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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

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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

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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.

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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. It TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAvID GODwIN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy for the Huffington Post. He has been a commentator on National Public Radio’s has been translated into twenty-eight languages Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio programme in the US. He is also ANZ Pub DATE: 27 JANuARy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 TPb / AuS $24.99 / NZ $29.99 TPb / AuS $27.99 / NZ $35.00 an editor with New America Media and has won several awards for journalism. @say_shannon Sandip Roy lives in Kolkata.

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Chaos of the Senses vanessa and Her Sister Ahlem Mosteghanemi Priya Parmar

The second novel in the international bestselling trilogy from ‘the literary The bewitching story of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. A novel of art, love phenomenon’ (Elle), Ahlem Mosteghanemi and betrayal. ‘Prepare to be dazzled’ Paula McLain icking up where The Bridges of Constantine ended, Mosteghanemi’s second novel ondon, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the Pbegins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high- Lforefront as they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. At the centre unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on flesh. She falls in love with the of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and story’s male protagonist, and a love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out Virginia, the writer. But the landscape shifts unexpectedly when Vanessa falls in the dark corners of a battered city. After all, the best and truest loves are those in love and Virginia – eerily possessive and unpredictable – careens towards we find when we’re looking for something else. With poetic finesse, the author self-destruction. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa weaves fact and fiction to convey a chapter in Algeria’s history as no one else could. must choose whether to protect Virginia’s happiness or her own. 15 JANuARy 2015 12 FEbRuARy 2015 Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author HARDbACk / 9781408857281 / £18.99 HARDbACk / 9781408850206 / £12.99 Priya Parmar is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. She lives in EbOOk / 9781408857298 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408850220 / £10.99 in the Arab world. She has 4 million followers on Facebook and was ranked in TERRITORy: wE EXPORT TPb / 9781408850213 / £11.99 London and Hawaii. the top ten most influential women in the Middle East by Forbes in 2006. The TRANSLATION RIGHTS: wITH AuTHOR TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM previous book in her trilogy of bestselling novels, The Bridges of Constantine, was TRANSLATION RIGHTS: GERNERT COMPANy 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 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 and adapted into a television series. TPb AuS / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 3 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 4 26/08/2014 10:52 we Are Pirates Daniel Handler

A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author otherwise known as Lemony Snicket

boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. A Pirates are terrorising the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling producer and the owner of a condo with a view of the water. But he’d like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter.

Gwen is his daughter. She’s fourteen. She’s a student, a swimmer and a best friend. But she’d like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.

This is a book about our search for freedom. And a tale of a hapless father trying 12 FEbRuARy 2015 to get his daughter home. HARDbACk / 9781408858356 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408845387 / £14.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408821459 / £11.99 Daniel Handler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Why We Broke Up, TERRITORy: wO Adverbs, The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, Who TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Could That Be at This Hour? and a sequence of children’s novels collectively entitled ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco. TPb AuS / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99

@DanielHandler

The burning Gates

A Makana Mystery Parker bilal

Many miles from Iraq, many months after the invasion, the dust of war lands on the streets of Cairo

rivate Investigator Makana has a new client, the powerful art dealer Aram PKasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn’t want to be found. Soon Makana finds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a trail that leads him into the darkness of war and threatens to send the new life he has built for himself up in flames. 12 FEbRuARy 2015 TRADE PAPERbACk / 9781408841082 / £11.99 EbOOk / 9781408841099 / £10.99 Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published critically TERRITORy: wE acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. The Burning Gates is TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH his fourth Makana Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 TPb / AuS $24.99 / NZ $29.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 5 26/08/2014 10:52 we Are Pirates The bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi

Daniel Handler © Saud Alsanousi

A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author Translated by Jonathan wright otherwise known as Lemony Snicket Winner of the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. A Pirates are terrorising the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a osephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid. In the house struggling producer and the owner of a condo with a view of the water. But he’d Jwhere she works, she meets Rashid, a spoiled only son. Josephine, with all the like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter. wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes 14 FEbRuARy 2015 pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid sends her back HARDbACk / 9789927101779 / £16.99 Gwen is his daughter. She’s fourteen. She’s a student, a swimmer and a best friend. EbOOk / 9789927101786 / £14.99 to the Philippines with her baby son, José. But she’d like to be an adventurer and an outlaw. TERRITORy: wE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE SuSIJN AGENCy José grows up clinging to the hope of returning to his father’s country when he is This is a book about our search for freedom. And a tale of a hapless father trying 12 FEbRuARy 2015 eighteen. But will Kuwait be any more welcoming to him than the Philippines was? ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 HARDbACk / 9781408858356 / £16.99 to get his daughter home. HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 EbOOk / 9781408845387 / £14.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408821459 / £11.99 Daring and bold, The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the phenomenon Daniel Handler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Why We Broke Up, TERRITORy: wO of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of Adverbs, The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, Who TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy identity, race and religion. Could That Be at This Hour? and a sequence of children’s novels collectively entitled ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco. TPb AuS / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 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 @DanielHandler Al-Arabi and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper.

The burning Gates She will build Him a City A Makana Mystery Raj kamal Jha

Parker bilal Violence, sex, poverty, love, longing, new money and new cities all come together in this breathtaking, magical novel by the Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted Many miles from Iraq, many months after the invasion, the dust of war lands author of The Blue Bedspread on the streets of Cairo s night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales for her sleeping daughter. A young rivate Investigator Makana has a new client, the powerful art dealer Aram Aman rides the metro and dreams of murder. A newborn wrapped in a blood- PKasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away. missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn’t want There are twenty million bodies in this city and this woman, man and child are to be found. Soon Makana finds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a only three. But their stories – of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of trail that leads him into the darkness of war and threatens to send the new life he grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul and of an orphaned boy who maps has built for himself up in flames. 12 FEbRuARy 2015 26 FEbRuARy 2015 out his own destiny – weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form TRADE PAPERbACk / 9781408841082 / £11.99 HARDbACk / 9781408855041 / £16.99 a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel. EbOOk / 9781408841099 / £10.99 EbOOk / 9781408855065 / £14.99 Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published critically TERRITORy: wE EXPORT TPb / 9781408855058 / £11.99 acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. The Burning Gates is TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH TERRITORy: wE Raj Kamal Jha is a journalist and a novelist, and works in New Delhi as Chief his fourth Makana Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AITkEN ALEXANDER Editor of The Indian Express. Jha’s first novel, The Blue Bedspread, won the 2000 in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 ASSOCIATES Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia) and was a New York TPb / AuS $24.99 / NZ $29.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 Times Notable Book of the Year. His novels have been published in over a dozen TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 languages.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 5 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 6 26/08/2014 10:52 Not Quite Nice Celia Imrie

A gloriously charming and funny debut about an eccentric group of expatriates on the French Riviera, from one of the nation’s best-loved actresses

heresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting Ther bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a picture-perfect town, just outside Nice.

Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-sur-Mer is now home to the odd movie star, and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of foreigners. Settling to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall from several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as 26 FEbRuARy 2015 nice as it first appeared … HARDbACk / 9781408846872 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408846889 / £10.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408860298 / £11.99 Celia Imrie, Olivier award-winning actress, is best known in films Calendar Girls, TERRITORy: wE Nanny McPhee and The Love Punch and on television in After You’ve Gone, A Dark TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PFD Adapted Eye and Acorn Antiques. In March 2015, she returns for the sequel to The ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, was published in TPb / AuS $27.99 / NZ $34.99 2011 and in 2014 she brought her cabaret Laughing Matters to the St James Theatre.

www.celiaimrie.info / @CeliaImrie

The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ David Mitchell

Celeste © Malcolm Pryce

From the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth novels: a Boy’s Own derring-do adventure of disappearing nuns, trainspotting and an unforgettable new detective

ack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway Jdetectives created to keep the trains free of fare dodgers, German spies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways, Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. Shady government agents, missing nuns, drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged bookseller, a missing manuscript, a melancholic gorilla and engine number 4070 12 MARCH 2015 Godstow Castle all collide on a journey that will take your breath away. HARDbACk / 9781408858929 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408851937 / £10.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408851944 / £11.99 Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM travelling abroad. He has been a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE SAyLE AGENCy a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 world’s worst aluminium salesman. He is the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 novels. He lives in Oxford.

www.malcolmpryce.com / @exogamist

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 7 26/08/2014 10:52 Not Quite Nice weightless Celia Imrie Sarah bannan

A gloriously charming and funny debut about an eccentric group of expatriates ‘Sarah Bannan brings us right into the middle of bullying twenty-first- on the French Riviera, from one of the nation’s best-loved actresses century-style, in a novel that is chilling, engrossing and very, very impressive’ Roddy Doyle heresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting Ther bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a efore Carolyn Lessing arrived, nothing much had ever happened in Adamsville, picture-perfect town, just outside Nice. BAlabama. Then the new girl came. All Carolyn’s social media could reveal was that she had moved from New Jersey, she had 1075 friends – and she didn’t have a Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-sur-Mer is now home to the relationship status. In beach photos she seemed beautiful, but in real life she was odd movie star, and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of foreigners. Settling so much more. She was perfect. to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall from This was all before the camera crews arrived, before it became impossible to see several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as 26 FEbRuARy 2015 12 MARCH 2015 where rumour ended and truth began, and before the Annual Adamsville Balloon nice as it first appeared … HARDbACk / 9781408846872 / £12.99 HARDbACk / 9781408856420 / £12.99 Festival, when someone swore they saw the captain of the football team with his EbOOk / 9781408846889 / £10.99 EbOOk / 9781408856253 / £10.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408860298 / £11.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408856437 / £11.99 arm around Carolyn, and cracks began to appear in the dry earth ... Celia Imrie, Olivier award-winning actress, is best known in films Calendar Girls, TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM Nanny McPhee and The Love Punch and on television in After You’ve Gone, A Dark TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PFD TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ED vICTOR Sarah Bannan was born in 1978 in upstate New York. She graduated from Adapted Eye and Acorn Antiques. In March 2015, she returns for the sequel to The Georgetown University in 2000 and then moved to Ireland, where she has lived ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, was published in TPb / AuS $27.99 / NZ $34.99 TPb / AuS $27.99 / NZ $34.99 ever since. She is the Head of Literature at the Irish Arts Council and lives in Dublin 2011 and in 2014 she brought her cabaret Laughing Matters to the St James Theatre. with her husband and daughter. www.celiaimrie.info / @CeliaImrie @sarahkeegs

