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PETER OWEN

CATALOGUE AUTUMN 2015/SPRING 2016

Publishers of 10 Nobel Prize winners SOME AUTHORS WE HAVE PUBLISHED

James Agee Erté James Laughlin Iván Sándor Bella Akhmadulina Knut Faldbakken Patricia Laurent George Santayana Tariq Ali Ida Fink Violette Leduc May Sarton Kenneth Allsop Wolfgang George Fischer Lee Seung-U Jean-Paul Sartre Alfred Andersch Nicholas Freeling Vernon Lee Ferdinand de Saussure Guillaume Apollinaire Philip Freund József Lengyel Gerald Scarfe Machado de Assis Carlo Emilio Gadda Robert Liddell Albert Schweitzer Miguel Angel Asturias Rhea Galanaki Francisco García Lorca George Bernard Shaw Oya Baydar Salvador Garmendia Moura Lympany Isaac Bashevis Singer Duke of Bedford Michel Gauquelin Thomas Mann Patwant Singh Oliver Bernard André Gide Dacia Maraini Johanna Sinisalo Thomas Blackburn Natalia Ginzburg Marcel Marceau Edith Sitwell Jane Bowles Jean Giono André Maurois Suzanne St Albans Paul Bowles Geoffrey Gorer Henri Michaux Stevie Smith Richard Bradford William Goyen Henry Miller C.P. Snow Ilse, Countess von Bredow Julien Gracq Miranda Miller Bengt Söderbergh Lenny Bruce Sue Grafton Marga Minco Vladimir Soloukhin Finn Carling Robert Graves Yukio Mishima Natsume Soseki Blaise Cendrars Angela Green Quim Monzó Muriel Spark Marc Chagall Julien Green Margaret Morris Gertrude Stein Giorgio de Chirico George Grosz Angus Wolfe Murray Bram Stoker Uno Chiyo Barbara Hardy Atle Næss August Strindberg Hugo Claus H.D. Gérard de Nerval Rabindranath Tagore Jean Cocteau Rayner Heppenstall Anaïs Nin Tambimuttu Albert Cohen David Herbert Yoko Ono Elisabeth Russell Taylor Colette Gustaw Herling Uri Orlev Emma Tennant Ithell Colquhoun Hermann Hesse Wendy Owen Anne Tibble Richard Corson Shere Hite Arto Paasilinna Roland Topor Benedetto Croce Stewart Home Marco Pallis Miloš Urban Margaret Crosland Abdullah Hussein Oscar Parland Anne Valery e.e. cummings King Hussein of Jordan Boris Pasternak Peter Vansittart Stig Dalager Ruth Inglis Cesare Pavese José J. Veiga Salvador Dalí Grace Ingoldby Milorad Pavic Tarjei Vesaas Osamu Dazai Yasushi Inoue Octavio Paz Noel Virtue Anita Desai Hans Henny Jahnn Mervyn Peake Max Weber Charles Dickens Karl Jaspers Carlos Pedretti Edith Wharton Bernard Diederich Takeshi Kaiko Dame Margery Perham William Carlos Williams Fabián Dobles Jaan Kaplinski Graciliano Ramos Phyllis Willmott William Donaldson Anna Kavan Frederic Raphael G. Peter Winnington Autran Dourado Yasunari Kawabata Jeremy Reed Monique Wittig Yuri Druzhnikov Nikos Kazantzakis Rodrigo Rey Rosa A.B. Yehoshua Lawrence Durrell Orhan Kemal Joseph Roth Marguerite Young Isabelle Eberhardt Christer Kihlman Ken Russell Fakhar Zaman Sergei Eisenstein James Kirkup Marquis de Sade Alexander Zinoviev Shusaku Endo Paul Klee Cora Sandel Emile Zola

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A COCKTAIL COMPANION

Barry Miles Tom Smith Evelyn Farr The Zapple Diaries: One for My Baby: I Love You Madly: The Rise and Fall of the A Sinatra Cocktail The Love Letters of Last Beatles Label Companion Marie-Antoinette and Count Axel von Fersen The ﬁrst full-length illustrated book on Frank Sinatra’s life with a twist – the Zapple counterculture label by one told from the vantage point of his The newly discovered correspondence of the Beatles’ closest associates abiding love of convivial drinking, between the Queen of France and his watering-hole companions and her Swedish lover conﬁrming their Zapple was one of the most the cocktails he enjoyed passionate and enduring affair exciting developments of the late 1960s created by the Beatles to !is is an account of the life and Evelyn Farr is already known for showcase cutting-edge artists. !e work of the world-famous singer revealing the unsuspected long-term label recorded key "gures from from the point of view of his liaison between Marie-Antoinette the literary and musical world of prodigious appetite for alcohol, and the Swedish diplomat the time (Allen Ginsberg, Richard which was an integral element Count Axel Fersen. Here she has Brautigan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, of his character, his lifestyle, his compiled the most comprehensive Charles Bukowski, Charles Olson) relationships with women and his unexpurgated collection of their and released John Lennon’s and creative output. !e book also coded letters, cross-referenced with Yoko Ono’s "rst experimental album doubles as a practical cocktail diary entries and other historical and George Harrison’s Moog LP manual, containing over "fty recipes documents. Until now, only the Electronic Sound. Here Zapple’s for preparing the drinks associated couple’s formal correspondence on label manager Barry Miles – who with Sinatra and his entourage. state a#airs had been published, also co-founded the underground !ere are accounts of his favourite leading historians to believe their newspaper International Times and watering holes and pro"les of relationship was merely one of the Indica Gallery where John and his drinking buddies. !e book friendship. What went unknown Yoko met – provides an insider’s opens with a look at the role drink for centuries was the fascinating account of how the label came into played throughout his life and ends secret correspondence detailing their being and revealing the soured with the Rat Pack. In between love. Evelyn Farr has painstakingly atmosphere at the Apple Corps are chapters on classic bourbon deciphered secret codes and headquarters in the days leading up drinks, Sinatra’s partiality to Jack messages in invisible ink to establish to the "nal break-up of the band. Daniel’s and Martinis, exotic booze once and for all the Count’s status as With many previously unpublished combinations, hangover remedies the love of Marie-Antoinette’s life. and the friends who kept him photographs, the book o#ers new ‘Farr has a way of blowing the dust company in the wee small hours. insight into the Beatles and their o! historical fact and revealing signi"cance in the countercultural 978-0-7206-2016-0 / 192pp / £12.99 / truths which, in their courageous revolution of the 1960s. cased / 203mm x 140mm / audacity, make ordinary historical November 2015 / Rights: English x UK 978-0-7206-1860-0 / 272pp / £16.99 / biographies seem dull.’ cased / 173mm x 254mm / November 2015 / – Birmingham Post Rights: English x UK, NAm 978-7206-1877-8 / 304pp / £25 / cased / Spring 2016 / Rights: World x French

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Barry Matthews Rekha Kalindi Karoline Leach Wilfred Owen: The Man The Strength to Say No: In the Shadow of the and the Myth An Eleven-Year-Old’s Fight Dreamchild: The Myth and A comprehensive new biography and Against Forced Marriage Reality of Lewis Carroll radical reassessment of the The true-life story of an Indian village Anniversary edition of the inﬂuential First World War poet girl whose stand inspired a nation study of the creator of Alice Many myths have grown up Written with the collaboration of Lewis Carroll’s children’s novel Alice’s around the much-admired English Mouhssine Ennaimi, a distinguished Adventures in Wonderland remains poet Wilfred Owen who died in reporter with Radio France, !e perennially popular, remarkably so 1918 at the end of the Great War. Girl Who Said No, translated from given that it was "rst published 150 Among these were that he joined Ennaimi’s acclaimed French edition, years ago. Yet the man behind the the army of his own volition and is a documentary portrait of one pseudonym, Charles Dodgson, is that he mainly avoided active young Bengali girl’s struggle against a controversial "gure, with many service until the end of the war underage arranged marriage that believing that he had an unhealthy because of a mental breakdown. was to become an inspiration to sexual interest in little girls, !is controversial biography reveals young women all over the world. including his ‘muse’ Alice Liddell. that he enlisted only to avoid Like Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan, in Karoline Leach argues that recent compulsory conscription and feigned campaigning against early enforced biographers have fallen victim to a a breakdown to avoid duty on the marriage and the premature mythology. She describes how she front line. Rather less well known is curtailment of the education of girls, discovered evidence from family that he never wrote a poem critical of Kalindi is leading the "ght against archives, including letters and war until he met Siegfried Sassoon, the subjugation of women and girls diaries, that reveal he was actually a in August 1917 and spent much of in India and throughout the world. charming if manipulative man who his time in France dodging active enjoyed unfettered relationships ‘Her de"ance against an age- duty and soliciting the company with adult women that sometimes old custom has developed of prepubescent boys. A sexual brought him into con$ict with into a campaign catching the butter$y and a social chameleon, he his Victorian world. Since its "rst imagination of a nation.’ was prepared to change his attitudes publication this book has become – Hindustan Times to please those he hero-worshipped recognized as a landmark study that and to rework his formerly patriotic ‘Kalindi has inspired a must alter the way one views the verses to suggest that he had #StrengthtoSayNo hashtag, world-famous author. always opposed war. Although his which is sweeping social media.’ ‘An excellent book that changes homosexual activities have been – Daily Mail generally suppressed, his army record for ever how we regard Carroll’ clearly suggests that he was regarded 978-0-7206-1792-4 / PB / 136pp / – Spectator £10.99 / available / RIGHTS: English as a coward and malingerer. !is new 978-0-7206-1859-4 / PB / 368pp / x UK, Indian Subcontinent study is certain to attract debate. £14.99 / available / RIGHTS: World x French, Italian, Lithuanian 978-0-7206-1881-5 / 400pp / £25 / PB / Spring 2016 / Rights: World

2 Tom Ambrose David Hunter Jennifer Kewley Draskau Mad, Bad and Dangerous: Apollinaire in the Great Lusitania: Tragedy or The Eccentricity of Tyrants War 1914–18 War Crime? An enlightening survey revealing how The only biography in English to focus The deﬁnitive story behind the power corrupts on the ﬁnal years of the poet’s life First World War outrage, published to coincide with the centenary of the Apollinaire in the Great War draws !e author of Godfather of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 Revolution: !e Life of Philippe heavily on Apollinaire’s own writings Egalité, Duc d’Orléans and Hitler’s to tell the story of his years at the Launched in 1907, the Lusitania Loss: What Britain and America front in France and his existence was brie$y the world’s largest Gained from Europe’s Cultural Exiles away from the action after being liner and a potent symbol of the turns his attention to a rogue’s wounded in battle. An unusual "erce rivalry between transatlantic gallery of despots and villains from combination of intimate biography, shipping agents in Europe and Titanic the world of politics. From Ivan military history and literary analysis forerunner of the . It proved the Terrible to Pol Pot, from Idi and detection, this major new work to be a similarly ill-starred vessel Amin to Nero, Ambrose assesses o#ers a vivid portrait of the artist at when it became a German U-boat the awesome impact on other lives the epicentre of Parisian bohemian target o# the coast of Ireland during when an individual is consumed by life, in love with three di#erent the First World War and almost power. He discusses the psychology women and of his life and literary 1,200 lives were lost at sea on 7 May of tyrants and what makes them output in the cauldron of war. 1915. Jennifer Kewley Draskau’s who they are while examining how a in-depth exploration one the great ‘Hunter’s book is an engrossing atrocities of the Great War brings simple impulse to serve can become combination of military history, distorted and corrupt, causing together new research, including biography and cultural analysis accounts by rescuers and survivors, disaster and upheaval for large that o!ers a lucid portrait of an swathes of humanity. to reveal the some of the facts artist in both love and war.’ behind this great tragedy at sea. ‘Ambrose has made a brave case – Independent 978-0-7206-1428-2 / PB / 240pp / for Philippe’s courage and good 978-0-7206-1601-9 / PB / 256pp / £14.99 / available / RIGHTS: World intentions.’ – Hilary Mantel on £14.99 / available / RIGHTS: World Godfather of the Revolution

