professor of English literature at the Ain Shams University in Cairo, she holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is married to the Palestinian writer Mourid Barghouti, who is also published by Bloomsbury.

ORIGINAL FICTION 5 The Memory Theatre

An Alec Blume Novel Conor Fitzgerald

‘An inspired creation’, ‘An engaging hero’, ‘The most popular detective of the coming decade’ – Alec Blume is back in the fourth in the series

n a freezing November night in Rome, Commissioner Alec Blume is called Oto the scene of a shooting. The victim is Sofia Fontana, the sole witness to a previous killing. Blume’s enquiries lead from a professor with a passion for the art of memory to a hospitalised ex-terrorist whose injuries have left her mind innocently blank, and back twenty years to a murderous train station bombing in central Italy. Drawn ever deeper into the case, his disregard for authority alienates PRICE: £11.99 his bosses and colleagues, and even looks set to derail his troubled relationship FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK with Caterina Mattiola… ISBN: 9781408828076 EBOOK: 9781408837894 PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 Conor Fitzgerald has lived in Ireland, the UK, the United States and Italy. He TERRITORY: WE has produced a current affairs journal for foreign embassies based in Rome, and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY founded a successful translation company. He is married with two children and lives in Rome. The Memory Theatreis the fourth in his series of Italian crime novels. www.conorfitzgerald.net

Ballistics D. W. Wilson

A tender, powerful, brilliantly written debut novel of fathers and sons, vengeance and forgiveness by the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award

t is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. Fleeing the fallout of a failed Irelationship, Alan West returns to his grandfather’s home in the Kootenay Valley. Cecil West, an old man confronted by his own mortality, asks Alan to track down his son, Alan’s father, so that Cecil can make his peace with him. And so Alan begins his search for Jack West: a man who skipped town decades earlier. His quest will lead him to Archer, an American soldier who went AWOL into Canada at the apex of the Vietnam War. The young man and the old soldier set off on a reckless PRICE: £12.99 journey. What they find will change their lives for ever. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408833766 EBOOK: 9781408833773 D. W. Wilson is the author of the collection Once You Break a Knuckle. He was PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. His TERRITORY: WE/EX-CAN stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada, Ireland and the United TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN Kingdom, and ‘The Dead Roads’ won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408844670 PRICE: £11.99 He lives in Cambridge. Ballistics is one of the ‘Waterstones 11’ for 2013. PUB DATE: 7 MAY 2013

6 ORIGINAL FICTION The Remains of Love

Translated from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson Zeruya Shalev

‘Hypnotic rhythm … An acute and profound statement … One of the most powerful novels I have read in recent years’ Amoz Oz

emda Horovitz is nearing the end of her life. As she lies in bed in Jerusalem, Hmemories from the past flood her thoughts: her childhood in the kibbutz with her stern, pioneer parents; the lake that was her only solace; and her own two children, one whom she could never love enough and the other whom she loved too much. Dina and Avner now have families of their own, but their mother’s condition makes them examine their lives anew and brings about dramatic changes. PRICE: £16.99 The Remains of Love is the internationally bestselling writer Zeruya Shalev’s FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408828168 electrifying new novel – a meditation on the state of modern Israel and a profound EBOOK: 9781408834145 exploration of family, yearning, compromise and the insistent pull of the past. PUB DATE: 05 AUG 2013 TERRITORY: WE Zeruya Shalev is the award-winning author of five novels, a book of poetry and a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: INSTITUTE FOR THE TRANSLATION OF HEBREW children’s book. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and in LITERATURE 2012 she was awarded the prestigious Welt-Literature Award. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408841860 PRICE: £11.99 Philip Simpson is the translator of A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz and Shimon Peres.

The Bone Season Samantha Shannon

A major event – the first book in a seven-part series of dizzying imagination. Welcome to Scion: No Safer Place

he year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal Tunderworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.

It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, other-worldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite creature with PRICE: £12.99 dark honey skin and heavy-lidded yellow eyes. He is her master. Her trainer. Her FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408836422 natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to EBOOK: 9781408836446 be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die. PUB DATE: 20 AUG 2013 TERRITORY: WE Born in 1991, Samantha Shannon was brought up in West London. She is a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID GODWIN EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408836439 student at St Anne’s College, Oxford. The Bone Season is the first in a projected PRICE: £11.99 series of seven novels. It has been sold in eighteen countries and film rights have been optioned by The Imaginarium Studios, a film company led by Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings) and Jonathan Cavendish (producer of Bridget Jones’s Diary). @say_shannon / www.samantha-shannon.blogspot.com ORIGINAL FICTION 7 Maddaddam Margaret Atwood

From one of the world’s most exciting writers comes a new novel of astonishing power; the hugely-anticipated final novel in the trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood

man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with A the green-eyed Crakers – a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, one-time member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers’ reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer attack; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack. PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK Told with wit, dizzying imagination and dark humour, Atwood’s unpredictable, ISBN: 9781408819708 EBOOK: 9781408819715 chilling and hilarious Maddaddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian PUB DATE: 29 AUG 2013 world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future. TERRITORY: COMM/UK, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history and in 2012 was awarded the title of Companion of Literature by The Royal Society of Literature. Her last two novels, Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, have sold over a million copies in the English language. @MargaretAtwood

Lion Heart

© Jaime Turner Justin Cartwright

A contemporary tale of belief, identity, the nature of fiction and the power of romance, and Justin Cartwright’s most inventive and powerful work to date

ichard Cathar was named after his father’s hero, Richard the Lionheart. Richard Rremembers his recently-deceased father, Alfric, as a delusional hippy, who saw himself as an intellectual and historian. Alfric believed that Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood had met and he found – and lost – a document which was to prove this. In his father’s footsteps, Richard travels to Jerusalem where he falls deeply in love with an Arab Canadian journalist; a few weeks later she is kidnapped in Cairo. In the course of writing about the Crusades, Richard discovers that the True PRICE: £18.99 Cross, lost to Saladin in 1187, was recovered by a small band of Richard’s knights. FORMAT: HARDBACK He embarks on a quest of his own, both to find the True Cross, and to discover ISBN: 9781408839799 EBOOK: 9781408839782 whether or not everything in his father’s mind was a fantasy. It is an utterly original PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 novel, exciting, romantic, funny and profound. TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: UNITED AGENTS Justin Cartwright’s novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408839805 PRICE: £12.99 Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven By Water and Other People’s Money, Spears novel of the year. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London.

8 ORIGINAL FICTION The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri

Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution; a novel of extraordinary power

rothers Subhash and Udayan are close in age and inseparable as children Bin Calcutta. Yet, as the years pass – as US tanks roll into Vietnam, as riots sweep across India and the Communist movement begins to take root – Udayan’s increasingly radical beliefs will transform the futures of those dearest to him: his newly married, pregnant wife, his brother and their parents. For all of them, the repercussions of his actions will reverberate across continents and seep through the generations that follow.

Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and brought up in Rhode Island. She is the PRICE: £16.99 author of Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth. Her FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408828113 books have won multiple prizes including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/ EBOOK: 9781408834046 Hemingway Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her first novel, The PUB DATE: 26 SEP 2013 Namesake, was made into a film from the director ofMonsoon Wedding. She lives TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN & INDIA, in Brooklyn, New York. OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANKLOW & NESBIT EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408844557 PRICE: £11.99

The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert’s first novel in twelve years. An extraordinary story of botany, exploration and desire, spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

January 1800. Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. An 5 independent girl with a thirst for knowledge, it is not long before Alma comes into her own within the world of botany. But as her studies of moss take her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite direction.

The Signature of All Things is a big novel, about a big century. It soars across the globe from London, to Peru, to Philadelphia, to Tahiti, to Amsterdam. Peopled with extraordinary characters – missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, PRICE: £18.99 sea captains, geniuses and the quite mad – most of all it has an unforgettable FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408841891 heroine in Alma Whittaker, a woman of the Enlightened Age who stands defiantly EBOOK: 9781408841914 on the cusp of the modern. PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UKEX-CAN, OM Elizabeth Gilbert is best known for her 2006 bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408841907 over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a film. She has been nominated PRICE: £11.99 for the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent book, Committed, was a Number One New York Times Bestseller. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in New Jersey. @GilbertLiz / www.elizabethgilbert.com

ORIGINAL FICTION 9 Pig’s Foot

Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne Carlos Acosta

From internationally acclaimed Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta comes a dazzling tale of revolution, family secrets, identity and love across three generations

ne day Oscar Kortico finds himself utterly alone. As he sets out to find the Olost village of Pata de Puerco to discover the meaning of the magical pig’s- foot amulet he has inherited, the search for his country’s hidden history becomes entangled with his search for the truth about himself. Through the retelling of the stories of his ancestors, in a style that is ambitious, lyrical and devastating in its impact, we glimpse the tumultuous history of Cuba, from the arrival of slaves PRICE: £16.99 through to the war of independence, the arrival of Bacardí rum, dictatorship, FORMAT: HARDBACK revolution and finally a freedom of sorts… ISBN: 9781408833704 EBOOK: 9781408833711 PUB DATE: 30 OCT 2013 Carlos Acosta was born in Havana and trained at the National Ballet School of TERRITORY: WO Cuba. He has been a principal at the English National Ballet and has danced as a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY guest artist worldwide. He is the author of the autobiography No Way Home. Pig’s EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408841877 PRICE: £11.99 Foot is one of the ‘Waterstones 11’ for 2013. www.carlosacosta.com

Frank Wynne is the translator of Michel Houellebecq, Tomás Eloy Martínez and winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Helium Jaspreet Singh

A haunting novel of one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation: the massacre of the Sikh citizens after the assassination of Indira Gandhi

n 1 November 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister OIndira Gandhi, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip with his mentor and chemistry teacher, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight.

Years later the student, Raj, is compelled to find his professor’s widow, the beautiful PRICE: £16.99 Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, Nelly comes up FORMAT: HARDBACK against a nation in denial, Raj faces the truth about his father’s role in the Sikh ISBN: 9781408829165 EBOOK: 9781408833865 massacre and they both find the path leads back to the train station. PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 TERRITORY: WO Jaspreet Singh is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a former research TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY scientist. His story collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, won the 2004 Quebec First EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838211 PRICE: £11.99 Book Prize. Chef, his first novel, received the Alberta Prize for Fiction and was a PUB DATE: 6 AUG 2013 finalist for four awards including the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Born in India, he moved to Canada in 1990. www.jaspreetsinghauthor.com

10 ORIGINAL FICTION T. C. Boyle Stories II

The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II © Jamieson Fry T. C. Boyle

The second volume of collected short fiction from American master T. C. Boyle, including his previous three collections and fourteen new stories

man falls from a roof whilst spying on his on his beautiful widowed neighbour. A A newly married couple seeking enlightenment take a three year vow silence and move to a yurt in Arizona desert. And in a quiet lakeside community, a simple misunderstanding has disastrous consequences… PRICE: £18.99 In T. C. Boyle Stories II, Boyle compiles the three later volumes of short fiction, After FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408844564 the Plague, Tooth and Claw and Wild Child, along with a new collection entitled EBOOK: 9781408844588 A Death in Kitchawank. T. C. Boyle explores the mundane, the devastating, the PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 figurative and the implausible in this masterful and enthralling collection, and TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM emerges as a writer at the height of his craft. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408844571 PRICE: £11.99 PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of nine collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently San Miguel. 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. www.tcboyle.com

The Two Hotel Francforts

David Leavitt Tribble © Tanya

A taut and subtle historical novel about two couples caught up in a world at war, from the acclaimed author of The Indian Clerk

t is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is the only neutral port left in Europe – a Icity filled with spies and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to pass the time until they can escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the SS Manhattan, two couples meet: Pete and Julia Winters, expatriate Americans fleeing their sedate life in Paris; and Edward and Iris Freleng, sophisticated, wealthy, bohemian and beset by all the social and sexual anxieties of their class. As Portugal’s neutrality and the world’s future hang in the balance, the hidden threads of their lives begin to come loose. This journey will change the four of them irrevocably, PRICE: £17.99 as Europe sinks into war. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9780747581697 EBOOK: 9781408834176 David Leavitt’s fiction has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the National PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 Book Critics’ Circle Award and the LA Times Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the TERRITORY: WE IMPAC Dublin Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408815151 Times, Harper’s and Vogue, among other publications. He lives in Gainesville, PRICE: £11.99 Florida, where he is Professor of English at the University of Florida and edits the literary magazine Subtropics.

