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ORDERS IN 15 April 2015 IN-STORE 29 May 2015 JUNE 2015 Palace of Tears Julian Leatherdale

A shining story of family, passion, secrets and vengeance woven through the hardships of both World Wars, and always bringing us back to The Palace, a mountain hotel famed equally for its luxury and for its mysterious owner.

Description Angie loved Mr Fox's magnificent, absurd hotel. In fact, it was her one true great love. But ... today Angie was so cross, so fed up with everybody and everything, she would probably cheer if a wave of fire swept over the cliff and engulfed the Palace and all its guests.

A sweltering summer's day, January 1914: the charismatic and ruthless Adam Fox throws a lavish birthday party for his son and heir at his elegant clifftop hotel in the Blue Mountains. Everyone is invited except Angie, the girl from the cottage next door. The day will end in tragedy, a punishment for a family's secrets and lies.

In 2013, Fox's granddaughter Lisa, seeks the truth about the past. Who is this Angie her mother speaks of: 'the girl who broke all our hearts'? Why do locals call Fox's hotel the 'palace of tears'? Behind the grandeur and glamour of its famous guests and glittering parties, Lisa discovers a hidden history of passion and revenge, loyalty and love.

A grand piano burns in the night, a seance promises death or forgiveness, a fire rages in a snowstorm, a painter's final masterpiece inspires betrayal, a child is given away. With twist upon twist, this lush, strange mystery withholds its shocking truth to the very end.

About the Author Julian Leatherdale's first love was theatre and acting. He studied academic history at university but discovered his passion for popular history as a staff writer, researcher and photo editor for Time-Life's Australians At War series. He later researched and co-wrote scripts for two one-hour Film Australia documentaries Return to Sandakan and The Forgotten Force, shown on ABC TV and overseas. For several years he was the public relations manager for an international hotel school in the Blue Mountains where he currently lives with his wife and two children. Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760111601 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 560 pages

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Leap Myfanwy Jones

A heart-breaking, heart-lifting, effortlessly enjoyable story about love and grief and everything in between.

Description A few weeks after finishing their final exams high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. Joe wants to go - Jen begs him to stay. They fight in the corridor, following their usual script, and then he walks out and leaves her. A few hours later she dies.

Three years on, after burning up his own dreams for the future, Joe is working in dead-end jobs and mentoring a wayward teenager not dissimilar from his younger self. Driven by the need to make good, he spends all his spare time doing parkour under an inner-city bridge, training his mind and body to conquer the hostile urban environment that took his love and blighted his future.

Somewhere else, a middle-aged woman, Elise, is treading water in her life as her marriage breaks up. We watch as she retreats to the only place that holds any meaning for her - the tiger enclosure at Melbourne Zoo, where, for reasons she barely understands, she starts painting the tigers and forms a close connection to them.

Joe is broken by grief, but the outside world won't let him hide forever. A cool and bewitching girl turns up on the doorstep of his share house, somehow painfully familiar to him. Then there is the skateboarding chef at the bar where he works, the girl with the Cossack-blue eyes, who wants to be his friend. And someone going by the Facebook tag Emily Dickinson wants to reminisce about his dead girlfriend and won't leave him alone.

Can Joe staunch the flooding return of desire - or is it time to let go of the past? And will he make the nine-foot leap from girder to pillar or does he want to fall too?

While at its heart is a searing absence, Leap is driven by an unstoppable and exhilarating life force, and the eternally hopeful promise of redemptive love. Funny, moving, quirky and original, Leap is an effortlessly enjoyable novel that quietly creeps up on you until its final jaw-dropping pages and a narrative twist that will take your breath away. Price: $26.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781925266115 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 208x153mm Extent: 336 pages About the Author Main Category: F Fiction

Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Myfanwy Jones is the author of The Rainy Season, shortlisted for The Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best Writing Award Illustrations: 2009, and co-author of the bestselling Parlour Games for Modern Families, Book of the Year for Older Children ABIA Previous Titles: 2010. She lives by a creek in Melbourne with her human and non-human family. Author now living: Northcote, Melbourne

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 The Infidelity Diaries: Love, betrayal, revenge. Anonymous

An explosive novel of family drama, adultery and revenge.

Description 'An extraordinary novel of family relationships, entwining love affairs and the betrayal and revenge that bound them'

Zara is a biographer, living in Sydney. She and Sergei have been married for over twenty years when an encounter with the predatory Caitt changes their life forever.

Lili is a property agent in London. She and Will, her husband of ten years, are developing their dream home in Northern Cyprus when she discovers he is having an affair with a Russian pastrycook, Larissa ('Slutski', as she calls her).

Eve lives in Shanghai with her husband of eight years, Henry, when she realises he has been having a dalliance with Chrystal, his ex-PA.

Zara waits and hopes, but she is fatalistic.

Lili's plans are complicated by her great affection for her stepson, a relationship that may not survive her divorce from Will.

Eve seems prepared to dramatically cut herself loose.

When a family crisis reunites them in Sydney the sisters converge, swap stories and discuss vengeance.

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 West of Sunset Stewart O'Nan

A 'rich, sometimes heartbreaking' (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood.

Description In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

The last three years of Fitzgerald's life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O'Nan's heartfelt new novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald's past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and their daughter, Scottie.

Fitzgerald's orbit of literary fame and the Golden Age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel's romantic cast of characters, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart. Written with striking grace and subtlety, this wise and intimate portrait of a man trying his best to hold together a world that's falling apart, if not gone already, is a masterpiece.

'O'Nan is an incredibly versatile and charming writer. This novel, which imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald's troubled time in Hollywood (with cameos by Dorothy Parker, Bogie, and Hemingway), takes up (like much of O'Nan's work) that essential conundrum of grace struggling with paucity. One brilliant American writer meditating on another - what's not to love?' -- George Saunders, author of Tenth of December

West of Sunset is a rich, sometimes heartbreaking journey through the disintegration of an American legend. O'Nan captures the fire and frailty of F. Scott Fitzgerald with an understated grace that would have made Fitzgerald himself stand up and applaud.' - Dennis Lehane

'An achingly nuanced love story and one of the best biographical novels to come along in years. O'Nan's great Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781925266559 achievement here is in so convincingly inhabiting the character of Scott Fitzgerald and of the people surrounding him Format: Paperback - C format during his descent into the clarifying depths of 1930s Hollywood.' - T.C. Boyle Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages 'Stewart O'Nan captures Fitzgerald's mood of spiritual reflection, without trying to imitate Fitzgerald's voice. This book is Main Category: F Fiction

Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction an inoculation against self-pity. It's not a mock Fitzgerald novel, but an original portrait of a writer struggling to keep his Illustrations: dignity while trying to make a living. It's one of the best books I've read in years and it deserves a cheering crowd.' - Previous Titles: Michael Tolkin, author of The Player Author now living:

About the Author Stewart O'Nan is the author of fourteen novels, including The Odds, Emily, Alone and Last Night at the Lobster, as well as Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 West of Sunset 8 copy pack

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 To Hold the Bridge: A tale of the Old Kingdom and other stories Garth Nix

A collection of Garth Nix's best short stories, featuring a diverse cast of characters - protectors, travellers, warriors - ranging across vividly evoked worlds and times.

Description Far to the north of the magical Old Kingdom, the Greenwash Bridge Company has been building a bridge for almost a hundred years. It is not an easy task, for many dangers threaten the bridge builders, from nomad raiders to Free Magic sorcerers. Despite the danger, Morghan wants nothing more than to join the Bridge Company as a cadet. But the company takes only the best, the most skillful Charter mages, and trains them hard. For the night might come when even an untried young cadet must hold the bridge alone against the most devastating of foes ...

Also included in this remarkable collection are eighteen short stories that showcase Nix's versatility as he adds a fantastical twist on an array of genres including science fiction, paranormal, realistic fiction, mystery, and adventure.

'The reader's absorption into the intrigue, magic and dazzling richness of the worlds and characters created by Nix is irresistible pleasure' - Australian Review of Books

About the Author Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he previously worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth's books include the award-winning fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen and Clariel; the dystopian novel Shade's Children; the space opera A Confusion of Princes; and a Regency romance with magic, Newt's Emerald. His fantasy novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence; the Keys to the Kingdom series; and the Troubletwisters series and Spirit Animals: Blood Ties (co-written with Sean Williams). More than five million copies of his books have been sold around the world, his books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, the Guardian and the Australian, and his work has been Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781743316559 translated into forty languages. He lives in a Sydney beach suburb with his wife and two children. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 512 pages

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Mothers and Daughters Kylie Ladd

A clear-eyed, insightful and wildly entertaining look into the complicated, emotional world of mothers and their teenage daughters by the acclaimed author of Into My Arms, Last Summer and After the Fall.

Description Four mothers. Four teenage daughters.

An isolated tropical paradise with no internet or mobile phone reception.

What could possibly go wrong?

There's tension, bitchiness, bullying, sex, drunken confessions, bad behaviour and breakdowns - and wait till you see what the teenagers get up to...

How can we let our daughters go to forge lives of their own when what we most want to do is hold them close and never let them go? How do we let them grow and keep them protected from the dark things in the world at the same time? And how can mothers and daughters navigate the troubled, stormy waters of adolescence without hurting themselves and each other? A clear-eyed, insightful and wildly entertaining look into the complicated, emotional world of mothers and daughters by the acclaimed author of Into My Arms, Last Summer and After the Fall.

A sure-fire hit from a writer who's been steadily building fans and critical acclaim and is ready to explode on to the bestseller lists.

'...a strong, intelligent, subtle and wise new voice...being compared with Christos Tsiolkas, Malcolm Knox and Helen Garner....' Booktopia

About the Author Kylie Ladd is a novelist and freelance writer. She has published four novels: After the Fall, Last Summer, which was Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781925266245 highly commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, Into My Arms, chosen as one of Get Reading’s ‘50 Format: Paperback - B format books you can’t put down’ for 2013, and her latest, Mothers and Daughters. With Leigh Langtree she also edited the Dimensions: 198x128mm anthology Naked: Confessions of Adultery and Infidelity. Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne Extent: 352 pages with her husband and two children. Main Category: F Fiction

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Cicada Moira McKinnon

A stunning novel of terror, love and survival in the most inhospitable country on earth. A white-knuckle chase story like no other - suspenseful, lyrical and breathtaking in equal measure. The literary debut novel of 2014.

Description A stunning novel of terror, love and survival in the greatest wilderness on earth. A lyrical, heartbreaking epic debut.

An isolated property in the middle of Western Australia, just after the Great War. An English heiress has just given birth and unleashed hell. Weakened and grieving, she realises her life is in danger, and flees into the desert with her Aboriginal maid. One of them is running from a murderer; the other is accused of murder.

Soon the women are being hunted across the Kimberley by troopers, trackers and the man who wants to silence them both. How they survive in the searing desert and what happens when they are finally found will take your breath away.

About the Author Moira McKinnon graduated in medicine from the University of Western Australia and travelled widely as a specialist in population health. Her particular interests are emerging infectious diseases and the relationship with global and environmental health. She sees a loss for modern society in the casting away of the knowledge of indigenous cultures and believes understanding the relationship that indigenous people had with the land is an important part of the future of wellbeing of the environment and humankind.

Dr McKinnon’s essay, ‘Who Killed Matilda?’, on indigenous health, religion and social progress, was joint winner of the 2011 Calibre Prize and was published in the Australian Book Review.

Cicada is Moira’s first novel. She currently lives in Canberra with her husband and two children.

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 The Burning Room Michael Connelly

A bullet takes ten years to find its mark. Now Bosch must find the killer ...

Description Detective Harry Bosch and his new partner investigate a recent murder where the trigger was pulled years earlier.

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when Orlando Merced finally succumbs to complications from being shot ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent.

Partnered with Lucia Soto, a rookie detective who made her name in a violent liquor store shoot-out, Bosch begins to see political dimensions to the case - a case where, despite the seemingly impossible odds, failure to find the killer is simply not an option.

But not only does Soto soon reveal a burning obsession that could make her a loose cannon, the one piece of evidence they have on the Merced shooting also points in a shocking and unexpected direction that could unsettle the very people who want Bosch to close out the case.

It's looking like Orlando Merced may not be the investigation's only victim - and that includes Bosch himself.

'A modern-day master of crime writing . . . arguably the best detective series of our era.' Good Reading

'The finest crime writer working today' - Neil Cross, lead scriptwriter of Spooks and creator of Luther

About the Author Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781925267235 University of Florida. After graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Format: Paperback - B format Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing Dimensions: 198x128mm survivors of a major airline crash. They wrote a magazine story which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for Extent: 448 pages feature writing. The magazine story also moved Connelly into the upper levels of journalism, landing him a job as a crime Main Category: F Fiction

Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery reporter for the Los Angeles Times,, and bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had written. After Illustrations: three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. Previous Titles: The novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had occurred in Los Angeles, was published in 1992 and Author now living: won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Connelly has followed that up with 26 more novels. His books have been translated into 31 languages and have won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, Dilys, Nero, Barry, Audie, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella Michael Connelly JUNE 2015 The Burning Room 12 Copy Pack pos

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Michael Connelly JUNE 2015 The Killing of Bobbi Lomax Cal Moriarty

When a sleepy, devout town is rocked by three deadly bombs in 24 hours an extraordinary mystery is unraveled...

Description The Killing of Bobbi Lomax is the story of Clark Houseman, a rare books dealer, an expert in his field, beloved by both collectors and The Faith - the immensely powerful local church, and one of his biggest clients.

Beloved, that is, until he is blown up by the city's third bomb in less than twenty-four hours. As Clark hovers on the brink of death first on the scene are Detectives Sinclair and Alvarez who, after the previous deadly blasts, are under pressure to close the case and stop panic spreading through their community. Amid a vortex of conspiracy theories and local politics, their investigation unearths a web of intrigue surrounding The Faith and its secretive dealings. With time running out, the Detectives start to wonder if there could be more to the mild-mannered, bookish Clark Houseman than first thought...

About the Author Cal Moriarty also writes for film and theatre, and previously worked as a private eye. She attended both the 'Writing A Novel' and 'Edit Your Novel' courses on the Faber Academy in 2012-13.

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Faber Fiction JUNE 2015 The Lighthouse P. D. James

A classic 'locked room' mystery from the late, great crime writer P D James.

Description Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and his depleted team. Dalgliesh is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, the woman he loves, Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has her own emotional problems and the ambitious Anglo-Indian Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith is worried about working under Kate. Hardly have the team begun to unravel the complicated motives of the suspects that there is a second brutal killing and the whole investigation is jeopardised when Dalgliesh is faced with a danger more insidious and as potentially fatal as murder.

This eagerly awaited successor to The Murder Room displays the qualities which aficionados have come to expect of P D James: sensitive characterisation, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place. The Lighthouse is a subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.

About the Author P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council, and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She has received honorary degrees from seven Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9780571325108 British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983, and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President Format: Paperback - B format of the Society of Authors. P D James lived in London and Oxford. She died on 27 November 2014. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 How To Become a Writer: Faber Modern Classics Lorrie Moore

A literary gem of fiction: a wryly witty deconstruction of tips for aspiring writers.

Description Taken from award-winning writer Lorrie Moore's debut short story collection Self-Help (1985), How To Become a Writer is a wryly witty deconstruction of tips for aspiring writers, told in vignettes by a self-absorbed narrator who fails to observe the world around her. A modern classic, this story has been pulled out to accompany the launch of the Faber Modern Classics list.

About the Author Lorrie Moore, after serving for almost three decades as the Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received numerous grants and awards, from among others: the Lannan Foundation, the National Books Critics Circle, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.

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Faber Fiction JUNE 2015 Family Life Akhil Sharma

Heart-wrenching and darkly comic, this hotly anticipated second novel from the author of An Obedient Father is the beautifully told story of a boy torn between duty and survival.

Description For eight-year-old Ajay Mishra and his older brother Birju, family life in Delhi in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing day-long games of cricket in the street. Everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot water - and the Mishras, envy of their neighbourhood back home, become the latest unknowns in the vast expanse of New York.

Life in America is extraordinary, and as snows and summers come and go the brothers adjust to their exciting new world of prosperity, girls and 24-hour TV. But then comes the hot, sultry day when everything falls apart: tragedy turns the Mishras' American dream into a living nightmare and young Ajay finds himself lost and virtually orphaned in a land that is not his own.

About the Author Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007.

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Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma

A classic novel from the author of Family Life.

Description Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man tortured by a terrible guilty secret. When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram, as his department's resident bribe-collector, is trapped in a series of escalating, potentially deadly political betrayals. While he tries to protect himself and his family, his daughter reveals a crime that he had hoped would be buried forever.

An Obedient Father takes the reader to an India that is both far away and real - into the mind of a character as tormented, funny, and morally ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky's anti-heroes. This is a subtly rendered tragicomedy of contemporary India by an enormously gifted young writer.

About the Author Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in India and emigrated to the USA in 1979. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and in Atlantic Monthly, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Collections. His first novel, An Obedient Father, won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists' in 2007.

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Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2008, over 600,000 copies sold in Faber editions to date.

Description Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

About the Author Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won, among other awards, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.

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Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection edited by Bernard O'Donoghue and Geoffrey Chaucer

A brilliant and accessible introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English Literature.

Description Geoffrey Chaucer is rightly regarded as the Father of English Literature. His observant wit, his narrative skill and characterization, his linguistic invention, have been a well from which the language's greatest writers have drawn: Shakespeare, Pope, Austen, Dickens among them. A courtier, a trade emissary and diplomat, he fought in the Hundred Years War and was captured and ransomed; his marriage into the family of John of Gaunt ensured his influence in political society. For more than a decade, he was engaged on his most famous work of all, The Canterbury Tales, until his death around 1400; there is no record of the precise date or the circumstances of his demise, despite vivid and colourful speculation.

Bernard O'Donoghue is one of the country's leading poets and medievalists. His accessible new selection includes a linking commentary on the chosen texts, together with a comprehensive line-for-line glossary that makes this the most approachable and accessible introduction to Chaucer that readers can buy.

About the Author Bernard O'Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co. Cork in 1945. He is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, where he teaches Medieval English. He has published four collections of poetry, The Weakness (1991), Gunpowder (winner of the 1995 Whitbread Award for Poetry), Here Nor There (1999) and Outliving (2003).

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Faber Poetry JUNE 2015 The Honours Tim Clare

Northern Lights meets Neil Gaiman in this box of delights ... a dark, glittering and dangerously unputdownable novel which invites you to enter a thrilling and fantastical world unlike any other.

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1935. Norfolk.

War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable father.

As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine uncovers a world more dark and threatening than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeeper Mr Garforth, Delphine must learn the bloody lessons of war and find the soldier within herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing in the woods . . .

The Honours is a dark, glittering and dangerously unputdownable novel which invites you to enter a thrilling and fantastical world unlike any other.

About the Author Tim Clare is a performance poet based in the UK. He was born in 1981, and grew up in Portishead, in South-West England. He heads up Homework, a regular poetry night in Bethnal Green and has an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. As a stand-up poet, Tim has performed nationwide including at the Edinburgh Fringe and countless festivals. He has appeared on TV, Radio and has written for the Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Big Issue and Writing magazine, amongst others. This is his debut novel.

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Canongate Trade JUNE 2015 One Moonlit Night Caradog Prichard, foreword by Jan Morris, with translated by Philip Mitchell, Jan Morris and Timothy Knapman

Named The Greatest Welsh Novel of all time.

Description This outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.

One Moonlit Night is one of Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction, a lost contemporary classic that deserves rediscovery.

About the Author Caradog Prichard (1904-80) was born in the slate-quarrying town of Bethesda, in north-west Wales. He moved to London, and after the Second World War became a sub-editor on the foreign desk at the Daily Telegraph. During this time he wrote four prize-winning odes and this exceptional novel, which has posthumously been named The Greatest Welsh Novel of all time.

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Canongate Pbs JUNE 2015 When the Doves Disappeared Sofi Oksanen

From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge comes a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II.

Description 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime...

1963: Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth...

In a masterfully told story that moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras - a story of surveillance, deception, passion, and betrayal - Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny.

About the Author Sofi Oksanen was born in Finland and is a former graduate of the Finnish Theatre Academy. She is the author of three novels. Purge is her first novel to be published in English translation. She lives in Helsinki.

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Atlantic JUNE 2015 Purge Sofi Oksanen

A haunting, intimate and gripping story of suspicion, betrayal and retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression and European war.

Description Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding.

Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal captors - men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge but not safety: she has her own criminal secrets - traitorous crimes of passion and revenge committed long ago, during the country's brutal Soviet years.

Both women have survived lives of abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth.

About the Author Sofi Oksanen was born in Finland and a former graduate of the Finnish Theatre Academy. She is the author of three novels. Purge is her first novel to be published in English translation. She lives in Helsinki.

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Atlantic Pbs JUNE 2015 Jimfish Christopher Hope

From one of South Africa's finest novelists comes a glittering and vivid fable of politics and power.

Description In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict:

'He's very odd, this Jimfish you've hauled in. If he's white he is not the right sort of white. But if he's black, who can say? We'll wait before we classify him. I'll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because he's a real fish out of water, this one is.'

So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, a South African Everyman, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond the borders of South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the defining moments of the dying days of the twentieth century. Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetime's writing and thinking, on both the Apartheid regime and the history of the twentieth century, by a writer of enormous originality and range.

About the Author Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories, including Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, My Mother's Lovers and Shooting Angels, published by Atlantic Books in 2012 to great acclaim. He is also a poet and playwright and author of the celebrated memoir White Boy Running (1988).

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Atlantic JUNE 2015 Painted Horses Malcolm Brooks

A brilliant, enthralling debut novel about an extraordinary young woman's quest to tame a wild landscape, the tide of progress in the middle of the "American century," and a beautiful, passionate love story.

Description In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild.

Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her - a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar - the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artefact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth.

And then there's John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army's last mounted cavalry campaign, living a fugitive life in the canyon. John H inspires Catherine to see beauty in the stark landscape, and her heart opens to more than just the vanished past.

Painted Horses sends a dauntless young woman on a heroic quest, sings a love song to the horseman's vanishing way of life, and reminds us that love and ambition, tradition and the future often make strange bedfellows.

About the Author Malcolm Brooks was raised in the rural foothills of the California Sierras and grew up around Gold Rush and Native American artefacts. A carpenter by trade, he has lived in Montana for most of the last two decades. This is his debut novel.

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Grove press JUNE 2015 The Incorrigible Optimists Club Jean-Michel Guenassia

Set in the backstreets of Paris during the tumultuous sixties, The Incorrigible Optimists Club is a huge, exhilarating whirlwind of first love, radical art, colonial war, progressive politics, Chuck Berry and chain- smoking intellectuals.

Description Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world - of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on the huddle of men gathered in the shadows of a back room...

Past the bar, behind a partly drawn curtain, a group of eastern European men gather, where under a cirrus of smoke and over the squares of chess boards, they tell of their lives before France - of lovers and wives, children and ambitions, all exiled behind the Iron Curtain. Listening to this band of survivors and raconteurs, Michel is introduced to a world beyond the boundaries of his childhood experience, a world of men made formidable in the face of history, ideas and politics: the world of the Incorrigible Optimists Club.

About the Author Jean-Michel Guenassia was born in Algeria, 1950. He is a prolific screenwriter and he lives in France.

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Atlantic Pbs JUNE 2015 The Bird Skinner Alice Greenway

From the award-winning author of White Ghost Girls comes an evocative tale of memory, loss - and the redemptive power of friendship.

Description It is 1973. Jim Kennoway, a distinguished ornithologist and Second World War veteran, has just left his work at the Natural History Museum in New York, turned his back on his family and retreated to an island boathouse off the coast of Maine. His desires are simple: to be left alone with his cigarettes, gin and battered copy of Treasure Island, and to forget.

Jim's solitude is shattered when Cadillac Baketi, a tall, ebullient and dazzlingly bright young woman from the Solomon Islands arrives on her way to study medicine at Yale University. Cadillac is the daughter of Tosca, an island scout Jim befriended during the war when they collected and skinned birds while spying on the Japanese. Jim curses the intrusion as he finds his thoughts catapulting back to his youth and a dark truth about his time in the Solomons. Yet it may be that Cadillac, from the Pacific islands Jim thought he'd left behind, can teach him to be human again.

About the Author Alice Greenway is an American who grew up in Hong Kong. As the daughter of a foreign correspondent she also lived in Bangkok, Jerusalem and the United States. She now lives in Scotland with her family. Her first novel, White Ghost Girls, was longlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize.