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Robert Shapiro Peter Haining (Editor) Jeremy Reed Les Six: The French A Cat Compendium: The Dilly: A Secret History Composers and Their The Worlds of Louis Wain of Piccadilly Rent Boys Mentors Jean Cocteau An illustrated introduction to the art of First-hand accounts of life on the Meat and Erik Satie Louis Wain Rack The ﬁrst comprehensive survey of the From humble beginnings Louis !is is the "rst book to explore inﬂuential avant-garde musicians Wain became a hugely successful in depth the history of male Les Six was an association of like- popular artist, creating the Louis prostitution at Piccadilly Circus. minded classical musicians born out Wain Annual series and the "rst Dating from Oscar Wilde’s of the shock of the German invasion ever animated cat character, later notorious use of the location for of France in 1914. !is book – the acknowledged as the inspiration for pick-ups, through Francis Bacon’s "rst and most de"nitive study in Mickey Mouse. But after he lost attraction to rough trade and up English of the group and their his fortune he lost his mind. He to recent times, it is written with famous contemporaries Cocteau, ended up in an asylum sketching Jeremy Reed’s signature $air for Satie and others – collates a wealth psychedelic cats that were more acute visual imagery. !e Dilly is an of information about its members, "end-like than feline. With a wealth exhilaratingly colourful re-creation Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur of his most famous drawings, as well of the illegal occupation of one of Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis as rare writings by and about the London’s central commercial zones Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre, artist, A Cat Compendium is an ideal by lawless Dilly boys, augmented the biographies of its talented book for both admirers of the artist by "rst-hand interviews with the members, together with their and cat-lovers in general. male prostitutes who worked the performances and collaborations. notorious Meat Rack at the Circus ‘An ideal book for Wain fans and What emerges is a fascinating in the 1970s and 1980s as well as cat-lovers alike’ – Weekend story that includes some of the a chapter recording the author’s most notable names of European 978-0-7206-1637-8 / PB / friendship with the artist Francis modernism, including Stravinsky, 159mm x 159mm / 98pp / £11.99 / Bacon. Picasso and Braque. available / RIGHTS: World ‘I loved !e Dilly . . . Jeremy’s ‘#is book answers nearly account is de"nitive and a very everything music fans would like moving history of a now-forgotten to know about Les Six . . . It "lled world.’ – Jake Arnott a huge gap in my appreciation of 978-0-7206-1589-0 / PB / 220pp / these composers.’ – Dr Debra Jan £14.99 /available/ RIGHTS: World Bibel

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Bernhard Zeller Evelyn Farr Peter J. Beer Hermann Hesse: The Marie-Antoinette and The Playboy Princes: Classic Biography Count Fersen: The Untold The Apprentice Years The first study published after Hesse’s Love Story of Edward VII and death, now reprinted in English for the Substantially revised and expanded Edward VIII first time in over forty years edition of the influential study of the An absorbing and enlightening Bernhard Zeller describes Hesse’s French Queen’s doomed love affair biography of two rakish princes background and early life, his In this de"nitive revised edition Controversial members of the "rst marriage, his emigration of her acclaimed study, Evelyn Royal Family are not a recent to Switzerland in protest at Farr draws on fresh evidence phenomenon. Although they were German militarism, his Jungian from archive sources – including not subjected to the intense media psychoanalysis and the visit to decoded secret correspondence and scrutiny that our royals are today, India that inspired his masterpieces diaries – to peel back the layers of two Princes of Wales (and two Siddhartha and !e Journey to misinformation obscuring Marie- namesakes) in the late nineteenth the East. Hesse’s growing literary Antoinette’s long-term love a#air and early twentieth centuries reputation coincided with his brief with the Swedish Count and to captured the fevered imaginations second marriage and continued reveal its impact on the destiny of of the public in their wilder early through his peaceful later years in the French Royal Family. days. A compelling portrait of men Montagnola spent with his third living for the moment, knowing that ‘A vivid and poignant portrait wife, Ninon, whom he married in a later life of solemn duty beckons, of the last desperate days of the 1931. !is biography – illustrated the story of each resonates in a Bourbons’ – Sunday Times with photographs from Hesse’s fascinating way with the position private collection – gives us a view ‘#oroughly enjoyable and that Prince Charles "nds himself in from a time that pre-dates much of required reading for anyone today and ensures that this survey the international fame surrounding fascinated by the most tragic of is a timely as well as an entertaining his works in subsequent decades and queens.’ – Amanda Foreman and illuminating read. remains, in consequence, a valuable documentary portrait. 978-0-7206-1001-7 / PB / 304pp / 978-0-7206-1590-6 / PB / 320pp / £15.99 / available / RIGHTS: World £15.99 / available / RIGHTS: World 978-0-7206-1616-3 / PB / 169pp / £14.99 / available / RIGHTS: English x UK

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Dennis Friedman Helen MacEwan Sergei Eisenstein Inheritance: A The Brontës in Brussels Immoral Memories: An Psychological History An illuminating portrait of Charlotte’s Autobiography of the Royal Family and Emily’s sojourn in Belgium Translated from the Russian by Updated version of Dr Friedman’s !e Brontës In Brussels includes a Herbert Marshall classic study of the Royal Family wealth of illustrations and maps, An illustrated life of the unique and Psychiatrist Dennis Friedman’s extracts from Villette (demonstrating inﬂuential Soviet ﬁlmmaker study of the Royal Family caused a how the novel re$ects Charlotte’s !e creator of such masterpieces furore on its publication in 1993, experiences in Brussels as a student) as Battleship Potemkin, Alexander four years before Princess Diana’s and a walk around the city with Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible was death, as he traced its marital and maps and historical information unquestionably one of the greatest emotional problems back to Queen on places and people particularly of all "lm directors. He wrote this Victoria’s nursery, unveiling a host associated with the two young autobiography in 1946, two years of psychodramas played out against sisters’ memorable stay in the before his death, and it is a work a privileged background of English Belgian capital from 1842 to of major importance for the light palaces and Scottish castles. !is new 1843 to improve their languages. it sheds on his personality and edition investigates whether Queen For anyone interested in the life mercurial genius. !e book includes Elizabeth and her family have learned and work of the Brontës, this is a forty-eight pages of illustrations lessons from the legacy left by Diana, compelling read. comprised of rare personal as this will have an impact on the photographs, "lm stills and the ‘Welcome, appealing and futures of the young Prince George author’s sketches and drawings as well-executed’ – Brontë Studies and Princess Charlotte. !rough the well as a preface by the celebrated generations no direct descendant 978-0-7206-1588-3 / PB / 218pp / translator Herbert Marshall, is overlooked, and in exploring the £16.99 / available / together with a chronology of dynamics of the Royal Family the RIGHTS: English x UK Eisenstein’s life and work. author of Ladies of the Bedchamber: !e Role of the Royal Mistress sheds ‘As an account of the cinema itself, light on many of the universal Immoral Memories is invaluable.’ problems to be found in any family. – Peter Ackroyd, Sunday Times Praise for Ladies of the 978-0-7206-1557-9 / PB / 292pp / 176mm x 228mm / £25/ available Bedchamber ‘I loved it’ – Edwina Currie, New Statesman Books of the Year ‘Fascinating and entertaining’ – Daily Mail

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Lesley Close and Bernard Diederich Erin Pizzey Jo Cartwright Seeds of Fiction: Graham This Way to the Assisted Dying: Greene’s Adventures in Revolution: A Memoir Who Makes The Haiti and Central America In 1971 Erin Pizzey opened a Final Decision? 1954–1983 community centre in London With a foreword by the late How the author was inspired to write that became the "rst refuge in the Sir Terry Pratchett The Comedians and Getting to Know world for battered women. Against The case for greater choice at the end the General a backdrop of the struggle to keep of life !is widely acclaimed memoir the centre open Erin found herself Assisted dying is one of the most illuminates several lesser-known but juggling an increasingly chaotic life as divisive issues of the modern age, pivotal episodes in Greene’s career she became a single mother with an generating endless headlines and and sheds new light on aspects of extended family while abused women moral debates around the world. the man and his writing. Including and children streamed through the Published in conjunction with the extensive archive material and refuge’s doors. To keep it running the organization Dignity in Dying, previously unseen photographs mothers squatted derelict houses and this important book provides a from Bernard Diederich’s personal picketed outside Downing Street, forum for expert commentators in collection, the former Time and by the mid-1970s celebrities a variety of "elds, including religion Magazine journalist recounts how and politicians and others were and medicine, to explore whether he guided the novelist around the o#ering support. !is is the author’s the most humane response to the region on a series of extraordinary moving and frequently entertaining torment and helplessness of certain and often hair-raising journeys. account of her dysfunctional severely incapacitated individuals is Encountering dictators and rebels, childhood, battles with the Women’s to assist them in their wish to die. the friends made numerous trips, Lib ‘sisterhood’ and struggle to get and Greene’s novel !e Comedians shelters established around the world. ‘#is book reminds us that to and his investigation of Central Her run-ins with o%cialdom and her embrace life we must also prepare American politics Getting to Know personal di%culties are recounted to embrace death when it comes.’ the General were directly inspired by with candour and humour, and the – Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE these travels. biography is an essential read for those interested in the struggle to end 978-0-7206-1014-7 / PB /240pp / ‘Fascinating . . . a wonderful domestic violence and the history of £15.99 / available / RIGHTS: World collection of anecdotes’ – Sunday the feminist movement. Times ‘Revealing, frank and frequently ‘One of the "nest books written very funny, the memoirs provide on Greene’ – Spectator marvellous insight into the world 978-0-7206-1488-6 / HB / 315pp / £20 / of 1970s radicalism.’ – London available / RIGHTS: World Review of Books

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Joan Russell Noble (Editor) Anäis Nin Gwynne Edwards Recollections of Virginia Incest Lorca: Living in the Theatre Woolf Paperback reissue of the writer’s A groundbreaking study of Spain’s A unique portrait of Virginia Woolf, explosive memoir of her illicit love legendary poet and dramatist as seen by her contemporaries affairs that caused a sensation on its original publication In an attempt to cover as many Many of the pieces in this book aspects of Lorca’s theatre and the had never been published before its Anaïs Nin’s Incest reveals secrets so time in which he lived as possible, "rst appearance in the 1970s, while shocking that they were suppressed Gwynne Edwards deals not only others were written especially for the even after she began publishing her with the plays themselves but collection, now in paperback for the celebrated diaries in 1966, and it includes material on the social and "rst time. From these reminiscences remained unpublished until after her political character of the 1920s and emerges a composite portrait – death. Since the original publication 1930s, on the cultural background, alternately intimate, humorous and of Incest scholars have voiced doubts on Lorca’s friendships with Dalí and sad. Including contributions by such about the truth of her a#air with her Buñuel and on the performances names as T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, father; nevertheless this remains a of the plays in his lifetime and Christopher Isherwood, Stephen fascinating and unforgettable record afterwards. !is study examines the Spender, Duncan Grant and Vita of erotic freedom and one of Nin’s way in which the dramatist’s life was Sackville-West, the recollections signature works. transformed into high art through shed new insight into Woolf’s ‘#e turbulence of the prose, in$uences as varied as surrealism complex nature. compared with that of the and Greek tragedy. ‘An enthralling book . . . To read previous diaries, fully conveys a Choice Magazine (USA) this book is to get to know a life lived at white-heat intensity Outstanding Academic Book of wonderful human being who was and in total honesty: a remarkable the Year also a most gifted writer.’ – Cyril psychological and literary talent.’ 978-0-7206-1554-8 / PB / 240pp / Connolly, Daily Express – Chicago Tribune £15.99 / available / RIGHTS: World 978-0-7206-1558-6 / PB / 208pp / 978-0-7206-1582-1 / PB / 418pp / £14.99 / available / £16.99 / available / RIGHTS: English RIGHTS: English x UK BC x UK, NAm