ORIGINAL FICTION 11 Kerrigan in Copenhagen Thomas E. Kennedy

The cornerstone novel in Kennedy’s daring, critically-acclaimed Copenhagen Quartet, Kerrigan in Copenhagen is a raucous journey of longing and regret

errigan is writing a guide book to Copenhagen. Specifically, a guide to the city’s Kdrinking establishments – of which there are more than 1,500. Now, potentially, this is a project without end, and one that will guarantee a certain amount of drunken numbness. And that’s the point: for Kerrigan, an American expat fleeing a brutal family tragedy, has plenty he wants to forget. The only problem with his proposed project is his research associate, a voluptuous, green-eyed gal who makes him tremble with forgotten desire. Kerrigan in Copenhagen is a deeply human, witty, Joycean romp through a magical city – its people, history and culture. PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK Thomas E. Kennedy’s books include novels, story and essay collections, literary ISBN: 9781408841938 EBOOK: 9781408841952 criticism, translations and anthologies, and his writing has been awarded several PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 prizes, including the National Magazine Award in 2008. He teaches in the MFA TERRITORY: WE program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Born and raised in New York, Kennedy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SOBEL WEBER currently lives in Copenhagen with his two children. www.thomasekennedy.com ASSOC. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408841945 PRICE: £11.99

The Hidden Light of Objects

© Omar Nakib Mai Al-Nakib

A debut collection from a new Kuwaiti author that peels away the private struggles of adolescence, marriage and middle age

he objects around us tell the stories of our lives, sometimes in unexpected ways. TAmerika, a young girl renamed to celebrate the role of the US in liberating Kuwait, begins to resent both her name and her conservative society; a Palestinian teenager is reluctantly drawn into a botched suicide bombing; a middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs in the Middle East. These PRICE: £8.99 intimate and surprising stories take a quiet look at people’s lives; at their dreams, FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK relationships and secret longings, and the power of objects to reveal memories ISBN: 9789992195413 PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 and tell stories. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY A sophisticated, cosmopolitan voice from the Middle East, Mai al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Brown University in the USA and now teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. The Hidden Light of Objects is her first collection of short stories. She is currently working on her first novel.

12 ORIGINAL FICTION Equilateral Ken Kalfus

‘One of his smartest and most ambitious books yet. It left me thinking and wondering well past my bedtime’ Gary Shtyengart

t is the turn of the twentieth century and a British astronomer, Thayer, high on IDarwin and other progressive scientists of the age, arrives in Egypt to embark on the project of a lifetime: the excavation of a triangle in the desert, with sides hundreds of miles long, to be filled with petrol and set alight. The purpose: to send out a signal to life on Mars (for which he has evidence) that humans exist. But as work progresses, the huge task force of Egyptian workers is struck by disease and rebellion, and the success of Thayer’s project looks increasingly uncertain. PRICE: £12.99 Ken Kalfus is the author of two novels, The Commissariat of Enlightenment and FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408832936 A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, which was a finalist for the 2006 National EBOOK: 9781408841853 Book Award. He’s also published two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 and Other Russian Fantasies, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His TERRITORY: WE books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages. He lives in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: FLETCHER & CO Philadelphia. @KenKalfus / www.kenkalfus.com

ORIGINAL FICTION 13 Everest

The Summit of Achievement Stephen Venables

The sixtieth anniversary edition of the beautifully produced, large-format, illustrated bestseller on the many attempts to climb the world’s highest mountain

PRICE: £35.00 his magnificent volume celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the first successful FORMAT: HARDBACK Tascent of the world’s highest mountain, and chronicles the history of Everest ISBN: 9781408841983 PUB DATE: 06 JUN 2013 exploration from the early years of the twentieth century to the present. It is the TERRITORY: COMM/UKEX-CAN first and only book on the subject to benefit from complete access to the Royal Geographical Society’s astonishingly rich collection of photographs, documents and artefacts. Painstakingly selected from over 20,000 subjects, the 400 photographs record the surveying, planning, reconnaissance expeditions and actual attempts that the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club jointly launched from 1921 – culminating in Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s historic climb on 29 May 1953.

Stephen Venables is one of the best-known mountaineers of his generation and the author of various books, including Everest – Alone at the Summit and Higher Than The Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest.

The Wit and Wisdom of

© Getty Images Boris Johnson Edited and introduced by Harry Mount

The wit and wisdom of the charismatic and gaffe-prone Mayor of London

ntelligent, ruthlessly ambitious and prone to gaffes that the press and public take Iequal delight in, Boris Johnson is the darling of the Tory party. This collection of his wit and wisdom, edited by eminent journalist Harry Mount, covers his education, his journalism, his politics, his time as Mayor of London, the Olympics and his personal life. It begins with a substantial introduction exploring his time in public life, not ignoring his personal indiscretions. PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK Harry Mount is a political journalist and columnist. He was previously the ISBN: 9781408183526 EBOOK: 9781408183588 Telegraph’s New York correspondent. He is the author of several books including PUB DATE: 06 JUN 2013 the bestseller Amo Amas Amat: How to Become a Latin Lover and How England TERRITORY: WO Made the English. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

14 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Anne Frank

The Biography Melissa Müller

With 100 pages of new information on the Franks’ attempts to leave for the US and the family’s ultimate betrayal, this completely revised edition is now the definitive biography

racing Anne Frank’s life from early childhood to her adolescence in German- Toccupied Amsterdam, Melissa Müller’s biography, originally published in 1998, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen. This updated edition includes the five missing pages from Anne Frank’s diary, a number of new photographs, and brings to light many fascinating facts surrounding the Franks. As well as an epilogue from Miep Gies, who hid them for two years, it features new PRICE: £20.00 theories surrounding their betrayal, revelations about the pressure put on their FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408842096 helpers by the Nazi party and the startling discovery that the family applied for EBOOK: 9781408842119 visas to the US. This authoritative account of Anne Frank’s short but extraordinary PUB DATE: 20 JUN 2013 life has been meticulously revised over seven years. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Melissa Müller is an Austrian-born journalist and author whose other books include Until the Final Hour, which describes Traudl Junge’s life as one of Hitler’s secretaries and was a major source for the movie Downfall.

Light Footprint Charles-Edouard Bouée Courtesy of the author What can managers in today’s uncertain, unimaginably complex world learn from President Obama’s military doctrine and Chinese management style?

rganisations need to adapt to a world that is becoming more volatile, uncertain, Ocomplex and ambiguous by the day. Charles-Edouard Bouée proposes that they adopt what he calls ‘light foot-print’ management, similar to Barack Obama’s light foot-print military doctrine and reminiscent of the new management approach emerging in China.

Bouée argues that this shift in approach sets a trend that Western companies will be obliged to follow, and explains how conventional management techniques and tools can be transformed to change today’s companies into adaptable, post-strategic PRICE: £25.00 business organizations that are fit for the future. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781472900050 EBOOK: 9781472900067 Charles-Edouard Bouée is President of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Asia, PUB DATE: 01 JUL 2013 and has worked on worldwide strategy and management projects. Bouée is an TERRITORY: WE economic adviser to the French Government, a member of the European Chamber TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROLAND BERGER of Commerce in China and makes frequent media appearances. He is the author of the book China’s Management Revolution: Spirit, Land, Energy.

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 15 Rice’s Church Primer Matthew Rice

An idiosyncratic introduction to the architecture and interior styles of British churches

ritain is full of churches. They have a lot to say about our history, our art Band our ideas. But how do you read them? Through charming illustrations, Rice’s Church Primer covers the basic ‘grammar and vocabulary’ – the component parts and the overall style – of church architecture and interiors, as well as giving examples of churches that show off everything from the imposing Norman style to the gilded detailing of the Baroque. Guided by Matthew Rice’s elegant and witty illustrations, you’ll see our most iconic, beautiful and occasionally bizarre buildings PRICE: £14.99 in a completely fresh light. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408807521 PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 Matthew Rice is an architectural enthusiast and the acclaimed writer and illustrator TERRITORY: WO of Rice’s Architectural Primer; you might also have seen his work in Country Life, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY on his own calendar or on much of his wife Emma Bridgewater’s pottery. He lives in Oxfordshire and Norfolk.

Unbored

The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun Joshua Glenn & Elizabeth Foy Larsen

The most original, entertaining and constructive book for kids and grown-ups ever published

nbored is the book every modern child needs. Crammed with activities that U are not only fun but achievable, it makes kids stand on their own two feet. There’s loads to do: build an igloo, edit music like a pro, cook lunch … or learn new farting games. There are disgusting facts and fascinating stories, reports on PRICE: £18.99 what real-life stuff is like (from home schooling to working in an office), Q&As FORMAT: HARDBACK with inspiring grown-ups, extracts from classic novels and lists of useful resources. ISBN: 9781408830253 EBOOK: 9781408841297 Parents will be reinvigorated by Unbored’s humour and anti-perfectionist spirit. PUB DATE: 18 JUL 2013 Kids will just think it’s brilliant. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Joshua Glenn is an author, editor and website founder. He lives in Boston and has two sons, who are ten and thirteen. Elizabeth Foy Larsen is a journalist who lives in Minneapolis and has two sons and a daughter, aged seven to twelve. Elizabeth and Joshua co-write the ‘Unbored’ column for Slate. @UnboredGuide

16 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Glorious Misadventures

Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of Russian America Owen Matthews

The fascinating true story of the Russian aristocrat who set out to bring California under the Tsar’s dominion, from the Guardian First Book Award- shortlisted author of Stalin’s Children

he Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia’s furthest Toutposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov – diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering PRICE: £20.00 court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408822234 brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia’s most eccentric Empire-builders. EBOOK: 9781408833988 PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 Owen Matthews studied History at Oxford University before becoming a journalist. TERRITORY: WO He has covered conflicts in Bosnia, Lebanon, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY is currently a contributing editor at Newsweek magazine. Stalin’s Children (2008) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Orwell Prize and France’s Prix Medicis, and has been translated into twenty-six languages.

The New Middle East

The World After the Arab Spring Paul Danahar

BBC Bureau Chief Paul Danahar sets out a new narrative for the Middle East and explains what the changes will mean internationally

he entire political landscape of the Middle East is evolving. Autocratic regimes Tthat once ruled over millions with a deathly iron fist have imploded, leaving turmoil in their wake. Through populist action a nascent order is emerging. Together the countries engulfed by the Arab Spring – Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria – are embarking on a shaky journey from dictatorship to democracy. A quieter, but equally profound, revolution is also underway in Israel where religious and secular tensions are threatening the fabric of society. Together these countries PRICE: £18.99 will shape a new Middle East and forge a different narrative of power.The New FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408840573 Middle East importantly explains how and why. EBOOK: 9781408840597 PUB DATE: 15 AUG 2013 Paul Danahar is the BBC’s Middle East Bureau Chief and ran the organisation’s TERRITORY: WE & ARABIC news coverage of the Arab Spring. He is the Chairman of the Middle East Foreign TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408840580 Press Association and was awarded an MBE for his work in Baghdad during the PRICE: £12.99 American-led invasion. He is one of a few journalists to have worked in Iraq, Iran and North Korea, which make up the so-called ‘Axis of Evil’. @pdanahar

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 17 Meeting the Enemy

The Human Face of the Great War Richard van Emden

British and German soldiers and civilians met as friends as well as enemies throughout the Great War

British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; A British women married to Germans became ‘enemy aliens’ in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed with the Kaiser his own troops’ heroism on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed – incidents that show brutality, great humanity and the bizarre nature of a conflict between PRICE: £16.99 two nations with long-standing ties of kinship and friendship. Meeting the Enemy FORMAT: HARDBACK reveals for the first time how contact was maintained on many levels throughout ISBN: 9781408821640 EBOOK: 9781408839812 the war, and its stories, sometimes funny, often moving, give us a new perspective PUB DATE: 15 AUG 2013 on the lives of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary events. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and written fourteen books including Boy Soldiers of the Great War and The Last Fighting Tommy. He has also worked on over a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Britain’s Last Tommies andWar Horse: The Real Story. www.richardvanemden.com

The Letters of John F. Kennedy Edited by Martin W. Sandler

Published for the fiftieth anniversary year of the assassination of JFK, these letters (and replies), many published for the first time, present both the politician and the man

ohn F. Kennedy led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet he Jis regarded as one of the great presidents of all time. Drawn from more than two million letters on file at the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, this selection presents readers with a portrait of both Kennedy the politician and Kennedy the man, as well as the turbulent times he lived in. A touch-and-go Cold PRICE: £20.00 War relationship with the Soviet bloc, the beginnings of American involvement FORMAT: HARDBACK in Vietnam and many other international controversies are intertwined with ISBN: 9781408830451 EBOOK: 9781408839959 Kennedy’s own hushed-up health problems, his renowned controversial personal PUB DATE: 29 AUG 2013 life and his charismatic engagement with the world of presidential politics. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Martin W. Sandler has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television and is the author of more than sixty books, two of which have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Sandler has taught American History and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College, and lives in Massachusetts.