The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ The kindness David Mitchell

Celeste © Polly Samson

Malcolm Pryce A heartbreakingly beautiful novel from one of Britain’s finest and most acclaimed talents From the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth novels: a Boy’s Own derring-do adventure of disappearing nuns, trainspotting and an unforgettable new detective ulian’s fall begins the moment he sets eyes on Julia. Julia is married and eight Jyears Julian’s senior. Ignoring warnings from family and friends they give up all ack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway they have to be together and their new life offers immense happiness, especially Jdetectives created to keep the trains free of fare dodgers, German spies and after the birth of their daughter Mira. But when Mira becomes terrifyingly ill, it ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of is impossible for Julia to conceal the explosive secret that she has been keeping. the railways, Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted An exploration of deception wrapped as a gift, The Kindness asks if we can ever great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. truly trust another. This is an unforgettable story of love, grief, betrayal and Shady government agents, missing nuns, drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged reconciliation, masterfully plotted and beautifully told. bookseller, a missing manuscript, a melancholic gorilla and engine number 4070 12 MARCH 2015 12 MARCH 2015 Godstow Castle all collide on a journey that will take your breath away. HARDbACk / 9781408858929 / £12.99 HARDbACk / 9781408861875 / £16.99 Polly Samson is the author of Out of the Picture, which was shortlisted for the EbOOk / 9781408851937 / £10.99 EbOOk / 9781408861899 / £14.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408851944 / £11.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408861882 / £11.99 Authors’ Club First Novel Award. Her most recent story collection, Perfect Lives, Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM TERRITORy: wE was a Sunday Times Fiction Choice of the Year and was read on BBC Radio 4. She travelling abroad. He has been a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE SAyLE AGENCy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONvILLE & wALSH has been shortlisted for the VS Pritchard Award and The Edge Hill Prize. Polly a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the Samson lives in Brighton. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 world’s worst aluminium salesman. He is the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 novels. He lives in Oxford. www.pollysamson.com / @PollySamson www.malcolmpryce.com / @exogamist

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 7 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 8 26/08/2014 10:52 Rise karen Campbell

By the author of This Is Where I Am: an exhilarating, luminous novel about freedom, forgiveness and finding your place in the world

ustine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man who between them Jhave almost broken her she heads north to the mountains and the valleys of the Highlands. Michael and Hannah are also running. With their two sons and their tattered marriage they have come to the village of Kilmacarra.

In a place of standing stones, a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine. Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a referendum and the community around them fracturing, each must question where they truly belong and each must find a way to face their ghosts. 26 MARCH 2015 HARDbACk / 9781408857922 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408856741 / £14.99 Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing TERRITORy: wE Masters and author of The Twilight Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw and, most recently, This Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. A former police officer and council PR, Karen Campbell won the Best New Scottish ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, Scotland.

www.karencampbell.co.uk

Reckless Hasan Ali Toptas

Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss

The ‘Turkish Kafka’ weaves a mysterious and masterful tale of love and friendship, guilt and secrets

ears after completing his military service Ziya flees the perplexing chaos of the Ycity to seek a peaceful existence in a village of which he has heard dreamlike tales. However, the village does not provide the isolation Ziya yearns for, and memories of his military service on the treacherous Syrian/Turkish border flood his thoughts. As he battles spectres of the past, his ambivalence about village life provokes a dangerous undercurrent of ill-feeling among the villagers. Toptaş plays with ideas of time and memory, masterfully blurring the borders between dreams 26 MARCH 2015 and reality, truth and memory. HARDbACk / 9781408850855 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408850879 / £14.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408850862 / £11.99 Hasan Ali Toptaş is one of Turkey’s leading writers. His novels have won many TERRITORy: wE prizes and have been translated into many languages. Shadowless (forthcoming TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE ISTANbuL Bloomsbury 2016) was made into a film. COPyRIGHT AGENCy

ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 Maureen Freely is a novelist and journalist. She is the acclaimed translator of Orhan HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 Pamuk’s Snow and The Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the inaugural TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 British Council’s Young Translators’ Prize for prose in 2012.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 9 26/08/2014 10:52 Rise Sleeping dogs karen Campbell A Spike Sanguinetti mystery

By the author of This Is Where I Am: an exhilarating, luminous novel about Thomas mogford freedom, forgiveness and finding your place in the world Spike Sanguinetti becomes entangled in a bloody vendetta in the fourth ustine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man who between them instalment of Thomas Mogford’s thrilling series set in the Mediterranean Jhave almost broken her she heads north to the mountains and the valleys of the Highlands. Michael and Hannah are also running. With their two sons and their aunted by his failure to prevent the violent murders of two innocent women, tattered marriage they have come to the village of Kilmacarra. HGibraltarian lawyer Spike Sanguinetti joins an old flame, Detective Sergeant Jessica Navarro, for a holiday on Corfu’s beautiful northeast coast. There they meet In a place of standing stones, a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine. philanthropist Leo Hoffmann, scion of the powerful Hoffmann banking family. Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a referendum and the community around them fracturing, each must question where Leo has recently unearthed an important archeological site, but the discovery of the they truly belong and each must find a way to face their ghosts. 26 MARCH 2015 09 ApRIL 2015 body of a young Albanian, bludgeoned to death, halts progress. Reluctantly, Spike HARDbACk / 9781408857922 / £16.99 TRAdE pApERbACk / 9781408846612 / agrees to defend the local man accused, but as he digs deeper, he finds an island EbOOk / 9781408856741 / £14.99 £11.99 Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing TERRITORy: wE EbOOk / 9781408846629 / £7.99 paradise full of deadly secrets – secrets that some will go to any lengths to let lie … Masters and author of The Twilight Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw TERRITORy: WO and, most recently, This Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOmSbuRy Thomas Mogford’s first novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series, Shadow of the A former police officer and council PR, Karen Campbell won the Best New Scottish ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 Rock, Sign of the Cross and Hollow Mountain, were published to critical acclaim HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 ANZ pub dATE: 01 mAy 2015 Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, Scotland. Tpb / AuS $24.99 / NZ $29.99 by Bloomsbury in 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. He was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award for best new crime writer of 2013. He is married and lives www.karencampbell.co.uk with his family in London.

Reckless Sophie and the Sibyl Hasan Ali Toptas A victorian Romance

Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss patricia duncker

The ‘Turkish Kafka’ weaves a mysterious and masterful tale of love and A witty, intelligent novel about George Eliot, the creation of literature, authors friendship, guilt and secrets and publishers – and a surprising romance ears after completing his military service Ziya flees the perplexing chaos of the uncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a publishing business in Berlin. Max, Ycity to seek a peaceful existence in a village of which he has heard dreamlike Dfond of gambling, is a thorn in Wolfgang’s side, and is sent to court a celebrity tales. However, the village does not provide the isolation Ziya yearns for, and author – George Eliot. As captivating and intelligent as her books, admiringly memories of his military service on the treacherous Syrian/Turkish border flood known as the Sibyl, she soon has Max enthralled. Yet Wolfgang has further plans his thoughts. As he battles spectres of the past, his ambivalence about village life – to settle Max in marriage with Countess Sophie von Hahn. As stubborn as she is provokes a dangerous undercurrent of ill-feeling among the villagers. Toptaş plays beautiful, she defies convention by contacting her heroine, George Eliot, beginning with ideas of time and memory, masterfully blurring the borders between dreams 26 MARCH 2015 09 ApRIL 2015 a series of events that overturn everybody’s future expectations. Sophie and the and reality, truth and memory. HARDbACk / 9781408850855 / £16.99 HARdbACk / 9781408860526 / £16.99 Sibyl is a delightful comedy of manners, a mischievous modern take on Victorian EbOOk / 9781408850879 / £14.99 EbOOk / 9781408860540 / £14.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408850862 / £11.99 ExpORT Tpb / 9781408860533 / £12.99 society and a playful imagining of the author George Eliot. Hasan Ali Toptaş is one of Turkey’s leading writers. His novels have won many TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: WE prizes and have been translated into many languages. Shadowless (forthcoming TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE ISTANbuL TRANSLATION RIGHTS: dAvId HIGHGAm Patricia Duncker is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Bloomsbury 2016) was made into a film. COPyRIGHT AGENCy Manchester. Her five previous novels include Hallucinating Foucault, winner of the ANZ pub dATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 Tpb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize and another Neo-Victorian Maureen Freely is a novelist and journalist. She is the acclaimed translator of Orhan HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 tale, James Miranda Barry. Pamuk’s Snow and The Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the inaugural TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 British Council’s Young Translators’ Prize for prose in 2012. www.patriciaduncker.com

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 9 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 10 26/08/2014 16:20 Ritual Amir Tag ElSir Tag Amir

Amir Tag Elsir ©

Translated from the Arabic by william Hutchins

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

Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters A from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny, terrifying way – a real person he had 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- 14 APRIL 2015 stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and PAPERbACk / 9789927101892 / £7.99 TERRITORy: wO of the (dubious?) relationship between imagination and reality. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor. He studied medicine in Egypt ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 and at the British Royal College of Medicine. He has published a number of PAPERbACk / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 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.