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Indrek Hargla Frederic Raphael Elizabeth Morgan Apothecary Melchior Private Views Ticket to Paradise and the Mystery of The new novel by the internationally Promised a paradise at the edge of St Olaf’s Church renowned author and scriptwriter the world, they found a place where the devil himself would not care to Translated from the Estonian by Katya is a painter working in loiter . . . Adam Cullen 1970s London who comes to the From ﬁfteenth-century Tallinn emerges attention of Charlie, an aristocratic !e Welsh Valleys, 1865. a new hero of detective ﬁction City banker. But why does this Impoverished smallholder Dafydd !is acclaimed series of crime novels, elegant yet enigmatic woman Rhys, his headstrong daughter Lisa already running to six volumes, spend so much time with outsiders and their family emigrate with plunges the reader into "fteenth- such as former spies and suburban friends to unknown Patagonia, at century Tallinn, a town dominated millionaires? Private Views is a the tip of South America, where by the mighty Toompea Castle of portrait gallery of smart London they are promised a life free from the Teutonic Order. Melchior is an society – a threatened species that the pits and from punishment for apothecary respected for his arcane prefers not to look at the cunning speaking their own language. But knowledge, and when a Knight of predators and their low-life sidekicks can Dafydd "nd the strength to lead the Order is murdered he is called taking control of old England. !is his people to overcome the tragedies in to help "nd the killer, revealing love story, at once superbly romantic and disasters they will face? Ticket a remarkable talent for detection. and darkly erotic, is a portrait of to Paradise is historical "ction at its However, he is tested to the limit a vanishing generation, as Charlie best, based on the true story of the as he uncovers a web of intrigue has to come to terms with a woman mass emigration from Wales to the involving St Olaf’s Church and an whom he loves but who can never uncharted lands of Patagonia 150 in$uential secret society. Hargla quite be his. Frederic Raphael has years ago when a pioneering spirit has created an unusual hero and written more than twenty-"ve novels was crucial. It includes a wealth of recreated a fascinating era of history and volumes of stories as well as characters brought vividly to life in a series of novels that succeed in works of non-"ction including two who populate this tale of battles transporting crime fans back in time. volumes of memoir. He is author against injustice, bitter rivalries Gripping and dark, it combines the of many screenplays including and the terrible forces of nature. At compelling narrative drive of Game Darling, for which he won an Oscar, its core is the story of one family’s of !rones with the history and Two for the Road, Stanley Kubrick’s quest to carve out a better life for suspense of the Cadfael Chronicles. Eyes Wide Shut and the acclaimed themselves and their descendants. #e second volume, Apothecary television series !e Glittering Prizes. ‘An epic tale of a little-known Melchior and Ghost of Rataskaevu ‘Such an intriguing novel, full of episode in Welsh history . . . Street, will follow in spring 2016. twists and turns and so fresh and compellingly told, and excellently ‘Hargla’s brilliant realism brings original’ – Jewish Chronicle written.’ – Sir Derek Jacobi medieval Tallinn vividly to life.’ 978-0-7206-1853-2 / PB / 224pp / 978-0-7206-1861-7 / PB / £10.99 / – Le Figaro £9.99 / June 2015 / available / RIGHTS: World 978-0-7206-1844-0 / PB / 288pp / RIGHTS: English x UK £9.99 / October 2015 / RIGHTS: English x UK 9 SHUSAKU ENDO

Shusaku Endo Shusaku Endo Shusaku Endo Silence The Sea and Poison Wonderful Fool Translated from the Japanese by Translated from the Japanese by Translated from the Japanese by William Johnston Michael Gallagher Francis Mathy New limited cloth edition of the best- PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC selling novel with a foreword by the First Modern Classic edition of Endo’s The story of a trusting but hapless acclaimed ﬁlm director Martin Scorsese powerful wartime novel Frenchman in Tokyo In Silence, generally regarded as the !is haunting novel delineates the Wonderful Fool is the story of Gaston author’s greatest novel – currently personal disintegration of a Japanese Bonaparte, a young Frenchman who being "lmed by Hollywood "lm- doctor compelled to participate in comes to stay with his pen-friend maker Martin Scorsese – Shusaku the vivisection of prisoners of war. Takamori in Japan’s capital city. Endo tells the story of two He remains obsessed by feelings Gaston is a trusting person with seventeenth-century missionaries of horror and guilt, reliving his a simple love of others even after attempting to shore up the oppressed experiences as a young medic in a they have demonstrated deceit or Japanese Christian community. wartime hospital. !ere the senior betrayal. His appearance is a deep Father Rodrigues has come to Japan sta# members induce him to assist at disappointment, and his behaviour to "nd the truth behind unthinkable a vivisection during which the doctor causes acute embarrassment to rumours that his famous teacher in charge – married to a German Takamori and his friends, as his Ferreira has renounced his faith. woman – refuses to give cocaine as guest spends his time not sightseeing But after his arrival he discovers that an analgesic to an American victim but making friends with street the only way to help the brutally he declines to regard as a patient. children, stray dogs, prostitutes and persecuted Christians may be to Endo, a Catholic, was perhaps, at the gangsters. Master storyteller Shusaku apostatize himself. Endo, himself a time of "rst UK publication in 1972, Endo charts his misadventures with Catholic, was several times shortlisted the "rst major Japanese novelist to sharp irony, satire and humanity. for the Nobel Prize for Literature. confront the problem of individual responsibility during wartime. ‘Endo’s vision of Gaston as a ‘One of the "nest historical novels Christ-like "gure is funny and written by anyone anywhere’ – ‘Describes war and its e!ect on moving.’ – Sunday Times David Mitchell the personality as eloquently as anything I have read’ – Irish Times 978-0-7206-1320-9 / PB / 240pp / 978-0-7206-1448-0 / HB / 314pp / £9.95 / available / £14.95 / Autumn 2015/ RIGHTS: English 978-0-7206-1685-9 / PB / 168pp / RIGHTS: English x UK, NAm (cased edition only) BC x UK, USA £10.99 / October 2015 / RIGHTS: English x UK, NAm

SHUSAKU ENDO 1923–1996 In 1971 British publisher Peter Owen discovered the Catholic author Shusaku Endo, a writer then little known outside Japan. They met, and Owen published in translation his novel The Sea and Poison, which dealt with the vivisection of US prisoners of war in a Japanese hospital. The two formed an enduring personal friendship, and Endo appointed the publisher his international agent. The company brought out English-languages editions of a number of his acclaimed novels – many of which include characters struggling with complex moral dilemmas – and they were translated into dozens of languages all over the world. One of these was Silence, Endo’s masterpiece, which deals with the persecution of seventeenth-century Christians in Japan and which is now being ﬁlmed by Martin Scorsese. The writer was a Nobel Prize candidate several times, but perhaps because his books were sometimes10 critical of Japanese society he failed to receive the award. Endo’s work has sometimes been compared to that of another famous Catholic writer, Graham Greene, who wrote, ‘Endo, to my mind, is one of the ﬁnest novelists.’ RECENT AND REPRINT FICTION

Alek Popov Tarjei Vesaas Tarjei Vesaas The Black Box The Bridges The Seed Translated from the Bulgarian by Translated from the Norwegian by Translated from the Norwegian by Daniella and Charles Edward Gill Elizabeth Rokkan Kenneth G. Chapman de Mayol de Lupe Published for the ﬁrst time in the Peter Published for the ﬁrst time in the Peter A black comedy by the author of Owen Modern Classics series Owen Modern Classics series Mission London PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC In 1990 two Bulgarian brothers, From the author of !e Ice Palace, In !e Seed Tarjei Vesaas explores Ned and Angel, receive an unusual !e Bridges describes the changing the themes of violence and guilt. A package, a black plastic box relationships between three maniac visiting an island murders a containing the ashes of their late adolescents – an unmarried mother girl. He is pursued by the islanders father, a professor allowed out of who has drowned her newborn and killed by the victim’s brother. communist Bulgaria to teach in child and the girl and boy who Too late, the avengers become the USA during the 1980s. !e befriend her. !eir individual aware of their own guilt, with its brothers are left with a nagging reactions to the tragedy and their attendant mutual mistrust, and sense that something is wrong. e#orts to communicate with each they attempt to expiate their crime. Since neither of them has seen the other form the central theme of Vesaas’s graphic evocation of nature corpse they start to doubt whether the narrative. As strange, unsettling and the parallels he draws between their father is dead. But if his death and memorable as the author’s the violence of savage animals and had been faked, why? Fifteen years best-known work of "ction !e humanity make this a book of later, as they forge new and very Ice Palace, this remarkable novel unusual distinction. di#erent lives (Ned a management carries all the compassion, human ‘Immensely powerful’ – Guardian consultant, Angel a dogwalker to the insight and lyrical power of a great rich) in New York, answers begin Scandinavian novel. 978-0-7206-1638-5 / PB /156pp / to emerge . . . A darkly comic tale £9.99 / available / ‘A writer of rare imaginative of disillusionment, !e Black Box RIGHTS: English x UK explores the nature and logic of the vitality’ – New York Times

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Isabelle Eberhardt Hermann Hesse Yukio Mishima In the Shadow of Islam Peter Camenzind Confessions of a Mask Translated from the French by Translated from the German by Translated from the Japanese by Sharon Bangert W.J. Strachan Meredith Weatherby PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC An extraordinary evocation of North The autobiographical novel that The autobiographical novel regarded Africa and its people at the turn of the secured its author’s literary reputation as the author’s ﬁnest book twentieth century Peter Camenzind is an introverted !is is the haunting story of a In 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, peasant boy who becomes a student Japanese boy’s progression towards aged twenty, left Geneva for the at Zurich University. He seems a homosexual identity during Moroccan frontier. Gripped by destined for a minor academic and after the Second World spiritual restlessness and the desire career, yet he does not choose this War. Detailing his emotional to break free from the con"nements path, instead seeking enlightenment development from an isolated of her society she travelled dressed and self-knowledge in travel and childhood through adolescence to as a man into the desert and worldly pleasures. But this salvation manhood, including an abortive into the ‘heart of Islam’. Her proves hard to attain, and it is not love a#air with a classmate’s sister, experiences inspired a profound self- until he returns to his home village it powerfully conveys the inner life examination, and In the Shadow of to care for his dying father that he of the boy and his preoccupation Islam is today regarded as one of the can "nd the path that leads back to with death. One of Peter Owen’s true classics of travel writing. himself. most enduring bestsellers, this new edition of Mishima’s classic attests to ‘A compelling narrative’ – ‘Liberating, "ercely undated, the power of its enduring themes of Nicola Walker, Times Literary inimitable’ – Guardian fantasy, despair and alienation. Supplement 978-0-7206-1683-5 / PB / 176pp / ‘Terri"c and astringent beauty 978-0-7206-1587- 6/ PB / 126pp / £9.99 / October 2015 / . . . A work of art’ – Times Literary £9.99 / available / RIGHTS: English BC x UK, USA RIGHTS: English x UK Supplement

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12 Cesare Pavese Joseph Roth Tarjei Vesaas Among Women Only Flight Without End The Ice Palace Translated from the Italian by Translated from the German by Translated from the Norwegian by D.D. Paige David Le Vay Elizabeth Rokkan PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC A masterpiece by the one of the A masterly novel exploring the New edition of the masterpiece by the three-times Nobel Prize nominee greatest Italian writers of the twentieth fate of a displaced wanderer in the century aftermath of war. Written in Paris Siss and Unn are new friends – so Clelia, a successful couturier, returns in 1927, this is perhaps the most new that they have spent only from Rome to Turin, where she personal of Joseph Roth’s novels. It one whole evening in each other’s spent her youth in poverty, to open is the story of a young ex-o%cer of company. But so profound was that a fashionable salon at the end of the Austro-Hungarian army in the evening that when Unn inexplicably the Second World War. Here she 1914–18 war who makes his way disappears Siss’s world is shattered. is drawn into a nihilistic circle of back from captivity in Siberia and Her struggle with her "delity to the young hedonists, including the service with the Bolshevik Army memory of her friend, the strange charismatic Rosetta, whose suicide only to "nd that the old order which frozen world of a winter waterfall at the end of the novel tragically had shaped him has crumbled and and the description of Unn’s fatal foreshadows that of Cesare Pavese that there is no place for him in the exploration of the ‘ice palace’ just months after publication. new world that has taken its place. are described in prose of a lyrical Awarded Italy’s most prestigious Everywhere – in his dealings with economy that ranks among the most literary award, the Strega Prize, it is family, with society, with women – memorable achievements of modern one of his most widely read works he "nds himself an outsider, both literature. attracted to and repelled by the of "ction. ‘Flawless’ – Gabriel Gbademesi, values of the old world yet unable to BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read ‘Insinuating, haunting and accept the new. lyrically pervasive’ – New York 978-0-7206-1329-2 / PB / 176pp / Times Book Review ‘Roth wrote magni"cently about £9.99 /available / the great issues of his century.’ – RIGHTS: English x UK 978-0-7206-1449-7 / PB /206pp / Sunday Telegraph £10.99 / October 2015 / RIGHTS: English x UK 978-0-7206-1678-1 / PB / 144pp / £9.99 / October 2015 / RIGHTS: English x UK

