HIGHLIGHTS FICTION | 02 FICTION | 06 ROCK THE BOAT | 16 ROCK THE BOAT | 17 POLITICS | 22 BUSINESS | 24 PSYCHOLOGY | 25 PHILOSOPHY | 32 POPULAR SCIENCE | 36 MAKERS OF THE MUSLIM WORLDCONTENTS1 CONTENTS FICTION New Titles 2 New in Paperback 8 Recent Releases 10 Bestsellers 13 Key Backlist 14 ROCK THE BOAT New Titles 16 Recent Releases 21 NON-FICTION New Titles 22 New in Paperback 38 Recent Releases 42 Bestsellers 45 Key Backlist 46 Beginner’s Guides 49 Makers of the Muslim World 54 SALES & DISTRIBUTION 56 2 FICTION NEW THE NIGHT STAGES Jane Urquhart A magnificent, elegiac novel of intersecting memories, set in Ireland’s harshly beautiful landscape After a tragic accident leaves Tamara alone on the most westerly tip of Ireland, she begins an affair with a charismatic meteorologist named Niall. It’s the 1950s, and Tamara has settled into civilian life after working as an auxiliary pilot in World War II. At first her romance is filled with passionate secrecy, but when Niall’s younger brother, Kieran, disappears after a bicycle race, Niall, unable to shake the idea that he may be to blame, slowly falls into despondency. Distraught and abandoned after their decade-long relationship, Tamara decides she has no option but to leave. Jane Urquhart’s mesmerising novel opens as Tamara makes her way from Ireland to New York. During a layover in ‘Urquhart’s writing is poetic... Gander, Newfoundland, a fog moves in, grounding her plane beautifully compact and restrained and stranding her in front of the airport’s mural. As she gazes when describing the most powerful at the nutcracker-like children, missile-shaped birds, and emotions.’ fruit blossoms, she revisits the circumstances that brought The Times her to Ireland and the family entanglement that has forced her into exile. Slowly she interweaves her life story with ‘Jane Urquhart’s writing compellingly Kieran’s as she searches for the truth about Niall. depicts the sense of place in human lives.’ Alice Munro ‘Urquhart writes forcefully; her imagery is vivid, and her evocation of time and place is accomplished and assured.’ Times Literary Supplement Photo credit: Nick Tinkl JANE URQUHART is the author of seven FICTION internationally acclaimed novels, a collection of UK/BC 02 JUL 2015 stories and four books of poetry. She has received numerous awards and honours, including the Demy Hardback Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium (216×135mm) Book Award, the Habourfront Festival Prize, and £12.99 the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign 416 pages Book Prize) in France. She lives in Ontario, Canada, ISBN: 978-1-78074-779-8 and occasionally in Ireland. eISBN: 978-1-780-74780-4 NEW FICTION 3 THE MEURSAULT INVESTIGATION Kamel Daoud Translated by John Cullen An incredibly powerful, politically charged re-imagining of The Outsider WINNER OF THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS WINNER OF THE PRIX FRANÇOIS MAURIAC SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT Reaping glowing international reviews and literary honours, the runaway French bestseller The Meursault Investigation is a stunning debut from Algerian writer Kamel Daoud. Narrated by the brother of a man known only as ‘the Arab’ ‘A tour-de-force reimagining of in Camus’s iconic novel The Outsider, who spent his life Camus’s The Outsider, from the point tormented by his sibling’s senseless murder at the hands of of view of the mute Arab victims.’ the infamous anti-hero, Meursault. Angry at the world and The New Yorker his own, unending solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity, by giving him a name - Musa - and a voice, ‘Humour erupts in The Meursault describing the events that led to his death on a dazzling Investigation every time there is Algerian beach. tragedy, and this recipe for the Algerian absurd gives Daoud’s book In The Meursault Investigation, Daoud skillfully turns his its literary sting.’ The Nation conversation with Camus into a suspense story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the world’s most ‘A superb novel.’ Les Monde des Livres famous novels. It is at once a love story and a profound meditation on Arab identity, colonialism, the power of religion and guilt. KAMEL DAOUD is a journalist for the Quotidien FICTION d’Oran – the third largest French-language UK/BC 02 JUL 2015 Algerian newspaper. His articles have appeared in Libération, Le Monde, and Courrier International. B format Paperback Original He was recently awarded the Omar Ourtilane with flaps (198×129mm) prize for freedom of the press for his journalism. £8.99 JOHN CULLEN is the translator of many books 160 pages from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, ISBN: 978-1-78074-839-9 including Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck’s Report and eISBN: 978-1-78074-840-5 Yasmina Reza’s Happy Are the Happy. Adams Derek Credit: Photo 4 FICTION NEW AMONG THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS Julia Pierpont For fans of Jenny Offill, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, and Lorrie Moore, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymous package arrives in the mail: a box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack’s secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it’s delivered into the wrong hands: her children’s. ‘Julia Pierpont has as sharp and humane an eye as anyone writing. With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns This book is among the funniest, and funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin most emotionally honest I’ve read in apart into separate orbits, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the a long time.’ Jonathan Safran Foer allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven- year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world ‘Julia Pierpont’s novel is remarkable she can’t possibly understand. Writing with extraordinary because of her full knowledge and precision, humour, and beauty, Julia Pierpont has crafted a understanding of middle-age and timeless, hugely enjoyable novel about the bonds of family its discontents but also the lives and life – their brittleness, and their resilience. painful longings of teenagers. She displays not only wisdom, but real tact as a writer, knowing how much to say, how much to leave out, how much to imply.’ Colm Tóibín JULIA PIERPONT is a graduate of the NYU Creative FICTION Writing Program, where she received the Rona UK/BC 06 AUG 2015 Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship, as well as the Stein Fellowship. Born and raised in Manhattan, Demy Hardback she works at The New Yorker. (216×135mm) £14.99 336 pages ISBN: 978-1-780-74763-7 eISBN: 978-1-780-74764-4 NEW FICTION 5 MAN V. NATURE Diane Cook ‘Each story reveals something raw and powerful about being human in a world where so little is in our control.’ Roxane Gay A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014 A BOSTON GLOBE ‘BEST FICTION OF 2014’ AN AMAZON BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF 2014 AN iBOOK BEST OF 2014 A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories that illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behaviour, and the veneer of civilization. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories explore situations pulled directly from the wild, imposing Rondina Katherine © Credit: Photo on human lives the danger, tension, and precariousness of the natural world. ‘A knockout... every single story could Through these characters Cook asks: What is at the root make a great movie.’ of our most heartless, selfish impulses? Why are people New York Times Book Review drawn together in such messy, needful ways? When the unexpected intrudes upon the routine, what do we discover ‘As close to experiencing a Picasso as about ourselves? As entertaining as it is dangerous, this literature can get.’ accomplished collection explores the boundary between Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife the wild and the civilized, where nature acts as a catalyst for human drama and lays bare our vulnerabilities, fears, and ‘Man V. Nature could also be called desires. Diane Cook V. The Challenges of Writing Fresh, Invigorating Fiction in ‘Lively, apocalypse-tinged tales... Cook mines the Our Age. In the latter contest, Cook moments that precede the losses – when the battles crushes. Here is a bold debut.’ are truly raging – and it’s in them that she finds great Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land beauty and strangeness.’ New York Times Book Review FICTION DIANE COOK‘s fiction has been published in Harper’s Magazine, UK/BC 06 AUG 2015 Granta and Tin House. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times magazine and on This American Life, where she worked as a radio B format Paperback Original producer for six years. She earned an MFA from Columbia University, (198×129 mm) where she was a Teaching Fellow. She lives in Oakland, California. £8.99 272 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-815-3 eISBN: 978-1-78074-816-0 6 FICTION NEW LAURUS Eugene Vodolazkin Translated by Lisa C. Hayden Andrei Rublev meets The Name of the Rose in this award- winning novel – a doomed love affair, an enthralling chronicle of the Middle Ages, and a profound journey of redemption WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE YASNAYA POLYANA (LEO TOLSTOY) AWARD It’s fifteenth-century Russia, a time of plague and pestilence.