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Atlantic Pbs JUNE 2015 You Sent Me a Letter Lucy Dawson

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Corvus JUNE 2015 The Stolen Ones Owen Laukkanen

When you've got nothing left, you've got nothing left to lose.

Description Cass County, Minnesota: A sheriff's deputy steps out of a diner on a rainy summer evening and a few minutes later he's lying dead in the mud. When state investigator Kirk Stevens arrives on the scene, he discovers local authorities have taken into custody a single suspect: a hysterical young woman found sat beside the body, holding the deputy's own gun. She has no ID, speaks no English. A mystery woman.

The puzzle only deepens from there, as Stevens and Carla Windermere, his partner in the new joint state and FBI violent crime task force, find themselves on the trail of a massive international kidnapping and prostitution operation. Before the two agents are done, they will have travelled over half the country, and come face-to-face not only with the most vicious man either of them has ever encountered, but two of the most courageous women.

They are sisters, stolen ones. But just because you're a victim doesn't mean you have to stay one.

About the Author A graduate of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing program, Owen Laukkanen spent three years in the world of professional poker reporting before turning to fiction. He currently lives in Vancouver.

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Corvus Pbs JUNE 2015 Night After Night Phil Rickman

A seriously spooky supernatural thriller by the bestselling author of the Merrily Watkins series. This is a stay- up-all-night page-turner that will have you riveted.

Description Contains scenes some viewers may find disturbing...

Leo Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. But, as the head of an independent production company, he does believe in high- impact TV.

Defford hires journalist Grayle Underhill to research the history of Knap Hall, a one-time Tudor farmhouse that became the ultimate luxury guest house...until tragedy put it back on the market. Its recent history isn't conducive to a quick sale, but Defford isn't interested in keeping Knap Hall for longer than it takes to make a reality TV show that will run night after night...

A house isolated by its rural situation and its dark reputation. Seven people, nationally known, but strangers to one another, locked inside. But this time, Big Brother may not be in control.

About the Author Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the acclaimed author of The Heresy of Dr Dee, The Bones of Avalon and the Merrily Watkins series.

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Corvus Pbs JUNE 2015 The Evening Chorus Helen Humphreys

A story of four lives torn apart by war, about falling in and out of love, and the unlikely moments that come to define a life.

Description Shot down on his first RAF mission, James Hunter spends his war in a German prison camp. The other captive soldiers busy themselves planning their escapes, but James dedicates himself to a detailed study of the redstarts nesting just beyond the camp boundaries - a project that gives him something to live for and earns him an unusual ally in the Kommandant in charge of the camp.

Rose, James's young wife, is spending her war in a cottage on the lip of Ashdown Forest in Sussex, with her dog Harris for company. She'd hardly known James before he went away and can barely engage with his letters, which talk of nothing but birds. Now she has fallen in love with someone else - Toby, a young pilot home on sick leave. They meet secretly at night.

Then James's brusque sister Enid is bombed out of her flat in London and comes to live in Rose's tiny cottage. Little more than strangers, both women are guarded, and Rose tries to conceal her affair from Enid. But later both look back on this strange interlude as one of their happiest.

Beautifully written and full of moments of hope, The Evening Chorus is a stirring story about love and the natural world, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.

About the Author Helen Humphreys is a Canadian novelist and poet. She was born in London, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. Her first novel, Leaving Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998 and won the City of Toronto Book Award. She is also the author of The Reinvention of Love and True Story: On the Life and Death of My Brother, both published by Serpent's Tail.

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Serpents Tail JUNE 2015 A Time for Everything Karl Ove Knausgaard

Knausgaard's novel A Time For Everything was originally published by Portobello as A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven. The book is now restored to its original structure in a new edition which is faithful to the original text.

Description What if God exists? What if angels are real? What if we treated religious tracts, including the Bible, as empirical evidence of the supernatural world?

Karl Ove Knausgaard's major novel, A Time For Everything, is about God and his angels. It posits that angels are real, and that God exists. It posits, further, that heavenly beings evolve, and that even God may be subject to change. The 'evidence' is partly biblical and partly fictional; the result is an innovative and thought-provoking examination of religion, and the relationship between humans, angels, and God.

Karl Ove Knausgaard's second novel, previously published by Portobello Books as A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, is here restored to its original structure. Written with Knausgaard's characteristic style - level, patient, and intensely readable - it is a dazzling and innovative examination of the relationships between human, angels and God.

About the Author Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968 and made his debut with Out of This World. This, his second novel, was nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, and was his first to be translated into English. He is the author of the six volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, an international bestseller.

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Granta Paperbacks JUNE 2015 This House is Not for Sale E.C. Osondu

A colourful, engrossing debut novel about three generations living in a house in Lagos, the culture and traditions of its residents and the wider community, and the power of storytelling.

Description This House is Not For Sale is a story about a house in Lagos: The Family House, owned and ruled over by the patriarchal, business-minded Grandpa - by turns benevolent and cruel - and home to his wives, children, grandchildren and the many in his service. It tells the stories of the people who once lived there, of the curse placed on the house by one of its former occupants, of the evil and brutality that transpired in the house, and finally of its downfall.

From the casual use of violence, to the everyday reliance on magic, to the gossiping voices of neighbours passing judgement, here is a tenderly drawn, compassionate and utterly engrossing story of a Nigerian community, its culture, and the power of storytelling.

About the Author E.C. Osondu was born in Nigeria. He won the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, and he received his MFA from Syracuse University. He currently teaches at Providence College in Rhode Island.

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Granta JUNE 2015 The Blue Between Sky and Water Susan Abulhawa

From the author of the international bestseller Mornings in Jenin comes a powerful, passionate story of a family separated by conflict, and the tragedy they must endure to be reunited

Description It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in rural Palestine, surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, who is prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother Mamdouh tends to the village bees. Their beautiful younger sister, Marian, with her striking mismatched eyes, spends her days talking to imaginary friends, and writing.

When Israeli forces gather outside the town's borders, nobody suspects the terror that is about to descend. Soon the village is burning, and amidst smoke and ash, the family set out on the long road to Gaza, in a walk that will test them to their limits, with consequences that will echo throughout generations.

Spanning decades and continents, The Blue Between Sky and Water is a story of strong women and lost men - of relocation, separation and heartache - but also of renewal and endurance, and of hope in the most hopeless of situations. Susan Abulhawa brings a raw humanity and delicate authority to the story of Palestine, in this devastatingly beautiful tale of a family's survival.

About the Author Susan Abulhawa is a human rights activist, a biologist, and political commentator. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children's organisation dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, was an international bestseller, translated into 26 languages. She lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter and their beloved dogs. @sjabulhawa

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BLM Circus JUNE 2015 Mornings in Jenin Susan Abulhawa

In the tradition of Khaled Hosseini, powerful storytelling that brings to life the lives of Palestinians in an epic novel that will move you to tears.

Description Palestine, 1941. In the small village of Ein Hod a father leads a procession of his family and workers through the olive groves. As they move through the trees the green fruits drop onto the orchard floor; the ancient cycle of the seasons providing another bountiful harvest.

1948. The Abulheja family are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin. Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who becomes an Israeli soldier; the other who in sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause will become his enemy. Amal's own dramatic story threads its way through six decades of Palestinian-Israeli tension, eventually taking her into exile in Pensylvania in America.

Amal's is a story of love and loss, of childhood, marriage and parenthood, and finally the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. Richly told and full of humanity, Mornings in Jenin forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetime. It is an extraordinary debut.

About the Author Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the 1967 war when Israel captured what remained of Palestine, including Jerusalem. She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter. She is the founder and President of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children's organization dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her essays and political commentaries have appeared in print and internaional news media and she is a contributing author to two anthologies, Shattered Illusions (Amal Press, 2002) and Searching Jenin (Cune Press, 2003). Mornings in Jenin is her first novel.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 The Harder They Come T.C. Boyle

A thought provoking look at the fine line between heroism and savagery from the New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle

Description Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principle and his wife Carolee are on a cruise to Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked by local youths and they're robbed at gun point. In an astonishing act of bravery Sten's military training kicks in and within moments one of the attackers lays dead, the rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group, the Costa Rican authorities and everyone back home.

Meanwhile, in the woods just outside San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to be controlled by the government - fails to cooperate with police after being pulled over and winds up with her car impounded, her dog stuck in the pound and her best friend having to post her bail. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fueled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with eighteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behavior become steadily more extreme he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that it is impossible for his family or Sara to halt.

The latest novel by multi-award winning author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come, is a thought provoking look at the fine line between heroism and savagery and how far a parent can be held accountable for the actions of the their child.

About the Author T.C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of nine collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the collection of stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 San Miguel T.C. Boyle

From the New York Times bestselling author, a haunting historical novel about three generations of women living on a tiny, desolate island.

Description The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year's Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life on San Miguel.

Joined by her husband, a fiercely possessive Civil War veteran who will take over the operation of the sheep ranch on the island, Marantha strives to persevere in the face of brutal isolation. But the constant wind and sheep-ravaged wasteland shatter her illusions; her husband promised paradise. As he obsessively resolves to stay - and becomes increasingly distant WC from her and their adopted daughter Edith - Marantha's blighted lungs grow weaker in the dampness. Two years later, Edith, now a spirited teenager and an aspiring actress, will exploit every opportunity to escape the captivity her father has imposed on her.

March, 1930. Another family - and another bride - arrives on San Miguel. Elise Lester, a librarian from New York City and her husband Herbie, a World War I veteran full of manic energy, achieve a celebrity of sorts as the news cameras take an interest in these wayward people living in the wild. But the unyielding island is haunted by its history. Will the family be able to cling together as the war threatens to pull everything apart?

San Miguel is a vivid and gripping story of hard lives pitched against the elements, the desires of stubborn men and the unbearable burden of love, from master American storyteller T. C. Boyle.

About the Author T. C. Boyle's novels include World's End, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Tortilla Curtain, the New York Times bestseller, The Women and, most recently, When the Killing's Done. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and he is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in California. Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408831373 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x130mm Extent: 432 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: When the Killing's Done; Wild Child; The Women; Talk Talk; The Human Fly; Tooth and Claw; The Inner Circle; Drop City; After the Plague; A Friend of the Earth; T.C. Boyle Stories; Riven Rock; The Tortilla Curtain; Without A Hero; The Road to Wellville; East Is Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 The Sunlit Night Rebecca Dinerstein

A stunning debut novel from a young rising star, which Jonathan Safran Foer calls 'lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller'

Description Shortly after her college graduation, Frances flees a painful breakup and her claustrophobic childhood home in Manhattan, which has become more airless in the aftermath of two family announcements: her parents' divorce and her younger sister's engagement. She seeks refuge at a Norwegian artist colony that's offered her a painting apprenticeship. Unfortunately, she finds only one artist living there: Alf, an enigmatic middle-aged descendant of the Sami reindeer hunters who specialises in the colour yellow.

Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, is kneading bread in the shop's window when he sees his mother for the first time in a decade. As he gains a selfish and unreliable parent, he loses his beloved father. He must carry out his father's last wish to be buried 'at the top of the world' and reconcile with the charismatic woman who abandoned them both.

And so Frances's and Yasha's paths intersect in Lofoten, a string of five islands ninety-five miles above the Arctic Circle. Their unlikely connection and growing romance fortifies them against the turmoil of their distant homes, and teaches them that to be alone is not always to be lonely, and that love and independence are not mutually exclusive.

About the Author Just twenty-six years old, Rebecca Dinerstein was born and raised in New York City. Upon her graduation from Yale, she received the Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship, which allowed her to write anywhere in the world for a year. She headed as far away as she could-to Lofoten-where she penned the first draft of this novel as well as a collection of poems (Lofoten) that was subsequently published in a bilingual English-Norwegian edition. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow, and lives in Brooklyn.

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance Patricia Duncker

A brilliant, playful novel of George Eliot, of literature, of a relationship between an author and her publisher, and of a surprising romance

Description In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: 'The Sibyl', or George Eliot, whose final installment of the bestselling serial Middlemarch is in the process of being written. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making a profit and berating his spendthrift brother, but Max is given a chance to prove his worth by visiting the Sibyl and her 'husband' Lewes, to finalise the publishing rights to her new novel. The Sibyl proves to be as enthralling and intelligent as her books, bewitching Max and all of those around her.

But Wolfgang has an ulterior motive for Max's visit; he wants his brother to consider the beautiful eighteen-year-old Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. An old acquaintance, she comes from a German family of great wealth. However, Sophie proves to be nothing like the angelic vision of domesticity Max envisaged; wild and wilful, she gambles recklessly yet always wins, rides horses fiercely and is happy to disobey authority, especially when it comes to the forbidden act of contacting her heroine, who happens to be George Eliot. Enchanted by this whirlwind vision, Max nevertheless fears he will never be able to tame her.

With its vivid portrayal of George Eliot and how she lived her life, and of the turbulent and surprising love story of Max and Sophie, Sophie and the Sibyl is both a thrilling and compulsive read and a literary achievement of the highest order.

About the Author Patricia Duncker is the author of five previous novels: Hallucinating Foucault (winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize in 1996), The Deadly Space Between, James Miranda Barry, Miss Webster and Ch.rif (shortlisted for Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781408860533 the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007) and The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge (shortlisted for the Format: Paperback - C format CWA Golden Dagger award for Best Crime Novel of the Year in 2010). She has written two books of short fiction, Dimensions: 234x153mm Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees (shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award in 1997) and Seven Tales of Sex Extent: 272 pages and Death, and a collection of essays on writing and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall. She is Professor of Main Category: F Fiction

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge Patricia Duncker

The thrilling tale of a secret suicide sect and the musical mastermind at its centre, Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger, the Best Crime Novel of the Year.

Description On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, presents for the dead children, and a strange leather- bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. When Dominique Carpentier, the Judge tasked with solving the mystery behind this suicide sect, discovers the book, she is lead to the Composer, Friedrich Groz, who is connected to every one of the dead. And so the pursuit begins.

As Carpentier is drawn into a world of complex family ties, ancient beliefs and seductive, disturbing music, she becomes more and more determined to crack the case. But has she met her match in the Composer?

About the Author Patricia Duncker is the author of the novels Hallucinating Foucault (winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize), The Deadly Space Between, and The Doctor, as well as collections of short stories and essays. Her work has been shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. She is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester.

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All three of Khaled Hosseini's internationally bestselling novels in one beautiful box set: The Kite Runner, A Thousansd Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed

Description And The Mountains Echoed So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...

Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live in the small village of Shadbagh. To Abdullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their skulls touching, their limbs tangled.

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Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him - for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted and jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then, what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives, and define their futures. When Russia invades Afghanistan, Amir and Baba escape to San Francisco, where Baba fades but Amir feels that at last he can succeed. But he is still haunted by guilt and he knows that his past will not let him go. The destructive rule of the Northern Alliance, followed by the even more terrifying and oppressive Taliban have destroyed the country that Amir knows, but the hearts of men cannot be suppressed. Amir must return to Afghanistan to search for salvation, and perhaps his life-altering mistakes can be redeemed. This is a moving, courageous

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 Paradise City Elizabeth Day

An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers whose lives collide with far- reaching consequences

Description Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits.

Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Yet self-doubt still snaps at his heels and his life is shadowed by the terrible loss that has shaken him to his foundations.

Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is living the quiet life in Wandsworth with her cat and The Jeremy Kyle Show for company. As she tries to come to terms with the absence her husband has left on the other side of the bed, she frets over her daughter's prospects and wonders if she'll ever be happy again.

Esme Reade is a young journalist learning to muck-rake and doorstep in pursuit of the elusive scoop, even as she longs to find some greater meaning and leave her imprint on the world.

Four strangers, each inhabitants of the same city, where the gulf between those who have too much and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when the glass that separates Howard's and Beatrice's worlds is shattered by an inexcusable act, they discover that the capital has connected them in ways they could never have imagined.

About the Author Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and Home Fires. She is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and who is now a feature writer for the Observer. She grew up in Northern Ireland, and currently lives in London, with her husband. @elizabday www. elizabethdayonline.co.uk Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781408855003 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 At Hawthorn Time Melissa Harrison

From the prize-winning author of Clay, an exquisite and intimate novel about four people's lives and our changing relationship with the landscape

Description It is dawn on a May morning. On a long straight Roman road between two sleeping fields a car slows as it arrives at the scene of an accident.

Howard and Kitty have been married for thirty years and now sleep in different rooms. They do not discuss it. It was always Kitty's dream to move from their gobby corner of north London into the countryside, and when the kids were gone they moved to Lodeshill. Howard often wonders if anyone who lives in this invisible village has a reason to be there.

Jack was once a rural rebel, a protestor who only ever wanted the freedom to walk alone in his own country. Having finished another stint in prison for trespassing, he sets off once more, walking north with his old battered backpack.

Jamie is a nineteen-year-old Lodeshill boy who works in distribution centre and has a Saturday job at the bakery. He spent his childhood exploring the land with his granddad and playing with Alex who lived in the farmhouse next-door.

As the lives of these people coalesce we realize that mysterious layers of history are not only buried within them, but also locked into the landscape. A captivating novel of immense clarity, At Hawthorn Time is about identity, consumerism, changing boundaries and our own long, straight path into the unknown.

About the Author Melissa Harrison is a freelance writer and photographer for the Guardian and the Financial Times. Her debut novel Clay was published in 2013 and was the winner of Portsmouth First Fiction Award, selected for Amazon's 'Rising Stars' programme and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. She lives in South London.

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BLM Circus JUNE 2015 Clay Melissa Harrison

An intimate and captivating portrait of four people struggling with the concrete confines of city life by first-time novelist Melissa Harrison

Description Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city's overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, seventy-eight, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she loves. She's writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world from TC - though the two children live less than a mile apart.

Jozef spends his days doing house clearances, his nights working in a takeaway. He can't forget the farm he left behind in Poland, its woods and fields still a part of him, although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC he finds a kindred spirit: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost.

About the Author Melissa Harrison is a freelance writer and photographer whose clients include the Guardian. She was the winner of the John Muir Trust's 'Wild Writing' Award in 2010, and Clay is her debut novel. She lives in South London and writes about her local environment on her website, Tales of the City. http://www.talesofthecity.co.uk/. She is also on Twitter: https: //twitter.com/M_Z_Harrison

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins James Runcie

To be a major, prime-time six-part series Grantchester coming to ABC TV early 2015

Description The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, continues his sleuthing adventures in 1960's Cambridge. On a snowy Thursday morning in Lent 1964, a stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester's church, convinced he has murdered his wife. Sidney and his wife Hildegard go for a shooting weekend in the country and find their hostess has a sinister burn on her neck. Sidney's friend Amanda receives poison pen letters when at last she appears to be approaching matrimony. A firm of removal men accidentally drop a Steinway piano on a musician's head outside a Cambridge college. During a cricket match, a group of schoolboys blow up their school Science Block. On a family holiday in Italy, Sidney is accused of the theft of a priceless painting during the flooding of Florence in 1966.

Meanwhile, on the home front, Sidney's new curate Malcolm seems set to become rather irritatingly popular with the parish; his baby girl Anna learns to walk and talk; Hildegard longs to get an au pair and Sidney is offered a promotion and a new home in nearby Ely.

Entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful, moving and deeply humane, these six new stories are bound to delight the clerical detective's many fans.

About the Author James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning film-maker and the author of seven novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in 'The Grantchester Mysteries' series, was published in 2012. The second, Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night, was published in 2013, and the third, Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil, was published in 2014. James Runcie lives in London and Edinburgh.

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 The All Saints Day Lovers Juan Gabriel Vasquez

An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked, long stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling

Description Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium's Ardennes, these seven stories of lives in crisis have been compared to Flaubert, Dickens, Maupassant, Perec, Antonio Tabucchi and Raymond Carver. But, as one Italian reviewer said, in these 'stories there is a secret hope that escapes the American writer'.

A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which does not affect him, but which will mark him forever. Michelle sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return from an expedition to find wood for their stove, while he lies in bed twenty kilometres away, unable to heal the wound in his own marriage, trying to comfort the young widow who served him in a diner. The blood-soaked betrayal of a hunter has far-reaching consequences for Xavier and his aged dog. A young man in Paris persuades his ex-girlfriend to visit his ailing alcoholic father. A love affair and a murder led to Madame Michaud's thirty-nine year prison sentence; her release grants her younger sister the chance for long-meditated revenge.

Quoting Tobias Wolff with approval in his afterword - 'A collection of stories should be like a novel in which the characters do not know each other' - Vasquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives.

About the Author Juan Gabriel V.squez was born in Bogot. in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne, and has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. His previous books have won the IMPAC Award, the Qwerty prize, the Alfaguara Prize and the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2014 IMPAC Prize. His books have been published in sixteen languages and thirty countries. After sixteen years in France, Belgium and Spain, he now lives in Bogot..

Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781408860410 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Anne McLean has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors including Hector Abad, Carmen Mart.n Extent: 256 pages Main Category: FA Gaite, Julio Cort.zar, Ignacio Mart.nez de Pis.n, Enrique Vila-Matas and Tom.s Eloy Mart.nez. She lives in Toronto. Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 Close Call: A Liz Carlyle Novel Stella Rimington

The next instalment of the Liz Carlyle series: a pacy, intelligent espionage thriller from the woman with true insider knowledge

Description The international arms trade is about to become a national problem...

In 2012, in a Middle Eastern souk, CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked. At the time he was infiltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his cover had been blown or if the act was just an arbitrary attack on Westerners. Months later, the incident remains a mystery.

Now, Liz Carlyle and her Counter Terrorism unit in MI5 have been charged with the task of watching the international under-the-counter arms trade. With the Arabic region in such a volatile state, the British Intelligence forces have become increasing concerned that extremist Al-Qaeda jihadis are building their power base ready to launch another attack. As the pressure mounts, Liz and her team must intercept illegal weapons before they get into the wrong hands.

When MI5 learns that the source of the arms deals is located in Western Europe, Liz finds herself on a manhunt that leads her to Paris, to Berlin and into her own long-forgotten past. A past buried so deep that she thought it would never resurface . . .

About the Author Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and seven Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing Mira Jacob

The story of a family, divided across generations and cultures, wrestling with its future and its past, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing is at once magical, mouth-watering and heartbreaking

Description Of all the family gatherings in her childhood, one stands out in Amina's memory. It is 1979, in Salem India, when a visit to her grandmother's house escalates into an explosive encounter, pitching brother against brother, mother against son.

In its aftermath, Amina's father Thomas rushes his family back to their new home in America. And while at first it seems that the intercontinental flight has taken them out of harm's way, his decision sets off a chain of events that will forever haunt Thomas and his wife Kamala; their intellectually furious son, Akhil and the watchful young Amina.

Now, twenty years later, Amina receives a phone call from her mother. Thomas has been acting strangely and Kamala needs her daughter back. Amina returns to the New Mexico of her childhood, where her mother has always filled silences with food, only to discover that getting to the truth is not as easy as going home.

Confronted with Thomas's unwillingness to talk, Kamala's Born Again convictions, and the suspicion that not everything is what it seems, Amina finds herself at the centre of a mystery so tangled that to make any headway, she has to excavate her family's painful past. And in doing so she must lay her own ghosts to rest.

About the Author Mira Jacob is the founder of Pete's Reading Series in Brooklyn and has a MFA from the New School for Social Research. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, film-maker Jed Rothstein, and their son. This is her first novel. @mirajacob

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil James Runcie

To be a major, prime-time six-part series Grantchester on ABC TV in early 2015

Description Grantchester is scheduled to be a major, prime-time six-part series for ITV in autumn 2014

It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German bride Hildegard. But life in Grantchester rarely stays quiet for long.

Our favourite clerical detective soon attempts to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an 'accidental' drowning on a film shoot may not have been so accidental after all; and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a baby from a hospital in the run-up to Christmas, 1963.

In the meantime, Sidney wrestles with the problem of evil, attempts to fulfil the demands of Dickens, his faithful Labrador, and contemplates, as always, the nature of love.

The third in 'The Grantchester Mysteries' series - six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history - these four longer stories are guaranteed to delight the many fans of Canon Sidney Chambers.

About the Author James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning film-maker and the author of six novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in 'The Grantchester Mysteries' series, was published in 2012. The second, Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night, was published in 2013. James Runcie lives in London and Edinburgh.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Pigeon English Stephen Kelman

Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent

Description Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.

About the Author Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Pigeon English is his first novel; he is currently working on his second.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Ritual Amir Tag Elsir, translated by William Hutchins

'Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers' Daily News, Egypt

Description A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles - in an uncanny, terrifying way - a real person he has never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate?

Set in both sides of Khartoum - the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-stricken underbelly - this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and of the (dubious?) relationship between imagination and reality.