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Iván Sándor Johanna Sinisalo Alexei Nikitin Legacy The Blood of Angels Istemi Translated from the Hungarian by Translated from the Finnish by Translated from the Russian by Tim Wilkinson Lola Rogers Anne Marie Jackson Iván Sándor’s haunting An electrifying vision of ecological An exploration of the curious banality autobiographical novel meltdown from the author of at the heart of a paranoid totalitarian Not Before Sundown and Birdbrain state A Jewish man recalls the dying days of the Nazi occupation of Hungary A Finnish beekeeper, devastated by Brilliantly revealing how a seemingly as the Germans and Hungarian the recent death of his eco-warrior innocent pursuit can have far- fascists speed up their deportation son, "nds two of his hives deserted reaching e#ects, Istemi is a wildly of Jews while the Red Army closes and begins to fear that inventive novel examining the in on Budapest. !e narrator, then colony-collapse disorder, the contradictions of totalitarianism. fourteen years old, comes under the sudden mass disappearance of bees, As the USSR enters its "nal decade, protection of the legendary Swiss has reached Scandinavia. Soon a group of Kiev science students vice-consul in Budapest, Carl Lutz, afterwards he makes a mystical and devise a strategy game. Alerted to who saved thousands of Hungarian frightening discovery, a pathway to the subversive nature and Ukrainian Jews from the death camps. Decades a parallel world. He understands nationalism inherent in this on, the narrator tries to make this is connected somehow with the pursuit, the KGB pulls them in for sense of his own past, that of his bees’ disappearance and begins to questioning. Once released they country and to learn more about the wonder if this portal could reunite become marked individuals whose man – accused after the war by his him with his dead son and help him lives are overtaken by wider events own government of exceeding his escape the ecological destruction of – including a hellish tour of duty authority in Hungary – who risked the earth. A hallucinatory plunge in Afghanistan, incarceration in an his own life to protect him and into a terrifying future, this latest asylum and mindless bureaucratic countless others. fantasy by the acclaimed author of drudgery. Twenty years on, one of Not Before Sundown (a.k.a Troll: the group, Davidov, a.k.a. Istemi, Winner of an English PEN Award A Love Story) and Birdbrain warns receives an email with a familiar Legacy is a multi-faceted literary of human blindness in the face of ultimatum attached . . . devastation. monument.’ – Frankfurter ‘Entertaining and apparently Allgemeine Zeitung Winner of an English PEN Award simple, this book plays out in 978-0-7206-1571-5 / PB / 288pp / ‘A gorgeous heartbreaking tale of surprising ways with brilliant £15.99 / available / three generations of men trying nuances.’ – Time Out (St RIGHTS: English x UK to de"ne their relationship with Petersburg)

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‘Miller’s intricate fictions are lit by the dark flicker of a strong and original imagination.’ – Hilary Mantel

Miloš Urban Miranda Miller Joseph Roth Lord Mord The Fairy Visions of Perlefter: The Story of a Translated from the Czech by Richard Dadd Bourgeois Gerald Turner Second in the Bedlam Trilogy of novels Translated from the German by Richard Panchyk A gripping thriller from one of the Set in London’s Bethlem Hospital, Czech Republic’s ﬁnest contemporary known as Bedlam, where the author First English-language edition storytellers left her heroine at the end of Nina Alexander Perlefter is a well-to- From the author of the international in Utopia, Miranda Miller’s second do Austrian Jewish urbanite with bestseller !e Seven Churches comes novel in the Bedlam Trilogy shifts whom the narrator, his relative a Gothic thriller set in Habsburg to the famous Victorian painter Naphthali Kroj, has come to live. Prague. Addie, Count Arco, is a Richard Dadd, who was con"ned to In the Perlefter household Kroj degenerate aristocrat who rails the mental hospital after murdering "nds a colourful cast of characters, against the modernization and his father. Haunted by fairies, his and he watches with amusement as destruction of the old city and who father and the Egyptian god Osiris, Perlefter tries to advance his career, becomes increasingly embroiled in he is taken under the wing of Dr marry o# his children and fend the tensions between the Czechs, the Hood, who gives the artist a room o# a newly arrived distant cousin, German authorities and the city’s to use as a studio, where he starts the brusque ex-wrestler Leo Bidak. Jews. Meanwhile he discovers that to produce his best work. Dadd Found among Joseph Roth’s papers an apparently mythological monster soon "nds himself in 21st-century long after his death, Perlefter reveals in human form, Klein$eisch, is London where he encounters his the internationally acclaimed author stalking the streets looking for contemporary, Nina, and glimpses at the peak of his powers and is an blood. A rollercoaster ride of his most celebrated fairy painting on important addition to the canon mystery, horror and psychological the walls of Tate Britain . . . of the writer’s work translated into investigation, Lord Mord is a English. compelling read by the writer ‘Miller’s intricate "ctions are lit dubbed ‘the dark knight of Czech by the dark $icker of a strong and ‘Roth is a very "ne writer indeed.’ literature’. original imagination.’ – Hilary – Angela Carter Mantel ‘#e Czech Republic’s answer to 978-0-7206-1487-9 / PB / 144pp / Umberto Eco’ – Radio Prague 978-0-7206-1503-6 / PB / 272pp / £12.99 / available / £12.99 / available / RIGHTS: English x UK 978-0-7206-1496-1 / PB / 304pp / RIGHTS: World £14.99 / available/ RIGHTS: English x UK

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PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSICS Currently numbering around ninety titles, the Peter Owen Modern Classics series, started in 1998, brings together many of the greatest names from our backlist, including Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA, Guillaume APOLLINAIRE, Machado de ASSIS, Blaise CENDRARS, Marc Marc Chagall Jean Cocteau CHAGALL, Jean COCTEAU, My Life My Contemporaries COLETTE, Lawrence DURRELL, Isabelle EBERHARDT, Shusaku Translated from the French by Translated from the French by Dorothy Williams Margaret Crosland ENDO, Jean GIONO, Alfred HAYES, Hermann HESSE, Anna PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC KAVAN, Violette LEDUC, Yukio A unique document in twentieth- Intimate portraits of some of Cocteau’s MISHIMA, Anaïs NIN, Boris century literature with illustrations by fellow artists, with illustrations by the PASTERNAK, Cesare PAVESE, the artist author Mervyn PEAKE, Marcel PROUST, Completed in 1922, this is a key For almost "fty years, up until his Joseph ROTH, Cora SANDEL, work in Chagall studies for the death in 1963, Jean Cocteau held a Edith SITWELL, Gertrude STEIN unique place in French cultural life. and Tarjei VESAAS. light it throws on the shaping of the artist’s creative genius. His deep !e breadth of his artistic success roots in Jewish tradition – religious bears witness to the astounding and secular – are re$ected in these variety of his talents. In the "elds recollections of his poverty-stricken of theatre, cinema, art, ballet and youth in Witebsk, Belarus, to his literature he made many lifelong time in Paris before the outbreak of friends and was drawn to larger-than- teh First World War. life or seemingly unreal characters. In descriptions of his contemporaries ‘Anyone who likes Chagall’s he illustrates everything that is paintings will enjoy this book: the accessible, sympathetic, memorable, work of an unteachable, unspoiled durable, all-pervading or dazzling folk artist.’ – Evening Standard about them. Ranging from the 978-0-7206-1356-8 / PB /172pp / moving and atmospheric (the dying £10.99 / available Proust in his cork-lined chamber) to the hilariously camp (Colette being carried from her apartment by sedan chair to have lunch across the road), it is in these portraits that the essence of Cocteau’s own work can be found. ‘Delightful, brilliant, witty, chic and profound. Colette, Piaf, Sachs, Proust, Appollinaire et al. are presented for a few brief moments like characters coming to life at the footlights.’ – Irish Times

978-07206-1258-5 / PB / 144pp / £9.99 / available 16 Jean Cocteau Alfred Hayes Hermann Hesse Le Livre Blanc In Love Journey to the East Translated from the French by PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC Translated from the German by Hilda Margaret Crosland With a foreword by Frederic Raphael Rosner and with a foreword by Tony Wheeler PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC Reﬂections on a doomed love affair; a Cocteau’s plea for tolerance towards classic examination of heartbreak PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC homosexuality Hesse’s legendary allegorical novel In a Manhattan bar, some time in Le Livre Blanc was "rst published the &'()s, a middle- aged man tells !is is the history of a journey anonymously in France in the a young woman on an adjacent bar undertaken by a secretive group 1920s and was immediately decried stool the story of his latest love a#air, called the League. It is written by by critics as obscene. However, it a relationship full of misplaced lust one H.H., the group’s storyteller is now recognized as a classic of and misunderstood emotion. It was and choirmaster, now an old and gay literature and has since been a mostly erratic a#air – downbeat, weak man who has never recovered reissued under Cocteau’s own dysfunctional and on the brink of from the failure of the journey and name. !e semi-autobiographical sinking without a trace – until the the disintegration of the League. As narrative describes a youth’s love intervention of an unscrupulous H.H. struggles to string together his a#airs with a succession of boys millionaire. !e ensuing turmoil fragmented memory of the expedition and men during the early years of will be recognizable to anyone who he reveals the existence of a fantastical, the twentieth century. !e young has fallen into – and then out of – alluring and deeply intimate world in man’s self-deceptive attempts to "nd love, and the novel is as much an which a journey can cross not only ful"lment, "rst through women indictment of love as an elegy to it, the boundaries of time and space but and then by way of the Church, are an examination of heartbreak rather those of fact and "ction. It is towards movingly conveyed, and the book than the heart itself. the end of this beguiling novel, ends with a powerful and heartfelt however, that Hesse brings his greatest plea for the acceptance of male ‘Flawless, a perfectly cut gem.’ – moral and philosophical powers to homosexuality. Illustrated by the Frederic Raphael bear as he examines faith, cowardice author. ‘Strange, unsettling, cynical and and the relationship between an artist and his or her creation, demonstrating ‘An appealingly unhealthy blend sad . . . a masterpiece.’ – !e Times why the Nobel prize-winner’s appeal of pure style and impure thoughts ‘A noirish masterpiece which is so universal. and sleek art nouveau descriptions.’ combines a plot that pre"gures – Edmund White, Independent Indecent Proposal with the ‘Hesse’s simplicity belies galaxies of knowledge in motion – history, ‘A wonderful book’ – Gay Times desolate milieu of an Edward Hopper painting.’ – Guardian theology, psychology, philosophy. 978-07206-1512-8 / PB / 80pp / Rilke, T.S. Eliot, Gide, #omas £9.99 / available ‘A brilliantly reduced masterpiece.’ Mann rightly called Hesse a – Independent master.’ – Life