18 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION The Valley

A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family Richard Benson

From the bestselling author of The Farm, the story of twentieth-century working- class England told through four generations of a Yorkshire mining family

he Dearne Valley lies at the heart of the South Yorkshire coalfield. In 1945 that Tcoalfield had sixty-seven pits; today only two survive. Following four generations of his mother’s family, the Hollingworths, born between 1890 and 2000, Benson depicts a community characterised not by the stereotype of doughty, unassuming labourers and housewives, but driven individuals relentless in the pursuit of their dreams. In its sweeping but deeply personal history of the working classes, The Valley shows a century punctuated by social upheaval. It is a tribute to a community PRICE: £18.99 that has changed almost beyond recognition, but still resonates in our memories. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9780747591849 EBOOK: 9781408834169 Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller, The Farm, shortlisted PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 for the Guardian First Book Award 2005, a 2006 Richard & Judy Book Club choice TERRITORY: COMM/UK, OM and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Richard Benson lives in London. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID GODWIN

The Tragedy of Liberation

A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 Frank Dikötter

A groundbreaking history of how communism transformed China into one of the worst tyrannies of the twentieth century

n 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing’s Forbidden City. Instead Iof liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dikötter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao’s court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five PRICE: £25.00 million civilians to their deaths. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408837573 EBOOK: 9781408837597 Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 Before moving to Asia in 2006 he was Professor of the Modern History of China at TERRITORY: WE the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WYLIE EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408837580 nine books about the history of China, including Mao’s Great Famine, winner of PRICE: £14.99 the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2011. www.frankdikotter.com

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 19 No Place Like Home Judah Passow & Jonathan Freedland

A portrait in words and magnificent photographs of the variety and vibrancy of the British Jewish community today

here is often a gap between how we see ourselves and how we really are. Some Tmight come to the glum conclusion that the Jewish Community in Britain is hostile to the outside world and driven by discord on the inside. Yet, as Judah PRICE: £15.00 Passow and Jonathan Freedland show, British-Jewish life hardly feels like that FORMAT: HARDBACK today. While once Jews whispered their identity, today they are much more out ISBN: 9781408193167 PUB DATE: 12 SEPT 2013 and proud. This beautifully produced book explores the shared values which shape TERRITORY: WO the cultural and political identity of the Jewish community in modern Britain. TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY: Judah Passow is an award winning photographer and has recently been accorded a World Press Photo Award. His work has appeared in publications as diverse as Der Spiegel, the Sunday Times and the New York Times. www.judahpassow.com

Jonathan Freedland is an award winning journalist long associated with the Guardian. He is the author of several books. @j_freedland

Story of a Death Foretold

The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

A gripping account of the military coup against President Salvador Allende – what was at stake and why his legacy matters

n 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, the world’s first and Oonly democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d’état as domestic and international forces were mobilised to secure a prompt and dramatic end to the Chilean social experiment, the vía chilena. In this radical retelling of Allende’s fall that came at a time of heightened Cold War fervour, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera shows how the brilliant and inspirational doctor and PRICE: £20.00 revolutionary leader’s legacy has lessons for the world today, from the uprisings FORMAT: HARDBACK of the Arab Spring to the EU’s desperate responses to the consequences of the ISBN: 9781408830086 EBOOK: 9781408839898 2008 crash. PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 TERRITORY: WO Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is one of Latin America’s leading intellectuals. He teaches TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY international law and international affairs at Birkbeck College, London. He has served as an aide to the Colombian Congress and as a consultant to the UN. He is the author of What if Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Take the North into the 22nd Century.

20 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION The Downfall of Money

Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class Frederick Taylor

The urgently relevant story of the biggest financial crisis in modern history and its human consequences, by the bestselling author of Dresden and The Berlin Wall

n the early years of the Weimar Republic, Germany witnessed the most terrifying Iunravelling of a major country’s financial system to have occurred in modern times. The 1923 financial crisis has a clear resonance today, when the world is anxious once more about what money is, what it means and how we can judge its true value. The Downfall of Money will tell anew the dramatic story of the hyperinflation that saw the once-solid German mark, worth 4.2 to the dollar in PRICE: £20.00 1914, trading at over four trillion to the dollar by 1923, and traces its connection FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408839911 to Germany’s subsequent catastrophic political history. It is a trajectory of events EBOOK: 9781408839928 uncomfortably relevant to today’s uncertain world. PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 TERRITORY: WE Frederick Taylor was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School, read History TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANE TURNBULL and Modern Languages at Oxford, and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries and is the author of the acclaimed Dresden, The Berlin Wall and Exorcising Hitler. He lives in Cornwall. www.fredericktaylorhistory.com

The Ukulele Handbook Gavin Pretor-Pinney & Tom Hodgkinson

The definitive guide to the uke – its legends and history, plus a fantastic songbook

he ukulele has undergone a massive resurgence in recent years. You can now Thear the uke all over the place, from trendster indie rock to YouTube megahits. All around the country people are picking up a ukulele and starting to strum, at PRICE: £14.99 home, in classes, and down the pub. Gavin Pretor-Pinney and Tom Hodgkinson FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408836293 have produced the ultimate uke handbook: an illustrated guide to its history crossed PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 with a how-to guide and songbook. With lovely production values, a light touch TERRITORY: WE and an irresistible instrument at centre stage, this is a must-have for all aspiring TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CAT LEDGER George Formbys. AGENCY

Tom Hodgkinson and Gavin Pretor-Pinney founded the Idler magazine in 1993. Tom edits the magazine and is the author of How to Be Idle; he now runs the Idler Academy bookshop, café and school. Gavin is the author of the bestselling book The Cloudspotter’s Guide and founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. They were in a band together at school.

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 21 Torment Saint

The Life of Elliott Smith William Todd Schultz

A revealing biography of a musical icon, written with unprecedented access and published on the tenth anniversary of his untimely death

lliott Smith was one of the most gifted songwriters of the nineties, worshipped by Efans for his subtly melancholic words and melodies. The sadness had its sources in childhood trauma, years of drug abuse and a chronic sense of disconnection. Smith died in LA in 2003 of a fatal stab wound to the chest. In Torment Saint, William Todd Schultz gives us the first proper biography of the musical icon, a decade after his death, imbued with affection, authority and sensitivity. Torment PRICE: £18.99 Saint draws on interviews with Smith’s friends, lovers, bandmates, managers, FORMAT: HARDBACK recording engineers and producers, unravelling the mysteries of Smith’s life and ISBN: 9781408830475 EBOOK: 9781408840009 his shocking end. It is an indispensable examination of his life and legacy. PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 TERRITORY: WE William Todd Schultz is a professor of psychology at Pacific University in Oregon, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DUNOW, focusing on personality research and psychobiography. He edited and contributed CARLSON & LERNER to the groundbreaking Handbook of Psychobiography, and curates the book series Inner Lives. His own book in the series, Tiny Terror, examined the life of Truman Capote. He is also the author of An Emergency in Slow Motion, a psychobiography of Diane Arbus. @WTSchultz

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets Simon Singh

From the author of the bestselling Fermat’s Last Theorem, a must-have for number lovers and Simpsons fans

veryone knows The Simpsons is the most successful show in television history. EBut it also contains more sophisticated mathematics than most university courses. Bestselling author Simon Singh investigates the theorems, conjectures and equations that pepper the twenty-five series, from Lisa’s statistical analysis to the aged Professor Frink’s mind-bending Frinkahedron. Along the way, he throws light on the history of maths as well as the problems that still haunt today’s generation PRICE: £18.99 of number theorists, and he meets the writing team who are not only comedy FORMAT: HARDBACK geniuses but who also happen to hold an array of diplomas in super-geeky subjects ISBN: 9781408835302 EBOOK: 9781408835319 like biochemistry. D’oh! PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 TERRITORY: WE Simon Singh received his PhD in particle physics from the University of Cambridge. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONVILLE & A former BBC producer and BAFTA Award-winning documentary director, he is WALSH EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408843734 the author of bestselling books including Fermat’s Last Theorem and Big Bang. He PRICE: £12.99 lives in London. @SLSingh / www.simonsingh.net

22 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Roy G. Biv

An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Colour Jude Stewart

Fascinating and original, everything you never knew about colour

hy is the sky blue? Why do prisoners wear orange? And how can one colour Whave so many opposite connotations? Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, investigates what colour really means. Each chapter focuses on a single colour, PRICE: £12.99 opening with an infographic map that links such unlikely pairings as fox-hunting FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408835517 and flamingos. From there on in, you’re plunged into a kaleidoscopic tour of the PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 universe that encompasses everything from wild flowers to Japanese warriors. With TERRITORY: WO sidebars and graphics galore, Roy G. Biv is a reference and inspiration for everyone.

Jude Stewart writes about design and culture for American publications including Slate, Believer, Fast Company, Good and I.D. She also writes a blog about colour for Print. She lives in Chicago. @joodstew

Writing on the Wall

Social Media – the First Two Thousand Years Tom Standage

A constantly fascinating account of social networking from Cicero and Luther to Facebook and Twitter

oday we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. TThis may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Cicero’s Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. Standage traces the story of the rise, fall and rebirth of social media over the past 2,000 years offering an PRICE: £14.99 illuminating perspective on the history of media, and revealing that social networks FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408842065 do not merely connect us today – they also link us to the past. EBOOK: 9781408842072 PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 Tom Standage is digital editor and former business affairs editor at the Economist. TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM He is the author of five history books, includingAn Edible History of Humanity, the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BROCKMAN INC. New York Times bestseller A History of the World in Six Glasses and The Victorian Internet. He writes a video-game column for Intelligent Life and has also written for Wired magazine. @tomstandage

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 23 Margaret Thatcher

Power and Personality Jonathan Aitken

A new biography of Margaret Thatcher by an author who has known her well for over forty years

onathan Aitken’s biography of Margaret Thatcher deals with the impact of her Jstrong, and sometimes difficult, personality on crucial events and decisions over the course of her political life. Aitken draws on newly available sources and his own eyewitness perspective of both private and public episodes, as well as interviews with over one hundred former political colleagues of Mrs Thatcher, many of whom are also close personal friends. This lively and perceptive account, PRICE: £20.00 based on the chronology of her life, does not aim to be a definitive biography but FORMAT: HARDBACK is a critical portrait in the best sense. ISBN: 9781408831847 EBOOK: 9781408831854 PUB DATE: 24 OCT 2013 Jonathan Aitken is a former MP and cabinet minister. He is the author of TERRITORY: WO twelve books, including his award-winning biography of President Richard TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Nixon. www.jonathan-aitken.com

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett

A wonderful combination of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped her as a daughter, wife and writer

n entertaining and heart-warming memoir, This Is the Story of a Happy AMarriage is both wide-ranging and deeply personal and overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood to her development as a writer, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the excitement of selling her first book to the heartbreaking experience of the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, Patchett shares stories of her youth, her writing, PRICE: £14.99 personal travels, life in Nashville, and the important friendships she’s made along FORMAT: HARDBACK the way with honesty and irresistible warmth. ISBN: 9781408842393 EBOOK: 9781408842409 PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 Ann Patchett is the author of six previous novels and two works of non-fiction. TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times; with The TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN Magician’s Assistant in 1998, winning with Bel Canto in 2002, and was most EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408844540 PRICE: £11.99 recently shortlisted with State of Wonder in 2012. She writes for the New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, the Financial Times, the Paris Review and Vogue. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. www.annpatchett.com

24 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION Napoleon © Ross Bird The Universal Monarchy,1799–1815 Philip Dwyer

‘A superb work of both scholarship and literature’ Andrew Roberts

he second volume of Philip Dwyer’s outstanding biography sheds further fresh Tlight on one of the great figures of modern history. After a meteoric rise, a military-political coup in 1799 established Napoleon Bonaparte in government, aged just thirty. This study examines the man in power, from his brooding obsessions and capacity for violence, to his ability to inspire others and realise his visionary ideas. One of the first truly modern politicians, Napoleon skilfully fashioned the image of himself that laid the foundation of the legend that endures to this day, as PRICE: £20 one of history’s most charismatic and able leaders. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9780747578086 EBOOK: 9781408837818 Philip Dwyer studied in Perth (Australia), Berlin and Paris, where he was a student PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 of France’s pre-eminent Napoleonic scholar, Jean Tulard. He has published widely TERRITORY: COMM/EU, OM on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, and is Director of the Centre for the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: A M HEATH History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

A Cultural History of Snow Roland Huntford

The history of a force that has moulded life, language, culture and the course of human history

now remains something of an enigma. The structure of snow has fascinated and Sperplexed through the ages, from the ancient Chinese to the medieval Albert the Great to modern scientists with their sophisticated equipment. The mechanism of sliding on snow is still not fully understood. Our limited understanding of avalanches makes it impossible to make reliable predictions.

Roland Huntford’s deep knowledge of the subject runs from Norse myths and archaeology to the history of skiing, its place in warfare and the role of snow in the defeat of dictators and, most intriguingly, in the story of how a small nation, PRICE: £20.00 Finland, defeated the Russians in a world war. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781441112248 EBOOK: 9781441171856 Roland Huntford is the world’s foremost authority on the polar expeditions and PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 their protagonists. He is the author of the award-winning Two Planks and a Passion: TERRITORY: WO EX-USA/CAN the Dramatic History of Skiing, Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth and Race TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ANTONY HASWOOD LTD for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen. He was the Scandinavian correspondent on the Observer for many years.