The Field of the Cloth of Gold Steve Hogben Steve

Magnus Mills ©

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

n a lush meadow, bounded by a sparkling river, the flags of several tents flutter Iin the 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 occupants of The Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one, and relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined group offers to share its surplus of milk pudding. Only the narrator acknowledges the gesture, but by forging links with the newcomers he becomes a conduit for change, change that threatens The Great Field. 23 APRIL 2015 HARDbACk / 9781408860021 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408860038 / £14.99 Magnus Mills is the author of A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In and six TERRITORy: wE other novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1998. His books have been translated into twenty languages. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 He lives in London.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 11 26/08/2014 10:52 Ritual At Hawthorn Time Amir Tag ElSir Tag Amir

Amir Tag Elsir © Melissa Harrison

Translated from the Arabic by william Hutchins From the prize-winning author of Clay, an exquisite novel about four people’s lives, our changing relationship with the landscape and what it means to belong ‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers’ Daily News, Egypt t is dawn on a May morning. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters Ito a little village called Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished, A from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny, terrifying way – a real person violence gathered about them in the still morning air. As the sky lightens and a he had never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the new day begins, lives hang in the balance. novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate? Howard and Kitty have not lived in Lodeshill long. A one-time roadie, Howard has Set in both sides of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty- 14 APRIL 2015 not taken to the country – unlike Kitty, who always dreamed of this life. Jamie, stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and PAPERbACk / 9789927101892 / £7.99 meanwhile, is a local boy, born in the village like his grandfather before him, but TERRITORy: wO 23 APRIL 2015 of the (dubious?) relationship between imagination and reality. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy struggling to build a life there. Finally, Jack is an itinerant landworker, protestor, HARDbACk / 9781408859049 / £16.99 poet and seer, who walks into Lodeshill one spring day, bringing change. EbOOk / 9781408859063 / £14.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor. He studied medicine in Egypt EXPORT TPb / 9781408859056 / £11.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 and at the British Royal College of Medicine. He has published a number of TERRITORy: wE Melissa Harrison is a freelance writer and photographer whose clients include novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter (2010) TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw the Guardian and the FT Weekend. Her debut novel Clay was published in 2013 was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. He lives in and was the winner of the Portsmouth First Fiction Award, selected for Amazon’s ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 Doha, Qatar. TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 ‘Rising Stars’ programme and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. She lives in south London.

@M_Z_Harrison

The Field of the Cloth of Gold The Improbability of Love Steve Hogben Steve Neil Brookfield ©

Magnus Mills © Hannah Rothschild

A witty and surreal fable from one of Britain’s most original and best-loved A dazzling, witty and tenderly savage satire of London life and the art world comic novelists that is also a surprising and wonderful love story n a lush meadow, bounded by a sparkling river, the flags of several tents flutter hen lovelorn Annie McCann stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop, Iin the breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days. Wshe has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn into the art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate Yet all is not as tranquil as it may seem: the balance of power wrought between auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers all scheming to get their hands on her 07 MAy 2015 the occupants of The Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one, and HARDbACk / 9781408862445 / £16.99 painting – a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called The Improbability of Love. relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined EbOOk / 9781408862469 / £14.99 Delving into the painting’s past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of group offers to share its surplus of milk pudding. Only the narrator acknowledges EXPORT TPb / 9781408862452 / £11.99 former owners, but the darker secrets of European history – and in doing so she the gesture, but by forging links with the newcomers he becomes a conduit for TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM will learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE wyLIE AGENCy change, change that threatens The Great Field. 23 APRIL 2015 HARDbACk / 9781408860021 / £16.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 Hannah Rothschild is a writer and film director, whose documentary feature films EbOOk / 9781408860038 / £14.99 TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Magnus Mills is the author of A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In and six TERRITORy: wE have appeared on the BBC and HBO, and at international film festivals. She has other novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw written for Vanity Fair, New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. Her first book, and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) The Baroness, was published in 2012, and has been translated into six languages. First Novel Award in 1998. His books have been translated into twenty languages. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 He lives in London. www.hannahrothschild.com / @jazzybaroness

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 11 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 12 26/08/2014 10:52 Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins James Runcie

To be a major, prime-time six-part series, Grantchester, for ITV in autumn 2014

oveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers is Lback, continuing his investigations. A mysterious stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester’s church; a shooting weekend in the country has a sinister end; a friend receives poison pen letters; a piano falls on a musician’s head; a school cricket match has an explosive finish; and on a holiday in Italy, Sidney is accused of stealing a priceless painting. On the home front, his new curate has become irritatingly popular with the parish and his daughter is starting to walk and talk. 07 MAy 2015 Entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful and deeply humane, these stories are bound HARDbACk / 9781408862209 / £14.99 EbOOk / 9781408862216 / £12.99 to delight the clerical detective’s many fans. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning film-maker and the author of eight novels. His popular detective series is set to ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 become a six-part show on ITV, Granchester, and is scheduled for autumn 2014.

www.jamesruncie.com / @james_runcie

Paradise City Elizabeth Day

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

eatrice Kizza is a refugee in flight from her homeland; Howard Pink is a Bblustering self-made millionaire; Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is living the quiet life in Wandsworth and Esme Reade is a journalist learning to muck-rake in pursuit of the elusive scoop. Four strangers, they are each inhabitants of the same city – the capital – where the gulf between those who have too much and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when an inexcusable act shatters the boundaries between their worlds, they discover that the city has connected them in ways they could never have imagined. 07 MAy 2015 Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and Home Fires. She is an HARDbACk / 9781408854990 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408855010 / £14.99 award-winning journalist who has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday EXPORT TPb / 9781408855003 / £11.99 Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and is now a feature writer for the Observer. TERRITORy: wE She grew up in Northern Ireland and currently lives in London, with her husband. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE MARSH AGENCy

ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 www.elizabethdayonline.co.uk / @elizabday TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 13 26/08/2014 10:52 Sidney Chambers and The Harder They Come the Forgiveness of Sins T.C. boyle

James Runcie A moving exploration of the fine line between heroism and savagery

To be a major, prime-time six-part series, Grantchester, for ITV in autumn 2014 ten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired principal, is on vacation in Costa Rica Swhen his tour bus is hijacked. Sten reacts, killing one of the hijackers, and is oveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers is hailed a hero. Back home, anti-government protestor Sara Jennings is arrested for Lback, continuing his investigations. A mysterious stranger seeks sanctuary resisting police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with Sten’s unstable son Adam in Grantchester’s church; a shooting weekend in the country has a sinister end; sparks a passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. But Adam’s a friend receives poison pen letters; a piano falls on a musician’s head; a school behaviour becomes steadily more extreme, descending into a spiral of fanatical cricket match has an explosive finish; and on a holiday in Italy, Sidney is accused violence impossible to halt. of stealing a priceless painting. On the home front, his new curate has become irritatingly popular with the parish and his daughter is starting to walk and talk. The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative: a deep and disturbing 07 MAy 2015 07 MAy 2015 meditation on the roots of American gun violence. Entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful and deeply humane, these stories are bound HARDbACk / 9781408862209 / £14.99 HARDbACk / 9781408859926 / £18.99 EbOOk / 9781408862216 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408859940 / £16.99 to delight the clerical detective’s many fans. TERRITORy: wO EXPORT TPb / 9781408859933 / £12.99 T.C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM fourteen novels, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SHEIL LAND collected stories, T.C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty- film-maker and the author of eight novels. His popular detective series is set to ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ASSOCIATES five languages and he has won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 become a six-part show on ITV, Granchester, and is scheduled for autumn 2014. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California. TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 www.jamesruncie.com / @james_runcie www.tcboyle.com

Paradise City The Holy Sail Elizabeth Day Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud

An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf. In the name of whose lives collide with far-reaching consequences Allah, Arabian tribes must resist … eatrice Kizza is a refugee in flight from her homeland; Howard Pink is a blivious to the invasions, massacres and religious fanaticism that characterise Bblustering self-made millionaire; Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is Othe fifteenth century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. living the quiet life in Wandsworth and Esme Reade is a journalist learning to But all eyes are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on securing the muck-rake in pursuit of the elusive scoop. Four strangers, they are each inhabitants profitable spice trade. Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous of the same city – the capital – where the gulf between those who have too much historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility, while guiding us around and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when an inexcusable the medieval world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah, and Istanbul. act shatters the boundaries between their worlds, they discover that the city has connected them in ways they could never have imagined. The Holy Sail brings to life a neglected episode of history that impacted not only 07 MAy 2015 08 MAy 2015 the region but the world for centuries to come. Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and Home Fires. She is an HARDbACk / 9781408854990 / £16.99 PAPERbACk / 9789927101670 / £7.99 EbOOk / 9781408855010 / £14.99 EbOOk / 9789927101687 / £7.99 award-winning journalist who has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday EXPORT TPb / 9781408855003 / £11.99 TERRITORy: wO Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. He has a BA in Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and is now a feature writer for the Observer. TERRITORy: wE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy engineering from Clarkson University in New York and an aviation and engineering She grew up in Northern Ireland and currently lives in London, with her husband. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE MARSH AGENCy diploma from the UK. He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. This is his second novel. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 www.elizabethdayonline.co.uk / @elizabday TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 13 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 14 26/08/2014 10:52 The All Saints’ Day Lovers Juan Gabriel vásquez

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

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

chingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints’ Day Lovers is an intense Aexploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium’s Ardennes, these stories have been compared to Maupassant, Chekhov and John Cheever. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman’s bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, 21 MAy 2015 Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with HARDbACk / 9781408860403 / £18.99 EbOOk / 9781408860427 / £16.99 these fragmented lives. EXPORT TPb / 9781408860410 / £11.99 TERRITORy: wE Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá. He is the author of The Sound of Things TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CASANOvAS & LyNCH Falling, winner of the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and The Informers, AGENCy

shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.