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Hermann Hesse Anna Kavan Gertrude Stein Narcissus and Goldmund Ice Paris, France Translated from the German by With a foreword by Christopher Priest PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC Leila Vennewitz and with a foreword PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC Stein’s homage to literary experiment by Graham Coxon Kavan’s last work, Ice is now and to her adopted city PETER OWEN MODERN CLASSIC recognized as a unique classic of Published on the day that Paris Hesse’s classic tale of the multi-faceted twentieth-century fantasy fell to the Germans during the nature of human identity In this haunting and surreal novel, Second World War, Paris, France Narcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, the narrator and a man known as blends Gertrude Stein’s childhood a monastery in medieval Germany, ‘the warden’ search for an elusive girl memories of Paris with trenchant and Goldmund his favourite pupil. in a frozen, seemingly post-nuclear, observations about everything While Narcissus remains detached apocalyptic landscape. !e country French. !is is a witty fricassée of from the world in prayer and has been invaded and is being food and fashion, pets and painters, meditation, Goldmund runs away governed by a secret organization. musicians, friends and artists, served from the monastery in pursuit of !ere is destruction everywhere; up with a healthy garnish of Steinian love. !ereafter he lives a picaresque great walls of ice overrun the world. humour and self-indulgence. For wanderer’s life, his amatory Together with the narrator, the those who previously considered adventures resulting in pain as well reader is swept into a hallucinatory Stein to be a di%cult or even as ecstasy. His eventual reunion quest for the strange and fragile unreadable author it provides a with Narcissus brings into focus the creature with albino hair. delightful window on her personal diversity between artist and thinker, and unique world. Dionysian and Apollonian. One of ‘Anna Kavan created a uniquely Hesse’s greatest novels, Narcissus and fascinating "ctional world. Few ‘Witty and delicious’ – Sunday Goldmund is a landmark work of novelists could match the intensity Times of her vision.’ – J.G. Ballard twentieth-century literature. 978-0-7206-1495-4 / PB / 120pp / £9.99 / available ‘One of his masterpieces . . . 978-0-7206-1268-4 / PB / 170pp / without doubt a great novel’ – £9.99/ available / RIGHTS: World x UK, French, Observer Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, 978-0-7206-1291-2 / PB / 256pp / Spanish £11.99 / available / RIGHTS: English x UK, NAm

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Akutagawa, Ryonusuke Ashley, Mike (Ed.) Baydar, Oya Kappa The Darker Sex: Tales of the The Lost Word New edition of the Japanese classic Supernatural and the Macabre An unforgettablel novel of love and by Victorian Women Writers 978-0-7206-1337-7 / POMC / £9.99 politics from one of Turkey’s finest Period ghost stories by established contemporary writers. women authors. ‘An extraordinary book that Ambrose, Tom ‘A magni"cent collection’ – BBC eloquently explores the nature of Mad, Bad and Dangerous: Radio 4 armed con$ict’ – Independent The Eccentricity of Tyrants 978-0-7206-1335-3 / PB / £9.99 978-0-7206-1347-6 / PB / £10.99 An absorbing survey of how power corrupts Ashley, Mike Peter J. Beer The Dreaming Sex: Tales of 978-0-7206-1447-3 / PB / £14.99 The Playboy Princes: The Scientific Wonder and Dread Apprentice Years of Edward Ambrose, Tom by Victorian Women Writers VII and Edward VIII Prinny and His Pals: George The first anthology of vintage science- A compelling portrait of two Princes IV and His Remarkable Gift of fiction and fantasy writing by women of Wales Friendship 978-0-7206-1354-4 / PB / £9.99 978-0-7206-1590-6 / PB / £15.99 New light on the private and public life of the Georgian Prince Regent Ashley, Mike Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 978-0-7206-1326-1 / PB / £14.99 Sisters in Crime: Early Jacques-Henri Detective and Mystery Stories Paul and Virginia Ambrose, Tom by Women Godfather of the Revolution: Crime and detective fiction by Victorian First published in 1788, this is the The Life of Philippe Égalité, and Edwardian authors classic tale of naïve love that inspired the film The Blue Lagoon Duc d’Orléans 978-0-7206-1518-0 / PB / £12.99 The extraordinary life of the aristocrat 978-0-7206-1231-8 / PB / £9.95 who bankrolled the French Revolution Aspinall, J.B. 978-0-7206-1301-8 / PB / £13.95 Sycorax Bolt, David A tale of witchcraft and retribution in The New Author’s Handbook Ambrose, Tom fourteenth-century Yorkshire as seen An authoritative guide to getting one’s Hitler’s Loss through the eyes of a penitent monk book published An absorbing study of the 978-0-7206-1278-3 / PB / £11.95 978-0-7206-1101-4 / PB / £12.50 achievements of Jewish émigrés who fled Nazi Germany Assis, Machado de Bradford, Richard 978-0-7206-1107-6 / HB / £17.95 The Wager First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin ‘It is not enough to say that he is Amicis, Eduardo de an important American novelist; Revealing study of the life and work of Cuore he is one of the masters in either the brilliant but controversial poet The classic fictional account of hemisphere.’ – New York Times 978-0-7206-1325-4 / PB / £12.99 childhood in Turin; still regarded as 978-0-7206-1230-1 / POMC / £9.95 required reading in Italian schools Bradford, Richard 978-0-7206-1232-5 / PB / £9.95 Barnes, Nigel The Life of a Long-Distance A Dream Within a Dream: The Writer: A Biography of Alan Apollinaire, Guillaume Life of Edgar Allan Poe Sillitoe Les Onze Mille Verges Revealing new biography of the Authorized biography of one of the ‘It will be di%cult to deny tortured Gothic writer great British post-war writers the work its status as serious 978-0-7206-1322-3 / PB / £14.99 literature.’ – Times Literary 978-0-7206-1317-9 / HB / £25 Supplement 978-0-7206-1100-7 / POMC / £9.95 19 STOCKLIST

Bradford, Richard Cendrars, Blaise Cocteau, Jean Lucky Him: The Life of Confessions of Dan Yack Le Livre Blanc Kingsley Amis ‘A beautifully written work, ‘An appealingly unhealthy blend ‘An original and stimulating book’ memorable, compelling and of pure style and impure thoughts’ – Martin Amis superbly translated’ – Sunday – Edmund White Telegraph 978-0-7206-1117-5 / HB / £22.50 978-0-7206-1512-8 / POMC / £9.99 978-0-7206-1158-8 / POMC / £8.95 Braithwaite, Brian Cocteau, Jean The Press Book: Adventures Cendrars, Blaise The Miscreant and Misadventures in Print Gold ‘Cocteau’s famous novel was a Media ‘Wise, weird and poignant . . . bible to avant-garde intellectuals Sixty years of Fleet Street’s history a wonderful modernist fable’ – of the 1920s.’ – Elizabeth Bowen Newsweek 978-0-7206-1332-9 / PB / £13.99 978-0-7206-1173-1 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-1175-5 / POMC / £8.95 Cade, Jared Cocteau, Jean Agatha Christie and the Eleven Cendrars, Blaise Opium: The Diary of His Cure Missing Days To the End of the World The literary and cinematic legend The truth behind the much-disputed ‘Zola in overdrive, chaos worthy gives his no-holds-barred account of a disappearance of the feted crime writer of Bulgakov . . . Blaise Cendrars dangerous addiction in 1926 is one of Europe’s most original 978-0-7206-1511-1 / PB / £12.99 978-0-7206-1390-2 / PB / £16.99 comic experimentalists.’ – Irish Times Cocteau, Jean Cairns, Adrian 978-0-7206-1097-0 / POMC / £9.95 Thomas the Impostor The Making of the Professional ‘Exciting in its mixture of fantasy, Actor Chagall, Marc horror and hilarity’ – Stevie Smith An invaluable primer for aspiring My Life actors 978-0-7206-1252-3 / POMC / £8.95 Autobiography of the celebrated artist 978-0-7206-1002-4 / HB / £25 978-0-7206-1356-8 / POMC / Colette £10.99 Duo and Le Toutounier Carling, Finn Diary for a Dead Husband ‘#ese two linked novels are Choisy, Abbé de drenched with her talent at its A woman looks back on her marriage Transvestite Memoirs in this compelling novel best.’ – Sunday Times Memoirs of the courtier and abbott 978-0-7206-1037-6 / HB / £14.99 whose cross-dressing brought him into 978-0-7206-1069-7 / POMC / £9.95 conﬂict with French society in the late Cendrars, Blaise seventeenth century Colette The Astonished Man 978-0-7206-1256-1 / PB / £8.95 Retreat from Love Rip-roaring autobiography by the ‘#e realization that Colette was great modernist Close, Lesley and Jo a major literary talent is apparent 978-0-7206-1210-3 / PB / £11.95 Cartwright (Eds) on every page.’ – Irish Times Assisted Dying: Who Makes 978-0-7206-1227-1 / POMC / £9.95 the Final Decision? Cendrars, Blaise Inﬂuential contributors argue the case Dan Yack Collins, Wilkie for greater choice at the end of life; ‘A jazz-age super-cocktail, Sensation Stories with a foreword by Sir Terry Pratchett a swirling cauldron of the Tales of mystery and suspense by the outrageous, orgiastic and surreal’ 978-0-7206-1014-7 / PB / £15.99 author of The Woman in White – Guardian 978-0-7206-1220-2 / PB / £12.50 978-0-7206-1157-1 / POMC / £9.95

20 Colquhoun, Ithell Davis, John Paul Druzhnikov, Yuri Goose of Hermogenes Pity for the Guy: A Biography Madonna from Russia A hugely original fantasy novel from of Guy Fawkes The picaresque tale of 96-year-old Lily the celebrated surrealist painter A non-partisan portrait of the man Bourbon, a former Russian streetwalker 978-0-7206-1177-9 / PB / £9.95 known to history as the instigator of the who, through a string of successful notorious Gunpowder Plot marriages, becomes the USSR’s Poet 978-0-7206-1349-0 / PB / £14.99 Laureate and ends living it up in the Corson, Richard USA Fashions in Eyeglasses Davis, Jean Paul 978-0-7206-1255-4 / HB / £15.95 A highly illustrated survey of eyewear Robin Hood: The Unknown from the fourteenth century to the Templar Druzhnikov, Yuri present day Controversial new theory about the Passport to Yesterday 978-0-7206-1318-6 / HB / £55.00 famous outlaw Moving novel about an exiled Soviet 978-0-7206-1339-1 / PB / £14.99 musician who finds himself back in his homeland and drawn to his home Corson, Richard town – and the secret of his father’s Fashions in Hair de la Noy, Michael disappearance during the Second Five thousand years of the history of The King Who Never Was World War hairstyles; profusely illustrated Biography of the ill-fated Frederick, 978-0-7206-1218-9 / HB / £15.95 978-0-7206-1093-2 / HB / £69.99 Prince of Wales 978-0-7206-0981-3 / HB / £22.50 Druzhnikov, Yuri Corson, Richard Pushkin’s Second Wife and Fashions in Makeup Dickens, Charles (Peter Other Micronovels Illustrated and comprehensive history Haining, Ed.) Short fiction from one of the great of facial makeup to the present day Hunted Down: The Detective Russian writers of recent times Stories of Charles Dickens 978-0-7206-1195-3 / HB / £65 978-0-7206-1300-1 / PB / £11.95 An anthology of the Victorian author’s masterly crime fiction Crosland, Margaret Duggan, Josephine Sade’s Wife 978-0-7206-1000-0 / PB / £9.99 Sophia of Hanover: From A moving and illuminating biography Winter Princess to Heiress of of the notorious Marquis’s little-known Diederich, Bernard Great Britain, 1630–1713 spouse Seeds of Fiction: Graham Biography based on the memoirs and Greene’s Adventures in Haiti 978-0-7206-0958-5 / HB / £16.50 letters of James I’s granddaughter and and Central America 1954– George I’s mother 1983 Dalager, Stig 978-0-7206-1342-1 / PB / £14.99 How the novelist Graham Greene Journey in Blue found renewed literary inspiration A novel based on the life and death of during his travels Durant, David N. Hans Christian Andersen Bess of Hardwick Portrait of 978-0-7206-1488-6 / PB / £14.99 an Elizabethan Dynast 978-0-7206-1269-1 / PB / £13.50 The biography of the second most Dobles, Fabián powerful woman in Elizabethan Dalí, Salvador Years Like Brief Days England Hidden Faces An old man returns to his home village, 978-0-7206-1078-9 / HB / £13.95 The only novel by the legendary evoking difficult, sometimes farcical, surrealist; illustrated memories of his boyhood Durant, David N. 978-0-7206-1139-7 / PB / £13.50 978-0-7206-0987-5 / HB / £14.95 The Smythson Circle: The Story of Six Great English Houses Davis, John Paul Druzhnikov, Yuri The story of Smythson, creator of some The Gothic King: A Biography Angels on the Head of a Pin of England’s finest stately homes – of Henry III The contemporary Russian classic: including Longleat, Chatsworth and The story of Bad King John’s long- a samizdat document arrives at a Hardwick Halls reigning son Soviet newspaper headquarters, with 978-0-7206-1344-5 / PB / £14.99 978-0-7206-1480-0 / PB / £15.99 unimaginable consequences 978-0-7206-1170-0 / HB / £17.95 21 STOCKLIST