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 25 The Train in Spain Christopher Howse

Ten great railway journeys exploring the extremities and interior of the peninsula and the way the Spanish live now

his is not a book about trains but about the variety of Spain. The train is the Tmagic carpet. Ten great railway journeys touch the extremities and interior of the peninsula, its astonishing landscapes and ancient buildings. The focus is the way the Spanish live now: their habits, streets, characters, stories – and quite a bit about their eating and drinking. A mosaic of significant details produces a vivid picture of a strange country at a time of great changes.

Christopher Howse is an assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph and a regular PRICE: £16.99 contributor to The Spectatorand The Tablet. Among his bestselling books are Prayers FORMAT: HARDBACK for This Life (2005), The Sacred Mysteries (2007) and A Pilgrim in Spain (2011). ISBN: 9781441198051 EBOOK: 9781441128393 PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

A Guinea Pig Nativity

The classic Christmas story, starring a cast of guinea pigs

ou know the story … Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethlehem, only to Yfind there’s no room at the inn. Then along come angels, shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger.

A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you’ve never seen it before: with (you guessed it) guinea pigs photographed in the starring roles. Sweet, humble and funny, they bring their own guinea-pig-joyfulness to the nativity in a way that is completely irresistible. It’s the perfect stocking filler!

PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408844793 PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

26 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION On the Trail of Genghis Khan

An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads

Tim Cope Courtesy of the author

An unforgettable story of one man’s journey by horse across the vast Eurasian steppe that recalls Rory Stewart’s bestselling The Places in Between

lone except for a trusty dog, adventurer Tim Cope undertook a journey not Asuccessfully completed since the days of Genghis Khan: to travel by horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from the ancient capital of Mongolia to the Danube River in Hungary. Cope’s journey took him an incredible 6,000 miles and three years to complete, through the haunting extremes of wolf-infested PRICE: £18.99 mountains, dark forests and scorching deserts, into the heart of a population who FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408825051 embraced him with traditional hospitality – the linchpin of survival on the steppe. EBOOK: 9781408839881 It is an immersive, enlightening look at a land, its fascinating people and their PUB DATE: 21 NOV 2013 complex past and traditions that rest precariously in the post-Soviet modern world. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408842218 Tim Cope is a professional adventurer, author, film-maker, and compelling speaker. PRICE: £12.99 He has ridden a bicycle across Russia to China and rowed a boat through Siberia to PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 the Arctic Ocean. He is the author of Off the Rails: Moscow to Beijing on Recumbent Bikes and lives in Victoria, Australia. www.timcopejourneys.com

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond Michael Sims

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau sheds illuminating light on one of the most iconic figures in American history

he Adventures of Henry Thoreau – chronicling the ten years in his life beginning Twith Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond – tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled soul found a meaningful life in a tempestuous era. Who was this unsophisticated young man who became a protégé of Ralph Waldo Emerson, himself leading a cultural revolution in tiny Concord, Massachusetts? Why did Thoreau go to Walden? And how did he PRICE: £16.99 come to write his most famous work? In rich, evocative prose, Michael Sims brings FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408830499 to life the insecure, boyish Henry, long before he became the literary icon Thoreau. EBOOK: 9781408838235 PUB DATE: 5 DEC 2013 Michael Sims is the author of the acclaimed The Story of Charlotte’s Web, Apollo’s TERRITORY: WE Fire and Adam’s Navel, and editor of Dracula’s Guest and The Dead Witness. He lives TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SANFORD J. GREENBURGER in western Pennsylvania. @MichaelSimsBook / www.michaelsimsbooks.com

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 27 Island Summers Tilly Culme-Seymour Courtesy of the author A luminescent memoir about a Norwegian island, and about three generations of women

n 1947, in exchange for a mink coat, the story goes, Tilly’s grandmother bought a Itiny island called Småhølmene. Just off the coast of Norway, it became the enclave where ‘Mor-mor’ and her young English family would come every summer to thieve for gull eggs and swim in the shining sea. Mor-mor loved the island fiercely; in her otherwise turbulent life, its messy abundance and promise of solitude were enduring constants. This is the inheritance embraced by Tilly’s mother and, finally, by Tilly herself. Glittering and bittersweet, Island Summers lovingly portrays three generations of women and the island that became so irrevocably part of their lives. PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: HARDBACK Tilly Culme-Seymour is a freelance food writer and professionally trained cook. ISBN: 9781408812136 EBOOK: 9781408842713 She lives in London. PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

Horace and Me

Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet Harry Eyres

A deeply personal exploration of what Horace’s philosophy of ‘tasting the day’, and his thoughts on friendship, love and the good life, can teach us: classical therapy, perhaps

orace lived at a pivotal moment. Rome was facing a profound crisis: though Hit ruled the world, the values which had made it great were disintegrating. As efficiency and pragmatism became watchwords, Horace championed the ‘supremely useless’ endeavour of poetry, and glorified friendship and wine. Horace and Me charts Harry Eyres’ evolving relationship with the Latin poet to show how, in an PRICE: £16.99 era of affluence and excess which seems to be hurtling out of control, Horace can FORMAT: HARDBACK help us navigate our way in uncertain times. ISBN: 9781408814581 EBOOK: 9781408818244 PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 Harry Eyres has been a theatre critic, wine writer, poetry editor and is the author TERRITORY: COMM/EX-CAN,OM of the ‘Slow Lane’ column in the Financial Times. He is the author of a collection TRANSLATION RIGHTS: A M HEATH of poetry, Hotel Eliseo, and of the Beginner’s Guide to Plato’s The Republic,Wine Dynasties of Europe, The Viking Guide to Cabernet Sauvignon Wines and the Which? Wine Guide 1995/6. He lives in London. @sloweyres

28 MEMOIR Sea Legs Guy Grieve Courtesy of the author A family’s thrilling voyage around the Caribbean and across the Atlantic Ocean

ea Legs is for anyone who’s ever dreamed of escaping everyday life. Guy Grieve Sand his wife Juliet decided to make their break for freedom after enduring one too many grey Hebridean days – in Venezuela they bought Forever, a beautiful yacht, planning to sail back home to Scotland with their two small boys. They soon realized they might have bitten off more than they could chew, though, with thirty- foot waves and squalls threatening their very lives. But as they met each challenge, they finally discovered what it really meant to be a family. Buccaneering, exciting PRICE: £18.99 and heart-warming, this is the voyage of a lifetime. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9780747595427 EBOOK: 9781408834060 Guy Grieve is an author and adventurer with an irrepressible love of the sea. He PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 started the award-winning Ethical Shellfish Company on the Isle of Mull, where TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM he harvests wild scallops and other shellfish. He lives on the island with his wife TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH and two sons. @guygrieve / www.ethicalshellfishcompany.co.uk

As Green as Grass

Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War Emma Smith

The new memoir from the author ofMaidens’ Trip and The Great Western Beach; a remarkable story of a young woman growing up in the thirties and forties

fter a war during which she worked on England’s canal boats carrying much- Aneeded cargoes, Emma Smith travels to India with a documentary film company, lives in Chelsea, falls in love in France and spends time in Paris where she is unwittingly snapped with her typewriter by legendary photographer Robert Doisneau.

The zest, thirst for life and buoyant spirits of Emma, as she recalls in brilliant evocative detail the quality of England in the thirties and forties give As Green as Grass the feel of a ready-made classic. Endlessly engaging, it tells the story of a PRICE: £16.99 wonderfully normal and yet completely unusual young woman determined against FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408835616 a backdrop of enormous social change to be a writer, come what may. EBOOK: 9781408835623 PUB DATE: 15 AUG 2013 Emma Smith was born Elspeth Hallsmith in 1923. Her book, Maidens’ Trip, was TERRITORY: WO first published in 1948 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. The Far TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Cry was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008 she published The Great Western Beach, a memoir of her Cornish childhood. Since 1980 Emma Smith has lived in the London district of Putney.

MEMOIR 29 The Cooked Seed Anchee Min

The unforgettable sequel to her internationally bestselling memoir, Red Azalea, in which she leaves China for the promised land of America only to find herself even more lost until she finds herself, through motherhood, love and writing

ifteen years after the publication ofRed Azalea, Anchee Min returns to the Fstory of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to America, arriving without language, money or a clear path.

It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, PRICE: £14.99 collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces. She also gives birth to her FORMAT: HARDBACK daughter, Lauryann, who will save her and root her, finally, in the new country. An ISBN: 9781408838174 EBOOK: 9781408838198 unforgettable journey between two radically different cultures, this is an honest PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 and incredible story of success in the face of bitter hardship. TERRITORY: COMM/UK, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ABNER STEIN Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labour EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838181 PRICE: £12.99 collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao’s Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to PUB DATE: 07 MAY 2013 work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir,Red Azalea was published in twenty-seven countries. She has since published six novels, including the Richard & Judy choice Empress Orchid and, most recently, Pearl of China.

Becoming a Londoner

A Diary David Plante

An extraordinarily vivid life lived among the most brilliant writers, poets, artists and thinkers of the sixties, seventies and eighties

avid Plante, from New York, and Nikos Stangos, from Athens, are embarking Dtogether on a new life in London, a partnership which will endure for forty years. Friendships with Stephen and Natasha Spender, Francis Bacon, Sonia Orwell, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Steven Runciman, David Hockney and R. B. Kitaj, and meetings with such Bloomsbury luminaries as E. M. Forster and Duncan Grant, open up worlds within worlds; connections appear to criss-cross, PRICE: £20.00 invisibly, interconnecting everyone. Diary entries featuring notes, photographs and FORMAT: HARDBACK drawings evolve into a beautiful, intimate and moving world – and an important ISBN: 9781408839751 EBOOK: 9781408839744 cultural history. PUB DATE: 26 SEP 2013 TERRITORY: WO David Plante is the author of nine novels and has published stories, profiles and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY features in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire and Vogue. The notebooks of his diary are kept in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. He has both UK and US citizenship, and lives in London;Lucca, Italy; and Athens, Greece.

30 MEMOIR Beloved Strangers Maria Chaudhuri Courtesy of the author Introducing a brilliant new voice from Bangladesh

his is a sharp, wry and beautifully moving account of a childhood that was Tfraught with the tension of growing up with parents who struggled to be liberal but more often ended up being traditional, the uncomfortable intensity of relationships that should have been about love but were tainted by the misguided and socially-driven demands of respect and duty. And trying to make sense of how the author changed once she left Dhaka—and of what Maria Chaudhuri could never become once she left.

Maria Chaudhuri was born in Bangladesh and lived there till the end of her high PRICE: £16.99 school years. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion from FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408844601 Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, after which she moved to New York for EBOOK: 9781408844618 work, while studying Screenwriting and Feature Writing at New York University. PUB DATE: 05 DEC 2013 In 2009, Chaudhuri received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, TERRITORY: WO Vermont. Maria Chaudhuri’s essays, features and short stories have been published TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY in various collections, journals and literary magazines. She lives in Hong Kong.

MEMOIR 31 Booze

River Cottage Handbook No.12

Courtesy of the Author John Wright

In the twelfth River Cottage Handbook, John Wright explains how to home- brew and make your own tipples

n Booze, the inimitable John Wright shows exactly how easy it is to make alcohol PRICE: £14.99 Ifrom scratch – from home-brewed beer to your own fruit wine. Arranged by drink FORMAT: HARDBACK type, each section of the book starts with an introduction to basic techniques, ISBN: 9781408817933 PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 followed by delicious recipes such as elderflower champagne, real ginger beer TERRITORY: WO or zubrówka vodka. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY full-colour photographs as well as illustrations, Booze is the home brewer’s book with a kick.

John Wright is the author of the River Cottage Handbooks Mushrooms, Edible Seashore and Hedgerow. As well as writing for national publications, he often appears on Channel 4’s River Cottage series, and regularly leads foraging ‘forays’ to collect wild food from the countryside or seashore. He lives in rural west Dorset with his wife and two daughters.

Masterchef: The Finalists

The first tie-in book in an exciting new chapter for the world’s most successful food TV brand

superb collection of 90 recipes from MasterChef Series 9’s three finalists will A showcase the food and culinary ambition that took each to the final of the competition. Half of the recipes will be new and exclusive to the book. Beautifully designed and photographed by one of the world’s best food photographers, David Loftus, this is a book for all fans of the series, and for foodies and cookbook lovers everywhere: a new concept and a new look for the publishing face of everyone’s PRICE: £20.00 favourite TV food show. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 978190665081 PUB DATE: 24 OCT 2013 The MasterChef brand is without equal in television; it is produced in over 36 TERRITORY: WO different countries and broadcast in more than 200 territories across the world. TRANSLATIONS RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

32 FOOD Roast Iqbal Wahhab & Marcus Verberne

A book that celebrates the finest British recipes and ingredients, from one of the country’s top restaurants

pened in 2005 in the foodie mecca of Borough Market by restaurateur Iqbal OWahhab OBE, founder of the legendary Cinnamon Club, Roast has since won a legion of fans and a clutch of awards. The menu is a celebration of heritage and innovation and this shines through the pages of this beautifully illustrated book, where over 100 recipes and a dozen food essays reveal the riches of a diverse and glorious national cuisine. A book for everyone who is passionate about wonderful cooking and the provenance of its ingredients. PRICE: £25.00 Iqbal Wahhab OBE is one of the most influential restaurateurs in the UK, founder FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408193464 of the Cinnamon Club and Roast restaurants. PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 TERRITORY: WO Marcus Verberne is the talented head chef of Roast restaurant, and previously the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY executive chef of Hix group.