About the Author Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor. He studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College of Medicine. He has published a number of novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter (2010) was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. He lives in Doha, Qatar.

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Bloomsbury Qatar JUNE 2015 The Hidden Light of Objects Mai Al-Nakib

'Heralded as an exciting new literary voice' The National

Description For fans of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore.

A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country's growing hostility towards the West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife.

The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived - adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib's luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people - and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.

About the Author Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University in the USA and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. The Hidden Light of Objects is her first collection of short stories. She lives in Kuwait, and is currently writing her first novel.

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Bloomsbury Qatar JUNE 2015 The Holy Sail Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud

In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf.

In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist...

Description Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on securing the profitable spice trade.

Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility, while guiding us around the medieval world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah and Istanbul.

The Holy Sail brings to life a neglected episode of history that impacted not only the region but the world for centuries to come.

About the Author Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. He has a BA in engineering from Clarkson University in New York and an aviation and engineering diploma from the UK. He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. This is his second novel.

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Bloomsbury Qatar JUNE 2015 The Boy Who Killed Demons Dave Zeltserman

A very scary thriller written with verve and flashes of great humor, The Boy Who Killed Demons is Dave Zeltserman's most accomplished and entertaining horror novel yet.

Description 'My name's Henry Dudlow. I'm fifteen and a half. And I'm cursed. Or damned. Take your pick. The reason? I see demons.'

So begins the latest thriller by horror master Dave Zeltserman. The setting is quiet Newton, MA, where nothing ever happens. Nothing, that is, until two months after Henry Dudlow's 13th birthday, when his neighbor, Mr. Hanley, suddenly starts to look . . . different. While everyone else sees a balding man with a beer belly, Henry suddenly sees a nasty, bilious, rage-filled demon.

Once Henry catches onto the real Mr. Hanley, he starts to see demons all around him, and his boring, adolescent life is transformed. There's no more time for friends or sports or the lovely Sally Freeman-Henry must work his way through ancient texts and hunt down the demons before they kill any more innocent children. And if hunting demons is hard at any age, it's borderline impossible when your parents are on your case, and your grades are getting worse, and you can't tell anyone about your mission.

About the Author Dave Zeltserman is the author of ten horror and crime novels, including Monster, a Booklist Top 10 Horror Fiction selection; The Caretaker of Lorne Field, shortlisted by the American Library Association for best horror novel of 2010; and A Killer's Essence. He lives in the Boston area.

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Duckworth Trade JUNE 2015 Flirting with French Williams Alexander

A novel about not just exploring the country or enjoying the food, but being French from the inside.

Description William Alexander is not just a Francophile, he wants to be French. It's not enough to explore the country, to enjoy the food and revel in the ambience, he wants to feel French from the inside. Among the things that stand in his way is the fact that he can't actually speak the language. Setting out to conquer the language he loves (but which, amusingly, does not seem to love him back), Alexander devotes himself to learning French, going beyond grammar lessons and memory techniques to delve into the history of the language, the science of linguistics, and the art of translation. Along the way, during his travels in France or following his passion at home, he discovers that not learning a language may be its own reward.

About the Author William Alexander, currently living in New York's Hudson Valley, is the bestselling author of two critically acclaimed books about the quest for the perfect garden (The $64 Tomato) and the perfect loaf of bread (52 Loaves).

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780715649954 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x155mm Extent: 288 pages

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Duckworth Trade JUNE 2015 Waiting For Electricity Christina Nicol

An exciting and hilarious debut novel set in post-Soviet Georgia, land of corruption, love, and power shortages

Description In the republic of Georgia, the Communists are long gone, replaced by something much more confusing, that's for sure. There are no jobs in the cities. And when there are jobs, employees aren't compensated. And when they are compensated, it's because the jobs are not strictly scrupulous. When Slims discovers an application for an American small business internship program sponsored by Hillary Clinton, he knows that he has found his calling. Slims' dreams of bringing opportunity and the American dream to his homeland, even as his friends and relatives embrace decadence and a staggering array of unsavoury business practices. But when he finally gets to America he sees what reform and progress look like up close. And suddenly, his loud, bickering family and his anguished, joyful country no longer seem so grim.

About the Author Christina Nichol grew up in the Bay Area and studied at the University of Oregon. She has travelled widely, worked for non- profit film companies, and taught English in India, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and, of course, Georgia.

Price: $32.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780715649879 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x155mm Extent: 336 pages

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Duckworth Trade JUNE 2015 The Summer Of Broken Stories James Wilson

A powerful novel of friendship, rebellion and betrayal

Description England, 1950s. While out playing in the woods, ten-year-old Mark meets a man living in an old railway carriage. Despite his wild appearance, the stranger, who introduces himself as Aubrey Hillyard, is captivating - an irreverent outsider who is shunned by Mark's fellow villagers, and a writer to boot. Aubrey encourages Mark to tell stories about his own make- believe world, and in return he informs the boy about a novel he is writing - a work of ominous science fiction. As the meddling villagers plot to drive Aubrey out, Mark finds himself caught between two worlds - yet convinced that he must help Aubrey prevail at any cost.

About the Author Born in Cambridge and educated at Oxford, James Wilson now lives in London and Normandy. He is the author of four acclaimed novels - The Dark Clue, The Bastard Boy, The Woman in the Picture and Consolation - as well as a work of narrative non-fiction, The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781846883576 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence

'She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.'

Description Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century. Lawrence's determination to explore every aspect - sexual, social, psychological - of Lady Chatterley's adulterous liaison with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors makes for a profound meditation on the human condition, the forces of nature and the social constraints that people struggle to overcome.

About the Author D.H. Lawrence was born in 1885 and died of tuberculosis in 1930. Controversial both during and after his lifetime, his writings represent a milestone in twentieth-century literature.

Price: $11.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781847494085 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages

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Alma Classics JUNE 2015 Emma Jane Austen

Includes pictures and an extensive section on Austen's life and works

Description Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self- confidence and self-knowledge, and her determination to arrange marriages for her friends while avoiding one for herself, leads to a painful series of misunderstandings for everyone who suffers from her well-meaning altruism - and with Mr Knightley being the only person of her acquaintance who has the good sense to challenge her, Emma must eventually recognize her match in every sense.

About the Author The witty and sharply satirical novels of Jane Austen have an influence that shows no sign of waning, with continual adaptations and echoes in contemporary culture, and an ever-enthousiastic audience.

Price: $11.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781847494139 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio

Includes pictures and an extensive section on Boccaccio's life and works

Description In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption. Named after the Greek for 'ten days', Boccaccio's book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary events and everyday life, leaving an indelible mark on the works of future writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare.

About the Author Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian author, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and important Renaissance humanist

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 The Repercussions Catherine Hall

A new novel from the author of The Proof of Love, winner of the Green Carnation Prize

Description When war photographer Jo returns from her latest assignment in Afghanistan and moves into the Brighton flat she's just inherited, she hopes to restore equilibrium to her chaotic life. But images and events of her recent past and the reading of her great-grandmother Elizabeth's diary haunt her night and day, forcing Jo to come to terms with demons she thought she could leave behind.

Written as a long confession to Jo's ex-girlfriend Susie, alternating with Elizabeth's account of nursing Indian soldiers at the Brighton Pavilion in 1915, The Repercussions - Catherine Hall's most ambitious novel to date - is a sweeping narrative dealing with the psychological and emotional reality of war, as well as race, guilt, love and loss.

About the Author Catherine Hall was born in the Lake District and worked in documentary film production and international peacebuilding before becoming a freelance writer and editor for charities specializing in human rights and development. She is the author of two previous novels: the critically and commercially successful Days of Grace and The Proof of Love, which won the prestigious Green Carnation Prize.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781846883583 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson

An eclectic, entertaining compilation, New Arabian Nights represented a milestone in Stevenson's creative development

Description Stevenson published this collection of his early fiction in 1882, after the pieces had appeared in various magazines. The first half features two popular detective-story cycles, The Suicide Club and The Rajah's Diamonds, which deal with a macabre secret society and the intrigues and escapades involving exotic jewels. The second half brings together unrelated pieces, including the seminal 'The Pavilion on the Links' - described by Conan Doyle as 'the first short story in the world' - which is set in a cottage surrounded by quicksand and tells the story of two old friends who become rivals for the affection of a woman.

About the Author The prolific author of seminal works such as Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -94) remains one of the most enduringly popular storytellers in the English language.

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 Tales of Long Ago Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Long Ago is an entertaining and invaluable read for all those interested in this lesser-known facet of Conan Doyle's writing.

Description Although he is best known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle successfully contributed to other genres, such as historical fiction, as demonstrated by this collection which he compiled in 1922.

About the Author Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is the celebrated author of many adventure novels, including The Lost World and The Poison Belt, and the creator of the hugely popular detective stories of Sherlock Holmes.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847494108 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy

Now considered one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late period.

Description n a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher.

WC An uncompromising examination of lust, suspicion and infidelity which was once forbidden by censors in Russia and banned in the US due to its shocking content, Tolstoy's controversial novella - here presented in a new translation, along with 'The Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Master and Man' and 'After the Ball' - is now considered one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late

About the Author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is regarded by some as the greatest novelist of all time. With such masterpieces as Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he influenced generations of writers and changed the course of world literature.

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 George Silverman's Explanation Charles Dickens

'The power of [Dickens] is so amazing that the reader at once becomes his captive.' William Makepeace Thackeray

Description After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up convinced that he is at fault for all the misfortunes in his life. Hoodwinked by hypocritical clergymen and exploited by his employer, he finds himself forsaking love and facing professional ruin.

One of Dickens's very last writings, 'George Silverman's Explanation' is a dark and psychologically insightful investigation of failure and guilt. This volume also includes two other lesser-known pieces of fiction: the novella for children 'Holiday Romance' and the detective story 'Hunted Down'.

About the Author A literary phenomenon in his lifetime and renowned as much for his journalism and public speaking as for his novels, Charles Dickens (1812-70) now ranks as the most important Victorian writer and one of the most influential and popular authors in the English language. His memorable and vividly rendered characters and his combination of humour, trenchant satire and compassion have left an indelible mark on our collective imagination.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847494023 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Mark Twain

'The father of American literature.' William Faulkner

Description One of Twain's most celebrated novellas, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold. This collection also includes another acclaimed novella, 'A Double-Barrelled Detective Story', a spoof of the mystery genre featuring Sherlock Holmes in the American West, as well as lesser-known narratives such as 'The Belated Russian Passport' and 'The Death Disk'. Together, these tales are a testament to Twain's inexhaustible gift for invention and his skills as a storyteller. THIS VOLUME INCLUDES: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The Esquimou Maiden's Romance The Belated Russian Passport Two Little Tales Is He Living or Is He Dead? The Death Disk A Double-Barrelled Detective Story

About the Author Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 The Dream Woman Wilkie Collins

The Dream Woman is a powerfully dark and suspenseful multi-narrative novella from the master of the mystery genre

Description When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him, he is unsure whether she is real or an apparition. Years later, against the wishes of his mother, he marries Alicia, a woman with a strange resemblance to the mysterious visitor, who ends up attacking him on his birthday, before vanishing from his life. Is Francis's wife a ghost, a demon or a living human being? And will the prophecy of the night-time visitation be fulfilled one day?

Originally published in Household Words in 1855 as 'The Ostler', but recast and expanded two decades later, The Dream Woman is a powerfully dark and suspenseful multi-narrative novella from the master of the mystery genre and the author of

About the Author Wilkie Collins remains most famous for his novels The Moonstone and The Woman in White, in which he pioneered a new style of "sensation" writing, the influence of which can still be seen in today's culture in the genres of crime, mystery and suspens. He is also renowned for his close relationship with Charles Dickens, who regarded him as the most talented of his many proteges.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847494061 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 The Last of the Belles F. Scott Fitzgerald

'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.' The New York Times

Description Inspired by Fitzgerald's own courtship of his future wife Zelda, 'The Last of the Belles' centres on the Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun from Tarleton, Georgia, who finds herself the object of attention of all the officers at a nearby army base, including the narrator, Andy. A wistful and melancholy exploration of unfulfilled dreams and lost youth, the story is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest pieces of short fiction. This volume also includes other acclaimed stories - such as 'Jacob's Ladder', 'The Swimmers' and 'The Bridal Party' - written by Fitzgerald between 1927 and 1931, during the prolonged period in which he was struggling to compose Tender Is the Night.

About the Author Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896- 1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.

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Alma Books JUNE 2015 Beyond the Horizon Ryan Ireland

A confident and high-octane allegorical novel about the origins of the mythical American West

Description In frontier America, a man lives with a pregnant woman who is not his wife. When a stranger appears and advises him to register the baby as his own at a fabled military outpost, the man sets out on a lonely journey across an arid and hostile terrain. Soon after he departs, the stranger kills the woman before setting off in pursuit of the man. As their parallel journeys unfold, we learn of the man's childhood working with his father on a ship rife with cannibalism and their subsequent life in a port town; we watch the stranger as he assumes many guises to shape-shift his way through history in pursuit of the man, a pawn in his brutal game of rewriting the founding myths of the American West. Menacing, visceral and lyrical, Beyond the Horizon is an audacious debut: an astonishing sojourn into the darkest parts of Western lore that showcases a bold and enormous new talent in contemporary fiction.

About the Author Ryan Ireland was born and raised in Ohio. He lives in the village of Alpha with his wife and three children. He is a strong advocate for public libraries with work appearing in Public Library Quarterly and Voice of Youth Advocates. His writing has also been published in Fogdog Review, Seems, and Writing on the Edge. In 2009, he was recognized by Glimmer Train as one of the 25 Best New Writers. Beyond the Horizon is his first novel.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$35.00) ISBN: 9781780745978 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages

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Oneworld JUNE 2015 The Concrete Blonde Michael Connelly

Four years ago, Harry Bosch shot the notorious serial killer The Dollmaker. Now Harry is accused of killing the wrong man.

Description They called him the Dollmaker ...

The serial killer who stalked Los Angeles and left a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. With a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thought he had ended the city's nightmare.

Now, the dead man's widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man - an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker's macabre signature.

Now, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It's a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go - the darkness of his own heart.

With The Concrete Blonde, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly has hit a whole new level in his career, creating a breathtaking thriller that thrusts you into a blistering courtroom battle - and a desperate search for a sadistic killer.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of eleven acclaimed Harry Bosch thrillers and several stand-alone bestsellers, including most recently the highly acclaimed legal thriller, The Lincoln Lawyer.

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Michael Connelly JUNE 2015 City of Bones Michael Connelly

When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found Harry is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories.

Description On New Year's Day, Detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone - a bone that the dog's owner, a doctor, feels certain is a human bone.

Bosch investigates, and that chance discovery leads him to a shallow grave in the Hollywood hills, evidence of a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but it stirs up Bosch's memories of his own childhood as an orphan in the city. He can't let it go. Digging through police reports and hospital records, tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence - and a trail, ever more tenuous, into a violent, terrifying world.

As the case takes Bosch deeper into the past, a rookie cop named Julia Brasher brings him alive in the present in a way no one has in years. Bosch has been warned about the trouble that comes with dating a rookie, but no warning could withstand the heat between them - or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a hard turn. A suspect bolts, a cop is shot, and suddenly Bosch's cold case has all of L.A. in an uproar - and Bosch fighting to keep control in a lawless and brutal showdown.

The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision - one that will leave readers hungrily awaiting for the next Bosch novel.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of eleven acclaimed Harry Bosch thrillers and several stand-alone bestsellers, including most recently the highly acclaimed legal thriller, The Lincoln Lawyer.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781742371702 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 512 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Michael Connelly JUNE 2015 Echo Park Michael Connelly

Bosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before.

Description In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the case. But the 22-year-old woman never turned up - dead or alive - and it was a case Bosch couldn't crack.

Thirteen years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death.

In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought for thirteen years. Bosch's whole being as a cop begins to crack when he comes to realise that he and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 that could have led them to Waits and would have stopped the nine murders that followed the killing of Marie Gesto.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of eleven acclaimed Harry Bosch thrillers and several stand-alone bestsellers, including most recently the highly acclaimed legal thriller, The Lincoln Lawyer.

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Michael Connelly JUNE 2015 The Black Ice Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch investigates the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico.

Description When a body is found in a hotel room, the press soon pick up on the case: it appears to be the body of a missing LAPD narcotics officer, apparently gone to the bad. The rumours were that he had been selling a new drug called Black Ice that had been infiltrating Los Angeles from Mexico.

The LAPD are quick to declare the death as a suicide, but Harry Bosch is not so sure. There are odd, unexplained details from the crime scene which just don't add up.

Fighting an attraction to the cop's widow, Bosh starts his own maverick investigation, which soon leads him over the borders, and into a dangerous world of shifting identities and deadly corruption...

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of eleven acclaimed Harry Bosch thrillers and several stand-alone bestsellers, including most recently the highly acclaimed legal thriller, The Lincoln Lawyer.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781742371610 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 336 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Michael Connelly JUNE 2015 Angels Flight Michael Connelly

A lawyer is found murdered on the eve of a landmark trial at the foot of Angels Flight in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.

Description When the body of high profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight, a cable railway in downtown Los Angeles, there's not a detective in the city who wants to touch the case. For Elias specialized in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism, and corruption, and every LAPD cop is a possible suspect in his killing.

Detective Harry Bosch is put in charge. Elias's murder occurred on the eve of a major trial: on behalf of black client, Michael Harris, Elias was to bring a civil case against the LAPD for violent interrogation tactics that had caused his client the partial loss of his hearing. Harris had been acquitted of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old girl, but many, including Bosch, believe him guilty. Elias had let it be known that the trial would serve a dual purpose - to target and bring down the guilty cops and to expose the real murderer of the little girl. Post Rodney King, the 1992 riots, and the trial of O. J. Simpson, the City of Angels is living on its nerves. To discover the truth Harry must dig deep in his own backyard - except that it's a minefield of suspicion and hate that could detonate in his face.

And as if he didn't have enough on his mind, his happiness with Eleanor Wish looks to be short-lived. Five cards on the felt are pulling her back to a place where Harry cannot follow, back to herself.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of eleven acclaimed Harry Bosch thrillers and several stand-alone bestsellers, including most recently the highly acclaimed legal thriller, The Lincoln Lawyer.

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Michael Connelly JUNE 2015 The Black Box Michael Connelly

Every bullet tells a story - Detective Harry Bosch searches for a killer who thinks he's been safe for twenty years.

Description May 1992, and after four LAPD officers were acquitted after the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning take over the city, law and order are swept away in a tidal wave of violence. But under threat of their lives, homicide detectives like Harry Bosch are still stubbornly trying to do their job. With no effective police presence on the streets, murder just got a whole lot easier--and investigating them got a whole lot harder.

Escorted by national guard soldiers from murder scene to murder scene, Harry and his colleagues are only able to do the bare minimum in terms of collecting evidence. And for Harry that's not enough.

When he finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley, he cannot accept that he will never be able to bring her killer to justice, and her tragedy starts to eat into his soul. But then, twenty years later, Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit, and suddenly the past comes back to haunt him once again, in a way he could never have imagined.

About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of the Harry Bosch thriller series as well as several stand-alone bestsellers, including the acclaimed legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer. Michael has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 31 languages and have won awards all over the world including the Edgar and Anthony Awards.

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Michael Connelly JUNE 2015 The Killing of Bobbi Lomax Cal Moriarty

When a sleepy, devout town is rocked by three deadly bombs in 24 hours an extraordinary mystery is unraveled...

Description The Killing of Bobbi Lomax is the story of Clark Houseman, a rare books dealer, an expert in his field, beloved by both collectors and The Faith - the immensely powerful local church, and one of his biggest clients.

Beloved, that is, until he is blown up by the city's third bomb in less than twenty-four hours. As Clark hovers on the brink of death first on the scene are Detectives Sinclair and Alvarez who, after the previous deadly blasts, are under pressure to close the case and stop panic spreading through their community. Amid a vortex of conspiracy theories and local politics, their investigation unearths a web of intrigue surrounding The Faith and its secretive dealings. With time running out, the Detectives start to wonder if there could be more to the mild-mannered, bookish Clark Houseman than first thought...

About the Author Cal Moriarty also writes for film and theatre, and previously worked as a private eye. She attended both the 'Writing A Novel' and 'Edit Your Novel' courses on the Faber Academy in 2012-13.

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Faber Fiction JUNE 2015 Blood Whispers John Gordon Sinclair

How do you tell the truth in a world full of lies?

Description Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi. The police want her to give evidence against him: Abazi wants her dead. Only her lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening.

What Keira doesn't realise is that this is a case with global repercussions and it's not long before the CIA come calling. If Kaltrina talks and Abazi is imprisoned, then certain information will come to light - information that men will go to any lengths to keep buried.

What they don't realise though is that Keira Lynch isn't your typical Glasgow lawyer. When she was eight years old she killed a man, and as they're about to find out, she's at her most dangerous when threatened.

About the Author John Gordon Sinclair was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He moved to London in the early Eighties and now lives in Surrey with his wife, Shauna, and their two children. John's first film won him a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to a Leading film Role. His first outing in London's West End won him an Olivier award for Best Actor. Seventy Times Seven, his first novel, was published in 2012 and was described by Barry Norman as 'a remarkable first novel' and as 'an impressive debut . . . Fast and bloody . . . ' by The Times.

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Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 Jimfish Christopher Hope

From one of South Africa's finest novelists comes a glittering and vivid fable of politics and power.

Description In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict:

'He's very odd, this Jimfish you've hauled in. If he's white he is not the right sort of white. But if he's black, who can say? We'll wait before we classify him. I'll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because he's a real fish out of water, this one is.'

So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, a South African Everyman, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond the borders of South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the defining moments of the dying days of the twentieth century. Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetime's writing and thinking, on both the Apartheid regime and the history of the twentieth century, by a writer of enormous originality and range.

About the Author Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg in 1944. He is the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories, including Kruger's Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize, My Mother's Lovers and Shooting Angels, published by Atlantic Books in 2012 to great acclaim. He is also a poet and playwright and author of the celebrated memoir White Boy Running (1988).

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Atlantic JUNE 2015 The Living Léan Cullinan

The Irish nation is at peace. Violence and segregation are consigned to history, stories to be told and not forgotten. Yet for the first generation to come of age in Ireland's flimsy peacetime, the ghosts of the past are all too close to home.

Description Cate Houlihan, recent Trinity graduate, is adrift in a life that doesn't feel her own. Struggling with a new job at an eccentric Dublin publishing house and stifled by overbearing parents, her one sanctuary is singing in the prestigious Carmina Urbana choir. When romance blossoms with the choir's newest member - the older, opaque and British Mathew Taylor - it seems as if things might be starting to go Cate's way.

But when her job brings her into contact with the recent Republican past, and she fears she is being followed, Cate's entire world becomes confused. Tensions escalate and she finds herself drawn inexorably into a situation she barely comprehends. As the lines between Cate's work, family and relationship begin to blur, she realises that danger is much closer to home than she could have ever imagined.

About the Author Lean Cullinan grew up in a distinguished literary family and has been writing since childhood. She is a graduate of the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin and sings in one of Ireland's finest choirs. She lives in Dublin with one husband and two sons.

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Atlantic Pbs JUNE 2015 Noontide Toll Romesh Gunesekera

A deeply humane and darkly touching collection of interlinked stories set in Sri Lanka, from Booker shortlisted author of Reef.

Description Vasantha is a van driver for hire, ferrying aid workers, returning exiles, and tentative entrepreneurs across the battle- scarred landscapes of Sri Lanka. The civil war is finally over, but the traumas of the past are still haunting. Behind the facade of peace we are made to remember the war: mysterious hoteliers conceal scars under their collars; genial old soldiers are secretly identified as perpetrators of brutal crimes; young Sinhalese men pine after Tamil girls whose brothers died by their hands. Vasantha keeps his own counsel, lingering on the periphery of his passengers' stories, but as time goes on he reveals a little of his own story too.

Perceptive, sombre and finely-tuned, Noontide Toll paints an extraordinary portrait of a postwar Sri Lanka grappling with the ghosts of its troubled past.

About the Author Romesh Gunesekera grew up in Sri Lanka and now lives in London. His debut novel Reef was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1994 and won the Yorkshire Post First Work Prize. In 1997 he was awarded the prestigious Premio Mondello award in Italy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004. He is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including Reef, Monkfish Moon and The Sandglass, all of which are published by Granta Books.