Eberhardt, Isabelle Endo, Shusaku Evelyn Farr In the Shadow of Islam The Samurai Marie-Antoinette and Count ‘An ideal starting point from Novel exploring seventeenth-century Fersen: The Untold Love Story which to discover more about Catholicism in Japan Expanded edition of the acclaimed Eberhardt’s picaresque life’ – 978-0-7206-1353-7 / POMC / £8.99 study of the affair between the French Nicola Walker, Times Literary queen and the Swedish count Supplement Endo, Shusaku 978-0-7206-1001-7 / PB / £14.99 978-0-7206-1191-5 / POMC / £9.95 Scandal ‘Endo’s most remarkable novel Freund, Philip Eberhardt, Isabelle . . . a superb dramatic triumph’ – The Birth of Theatre The Oblivion Seekers Independent The first volume in the ‘Stage by Stage’ series, covering prehistory and the This is a collection of Eberhardt’s 978-0-7206-1241-7 / POMC / £9.95 stories of life in North Africa where she classical drama of Greece and Rome travelled dressed as a man 978-0-7206-1167-0 / HB / £35 Endo, Shusaku 978-0-7206-1338-4 / PB / £7.99 Silence Freund, Philip ‘One of the "nest historical novels Oriental Theatre Sergei Eisenstein written by anyone, anywhere . . . Immoral Memories: An Flawless’ – David Mitchell The second volume in the ‘Stage Autobiography by Stage’ series, exploring the The life of the influential Soviet film- Soon to appear as a feature film by development of Eastern stagecraft maker. ‘Invaluable as an account of Martin Scorsese 978-0-7206-1208-X / HB / £40 the cinema’ – Peter Ackroyd, Sunday 978-0-7206-1448-0 / HB / £14.95 Times Freund, Philip 978-0-7206-1557-9 / PB / £25.00 Endo, Shusaku Dramatis Personae Stained Glass Elegies The third volume in the ‘Stage by Endo, Shusaku Short stories from one of Japan’s Stage’ series traces the history of Deep River greatest twentieth-century writers medieval and Renaissance drama Indian-set novel by the Japanese writer, 978-0-7206-0629-4 / HB / £14.95 978-0-7206-1245-5 / HB / £45 exploring faith and devotion 978-0-7206-0920-2 / HB / £15.95 Endo, Shusaku Freund, Philip Volcano Laughter and Grandeur Endo, Shusaku The story of two elderly men whose The fourth volume in the ‘Stage by The Final Martyrs fates are linked and symbolized by the Stage’ series looks at theatre in the Short stories from the master storyteller volcano Akadake; a moving depiction Age of the Baroque of the trials of old age 978-0-7206-0870-0 / HB / £14.99 978-0-7206-1298-1 / HB / £40 978-0-7206-1430-5 / POMC / £9.99

Endo, Shusaku Freund, Philip The Girl I Left Behind Endo, Shusaku Myths of Creation When I Whistle A businessmen gets involved with a girl Classic study exploring mythology, from his past An exploration of traditional and religious belief and scientiﬁc theories modern values on the origins of the universe 978-0-7206-0932-5 / HB / £14.99 978-0-7206-1437-4 / POMC / £9.99 978-0-7206-1202-8 / HB / £14.95 Endo, Shusaku The Golden Country Endo, Shusaku Friedman, Dennis Wonderful Fool Behind the Façade: A Play covering similar themes to the Psychiatrist’s View author’s classic novel Silence ‘Everything I have read of Endo’s is memorable. He never disappoints.’ – True-life case studies from the 978-0-7206-0758-1 / HB / £14.50 Anthony Thwaite psychiatrist’s couch 978-0-7206-1320-9 / POMC / £9.99 978-0-7206-1489-3 / PB / £11.99

22 Friedman, Dennis Goring, Rosemary Hall, Sarah M. Inheritance: A Psychological Return to Patagonia Before Leonard: The Early History of the Royal Family Autobiographical account of British Suitors of Virginia Woolf A psychiatrist’s analysis of the marital author’s return to her childhood home The fascinating story of Virginia and emotional problems besetting the on an Argentinian farm Woolf’s early lovers British Royal Family past and present 978-0-7206-1260-8 / PB / £12.95 978-0-7206-1222-6 / HB / £22.50 978-0-7206-1594-4 / PB / £14.99 Green, Angela Hardy, Barbara Friedman, Dennis Cassandra’s Disk Particularities: Readings in Ladies of the Bedchamber: The Story of two competitive and talented George Eliot Role of the Royal Mistress twins as recounted by the ugly sister on A perceptive analysis of Eliot’s ﬁction An absorbing survey of those who her deathbed by the acclaimed literary critic have shared their beds with the British 978-0-7206-1144-1 / PB / £10.95 978-0-7206-0661-4 / PB / £10.95 royals over the centuries

978-0-7206-1244-8 / PB / £10.95 Green, Angela Hardy, Barbara The Colour of Water Shakespeare’s Storytellers Dennis Friedman Based on the film Casablanca, this The noted scholar examines the Bard’s The Lonely Hearts Club absorbing novel follows its characters narratives and offers new insight into The author’s only novel is an after the end of the war his craft exploration of how a group of men 978-0-7206-1204-2 / PB / £11.95 978-0-7206-1053-6 / PB / £9.95 resolve physical and emotional problems of the heart Guinness, Patrick Indrek Hargla 978-0-7206-1489-3 / PB / £9.99 Arthur’s Round: The Life and Apothecary Melchior and the Times of Brewing Legend Mystery of St Olav’s Church Gide, André Arthur Guinness The first in the acclaimed Estonian Urien’s Voyage The extraordinary life and even more detective series set in fifteenth-century ‘Sensual and erotic, even decadent’ extraordinary business success of Tallinn – Discovering World History Ireland’s most famous son 978-0-7206-1844-0 / PB / £9.99 978-0-7206-1296-7 / PB / £13.95 978-0-7206-1216-5 / POMC / £8.95 Harris, Paul Haggard, H. Rider The Pantomime Book: The Giono, Jean Hunter Quatermain’s Story Only Known Collection The Man Who Planted Trees Collection of stories about the of Pantomime Jokes and The timeless and acclaimed ecological adventurer and original ‘great white Sketches in Captivity fable with striking woodcuts by Michael hunter’ A comprehensive history of this McCurdy 978-0-7206-1182-3 / PB / £12.50 much-loved art form 978-0-7206-1334-6 / PB / £6.95 978-0-7206-1319-3 / PB / £9.95 Haining, Peter (Ed.) Giono, Jean A Cat Compendium: The Hawkridge, Audrey To the Slaughterhouse Worlds of Louis Wain Jane and Her Gentlemen ‘One of the most terrible and moving novels of war to have been A striking collection of Louis Wain’s The private love life of Jane Austen, famous cat drawings featuring characters who would find written in our time’ – Listener 978-0-7206-1229-5 / HB / £11.50 their way into her fiction 978-0-7206-1212-7 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-1104-5 / HB / £18.95 Haining, Peter Giono, Jean Lassie: The Extraordinary Hayes, Alfred Two Riders of the Storm Story of Eric Knight and the In Love ‘It has a timeless fairytale quality ‘World’s Favourite Dog’ ‘Strange, unsettling, cynical and … #e writing is zestful and Illustrated story of the celebrated collie sad. It is a masterpiece.’ – !e broadly humorous, the philosophy dog Lassie and his creator Times that of a French D.H. Lawrence.’ – Sunday Times 978-0-7206-1267-7 / HB / £11.99 978-0- 7206-1294-3 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-1159-5 / POMC / £9.95 23 STOCKLIST

Hesse, Hermann Hesse, Hermann Rekha Kalindi Demian Siddhartha The Strength to Say No: One ‘Beautifully written, it has a Hesse’s classic allegorical tale of Girl’s Fight Against Forced seriousness as compelling as that enlightenment set during the time of Marriage of !e Waste Land . . . the work of the Buddha The true-life story of a young Indian a major writer’ – Observer 978-0-7206-1058-1 / HB / £14.95 girl whose principled stand inspired a nation 978-0-7206-1281-3 / POMC / £9.95 Hichens, Mark 978-0-7206-1792-4 / PB / £10.99 Hesse, Hermann Prime Ministers’ Wives – And Gertrude One Husband Jaan Kaplinski The Same River ‘It would be a pity to miss this An examination of the wives of British book – it has such a rare $avour premiers down the centuries – and The Nobel Prize nominee’s greatest of beauty and simplicity’ – Stevie Dennis Thatcher novel in translation. Smith 978-0-7206-1203-5 / HB / £18.95 ‘A new light in the European galaxy’ – Independent 978-0-7206-1169-4 / POMC / £9.95 Hichens, Mark 978-0-7206-1340-7 / PB / £9.99 Wives of the Kings of England: Hesse, Hermann From Hanover to Windsor The Journey to the East Kavan, Anna How the consorts of British monarchs Asylum Piece ‘A great writer . . . complex, subtle, are frequently the power behind the allusive’ – New York Times Book throne ‘Pervaded by a sense of intolerable Review oppression, lit by sudden shafts 978-0-7206-1276-9 / HB / £19.95 of delight in the natural world 978-0-7206-1305-6 / POMC / £7.99 . . . how she knew and rode her Hilton, Frank devils.’ – Guardian Hesse, Hermann Baudelaire in Chains 978-0-7206-1123-6 / POMC / £9.95 Narcissus and Goldmund Controversial biography of the French ‘One of his masterpieces . . . a poet – a portrait of the artist as a drug great novel’ – Observer addict Kavan, Anna A Charmed Circle 978-0-7206-1180-9 / HB / £22.50 978-0-7206-1291-2 / POMC / An early novel by the acclaimed author £11.99 involving a family marooned in a David Hunter country house Apollinaire in the Great War Hesse, Hermann 1914–18 978-0-7206-0941-7 / PB / £11.75 Peter Camenzind ‘A penetrating account of a young An intimate biography of the inﬂuential French poet’s life and loves during Kavan, Anna man trying to discover the nature Guilty of his creative talent’ – Times wartime Literary Supplement 978-0-7206-1792-4 / PB / £14.99 Lost classic charting a young man’s descent into paranoia when pitted 978-0-7206-1168-7 / POMC / £9.95 against faceless bureaucracy. Hussein, Abdullah The Weary Generations 978-0-7206-1287-5 / PB / £10.95 Hesse, Hermann Epic novel of Indian independence and The Prodigy Partition, focusing on the experiences Kavan, Anna ‘Written with deep sympathy . . . of two families I Am Lazarus certainly makes you want to read 978-0-7206-1187-8 / PB / £10.95 The cult author’s compelling collection more of the work of Hesse’ – New of wartime stories Statesman Inglis, Ruth 978-0-7206-1493-0 / POMC / £9.99 978-0-7206-1174-8 / POMC / £9.95 The Window in the Corner A nostalgic and informative survey at the golden age of children’s television 978-0-7206-1105-2 / PB / 14.95