The Sunlit Night Rebecca Dinerstein Rebecca Dinerstein © ‘Lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller, funny, dark, warm and as knowing of place as any travel book or memoir, The Sunlit Night marks the appearance of a brave talent’ Jonathan Safran Foer

he Sunlit Night explores the intersection of two young lives: Frances, who flees Ther claustrophobic childhood apartment in Manhattan and seeks refuge at an obscure Norwegian artist colony; and Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, who heads north to carry out his beloved father’s last wish to be buried ‘at the top of the world’. The two meet in Lofoten, an archipelago in the Norwegian Sea. Their unlikely connection fortifies

them against the turmoil of their distant homes and teaches them that however 04 JuNE 2015 far they travel for independence, it is ultimately love that gives them their place HARDbACk / 9781408863039 / £12.99 in the world. EbOOk / 9781408863060 / £10.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408863046 / £11.99 TERRITORy: wE Rebecca Dinerstein was born in New York City in 1987. She received her BA from TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uNION LITERARy Yale University, and her MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her first book of poems, Lofoten, was published in English and Norwegian. The Sunlit Night is her first novel. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 TPb / AuS $27.99 / NZ $34.99 @beckydinerstein

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 15 26/08/2014 10:52 The All Saints’ Day Lovers The Girl in the Ice Juan Gabriel vásquez Lotte & Søren Hammer

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean Translated from the Danish by Paul Norlen

An extraordinarily powerful collection of seven, thematically linked, long stories The second in the international bestselling Konrad Simonsen series – a chilling from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling thriller from the authors of The Hanging chingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints’ Day Lovers is an intense nder the pitiless vault of Greenland’s arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Aexploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly UHalf-naked and tied up, hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain beautiful landscape of Belgium’s Ardennes, these stories have been compared to alone, buried in the ice cap, for twenty-five years until an ice-melt reveals her. Maupassant, Chekhov and John Cheever. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to investigate husband to return, while he lies in another woman’s bed twenty kilometres away. this horrific murder and the Danish detective sees how she was attacked, it triggers Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, 21 MAy 2015 04 JuNE 2015 a dark memory and he realises this was not the killer’s only victim. As Simonsen’s Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with HARDbACk / 9781408860403 / £18.99 TRADE PAPERbACk / 9781408821091 / £11.99 team work to discover evidence that has long since lain buried, they unearth truths EbOOk / 9781408860427 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408845776 / £7.99 these fragmented lives. EXPORT TPb / 9781408860410 / £11.99 TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM that certain people would rather stayed forgotten and powerful individuals are TERRITORy: wE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE GyLDENDAL suddenly working against them. Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá. He is the author of The Sound of Things TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CASANOvAS & LyNCH GROuP AGENCy Falling, winner of the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and The Informers, AGENCy Lotte and Søren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 TPb / AuS $24.99 / NZ $29.99 Lotte worked as a nurse and her brother Søren was a trained teacher and a lecturer TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. After Søren moved into the Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in house where Lotte lived with her family they began writing crime novels together. 2004 and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009. They live near Copenhagen.

The Sunlit Night Coup de Foudre Rebecca Dinerstein ken kalfus Rebecca Dinerstein © ‘Lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller, funny, dark, warm and From National Book Award finalist Ken Kalfus, fifteen intellectually adventurous as knowing of place as any travel book or memoir, The Sunlit Night marks the comedies, including a shocking title novella ripped from the headlines appearance of a brave talent’ Jonathan Safran Foer groundbreaking work of literary invention, Coup de Foudre is the third collection he Sunlit Night explores the intersection of two young lives: Frances, who flees A by celebrated author Ken Kalfus. The book is anchored by the biting title novella, Ther claustrophobic childhood apartment in Manhattan and seeks refuge at a sometimes farcical, ultimately tragic story about the president of an international an obscure Norwegian artist colony; and Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian lending institution accused of sexually assaulting a chambermaid in a New York immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, who heads north to carry out hotel. With irony and compassion, Kalfus skewers international political gridlock his beloved father’s last wish to be buried ‘at the top of the world’. The two meet in and the hypocrisies of acceptable sexual conduct. Lofoten, an archipelago in the Norwegian Sea. Their unlikely connection fortifies them against the turmoil of their distant homes and teaches them that however 04 JuNE 2015 Varying boldly in theme, setting and tone, the stories in Coup de Foudre share far they travel for independence, it is ultimately love that gives them their place HARDbACk / 9781408863039 / £12.99 18 JuNE 2015 Kalfus’s distinctive humour and intellect, inextricably bound with high literary in the world. EbOOk / 9781408863060 / £10.99 HARDbACk / 9781408844960 / £16.99 ambition. EXPORT TPb / 9781408863046 / £11.99 EbOOk / 9781408845202 / £10.99 TERRITORy: wE Rebecca Dinerstein was born in New York City in 1987. She received her BA from TERRITORy: wE Ken Kalfus is the author of three novels, Equilateral, A Disorder Peculiar to the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uNION LITERARy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: C. FLETCHER & Yale University, and her MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her first book of poems, Lofoten, COMPANy, LLC Country – a finalist for the National Book Award – andThe Commissariat of was published in English and Norwegian. The Sunlit Night is her first novel. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 Enlightenment. He has also published two collections of stories, one a finalist for TPb / AuS $27.99 / NZ $34.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 the PEN/Faulkner Award. Kalfus has received a Pew Fellowships in the Arts award @beckydinerstein Hb / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 and a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Philadelphia.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 15 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 16 26/08/2014 10:52 Chasing the Scream Johann Hari © The First and Last Days of the war on Drugs Johann Hari

This shocking account of the War on Drugs and the alternatives to it is ‘superb journalism and thrilling story-telling’ Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

anuary 2015 marks 100 years since drugs were first banned. Johann Hari set off on Ja three-year-long, 20,000-mile journey to find out why they were criminalised, how this is causing a disaster today and what happens when you choose a radically 15 JANuARy 2015 different path. His discoveries are told entirely through the startling and moving HARDbACk / 9781408857830 / £18.99 stories of real people – from a transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn to a Hungarian EbOOk / 9781408857854 / £16.99 Holocaust survivor who discovered the real causes of addiction. With endorsements EXPORT TPb / 9781408857847 / £12.99 from Elton John, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, this book will change how we TERRITORy: wE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: INkwELL think about one of the most controversial issues of our time. MANAGEMENT

Johann Hari has been twice named ‘Newspaper Journalist of the Year’ by Amnesty ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 International UK for his reporting. He has written for the New York Times, the LA TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Times, the Independent, the Guardian and Le Monde amongst others. He has also been named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by Stonewall.

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vera brittain and the First world war

The Story of Testament of youth Mark bostridge

The remarkable story of Vera Brittain and her extraordinary testimony of war

n 1915 Vera Brittain interrupted her education and volunteered as a nurse, serving Iin London, Malta and, eventually, in France, on the Western Front. The events of the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life and work: four of Brittain’s closest friends including her fiancé Roland Leighton and her brother Edward were killed, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacifism. 04 DECEMbER 2015 Here Mark Bostridge tells the story of her tragic, courageous and deeply fascinating HARDbACk / 9781408188446 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408188453 / £14.99 memoir, Testament of Youth, with a chapter describing the book’s adaptation into TERRITORy: wE a major new film, starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uNITED AGENTS

Mark Bostridge’s books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread ANZ Pub DATE: 15 DECEMbER 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize; the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; and The Fateful Year: England 1914.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 17 26/08/2014 10:52 Chasing the Scream Sophia Johann Hari © The First and Last Days of the war on Drugs Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary Johann Hari Anita Anand

This shocking account of the War on Drugs and the alternatives to it is ‘superb The exhilarating story of an Indian Princess in the British court, weaving through journalism and thrilling story-telling’ Naomi Klein, author of No Logo the most important episodes in British and Indian history anuary 2015 marks 100 years since drugs were first banned. Johann Hari set off on n 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, the Maharajah, Ja three-year-long, 20,000-mile journey to find out why they were criminalised, Iwas heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the Kashmir how this is causing a disaster today and what happens when you choose a radically Valley to the foothills of the Khyber Pass, as far as Sindh. A territory irresistible 15 JANuARy 2015 different path. His discoveries are told entirely through the startling and moving HARDbACk / 9781408857830 / £18.99 to the British, they took everything, including the fabled Koh-i-noor diamond. stories of real people – from a transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn to a Hungarian EbOOk / 9781408857854 / £16.99 Holocaust survivor who discovered the real causes of addiction. With endorsements EXPORT TPb / 9781408857847 / £12.99 Exiled, the dispossessed Maharajah transformed his estate in Norfolk into a from Elton John, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, this book will change how we TERRITORy: wE 15 JANuARy 2015 palace, replete with exotic animals. Sophia, god-daughter of Queen Victoria, was TRANSLATION RIGHTS: INkwELL think about one of the most controversial issues of our time. HARDbACk / 9781408835456 / £18.99 raised a society lady. But after travelling to India, against the wishes of the British MANAGEMENT EbOOk / 9781408835463 / £16.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408862001 / £12.99 government, she returned a revolutionary, committed to Indian Independence – Johann Hari has been twice named ‘Newspaper Journalist of the Year’ by Amnesty ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 TERRITORy: wE and the fight for female suffrage. International UK for his reporting. He has written for the New York Times, the LA TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONvILLE & wALSH Times, the Independent, the Guardian and Le Monde amongst others. He has also Anita Anand has been a radio and television journalist for almost twenty years. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 been named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by Stonewall. TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 She is currently the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Any Answers. During her career, she has presented shows on Radio 5 Live, Radio 4 and BBC television. www.johannhari.com / @johannhari101 @tweeter_anita vera brittain and the First The Girl From Human Street Rebecca Ring world war © Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family The Story of Testament of youth Roger Cohen