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Granta Paperbacks JUNE 2015 Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance Patricia Duncker

A brilliant, playful novel of George Eliot, of literature, of a relationship between an author and her publisher, and of a surprising romance

Description In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: 'The Sibyl', or George Eliot, whose final installment of the bestselling serial Middlemarch is in the process of being written. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making a profit and berating his spendthrift brother, but Max is given a chance to prove his worth by visiting the Sibyl and her 'husband' Lewes, to finalise the publishing rights to her new novel. The Sibyl proves to be as enthralling and intelligent as her books, bewitching Max and all of those around her.

But Wolfgang has an ulterior motive for Max's visit; he wants his brother to consider the beautiful eighteen-year-old Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. An old acquaintance, she comes from a German family of great wealth. However, Sophie proves to be nothing like the angelic vision of domesticity Max envisaged; wild and wilful, she gambles recklessly yet always wins, rides horses fiercely and is happy to disobey authority, especially when it comes to the forbidden act of contacting her heroine, who happens to be George Eliot. Enchanted by this whirlwind vision, Max nevertheless fears he will never be able to tame her.

With its vivid portrayal of George Eliot and how she lived her life, and of the turbulent and surprising love story of Max and Sophie, Sophie and the Sibyl is both a thrilling and compulsive read and a literary achievement of the highest order.

About the Author Patricia Duncker is the author of five previous novels: Hallucinating Foucault (winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize in 1996), The Deadly Space Between, James Miranda Barry, Miss Webster and Ch.rif (shortlisted for Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781408860526 the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007) and The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge (shortlisted for the Format: Hard Cover CWA Golden Dagger award for Best Crime Novel of the Year in 2010). She has written two books of short fiction, Dimensions: 234x153mm Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees (shortlisted for the Macmillan Silver Pen Award in 1997) and Seven Tales of Sex Extent: 272 pages and Death, and a collection of essays on writing and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall. She is Professor of Main Category: FA Sub Category: Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester. She lives in Wales. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 Paradise City Elizabeth Day

An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers whose lives collide with far- reaching consequences

Description Beatrice, a young woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits.

Howard Pink, self-made billionaire, is a man who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster, and yet he still feels the wolves of self-doubt snapping at his heels, and the terrible loss that has shaken him to his foundations.

Carol, skating tentatively around the hole in her life that her husband's death has left, fights sleeplessness and frets over her daughter's prospects. And Esme, a young journalist learning to muck-rake and doorstep in pursuit of the elusive by- line, longs to sound the depths of her own worth and leave her imprint on the world.

Four strangers, each inhabiting the same city where the gulf between those who have too much, and those who will never have enough, seems impossibly vast. But when the glass that separates Howard's and Beatrice's worlds is shattered by an inexcusable act, they discover that the capital has connected them in ways they could never have imagined. They come to learn that shame and absolution can go hand in hand, grief can bind as well as sunder, and love can surprise us all.

About the Author Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and Home Fires. She is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and who is now a feature writer for the Observer. She grew up in Northern Ireland, and currently lives in London, with her husband.

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 At Hawthorn Time Melissa Harrison

From the prize-winning author of Clay, an exquisite and intimate novel about four people's lives and our changing relationship with the landscape

Description It is dawn on a May morning. On a long straight Roman road between two sleeping fields a car slows as it arrives at the scene of an accident.

Howard and Kitty have been married for thirty years and now sleep in different rooms. They do not discuss it. It was always Kitty's dream to move from their gobby corner of north London into the countryside, and when the kids were gone they moved to Lodeshill. Howard often wonders if anyone who lives in this invisible village has a reason to be there.

Jack was once a rural rebel, a protestor who only ever wanted the freedom to walk alone in his own country. Having finished another stint in prison for trespassing, he sets off once more, walking north with his old battered backpack.

Jamie is a nineteen-year-old Lodeshill boy who works in distribution centre and has a Saturday job at the bakery. He spent his childhood exploring the land with his granddad and playing with Alex who lived in the farmhouse next-door.

As the lives of these people coalesce we realize that mysterious layers of history are not only buried within them, but also locked into the landscape. A captivating novel of immense clarity, At Hawthorn Time is about identity, consumerism, changing boundaries and our own long, straight path into the unknown.

About the Author Melissa Harrison is a freelance writer and photographer for the Guardian and the Financial Times. Her debut novel Clay was published in 2013 and was the winner of Portsmouth First Fiction Award, selected for Amazon's 'Rising Stars' programme and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. She lives in South London.

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BLM Circus JUNE 2015 The Harder They Come T.C. Boyle

A thought provoking look at the fine line between heroism and savagery from the New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle

Description Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten's military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead, the rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home.

Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behaviour become steadily more extreme, he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible for his family or Sara to halt.

The latest novel by internationally bestselling author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative. A deep and disturbing meditation on the roots of American gun violence, it explores the fine line between heroism and savagery, and just how far parents can be held accountable for the actions of their child.

About the Author T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 The Blue Between Sky and Water Susan Abulhawa

From the author of the international bestseller Mornings in Jenin comes a powerful, passionate story of a family separated by conflict, and the tragedy they must endure to be reunited

Description It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in rural Palestine, surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, who is prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother Mamdouh tends to the village bees. Their beautiful younger sister, Marian, with her striking mismatched eyes, spends her days talking to imaginary friends, and writing.

When Israeli forces gather outside the town's borders, nobody suspects the terror that is about to descend. Soon the village is burning, and amidst smoke and ash, the family set out on the long road to Gaza, in a walk that will test them to their limits, with consequences that will echo throughout generations.

Spanning decades and continents, The Blue Between Sky and Water is a story of strong women and lost men - of relocation, separation and heartache - but also of renewal and endurance, and of hope in the most hopeless of situations. Susan Abulhawa brings a raw humanity and delicate authority to the story of Palestine, in this devastatingly beautiful tale of a family's survival.

About the Author Susan Abulhawa is a human rights activist, a biologist, and political commentator. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children's organisation dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, was an international bestseller, translated into 26 languages. She lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter and their beloved dogs. @sjabulhawa

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BLM Circus JUNE 2015 The Field of the Cloth of Gold Magnus Mills

A witty and surreal fable from one of Britain's most original and best-loved comic novelists

Description In a lush verdant meadow, bounded by a sparkling river, the flags of several tents flutter in the gentle breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days.

Yet all is not as tranquil as it may seem: the balance of power wrought between the tenants of The Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one. A true pioneer, Hen claims to have arrived in the field first, pitching his tent in the west, and is staunchly defensive of his claim; Isabella, with all her crimson finery, bathes daily in the stream much to the chagrin of certain residents, the concerned delight of others; while Thomas, with mysterious his grand octagonal tent and flowing white robes, disappears for days at a time with undetectable goals, provoking suspicion and mistrust. While the narrator nurses grudges but tries to help where he can.

These relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined group offers to share its surplus of milk pudding, a gesture that only the narrator is willing to acknowledge. By forging links with the newcomers he becomes a conduit for change, a change that threatens The Great Field.

About the Author Magnus Mills is the author of A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In and five other novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1999. His most recent novel, A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In, was published to great critical acclaim. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London.

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 The All Saints' Day Lovers Juan Gabriel Vasquez

An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked, long stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling

Description Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium's Ardennes, these seven stories of lives in crisis have been compared to Flaubert, Dickens, Maupassant, Perec, Antonio Tabucchi and Raymond Carver. But, as one Italian reviewer said, in these 'stories there is a secret hope that escapes the American writer'.

A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which does not affect him, but which will mark him forever. Michelle sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return from an expedition to find wood for their stove, while he lies in bed twenty kilometres away, unable to heal the wound in his own marriage, trying to comfort the young widow who served him in a diner. The blood-soaked betrayal of a hunter has far-reaching consequences for Xavier and his aged dog. A young man in Paris persuades his ex-girlfriend to visit his ailing alcoholic father. A love affair and a murder led to Madame Michaud's thirty-nine year prison sentence; her release grants her younger sister the chance for long-meditated revenge.

Quoting Tobias Wolff with approval in his afterword - 'A collection of stories should be like a novel in which the characters do not know each other' - Vasquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives.

About the Author Juan Gabriel V.squez was born in Bogot. in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne, and has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. His previous books have won the IMPAC Award, the Qwerty prize, the Alfaguara Prize and the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2014 IMPAC Prize. His books have been published in sixteen languages and thirty countries. After sixteen years in France, Belgium and Spain, he now lives in Bogot..

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781408860403 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Anne McLean has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors including Hector Abad, Carmen Mart.n Extent: 256 pages Gaite, Julio Cort.zar, Ignacio Mart.nez de Pis.n, Enrique Vila-Matas and Tom.s Eloy Mart.nez. She lives in Toronto. Main Category: F Fiction

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 The Sunlit Night Rebecca Dinerstein

A stunning debut novel from a young rising star, which Jonathan Safran Foer calls 'lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller'

Description Shortly after her college graduation, Frances flees a painful breakup and her claustrophobic childhood home in Manhattan, which has become more airless in the aftermath of two family announcements: her parents' divorce and her younger sister's engagement. She seeks refuge at a Norwegian artist colony that's offered her a painting apprenticeship. Unfortunately, she finds only one artist living there: Alf, an enigmatic middle-aged descendant of the Sami reindeer hunters who specialises in the colour yellow.

Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, is kneading bread in the shop's window when he sees his mother for the first time in a decade. As he gains a selfish and unreliable parent, he loses his beloved father. He must carry out his father's last wish to be buried 'at the top of the world' and reconcile with the charismatic woman who abandoned them both.

And so Frances's and Yasha's paths intersect in Lofoten, a string of five islands ninety-five miles above the Arctic Circle. Their unlikely connection and growing romance fortifies them against the turmoil of their distant homes, and teaches them that to be alone is not always to be lonely, and that love and independence are not mutually exclusive.

About the Author Just twenty-six years old, Rebecca Dinerstein was born and raised in New York City. Upon her graduation from Yale, she received the Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship, which allowed her to write anywhere in the world for a year. She headed as far away as she could-to Lofoten-where she penned the first draft of this novel as well as a collection of poems (Lofoten) that was subsequently published in a bilingual English-Norwegian edition. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow, and lives in Brooklyn.

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 The Bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi, translated by Jonathan Wright

Winner of the Arabic Booker

Description Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, a spoiled only son. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid abandons her and sends her back home with her baby son, Jos..

Brought up struggling with his dual identity, Jose clings to the hope of returning to his father's country when he is eighteen. But will Kuwait be any more welcoming to him?

Daring and bold, The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the phenomenon of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion.

About the Author Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper. He lives in Kuwait City.

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Bloomsbury Qatar JUNE 2015 The Man Who Walked Away: A Novel Maud Casey

Unconventional and engaging..... [A] beautifully crafted interweaving of image and observation, fairy tale and fact. - Publishers Weekly, starred review

Description In a trance-like state, Albert walks-from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia-all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images.

Loosely based on the case history of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in the hospital of St. Andr. in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who Walked Away imagines Albert's wanderings and the anguish that caused him to seek treatment with a doctor who would create a diagnosis for him, a narrative for his pain.

In a time when mental health diagnosis is still as much art as science, Maud Casey takes us back to its tentative beginnings and offers us an intimate relationship between one doctor and his patient as, together, they attempt to reassemble a lost life. Through Albert she gives us a portrait of a man untethered from place and time who, in spite of himself, kept setting out, again and again, in search of wonder and astonishment.

About the Author Maud Casey is the author of two novels, The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable, and Genealogy, and a collection of stories, Drastic. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and has received fellowships from the Fundaci.n Valparaiso, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, Ch.teau de Lavigny, and the Passa Porta residency at Villa Hellebosch. She lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches at the University of Maryland and in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson.

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Bloomsbury USA JUNE 2015 The Poets' Wives David Park

From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet

Description Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake - a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under Stalin's terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her husband's death as she seeks to fulfil his final wish.

Set across continents and centuries, and in very different circumstances, these three women confront the contradictions between art and life, contemplate their emotional and physical sacrifices for another's creativity, and struggle with infidelities that involve not only the flesh, but ultimately poetry itself. They find themselves custodians of their husbands' work, work that has been woven with love's intimacies and which has shaped their own lives in the most unexpected of ways.

Deeply insightful and beautifully wrought, The Poets' Wives is David Park at his best - a novelist whose work has the power to bring the hidden from the shadows, into a delicate and shimmering light.

About the Author David Park has written eight previous books including The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner and, most recently, The Light of Amsterdam. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 The Rye Man David Park

Reissued to conicide with the publication of the paperback of David Park's newest novel, The Poets' Wives

Description Returning to rural Northern Ireland for a fresh start, John Cameron takes on the role of headmaster at his old primary school. But as dark memories are disturbed and his marriage falters, Cameron is left feeling powerless in this fractured community. Driven by unresolved grief and tormented by his waking dreams, he is forced to confront his past as he struggles to prevent history from repeating itself.

About the Author David Park has written eight previous books including The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner and, most recently, The Poets' Wives. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Stone Kingdoms David Park

Reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of his most recent novel, The Poets' Wives

Description Haunted by the Troubles in Northern Ireland and trapped in a land between the mountains and the sea, Naomi dreams of another life far from the rainy shores of Donegal. When she moves from the rain swept shores of Ireland to work in a refugee camp in the burning heat of Africa, Naomi exchanges the city streets of Belfast for the arid desert. Though she leaves behind the land where she was born, escaping her past is not so easy.

About the Author David Park has written eight previous books including The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner and, most recently, The Poets' Wives. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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JUNE 2015 A Double Shot of Happiness Judy Sharp

The inspirational story of how a boy diagnosed with severe autism went on to become one of Australia's best- known international artists and the creator of Laser Beak Man.

Description When Judy Sharp took her three-year-old son Tim to a paediatric specialist she was told that his autism was so severe he would never be able to communicate with her, talk or learn to live in a normal household. The advice at the time was that he would be better off in an institution.

More than twenty years later, Tim is a world-famous artist, whose joyful paintings and drawings involving the super hero he created, Laser Beak Man, have been exhibited around the world. Laser Beak Man's appeal is so widespread it's gone on to inspire, among other things, an eight-part animated children's TV series and an off -Broadway play in New York.

Tim's journey from an autistic child unable to communicate even with his mother to an artist and acclaimed public speaker (Judy and Tim received a standing ovation for their presentation at Sydney's 2014 TEDx Conference) has involved many hurdles, moments of despair and incredible hard work from Tim, Judy and those that helped them. But it's ultimately a triumphant story of love and hope that will inspire and delight everyone who reads it.

About the Author Judy Sharp raised two boys as a single mother, Tim and his younger brother Sam. Sam is a former state swimmer and trialled for the Olympics. He now works as a high-level swimming coach. Tim's art is exhibited all around the world. He spends much of his time helping organisations and schools that work with autistic children. They live in Brisbane.

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 My Paris Dream: Life, love and fashion in the great city by the Seine Kate Betts

Former editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar recalls her time in Paris - falling in love, finding herself, and beign initiated into the world of high fashion.

Description When Kate Betts graduated from Princeton, she was desperate to stand on her own two feet and discover who she really was.

Kate decided to take a leap of faith and move to Paris where she would throw herself into Parisian culture, master French and a find a job that would give her a reason to stay.

After a series of dues-paying jobs, she began a magnificent apprenticeship at Women's Wear Daily and was initiated into the high fashion world at a moment that saw the last glory of the old guard and the explosion of a new generation of talent.

From a woozy yet enchanting Yves Saint Laurent to the mischievous and commanding Karl Lagerfeld, to the riotous, brilliant young guns-Martin Margiela, Helmut Lang, and John Galliano-who were rewriting the rules of fashion, Betts gives us a view of what it looked like to a young woman, finding herself, falling in love, and exploring this dazzling world all at once.

Rife with insider information about restaurants, shopping, travel, and food, Betts's memoir brings the enchantment of France to life-from the nightclubs of Paris where she learned to dance Le Rock, to the lavender fields of Provence and the forests of le Bretagne-in an unforgettable memoir of coming-of-age.

About the Author Kate Betts is the ultimate fashion insider. In addition to her earlier stints as the former editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781925266948 and as #2 editor at Vogue (under Anna Wintour), she is also currently a contributing editor at TIME and The Daily Beast, Format: Paperback - C format and reports on fashion for CNN. She lives in New York with her family. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Paris Dream 8 copy pack

Contains 8 copies of My Paris Dream and free reading copy.

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Into the Dark: How the dead help us heal Allison DuBois

The Afterlife explained by those who have been there.

Description With her characteristic warm and compassionate approach, Allison DuBois reaches out to those who have lost loved ones and explains the journey of the soul after death. She explores what is experienced in the transition to the afterlife and the ways that you can reconnect with those who have passed over.

Through sharing the stories of children, parents and spouses who have died, Allison conveys that while death appears final, it is never too late to heal the wounds between the living and the deceased. Allison's insights help readers to find a psychic or medium who is reliable and she offers advice for those coping with loss, including the trauma of loss through murder or suicide. By exploring death from the perspectives of those who have passed over, as well as the stages of bereavement, Allison tenderly reveals that there is a path through grief that brings hope, healing and reconnection with the people we have lost.

About the Author Allison DuBois is a psychic and the inspiration for the blockbuster TV series Medium. She is the author of a number of bestselling books, including Talk to Me.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781925266153 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 224 pages

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 The Power of Bones: From a troubled childhood to running a cattle station one woman's heartbreaking but uplifting story of triumph Keelen Mailman

A heartbreaking tale of childhood poverty, abuse and racism that happily becomes an inspiring story of an extraordinary woman's strength through adversity.

Description It looked bleak and predictable for little Keelen Mailman: an alcoholic mother, absent father, the horrors of regular sexual and physical assault and the casual racism of a small outback town in the sixties. But somehow, despite the pain and deprivation, the lost education, she managed to absorb her mother's lessons: her Bidjara language and culture, her obligations to Country, and her loyalty to her family.

So it was no surprise to some that a girl who could hide for a year in her own home to keep her family together, run as fast as Raylene Boyle and catch porcupine and goanna, would one day make history. At just 30, and a single mother, Keelen became the first Aboriginal woman to run a commercial cattle station when she took over Mt Tabor, two hours from Augathella on the black soil plains of western Queensland. This is the heartland of Bidjara country, after all, the place her mother and grandparents and great-grandparents had camped on and cared for, and where their ancestors left their marks on caves and rock walls more than 10,000 years ago.

In this unflinching memoir, the warmth of Keelen's personality, her determination and her irresistible humour shine through as she recalls her extraordinary life.

About the Author Keelen Mailman was born in Augathella to a poor Aboriginal family with a history of alcoholism. Now she is the first female station manager for Mt Tabor, home to her native Bidjara people.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781760113049 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 272 pages

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition: A comprehensive guide to essential nutrients and nutritional bioactives Fay Paxton

A systematic and extraordinarily comprehensive guide to the principles of clinical nutrition from a complementary health perspective.

Description Nutrition is a vital part of the complementary approach to health. This uniquely comprehensive and evidence-based text provides a detailed and systematic guide to the principles of clinical nutrition from a naturopathic perspective.

The text begins with an overview of basic physiological principles and the body's protective systems including the antioxidant, detoxification and immune systems. The focus then moves to an in depth examination of food components including essential nutrients, such as protein, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and trace elements, as well as nutritional bioactives, such as coenzyme Q10, alpha-lipoic acid, phytochemicals, digestive enzymes, probiotics and others. There is detailed information on how each food component is digested and metabolised in the body, guidance on its impact on health, including an explanation of the effects of inadequate and excessive intake, case studies and the types of supplements available together with dietary sources. Discussions of important nutritional topics are featured, including water as therapy, obesity, anorexia nervosa, high-protein diets, hypoglycaemia, diabetes, phytosterols, gamma- tocopherol, vitamin E and mortality, vitamin C and cancer, infantile scurvy, acid-forming and alkaline-forming diets, hair analysis, sodium and blood pressure and coenzyme Q10 and cancer. Throughout summary boxes and quizzes will help readers consolidate their knowledge.

This is an essential reference for everyone studying nutrition from a complementary health perspective.

About the Author Fay Paxton PhD is a naturopath and nutritionist. She has taught nutrition at the Southern School of Natural Therapies for over twenty-five years and has worked as a consultant for manufacturers of dietary and herbal supplements.

Price: $89.99 (NZ$110.00) ISBN: 9781742370408 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 255x190mm Extent: 720 pages

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Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Food and Nutrition Throughout Life: A comprehensive overview of food and nutrition in all stages of life Edited by Sharon Croxford, Catherine Itsiopoulos, Adrienne Forsyth, Regina Belski, Antonia Thodis, Sue Shepherd and Audrey Tierney

A comprehensive introduction to optimum nutrition across the lifespan and for specific populations including Indigenous groups, sports people and the disadvantaged.

Description Nutritional requirements vary greatly according to age and lifestyle. This evidence-based, comprehensive text provides a complete guide to eating habits across age and population groups. It provides the recommendations for intakes of nutrients and foods, and diet to achieve optimum health.

Chapters systematically examine the nutritional issues for individuals from preconception, pregnancy and breast-feeding through to adulthood and old age. The text features an overview of dietary patterns by age group based on national scientific survey data together with the latest recommendations for optimum nutrition to maintain well-being and address specific health concerns. The final section examines nutrition issues for specific populations including indigenous groups, sports people and the disadvantaged. Throughout the text key points are illustrated by case studies and the reader's knowledge is tested via quizzes and study questions.

With chapters from leading nutrition researchers and educators in Australia, New Zealand and Asia, this is an excellent introduction to nutrition through the lifespan.

'A comprehensive overview and detailed discussion of food and nutrition topics for all ages and stages of life.' - Robynne Snell, Curtin University

About the Author Price: $85.00 (NZ$110.00) ISBN: 9781743316757 SHARON CROXFORD is an accredited practising dietitian and senior academic at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She Format: Paperback has worked in clinical, community and food service dietetic practice in Australia and the United Kingdom. Dimensions: 255x190mm Extent: 392 pages CATHERINE ITSIOPOULOS is the founding head of the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at La Trobe Main Category: M Medicine Sub Category: MBNH3 University, Melbourne. She is an accredited practising dietitian with almost 30 years' experience in academia, research Illustrations: and clinical practice. Previous Titles: CI: C. Itsiopoulos, The Mediterranean Diet, PanMacmillan 2013. Author now living: All: Bundoora, VIC ADRIENNE FORSYTH is a dual-qualified accredited practising dietitian and accredited exercise physiologist, and is a lecturer in dietetics and human nutrition at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Allen & Unwin JUNE 2015 Brick Wheels Warren Elsmore

Incredible moving inventions to make from LEGO.

Description Brick Wheels is an incredible representation of manmade transport over the centuries. The book looks at some of the most fundamental developments in the world of transportation in chronological order, including the most iconic and memorable inventions from around the globe-inventions that have shaped the course of travel, making it the integral part of our lives it is today.

From the Wright Brothers' plane to Concorde, from the Penny Farthing to 21st-Century road bikes, the projects inspire and inform readers of all ages with trivia about transportation innovation. Thanks to its versatility and adaptability, LEGO lends itself to vehicles of all kinds. Brick Wheels selects 40 from around the globe to model in LEGO bricks and there are instructions for the smaller models so that you can replicate these in your own home.

Whether you are a fan of LEGO, interested in the world of transport, or just fascinated by the use of LEGO as a modeling medium, this book will take you on a fascinating journey through history and around the globe.

About the Author Warren Elsmore is an adult fan of LEGO ('AFOL') based in Edinburgh, UK. He's been in love with the plastic brick since the age of four and is now heavily involved in the LEGO fan community as well as working with a number of commercial companies to realise their dreams in plastic. Since rediscovering his love of LEGO at the age of 24, Warren has never looked back. Warren is best known for his model of St. Pancras station in London. A 150 000-brick, 4 metre long bohemoth, this model has been written about in numerous news articles and was the subject of a BBC feature article, alongside Warren's 6 metre long model of the Forth Bridge. Warren also organises 'AFOLCON' and The LEGO Show - a dedicated LEGO fan convention, followed by the largest public LEGO event in the UK, which attracts many thousands of fans.

Warren is the author of Brick City, Brick Wonders and Brick Flicks. Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781760111687 Format: Dimensions: 230x176mm Extent: 256 pages

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Crows Nest JUNE 2015 Brick City: Global icons to make from LEGO Warren Elsmore

From New York's Empire State Building to the Eiffel Tower, Dubai's iconic Burj Al Arab hotel to London's St Pancras station, this is a glorious, full colour celebration of the world's most distinctive buildings and urban icons, recreated in LEGO bricks.

Description Brick City is a celebration of the world's favourite buildings and urban icons, recreated solely using LEGO bricks.