24 Kavan, Anna Kavan, Anna Lee, Seung-U Ice Who Are You? The Reverse Side of Life The author’s science-fiction ‘To write about this "nely An extraordinary, highly acclaimed masterpiece. economical book in any terms novel from Korea, revealing how the ‘Astonishes with poetic brilliance’ other than its own is cruelly to conflict of the secular and the divine distort the near-perfection of the – Sunday Telegraph manifests in the real world original text.’ – Guardian 978-0-7206-1259-2 / PB / £10.95 978-0-7206-1268-4 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-1150-2 / POMC / £8.95 Lee, Vernon Kavan, Anna Kemal, Orhan Supernatural Tales Julia and the Bazooka The Idle Years Chilling collection of eerie tales written Compelling posthumous stories of drug ‘#e optimism I "nd in Kemal’s between 1881 and 1913 when the addiction novels comes not from literature genre was most popular 978-0-7206-1328-5 / POMC / £9.99 but from life itself’ – Orhan 978-0-7206-1194-6 / PB / £9.95 Pamuk Kavan, Anna 978-0-7206-1310-0 / PB/ 224pp Leith-Ross, Prudence Mercury / £11.95 The John Tradescants: Dream-like novella, unpublished in Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Kavan’s lifetime, often compared to her Kewley Draskau, Jennifer Queen Lusitania: Tragedy or War classic novel Ice The story of the Elizabethan father Crime? 978-0-7206-0984-4 / PB / £10.95 and son who travelled the world in New research on the sinking of one of search of exotic plant species for their the world’s most famous liners in 1915 botanical garden while their collection Kavan, Anna of rarities formed the nucleus of The Parson 978-0-7206-1428-2 / PB / £14.99 Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. ‘Written with an imaginative intensity that takes it to the Laurent, Patricia 978-0-7206-1246-2 / PB / £14.95 borders of hallucination . . . A "ne Santiago’s Way example of that ancient tale, the This bold prize-winning novel is one Liddell, Robert predatory femme fatale and the of the most important works of fiction The Deep End puritan man.’ – Doris Lessing to emerge from Mexico in the past Tragi-comic tale of childhood fifty years 978-0-7206-1140-3 / POMC / £8.50 978-0-7206-0919-6 / PB / £9.95 978-0-7206-1190-8 / PB / £12.50 Kavan, Anna Liddell, Robert A Scarcity of Love Leach, Karoline Kind Relations In the Shadow of the Novel by the acclaimed literary critic ‘A poetic notation of the female Dreamchild: The Myth and artist’s world’ – Lawrence Durrell Reality of Lewis Carroll 978-0-7206-0947-9 / HB / £15.95 978-0-7206-1327-8 / POMC / £9.95 Revised and updated edition of the controversial yet acclaimed biography Liddell, Robert The Rivers of Babylon Kavan, Anna of Charles Dodgson, author of the Sleep Has His House Alice books Sequel to Unreal City, a sophisticated 978-0-7206-1859-4 / PB / £14.99 picture of social life in Cairo during the ‘A near masterpiece’ – !e Times months before the Suez Crisis 978-0-7206-1129-8 / POMC / £9.95 Leduc, Violette 978-0-7206-0929-5 / HB / £15.95 The Lady and the Little Fox Fur Kavan, Anna ‘#ere’s not an excessive gesture. MacEwan, Helen A Stranger Still Leduc has a respect for language The Brontës in Brussels A significant early Kavan novel that can only be termed poetic, Charlotte’s and Emily’s experiences at and there is a genuine poetry in 978-0-7206-0955-4 / HB / £15.95 school in Brussels, where Charlotte fell her pity too.’ – Guardian in love 978-0-7206-1217-2 / POMC / £8.95 978-0-7206-1588-3 / PB / £16.99

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Maclaren, Deanna Miller, Miranda Nin, Anaïs Villa Fleurie Loving Mephistopheles The Four-Chambered Heart Passions flare in the Cannes expatriate Faust with a twist – the devil falls for ‘Her prose is like a shaft of community in 1959 the woman to whom he grants eternal sunlight, her thoughts run deep, 978-0-7206-1316-2 / PB / £8.95 life and becomes mortal far below the surface of ordinary "ction, $owing with the strength 978-0-7206-1275-2 / PB / £11.95 of a submarine current.’ – Irish McCrory, Donald P. Times No Ordinary Man: The Life and Miller, Miranda Times of Miguel de Cervantes Nina in Utopia 978-0-7206-1155-7 / POMC / £9.95 The most recent English-language Nineteenth-century London juxtaposed biography of Spain’s greatest writer with today’s capital city; first part of the Nin, Anaïs and the author of Don Quixote author’s Bedlam Trilogy Incest 978-0-7206-1247-9 / PB / £13.95 978-0-7206-1355-1 / PB / £9.99 Explosive memoir of Nin’s illicit love affairs McPherson, Douglas Mishima, Yukio ‘Conveys a life lived at white-heat Circus Mania: The Ultimate Confessions of a Mask intensity’ – Chicago Tribune Book for Anyone Who ‘A terri"c and astringent beauty 978-0-7206-1582-1 / PB / £16.99 Dreamed of Running Away . . . a work of art’ – Times Literary with the Circus Supplement An illuminating survey of the circus Nin, Anaïs through the ages 978-0-7206-1285-1 / POMC / Ladders to Fire £11.95 978-0-7206-1352-0 / PB / £14.99 ‘Vivacious writing . . . truly perceptive’ – Daily Mail Mrabet, Mohammed Michelangelo M’hashish 978-0-7206-1162-5 / POMC / £9.95 Love Sonnets and Madrigals to Tommaso de’Cavalieri A classic of drug literature translated by Paul Bowles Nin, Anaïs Love poetry by the world-famous Nearer the Moon Renaissance artist (bilingual edition in 978-0-7206-0713-0 / PB / £7.50 Nin’s unexpurgated diaries of Italian and English) 1937–9, covering the period when she 978-0-7206-1040-6 / HB / £15.95 Alexei Nikitin was spending her last years in Paris Istemi 978-0-7206-1206-6 / HB / £25 Miles-Brown, John A wildly inventive Russian novel set Acting: A Drama Studio Source in the last years of paranoid and Nin, Anaïs Book totalitarian Communist USSR Winter of Artifice Invaluable drama-studies handbook 978-0-7206-1464-0 / PB / £13.99 Collection of novelettes; Nin’s second including acting theory and practical published work exercises Nin, Anaïs 978-0-7206-0852-6 / PB / £8.50 978-0-7206-1094-9 / PB / £8.95 Children of the Albatross ‘A fascinating piece of writing’ – Norrington, Ruth Miller, Miranda Daily Express In the Shadow of the Throne: The Fairy Visions of Richard 978-0-7206-1165-6 / POMC / £9.95 The Lady Arbella Stuart Dadd Fascinating biography of Arbella Second part of the author’s acclaimed Nin, Anaïs Stuart, once a contender for England’s Bedlam Trilogy set in London’s Collages throne after the death of Elizabeth I notorious Victorian madhouse 978-0-7206-1127-4 / PB / £13.95 978-0-7206-1503-6 / PB / £12.99 ‘A delight’ – Independent 978-0-7206-1145-8 / POMC / £9.95 O’Conaire, Padraic Exile The classic Gaelic novel set in Ireland and London 978-0-7206-1234-7 / PB / £9.99

26 Owen, Peter (Ed.) Pavese, Cesare Pitt-Kethley, Fiona Everything Is Nice and Other The Political Prisoner Too Hot to Handle Fiction ‘#e $avour of anarchy this Collected journalism from the poet, The Peter Owen fiftieth-anniversary author distils in each setting is novelist and travel writer anthology of some of the publishing quite remarkable.’ – Stevie Smith, 978-0-7206-0875-5 / HB / £15.50 company’s most significant literature, Observer as selected by its founder 978-0-7206-1262-2 / POMC / Pizzey, Erin 978-0-7206-1126-7 / PB / £11.95 £10.95 This Way to the Revolution: A Memoir Paasilinna, Arto Pavic, Milorad Revealing autobiography by the founder The Year of the Hare Last Love in Constantinople of the first women’s refuge offering The much-acclaimed tale from Finland Novel of love and war set in fascinating insights into the Women’s of a disillusioned journalist’s travels nineteenth-century Europe, based on Liberation Movement of the 1970s with an injured hare. the cards in the Tarot deck 978-0-7206-1360-5 / PB / £14.99 ‘A masterpiece’ – Independent 978-0-7206-1035-2 / HB / £15.95 Popov, Alek 978-0-7206-1277-6 / PB / £8.99 Peake, Mervyn The Black Box A Book of Nonsense A satirical black comedy of the fortunes Pasternak, Boris of two Bulgarian brothers in New York The Last Summer Illustrated nonsense poems from the and Bulgaria ‘Decidedly a masterpiece’ – John celebrated artist and illustrator, author of the Gormenghast Trilogy 978-0-7206-1464-0 / PB / £13.99 Bayley, Spectator 978-0-7206-1351-2 / PB / poetry 978-0-7206-1099-4 / POMC / £8.50 / £7.95 Raphael, Frederic Private Views Pasternak, Boris Peake, Mervyn The latest novel, set in 1970s London, Second Nature Boy in Darkness and Other from the celebrated author and A magical collection of poems by the Stories scriptwriter author of Dr Zhivago Illustrated edition of stories, including 978-0-7206-1853-2 / PB / £9.99 978-0-7206-1192-2 / PB / £9.95 one on the boy Titus Groan, by the multi-talented writer and artist Reed, Jeremy Pavese, Cesare 978-0-7206-1306-3 / PB / £9.99 Angels, Divas and Blacklisted Among Women Only Heroes ‘Extraordinary depth where one Perriam, Wendy A celebration of the work of outsiders never stops "nding new levels, Dreams, Demons and Desires in the arts, including such diverse new meanings’ – Italo Calvino Original and wry collection of short characters as Scott Walker, Jean Genet stories and Aleister Crowley 978-0-7206-1449-7 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-1109-0 / PB / £10.95 978-0-7206-1052-9 / PB / £10.95

Pavese, Cesare Reed, Jeremy The Devil in the Hills Perriam, Wendy Lying Bitter Blue ‘Erotic, but extraordinarily Thoughts on addiction and art by delicate and controlled’ – A novel of sexuality, morality and Catholic guilt in a faltering marriage the prize-winning poet, based on his Guardian experiences of drug withdrawal 978-0-7206-1128-1 / PB / £7.99 978-0-7206-1118-2 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-0892-2 / PB / £12.99 Piaf, Edith Pavese, Cesare The Wheel of Fortune Reed, Jeremy The Moon and the Bonﬁre Black Sugar: Gay, Lesbian and The legendary life of the Parisian ‘Little Heterosexual Love Poems ‘Wonderfully written and Sparrow’ in her own words beautifully translated’ – Sunday ‘Agreeably lascivious’ – Sunday 978-0-7206-1228-8 / PB / £12.95 Times Times 978-0-7206-1119-9 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-0871-7 / PB / £10.95

