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BLOOMSBURY NEW TITLES NEW BLOOMSBURY Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP JANU Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 5600 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7631 5800 ARY –JUNE 2015 Bloomsbury www.bloomsbury.com @bloomsburybooks For Australia & New Zealand enquiries: Tel: +61 2 8820 4900 New Titles www.bloomsbury.com/au @bloomsburysyd January–June 2015 Prices, publication dates and jackets are subject to change and may vary To view the online version of this catalogue please visit: http://bloomsbury.com/uk/catalogues/ TradeAdult_cover.indd 1 27/08/2014 13:36 January – June 2015 2 Original Fiction 17 Original Non-fiction 33 Nature & Outdoors 36 Food 41 Business 43 Sport & Sailing 52 Religion 54 Paperback Fiction 65 Paperback Non-fiction 80 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales 82 Index 86 Social Media Contacts export information OME open market edition, A format (dimensions 178 mm x 111 mm) PB B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm) TPB trade paperback, original titles only HB hardback published under the Bloomsbury Circus imprint TradeAdult_6.0.indd 1 28/08/2014 12:43 Wallflowers Eliza Robertson January – June 2015 A delicate and startling debut collection from the winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard; A a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory 2 Original Fiction birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting 17 Original Non-fiction revelations. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty survivors; they teach us how to trap hummingbirds, relinquish dreams gracefully and feed raccoons without getting bitten. These are tales of wildness and wonder, 33 Nature & Outdoors of animals in search of an escape and outsiders looking for a way back in. 15 JANUARY 2015 HARDBACK / 9781408856796 / £14.99 Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver, Canada. While studying at the University 36 Food EBOOK / 9781408856819 / £12.99 EXPORT TPB / 9781408856802 / £11.99 of East Anglia, doing an MA in Prose Fiction, she received the Man Booker TERRITORY: WE/EXCAN Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize for best writer. Robertson is now a highly 41 Business TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN celebrated short story writer, winning three national fiction contests in Canada and the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. ANZ PUB DATE: 01 OCTOBER 2014 43 Sport & Sailing HARDBACK / 9781620408155 AUS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 @ElizaRoberts0n 52 Religion 54 Paperback Fiction Weathering 65 Paperback Non-fiction Lucy Wood 80 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Diving Belles comes a beautifully bewitching novel of memories, mothers, daughters and ghosts 82 Index earl doesn’t know how she’s ended up in the river, or why, for that matter, she’d 86 Social Media Contacts Pbeen stupid enough to fall down those rickety stairs. Ada, Pearl’s daughter, doesn’t know how she’s ended up back in the house in the rain-soaked valley she left thirteen years ago. With her daughter Pepper, she starts to sort through Pearl’s things, clearing the house so she can leave and not look back. As the first frosts of autumn herald the coming of a long winter, Pepper and Ada discover the ways that places can take root inside us and bind us together. export information OME open market edition, A format (dimensions 178 mm x 111 mm) 15 JANUARY 2015 Lucy Wood has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the PB B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm) HARDBACK / 9781408840931 / £16.99 Edge Hill Prize and was a runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Award. She EBOOK / 9781408840948 / £14.99 TPB trade paperback, original titles only TERRITORY: COMM/EU, OM has also been awarded the Holyer an Gof Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in creative writing from Exeter University. She HB hardback TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN grew up in Cornwall and lives in Devon. ANZ PUB DATE: 01 FEBRUARY 2015 published under the Bloomsbury Circus imprint HARDBACK / AUS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 2 ORIGINAL FICTION TradeAdult_6.0.indd 1 28/08/2014 12:43 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 2 26/08/2014 10:52 The Mime Order Samantha Shannon The hotly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller, The Bone Season aige Mahoney has escaped the penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have Ponly just begun: many survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime- queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner. Then the Rephaim start crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided. 27 JANUARY 2015 Born in 1991, Samantha Shannon started writing at the age of fifeen. In 2013 The HARDBACK / 9781408857397 / £12.99 EBOOK / 9781408857403 / £10.99 Bone Season hit the bestseller lists across three continents in the first week of EXPORT TPB / 9781408857410 / £11.99 publication. It was picked as a Book of the Year by the Daily Mail, Stylist and TERRITORY: WE Huffington Post and was named one of Amazon’s 2013 Best Books of the Year. It TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID GODWIN has been translated into twenty-eight languages ANZ PUB DATE: 27 JANUARY 2015 TPB / AUS $24.99 / NZ $29.99 @say_shannon Chaos of the Senses Ahlem Mosteghanemi The second novel in the international bestselling trilogy from ‘the literary phenomenon’ (Elle), Ahlem Mosteghanemi icking up where The Bridges of Constantine ended, Mosteghanemi’s second novel Pbegins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high- ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on flesh. She falls in love with the story’s male protagonist, and a love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out in the dark corners of a battered city. After all, the best and truest loves are those we find when we’re looking for something else. With poetic finesse, the author weaves fact and fiction to convey a chapter in Algeria’s history as no one else could. 15 JANUARY 2015 Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author HARDBACK / 9781408857281 / £18.99 EBOOK / 9781408857298 / £16.99 in the Arab world. She has 4 million followers on Facebook and was ranked in TERRITORY: WE the top ten most influential women in the Middle East by Forbes in 2006. The TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WITH AUTHOR previous book in her trilogy of bestselling novels, The Bridges of Constantine, was published by Bloomsbury in 2013, and has been translated into several languages ANZ PUB DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 TPB / AUS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 and adapted into a television series. ORIGINAL FICTION 3 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 3 26/08/2014 10:52 The Mime Order Don’t Let Him know Samantha Shannon Sandip Roy The hotly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller, The Bone Season A tender, powerful and beautifully told story of displacement, Don’t Let Him Know marks the arrival of a brave new voice in Indian literature aige Mahoney has escaped the penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have Ponly just begun: many survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person n a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime- Ia young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. accidentally opens the wrong one, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter finds the letter and thinks he has discovered his mother’s secret. But secrets have fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers. every corner. Then the Rephaim start crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret Moving from adolescent rooftop games to adult encounters in gay bars, from hair catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided. saloons in Calcutta to McDonald’s drive-thrus in California, Don’t Let Him Know 27 JANUARY 2015 29 JANUARY 2015 is an unforgettable story about family, the struggle between having what we want Born in 1991, Samantha Shannon started writing at the age of fifeen. In 2013 The HARDBACK / 9781408857397 / £12.99 HARDBACK / 9781408856635 / £16.99 and doing what we feel we must, and the sacrifices we make for those we love. EBOOK / 9781408857403 / £10.99 EBOOK / 9781408856659 / £14.99 Bone Season hit the bestseller lists across three continents in the first week of EXPORT TPB / 9781408857410 / £11.99 EXPORT TPB / 9781408856642 / £11.99 publication. It was picked as a Book of the Year by the Daily Mail, Stylist and TERRITORY: WE TERRITORY: WO Sandip Roy is Senior Editor at the popular news portal Firstpost.com and writes Huffington Post and was named one of Amazon’s 2013 Best Books of the Year.