While to many, LEGO bricks are 'just a toy,' to an ever-growing army of fans they provide a challenging and enjoyable modelling medium. These fans, calling themselves 'AFOLs' or Adult Fans of LEGO have taken it upon themselves to recreate local landmarks using just the bricks that you find at a local store.

LEGO models created by adult fans though, don't resemble those that many people created as a child. Created by masters of their medium, these fabulously detailed models may contain thousands of pieces - or perhaps just a handful. Either way, the talented artists have an intimate knowledge of every piece and colour available; skilfully choosing the ideal piece to recreate a well-known landmark. Sometimes creating a model indistinguishable from the real thing, or evoking the spirit of a building in just a few small pieces.

In fact, landmarks and cityscapes - from the New York skyline to the Sagrada Familia, London's St. Pancras, and the amazing towers of Beijing and Hong Kong - have long been a source of inspiration for LEGO builders. In this book, Warren Elsmore takes us on a world tour and explores more than 12 global cities and their iconic structures. Each city is examined and recreated in LEGO form. Comprising amazing artwork, exploratory photographs, and detailed breakdowns, Brick City looks at the essence of what makes an urban landscape recognisable.

About the Author Warren Elsmore is an adult fan of LEGO ('AFOL') based in Edinburgh, UK. He's been in love with the plastic brick since the age of four and is now heavily involved in the LEGO fan community as well as working with a number of commercial companies to realise their dreams in plastic. Since rediscovering his love of LEGO at the age of 24, Warren has never Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781743314678 looked back. Warren is best known for his model of St. Pancras station in London. A 150 000-brick, 4 metre long Format: bohemoth, this model has been written about in numerous news articles and was the subject of a BBC feature article, Dimensions: 230x176mm alongside Warren's 6 metre long model of the Forth Bridge. Warren also organises 'AFOLCON' and The LEGO Show - a Extent: 256 pages dedicated LEGO fan convention, followed by the largest public LEGO event in the UK, which attracts many thousands of Main Category: WD Hobbies, Quizzes & Games Sub Category: WD fans. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Edinburgh, UK

Crows Nest JUNE 2015 Altruism Matthieu Ricard

The new bestseller from Matthieu Ricard is the result of a lifetime's thought. This inspirational book argues that by understanding kindness and developing it as a skill we can change the world.

Description In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness and compassion for others. Now he turns his lens from the personal to the global, with a rousing argument that altruism - genuine concern for the well-being of others - could be the saving grace of the 21st century.

Altruism is, he believes, the vital thread that can answer the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long term. Ricard's message has been taken up by major economists and thinkers, including Dennis Snower, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and George Soros.

Matthieu Ricard makes a robust and passionate case for cultivating altruistic love and compassion as the best means for simultaneously benefitting ourselves and our society. It's a fresh outlook on an ardent struggle - and one that just might make the world a better place.

About the Author Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who had a promising career in cellular genetics before leaving France to study Buddhism in the Himalayas forty years ago. He is also a bestselling author, translator and photographer, and an active participant in current scientific research on the effects of meditation on the brain. He lives in Tibet and Nepal and is involved in humanitarian projects in both these countries.

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Atlantic JUNE 2015 The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible A. N. Wilson

From one of our leading social and cultural historians comes a dazzling and original exploration of how, and why, we should still be reading the Bible, even if we no longer believe.

Description A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for a year at university. Martin Luther King was 'reading the Bible' when he started the Civil Rights movement. When Michelangelo painted the fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel, he was 'reading the Bible'.

In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains relevant even in a largely secular society, as a philosophical work, a work of literature and a cultural touchstone that the western world has answered to for nearly two thousand years. He challenges the way fundamentalists whether believers or non- believers - have misused the Bible, either by neglecting and failing to recognize its cultural significance, or by using it as a weapon against those with whom they disagree.

Erudite, witty and accessible, The Book of the People seeks to reclaim the Good Book as our seminal work of literature, and a book for the imagination.

About the Author A. N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire and was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award- winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.

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Atlantic JUNE 2015 The Victoria Cross: The Secret History of Britain's Highest Award for Bravery Gary Mead

This controversial book, by one of our finest military historians, reveals the squalid truth about Britain's highest military honour, exposing a shameful history of racism, misogyny and political expediency.

Description When 25-year old Private Johnson Beharry won the Victoria Cross in 2005 for bravery under fire in Iraq, he was the first person to win Britain's highest military honour since the Falklands war in 1982 and the first living recipient since 1969, when two Australians were given the award for action in Vietnam.

Born out of the squalor of the Crimean War in 1856 and the fragility of the monarchy at that time, the VC's prestige is such that it takes precedence over all other orders and medals in Britain. But while many books have been written about specific aspects of the VC and its recipients, none have asked why so many brave men who deserved the medal were denied it, and why no women have ever been awarded the VC, even though they are entitled.

Military historian Gary Mead's vivid and balanced account of the VC's life and times exposes the hypocrisy behind one of the UK's last sacred cows, and explores its role as a barometer for the shifting sands of political and social change during the last 150 years.

About the Author Gary Mead was a journalist for the Financial Times for ten years and has worked extensively with the BBC. He is the author of The Doughboys: America and the First World War (2000) and The Good Soldier (2007).

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Atlantic JUNE 2015 The Baby Boom P.J. O'Rourke

A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled 'what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men'.

Description The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.' What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. Who put their faith in the Kyoto Accord and disco. Who dropped out of the capitalist system and popped back again in time to cause a global financial crisis.

How did the Baby Boom become what it is and who let them get away with it?

About the Author P.J. O'Rourke is the author of sixteen books, including Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, both of which were number-one New York Times bestsellers. His most recent book is Holidays in Heck.

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Grove press JUNE 2015 A Conversation About Happiness: The Story of a Lost Childhood Mikey Cuddihy

Orphaned at the age of nine, Mikey Cuddihy left the US to board at the experimental Summerhill School. Like Hideous Kinky, this memoir describes coming of age in the strange and dangerous world of the unravelling social experiment of the late 1960s.

Description When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils made the rules. Joan Baez visited and taught Mikey guitar. The late sixties were in full swing, but with total freedom came danger.

Mikey navigated this strange world of permissiveness and neglect, forging an identity almost in defiance of it. A Conversation About Happiness is a vivid and intense memoir of coming of age amidst the unravelling social experiment of sixties and seventies Britain.

About the Author Born in New York, Mikey Cuddihy was educated at Summerhill School in Suffolk. She later studied fine art at Edinburgh College of Art and Chelsea School of Art. An art lecturer at the University of Brighton, Mikey is an acclaimed artist and writer.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782393160 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages

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Atlantic Pbs JUNE 2015 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium Caitlin Doughty

A fascinating look at the funeral industry and an exploration of how we deal with death and our dead from a young feisty, funny and fearless mortician.

Description A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves. It is the only event in her life more awkward than her first kiss or losing her virginity. The hands of time will never move quite so slowly as when you are standing over the dead body of an elderly man with a pink plastic razor in your hand.

From her very first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into the gruesome daily tasks of her curious new profession. From caring for bodies of all shapes and sizes, picking up corpses from the hospital morgue, sweeping ashes from the cremation machines (sometimes onto her clothes) and learning to deal with mourning families, Caitlin comes face to face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about - death.

But as she started to wonder about the lives of those she cremated, and found herself confounded by people's erratic reactions to death, Caitlin's feelings began to evolve in unexpected ways. Now a licensed mortician, Caitlin tells the story of her fumbling apprenticeship with the dead. Exploring our death rituals - and those of other cultures - she pleads the case for healthier attitudes around death and dying. Full of bizarre encounters, gallows humour and vivid characters (both living and very dead), this eye-opening account makes this otherwise terrifying subject urgent and fascinating.

About the Author Caitlin Doughty was born and raised in Hawaii. She moved to California after gaining a degree in Medieval History from the University of Chicago. She is now a licensed funeral director living and working in LA. She is also a writer, performer and film-maker and is the creator of 'The Order of the Good Death', an online community of artists, actors, poets, musicians and directors who are committed to staring down their death fears through art.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$35.00) ISBN: 9781782111030 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 272 pages

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Canongate Trade JUNE 2015 Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir Alan Cumming

'One of the most memorable, heart-stopping autobiographies I have ever read' - Stephen Fry

Description I learned something about myself that night. When I get really shocking news, my entire body tries to get the hell away as quickly as possible. The repercussions of this bombshell would reverberate in my life for a long time to come.

A beloved star of stage and screen, Alan Cumming's life and career have been shaped by a complex and dark family past - full of troubled memories, kept buried away. But then an unexpected phone call from his long-estranged father brought the pain of the past hurtling back into the present, and unravelled everything he thought he knew about himself. Not My Father's Son is the story of his journey of discovery, both a memoir of his childhood in Scotland, and an investigation into his family history which would change him forever.

About the Author Alan Cumming is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, producer and director. He recently starred in an acclaimed one- man staging of Macbeth on Broadway, and appears on the Emmy Award-winning television show The Good Wife. He won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the Emcee in the Broadway musical Cabaret, a role he has reprised in 2014. He hosts PBS Masterpiece Mystery and has appeared in numerous films, including Spy Kids, Titus, X2: X-Men United, The Anniversary Party, Any Day Now and Eyes Wide Shut. He is also the author of a novel, Tommy's Tale.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781782115465 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Canongate Pbs JUNE 2015 How Music Works David Byrne

New edition of David Byrne's bestselling magnum opus, with new preface and updated with a discography.

Description How Music Works is David Byrne's buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about.

Equal parts historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, Byrne draws on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists - to show that music-making is not just the act of a solitary composer in a studio, but rather a logical, populist, and beautiful result of cultural circumstance.

A brainy, irresistible adventure, How Music Works is an impassioned argument about music's liberating, life-affirming power.

About the Author David Byrne is a Scottish-born Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cofounder of Talking Heads. He has been the recipient of many awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The author of Bicycle Diaries and The New Sins, Byrne lives in New York City.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780857862525 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 214x166mm Extent: 376 pages

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Canongate Pbs JUNE 2015 Mighty Book Of Boosh Julian Barratt Noel Fielding

Come with us now on a journey through time and space...

Description Join us on a journey through space and time...

Canongate invites you to join Howard Moon, Vince Noir, Naboo, Bollo, Bob Fossil, Old Gregg, the Moon and all your other favourite characters on a unique journey in to the world of The Mighty Boosh.

Incredibly funny, visually dynamic, surreal, musical, wildly creative... 'The Mighty Boosh' is unlike anything else on television, and this beautifully illustrated Christmas humour book promises to be the same.

About the Author Fielding and Barratt conceived of THE MIGHTY BOOSH whilst working on Stewart Lee's Edinburgh show KING DONG vs. MOBY DICK in which they played a giant penis and a whale respectively. Barrett and Fielding took THE MIGHTY BOOSH to the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, and won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. They followed this triumph with two further shows at the festival, ARCTIC BOOSH in 1999, and AUTOBOOSH in 2000, before being commissioned to write a radio series for BBC Radio 4. THE MIGHTY BOOSH made the transition from radio to television in 2004, when an eight part television series - also called THE MIGHTY BOOSH - was commissioned by the BBC. Series One was broadcast to critical acclaim in 2004, Series Two followed in 2005, and Series Three aired in 2007.

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Canongate Trade JUNE 2015 Scribblings of Madcap Shambleton Noel Fielding

A beautiful and hilarious new book from the star of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and co-author of the massive bestseller The Mighty Book of Boosh.

Description 'Growing up in the jungles of India there was no need for drawing or painting, I would sometimes arrange ants into primitive still lives or scratch out portraits onto the trunks of trees. Things changed when I was 11, a lame tiger who owned a stationery shop gave me the keys to his stock room. I would roll around in acrylic and oil pastels on a reverie, licking canvases and tucking coloured pencils into my wild hair. It was here I learned how to draw and paint well enough to be accepted into Croyden Art College. There, Dexter Dalwood (Turner Prize nominee) taught me and after two years under his supreme tutelage and much hard graft he advised me to become a comedian.' Noel Fielding

About the Author Comedian, actor and artist Noel Fielding is best known for playing Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh with comedy partner Julian Barratt and as a team captain on TV show Never Mind The Buzzcocks. His new TV series will be shown on E4 in the autumn.

Price: $32.95 (NZ$40.00) ISBN: 9780857862051 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 241x173mm Extent: 224 pages Main Category: WH Humour Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Canongate Trade JUNE 2015 Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic Thirty Ben Stewart

The gripping tale of the Arctic Thirty, a group of Greenpeace activists who endured a hundred days in a Russian isolation jail.

Description There is a saying in Russian jails. 'Ne ver ne boysya ne prosi': don't trust, don't fear, don't beg. Don't trust because life here will always disappoint you. Don't fear because whatever you're scared of, you are powerless to prevent it. And don't beg because nobody ever begged their way out of a Russian prison cell.

The plan was to attach a Greenpeace pod to Gazprom's platform and launch a peaceful protest against oil being pumped from the icy waters of the Arctic. However, heavily armed commandos flooded the deck of the Arctic Sunrise and the Arctic Thirty began their ordeal at the hands of Putin's regime. Told in the activists' own words and for the first time, this is a dramatic and inspiring story of incarceration and the ensuing emotional campaign to bring the protestors home.

About the Author Veteran Greenpeace activist and former Guardian Student Journalist of the Year Ben Stewart has had exclusive access to all thirty activists, as well as dozens of hours of interviews with Russian sources, Greenpeace campaigners and high- profile supporters from Paul McCartney to Martin Sixsmith.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$35.00) ISBN: 9781783350773 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x153mm Extent: 224 pages

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Guardian Books JUNE 2015 Run, Ride, Sink or Swim Lucy Fry

Welcome to the exhilarating, exhausting and highly addictive world of triathlon, as experienced by one ordinary woman...

Description Here's how Lucy Fry felt about the component parts of triathlon: swimming - fairly terrifying, especially in open water. Cycling - brilliant when done on a stationery bike, indoors. Running - sometimes fantastic, sometimes hideous.

And, as for putting all three sports together, in quick succession, whilst wearing a lycra onesie with no half-decent breast support? No thanks, she thought, except... As increasing numbers of her sporty female friends began signing up to swim, cycle and run their way through weekends previously reserved for partying and hangovers, Lucy couldn't help feeling left out and confused: why had a sport formerly reserved for serious athletes or middle-aged-men-in-lycra, suddenly become so popular with ordinary women (and what tales had they to tell)? One year, six races, and four different countries later, she's got quite a story to tell.

Warm, funny, and inspirational, Run, Ride, Sink or Swim is a book for die-hard triathletes as much as for those who've never entered a transition zone.

About the Author Lucy Fry is a fitness, lifestyle and travel journalist writing for broadsheets, magazines and websites including the Guardian, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Evening Standard, Metro, Independent, Women's Health, Runners' World, Women's Cycling, Women's Walking, Escapism and more. She is a columnist for Easy Jet Traveller magazine and writes the 'Cyclestrong' column for the website Total Women's Cycling. For more information follow her on @lucycfry or visit lucyfry.co.uk.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9780571313143 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x153mm Extent: 304 pages

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Faber Non Fiction JUNE 2015 The News from Waterloo: How Britain Learned of Wellington's Triumph Brian Cathcart

A wonderful historical caper, telling the farcical tale of attempts to be the first to break the news of the British victory at Waterloo.

Description The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century. It took three days and two hours for word to travel from Belgium in a form that people could rely upon.

This is a tragi-comic midsummer's tale that begins amidst terrible carnage and weaves through a world of politics and military convention, enterprise and roguery, frustration, doubt and jealousy, to end spectacularly in the heart of Regency society at a grand soiree in St James's Square after feverish journeys by coach and horseback, a Channel crossing delayed by falling tides and a flat calm, and a final dash by coach and four from Dover to London.

At least five men were involved in bringing the news or parts of it to London, and their stories are fascinating. Brian Cathcart, a brilliant storyteller and historian, has visited the battlefield, travelled the messengers' routes, and traced untapped British, French and Belgian records. This is a strikingly original perspective on a key moment in British history.

About the Author Brian Cathcart is professor of journalism at Kingston University London and a founder of Hacked Off. He has been deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday, assistant editor of the New Statesman and specialist adviser to the Commons Select Committee on media, culture and sport. His books include The Fly in the Cathedral and The Case of Stephen Lawrence, the definitive account of the notorious racist murder, which won the Orwell Prize and the CWA Gold Dagger award.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571315253 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x153mm Extent: 304 pages

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Faber Non Fiction JUNE 2015 Bitter Freedom: The World of the Irish Revolution Maurice Walsh

A new history of the Irish revolution, placing it in context of the global revolutions of the age.

Description The Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire. This is a vividly-written, compelling narrative placing events in Ireland in the wider context of a world in turmoil after the ending of a global war: one that saw the collapse of empires and the rise of fascist Italy and communist Russia. Walsh shows how developments in Europe and America had a profound effect on Ireland, influencing the attitudes and expectations of combatants and civilians.

Walsh also brings to life what Irish people who were not fully involved in the fighting were doing - the plays they went to, the exciting films they watched in the new cinemas, the books they read and the work they did. The freedom from Britain that most of them wanted was, when it came, a bitter disappointment to a generation aware of the promise of modernity.

About the Author Dr Maurice Walsh is the author of the groundbreaking The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution which was described by Colm Toibin as 'an invaluable book'. An award-winning documentary maker, he has reported from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe. His essays, reviews and reportage have appeared in Granta, the London Review of Books, the Dublin Review, the New Statesman, and other newspapers in the UK, Ireland and the US.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571243006 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 352 pages

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Faber Non Fiction JUNE 2015 Joan of Arc Helen Castor

Excitingly retold by one of our finest historians, this is the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before.

Description We all know the story of Joan of Arc. A peasant girl who hears voices from God. A warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believes women cannot fight. The Maid of Orleans, and the saviour of France. Burned at the stake as a heretic at the age of just nineteen. Five hundred years later, a saint. Her case was heard in court twice over. One trial, in 1431, condemned her; the other, twenty-five years after her death, cleared her name. In the transcripts, we hear first- hand testimony from Joan, her family and her friends: a rare survival from the medieval world. What could be more revealing? But all is not as simple as it seems, because this is a life told backwards, in hindsight - a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become.

In Joan of Arc: A History, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards, setting this extraordinary girl within her extraordinary world where no one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next.

About the Author Helen Castor is a historian of medieval England, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her first book, Blood & Roses, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association's Beatrice White Prize in 2006. Her second, She Wolves, was made into a major BBC2 TV series. She lives in London with her husband and son.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9780571284634 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Sub Category: BG Biography: General Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 A Singer's Notebook Ian Bostridge

A Singer's Notebook by Ian Bostridge, of whom The New Yorker said, 'He is not a good singer; he is a great one.'

Description Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated for the quality of his voice but also for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the interpretation of the repertoire of the past and present alike. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A Singer's Notebook takes a look at the multifaceted world of classical music through the eyes of someone whose career as a singer has followed a unique trajectory. Consisting of short essays and reviews written since 1997, some in diary form, it ranges widely over issues serious (music and transcendence) and not so serious (the singer's battles with phlegm), while inevitably discussing many of the composers with whom Bostridge has become identified, such as Benjamin Britten, Henze, Janacek, Weill, Wolf, and Schubert, composer of the Winterreise with which Bostridge has become so associated.

Ultimately it returns to the theme of his earlier work on seventeenth century witchcraft - what place can there be for the ineffable in a world defined by an iron cage of rationality?

Including a foreword by the eminent sociologist, Richard Sennett, A Singer's Notebook is an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of one of Britain's best loved musicians.

About the Author Born in London, Ian Bostridge is universally recognised as one of the greatest Lieder interpreters of today. He has made numerous award-winning recordings of Lieder and gives recitals regularly throughout Europe, North America and the Far East to outstanding critical acclaim. He read Modern History at Oxford and received a D.Phil in 1990 on the significance of witchcraft in English public life from 1650 to 1750. His book Witchcraft and its Transformations 1650-1750 was published in 1997.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571252466 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Main Category: AV Music Sub Category: AVH Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 Bicycle Diaries David Byrne

The unique, enchanting travelogue from a cult figure in contemporary music - Talking Heads frontman David Byrne.

Description Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and starting taking them with him on music tour overseas, and experienced a sense of liberation as he pedalled around many of the world's principal cities. The point of view from his bike seat has given Byrne a panoramic window on urban life over the last thirty years as he has cycled round cities such as London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Manila, New York, and San Francisco. From music and the visual arts, to globalisation, politics, the nature of creative work, fashion and art, this book gives the reader an incredible insight into what Byrne is seeing and thinking as he pedals around these cities.

Filled with intimate photographs, incredible musical stories and a powerful ecological message, this is a enchanting celebration of bike riding - of the rewards of seeing the world at bike level.

About the Author David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1952, and attended Rhode Island School of Design and Maryland Institute College of Art. He is primarily known as the musician who cofounded the group Talking Heads (1976-88), and has also been involved in an array of music, theatre, art and film projects, including work with Brian Eno, Thwyla Tharp, Robert Wilson, Jonathan Demme and Bernardo Bertolucci. He currently lives in New York.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571241033 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x127mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: WTL Travel Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New York

Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 D-Day: Minute by Minute Jonathon Mayo

This is the story of D-Day as seen through the eyes of the people who were there - from soldiers, French villagers and journalists, to schoolchildren and nurses, who found themselves placed in often extraordinary situations on that historic day in June 1944.

Description Take French Resistance member Andre Heintz and his sister, who have to spread out bloody sheets in the shape of a giant red cross to protect a hospital from bombers; Rosemary Geddes at an RAF listening post, hearing transmissions between German gunners falling silent one by one; Red Cross volunteer Naina Cox, helping injured German POWs in Portsmouth on the afternoon of the invasion; a soldier of the Royal Corps of Signals, discovering his landing craft is carrying a box of white wooden crosses; or Commando Peter Masters, walking all alone towards a German machine gun shouting, 'You are totally surrounded! Give yourselves up!' - copying something he'd seen in a war film.

D-Day: Minute by Minute is pure chronological narrative, giving an account of events that is both intimate and epic.

About the Author Jonathan Mayo joined the BBC in 1987, first working in radio and then television, where he won awards for his documentaries. In 2012 he became a freelance producer, director and writer. He is the author of three Minute by Minute books, including The Assassination of JFK (Short Books, 2013) and Hitler's Last Day (2015, co-authored by Emma Craigie). He lives in Surrey with his wife and son.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781780722429 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 98x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Faber Short Books JUNE 2015 Granada: The Light of Andalucia Steven Nightingale

'A romantic, rhapsodic homage to the Spanish city.' Kirkus

Description Yearning for a change, Steven Nightingale took his family to live in the ancient Andalucian city of Granada. But as he journeyed through its hidden courtyards, scented gardens and sun-warmed plazas, Steven discovered that Granada's present cannot be separated from its past, and began an eight-year quest to discover more. Where once Christians, Muslims and Jews lived peacefully together and the arts and sciences flourished, Granada also witnessed brutality: places of worship razed to the ground, books burned, massacre and anarchy. In the 1600s the once-populous city was reduced to 6,000 who lived among rubble. In the next three centuries, the deterioration worsened, and the city became a refuge for anarchists; then during the Spanish Civil War, fascism took hold.

Literary and sensual, Steven Nightingale produces a portrait of a now-thriving city and the joy he discovered there, revealing the resilience and kindness of its people, the resonance of its gardens and architecture and the cyclical nature of darkness and light in the history of Andalucia.

At once personal and far-reaching, Granada is an epic journey through the soul of this most iconic of cities.

About the Author In addition to his travel writing, Steven Nightingale is a novelist and poet, and a recipient of the Silver Pen award. He now lives in Granada.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$35.00) ISBN: 9781857886313 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x153mm Extent: 400 pages

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Nicholas Brealey JUNE 2015 Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation Elizabeth Pisani

A compelling, entertaining and fascinating journey through one of the world's largest, most dynamic and most contradictory countries.

Description In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the world's fourth most populous nation is now enthusiastically democratic and riotously diverse. Over 65 million Indonesians use Facebook, though 80 million live without electricity. It is one of the richest and most enchanting countries on earth, but is riddled, too, with ineptitude and corruption.

Elizabeth Pisani, who first worked in Indonesia 25 years ago as a foreign correspondent and came back a decade later as a medical researcher, set out in 2011 to rediscover its enduring attraction, and to find the links which bind together this impossibly disparate nation. She travelled over 13,000 miles by land and sea, dropping in on local potentates and staying with farmers and fishermen, and nomads and nurses, often on islands too small to appear on a map.