River Cottage Fruit Every Day! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall © Simon Wheeler

To tie in with a major new Channel 4 television series, easy recipes that welcome fruit back into cooking

ugh has been unconsciously sneaking more and more fruit into his recipes Hfor a couple of years now – and he doesn’t want to stop! The 200 recipes he’s come up with are delicious, original and surreptitiously healthy. So, there’s hearty fare like marinated lamb and fig kebabs; as well as fresh and zingy ideas like pineapple, melon and mint; and there are plenty of fantastic cakes, tarts, crumbles and puddings. With glorious photography from Simon Wheeler, River Cottage Fruit Every Day! will bring a joyful fruitiness back to cooking.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series PRICE: £25.00 for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408828595 books have collected multiple awards and sold more than a million copies. Hugh EBOOK: 9781408842799 lives in Devon with his family. @rivercottage PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY

FOOD 33 Historic Blumenthal

© Clive Booth Heston Blumenthal

The greatest British dishes, as reinvented by Heston Blumenthal

aking thirty great forgotten British dishes, Heston creates his own culinary Thistory of Britain. He tells the story of each one – originating from such sources as The Forme of Cury (1390), The Queen-like Closet (1672) and The Ice Book (1844). Then, starting from the original recipe text, he creates a sublime twenty-first- century take on delicacies that include meat fruit (1500), quaking pudding (1660) PRICE: £100.00 and mock Turtle soup (1892). With signature dishes from Dinner and the Fat Duck, FORMAT: HARDBACK the most extraordinary photography, and illustrations from the genius that is Dave ISBN: 9781408804414 PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 McKean, Historic Blumenthal is a book to treasure. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Entirely self-taught, Heston Blumenthal is the most progressive chef of his generation. He won three Michelin stars in near-record time for his restaurant the Fat Duck. It has repeatedly been voted into the top ten of the World’s Best Restaurants by an international panel of 800 experts, as has his second restaurant, Dinner. In 2006 he was awarded an OBE. @Heston_Live

Christie’s Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine Tom Stevenson & Essi Avellan

A new edition of the world’s leading work on Champagne and sparkling wine by the world’s leading authority on the subject

fully revised, updated and expanded edition of the book that won the World A Gourmand Award for ‘Best Wine Book’. Authoritative and opinionated, this PRICE: £40.00 stylish and comprehensive book is genuinely global, with substantial coverage of FORMAT: HARDBACK sparkling wines from all around the world, including from the UK. Packed with ISBN: 9781906650186 PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 suggestions on which Champagne to try, you will have great fun searching them TERRITORY: WO EX-US/CAN out. Anyone with an interest in wine should find their investment richly rewarded. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Tom Stevenson is regarded as the world’s leading authority on Champagne and

sparkling wine and author of Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopaedia, with sales of 1.5 million worldwide.

Essi Avellan, just the second Scandinavian to gain the Master of Wine qualification, is one of today’s most exciting young wine writers. She edits FINE Champagne Magazine.

34 FOOD The Stupid Footballer Is Dead

Insights Into the Mind of a Professional Footballer Paul McVeigh

Key guide for football intelligence that will give you a psychological edge in both the world of football and beyond

rofessional football in the modern era is played as much in the mind as on the Ppitch. Natural talent is nowhere near enough to sustain a career in the modern game. Players need to be smart. Those who are dedicated, with mental resilience and a winner’s psychology are prospering and will continue to do so as the game evolves. The stupid footballer is dead.

Using his own personal insights into achieving at the highest sporting level, former PRICE: £16.99 international Paul McVeigh delves into the minds and approaches of some of the FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408193754 game’s highest performers to offer tips and techniques to improve performance. EBOOK: 9781408193761 PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 Professional footballer Paul McVeigh played for Spurs, Luton Town, Burnley TERRITORY: WO and Norwich City. Representing Northern Ireland, he was a key member of two TRANSLATION RIGHTS:BLOOMSBURY Championship winning teams, rising to the pinnacle of English football – the Premier League.Since retiring from football, Paul has worked extensively with youngsters in football academies and established himself as a sports presenter in the national media. @Paulmcveigh77

Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy

A Journey to the Heart of Cricket’s Underworld Ed Hawkins

‘The most explosive book yet about corruption in cricket’ Lawrence Booth, editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack

or several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India’s illegal bookmakers – men Fwho boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match – as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It’s a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing.Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players – as well as corruption, PRICE: £8.99 intimidation and even suicide. It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408169964 might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion… EBOOK: 9781408165973 PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 Ed Hawkins is an award-winning sports journalist. He has twice been named the TERRITORY: WO Sports Journalists Association’s Sports Betting Writer of the Year. This is his second TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY book. @cricketbetting

SPORT 35 Foul Play

The Dark Arts of Cheating in Sport Mike Rowbottom

From doping to match-fixing, from tampering with equipment to mind games, Foul Play investigates the lengths some people will go to just to win

oul Play dissects the age-old subject of cheating in all its absurdity. From plain Fold doping to claiming a marathon victory despite having driven the middle section of the race, from match-fixing to diving for a penalty, cheating in sport is as old as sport itself. But what constitutes cheating and where do we draw the line? Are some sports cleaner than others? Is cheating in one sport the same as cheating in another or does each sport’s distinctive culture set different standards? Is there PRICE: £12.99 such a thing as a sport – or a competitor – without sin? Foul Play looks at the weird FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK and the not-so-wonderful ways sportsmen and women have tried to get ahead. ISBN: 9781408155790 EBOOK: 9781408166048 PUB DATE: 18 JUL 2013 Mike Rowbottom has written about sport for The Times, the Guardian, the Observer TERRITORY: WO and the Independent for more than two decades and is now chief features writer TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY for insidethegames.biz. He has covered the last six summer Olympics and four winter Olympics, as well as many other sports. He co-wrote Olympic athlete Roger Black’s autobiography How Long’s The Course? and is the author of Usain Bolt: Fast as Lightning. @rowbo1

The Dirtiest Race in History

Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final Richard Moore

‘Magnificent … Plunges you deep into the bitterness that marked their enmity … The breadth and detail is astonishing’ The Times

en Johnson smashed the 100 metres world record to crush his rival Carl Lewis Band win gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in dramatic style – only to have it all taken away when news of his positive dope test emerged just days later. Yet the story was far more complex than that. Nearly all the athletes in that final have been linked to drugs. How did Johnson get caught? Was sabotage involved? Richard Moore unravels a complex tale of espionage and corruption that extended to sport’s PRICE: £8.99 most powerful men. He tracks down the surviving principals, including Johnson FORMAT: PAPERBACK and – after a lengthy quest – the enigmatic Lewis. ISBN: 9781408158760 EBOOK: 9781408171110 PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 Richard Moore is an award-winning sports journalist with several books to his TERRITORY: WO name including In Search of Robert Millar and Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY and the Greatest Ever Tour de France. @richardmoore73

36 SPORT El Clásico: Barcelona v Real Madrid

Football’s Greatest Rivalry Richard Fitzpatrick

‘Fitzpatrick’s book is invaluable for the context that it gives a match that you might have watched superficially for years’ Observer

eal Madrid versus Barcelona is regarded by many as the most captivating fixture in Rworld football. But it is not only the on-pitch battles that have forged their rivalry. From General Franco and bloody civil war to the Catalan city of Barcelona’s lukewarm reaction to Spain’s recent World Cup and European Championship triumphs, bitterness is never far from the surface. In El Clásico, Richard Fitzpatrick charts PRICE: £8.99 the key political and historical flashpoints between the two clubs. With exclusive FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408158807 interviews with key figures, including Luís Figo, Hristo Stoichkov, Joan Laporta EBOOK: 9781408171097 and Vicente del Bosque, El Clásico is the definitive guide to football’s greatest feud. PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 TERRITORY: WE Richard Fitzpatrick was born in Ireland. He has worked as a journalist in Dublin, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: A M HEATH San Francisco and Toronto. He currently lives in Barcelona, where he covers football for the Irish Times, New York Times and El País among others. @Richard_Fitz

Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters

Travels through England’s Football Provinces Daniel Gray

A smart, funny and affectionate tour of the outer reaches of English football and English identity

nglish but estranged in Scotland, Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any Esane person, his response is to travel to Crewe, Carlisle and Luton. Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters is an attempt to seek out the England of today through the lens of its football clubs. Small teams and towns, Gray argues, made the country great and matter now more than ever. Taking twelve teams who had notable seasons in 1981, the year of his birth, Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters is part-football book, PRICE: £12.99 part-travelogue and part-love letter to the bits of England that often get forgotten. FORMAT: TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408834367 EBOOK: 9781408834374 Author and historian Daniel Gray is the writer of Stramash and Homage to Caledonia. PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 A Middlesbrough supporter, he began attending football matches in 1988 and has TERRITORY: WO never recovered. He lives in Leith with his wife and daughter. @d_gray_writer TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

SPORT 37 The Manager

Inside the Minds of Football’s Leaders Mike Carson

An enlightening look at key leadership issues with the biggest names in football management

ow do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from Hyour players? How do you turn around a team in crisis? These are all crucial challenges for any leader. And leadership roles don’t get much more challenging than in top-flight football. Mike Carson’s in-depth conversations with some of the game’s most successful managers – including Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsène Wenger, José Mourinho, Roberto Mancini, Harry Redknapp, Hope Powell and Roy Hodgson PRICE: £16.99 – reveal how managers handle their emotions, their failures, their team, the media, FORMAT: HARDBACK their employers and their lifestyle, in an abnormally high-pressure environment. ISBN: 9781408158821 EBOOK: 9781408841624 For both football fans and business leaders, The Manager is an honest, accessible PUB DATE: 29 AUG 2013 and absorbing examination of the managerial styles of high-profile characters, TERRITORY: WO and a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the world of football management. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408158814 PRICE: £12.99 Mike Carson worked for McKinsey & Co for five years and now runs his own management consulting business. He is a leadership expert and a Manchester City fan. The Manager is published with the support of the League Managers’ Association, Barclays and Deloitte.

Wisden Cricketers of the Year

A Celebration of Cricket’s Greatest Players Simon Wilde

A beautifully-produced, large-format celebration of the greatest players in the history of cricket

PRICE: £40.00 isden’s announcement of the Cricketers of the Year has been a hotly debated FORMAT: HARDBACK Whighlight of the cricket season since the honours began in 1889. The oldest ISBN: 9781408140840 PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 accolade in cricket, they have formed the game’s most authoritative ‘hall of fame’, and TERRITORY: WO the 2013 edition of the Almanack raises the total number of players honoured to 570. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Published as part of Wisden’s 150th anniversary celebrations, Wisden Cricketers of the Year is the first ever book about all the cricketers who have been chosen by . Containing photographs of all 570 players as well as statistics to illustrate their achievements and explanations of why each was selected, this handsome, large-format volume is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in cricket, past and present.

Simon Wilde is cricket correspondent of the Sunday Times. He has written several cricket books including biographies of Ian Botham, Shane Warne and Ranji, and is a regular contributor to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. @swildecricket

38 SPORT The Strangers Who Came Home

Australia’s First International Cricket Tour John Lazenby

A compelling social history of the first Australian cricket tour of England

he Ashes cricket series is the oldest, and arguably the most keenly-contested Trivalry in international sport. And yet the majority of the first representative Australian cricket team to tour England in 1878 regarded themselves as Englishmen. The Strangers Who Came Home brings that momentous summer to life, telling the story of these extraordinary eleven men who travelled thousands of miles, risking life and limb, playing 43 matches in England during a demanding but ultimately PRICE: £18.99 triumphant homecoming; how their glorious achievements on the field of play FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408842874 threw open the doors to international sports touring, and how these men from the EBOOK: 9781408842881 colonies provided the stimulus for Australian nationhood through their sporting PUB DATE: 03 OCT 2013 success and brought unprecedented vitality to international cricket. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS:BLOOMSBURY EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408844663 John Lazenby has since 1997 worked as a freelance journalist on national newspapers PRICE: £12.99 and as a sports broadcaster for both radio and television. His first book,Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend was longlisted for the William Hill Prize and chosen as one of The Wisden Cricketer’s Books of the Year. He lives in London.