Mark bostridge An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author’s own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement The remarkable story of Vera Brittain and her extraordinary testimony of war and disquiet n 1915 Vera Brittain interrupted her education and volunteered as a nurse, serving urning an eye on the legacy of his family, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen Iin London, Malta and, eventually, in France, on the Western Front. The events of Texplores the anomie of European Jews after the Holocaust, following them from the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life and work: four Lithuania to South Africa, England, the United States and Israel. He illuminates of Brittain’s closest friends including her fiancé Roland Leighton and her brother 29 JANuARy 2015 the uneasy resonance of the racism his family witnessed living in apartheid-era HARDbACk / 9781408863879 / £20.00 Edward were killed, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacifism. EbOOk / 9781408863893 / £17.99 South Africa and explores the pervasive Jewish sense of ‘otherness’ and how it 04 DECEMbER 2015 EXPORT TPb / 9781408863886 / £12.99 relates to his family’s own history of manic depression. This tale of remembrance Here Mark Bostridge tells the story of her tragic, courageous and deeply fascinating HARDbACk / 9781408188446 / £16.99 TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM and repression, suicide and resilience, moral ambivalence and uneasily evolving EbOOk / 9781408188453 / £14.99 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM memoir, Testament of Youth, with a chapter describing the book’s adaptation into TERRITORy: wE loyalties is an unflinching personal story that contributes an important chapter a major new film, starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uNITED AGENTS ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 to the narrative of Jewish life. TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Mark Bostridge’s books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread ANZ Pub DATE: 15 DECEMbER 2015 Roger Cohen is a former foreign correspondent and award-winning columnist, HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize; the writing a regular column for the New York Times op-ed page as well as the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Florence Nightingale: The Woman and International New York Times. He lives in London and New York. Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; and The Fateful Year: England 1914.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 17 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 18 26/08/2014 10:52 The Rape of Europa Charles FitzRoy

Part art history, part detective story, a thrilling account of one of the world’s most celebrated works of art

he Rape of Europa is one of Titian’s great masterpieces, a work charged with T eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself. Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of the painting’s history, ranging from the court of King Philip II of Spain, through French revolution and English intrigue, to its final move to America, engineered by the brilliant but devious art dealer Bernard Berenson. This is the tale of how Titian’s masterpiece has captivated kings, artists, lovers and laymen alike for over four centuries since its conception and continues to do so today. 29 JANuARy 2015 Charles FitzRoy is a direct descendant of Charles II and the uncle of the Duke of HARDbACk / 9781408192092 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408192115 / £14.99 Grafton. Educated at Eton and Magdalene College Cambridge, he trained as an TERRITORy: wO art historian under Professor David Watkin. He runs Fine Art Travel Ltd and is a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy director of art agents Robert Holden Ltd. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99

The Fish Ladder

A Journey upstream katharine Norbury

Part travelogue, part memoir, this moving story of an adoptee’s search for personal identity – told through journeys on foot along glittering rivers – is nature writing at its finest and destined to be a classic of memoir

atharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by Ka loving adoptive family, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed- for child, Katharine sets out – accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie – to follow a river from the sea to its source. The luminously observed landscape grounds the walkers, earths them, providing both a constant and a context to their 12 FEbRuARy 2015 expeditions. But what begins as a diversion from grief evolves into a journey to HARDbACk / 9781408859230 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408859254 / £14.99 the source of life itself: a life-threatening illness forces Katharine to seek a genetic EXPORT TPb / 9781408859247 / £12.99 medical history, and this new and unexpected path delivers her to the door of the TERRITORy: wE woman who abandoned her all those years ago. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uNITED AGENTS

ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 in film and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA programme at UEA and a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths College. She lives in London with her family. The Fish Ladder is her first book. @kjnorbury

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 19 26/08/2014 10:52 The Rape of Europa kaleidoscope City Charles FitzRoy A year in varanasi

Part art history, part detective story, a thrilling account of one of the world’s Piers Moore Ede most celebrated works of art From the acclaimed author of Honey and Dust: a captivating memoir of a year he Rape of Europa is one of Titian’s great masterpieces, a work charged with spent in the city of Varanasi T eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself. Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of the painting’s history, iers Moore Ede first fell in love with Varanasi when he passed through it in search ranging from the court of King Philip II of Spain, through French revolution and Pof wild honey hunters. In the decade that followed, it continued to exert its pull English intrigue, to its final move to America, engineered by the brilliant but on him, and so he returned to live there, renting a room overlooking the Ganges. devious art dealer Bernard Berenson. This is the tale of how Titian’s masterpiece In this intoxicating ‘city of 10,000 widows’, where funeral pyres smoulder beside has captivated kings, artists, lovers and laymen alike for over four centuries since the river in which thousands of pilgrims bathe, and where holiness and corruption its conception and continues to do so today. walk side by side, Piers encounters sweet-makers and sadhus, mischievous boatmen 29 JANuARy 2015 26 FEbRuARy 2015 and weary bureaucrats, silk weavers and musicians, and discovers a remarkable Charles FitzRoy is a direct descendant of Charles II and the uncle of the Duke of HARDbACk / 9781408192092 / £16.99 HARDbACk / 9781408818497 / £16.99 interplay between death and life, light and dark. EbOOk / 9781408192115 / £14.99 EbOOk / 9781408835425 / £14.99 Grafton. Educated at Eton and Magdalene College Cambridge, he trained as an TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO art historian under Professor David Watkin. He runs Fine Art Travel Ltd and is a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Piers Moore Ede has contributed to many literary, travel and environmental director of art agents Robert Holden Ltd. publications, including the Daily Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 Ecologist, Traveller and Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Honey and Dust, HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 winner of a D. H. Lawrence Prize for Travel Writing, and All Kinds of Magic. He lives in East Sussex with his wife and daughter.

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The Fish Ladder A New History of Life

A Journey upstream The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth katharine Norbury Peter ward & Joe kirschvink Part travelogue, part memoir, this moving story of an adoptee’s search for personal identity – told through journeys on foot along glittering rivers – is A revolutionary account of Earth-life, from the Big Bang, through its origin on nature writing at its finest and destined to be a classic of memoir Mars, to its wonderful diversity today atharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by or decades, our principal account of life on Earth has remained unchanged. Using Ka loving adoptive family, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of Fgroundbreaking research, scientists Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink expose the the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed- gaps in our knowledge of Life, and re-write it from the beginning. They examine for child, Katharine sets out – accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie why Earth-life most likely began on Mars, how it triggered the first cataclysmic – to follow a river from the sea to its source. The luminously observed landscape Snowball Earth event, why the rise of animals was delayed for billions of years, grounds the walkers, earths them, providing both a constant and a context to their 12 FEbRuARy 2015 26 FEbRuARy 2015 how the global climate has both encouraged and destroyed organisms, and what expeditions. But what begins as a diversion from grief evolves into a journey to HARDbACk / 9781408859230 / £16.99 HARDbACk / 9781408835524 / £20.00 the future of humanity may be. Together, they show that the true history of Earth EbOOk / 9781408859254 / £14.99 EbOOk / 9781408842805 / £17.99 the source of life itself: a life-threatening illness forces Katharine to seek a genetic EXPORT TPb / 9781408859247 / £12.99 EXPORT TPb / 9781408844656 / £12.99 is more surprising and wonderful than we could ever have imagined. medical history, and this new and unexpected path delivers her to the door of the TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: wO woman who abandoned her all those years ago. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uNITED AGENTS TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology, and Earth and Space Sciences, at the University of Washington. He is the author of seventeen books, including the bestselling ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Rare Earth. in film and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA programme at UEA and a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths College. She lives in Joe Kirschvink is the Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology at London with her family. The Fish Ladder is her first book. @kjnorbury Caltech, as well as a PI of the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 19 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 20 26/08/2014 10:52 Edward Thomas: From Adlestrop to Arras

A biography Jean Moorcroft wilson

Edward Thomas is one of the major poets of the First World War; this is the first full-length biography of him to appear for more than thirty years

ow did Edward Thomas really die at the Battle of Arras? Is it true that Robert HFrost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ sent him to war? Did he actually cower cravenly before an irate gamekeeper? Were all his prose books hackwork? And are Helen Thomas’s two books on her husband a true picture of him? This biography, the first full-length one for more than thirty years, goes back to original sources 26 FEbRuARy 2015 and adds a wealth of new material, exploding the many myths that have grown HARDbACk / 9781408187135 / £25.00 EbOOk / 9781408187159 / £21.99 up around the fine poet whom Walter de la Mare called a ‘mirror of England’. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a foremost authority on First World War literature. She is the author of acclaimed biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 and Charles Hamilton Sorley. She has taught for many years at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is married to the nephew of Virginia Woolf.