In Indonesia Etc., Pisani weaves together the stories of Indonesians encountered on her journey with a considered analysis of Indonesia's recent history, corrupt political system, ethnic and religious identities, stifling bureaucracy and traditional 'sticky' cultures. Fearless and funny, and sharply perceptive, she has drawn a compelling, entertaining and deeply informed portrait of a captivating nation.

About the Author Elizabeth Pisani was Indonesia correspondent for Reuters and the Economist from 1988 to 1991. She worked with Indonesia's Ministry of Health from 2001 to 2005 as an epidemiologist, and spent 2011 travelling the archipelago. Pisani is the author of The Wisdom of Whores (Granta, 2008), an exploration of the HIV industry. She has degrees in Classical Chinese, Medical Demography and Infectious Disease Epidemiology and speaks several languages, including Indonesian.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781847086556 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages

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Granta Paperbacks JUNE 2015 Have You Been Good?: A Memoir Vanessa Nicolson

A reflective, potent memoir by the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson - about difficult parents, damaging loves and a life lived at passionate extremes.

Description Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexual and his marriage to Vanessa's Italian mother fell apart when Vanessa was very young.

In this powerful and meditative memoir Vanessa Nicolson chronicles her fractured childhood and wild youth, including holidays at Sissinghurst Castle with her cousins, and her experience of a startlingly liberal English boarding school. Interlinked with the story of her own life is that of her beloved daughter Rosa, who died of epilepsy at the point when she was emerging into adult life.

This book is a time-piece of the 1970s, and a profound meditation on the meaning of cultural privilege in the context of emotional deprivation.

About the Author Vanessa Nicolson was brought up in Florence and London, and graduated from Sussex University in Art History and Italian in 1979. She has worked as a feature writer, reviewer, curator and film programmer. Her publications include The Sculpture of Maurice Lambert (Lund Humphries/Ashgate, 2002), commissioned by the Henry Moore Foundation.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781783780761 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 320 pages

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Granta JUNE 2015 Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary from Hitler's Last Birthday to VE Day Walter Kempowski, translated by Shaun Whiteside

A monumental work of history which brings to life four final days of World War II through letters, diaries, and eyewitness accounts.

Description Swansong 1945 brings together hundreds of letters, diary extracts and autobiographical accounts to chronicle four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the German surrender. Side by side in these pages, we encounter the voices of civilians fleeing on foot to the west, British and American POWs dreaming of home, concentration camp survivors, loyal soldiers from both sides of the conflict and national leaders including Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini.

These first-hand accounts, which Walter Kempowski painstakingly collected, organised and shaped for publication over twenty years, provide the raw material of history unmediated by a historian's narrative. The voices of individuals speak for themselves, and through their many experiences, perspectives and situations, the condition of Europe during the final weeks of WWII is viscerally recreated.

About the Author Walter Kempowski (1929-2007) was one of Germany's most important post-war writers. His first success as an author was with his acclaimed series of novels German Chronicles. In the 1980s he began work on Echo Soundings [Das Echolot], gathering together first hand accounts, diaries, letters and memoirs of the second world war, which he collated and curated into ten volumes published over 20 years, and which is considered a modern classic. Swansong 1945, published in Germany in 2005, is the final volume of that work.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781847086419 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 384 pages

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Granta Paperbacks JUNE 2015 Do It Like a Woman: ... and Change the World Caroline Criado-Perez

Gathering together stories from all corners of the world, Do It Like a Woman is an inspiring celebration of private heroisms and public triumphs, and a brilliant, necessary manifesto for women everywhere.

Description Every day, all around the world, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male.

Here, Caroline Criado-Perez, one of the most vocal and tenacious campaigners of her generation, introduces us to some of these pioneering women. We meet the first woman to cross the Antarctic alone; we meet a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; we meet a climate change activist who scaled new heights; we meet a Chilean revolutionary turned politician; we meet the Russian punks who rocked out against Putin; and we meet the Iranian journalist who dared to uncover her hair.

About the Author Caroline Criado-Perez is a British journalist and feminist activist whose work has appeared in The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Independent and the New Statesman. In 2013, she won the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year Award and was named one of the Guardian's People of the Year. She tweets @CCriadoPerez

Price: $27.99 (NZ$35.00) ISBN: 9781846275791 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages

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Portobello Trade JUNE 2015 Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking Lydia Cacho

A powerful, brave and uncompromising investigation into the global underground of sex trafficking, from one of the world's most tireless and influential campaigners against sexual exploitation.

Description Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, wilfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless exploited women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism.

Shocking and sobering, Slavery Inc. is an exceptional book, both for the colossal scope of its enquiry, and for the tenacious bravery with which Cacho pursues the truth.

About the Author Lydia Cacho is an internationally admired Mexican journalist-campaigner. She became a cause celebre with her book, Demons of Eden, which exposed a paedophilia ring involving Mexico's richest businessman, his friend the governor and an array of 'big men'. She took the ring to trial but was jailed and abused herself before winning her argument and her freedom. She is a columnist on El Universal, a prominent feminist activist against violence, and teaches workshops on how to help trafficking victims. She has been named UNESCO World Press Freedom Hero.She is currently in hiding. http: //www.lydiacacho.net/english/

Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781846274220 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages

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Portobello Pbs JUNE 2015 Adventures in Human Being Gavin Francis

Oliver Sacks meets Atul Gawande in this unique voyage around the human body, from the prize-winning author of Empire Antarctica.

Description We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot.

Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and portrayed over the millennia. If the body is a foreign country, then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: Francis leads the reader on an adventure through what it means to be human.

Both a user's guide to the body and a celebration of its elegance, this book will transform the way you think about being alive, whether in sickness or in health.

About the Author Gavin Francis is a GP, and the author of True North and Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Costa Prize. He also writes for Guardian, The Times, London Review of Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and children.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781781253410 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: pages

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths Eugenia Cheng

A curious cookbook for the mathematical omnivore - maths at its absolute tastiest.

Description Most people imagine maths is something like a slow cooker: very useful, but pretty limited in what it can do. Maths, though, isn't just a tool for solving a specific problem - and it's definitely not something to be afraid of. Whether you're a maths glutton or have forgotten how long division works (or never really knew in the first place), the chances are you've missed what really makes maths exciting. Calling on a baker's dozen of entertaining, puzzling examples and mathematically illuminating culinary analogies - including chocolate brownies, iterated Battenberg cakes, sandwich sandwiches, Yorkshire puddings and Mobius bagels - brilliant young academic and mathematical crusader Eugenia Cheng is here to tell us why we should all love maths.

From simple numeracy to category theory ('the mathematics of mathematics'), Cheng takes us through the joys of the mathematical world. Packed with recipes, puzzles to surprise and delight even the innumerate, Cake, Custard & Category Theory will whet the appetite of maths whizzes and arithmophobes alike. (Not to mention aspiring cooks: did you know you can use that slow cooker to make clotted cream?) This is maths at its absolute tastiest.

About the Author Eugenia Cheng is Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield. She was educated at the University of Cambridge and has done post-doctoral work at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. Since 2007 her YouTube lectures and videos have been viewed around 700,000 times to date. A trained concert pianist, she is also trilingual in French, English and Mandarin, and her mission in life is to rid the world of maths phobia.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$35.00) ISBN: 9781781252871 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: pages

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 Shakespeare, An Introduction: Ideas in Profile Paul Edmondson

An essential exploration of our greatest writer

Description Shakespeare is the world's greatest writer. In this lively and authoritative introduction, Paul Edmondson presents Shakespeare afresh as a dramatist and poet, and encourages us to take ownership of the works for ourselves as words to be spoken as well as discussed. We get a wide sense of what his life was like, his rich language, and astonishing cultural legacy. We catch glimpses of Shakespeare himself, how he wrote and see what his works mean to readers and theatre practitioners. Above all, we see how Shakespeare tackled the biggest themes of humanity: power, history, war and love.

Shakespeare scholar Paul Edmondson guides us through the most important questions around Shakespeare and in the process reminds us just why he is so celebrated in the first place.

About the Author Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He has published numerous articles and books on Shakespeare and speaks at academic conferences and other Shakespeare related gatherings around the world. He is a trustee of The Rose Theatre and Chair of The Hosking Houses Trust for women writers.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781781253373 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: pages

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 The Economist Style Guide: 11th edition The Economist

An updated and refreshed edition of this bestselling guide to English usage.

Description Clear writing is the key to clear thinking. So think what you want to say, then say it as simply as possible.

That's the thinking that underpins this much-loved guide, and the mantra for anyone wanting to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which The Economist is renowned.

The Economist Style Guide guides the reader through the pleasures and pitfalls of English usage. It offers advice on the consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations and capital letters, identifies common errors and cliches and contains an exhaustive range of reference material - covering everything from business ratios to mathematical symbols and common Latin phrases. It also tackles the key differences between British and American English.

But this is no ordinary guide to English usage. It has a wit, verve and flair which make it much more than a simple work of reference. Here are just some examples:

- anticipate does not mean expect. Jack and Jill expected to marry; if they anticipated marriage, only Jill might find herself expectant. - Take care with between. To fall between two stools, however painful, is grammatically acceptable. To fall between the cracks is to challenge the laws of physics. - critique is a noun. If you want a verb, try criticise. - use words with care. If this door is alarmed, does its hair stand on end?

The Economist Style Guide is required reading for anyone who wants to communicate with style.

About the Author Matthew Engel is a journalist and author. He has written for the Guardian and Financial Times, among other publications, and was the editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for twelve years. His books include Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain and Extracts from the Red Notebooks. Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781253120 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime Val McDermid

Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic medicine, from the crime scene to the courtroom.

Description The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of human traces.

Forensics draws on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research and Val McDermid's own experience to lay bare the secrets of this fascinating science. And, along the way, she wonders at how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine time of death, how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist uncovered the victims of a genocide.

In her novels, McDermid has been solving complex crimes and confronting unimaginable evil for years. Now, she's looking at the people who do it for real. It's a journey that will take her to war zones, fire scenes and autopsy suites, and bring her into contact with extraordinary bravery and wickedness, as she traces the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.

About the Author Val McDermid has published twenty-eight crime novels, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, been translated into sixteen languages and won multiple awards. Her series featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill was the basis for the TV series The Wire in the Blood for ITV.

Wellcome Collection is a free visitor destination that explores the connections between medicine, life and art. In 2012, its critically acclaimed programme of events and exhibitions welcomed over 490,000 visitors.

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 The Moth: This Is a True Story Catherine Burns, introduction by Neil Gaiman

Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.

Description With an introduction by Neil Gaiman

Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a non-profit group that is trying to recapture this lost art, helping storytellers - old hands and novices alike hone their stories before playing to packed crowds at sold-out live events.

The very best of these stories are collected here: whether it's Bill Clinton's hell-raising press secretary or a leading geneticist with a family secret; a doctor whisked away by nuns to Mother Teresa's bedside or a film director saving her father's Chinatown store from money-grabbing developers; the Sultan of Brunei's concubine or a friend of Hemingway's who accidentally talks himself into a role as a substitute bullfighter, these eccentric, pitch-perfect stories - all, amazingly, true - range from the poignant to the downright hilarious.

About the Author The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase.

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Serpents Tail JUNE 2015 In Search Of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies Robert H Waterman Jr and Tom Peters

A new cover edition of this classic business bestseller, ranked in a poll by Bloomsbury Publishing as 'the greatest business book of all time'.

Description In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school and bedside table, and continues to influence the thinking of leaders and managers across the globe today.

Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a range of sectors - consumer goods, technology, services - the book identifies eight common 'attributes of excellence' that made these organisations successful. Though many of the profiled companies have since lost their edge (or disappeared completely), these eight management principles, each highlighted in a chapter in the book, have shown themselves to be timeless.

These simple business truths, so eloquently encapsulated by Peters and Waterman, are proof that the fundamentals of management - a focus on people, customers and value, entrepreneurship and excellence - ring as true today as they ever did.

In Search of Excellence is a seminal business book, worthy of a place on the bookshelves of anyone who wants to understand how effective management works in practice.

About the Author Robert H Waterman is an internationally known business executive, speaker and author. He now directs his own company, The Waterman Group, after spending 21 years at the management consultancy firm McKinsey & Co.

'Tom Peters has probably done more than anyone else to shift the debate on management from the confines of boardrooms, academia, and consultancies to a broader, worldwide audience, where it has become the staple diet of the Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) media and managers alike.' ISBN: 9781781253403 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Movers and Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business, Bloomsbury Press Extent: pages

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage Ryan Holiday

A modern guru who shows the way to turn problems into opportunities - in business and marketing, Ryan Holiday has done it all, seen it all, and now he's here to show you the way.

Description We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a- lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, showing that what blocks our path actually opens one that is new and better.

If the competition threatens you, it's time to be fearless, to display your courage. An impossible deadline becomes a chance to show how dedicated you are. And as Ryan discovered as Director of Marketing for American Apparel, if your brand is generating controversy - it's also potentially generating publicity.

The Stoic philosophy - that what is in the way, is the way - can be applied to any problem: it's a formula invented more than 2,000 years ago, whose effectiveness has been proven in battles and board rooms ever since. From Barack Obama's ability to overcome obstacles in his election races, to the design of the iPhone, the stoic philosophy has helped its users become world-beaters.

About the Author Ryan Holiday is a media strategist for notorious clients like Tucker Max and Dov Charney, and worked on the publicity campaign for Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Work Week. After dropping out of college at nineteen, he went on to advise bestselling authors and multi-platinum musicians. He is the Director of Marketing at American Apparel and his strategies are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube and Google. His first book, Trust Me I'm Lying was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. He currently lives in New Orleans.

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves James Nestor

Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea meets Born to Run and the cutting edge of popular science.

Description Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had stumbled on one of the most extreme sports in existence: a quest to extend the frontiers of human experience, in which divers descend without breathing equipment, for hundreds of feet below the water, for minutes after they should have died from lack of oxygen. Sometimes they emerge unconscious, or bleeding from the nose and ears, and sometimes they don't come up at all.

The free divers were Nestor's way into an exhilarating and dangerous world of deep-sea pioneers, underwater athletes, scientists, spear fishermen, billionaires and ordinary men and women who are poised on the brink of some amazing discoveries about the ocean. Soon he was visiting the scientists who live 60ft underwater (and are permanently high on nitrous dioxide), swimming with the notorious man-eating sharks of Reunion and descending thousands of feet in a homemade submarine. And on the way down, he learnt about the amazing amphibious reflexes activated in the human body under deep-water conditions, why dolphins were injected with LSD in an attempt to teach them to talk, and why sharks like AC/DC.

The sea covers seventy per cent of Earth's surface, and still contains answers to questions about the world we are only beginning to ask: Deep blends science and adventure to uncover its amazing secrets.

About the Author James Nestor has written for publications including Outside Magazine, The New York Times, Men's Journal and San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. An inveterate adventurer, Nestor joined a doomed surfing expedition to Norway and Russia, in which he and his team became the first to ride the breaks of the Arctic Circle. He has travelled extensively in Price: $21.99 (NZ$27.99) Central America and the South Pacific. He lives in San Francisco. ISBN: 9781781250662 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: pages

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science of invasive species Ken Thompson

A timely, instructive and controversial book, which delivers unexpected answers.

Description Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the only remaining wild dromedaries are in Australia.

This is a classic example of the contradictions of 'native' and 'invasive' species, a hot issue right now, as the flip-side of biodiversity. We have all heard the horror stories of invasives, from Japanese knotweed that puts fear into the heart of gardeners to brown tree snakes that have taken over the island of Guam.

But do we need to fear invaders? And indeed, can we control them, and do we choose the right targets?

Ken Thompson puts forward a fascinating array of narratives to explore what he sees as the crucial question - why only a minority of introduced species succeed, and why so few of them go on to cause trouble. He discusses, too, whether our fears could be getting in the way of conserving biodiversity, and responding to the threat of climate change.

About the Author Dr Ken Thompson was for twenty years a lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He writes regularly on gardening for the Daily Telegraph. His previous book was Do We Need Pandas? The uncomfortable truth about biodiversity.

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 How to Manage Your Slaves by Marcus Sidonius Falx Dr. Jerry Toner, introduction by Mary Beard

An entertaining and amazingly informative guide to the realities of slavery in ancient Rome, with an introduction by Mary Beard.

Description At last, a clear manual for managing slaves the Roman way. In How to Manage Your Slaves, Marcus Sidonius Falx offers practical advice, showing where and how to buy slaves and how to get the best out of them. He explains how to tell good slaves from bad, offers guidance on the punishment of miscreants, and reveals the secrets of command and authority. He covers the delicate subjects of when you should let your slaves have sex and whether to engage in sex with them yourself - and considers when to set them free. Armed with this guide you will be master in your own home: your household will be a comfort to your family, its running the envy of your neighbours.

Slavery was a core institution in the Roman world for all its long existence. As they conquered, the Romans enslaved millions and then bred from this stock to maintain their numbers in times of peace. It almost never occurred to anyone that slavery might be dispensed with and to no one at all that it was morally reprehensible. Up to now ancient slavery may have been difficult to fathom: this Roman's-eye view takes us to the heart of the matter and, based on a wealth of original sources, lets us understand just why slaves meant so much to the Romans.

About the Author Marcus Sidonius Falx is a Roman of noble birth, whose family have kept slaves for generations. After serving with distinction in the legions, he retired to manage his substantial estates. He now divides his time between his country properties and his luxury villa on the Esquiline hill overlooking Rome. He has employed Dr Jerry Toner, Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Churchill College, Cambridge University, to set his work in context, and persuaded Professor Mary Beard to write a foreword.

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Profile Trade JUNE 2015 Gallipoli Peter Hart

A gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli.

Description One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by the British to ultimately capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings - which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from aircraft overhead -to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was never going to succeed.

Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides -not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too -Peter Hart combines his trademark eye for vivid personal stories with a strong narrative to bring a modern view of this military disaster to a popular audience.

About the Author Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum and the author of several acclaimed books about the First World War. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on Gallipoli and has guided British Army staff tours around the battlefield.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781846681615 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 544 pages Main Category: JW Military Sub Category: JWLF Battles & Campaigns Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Profile Trade JUNE 2015 Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity John Gribbin

'The master of popular science writing' (Sunday Times) on an incredible year for modern physics - 1915.

Description In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences - a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was 'the most valuable theory of my life', and 'of incomparable beauty'. It describes the evolution of the Universe, black holes, the behaviour of orbiting neutron stars, gravitational lensing, and why clocks run slower on the surface of the Earth than in space. It even suggests the possibility of time travel.

And yet we think instead of 1905, the year of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and his equation E=mc2, as his annus mirabilis, even though the Special Theory is less far-reaching. Today the General Theory is overshadowed by these achievements, regarded as 'too difficult' for ordinary mortals to comprehend.

In Einstein's Masterwork, John Gribbin put Einstein's astonishing breakthrough in the context of his life and work, and makes it clear why his greatest year was indeed 1915.

About the Author John Gribbin is one of the world's best-known and bestselling popular science authors, described as 'one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around' by the Spectator. His numerous books include In Search of Schrodinger's Cat (Bantam, 1984), Science: A History (Penguin, 2010), Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution (Wiley, 2013) and many more. He lives with his wife Mary in Sussex.

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Icon JUNE 2015 Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide Maggie Hyde and Michael McGuiness

An ideal companion to Introducing Freud, Introducing Melanie Klein and Introducing Psychology.

Description Carl Gustav Jung was a controversial disciple of Sigmund Freud. This title explains the theories that led Jung to break away from Freud and describes his own near psychotic breakdown in mid-life, a 'night-sea voyage' from which he emerged with better insights into the nature of the unconscious mind.

Carl Gustav Jung was the most enigmatic and controversial disciple of Sigmund Freud. Introducing Jung brilliantly explains the theories that led Jung to break away from Freud and describes his own near psychotic breakdown in mid-life, a 'night-sea voyage' from which he emerged with radical new insights into the nature of the unconscious mind. Step by step, the book demonstrates how it was entirely logical for him to explore the psychology of religion, alchemy, astrology, the I Ching and other phenomena rejected by science in his investigation of his patients' dreams, fantasies and psychic disturbances.

About the Author Maggie Hyde is a writer, lecturer and journalist and consultant astrologer. Michael McGuiness is an artist, designer and former art director who has had numerous exhibitions of his work throughout the world.

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Icon JUNE 2015 The Detox Kitchen Bible Lily Simpson and Rob Hobson

The cookbook that will leave you feeling cleansed from the inside out - with 200 delicious recipes and tailored detox plans

Description The power of good, natural food beats any fad diet. By bombarding your body with a sea of nutrients and a range of delicious flavours, your skin will glow, your hair will shine, your stress levels will decrease and you'll feel full of energy. This is what the Detox Kitchen philosophy is all about: fresh, bright, delicious and nutritious food that will leave you radiant with health.

Using mouth-watering flavour combinations and an encyclopaedic knowledge of ingredients, founder and chef Lily Simpson and nutritionist Rob Hobson have created 200 carefully tailored recipes and a variety of meal plans to bring you this ultimate, comprehensive bible of detox food - all wheat-, dairy- and sugar-free. Whether you'd like a weekend plan to nurture your body after a demanding week, or a seven-day regime to improve your skin, to boost your energy levels or to gain relief from a health condition, the book will allow you to 'eat yourself well' and shuffle this treasury of recipes to suit your needs.

The vibrant dishes are inspired by Lily's worldwide travels, and include Beetroot falafel, Avocado smash, Chicken, cashew and tarragon wraps, Pad Thai with brown rice noodles, Kale crisps with paprika, Green papaya salad, Tomato pesto with courgette spaghetti, Sesame seed cookies, Butterbean mash, Keralan fish curry, Pinto bean chilli, Pineapple carpaccio coconut clouds, and Apricot and ginger jam.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$59.99) ISBN: 9781408852859 With beautiful photography and a striking design, The Detox Kitchen Bible is the definitive guide to eating your way to a Format: Hard Cover healthy glow. Get detoxing and feel cleansed from the inside out. Dimensions: 246x189mm Extent: 416 pages About the Author Main Category: WB Food And Drink

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 The Detox Kitchen Bible 8 Copy Pack + Free Reading Copy

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 Darjeeling: An Indian History in Four Harvests Jeff Koehler

A brilliant chronicle of the world of tea through the past, present, and future of the world's most famous brew.

Description Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north, the linear rows of brilliant green waist-high shrubs that coat the steep slopes and valleys produce only a fraction of the world's tea, and less than one percent of India's total. Yet the tea from that limited crop, with its characteristic bright, amber-colored brew and muscatel flavors, is generally considered the best in the world.

This is the story of how Darjeeling tea began, jump-started the largest tea industry on the globe under imperial British rule, and came to produce the highest- quality tea leaves anywhere in the world-beloved by millions and by Britain's royal family. It is a story rich in people, history, intrigue, and terroir, all set amidst a backdrop of the looming Himalayas and drenching monsoons. But it is also the story of how the industry spiraled into decline by the end of the twentieth century, and how this Edenic spot in the high Himalayas seethes with a violent independence struggle. The story is ripe with the imprint of the Raj as well as the contemporary clout of voodoo farmers getting world record prices for their fine teas-and all of it beginning with one of the most audacious acts of corporate theft in history.

Jeff Koehler has written a fascinating chronicle of India and its most sought-after tea. Blending history, politics, and reportage together, along with a collection of recipes that tea-drinkers will love, Darjeeling is an indispensable volume for fans of micro-history and tea fanatics.

About the Author Jeff Koehler is a writer, traveler, and cook, and author of books and articles on food and culture including Spain: Recipes and Traditions from the Verdant Hills of the Basque Country to the Coastal Waters of Andalucia, named a New York Times Notable Book of 2013, Morocco: A Culinary Journey with Recipes from the Spice-Scented Markets of Marrakech to the Date-Filled Oasis of Zagora, and La Paella: Deliciously Authentic Rice Dishes from Spain's Mediterranean Coast. Price: $27.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781408846070 He lives in Barcelona. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 FUDS: A Complete Encyclofoodia from Tickling Shrimp to Not Dying in a Restaurant Alfredo Mizretti and Antonio Mizretti

The long-anticipated FUDS cookbook and kitchen companion, from the comedic geniuses behind the viral menu for Brooklyn's hottest fake restaurant-- named by GQ as one of the 100 Funniest Things in the History of the Internet

Description Since the FUDS parody menu went viral through the Brooklyn foodie scene, then the broader food world and the even broader Internet in 2012, people have been clamoring for the recipes behind those menu items. (Well, actually, no, they haven't, because most of them consisted of baffling nonsense words [Mini- hrak cuddles with malonies] or otherwise sounded disgusting [Dead dog co-plated with yam clippings and a leafy sage dumping.] Oftentimes, both.)