The Essential Wisden

An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack Edited by John Stern & Marcus Williams

All the highlights of 150 editions of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack

he 150 editions of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack published since 1864 have Tcontained more than 133,000 pages. Now, for the first time in one volume, The Essential Wisden provides the pick of every edition. From the indomitable Editor’s Notes, through reports on key matches around the world, and features on the game’s top players, to the renowned obituaries of people in and around the game throughout its history, John Stern and Marcus Williams have distilled the Almanack’s most significant and fascinating writing into one anthology. The Essential Wisden is a must-have for any dedicated reader of the Almanack – and PRICE: £45.00 indeed for any devoted follower of cricket. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408178966 EBOOK: 9781408178973 John Stern is a former editor of The Wisden Cricketer magazine. He is the author of PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 Cricket: The Definitive Guide to the International Game and co-author of Wisden’s TERRITORY: WO Youth Cricket Coaching. Marcus Williams was a senior member of The Times TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY sports department for more than thirty years. He also edited The Way to Lord’s, Double Century: 200 Years of Cricket in The Times and co-wrote The Wisden Book of Cricket Memorabilia.

SPORT 39 The Year Klunk

When the Mountain Bike Began Tym Manley

An unprecedented insight into the beginning of the mountain bike craze, with a bit of the seventies thrown in for good measure

n unprecedented insight into the beginning of the mountain bike craze, with a Abit of the seventies thrown in for good measure. Tym Manley, editor of Privateer magazine, brings the key players together to discover how the mountain bike scene developed in the US. Through interviews with the main protagonists in the PRICE: £30.00 scene Tym builds a fascinating picture of how it all started, how it developed, and FORMAT: HARDBACK where we are now. ISBN: 9781408190005 PUB DATE: 10 OCT 2013 TERRITORY: WO Lavishly illustrated with fantastic archive material – from the original flyers to TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY photographs from the private collections of the key players, this is a must read for any fan of mountain biking.

Tym Manley is Editor of Privateer magazine. Contributors include Charlie Kelly, Gary Fisher, Charlie Cunningham, Jacqui Phelan, Joe Breeze, Joe Murray, Koski Brothers, Mike Sinyard, Tom Ritchey and photos and archive material from Charlie Kelly, Gary Fisher, Wende Cragg and Billy Savage.

The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2014 Edited by Steven Lynch

A page-per-player guide to the world’s top 200 cricketers, each with a photo, stats and written profile, plus country-by-country records

his popular annual paperback contains profiles of everyone expected to appear Tin a Test match in 2014. Published at the beginning of international cricket’s busiest time of year, this is the only guide that tells you how they play as well as what they’ve achieved. The 200 players featured in the book all get a full-page treatment, with a photograph alongside a career summary in words, facts and figures. There are also quick-fire records for every country, and up-to-date statistics PRICE: £9.99 from www.cricinfo.com, the world’s biggest cricket website. The Wisden Guide to FORMAT: PAPERBACK International Cricket is the essential companion for every cricket lover. ISBN: 9781408194737 EBOOK: 9781408194744 PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 Steven Lynch is a leading cricket writer. He has been Deputy Editor of Wisden TERRITORY: WO Cricketer’s Almanack since 2005, is editor of Wisden on the Ashes and writes the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY popular ‘Ask Steven’ column on cricinfo.com.

40 SPORT Tutenkhamen’s Tracksuit

The History of Sport In 100 Objects Tyers & Beach

A surreally subversive sporting take on The History of the World in 100 Objects by the fantastically original Tyers and Beach

n this weird and wonderful museum catalogue, the optician’s prescription for the I1966 World Cup Russian linesman appears next to a news report of an ear-biting scandal in the Roman Gladiatorial arena, and an advert for Roger Bannister’s four-minute egg timer is featured alongside Andrew Flintoff’s bar bill from the 2005 Ashes celebrations. Tutenkhamen’s Tracksuit ransacks the dusty lockers and PRICE: £12.99 forgotten corners of the world’s dressing rooms to present a unique collection of FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408164907 subverted reality. Satirical, surreal and completely invented, fans of every sport EBOOK: 9781408842782 will enjoy this knowing and mischievous hijacking of the defining moments of PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 popular sporting culture. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

Alan Tyers writes about sport for the Daily Telegraph and sundry other publications. They are the authors of I Kick Therefore I Am, CrickiLeaks: The Secret Ashes Diaries, W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo, Gin And Juice: The Victorian Guide To Parenting and Who Moved My Stilton? The Victorian Guide To Getting Ahead In Business. @alantyers and @vonbeach / www.tyersandbeach.com

Rouleur 7

‘Rouleur is to bike magazines what National Geographic is to nature photography. Instead of glossy, well-lit portraits and fancy racing shots, its pages are filled with long, thoughtful photo spreads that drive deep narratives’ Wired Magazine

‘Quite simply, it makes you want to get on your bike and ride it’ British GQ

his annual celebration provides an exclusive look into the world of professional Tracing from a band of photographers with distinct takes on what it is that makes PRICE: £40.00 cycling the most visually inspiring sport in the world. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781472900807 PUB DATE: 14 NOV 2013 Rouleur has published a season’s review for the last six years. With more than twenty TERRITORY: WO photographers working on features, there is a unique library of superb images to TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY draw from, making the Annual the perfect companion to the Rouleur magazine and a wonderful addition to the new Bloomsbury Rouleur imprint.

Features outstanding photography and contributions from Rouleur’s regular writers.

SPORT 41 Aquinas: The Unread Vision

The Bible, Mysticism and Poetry Paul Murray OP

Aquinas is known largely as an austere, dogmatic thinker. Paul Murray shows that he was also a great contemplative

he Unread Vision draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas’s life and work Twhich have been all too often overlooked or forgotten. Today Aquinas is almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that Aquinas was, first and last, a teacher of the Bible – a Master of the Sacred Page. Moreover there is a distinctly mystical character to his theology. And, as a writer, he was not only a poet but, arguably, the greatest Latin PRICE: £14.99 poet of the Middle Ages. FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781441107558 EBOOK: 9781441105899 The primary focus of this most engaging new book is to explore the question of PUB DATE: 15 AUG 2013 Aquinas’s teaching on prayer and to reflect his own practice of prayer. The book is TERRITORY: WO strengthened by quotations from Aquinas in fresh translations. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Paul Murray OP teaches literature of the mystical tradition at the Angelicum University, Rome, Italy. His previous books include In the Grip of Light and Praying with Confidence.

Sackcloth and Ashes

Penance and Penitence in a Self-centred World

Courtesy of the author The Bloomsbury Lent Book 2014 Ann Widdecombe

What is our modern concept of penance? Is it giving up chocolates for Lent or is it a lasting state of the awareness of sin?

PRICE: £9.99 nn Widdecombe looks at voluntary penance and its relation to repentance, at FORMAT: PAPERBACK Aprescribed but not enforced penance as part of the sacrament of absolution ISBN: 9781408187166 EBOOK: 9781408187180 and, as an ex-Prisons Minister, at the role of penance as enforced by the State. Is PUB DATE: 01 NOV 2013 penance a bore from which we are released on Easter Sunday or a source of deep TERRITORY: WE spiritual contentment? Or is it a conceit on the part of mankind that any suffering TRANSLATION RIGHTS: UNITED AGENTS can be added to Calvary?

For many years a forthright and high-profile MP, Ann Widdecombe is now as well-known for her star appearances on Strictly Come Dancing. A former Prisons Minister, she converted to Roman Catholicism in 1993. Countrywoman, columnist and best-selling author, she lives on Dartmoor.

42 RELIGION Looking Through the Cross

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2014 Graham Tomlin

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2014 Lent Book, written by an acclaimed theologian

verything looks different in this world through the lens of the Cross. This book Edeals with reconciliation, humility, identity, power, suffering, life and atonement. These are familar themes for a Lent book but in Dr Tomlin’s hands they are given exciting new meaning which will touch the hearts and minds of men and women in a turbulent modern world.

Dr Tomlin is a theologian of the first rank, but he is also a writer with a keen PRICE: £9.99 pastoral commitment, celebrated for his common touch. FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408188477 EBOOK: 9781408188484 The Revd Dr Graham Tomlin is Principal of St Paul’s Theological Centre and Dean PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 of St Mellitus College. He was previously Vice Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford TERRITORY: WO and Chaplain of Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of several books, including TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Spiritual Fitness and The Deadly Sins and How to Overcome Them.

The Heart in Pilgrimage

A Prayer Book for Catholic Christians Eamon Duffy

Prayers and devotions centring on the mass, collected by renowned academic Eamon Duffy

his intelligent and richly resourced collection, drawn together by Professor TEamon Duffy, brings together beautiful and memorable prayers and hymns from a wide range of sources. It is not a mere anthology of prayers, but rather a comprehensive guide to praying the big things of life and faith, using words with resonance and eloquence to convey a Catholic Christianity that stretches across Eastern and Western traditions, Orthodox as well as Latin Catholic. It also offers guidance on the basics of the faith: how to prepare for confession, how to say the rosary, how to make the stations of the cross, as well as material for morning and PRICE: £20.00 night prayers. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408183991 EBOOK: 9781408184035 Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College. His previous books include Faith TERRITORY: WO of Our Fathers, Walking to Emmaus and Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

RELIGION 43 RSPB Nature Tracker’s Handbook Nick Baker

A complete guide on how to interpret the signs that animals leave behind for families and general interest readers

very animal leaves some kind of trace as it passes and the art of tracking is Every much like learning to read. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth, you will soon be able to tell the story of an animal’s life. Packed with fascinating details, this book enables readers to build a profile of a huge range of animals. They will not only learn the difference PRICE: £14.99 between a poo and a pellet; but will be able to spot the differences between pellets FORMAT: PAPERBACK regurgitated by a variety of bird species. ISBN: 9781408151501 PUB DATE: 18 JUL 2013 TERRITORY: WO Nick Baker has presented a number of wildlife programmes including The Really TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Wild Show, Nick Baker’s Under the Skin, Weird Creatures with Nick Baker and more recently Autumnwatch. Nick Baker’s Beautiful Freaks was broadcast on in 2012 Discovery and Sky 3D. He has written a number of books including The New Amateur Naturalist. Nick lives in Devon and is Vice President of Buglife.

Migration Hotspots

The World’s Best Bird Migration Sites Tim Harris

Migration Hotspots brings the spectacle and excitement of amazing bird migrations to your coffee table

ach spring and autumn hundreds of millions of birds migrate. In a few places, Ea combination of geography, topography and climate combine to funnel migrant birds into migration hotspots where, for a few days each year, birds are everywhere – one of nature’s greatest wildlife spectacles. Migration Hotspots looks PRICE: £25.00 at thirty locations where the most dramatic bird migration can be seen, from FORMAT: HARDBACK raptor bottlenecks like Veracruz and the Strait of Messina, to Point Pelee and ISBN: 9781408171172 EBOOK: 9781408160039 Beidaihe where spectacular falls of songbirds take place. Supported by breathtaking PUB DATE: 15 AUG 2013 photography, the importance of each hotspot is explained, detailing all the birds TERRITORY: WO that pass through and the best times of year to see them. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Tim Harris has been fascinated by bird migration since he was a young boy. He has been birding in 40 countries and has been inspired many times by the sights and sounds of migration on all the world’s major migration flyways. Tim was Deputy Editor of Birdwatch magazine between 1992 and 2000.

44 NATURAL WORLD A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects David Callahan, edited by Dominic Mitchell

The books, inventions, artworks and technology that influenced how birds were studied and recorded

n engrossing read for anyone interested in how we watch wildlife, this is a Acompletely new take on how the watching and study of birds was influenced by technological and intellectual developments. The text looks at 100 items that have profoundly shaped how people watched, studied and engaged with the avian world. Among the objects included are: an Egyptian ‘field guide’; Dodo specimens; the PRICE: £20.00 shotgun; bird rings that enabled the recording of birds’ movement and longevity; FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408186183 and a host of modern innovations including walkie talkies, pagers, radio tags EBOOK: 9781408186664 and apps. PUB DATE: 15 AUG 2013 TERRITORY: WO David Callahan is an active birdwatcher and staff writer on Birdwatch magazine TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY and writes regularly on all aspects of birding.

Dominic Mitchell is managing editor of Birdwatch magazine and author of a number of books on birds. He writes a regular blog, Birding Etc with Dominic Mitchell.

A Country Year

Nature uncovered month by month Celia Lewis

Nature Uncovered is an amusing and informative anthology of nature through the year

ature Uncovered is perfect for everyone who enjoys spending time in the Ncountryside. Presented month by month, dip into it at any time of year, especially before a walk or after day trips, and discover something new about the natural world. Informative and entertaining sections will enlighten you on the nature to be found PRICE: £20. each month, all beautifully illustrated with watercolour paintings. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408181348 EBOOK: 9781408186886 Discover what’s flowering and what you might come across on a walk each month, PUB DATE: 29 AUG 2013 and learn how to turn foraged finds from country strolls into something good to TERRITORY: WO eat, or for you to get creative with. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

Celia Lewis lives in the country and has always taken a great interest in nature. She delights in observing the passing year and recording her sightings in her artwork. Celia is the author and artist of our beautiful and bestselling Illustrated Guide to… series on keeping chickens, pigs, and ducks and geese; her next title will be The Illustrated Guide to Cattle in 2014.