How to win Every Argument

The use and Abuse of Logic Madsen Pirie

The witty and complete guide to how to use – and deliberately misuse – logic in order to win every argument

he second edition of Madsen Pirie’s infectious guide on using logic in order to Twin arguments will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and opponents will all wish you had never read it. New chapters on out-talking others in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and on Twitter, make this the complete guide for all situations, ranging from the everyday to the downright serious. Pirie shows how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and identify the weaknesses in other people’s arguments. And, more mischievously, 26 MARCH 2015 he shows how to be deliberately illogical – and get away with it. PAPERbACk / 9781472529121 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781472526977 / £10.99 TERRITORy: wO Madsen Pirie is President of the Adam Smith Institute, UK and author of numerous TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy books including Boost Your IQ and The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $27.99 / NZ $35.00 Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 21 26/08/2014 10:52 Edward Thomas: Girl in the Dark From Adlestrop to Arras Anna Lyndsey

A biography The story of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary illness. A memoir of a life lived in darkness and a passionate love affair with light Jean Moorcroft wilson his is the true story of an ordinary woman who developed an extraordinary Edward Thomas is one of the major poets of the First World War; this is the first Tcondition, leading her to live an impossible life – a life without light, yet one full-length biography of him to appear for more than thirty years that is illuminated in the most unexpected ways. It began with a burning sensation on her face when she was exposed to computer screens and fluorescent lighting. ow did Edward Thomas really die at the Battle of Arras? Is it true that Robert Then the burning spread and the problematic light sources proliferated. Now Anna HFrost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ sent him to war? Did he actually cower Lyndsey’s extreme sensitivity to light in all forms means she must spend much of cravenly before an irate gamekeeper? Were all his prose books hackwork? And are her life in total darkness. Helen Thomas’s two books on her husband a true picture of him? This biography, the first full-length one for more than thirty years, goes back to original sources 26 FEbRuARy 2015 12 MARCH 2015 Told with great beauty, humour and honesty, Girl in the Dark is the uplifting story and adds a wealth of new material, exploding the many myths that have grown HARDbACk / 9781408187135 / £25.00 HARDbACk / 9781408858264 / £16.99 of how light can be found in even the darkest of places. EbOOk / 9781408187159 / £21.99 EbOOk / 9781408858288 / £14.99 up around the fine poet whom Walter de la Mare called a ‘mirror of England’. TERRITORy: wO EXPORT TPb / 9781408858271 / £12.99 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM Anna Lyndsey worked for several years in London as a civil servant until she Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a foremost authority on First World War literature. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: LuTyENS & became ill. She now lives with her husband in Hampshire. Anna is writing under She is the author of acclaimed biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 RubINSTEIN a pen-name. HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 and Charles Hamilton Sorley. She has taught for many years at Birkbeck College, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 University of London, and is married to the nephew of Virginia Woolf. TPb / AuS $27.99 / NZ $35.00

How to win Every Argument Gallipoli

The use and Abuse of Logic The Dardanelles Campaign in Soldiers’ words and Photographs Madsen Pirie Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers The witty and complete guide to how to use – and deliberately misuse – logic in order to win every argument An entirely fresh account based on original sources, published for the 100th anniversary of one of the Great War’s most catastrophic campaigns he second edition of Madsen Pirie’s infectious guide on using logic in order to Twin arguments will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and an Emden’s narrative and his lucid analysis of Churchill’s misguided campaign opponents will all wish you had never read it. New chapters on out-talking others Vcomplements the soldiers’ voices and Chambers’ evocative images, showing how in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and on Twitter, make this the the rapid spread of diseases like dysentery, the lack of clean water and food, and complete guide for all situations, ranging from the everyday to the downright the tremendous losses on both sides undermined morale, until finally in January serious. Pirie shows how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and 1916 the Allies successfully fooled the Turkish forces and evacuated their troops. identify the weaknesses in other people’s arguments. And, more mischievously, 26 MARCH 2015 12 MARCH 2015 Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, he shows how to be deliberately illogical – and get away with it. PAPERbACk / 9781472529121 / £12.99 HARDbACk / 9781408856154 / £25.00 the majority taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written EbOOk / 9781472526977 / £10.99 EbOOk / 9781408856161 / £21.99 TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO material from troops, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an Madsen Pirie is President of the Adam Smith Institute, UK and author of numerous TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy unrivalled account of the hell that was Gallipoli and what really happened there. books including Boost Your IQ and The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 Leading First World War historian Richard van Emden has interviewed more than PAPERbACk / AuS $27.99 / NZ $35.00 HARDbACk / AuS $49.99 / NZ $59.99 Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television. 270 veterans of the Great War and has written sixteen books on the subject. He lives in London. Gallipoli expert Stephen Chambers is a military historian and a well-known tour guide to the battlefields.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 21 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 22 26/08/2014 10:52 A Higher Form of killing Diana Preston

Diana Preston offers a startling new window on to World War I with her chronicle of the birth of weapons of mass destruction

n six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever Ialtered the way war would be fought, employing poison gas in the trenches, torpedoing the passenger line Lusitania and beginning by Zeppelin the first aerial bombardment of London. Each of these actions violated the rules of war agreed at The Hague in 1898 and 1907. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. Diana Preston here links each of these momentous events for the first time – in our current time of terror, the story of their birth is of great relevance.

Diana Preston is the author of A First Rate Tragedy, The Boxer Rebellion, Lusitania: 02 APRIL 2015 An Epic Tragedy and Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. She lives HARDbACk / 9781620402122 / £17.99 EbOOk / 9781620402139 / £12.99 in London. TERRITORy: wE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: INkwELL MANAGEMENT

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The Pleasure of Reading Edited by Antonia Fraser and victoria Gray

Forty of our best-loved writers describe what makes reading that very special delight

n this charming collection acclaimed writers explain what first made them Iinterested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Hollinghurst, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from ten new writers.

Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org. uk, a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of 09 APRIL 2015 particular benefit, working with organisations such as Age UK, Prison Reading PAPERbACk / 9781408859629 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408859636 / £9.99 Groups and a variety of literacy projects. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Antonia Fraser is well known as a historical biographer. She also writes the Jemima Shore crime novels and in 2010 published an acclaimed memoir of her life with ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 her husband Harold Pinter, Must You Go?. Victoria Gray is a trustee of Give a Book, a charity founded in honour of her late husband, the playwright and diarist Simon Gray.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 23 26/08/2014 10:52 A Higher Form of killing Mr Mojo Diana Preston A biography of Jim Morrison

Diana Preston offers a startling new window on to World War I with her chronicle Dylan Jones of the birth of weapons of mass destruction A revealing biography of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors and a musical n six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever icon Ialtered the way war would be fought, employing poison gas in the trenches, torpedoing the passenger line Lusitania and beginning by Zeppelin the first aerial n Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison’s graffiti-scrawled tombstone is bombardment of London. Each of these actions violated the rules of war agreed at Ia place of pilgrimage. Found dead in his bathtub aged only twenty-seven having The Hague in 1898 and 1907. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly Diana Preston here links each of these momentous events for the first time – in immortalised amongst the rock and roll deity. In this colourful and intimate our current time of terror, the story of their birth is of great relevance. biography, Dylan Jones offers a frank and honest appraisal of a much beloved and often-romanticised counter-cultural icon. Mr Mojo is littered with little-known Diana Preston is the author of A First Rate Tragedy, The Boxer Rebellion, Lusitania: 02 APRIL 2015 09 APRIL 2015 anecdotes from fellow stars, spurned lovers and industry moguls. It is a refreshingly An Epic Tragedy and Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. She lives HARDbACk / 9781620402122 / £17.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408860564 / £7.99 honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry and public EbOOk / 9781620402139 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408860571 / £7.99 in London. TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: wO self-destruction. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: INkwELL TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy MANAGEMENT Dylan Jones studied at Chelsea School Of Art and St Martin’s School of Art. The ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 award-winning editor of GQ magazine, he has been the Chairman of the Prince’s ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 Trust, is a Trustee of the Hay Festival and in June 2013 was awarded an OBE for services to publishing and the fashion industry.

The Pleasure of Reading Princes at war Edited by Antonia Fraser and victoria Gray The Royal Family’s Turmoil in world war II

Forty of our best-loved writers describe what makes reading that very special Deborah Cadbury delight The story of ‘the King’s speech’ is well known, but now Deborah Cadbury reveals n this charming collection acclaimed writers explain what first made them all that happened to the British Royal Family in the War Years Iinterested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, he sons of King George V and Queen Mary were brought up to fulfil very J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Tdifferent roles within the Royal Family. Their personal lives were successfully Hollinghurst, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend and Jeanette Winterson. kept out of the public eye until 1936, when the dazzling Edward VIII rejected his role The new edition will include essays from ten new writers. as King of England for the sake of the glamorous American socialite and divorcee, Wallis Simpson, and plunged the family and his country into crisis. Royalties generated from this project will go to Give a Book, www.giveabook.org. uk, a charity set up in 2011 that seeks to get books to places where they will be of 09 APRIL 2015 09 APRIL 2015 Drawing on new research Cadbury shows just how far the Duke and Duchess of particular benefit, working with organisations such as Age UK, Prison Reading PAPERbACk / 9781408859629 / £9.99 HARDbACk / 9781408845240 / £20.00 Windsor were prepared to go to take back the British throne from Edward’s younger, EbOOk / 9781408859636 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408845097 / £17.99 Groups and a variety of literacy projects. TERRITORy: wO EXPORT TPb / 9781408845257 / £12.99 stammering brother, King George VI, should Germany prevail in the Second World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM War, and how the rift threatened to tear the Royal Family and the nation apart. Antonia Fraser is well known as a historical biographer. She also writes the Jemima TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CuRTIS bROwN Shore crime novels and in 2010 published an acclaimed memoir of her life with ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning former TV producer for the BBC, including PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 her husband Harold Pinter, Must You Go?. Victoria Gray is a trustee of Give a TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Horizon for which she won an Emmy. She is also the author of seven acclaimed Book, a charity founded in honour of her late husband, the playwright and diarist books including The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, for which the TV series Simon Gray. received a BAFTA nomination for Best Series. She lives in London.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 23 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 24 26/08/2014 10:52 Another Little Piece of My Heart

My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ‘60s Richard Goldstein

An intimate and sweeping personal account of a decade that no one else could provide – the defining document of rock and revolution in 1960s America

n 1966, at just 22, New Yorker Richard Goldstein became the first person to write Iabout rock music in a major publication. From his unique position he saw the full arc of events that shaped culture and politics in the 1960s. He met Andy Warhol, got stoned with Brian Wilson, witnessed Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, was challenged to a boxing match by Norman Mailer and took Susan Sontag 09 APRIL 2015 to her first disco. Goldstein also developed close relationships with rock legends HARDbACk / 9781408858110 / £18.99 EbOOk / 9781408858097 / £16.99 Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, whose early deaths came as a wrenching shock, EXPORT TPb / 9781408858127 / £12.99 fuelling his disillusionment as the music he loved evolved from a communal rite TERRITORy: wE into a vast industry – and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval faded away. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SARAH LAZIN bOOkS