BUT. People HAVE been clamoring for more of the deliciously absurd humor that characterizes the FUDS brand. And since that spot-on menu send-up, the young comedians behind it have spun out an entire "cookbook and field guide." Here are tips on planning a seasonal menu that's likely to make your guests ill; tips on kitchen safety that could leave your sous-chefs badly charred. And, of course, recipes for all the FUDS classics: Roundeye Flank Stringers with a Yankee- Poisoned Marinara and Fuzzy Rice Curds, Shitty Chicken Spanked with Cinnamon-Garlic Dirt and Dimpled with a Freshwater Whale-Tit Sauce... and the cult classic Bill Clinton Sandwich!

The cookbook is designed and illustrated with a straight face -- with a foreword by master chef Mario Batali -- perfectly balancing the anarchic humor suffusing this parody. Your pretentious foodie friend has been asking for it: introduce them to the wonderful world of FUDS.

About the Author Alfredo and Antonio Mizretti are the most buzzed-about young food entrepreneurs in Brooklyn, and completely fictional. Mario Batali has nothing nice to say about them, but for some reason agreed to write the foreword. He is a real chef, restaurateur, and author, with a Michelin star to his name. Price: $32.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781620403143 The real authors of the FUDS cookbook are: Kelly Hudson, a writer and producer for Adultswim.com; Dan Klein, a writer Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x158mm for Funny or Die, and Arthur Meyer, a writer for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. All three lived in Brooklyn, until Extent: 176 pages Dan had to move to L.A. Main Category: WH Humour

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Bloomsbury USA JUNE 2015 Game, Set and Match: Secret Weapons of the World's Top Tennis Players Mark Hodgkinson

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BLM Sport JUNE 2015 Hinault Philippe Brunel

A visually stunning celebration of the life of legendary French cyclist Bernard Hinault.

Description The life of Bernard Hinault - the French former cyclist who won the Tour de France five times - through interviews, stories and photographs - a celebration of this great cyclist's career, beautifully packaged.

Bernard Hinault - known as Le Blaireau, (the Badger) - is one of only five cyclists to have won all three Grand Tours, and the only cyclist to have won each more than once. He won the Tour de France in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985. He came second in 1984 and 1986 and won 28 stages, of which 13 were individual time trials. The other three to have achieved five Tour de France victories are Jacques Anquetil (1964), Eddy Merckx (1974) and Miguel Indurain (1995). Of these, Hinault is the only one to have finished either first or second in each Tour de France he finished.

He remains the last French winner of the Tour de France.

About the Author Philippe Brunel is a writer and journalist for L'Equipe. His book on Merckx was a bestseller in France, Merxkx Intime.

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BLM Sport JUNE 2015 The Pain-Free Cyclist: The Pro Guide to Finding Cycling Nirvana Matt Rabin, foreword by Sir Bradley Wiggins

The ultimate guide for all cyclists on all things cycling health-related. This book takes you through the most common cycling injuries, let you know what exactly they are, why you get them and what you can do to do get rid of them and get you back on the bike pain free.

Description It's not (just) about the bike. Ride your bike long enough and you're likely to get injured. It's not what cyclists want to hear, but it's the hard truth.

Cycling is a rapidly growing sport, and as numbers increase, so do the amount of injuries. What do you do if you get injured? Rest? Continue to ride? These questions need answering - to avoid confusion, further complications and more harmful injuries, resulting in substantial time off the bike. We want more bums on saddles, enjoying their cycling, pain free.

This book takes you through the most common cycling injuries, let you know what exactly they are, why you get them and what you can do to do get rid of them and get you back on the bike pain free.

About the Author Robert Hicks is a journalist, writing across the IPC media cycling titles, most notably Cycling Weekly, the UK's biggest cycling magazine.Matthew Rabin is Team Chiropractor and Lead Nutritional Strategist with professional cycling team Garmin-Sharp. Matt has worked with the Great Britain, American and Australian Cycling teams at the World Championships, as well as working with the Australian cycling team in the run up to the 2012 London Olympic Games.

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BLM Sport JUNE 2015 Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists Michael Hutchinson

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Shoes: Pleasure and Pain Helen Persson

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V&A Publications JUNE 2015 Shoes: A Brief History Lucy Johnson and Linda Wholley

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V&A Publications JUNE 2015 The Arts of Living: Europe 1600-1815 Elizabeth Miller and Hilary Young

The Arts of Living explores the breadth, depth and beauty of the V&A's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century collections.

Description Written by a team of experts, this book provides an overview of over two centuries of cultural development and artistic endeavour. The unparalleled range of the V&A's collection means that masterpieces such as the Serilly Cabinet and Bernini's terracotta for the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni can be contextualized alongside discussions of Louis XIV's patronage and the seventeenth-century Dutch interior. Many works will be shown for the first time, including Count Bruhl's Meissen fountain and actor David Garrick's tea service.

About the Author Elizabeth Miller is Senior Curator of prints at the V&A. and a member of the Europe Galleries concept team. She has written extensively on prints in the Italian Renaissance home and the Petrucci Pavement and is author of 16th-Century Italian Ornament Prints (V&A, 1999).

Hilary Young is Senior Curator of ceramics at the V&A. and a member of the Europe Galleries concept team. His publications include English Porcelain, 1745-95 (V&A, 1999), Elegant Eating (V&A, 2002) and Masterpieces of World Ceramics (V&A, 2008).

Price: $50.00 (NZ$60.00) ISBN: 9781851778072 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 245x220mm Extent: 208 pages

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V&A Publications JUNE 2015 Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War Deborah Cadbury

Princes at War takes up the story the film The King's Speech began, at the moment Edward VIII's abdication plunges the Royal family into turmoil and George VI takes the reins...

Description King George V predicted that his eldest son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world's press broke their Great Silence: King Edward VIII was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorced American socialite.

A life spent in the shadow of his charismatic elder brother left the new king, George VI, magnificently unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire; this would be a baptism of fire. Hitler's Third Reich was tearing up the old Kingdoms of Europe one by one. As Great Britain braced herself for war, the faltering new king struggled to manage internal divisions within the royal family and feared betrayal as intelligence mounted of the Duke and Duchess of Windsors' suspected treachery during the worst days of the war. Drawing on personal accounts from the royal archives and other new sources, Deborah Cadbury uncovers the very private conflict between George VI and his too charming older brother; a conflict so bitter it was unresolvable while they were both alive.

Cadbury's intimate and gripping account of familial tensions amongst kings and princes, provides a unique look at one of the most turbulent periods in British history. Overcoming his stammer was only the beginning, and Cadbury goes on to reveal just what it took for George VI to rise to the challenge of leading his country during its time of greatest peril - and at what price.

About the Author Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning TV producer for the BBC, including Horizon for which she won an Emmy. She is also the author of seven acclaimed books including The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, for which the accompanying series received a BAFTA nomination for Best Series. She lives in London. Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781408845257 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages

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Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 One Wild Song: One man's quest to find his son's voice at sea Paul Heiney

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Adlard Coles Nautica JUNE 2015 Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison Dylan Jones

A revealing biography of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors and a musical icon

Description In Paris's P.re-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly immortalised amongst the rock and roll deity such as Hendrix and Joplin. In death, however, this debauched 'rock poet' remained more stubbornly enigmatic than ever.

Who was the real Jim Morrison? Nihilist, egoist, shaman: he was a master of self-creation. A mosaic mythology of new- age hippy rhetoric, French poetry and Nietszchean symbolism obscured a man trapped by the mythology that he had so carefully constructed around himself.

In this colourful and intimate biography, Dylan Jones strips bare the skin-tight leather suit of Jim Morrison's Lizard King persona, and offers a frank and honest appraisal of a much beloved and often-romanticised counter-cultural icon. Mr Mojo is littered with little-known anecdotes from fellow stars, spurned lovers and industry moguls. It is a refreshingly honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry and public self-destruction.

About the Author Dylan Jones studied at Chelsea School Of Art and St. Martin's School of Art. The award-winning editor of GQ magazine, he collaborated with David Cameron on Cameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones, which was shortlisted for the Channel 4 Political Book of the Year. He has been the Chairman of the Prince's Trust, is a Trustee of the Hay Festival and in June 2013 was awarded an OBE for services to publishing and the fashion industry.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells Helen Scales

A fascinating slice of marine biology and cultural history, revealing these hidden wonders that can be held in the palm of your hand

Description Stories of seashells stretch from the deep past into the present day. They are touchstones, leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. Shell-makers (members of the phylum Mollusca) are among the most ancient and successful animals on the planet. They live extraordinary lives in many strange places; they create vital food and homes for other animals, and across the ages, people have used shells not only as trinkets but also as powerful symbols of sex and death, prestige and war.

This book tells the story of the seashell. Two major themes weave through the narrative: the science and natural history of shells and their (original) owners, and the cultural importance and ways they have been used by humans over the millennia. The author, Helen Scales, shows how these simple objects have been sculpted by fundamental rules of mathematics and evolution, how they gave us colour, gems, food and money, and how they are prompting new medicines and teaching scientists how our brains work.

Seashells are also symbols of the impacts humans have on the environment. After surviving multiple mass extinctions millions of years ago, seashells have gone on to face an onslaught of anthopogenic challenges including the most recent crisis - climate change and corrosive oceans. But rather than dwelling on all that is lost, the book emphasises that seashells offer an accessible way to reconnect people with nature, helping to heal the rift between ourselves and the living world. Aside from a fascinating slice of marine biology and cultural history, this book shows why nature matters, and reveals the amazing story of these undersea wonders of calcium carbonate.

About the Author Helen Scales is a marine biologist based in Cambridge. Her doctorate involved exploring the reproductive biology of the humphead wrasse, and since then she has tagged sharks in California, catalogued marine life surrounding a hundred islands in the Andaman Sea, and most recently studied the diverse fish that live on coral reefs in the South Pacific. Helen Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781472916709 is now a freelance researcher and broadcaster. A major outlet for Helen's explorations is BBC Radio where she is a Format: Paperback reporter and presenter on science and natural history programmes, especially on Radio 4 and the World Service. Her Dimensions: 216x135mm credits include regular appearances on Inside Science and Home Planet, numerous one-off documentaries, and a Extent: 288 pages coveted spot on The Museum of Curiosity. Helen is also a long-standing member of the award-winning science Main Category: HB History

Sub Category: HB History communication collective, The Naked Scientists, based at the University of Cambridge. Helen's first book was Poseidon's Illustrations: Steed; The Story of Seahorses from Myth to Reality, (2010, Penguin). Previous Titles: Author now living:

Sigma JUNE 2015 Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat Philip Lymbery

Farmageddon: the quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening our countryside, farms and food

Description Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.

Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.

About the Author Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming.

Isabel Oakeshott is Political Editor at the Sunday Times and commentator on BBC One's Sunday Politics show.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA E.G. Vallianatos and McKay Jenkins

An insider's account of how political pressure and corporate arm-twisting undermined the Environmental Protection Agency, with devastating effects on public safety and the environment.

Description When you order a meal in a restaurant, you won't find malathion, kelthane or arsenic listed on the menu as an ingredient of your entr.e, but these and scores of other pesticides and dangerous chemicals are in the food we eat. They are dumped into the environment where they seep into our water supply and float in the air we breathe. The use of these poisons is approved-or in some cases, simply ignored-by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Poison Spring documents, in devastating detail, the EPA's corruption and misuse of science and public trust. In its half- century of existence, the agency has repeatedly reinforced the chemical-industrial complex by endorsing deadly chemicals, botching field investigations, turning a blind eye to toxic disasters, and swallowing the self-serving claims of industry. E. G. Vallianatos, who saw the EPA from the inside for more than two decades with rising dismay, reveals in Poison Spring how the agency has allowed our lands and waters to be poisoned with more toxic chemicals than ever. No one who cares for the natural world, or for the health of future generations, can ignore this powerful expos..

About the Author E. G. Vallianatos worked for the Environmental Protection Agency for twenty-five years, and is the author of six books, including Harvest of Devastation and This Land is Their Land. He has written for Alternet.org, Truth-Out.org, and the Huffington Post. He now lives in Claremont, California. McKay Jenkins is an acclaimed environmental journalist and the author of What's Gotten Into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World. Jenkins is the Cornelius Professor of English, Journalism, and Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware.

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Bloomsbury USA JUNE 2015 Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General Rick Stroud

The extraordinary story of the kidnapping of a Nazi general in World War Two by Patrick Leigh Fermor and the SOE, and its consequences for the inhabitants of Crete, by the author of The Phantom Army of Alamein

Description This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo.

Rick Stroud, whose Phantom Army of Alamein won plaudits for its meticulous research and its lightness of touch in the telling, brings these same gifts to bear in this new project. From the adrenalin rush of the kidnapping, to the help provided by the Cretan partisans and people, he explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War Two and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for them all.

There have been other accounts - notably Ill Met By Moonlight by William Stanley Moss (Leigh Fermor's second in command), which was later made into a Powell and Pressburger film, starring Dirk Bogarde - but Kidnap in Crete is the first book to draw on all the sources, notably those in Crete as well as SOE files and the accounts, letters and private papers of its operatives in London and Edinburgh.

About the Author Rick Stroud is the author of The Phantom Army of Alamein: The Men Who Hoodwinked Rommel and The Book of the Moon. He is also the author, with Victor Gregg, of Rifleman: A Front Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall and King's Cross Kid: A London Childhood Between the Wars. He lives in Chelsea, London.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt Kwasi Kwarteng

Eminent historian Kwasi Kwarteng takes a unique look at the financial world and its troubled history, from the disaster that befell Spain in the sixteenth century to the 2008 global financial crisis.

Description In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history has been echoed many times, from the French Revolution to both World Wars, right up to the present day, when our own financial crisis saw many of our great nations slip into financial trouble. Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world as we know it, that between war and gold.

About the Author Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and was recently elected as the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. Ghosts of Empire is his first book.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery: Where War Comes Home Robert M. Poole

'Until a dedicated memorial exists to honor those who gave their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, Section 60 is the de facto memorial...[This] book will linger in the reader's mind.' - Library Journal, starred

Description Gifted writer and reporter Robert Poole opens Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery with preparations for Memorial Day when thousands of families come to visit those buried in the 624-acre cemetery, legions of Rolling Thunder motorcyclists patrol the streets with fluttering POW flags, and service members place miniature flags before each of Arlington's graves. Section 60, where many of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been laid to rest alongside service members from earlier wars, is a fourteen-acre plot that looms far larger in the minds and hearts of Americans. It represents a living, breathing community of fellow members of the military, family members, friends, and loved ones of those who have fallen to the new weapons of war: improvised explosive devices, suicide bombs, and enemies who blend in with local populations. Several of the newest recruits for Section 60 have been brought there by suicide or post- traumatic stress disorder, a war injury newly described but dating to ancient times.

Using this section as a window into the latest wars, Poole recounts stories of courage and sacrifice by fallen heroes, and explores the ways in which soldiers' comrades, friends, and families honor and remember those lost to war-carrying on with life in the aftermath of tragedy. Section 60 is a moving tribute to those who have fought and died for our country, and to those who love them.

About the Author Robert M. Poole is a writer and editor whose work for National Geographic, Smithsonian, and other magazines has taken him around the world. His last book, On Hallowed Ground, earned wide critical acclaim and was one of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2009. Poole, former executive editor of National Geographic, lives in Vermont.

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Bloomsbury USA JUNE 2015 Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat Helen McCarthy

An original, compellingly told story of women's fight to represent their country abroad in the face of opposition from the men of the Foreign Office

Description Throughout the twentieth century and long before, hundreds of determined British women defied the social conventions of their day in order to seek adventure and influence on the world stage. Some became travellers and explorers; others business-owners or buyers; others still devoted their lives to worthy international causes, from anti-slavery and women's suffrage to the League of Nations and world peace. Yet until 1946, no British woman could officially represent her nation abroad. It was only after decades of campaigning and the heroic labours performed by women during the Second World War that diplomatic careers were finally opened to both sexes.

Women of the World tells this story of personal and professional struggle against the dramatic backdrop of war, super- power rivalry and global transformation over the last century and a half. From London to Washington, Geneva to Tehran, and in the deserts of Arabia, the souks of Damascus and the hospitals of Sarajevo, resolute women undaunted by intransigent officials and hostile foreign governments proved their worth.

Moved by a longing to escape domestic redundancy, to follow in the footsteps of fathers or brothers, to build a more peaceful world, to discover cultures other than their own or simply to serve the nation which denied them full equality, these women were extraordinary individuals fighting prejudice in high places. Drawing on letters, memoirs, personal interviews and government records, these heroines caught up in the larger endeavours of the world's greatest empire are brought vividly to life to enrich our understanding of Britain's global history in modern times.

About the Author Helen McCarthy is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London. She studied as an undergraduate at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. She worked briefly for the think- tank Demos before embarking on doctoral studies at the University of London. Her first book, The British People and the League of Nations (Manchester University Press, 2011), explores the vibrant popular cultures of internationalism in inter- Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408837801 war Britain. Before taking up her post at Queen Mary, Helen was a Research Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Format: Paperback She lives in London with her husband and two daughters. Dimensions: 198 xmm Extent: 416 pages

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography Miriam Pawel

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez is a biography for readers who find real human beings more compelling than icons. -Los Angeles Times

Description Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to icon, becoming one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino figure in U.S. history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography-until now.

In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary whose eyes were fixed on a horizon others often could not even see. He was a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled, and a streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his soaring dreams. Drawing on thousands of documents, hundreds of hours of audiotape, and scores of interviews, this superbly written life deepens our understanding of one of Chavez's most salient qualities: his profound humanity.

Pawel traces Chavez's rise as he empowered the poor and disenfranchised and led farmworkers to historic victories over the agriculture industry. With compassion and compelling detail, she narrates the equally dramatic later years when Chavez's charismatic leadership devolved into a cult of personality, with heartbreaking consequences for his union. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez reveals how this unlikely American hero ignited one of the great social movements of our time-and left a legacy that resonates today, from California to the White House.

About the Author Miriam Pawel is the author of The Union of Their Dreams, widely acclaimed as the most nuanced history of Cesar Chavez's movement. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor who spent twenty-five years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and lives in Southern California.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781608197132 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 235x156mm Extent: 560 pages

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Bloomsbury USA JUNE 2015 A Curious Career Lynn Barber

A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, Lynn Barber.

Description Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social embarrassment, turned out to be the perfect qualification for a celebrity interviewer.

In A Curious Career, Lynn Barber takes us from her early years as a journalist at Penthouse - where she started out interviewing foot fetishists, voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies - to her later more eminent role interrogating a huge cross-section of celebrities ranging from politicians to film stars, comedians, writers, artists and musicians. A Curious Career is full of glorious anecdotes - the interview with Salvador Dali that, at Dali's invitation, ended up lasting four days, or the drinking session with Shane MacGowan during which they planned to rob a bank. It also contains eye-opening transcripts, such as her infamous interview with the hilarious and spectacularly rude Marianne Faithfull.

A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, A Curious Career is also a fascinating window into the lives of celebrities and the changing world of journalism.

About the Author Lynn Barber is an award-winning British journalist. Several collections of her interviews have been anthologised. She read English Literature at Oxford, worked for Penthouse magazine for seven years, then for the Sunday Express, Independent on Sunday, Vanity Fair, Observer and Sunday Times. Her books include two collections of interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber, as well as two sex manuals and a study of Victorian naturalists. Her memoir, An Education, was made into an award-winning film starring Carey Mulligan and Rosamund Pike. She lives in north London.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal Robert Sackville-West

The Disinherited exposes the dark side of English history, as ancient wealth mixes with modern manners

Description In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story emerged. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himself minutes after the death of his wife from cancer; but Henry's suicidal despair had been driven equally by the failure of his claim to be the legitimate son of Lord Sackville and heir to Knole. The Disinherited reveals the secrets and lies at the heart of an English dynasty, unravelling the parallel lives of Henri's four illegitimate siblings: in particular his older sister, Victoria, who on becoming Lady Sackville and mistress of Knole, by marriage, consigned her brothers and sisters to lives of poverty and disappointment.

About the Author After studying History at Oxford University, Robert Sackville-West worked in publishing, founding Toucan Books in 1985, which creates illustrated non-fiction books for an international market. He now combines that with chairing Knole Estates, the property and investment company which runs the Sackville family's interests at Knole. In 2008, he and his wife and three children moved in the house, which has been occupied by the Sackville family for 400 years. The incredible history of Knole and the Sackville family, Inheritance, was published in 2010.

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Eleanor Marx: A Life Rachel Holmes

The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality

Description Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For years she worked tirelessly for her father, Karl Marx, as personal secretary and researcher. Later she edited many of his key political works, and laid the foundations for his biography. But foremost among her achievements was her pioneering feminism. For her, sexual equality was a necessary precondition for a just society.

Drawing strength from her family and their wide circle, including Friedrich Engels and Wilhelm Liebknecht, Eleanor Marx set out into the world to make a difference - her favourite motto: 'Go ahead!' With her closest friends - among them, Olive Schreiner, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, Will Thorne and William Morris - she was at the epicentre of British socialism. She was also the only Marx to claim her Jewishness. But her life contained a deep sadness: she loved a faithless and dishonest man, the academic, actor and would-be playwright Edward Aveling. Yet despite the unhappiness he brought her, Eleanor Marx never wavered in her political life, ceaselessly campaigning and organising until her untimely end, which - with its letters, legacies, secrets and hidden paternity - reads in part like a novel by Wilkie Collins, and in part like the modern tragedy it was.

Rachel Holmes has gone back to original sources to tell the story of the woman who did more than any other to transform British politics in the nineteenth century, who was unafraid to live her contradictions.

About the Author Rachel Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor, with Lisa Appignanesi and Susie Orbach, of Fifty Shades of Feminism and co- commissioning editor, with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon, of Sixty-Six Books: Twenty- First Century Writers Speak to Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408852897 the King James Bible. She lives in Gloucestershire. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198 xmm Extent: 528 pages

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Bloomsbury Pb JUNE 2015 Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising Jonathan Littell

A blistering first hand account of the conflict in Homs by the internationally acclaimed author of The Kindly Ones.

Description In 2012, Jonathan Littell went to the heart of the Syrian conflict, embedding himself with the Free Syria Army in the historic city of Homs. He watched from the front line as the city was ruthlessly pummeled by Assad's forces, and finally surrendered. His urgent notebooks of what he saw on the ground speak directly of the horrors of the civil war that continues today. Out of the chaos, Littell bears witness to the lives and the hopes of freedom fighters. Syrian Diaries is the most close-up account of the war, and will be seen as a classic account of war reportage.

About the Author Jonathan Littell was born in 1967 in New York of American parents and brought up and educated mainly in France. His novel The Kindly Ones, originally published in France as Les Bienveillantes, became a bestseller and won the coveted Prix Goncourt and the Académie Française's Prix de Littérature. Previously he worked for the humanitarian agency, Action contre la faim, in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He now lives in Spain.

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Verso Trade JUNE 2015 The Secret World of Oil Ken Silverstein

An engaging journey through the sector’s murkiest crevices, shot through with ill-concealed disgust at the corruption at its heart. – Financial Times

Description Oil is the lifeblood of modern civilization, and the industry that supplies it has been the subject of intense interest and scrutiny, as well as countless books. And yet, almost no attention has been paid to little-known characters vital to the industry—secretive fixers and oil traders, lobbyists and PR agents, gangsters and dictators—allied with competing governments and multinational corporations. Virtually every stage in oil's production process, from discovery to consumption, is greased by secret connections, corruption, and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public. The energy industry, to cite just one measure, violates the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act more often than any other economic sector, even weapons. This book sets out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. Based on trips to New York, Houston, New Orleans, Paris, Geneva, and Phnom Penh, among other far-flung locales, The Secret World of Oil includes up-close portraits of Louisiana oilmen and their political handlers; an urbane, captivating London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who had to choose among more than three dozen luxury vehicles before heading out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the prestigious Open Society Foundations, this is both an entertaining global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting.

About the Author Ken Silverstein is a Senior Investigative Reporter with First Look Media. He has been a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Univeristy and at Open Society Foundations. He served as Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine from 2006 to 2010. Previously on the staff of the Los Angeles Times, Silverstein has also written for Mother Jones, Wallpaper, Washington Monthly, the Nation, Slate, Salon, and many other publications. In 2005, he received the Overseas Press Club Award for a series, cowritten with T. Christian Miller, titled The Politics of Petroleum and published in the Los Angeles Times.