NATURAL WORLD 45 The Secret Lives of Puffins Mark Sisson and Dominic Couzens

A delightful visual guide to one of the world’s most popular and engaging birds

ward-winning wildlife photographer Mark Sisson has spent several years Aphotographing Puffins in a range of different places and situations. This new book combines images that beautifully encapsulate the birds’ immense charm and visual appeal with an accessible text by leading wildlife writer Dominic Couzens. The text and photographs cover the birds’ life cycle, behaviour, habitats and the current and future challenges that they face, along with many surprising facts PRICE: £20.00 and anecdotes. FORMAT: HARDBACK ISBN: 9781408186671 EBOOK: 9781408186695 Shropshire-based photographer Mark Sisson’s photographic work is regularly PUB DATE: 05 SEP 2013 published in an array of books and journals including BBC Wildlife, Birds and TERRITORY: WO The Countryman. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Dominic Couzens is the author of many books on birds and natural history including The Secret Lives of British Birds, The Secret Lives of Garden Birds and The Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife, all published by Christopher Helm.

Going, Going, Gone

100 animals and plants on the verge of extinction Edited by Lisa Thomas

A compelling analysis of the species that are most at risk of disappearing from our world – and what it means to us to lose them

n this important book, one hundred conservation groups around the world give Itheir answer to the question: ‘If you could pick one species that epitomises your work, which would it be?’ From the RSPB to WWF to the Cheetah Conservation PRICE: £20.00 Fund, their answers provide cogent analysis of the threats faced by their selected FORMAT: HARDBACK species, an outline of the work being done to save them, and the ways in which ISBN: 9781408186305 EBOOK: 9781408186329 the reader can help. With beautiful full-page photographs of each of the hundred PUB DATE: 26 SEP 2013 species, this is a book that will fascinate and inspire and hopefully help to preserve TERRITORY: WO the future of the species included. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

46 NATURAL WORLD Ghosts of Gone Birds Edited by Ceri Levy

The book of the show – Art does extinct birds

This is the book of the Ghosts of Gone Birds show.

The original brief – given to 120 artists – was to produce a piece of work based loosely on one or more extinct birds, with proceeds from sales going to BirdLife International. The results exceeded the curator’s wildest dreams – the initial exhibition in London was a sensation, with the people involved representing a who’s who of British art – Sir Peter Blake, Ben Newman, Ralph Steadman, Billy Childlish – along with renowned bird artists such as Bruce Pearson and Carry Akroyd. PRICE: £19.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408187463 This book features art from the event along with text by the artists themselves. It PUB DATE: 24 OCT 2013 is glossy, colourful and rich – a fitting testament to the exhibition and to the birds TERRITORY: WO whose demise inspired it. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

NATURAL WORLD 47 Austenland Midnight in Austenland Shannon Hale

‘Adorable! This is the best tribute to obsessed Austen freaks (like me) that I’ve ever read’ Stephanie Meyer

estselling author Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen addict Bin all of us in these two irresistible tales of twentieth-century heroines worthy of Austen. In Austenland, Jane Hayes is a young New PRICE: £7.99 Yorker who can never find the right man, but when a wealthy relative FORMAT: PAPERBACK bequeaths her a trip to Pembrook Park (an English resort catering ISBN: 9781408840092 EBOOK: 9781408840108 to Austen fanatics) Jane’s fantasies of meeting her own Mr Darcy PUB DATE: 28 MAR 2013 become more real than she ever could have imagined. In Midnight TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM in Austenland, Charlotte Kinder also finds herself in Pembrook Park, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BARRY but in a tangle of intrigues that’s increasingly tough to sort out… GOLDBLATT LITERARY AGENCY Shannon Hale is the author of The Actor and the Housewife, and six young adult novels: The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, Forest Born, Book of a Thousand Days, and the Newbery Honor–winning New York Times bestseller Princess Academy. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. @haleshannon / www.squeetus.com

The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller

A beautifully rejacketed edition of the bestselling winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction

reece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been Gexiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper – despite the displeasure of Achilles’s mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test PRICE: £7.99 everything they hold dear. FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408842126 EBOOK: 9781408818909 Madeline Miller has a BA and MA from Brown University in Latin and Ancient PUB DATE: 09 MAY 2013 Greek, and has been teaching both for the past nine years. She has also studied TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM at the Yale School of Drama, specialising in adapting classical tales to a modern TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ABNER STEIN audience. The Song of Achilles is her first novel and was the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. @MillerMadeline / www.madelinemiller.com

48 PAPERBACK FICTION The Geneva Trap

A Liz Carlyle novel Stella Rimington

A Russian agent. A deadly secret. The embers of the Cold War are about to reignite

hen a Russian spy approaches MI5 with information about an imminent cyber- Wsabotage of an Anglo-American defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. At a tracking station in Nevada, US Navy officers watch in horror as one of their unmanned drones plummets out of the sky. Is this a Russian plot to disable the West’s defences? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and her team hunt for a mole inside the MOD, the trail leads them into a labyrinth of international intrigue, in a race to stop the Cold War heating up once again… PRICE: £7.99 Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408832189 career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter- EBOOK: 9781408819661 espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and six Liz Carlyle TERRITORY: WE novels. She lives in London and Norfolk. www.stellarimington.com TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CAPEL & LAND

Finding Casey Jo-Ann Mapson

‘Jo-Ann Mapson is one of my favorite authors – quite simply, she’s an archivist of the human heart’ Jodi Picoult

lory Vigil, newly married and unexpectedly pregnant at 41, is nesting in the Ghome she and her husband Joseph have just moved to in Santa Fe. Their adopted daughter Juniper is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, from the day eight years earlier when her sister Casey disappeared – 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.

Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of ten previous novels, including the beloved Solomon’s PRICE: £7.99 Oak, winner of the American Library Association’s 2011 RUSA Award for Women’s FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831083 Fiction, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo (CBS TV movie), and the Los Angeles Times EBOOK: 9781408829257 bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 with her husband and their four dogs. www.joannmapson.com TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: GELFMAN SCHNEIDER

PAPERBACK FICTION 49 The Harbour Francesca Brill

‘A powerful novel of depth and intensity’ Sunday Times

ong Kong, 1940. For Stevie Steiber, a reckless young journalist, days at the Happy HValley race-course slip into dangerous, hedonistic nights. Major Harry Field, charged by Her Majesty’s Government with investigating suspicious activity in the colony, is intrigued by the recent arrival of Wu Jishang, a Chinese sophisticated publisher who owns a controversial political magazine. But it is Stevie, Jishang’s close colleague and lover, who really fascinates him. As the British community continues to party, seemingly blind to the cataclysm that is almost upon them, the spy and the journalist are obsessively drawn into a dark passion. And when the Japanese army seizes the island, they are faced with terrifying challenges – how PRICE: £7.99 far will they go to protect each other? FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831519 EBOOK: 9781408828441 Francesca Brill is a screenwriter and film maker. She has been selected as one PUB DATE: 18 JUL 2013 of Amazon’s Rising Stars for The Harbour, which is her first book. She lives in TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX -CAN, OM west London. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: FELICITY BRYAN

The Night Rainbow Claire King

‘At once moving and gripping, elegant and spare … Pea is a heroine you won’t forget’ Maggie O’Farrell

uring one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play Dalone in the meadow behind their house, in a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea’s father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief, has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach her. Then Pea meets Claude, a man who seems to love the meadow as she does. Pea believes that she and Margot have found a friend, maybe even a new papa. But why do the villagers view Claude with suspicion? PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK Claire King has found success and acclaim with her prize-winning short stories. ISBN: 9781408841846 EBOOK: 9781408832820 Having graduated from Cambridge she now lives and works in France. The Night PUB DATE: 18 JUL 2013 Rainbow is her first novel. @ckingwriter / www.claire-king.com TERRITORY: WO RANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

50 PAPERBACK FICTION Elza’s Kitchen Marc Fitten

‘A mouth-watering tale of love and passion’ Woman’s Own

lza has her own little restaurant in the Hungarian city of Delibab, cooking quality Eversions of Hungarian classics and serving them with a smile. But lately her smile has become tired and her affair with her sous-chef an irritant.

With her country in a state of transition from communism to capitalism, Elza embarks on her own change as she decides to woo The Critic, one of the harshest, most powerful restaurant columnists in Europe. Along the way she finds that true joy – and love – can be hidden in the most surprising of places.

Marc Fitten lived in Hungary from 1993 to 1998. His debut novel, Valeria’s Last PRICE: £7.99 Stand, was published in ten countries, held a spot on the Der Spiegel’s Bestsellers FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831052 list for seven weeks, and was an Amazon Best of the Month book for May 2009. He EBOOK: 9781408827680 has published writing in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 He lives and writes in Atlanta. www.marcfitten.com TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOUR ENTERTAINMENT

Rook Jane Rusbridge

‘An emotional tale of family, forgotten history and loyalty’ Psychologies

ora, a cellist, returns home to the Sussex coast with memories she must banish Nin order to survive: a charismatic teacher; a mistake she cannot unmake. Her mother Ada is waiting: a fragile, bitter woman who distils for herself a glamorous past as she smokes French cigarettes in her unkempt garden. A documentary maker has arrived in the village to shoot a film about King Cnut and his illegitimate daughter, whose body lies beneath the flagstones of Bosham church. As he digs up tales of ancient battles, Ada and Nora find themselves face to face with their own carefully buried secrets.

Jane Rusbridge is the author of The Devil’s Music. She lives near the coast in west PRICE: £7.99 Sussex with her husband, a farmer, and the youngest of their five children. She has FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831359 an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Chichester, where she was the EBOOK: 9781408830147 recipient of the Philip Lebrun Prize for Creative Writing and is Associate Lecturer PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 in English. @JaneRusbridge / www.janerusbridge.co.uk TERRITORY: COMM/EU,OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROGERS, COLERIDGE & WHITE

PAPERBACK FICTION 51 The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics Gideon Defoe

Following on from the blockbuster Sony/Aardman movie, the Pirate Captain and his crew return in a daring and eldritch new adventure

hilst visiting their bank manager on the shores of Lake Geneva, the pirates Wencounter the literary giants of their age: the swaggering Lord Byron, the oddly shifty Percy Shelley – and his beautiful fiancée, Mary. They embark upon an adventure that leads them into the bowels of Oxford and the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. Along the way the Pirate Captain must confront some important questions, namely: what is the secret behind his belly tattoo? Is ‘Zombuloid, the PRICE: £6.99 corpse-beast’ a better name for a monster than ‘Gorgo: Half-man, half-seaweed’? FORMAT: PAPERBACK And, most importantly, what happens when a pirate falls in love? ISBN: 9781408831588 EBOOK: 9781408811306 PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 Gideon Defoe was born in 1975 and lives in London. He is the author of The TERRITORY: COMM/EU,OM Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, which has been made into a stop-motion TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANKLOW AND animation film by Sony/Aardman,The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick, NESBIT The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists and The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon. @gideondefoe / www.gideondefoe.com

The Namesake

An Alec Blume Novel Conor Fitzgerald

‘Fills the gap left by Michael Dibdin’ Sunday Times

hen magistrate Matteo Arconti’s namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is Wfound dead outside the courthouse in Piazzo Clodio, it’s a clear warning to the authorities in Rome – a message of defiance and intimidation. Commissioner Alec Blume knows it’s a reference to his other case – that of a mafia boss operating at a frustratingly untouchable distance in Germany. Handing control of the investigation to now live-in and not-so-secret partner Caterina Mattiola, Blume takes a back seat. But while Caterina questions the Milanese widow, Blume has an underhand PRICE: £7.99 idea of his own to lure the arrogant mafioso out of his hiding place… FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831564 EBOOK: 9781408828083 Conor Fitzgerald is the author of The Dogs of Rome and The Fatal Touch. He has PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 lived in Ireland, the UK, the United States and Italy and has worked as an arts TERRITORY: WE editor and founded a successful translation company. He is married with two TRANSLATION RIGHTS: UNITED AGENTS children and lives in Rome. The Namesakeis the third in his series of Italian crime novels. @ConorFitzgerald / www.conorfitzgerald.net

52 PAPERBACK FICTION San Miguel T. C. Boyle

‘An involving historical read and yet another illustration of this author’s astonishing range’ Lionel Shriver, Guardian

he schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the island on New Year’s Day, 1888. TMarantha looks at the cliffs falling into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life. Before long the constant wind and sheep-ravaged wasteland shatter her illusions; her husband promised paradise. As he obsessively resolves to stay – and becomes increasingly distant from her and her daughter, Edith – Marantha’s blighted lungs grow weaker in the dampness. Forty-two years later another family – and another bride – will arrive on San Miguel. But the unyielding island is haunted by its history; by stories of isolation, the desires of stubborn men, and the unbearable burden of love. PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831373 T. C. Boyle’s novels include World’s End, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for EBOOK: 9781408830710 Fiction, The Tortilla Curtain, the New York Times bestseller, The Women and, most PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 recently, When the Killing’s Done. His work has been translated into twenty-five TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM languages and he is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SHEIL LAND OME EXPORT ISBN: 9781408842591 California. www.tcboyle.com PRICE: £5.99

Hard Twisted C. Joseph Greaves

‘A taut and intriguing thriller … a strange and unsettling read’ Sunday Times

PRICE: £7.99 n May 1934, outside Hugo, Oklahoma, Dillard Garrett and his thirteen-year-old FORMAT: PAPERBACK Idaughter Lucile are befriended by a charismatic drifter by the name of Clint ISBN: 9781408831373 Palmer. Palmer lures them to Texas, where Dillard mysteriously disappears and EBOOK: 9781408830710 Lucile begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer’s captive on a crime spree – culminating PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM in the notorious Greenville, Texas ‘skeleton murder’ trial of 1935. Hard Twisted TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SHEIL LAND is an epic tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes and OME EXPORT ISBN: 9781408842591 historic figures – and all rooted in the story of a young girl’s coming of age in a PRICE: £5.99 world as cruel as it is beautiful.