Richard Goldstein wrote the ‘Pope Eye’ column in the Village Voice from 1966 to ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 1970 where he later served as executive editor. His work has appeared in the New TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 York Times, Harper’s and the Guardian. He is currently an adjunct professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

The Monopolists

Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal behind the world’s Favorite board Game Mary Pilon

The inside story of the world’s most famous board game – a buried piece of history with a controversy that continues today

hose who know that it is American rather than British think Monopoly was Tinvented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935. That, however, is not exactly true – the real story traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers and a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord’s Game more than thirty years before. A remarkable social history of corporate greed that illuminates the 09 APRIL 2015 cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads HARDbACk / 9781608199631 / £20.00 EbOOk / 9781620405710 / £11.99 like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly’s real-life winners and losers. TERRITORy: wE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: GELFMAN SCHNEIDER Mary Pilon is an award-winning staff reporter at the New York Times where she LITERARy AGENTS currently covers sports. She has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Gawker, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 USA Today and lives in New York City. TPb / 9781620408384 / AuS $24.99 / NZ $36.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 25 26/08/2014 10:52 Another Little Piece The Intimate bond of My Heart How Animals Shaped Human History My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ‘60s brian Fagan

Richard Goldstein Brian Fagan shows how the powerful bond between Homo sapiens and other species has determined the course of civilisations and shaped human character An intimate and sweeping personal account of a decade that no one else could provide – the defining document of rock and revolution in 1960s America rom the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly Fredefining their relationship with one another. Brian Fagan unfolds this n 1966, at just 22, New Yorker Richard Goldstein became the first person to write fascinating story, from the first wolf who wandered into our prehistoric ancestors’ Iabout rock music in a major publication. From his unique position he saw the full camp and found companionship, to empires built on the backs of horses, donkeys arc of events that shaped culture and politics in the 1960s. He met Andy Warhol, and camels, to the industrial age when some animals became commodities, often got stoned with Brian Wilson, witnessed Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ brutally exploited, and others became pets, nurtured and pampered. Through an speech, was challenged to a boxing match by Norman Mailer and took Susan Sontag 09 APRIL 2015 04 JuNE 2015 in-depth analysis of six truly transformative human-animal relationships, Fagan to her first disco. Goldstein also developed close relationships with rock legends HARDbACk / 9781408858110 / £18.99 HARDbACk / 9781620405727 / £18.99 reveals with characteristic care and penetrating insight the profound influence EbOOk / 9781408858097 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781620405741 / £18.99 Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, whose early deaths came as a wrenching shock, EXPORT TPb / 9781408858127 / £12.99 TERRITORy: wO that animals have exercised on human history. fuelling his disillusionment as the music he loved evolved from a communal rite TERRITORy: wE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy into a vast industry – and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval faded away. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SARAH LAZIN Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, bOOkS ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 Santa Barbara. He is the author of New York Times bestseller The Great Warming HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 Richard Goldstein wrote the ‘Pope Eye’ column in the Village Voice from 1966 to ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 and many other books, including The Little Ice Age and The Long Summer. 1970 where he later served as executive editor. His work has appeared in the New TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 York Times, Harper’s and the Guardian. He is currently an adjunct professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

The Monopolists The Fall of the House of wilde Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal behind the world’s Favorite Emer O’Sullivan board Game A remarkable and perceptive account of the double fall from grace of one of Mary Pilon nineteenth-century Dublin’s most prominent families

The inside story of the world’s most famous board game – a buried piece of scar Wilde’s father was one of the most eminent men of his generation, while history with a controversy that continues today Ohis mother ran a dazzling salon in Dublin. Together they championed the Celtic renaissance and were among the most enlightened Anglo-Irish families in hose who know that it is American rather than British think Monopoly was Victorian Ireland. But in 1865, Dublin society was rocked to its foundations when Tinvented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers Sir William was charged with sexually assaulting a female patient. Fleeing Ireland during the Great Depression in 1935. That, however, is not exactly true – the real Lady Jane and her two sons had tremendous success in London until it was Oscar’s story traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers and a forgotten feminist named turn to be the subject of a scandalous trial. Here is Oscar Wilde set in the context Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord’s Game more than thirty of his family and the politics of his time. years before. A remarkable social history of corporate greed that illuminates the 09 APRIL 2015 04 JuNE 2015 cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads HARDbACk / 9781608199631 / £20.00 HARDbACk / 9781408830116 / £25.00 Emer O’Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an EbOOk / 9781620405710 / £11.99 EbOOk / 9781408843581 / £21.99 like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly’s real-life winners and losers. TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: wO MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf’s literature at UEA, where she TRANSLATION RIGHTS: GELFMAN SCHNEIDER TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy also lectured in English Literature. This is her first book. She lives in London. Mary Pilon is an award-winning staff reporter at the New York Times where she LITERARy AGENTS currently covers sports. She has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Gawker, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $49.99 / NZ $59.99 USA Today and lives in New York City. TPb / 9781620408384 / AuS $24.99 / NZ $36.99 www.marypilon.com / @marypilon

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 25 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 26 26/08/2014 10:52 The Darjeeling Quartet Alba Koehler A History of the world’s Most Famous Tea © Jeff koehler

The past, present and future of India’s most exclusive and iconic brew

n the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, bound by Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, rows Iof brilliant-green, waist-high tea bushes cover the steep slopes and valleys around Darjeeling. They produce a fraction of the world’s tea, and less than one per cent 21 MAy 2015 of India’s total. Yet that limited crop is the world’s best. This is the story, rich HARDbACk / 9781408846070 / £20.00 in mythology, ecology and culture, of the industry’s rise under British Imperial EbOOk / 9781408846063 / £17.99 rule, recent decline and current struggle to produce. As this edenic region seethes TERRITORy: wO with unrest in a violent fight for independence and against climate change some TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

measures to protect this unduplicable tea are nothing short of radical … ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $27.99 / NZ $34.99 Jeff Koehler is an American writer, photographer, traveller and cook. He studied at King’s College, London, and has published four books including, most recently, Spain: Recipes and Traditions, named one of 2013’s best cookbooks by the New York Times. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.

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A Guest at the Shooters’ banquet

My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth Rita Gabis

The personal journey of a woman who discovers her grandfather was a Nazi collaborator, and passionately researches the atrocities that occurred, in part, under his watch

ita Gabis, from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics, was Rclose to her Lithuanian Catholic grandfather as a child. She knew one version of his past; prior to immigration he was a resistance fighter against the Russians. 21 MAy 2015 But then she discovers the horrifying fact: from 1941 to 1943, he had been Chief HARDbACk / 9781408845233 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408843901 / £14.99 of Security Police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near TERRITORy: wO the killing field of Poligon, where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy the autumn of 1941, and where in 1942, a massive slaughter of local Poles took place. Compelled to find out the complicated truth of who he was and what he ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 had done, Rita Gabis goes on a quest to honour some of those who perished with a name, a face and a story.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 27 26/08/2014 10:52 The Darjeeling Quartet Dreamland Alba Koehler A History of the world’s Most Famous Tea © The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic Jeff koehler Sam Quinones

The past, present and future of India’s most exclusive and iconic brew From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma, an explosive account of addiction and heroin in the heartland of America n the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, bound by Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, rows Iof brilliant-green, waist-high tea bushes cover the steep slopes and valleys around ver the past fifteen years, enterprising sugar cane farmers on the west coast of Darjeeling. They produce a fraction of the world’s tea, and less than one per cent OMexico have created a distribution system that brought black-tar heroin – the 21 MAy 2015 of India’s total. Yet that limited crop is the world’s best. This is the story, rich HARDbACk / 9781408846070 / £20.00 cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate – to the United States. In Dreamland, in mythology, ecology and culture, of the industry’s rise under British Imperial EbOOk / 9781408846063 / £17.99 Sam Quinones weaves together the stories of young men in Mexico trafficking rule, recent decline and current struggle to produce. As this edenic region seethes TERRITORy: wO cheap black-tar heroin to America’s rural and suburban addicts, with that of with unrest in a violent fight for independence and against climate change some TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, determined to corner the market on 21 MAy 2015 measures to protect this unduplicable tea are nothing short of radical … ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 pain medications with its new, expensive and extremely addictive miracle drug, HARDbACk / 9781620402504 / £18.99 HARDbACk / AuS $27.99 / NZ $34.99 Oxycontin. Dreamland is a scathing and incendiary account of addiction and EbOOk / 9781620402511 / £12.99 Jeff Koehler is an American writer, photographer, traveller and cook. He studied TERRITORy: wO capitalism run amuck in America’s heartland. at King’s College, London, and has published four books including, most recently, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Spain: Recipes and Traditions, named one of 2013’s best cookbooks by the New York Sam Quinones is a journalist and author of two acclaimed books of narrative non- Times. He lives in Barcelona, Spain. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 fiction about Mexico and Mexican immigration. HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 www.jeff-koehler.com / @koehlercooks

A Guest at the Shooters’ Thinkers of the New Left Roger Scruton banquet News Syndication © My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A uniquely critical reappraisal of left-wing thinking by Roger Scruton, one of A Search for the Truth Britain’s best-known philosophers