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Verso Trade JUNE 2015 The Extreme Centre: A Warning Tariq Ali

Britain's leading radical delivers an eviscerating attack on the indistinguishable political elite of the UK.

Description Britain is a nation without an opposition. Westminster is in the grip of an extreme centre: yes to austerity, yes to imperial wars, yes to a failing EU, yes to increased security measures, and yes to the status quo. Euro-immigration is becoming an English obsession, even though it was this country that carried out Washington's orders to expand the EU so that it lost any chance of social or political coherence. What is to be done?

About the Author TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics-including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome-as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.

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Verso Trade JUNE 2015 Philosophy for Militants: Pocket Communism Alain Badiou

A philosophical guidebook for the struggles to come

Description An urgent and provocative account of the modern 'militant', a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical phalanx comprising students, the young, workers and immigrants. It is Badiou's contention that the politics of such militants should condition the tasks of philosophy, even as philosophy clarifies the truth of our political condition. To resolve the conflicts between politics, philosophy and democracy, Badiou argues for a resurgent communism - returning to the original call for universal emancipation and organizing for militant struggle.

About the Author Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the École normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Anti-Philosophy.

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Verso Trade JUNE 2015 Return: A Palestinian Memoir Ghada Karmi

An extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home.

Description After growing up in Britain following exile from Palestine in 1948, Karmi returns to her homeland in the hope of helping with the peace process and the possibility of a Palestinian state. She starts work within the Palestinian Authority ministry. Yet she finds her family home has now been occupied, and much of the West Bank militarized; meanwhile her encounters with fellow Palestinians, politicians and Israeli solders forces her to question what role the diaspora has in the future of the homeland, and whether return is truly possible. Beautifully written and deeply moving, Return is a passionate meditation on belonging.

About the Author Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem and trained as a doctor of medicine at Bristol University. She established the first British-Palestinian medical charity in 1972 and was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs. Her previous books include Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process? And the best selling In Search of Fatima. She writes frequently for The Guardian and The Nation.

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Verso Trade JUNE 2015 Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene McKenzie Wark

A radical new way to think about the environment: the Carbon Liberation Front

Description Of all the liberation movements of the twentieth century, the one that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams did not liberate a class or a gender or a race. It liberated an element: carbon. Today, the carbon liberation front threatens to crash the entire climate system. In Molecular Red, Wark looks for a way to understand, and perhaps even combat, this implacable force. He revisits the work of Alexander Bogdanov - Lenin's rival - and the great proletkult writer and engineer Andre Platonov. In this reading, the Soviet experiment emerges from the past as an allegory for our time. Moving toward the present, Wark reads Donna Haraway's cyborg critique and science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian utopia as powerful resources for thinking what the carbon liberation front has wrought.

About the Author McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, The Beach Beneath the Street, and Spectacle Disintegration. He teaches at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.

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Verso Trade JUNE 2015 Bipolar Disorder: The Ultimate Guide Sarah Owen and Amanda Saunders

Updated edition of one of the most respected introductions to Bipolar Disorder

Description Has someone close to you been diagnosed with bipolar disorder? Have you been diagnosed yourself? If so, then this is the book for you. With a helpful question and answer format, this invaluable guide reveals everything there is to know about the condition, and shows how to keep it firmly under control. From how to deal with a manic episode to coping with the stigma often associated with mental illness, this enlightening and compassionate guide contains the very latest research surrounding the illness that affects one in fifty of us. Including numerous real-life case studies, helpful character summaries and a full list of support organisations and web groups, this accessible blend of advice and insight will inform and empower all those who live with the bewildering turbulence of bipolar disorder.

About the Author Sarah Owen has been a health journalist for UK newspapers and glossy magazines, such as Psychologies and Cosmopolitan, for fourteen years. Amanda Saunders has worked as an editor and writer for The National Childbirth Trust in the UK for the last eleven years.

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Oneworld JUNE 2015 How to Think Like an Engineer: Boost Your Creativity and Make Better Decisions Guruprasad Madhavan

The gripping story of the world's most deadly mountain

Description At last engineering is getting its due; engineers are finally cool. But few of us understand the engineering mindset. It's the mindset that came up with flatpack furniture, disposable nappies, and the postal code; that solved Stockholm's traffic and the problem of bank closing times (the hole-in-the-wall); and whose seemingly simple ideas have saved countless lives, with innovations such as painting a line behind traffic lanes and combining GPS with 999. The engineering mindset is much like a Swiss-army knife - multipurpose, combining structured and abstract thinking, common sense and great imagination, and cross -pollinating information from every possible sector. With the help of a cast of star engineers and fascinating, unexpected real world examples, Madhavan offers a framework for you to think like the best engineers - more creatively, systematically and strategically so that you can learn to make better decisions in a complex world.

About the Author Mick Conefrey is the author of Everest 1953, How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt and The Adventurer's Handbook. An internationally recognized filmmaker, he has produced several BBC documentaries on mountaineering and exploration, including the prize-winning 'The Ghosts of K2'. He lives in Oxford.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$35.00) ISBN: 9781780746371 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 225x146mm Extent: 304 pages

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Oneworld JUNE 2015 Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent Mick Conefrey

The gripping story of the world's most deadly mountain

Description At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it is a far tougher proposition. Unlike Everest, there is no "Yak route" for commercial clients. It is hard climbing all the way from its base to its summit. K2 will kill you on the way up and kill you on the way down. Mick Conefrey tells the story of three extraordinary expeditions filled with riveting drama and unimaginable tragedy: Fritz Wiessener's controversial attempt of 1939, the disastrous American expedition of 1953, and the huge Italian expedition of 1954 on which K2 was first climbed. He captures the bold and eccentric characters - their friendships and rivalries, their guilt and betrayals. At the center of the narrative is Charlie Houston, who led the failed 1953 exhibition, who was forced to give up his ambition of ever reaching the summit, and who was haunted for the rest of his life by the ghosts of the world's most beautiful and lethal mountain.

About the Author Mick Conefrey is the author of Everest 1953, How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt, and The Adventurer's Handbook. An internationally recognized filmmaker, he has produced several BBC documentaries on mountaineering and exploration, including the prize-winning The Ghosts of K2. He lives in Oxford, U.K.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781780745954 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages

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Oneworld JUNE 2015 Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet Jonathan Schneer

Ministers at War provides a unique perspective on British politics during World War II, as well as a fascinating insight into the birth of the Welfare State.

Description Churchill's wartime cabinet brought together Conservatives, Labour, Liberals and others in a coalition of political titans, including four Prime Ministers - past, present and future. This is the gripping story of how they governed, bickered, intrigued, and won. With a cast of characters featuring some of the most famous names in twentieth-century British history - Lloyd- George, Bevin, Attlee, Chamberlain, Beaverbrook, Morrison, Eden and Cripps - this magisterial work is the first to focus upon Winston Churchill's management of his own "Team of Rivals". It is a story rife with political intrigue, as well as unexpected friendships and alliances. Schneer's original research and vivid writing shows that as the fate of Britain hung in the balance, even Churchill's standing in the Government was sometimes precarious. A story of overcoming personal differences in service of the national interest, Ministers at War provides a unique perspective on British politics during World War II, as well as a fascinating insight into the birth of the Welfare State.

About the Author Jonathan Schneer is Professor of British History at Georgia Tech and the author of a number of highly acclaimed books on British history including London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis, The Thames: England's River and The Balfour Declaration, which won the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781780746135 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages

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Oneworld JUNE 2015 Altruism Matthieu Ricard

The new bestseller from Matthieu Ricard is the result of a lifetime's thought. This inspirational book argues that by understanding kindness and developing it as a skill we can change the world.

Description In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness and compassion for others. Now he turns his lens from the personal to the global, with a rousing argument that altruism - genuine concern for the well-being of others - could be the saving grace of the 21st century.

Altruism is, he believes, the vital thread that can answer the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long term. Ricard's message has been taken up by major economists and thinkers, including Dennis Snower, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and George Soros.

Matthieu Ricard makes a robust and passionate case for cultivating altruistic love and compassion as the best means for simultaneously benefitting ourselves and our society. It's a fresh outlook on an ardent struggle - and one that just might make the world a better place.

About the Author Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who had a promising career in cellular genetics before leaving France to study Buddhism in the Himalayas forty years ago. He is also a bestselling author, translator and photographer, and an active participant in current scientific research on the effects of meditation on the brain. He lives in Tibet and Nepal and is involved in humanitarian projects in both these countries.

Price: $45.00 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9780857896988 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x148mm Extent: 512 pages

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Atlantic JUNE 2015 The Book of the People A. N. Wilson

Description A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for a year at university. Martin Luther King was 'reading the Bible' when he started the Civil Rights movement. When Michelangelo painted the fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel, he was 'reading the Bible'.

In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains relevant even in a largely secular society, as a philosophical work, a work of literature and a cultural touchstone that the western world has answered to for nearly two thousand years. He challenges the way fundamentalists whether believers or non- believers - have misused the Bible, either by neglecting and failing to recognize its cultural significance, or by using it as a weapon against those with whom they disagree.

Erudite, witty and accessible, The Book of the People seeks to reclaim the Good Book as our seminal work of literature, and a book for the imagination.

About the Author A. N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire and was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award- winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781848879591 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 256 pages

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Atlantic JUNE 2015 The Scottish Islands: The Bestselling Guide to Every Scottish Island Hamish Haswell-smith

A new edition of the definitive guide to Scottish island hopping.

Description Fully revised and updated, this is the only book with detailed information and maps on every Scottish island. With the author's own paintings liberally illustrating it, this beautiful guide will take you everywhere, whether by armchair or yacht.

From the abandoned crofts of Mingulay and the standing stones of Orkney to the white beaches of Colonsay and the spectacular Cuillins of Skye, this is the first complete gazetteer to cover all of Scotland's many hundreds of islands, including those which are uninhabited and those which are notoriously difficult to reach.

Packed with information on access, anchorages, points of historical or natural interest and things to do and see, this fascinating compendium provides indispensable information for touring, for browsing, for reference, and for all of those travellers who wish to experience some of the most beautiful and remote places in the world.

No other book begins to emulate the range and depth of the information contained in The Scottish Islands. Illustrated with full-colour illustrations and relief maps of all the main islands, this is both an impressive work of reference and a fascinating personal view of Scotland's distant outposts.

About the Author Hamish Haswell-Smith, now retired from his own architectural practice, is a qualified yachtmaster who has sailed extensively among the Scottish islands. His sketches and paintings, some of which illustrate the book, have been exhibited in many top British and European galleries.

Price: $79.99 (NZ$99.99) ISBN: 9781782116783 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 267x200mm Extent: 578 pages

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Canongate Trade JUNE 2015 The Moor: A journey into the English wilderness William Atkins

William Atkins gives us the story of the moors - from Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor in the southwest up to the Scottish border, via Yorkshire and Northumberland - and how they have shaped our people, culture and industry.

Description In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche.

Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past and present: murderers and monks, smugglers and priests, gamekeepers and ramblers, miners and poets, developers and environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting and defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country and the people who live in it - a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.

About the Author William Atkins grew up in Hampshire. After studying art history, he went on to work in publishing, where he edited prize- winning fiction. He now works as a freelance editor, and studies and writes about Britain's marginal landscapes. He lives in north London.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9780571290055 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages

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Faber Paperback JUNE 2015 The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century Hugh Aldersey-Williams

An experimental account of Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th century physician, philospher and writer, from the acclaimed author of Periodic Tales and Anatomies.

Description A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marias) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience.

About the Author Hugh Aldersey-Williams is a writer and curator with interests ranging from science to architecture and design. His prolific career as a freelance journalist included a five-year stint as the design critic of the New Statesman. He lives in Norwich and has for many years been an unreasoning Thomas Browne obsessive.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781847089007 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 336 pages

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Granta JUNE 2015 Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape Ted Nield

Journeying across the British Isles and drawing on his own mining and stonemasonry background, geologist Ted Nield unearths the ways in which the rocks beneath our feet shape our lives.

Description Not so long ago, our roads, buildings, gravestones and monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, and our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. At the height of the empire, British stone travelled across the world to India and China, Sri Lanka and Argentina, Singapore and South Africa. There were thousands of mines, quarries, slag heaps and brick pits across the British Isles. We live among the remnants of those times - our older cities are built from Bath limestone, or Aberdeen granite - but for the most part our mines are gone, our buildings are no longer local, and the flow of stone travels east to west.

Spurred on by the erasure of history and industry, Ted Nield journeyed across this buried landscape: from the small Welsh village where his mining ancestors were born and died, to Swansea, Aberdeen, East Lothian, Surrey and Dorset. Delving into the history and geology of this forgotten Britain, and into his ancestors' connection with its rocks, Nield unearths the veins of coal, stone, oil, rock and clay that make up the country beneath our feet, exploring what the loss of kinship between past and present means for Britain and the rest of the world today.

About the Author Ted Neild holds a doctorate in geology and works for the Geological Society of London as Editor of the monthly magazine Geoscientist. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and a member of the Meteoritical Society. He is the author of Supercontinent (2007) and Incoming! (2011). He lives in London.

Price: $24.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781847086723 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages

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Granta Paperbacks JUNE 2015 The Third Screen: The Ultimate Guide to Mobile Marketing Chuck Martin

How marketers can harness mobile technology to reach customers most effectively.

Description With the first screen the television companies sent ads directly into consumers living rooms, reaching millions with one campaign. The second screen the personal computer increased interaction between companies and consumers and allowed for immediate customer feedback. Now, the third screen the mobile device changed the game in an even more revolutionary way.

The Third Screen: The Ultimate Guide to Mobile Marketing defines the implications, strategies, and tactics used to thrive in business during the mobile revolution. This revised, updated paperback links technological developments to behavioral changes, reveals the unexpected forces of the changes in mobile, and equips marketers and businesses for the future

About the Author Chuck Martin is director of the Center for Media Research in New York, the CEO of NFI Research, an avid public speaker and the author of eight business books, including NYT business best seller The Digital Estate as well as Net Future, SMARTS and Work Your Strengths. With more than 26,000 Twitter followers, Chuck is an established social media expert and has also appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox and ABC-TV News Now. He served as brand manager for the Mobile Insider Summit (August 2010 in Lake Tahoe, NV) and . Visit his website and his blog at www.nfiresearch.com and his blog at http://www.thesocialcmo.com/blog/

Price: $39.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781857886238 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x153mm Extent: 240 pages

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Nicholas Brealey JUNE 2015 Dreamland Sam Quinones

From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma, an explosive and shocking account of addiction and black tar heroin in the heartland of America.

Description In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin-to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before-from Charlotte, NC and Huntington, WVA, to Salt Lake City and Portland, OR-were overrun with it. Local police and residents were stunned. How could heroin, long considered a drug found only in the dense, urban environments along the East Coast, and trafficked into the United States by enormous Colombian drug cartels, be so incredibly ubiquitous in the American heartland? Who was bringing it here, and perhaps more importantly, why were so many townspeople suddenly eager for the comparatively cheap high it offered?

With the same dramatic drive of El Narco and Methland, Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of American capitalism: The stories of young men in Mexico, independent of the drug cartels, in search of their own American Dream via the fast and enormous profits of trafficking cheap black-tar heroin to America's rural and suburban addicts; and that of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, determined to corner the market on pain with its new and expensive miracle drug, Oxycontin; extremely addictive in its own right. Quinones illuminates just how these two stories fit together as cause and effect: hooked on costly Oxycontin, American addicts were lured to much cheaper black tar heroin and its powerful and dangerous long-lasting high. Embroiled alongside the suppliers and buyers are DEA agents, local, small-town sheriffs, and the US attorney from eastern Virginia whose case against Purdue Pharma and Oxycontin made him an enemy of the Bush-era Justice Department, ultimately stalling and destroying his career in public service.

Dreamland is a scathing and incendiary account of drug culture and addiction spreading to every part of the American landscape.

About the Author Price: $32.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781620402504 Sam Quinones is a journalist, author and storyteller whose two acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction about Mexico and Format: Hard Cover Mexican immigration made him, according to the SF Chronicle Book Review, the most original writer on Mexico and the Dimensions: 235x156mm border. Extent: 384 pages

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Bloomsbury USA JUNE 2015 Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It John Ferling

A concise and comprehensive one-volume history of the American Revolution by an acclaimed historian of the period.

Description Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling's latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume tomes that appeal to scholars and the most serious general readers to microhistories that necessarily gloss over swaths of Independence-era history with only cursory treatment.

Written in Ferling's engaging and narrative-driven style that made books like Independence and The Ascent of George Washington critical and commercial successes, Whirlwind is a fast-paced and scrupulously told one-volume history of this epochal time. Balancing social and political concerns of the period and perspectives of the average American revolutionary with a careful examination of the war itself, Ferling has crafted the ideal book for armchair military history buffs, a book about the causes of the American Revolution, the war that won it, and the meaning of the Revolution overall. Combining careful scholarship, arresting detail, and illustrative storytelling, Whirlwind is a unique and compelling addition to any collection of books on the American Revolution.

About the Author John Ferling is professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of many books on American Revolutionary history, including The Ascent of George Washington; Almost a Miracle, an acclaimed military history of the War of Independence; and the award-winning A Leap in the Dark. His most recent book on American history is Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation. He and his wife, Carol, live near Atlanta, Georgia.

Price: $49.99 (NZ$59.99) ISBN: 9781620401729 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 235x156mm Extent: 416 pages

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Bloomsbury USA JUNE 2015 Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War Deborah Cadbury

The death of George V plunged Britain and its Royal family into turmoil as the dazzling Edward VIII first abdicated and then during WW2 tried to out manoueuvre his less gifted, stammering younger brother, George VI

Description The five sons of King George V and Queen Mary were very different characters, with very different strengths and weaknesses, all of whom were brought up to fulfil different roles within the Royal Family; until the eldest of the brothers rejected his role as King of England and plunged the family into crisis.

The personal lives of the British Royals were successfully kept out of the public eye by mutual agreement of the press and royal family, but this all changed in 1936 when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne and spurned his responsibility for the sake of the glamorous American socialite and divorcee, Wallis Simpson. During the Second World War, though the world's press focused on the far more public conflict tearing nations apart, the royal romance provided light relief for the British public. But this relationship had a darker side, and in Princes at War, Deborah Cadbury reveals evidence that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor colluded with Hitler to take back the British throne from Edward's younger brother, King George VI, should Germany prevail in the War.

Drawing on new research and recently released files, Deborah Cadbury shows that not only did George VI have to battle to lead his country but battle constantly to keep his brothers, and especially his older brother, in check.

About the Author Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning TV producer for the BBC, including Horizon for which she won an Emmy. She is also the author of seven acclaimed books including The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, for which the accompanying series received a BAFTA nomination for Best Series, The Feminisation of Nature, The Dinosaur Hunters, The Lost King of France and Space Race. She lives in London. Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781408845240 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: HBJD1 Sub Category: BGR Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury JUNE 2015 The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st-Century Art World Roger White

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Bloomsbury USA JUNE 2015 Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells Helen Scales

A fascinating slice of marine biology and cultural history - Snails' Tears and Thunderstones shows why nature matters, and reveals the hidden wonders that you can hold in the palm of your hand.

Description Stories of seashells stretch from the deep past into the present day. They are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. Shell-makers (members of the phylum Mollusca) are among the most ancient and successful animals on the planet. They live extraordinary lives in many strange places; they create vital food and homes for other animals, and across the ages, people have used shells not only as trinkets but also as powerful symbols of sex and death, prestige and war. Shells have been exchanged for human lives, and tapped for mind-bending drugs.

Snails' Tears and Thunderstones tells the story of the seashell. Two major themes weave through the narrative: the science and natural history of shells and their (original) owners, and the cultural importance and ways they have been used by humans over the millennia. The author, Helen Scales, shows how these simple objects have been sculpted by fundamental rules of mathematics and evolution, how they gave us colour, gems, food and money, and how they are prompting new medicines and teaching scientists how our brains work.

Seashells are also symbols of the impacts humans have on the environment. After surviving multiple mass extinctions millions of years ago, seashells have gone on to face an onslaught of anthopogenic challenges including the most recent crisis - climate change and corrosive oceans. But rather than dwelling on all that is lost, the book emphasises that seashells offer an accessible way to reconnect people with nature, helping to heal the rift between ourselves and the living world. Aside from a fascinating slice of marine biology and cultural history, Snails' Tears and Thunderstones shows why nature matters, and reveals the hidden wonders that you can hold in the palm of your hand. Price: $32.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781472911360 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 216x135mm Helen Scales is a marine biologist based in Cambridge. Her doctorate involved exploring the reproductive biology of the Extent: 288 pages humphead wrasse, and since then she has tagged sharks in California, catalogued marine life surrounding a hundred Main Category: PDZ Popular Science Sub Category: PSPM islands in the Andaman Sea, and most recently studied the diverse fish that live on coral reefs in the South Pacific. Helen Illustrations: is now a freelance researcher and broadcaster. A major outlet for Helen's explorations is BBC Radio where she is a Previous Titles: reporter and presenter on science and natural history programmes, especially on Radio 4 and the World Service. Her Author now living: credits include regular appearances on Inside Science and Home Planet, numerous one-off documentaries, and a coveted spot on The Museum of Curiosity. Helen is also a long-standing member of the award-winning science communication collective, The Naked Scientists, based at the University of Cambridge. Helen's first book was Poseidon's Sigma JUNE 2015 Blood Ransom: Behind the lines in the war against Somali piracy John Boyle

The first book to look at the issue of modern-day piracy from every angle, and to hear the voices from every side of the war - from pirate to president, from hostage to those fighting the battle.

Description For the first time in history, the navies of every superpower on the planet have united against a common enemy - a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys. Crammed together in tiny open boats, they range up to a thousand miles from their home shores. Armed with ancient AK47s and rocket propelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. No-one knows how many simply die at sea. But occasionally these modern-day pirates hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews that will be ransomed for millions of dollars. This is a war that's estimated to cost the world economy $18 billion every year, and has so far seemed impossible to win.

John Boyle is a lawyer turned filmmaker. Whilst filming for National Geographic on the war against the Somali pirates, he found himself meeting victims on every side, and being drawn into the incredibly complex situation. The phenomenon of modern-day piracy has horrified the world; the Somalis being demonised and released hostages gaining near celebrity status. But few people have any understanding of the overall picture, and in this book John takes us with him on his investigation, giving us a unique insight into the ongoing war.

John builds up the story using his experiences on the ground and interviews with key figures, including prosecution and defence lawyers, a prison governor, pirates serving life sentences, freed hostages, and a skipper of a Maersk containership identical to that captured in the Captain Philips film. Each chapter strips back the well-known issues to the gritty realities underneath them: Somalia's recent history; why young men and boys are choosing to risk their lives and freedom at sea; the reality of being a modern-day pirate; the tactics and technologies being used by the international navies and shipping vessels; capture and trial; and what happens next. Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781472912671 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm John Boyle studied PPE at Oxford, then went on to set up his own legal firm, selling it after 15 years to focus on Extent: 224 pages documentary film production. Over the following 25 years he has filmed and produced over thirty documentaries, which Main Category: TRLT Sub Category: have sold worldwide. National Geographic are his exclusive television sales agents. He writes all his own documentary Illustrations: scripts, and narrates and writes for other producers. Current projects include a film on rhino poaching in South Africa, a Previous Titles: documentary for the BBC, and an underwater series in Mexico for National Geographic. Author now living:

Adlard Coles Nautica JUNE 2015 Rescue Pilot: Cheating the Sea Jerry Grayson

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Adlard Coles Nautica JUNE 2015 Game, Set and Match: Secret Weapons of the World's Top Tennis Players Mark Hodgkinson

A must-read for all tennis fans. The world's greatest players share their top tips on how to improve your game and become a better player.

Description With contributions from current and past greats of tennis, including Maria Sharapova, Andy Murray, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Martina Navratilova to name but a few, who better to help you improve your game than the men and women who have won grand slam titles and held the world No. 1 ranking?

Taken from exclusive interviews with the legends of the sport, find their collected tips and wisdom here in the ultimate tennis guide - the perfect inside edge/performance advantage for fans and players of the game.

Top tips from the pros include:

'How to disguise your serve' with Pete Sampras

'How to be mentally tough' with Maria Sharapova

'How to be a world class coach' with Nick Bollettieri

'How to play intelligent tennis' with Agnieszka Radwanska

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) 'How to hit your forehand flat and hard' with Tomas Berdych ISBN: 9781472905772 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm 'How to attack with your forehand' with Laura Robson Extent: 176 pages

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