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Reed, Jeremy Reed, Jeremy Roth, Joseph Chasing Black Rainbows Lipstick, Sex and Poetry The Hundred Days Fictionalized life of the seminal and Autobiography of the early years of A re-creation of Napoleon’s last influential playwright, poet, actor and the novelist and poet of urban squalor months in 1815 director Antonin Artaud and glamour 978-0-7206-1363-6 / PB / £9.99 978-0-7206-1008-6 / PB / £9.95 978-0-7206-0817-5 / HB / £14.95 Roth, Joseph Reed, Jeremy Reed, Jeremy Perlefter: The Story of a Delirium A Stranger on Earth: The Life Bourgeois An intuitive and original interpretation and Work of Anna Kavan First English translation of one of Roth’s of the poet Arthur Rimbaud’s life and This biography of the celebrated author last novels genius of Ice draws on new material to map 978-0-7206-1450-3 / PB / £12.99 978-0-7206-0825-0 / HB / £15.50 out the enigmatic life of one of Britain’s most extraordinary writers Roth, Joseph Reed, Jeremy 978-0-7206-1273-8 / PB / £13.95 The Silent Prophet Diamond Nebula ‘A novel one should not wish to A movie director finds truth in his Reed, Jeremy be without . . . Roth is a very "ne obsessions, including David Bowie and When the Whip Comes Down writer indeed.’ – Angela Carter the Marquis de Sade 978-0-7206- Novel based on the life of the Marquis 0891-5 / HB / £14.95 de Sade 978-0-7206-1135-9 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-0858-8 / PB / £9.75 Reed, Jeremy Roth, Joseph Weights and Measures The Dilly: A Secret History of Ricks, David (Ed.) Piccadilly Rent Boys Modern Greek Writing ‘#is small novel is a masterpiece.’ – Angela Huth Revealing accounts of the lives of male A dazzling and broad-based collection prostitutes and their clients in central of Greek literature from Independence 978-0-7206-1136-6 / POMC / £9.95 London’s between the 1970s and in 1821 to the present day 1990s by the acclaimed poet 978-0-7206-1086-4 / PB / £20 Russell, Ken 978-0-7206-1589-0 / PB / £14.99 Beethoven Confidential and Rogers, Nigel and Mel Brahms Gets Laid Reed, Jeremy Thompson Biographical novels of Beethoven and Dorian Philosophers Behaving Badly Brahms by the outrageous and original Erotically charged sequel to Oscar An engaging and frequently hilarious film-maker Wilde’s classic novel The Picture of survey of the extracurricular activities 978-0-7206-1279-0 / PB / £12.99 Dorian Gray, in which Wilde, released of some of philosophy’s finest from Reading Gaol, meets up with practitioners Gray in Paris Russell, Ken 978-0-7206-1219-6 / PB / £13.95 Elgar: The Erotic Variations and 978-0-7206-1012-3 / HB / £14.95 Delius: A Moment with Venus Roth, Joseph Biographical novels of Elgar and Reed, Jeremy The Antichrist Delius by the outrageous and original The Grid Prescient episodic novel anticipating film-maker Christopher Marlowe and his the horrors of the Second World War 978-0-7206-1290-5 / PB / £12.90 Elizabethan set are reincarnated in a 978-0-7206-1331-5 / PB / £9.99 near-future dystopian London on the brink of destruction, battling AIDS and Joan Russell Noble (Ed.) trapped by their shared past Roth, Joseph Recollections of Virginia Woolf Flight Without End 978-0-7206-0831-1 / PB / £13.95 A unique portrait of the writer as ‘A concise, powerful writer who viewed by her contemporaries brilliantly evokes the social, political and intellectual turmoil ‘An enthralling book’ – Daily of the era’ – Publishers Weekly Express 978-0-7206-1483-1 / PB / £14.99 978-0-7206-1068-0 / POMC / £9.95

28 Saddler, Allen Sandel, Cora Simmons, Michael: Bless ’Em All Alberta and Freedom Hearing Loss: From Stigma to Murder, infidelity and the book The second part of the Alberta Trilogy. Strategy trade: a story of ordinary folk in the ‘Ahead of her time . . . like Strategies to cope with late-onset extraordinary times of the London Blitz Virginia Woolf though much hearing loss in the Second World War tougher. A classic’ – Times 978-0-7206-1224-0 / PB / £12.95 978-0-7206-1282-0 / PB / £11.95 Literary Supplement 978-0-7206-1263-9 / POMC / £9.95 Singh, Patwant and Jyoti M. Saddler, Allen Rai: The Long and the Short Empire of the Sikhs: The Life Sándor, Iván and Times of the Maharaja Sequel to Bless ‘Em All, following some Legacy Ranjit Singh familiar characters and introducing The haunting novel of one man’s search new ones, as England struggles to get The definitive history of the charismatic for his past during the deportation of Indian leader by in wartime the Jews in wartime Budapest 978-0-7206-1323-0 / PB / £14.99 978-0-7206-1282-0 / PB / £11.95 978-0-7206-1571-5 / PB / £15.99 Sinisalo, Johanna Birdbrain Sade, Marquis de Scott-Stokes, Natascha The Crimes of Love Wild and Fearless: An unsettling ecological fable set in the New Zealand outback Scurrilous stories by the notorious The Life of Margaret Fountaine Marquis 978-0-7206-1340-7 / PB / £9.99 The first full biography of the globe- 978-0-7206-1183-0 / PB / £9.95 trotting Victorian vicar’s daughter who became a famous entomologist but Sinisalo, Johanna Sade, Marquis de whose unorthodox private life was at The Blood of Angels The Gothic Tales of the Marquis odds with the conventions of her time An electrifying vision of ecological de Sade 978-0-7206-1276-9 / HB / £19.95 meltdown when the world loses its Macabre short stories by the French entire population of bees master Selwood, Clive 978-0-7206-1004-8 / PB / £13.99 978-0-7206-1251-6 / PB / £9.95 All the Moves But None of the Licks Sinisalo, Johanna Sade, Marquis de Adventures in the music business from Not Before Sundown a.k.a. The Mystified Magistrate one of the industry’s key insiders from Troll: A Love Story A rare collection of highly charged the 1960s to the 1990s A potent fantasy from Finland’s award- stories 978-0-7206-1153-3 / HB / £18.95 winning writer 978-0-7206-1022-2 / PB / £9.50 978-0-7206-1350-6 / PB / £9.99 Shapiro, Robert (Ed.) Sandel, Cora Les Six: The French Composers Sitwell, Edith Alberta Alone and Their Mentors Jean I Live Under a Black Sun Cocteau and Erik Satie The final part of the Norwegian The English poet, wit and eccentric’s author’s acclaimed Alberta Trilogy Comprehensive survey of the avant- only novel – a neglected classic. garde musicians known as Les Six 978-0-7206-1314-8 / POMC / £9.99 ‘If this novel does not have a touch including Poulenc and Milhaud of genius I don’t know what genius 978-0-7206-1293-6 / PB / £30.00 is.’ – Guardian Sandel, Cora Alberta and Jacob 978-0-7206-1225-7 / POMC / £9.99 Sherborne, Michael #e "rst part of the Alberta H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Trilogy. ‘She has a place to herself Life Soseki, Natsume The Gate among the "nest contemporary The acclaimed biography. writing.’ – Guardian The classic love story from Japan’s ‘Authoritative . . . Sherborne has an best-loved author 978-0-7206-1184-7 / POMC / £9.95 unrivalled command of the writer’s diverse output . . . He writes with 978-0-7206-1250-9 / PB / £9.95 bemused detachment and great clarity.’ – Times Literary Supplement

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Soseki, Natsume Strachan, Isabella Vansittart, Peter Kokoro Emma: The Twice-Crowned Secret Protocols One of the greatest works by the Queen From his Estonian childhood we Japanese master; the narrator seeks the Biography of the eleventh-century follow ethnic-German Erich through truth about the events in his teacher’s English queen who married two kings a devastated wartime Germany and past that continue to haunt him and was mother to two more France and the Estonian government- 978-0-7206-1297-4 / PB / £9.95 978-0-7206-1221-9 / PB / £13.95 in-exile in London to a united Europe and back to a free Estonia in this masterly work of ﬁction Soseki, Natsume Tennant, Emma The Three-Cornered World The Beautiful Child 978-0-7206-1264-6 / HB / £18.50 ‘A writer to be judged by the ‘A cunning, moody and bone- highest standards’ – Spectator chilling new story inspired by !e Vansittart, Peter Turn of the Screw’ – Independent Survival Tactics 978-0-7206-1357-5 / POMC / £9.95 One of Britain’s most distinguished 978-0-7206-1481-7 / PB / £10.99 historical novelists looks back on a Soseki, Natsume literary life in a memoir spanning the The Tower of London Tulloch, Alexander second half of the twentieth century Soseki’s acutely observed recollections Word Routes 978-0-7206-1072-7 / HB / £17.95 of his unique experience as a Japanese An entertaining guide to the origins scholar in Victorian London of over 500 English words, crossing Vansittart, Peter 978-0-7206-1234-9 / PB / £14.99 continents and travelling through time Three Six Seven 978-0-7206-1243-1 / PB / £12.95 Extraordinary novel set in Spencer-Carr, Virginia Roman-occupied Britain, in which a Paul Bowles: A Life Urban, Miloš disillusioned businessman from Rome awaits the arrival of the barbarians The deﬁnitive biography of Paul Lord Mord Bowles, written with his collaboration A Gothic thriller from the author 978-0-7206-0602-7 / HB / £14.95 978-0-7206-1254-7 / HB / £19.95 dubbed ‘the Dark Knight of Czech Literature’ Vansittart, Peter The Wall Stein, Gertrude 978-0-72061496-1 / PB / £9.99 Look at Me Now and Here I A dramatic allegorical novel set in Am Urban, Miloš third-century Rome, a city seething with economic problems, pollution and Two collections of writing by the The Seven Churches corruption and sliding into chaos renowned modernist writer A gripping murder mystery set in 978-0-7206-0702-4 / HB / £14.95 978-0-7206-1201-1 / PB / £13.95 Prague’s medieval quarter and an international best-seller Vesaas, Tarjei Stein, Gertrude 978-0-7206-1311-7 / PB / £8.99 The Birds Paris France ‘Witty and delicious’ – Sunday Vane, Henry ‘Has true visionary power’ – Affair of State Times Sunday Telegraph Biography of the 8th Duke and 978-0-7206-1494-7 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-1495-4 / POMC / £9.99 Duchess of Devonshire of Chatsworth

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30 Vesaas, Tarjei Wahei, Tatematsu Wintermans, Caspar The Boat in the Evening Frozen Dreams Alfred Douglas: A Poet’s Life ‘A book of great strength and The gripping Japanese best- and His Finest Works beauty’ – !e Times selling novel inspired by a real-life A biography in defence of ‘Bosie’, mountaineering tragedy whom history largely remembers only 978-0-7206-1198-4 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-1497-8 / PB / £14.99 as the lover of Oscar Wilde; includes an anthology of Douglas’s poetry Vesaas, Tarjei Wharton, Edith 978-0-7206-0927-1 / HB / £20 The Ice Palace The Demanding Dead ‘It is unforgettable and Second collection of the author’s Yi, Chung-jun extraordinary.’ – Doris Lessing greatest stories of the macabre Seopyeonje: The Southerners’ Songs 978-0-7206-1329-2 / POMC / £9.99 978-0-7206-1272-1 / PB / £10.95 Award-winning lyrical novel about a family of itinerant Korean musicians Vesaas, Tarjei Wharton, Edith 978-0-7206-1359-9 / PB / £10.99 The Seed The Ghost-Feeler A graphic evocation of nature with all First collection of the author’s ﬁnest Zola, Emile the power of the author’s best writing ghost stories The Dream 978-0-7206-1638-5 / POMC / £9.99 978-0-7206-1152-6 / PB / £9.95 New translation of an uncharacteristically romantic Vesaas, Tarjei Wilson, Glenn and Qazi novel by the French master Spring Night Rahman 978-0-7206-1253-0 / PB / £8.95 ‘Tarjei Vesaas could write books Born Gay: The Psychobiology which breathed the almost of Sex Orientation mystical union between man and An exploration and overview of the countryside.’ – Daily Telegraph research on the nature-vs-nurture debate on sexual orientation 978-0-7206-1189-2 / POMC / £9.95 978-0-7206-1309-4 / PB / £9.95 Virtue, Noel Lady Jean G. Peter Winnington (Ed.) Mervyn Peake: The Man and Tale of a writer who tries to coax the His Art past out of a legendary but reclusive British singer Compiled by Sebastian Peake and Alison Eldred, this highly illustrated 978-0-7206-1133-5 / PB / £10.99 volume gives the reader insight into what made the multi-talented Virtue, Noel artist and writer – and author of the The Redemption of Elsdon Bird Gormenghast Trilogy – such a unique Written with warmth and humour, this genius is the acclaimed story of a boy who 978-0-7206-1321-6 / PB / £19.95 survives childhood in a poverty-stricken fundamentalist religious family in New G. Peter Winnington Zealand Mervyn Peake’s Vast ‘Elsdon’s untarnished optimism Alchemies: The Illustrated lights the bleakest landscapes.’ – Biography Independent ‘By far the best biography of 978-0-7206-1166-3 / POMC / £9.95 Peake’ – Michael Moorcock 978-0-7206-1341-4 / PB / £14.99

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