C. Joseph Greaves is a former LA trial lawyer now based in Santa Fe. He was PRICE: £7.99 inspired to write Hard Twisted following his discovery of two human skulls in a FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831113 remote Utah canyon. The novel went on to be named Best Historical Novel of 2010 EBOOK: 9781408829233 in the South West Writers international writing contest. www.chuckgreaves.com PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID BLACK AGENCY

PAPERBACK FICTION 53 The Infinite Tides Christian Kiefer

‘Lyrical … Kiefer is terrific at describing the details of space travel and the emptiness of grief’ Washington Post

et in depleted, post-recession suburbia, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star Sastronaut Keith Corcoran’s return to earth. He comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and his house empty of furniture. His role as a mathematical and engineering genius doesn’t help him to understand this alien silence, but a friendship with a neighbouring Ukrainian immigrant slowly helps him connect to the world around him. This nuanced portrait of two lives lived under the weight of gravity in modern America is deeply moving, tragicomic and ultimately redemptive. PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: PAPERBACK Christian Kiefer earned his PhD in American literature from the University of ISBN: 9781408831526 EBOOK: 9781408829196 California, Davis, and is on the English faculty of American River College in PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 Sacramento. He is an active poet, songwriter and recording artist, and lives in the TERRITORY: WE foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California with his wife and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: MARKSON five sons. @xiankiefer / www.christiankiefer.com THOMA AGENCY

That Deadman Dance Kim Scott

‘A haunting, lyrical novel … frequently wonderful’ Financial Times

hroughout Bobby Wabalanginy’s young life the ships have been arriving, Tbringing European settlers to the south coast of Western Australia. Bobby, smart, resourceful and eager to please, is welcomed into a prosperous white family and finds himself falling in love with the daughter Christine. But then things begin to change. Livestock mysteriously starts to disappear; crops are destroyed; there are ‘accidents’ and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules, Bobby’s Elders decide they must respond in kind, and Bobby is inexorably drawn into a series of events that will for ever change the fate of his country.

PRICE: £7.99 Kim Scott was born in 1957 to a white mother and Aboriginal father. He is the FORMAT: PAPERBACK author of True Country, and Benang: From the Heart, which won the Miles Franklin ISBN: 9781408831465 EBOOK: 9781408829271 Award. That Deadman Dance was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 the South East Asia and Pacific Region. Scott lives in western Australia with his TERRITORY: WE(EXC AUS/NZ) wife and two children. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ANDERSON LITERARY MANAGEMENT

54 PAPERBACK FICTION The Sound of Things Falling

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean Juan Gabriel Vásquez

‘A powerful and humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn’t choose to fight’ The Times

o sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in the billiard halls of Bogotá Nthan young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio’s fascination with his new friend’s life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious cassette in an unmarked envelope. Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner; Yammara’s investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare. Vásquez is one of the leading novelists of PRICE: £7.99 his generation: The Sound of Things Fallingis his finest novel to date. FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831618 EBOOK: 9781408834121 Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He is the author of The Informers PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 – shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (IFFP) and published TERRITORY: WE in twelve languages – and The Secret History of Costaguana. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SANTILLANA EDICIONES Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.

Big Ray Michael Kimball

‘An uncompromising work of power and grace’ Jon McGregor

o his family, Big Ray’s obesity and his mean temper define him. When Big Ray Tdies, his son, Daniel, successfully puts his feelings aside until years later, when he reckons with the oversized presence in his memory. Told in over 500 brief entries, the complexity of this searing novel becomes more and more intricate as Daniel’s confession flits back and forth between the past and the present, between his father’s life and death, and between an abusive childhood and an adult comprehension. Big Ray is a staggering family story – at once humorous and insightful, brutal and tender, unusual and beautiful.

Michael Kimball is the author of The Way the Family Got Away, How Much of PRICE: £7.99 Us There Was and Dear Everybody, and his novels have been translated into a FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408830970 dozen languages. His work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and EBOOK: 9781408832165 in the Guardian, Vice, Bomb and New York Tyrant. He is also a documentary PUB DATE: 07 NOV 2013 filmmaker. www.michael-kimball.com TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

PAPERBACK FICTION 55 Little America

The War within the War for Afghanistan Rajiv Chandrasekaran

‘A beautifully written and deeply reported account of America’s troubled involvement in Afghanistan’ New York Times Notable Books

he US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and 1960s to Ttransform the barren desert into a veritable oasis – known locally as ‘Little America’ – and then the money ran out. Four decades later, Helmand was again the focus of US efforts, as waves of Marines descended on the region. Little America tells the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama’s watch. Has the war been worth the PRICE: £8.99 money and the bloodshed? Through vivid storytelling and on-the-ground reporting, FORMAT: PAPERBACK Samuel Johnson Prize-winner, Rajiv Chandreskaran sets out to find the answer. ISBN: 9781408831205 EBOOK: 9781408831816 PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor at the TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM Washington Post. He previously served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: GREENE & Cairo and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. HEATON LTD EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: 12 MAR 2013 He is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, which won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in Washington, DC. @rajivwashpost

A Very English Hero

The Making of Frank Thompson Peter J. Conradi

‘A pensive, moving and very personal book’ Observer

odest, handsome and a fine poet, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made Man unlikely soldier. Brother of E. P. Thompson and lover of Iris Murdoch, Frank was an intellectual idealist, a rare combination of brilliant mind and enormous heart. Of his wartime experiences Frank wrote prodigiously. His letters, diaries and poetry still read fresh and intimate today – and it’s from these that Peter J. Conradi brings vividly to life a brilliantly attractive and courageous personality. Aged just twenty-three, Frank was captured, tortured and executed in Bulgaria. PRICE: £9.99 A soldier of principle and integrity, he fought a poet’s war; a very English hero FORMAT: PAPERBACK from a very different era. ISBN: 9781408830925 EBOOK: 9781408833315 PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 Peter J. Conradi FRSL was a friend of Dame Iris Murdoch and produced a study TERRITORY: WE of her novels and thought, The Saint and the Artist, and her authorised biography, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Iris Murdoch: A Life. He is also the author of critical studies of Dostoevsky, Angus Wilson and John Fowles. He lives in London and in Radnorshire.

56 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION Marilyn

The Passion and the Paradox Lois Banner

‘Banner gives us a powerful portrayal of a savvy self-publicist who worked tirelessly to ensure her trajectory from glamour model to screen goddess’ Sunday Telegraph Book of the Week

arilyn Monroe died on 5 August 1962. Since then, the appetite for information Mabout Monroe has proved insatiable. Lois Banner’s new biography is revelatory. Banner had access to material no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, uncovering the sexual abuse she suffered and her bisexuality. She is also the first biographer to read Monroe’s psychiatric records, PRICE: £9.99 revealing a woman deeply rooted in paradox. No biographer before has attempted FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831335 to analyse – much less realise – most of these aspects of her personality. EBOOK: 9781408833308 PUB DATE: 01 AUG 2013 Lois Banner was a founder of the field of women’s history and the first woman TERRITORY: WE president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of ten books, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WILLIAM CLARK including the acclaimed American Beauty and, most recently, MM-Personal. She is a professor of history and gender studies and lives in southern California. www.loisbanner.com

Mr Churchill’s Profession

Statesman, Orator, Writer Peter Clarke

‘Fascinating, erudite and witty’ Guardian

n 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Though he Ihad become a professional writer before he became a politician, and would in the course of a lifetime publish numerous books and articles, Churchill’s political career has largely overshadowed his literary achievements. Tracing the writing of the magisterial work that would occupy him, on and off, for a quarter of a century – the four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples – Peter Clarke examines the lesser known of Churchill’s two intertwined careers to show that his writing underpinned his oratory and his politics, and thus presents a fascinating untold PRICE: £9.99 chapter in literary history. FORMAT: PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781408831236 EBOOK: 9781408827222 Peter Clarke was formerly a professor of modern history and Master of Trinity Hall PUB DATE: 04 JUL 2013 at Cambridge. His many books include the acclaimed final volume of The Penguin TERRITORY: WO History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900-2000 and most recently Keynes: The TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

Twentieth Century’s Most Influential Economist. He lives with his wife, the Canadian writer Maria Tippett, in Cambridge, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia.

PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 57 Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King

‘A truly immersive portrait of an era’ Daily Telegraph

or more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious Fand cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it ‘the keystone of European art’, and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic ‘miracle’. Ross King’s Leonardo and the Last Supper is both a biography of one of the most famous works of art ever painted and a record of Leonardo da Vinci’s last five years in Milan.

Ross King is the highly praised author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the PRICE: £8.99 Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two FORMAT: PAPERBACK novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives near Oxford. www.rosskingbooks.com ISBN: 9781408831182 EBOOK: 9781408834275 PUB DATE: 12 SEP 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

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Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The 27 Hidden Light of Objects, The 12 Rook 51 And the Mountains Echoed 2 Historic Blumenthal 34 Rouleur 7 41 Anne Frank 15 History of Birdwatching Roy G. Biv 23 Aquinas: The Unread Vision 42 in 100 Objects, A 45 RSPB Nature Tracker’s Handbook 44 As Green as Grass 29 Horace and Me 28 Austenland 48 Sackcloth and Ashes 42 Infinite Tides, The 54 San Miguel 53 Ballistics 6 Innocence Game, The 4 Sea Legs 29 Becoming a Londoner 30 Island Summers 28 Secret Lives of Puffins, The 46 Beloved Strangers 31 Signature of All Things, The 9 Big Ray 55 Kerrigan in Copenhagen 12 Simpsons and Their Blue Lorries 5 Mathematical Secrets, The 22 Bone Season, The 7 Leonardo and the Last Supper 58 Song of Achilles, The 48 Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy 35 Letters of John F. Kennedy, The 18 Sound of Things Falling, The 55 Booze 32 Light Footprint 15 Story of a Death Foretold 20 Lion Heart 8 Strangers Who Came Home, The 39 Christie’s Encyclopedia Little America 56 Stupid Footballer Is Dead, The 35 of Champagne and Looking Through the Cross 43 Sparkling Wine 34 Lowland, The 9 T. C. Boyle Stories II 11 Cooked Seed, The 30 That Deadman Dance 54 Country Year, A 45 Maddaddam 8 This Is the Story of a Cultural History of Snow, A 25 Manager, The 38 Happy Marriage 24 Margaret Thatcher 24 Torment Saint 22 Dirtiest Race in History, The 36 Marilyn 57 Tragedy of Liberation, The 19 Downfall of Money, The 21 Masterchef: The Finalists 32 Train in Spain, The 26 Measures Between Us, The 3 TransAtlantic 2 El Clásico: Barcelona v Meeting the Enemy 18 Tutenkhamen’s Tracksuit 41 Real Madrid 37 Memory Theatre, The 6 Two Hotel Francforts, The 11 Elza’s Kitchen 51 Midnight in Austenland 48 Equilateral 13 Migration Hotspots 44 Ukulele Handbook, The 21 Essential Wisden, The 39 Mr Churchill’s Profession 57 Unbored 16 Everest 14 Namesake, The 52 Valley, The 19 Finding Casey 49 Napoleon 25 Very English Hero, A 56 Flora 4 New Middle East, The 17 Foul Play 36 Night Rainbow , The 50 Wisden Cricketers of the Year 38 No Place Like Home 20 Wisden Guide to International Geneva Trap, The 49 Nothing Holds Back the Night 5 Cricket 2014, The 40 Ghosts of Gone Birds 47 Wit and Wisdom of Boris Girl Like You, A 3 On the Trail of Genghis Khan 27 Johnson, The 14 Glorious Misadventures 17 Writing on the Wall 23 Going, Going, Gone 46 Pig’s Foot 10 Guinea Pig Nativity, A 26 Pirates! In an Adventure with Year Klunk, The 40 the Romantics, The 52 Harbour, The 50 Hard Twisted 53 Remains of Love, The 7 Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters 37 Rice’s Church Primer 16 Heart in Pilgrimage, The 43 River Cottage Fruit Every Day! 33 Helium 10 Roast 33

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