Rita Gabis n examining the influential thinkers of the New Left, Scruton begins from a Igeneral account of the left-wing stance in politics and culture and concludes by The personal journey of a woman who discovers her grandfather was a Nazi sketching an alternative, a way that frees itself from the thought that has blighted collaborator, and passionately researches the atrocities that occurred, in part, intellectual life since the 1960s. He examines thinkers such as: E.P. Thompson, under his watch Ronald Dworkin, Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Jürgen Habermas, György Lukács, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek, Ralph Miliband and Eric Hobsbawm, ita Gabis, from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics, was 04 JuNE 2015 writing with skill, perception and at all times with pellucid clarity. The result is an Rclose to her Lithuanian Catholic grandfather as a child. She knew one version HARDbACk / 9781408187333 / £16.99 indispensible guide to one of the great disasters of our time. EbOOk / 9781408187357 / £16.99 21 MAy 2015 of his past; prior to immigration he was a resistance fighter against the Russians. TERRITORy: wO HARDbACk / 9781408845233 / £16.99 But then she discovers the horrifying fact: from 1941 to 1943, he had been Chief TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Roger Scruton has been Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, EbOOk / 9781408843901 / £14.99 of Security Police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near TERRITORy: wO and University Professor at Boston University. He is currently Visiting Professor ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 the killing field of Poligon, where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 the autumn of 1941, and where in 1942, a massive slaughter of local Poles took Public Policy Center, Washington D.C. He has published a large number of books, place. Compelled to find out the complicated truth of who he was and what he ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 including fiction, and writes regularly for the daily and weekly press. HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 had done, Rita Gabis goes on a quest to honour some of those who perished with a name, a face and a story.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 27 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 28 26/08/2014 10:52 Spain Michael Jacobs

The Centre of the world 1519–1682 © Robert Goodwin

The extraordinary history of how Spaniards laid the foundations of the modern western world

our hundred years ago, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have Fworldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from the Duke of Alba to Cervantes, who were at the heart of that imperial story. 07 MAy 2015 HARDbACk / 9781408830109 / £25.00 At the beginning of the modern age, Spaniards were caught between the EbOOk / 9781408843574 / £21.99 excitement of change and a medieval world of chivalry and religious orthodoxy, TERRITORy: wE they experienced a turbulent existential angst that fuelled an exceptional Golden TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE vINEy AGENCy Age, a fluorescence of art, literature and poetry, and which inspired new ideas ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 about International Law, merchant banking, and economic and social theory. HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00

Dr Robert T. C. Goodwin was born and educated in London and was awarded his PhD by the University of London for his thesis about Golden Age Spain. He is currently a full-time writer and historian and is a Research Associate at University College. He divides his time between London and Seville.

Harry Mount’s Odyssey

Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus Harry Mount

Celebrated journalist Harry Mount travels through Greece in the footsteps of Odysseus, tracing ancient civilisation at its height

n his Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while Ion the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, Harry visits Troy, still looming over the plain where Achilles dragged Hector’s body through the dust, and attempts to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover, Leander. Whether in Odysseus’s kingdom on Ithaca, Homer’s birthplace of Chios or the Minotaur’s lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey – and ancient Greece 04 JuNE 2015 – back to life. HARDbACk / 9781472904676 / £18.99 EbOOk / 9781472904683 / £16.99 TERRITORy: wO Harry Mount studied ancient and modern history and classics at Magdalen College, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Oxford, where he gained a First. His previous books include Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, A Lust for Windowsills and How England Made the English. He is a ANZ Pub DATE: 04 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 former New York correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and now writes regularly for the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 29 26/08/2014 10:52 Spain Quentin blake Michael Jacobs

The Centre of the world 1519–1682 © A visual biography Robert Goodwin Ghislaine kenyon

The extraordinary history of how Spaniards laid the foundations of the modern An intimate visual biography of Quentin Blake, the much-loved illustrator and western world artistic genius of our age our hundred years ago, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have uentin Blake’s illustrations are loved by millions the world over. In this Fworldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and Qextraordinary new illustrated biography, Ghislaine Kenyon explores the artist’s India. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from the Duke of Alba life and work, and places Blake, his artistic output and working processes in the to Cervantes, who were at the heart of that imperial story. context of other creative geniuses. Kenyon has worked with Blake for many years 07 MAy 2015 and recorded many interviews with him about his work. Interviewing school friends HARDbACk / 9781408830109 / £25.00 At the beginning of the modern age, Spaniards were caught between the EbOOk / 9781408843574 / £21.99 and contemporaries at the Royal College of Art, the author aims to answer two key excitement of change and a medieval world of chivalry and religious orthodoxy, TERRITORy: wE 04 JuNE 2015 questions: who is the person behind the work and how does one relate to the other? they experienced a turbulent existential angst that fuelled an exceptional Golden TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE vINEy AGENCy HARDbACk / 9781441130075 / £25.00 EbOOk / 9781441116840 / £21.99 Age, a fluorescence of art, literature and poetry, and which inspired new ideas Ghislaine Kenyon worked formerly as Deputy Head of Education at the National ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 TERRITORy: wO about International Law, merchant banking, and economic and social theory. HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Gallery and then Head of Learning at Somerset House. She has curated several exhibitions, including ‘Tell Me a Picture’ in 2000 with Quentin Blake Dr Robert T. C. Goodwin was born and educated in London and was awarded ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 his PhD by the University of London for his thesis about Golden Age Spain. He is currently a full-time writer and historian and is a Research Associate at University College. He divides his time between London and Seville.

Harry Mount’s Odyssey The Tail wags the Dog

Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus International Politics and the Middle East Harry Mount Efraim karsh

Celebrated journalist Harry Mount travels through Greece in the footsteps of A provocative new approach to Middle Eastern politics from distinguished Odysseus, tracing ancient civilisation at its height writer and academic Efraim Karsh n his Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while n The Tail Wags the Dog, Professor Karsh argues that the Western view of Muslims Ion the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his Iand Arabs as victims is misguided; Middle Eastern history has in fact been the bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, Harry visits Troy, still looming over culmination of long existing indigenous trends, passions and patterns of behaviour. the plain where Achilles dragged Hector’s body through the dust, and attempts Great power influences, however potent, have constituted neither the primary to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover, force behind the region’s political development nor the main cause of its notorious Leander. Whether in Odysseus’s kingdom on Ithaca, Homer’s birthplace of Chios volatility. It is only, Karsh argues, when Middle Eastern people take responsibility or the Minotaur’s lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey – and ancient Greece 04 JuNE 2015 04 JuNE 2015 for their actions and their Western champions drop their condescending approach – back to life. HARDbACk / 9781472904676 / £18.99 HARDbACk / 9781472910462 / £25.00 that the region can at last look forward to a real ‘Arab Spring’. EbOOk / 9781472904683 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781472910479 / £21.99 TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO Harry Mount studied ancient and modern history and classics at Magdalen College, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Efraim Karsh is Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Professor Oxford, where he gained a First. His previous books include Amo, Amas, Amat Emeritus of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London. A and All That, A Lust for Windowsills and How England Made the English. He is a ANZ Pub DATE: 04 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 former director of the Middle East Forum, he is editor of Middle East Quarterly HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 former New York correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and now writes regularly and Israel Affairs, and is writing A History of the Jewish People, published by for the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. Bloomsbury in 2018.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 29 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 30 26/08/2014 10:52 In manchuria

A village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China michael meyer

A vivid and insightful portrait of China today, from the acclaimed author of The Last Days of Old Beijing

or three years, Michael Meyer rented a home in the Chinese rice-farming Fcommunity of Wasteland, hometown to his wife’s family. Their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, as a privately- held rice company has built new roads, introduced organic farming and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town. In Manchuria is 04 JuNE 2015 a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting and historical HARdbACk / 9781620402863 / £20.00 EbOOk / 9781620402870 / £12.99 research, presenting a unique profile of China’s legendary northeast territory and TERRITORy: WO a rich and original chronicle of its people. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOmSbuRy

Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995. He is the author of The Last Days of Old ANZ pub dATE: 01 mARCH 2015 HARdbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 Beijing, and divides his time between Pittsburgh and Singapore. Tpb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99

An Intelligent person’s Guide to Education Tony Little

Tony Little, Head Master of Eton, provides a unique insight into the fundamental questions concerning education in the modern world

here is a growing crisis in British education; each year brings greater focus Ton the measurement of academic attainment, yet employers complain that our schools are not producing people fit for the workplace. The virtue of a well- rounded education is under attack. Have we become a nation ‘over schooled and under educated’?

Head Master of Eton, Tony Little has drawn on a lifetime of experience to address 04 JuNE 2015 the central questions concerning education, including such topics as pupil self- HARdbACk / 9781472913111 / £18.99 EbOOk / 9781472913128 / £16.99 confidence, teacher training, progress, crises, and authority, providing essential TERRITORy: WO reading not only for the concerned parent, but also the teaching profession. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOmSbuRy

Tony Little was educated at Eton College and has taught at various schools in ANZ pub dATE: 01 ApRIL 2015 HARdbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 the UK. He has led three schools over the past 25 years and was appointed Head Master of Eton in 2002. Working with state and independent institutions at home and abroad he has become a passionate believer in the transformative effect of good, modern boarding schools.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 31 26/08/2014 16:20 In manchuria Children of the Stone

A village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural The Healing power of music in a Hard Land China Sandy Tolan michael meyer From the author of The Lemon Tree, a moving tale of music as a means of A vivid and insightful portrait of China today, from the acclaimed author of empowerment set in war-torn Palestine The Last Days of Old Beijing amzi Hussein Aburedwan is a boy from a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah or three years, Michael Meyer rented a home in the Chinese rice-farming Rwho confronts the occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, Fcommunity of Wasteland, hometown to his wife’s family. Their personal saga dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then inspires scores of others mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, as a privately- to work with him to make that dream a reality. held rice company has built new roads, introduced organic farming and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land That dream is to transform the lives of thousands of children – as Ramzi’s life rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town. In Manchuria is 04 JuNE 2015 18 JuNE 2015 was transformed – by opening a music school. Children of the Stone tells a story a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting and historical HARdbACk / 9781620402863 / £20.00 HARdbACk / 9781408853047 / £20.00 about music, first, but also about freedom and conflict, determination and vision. EbOOk / 9781620402870 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408853054 / £17.99 research, presenting a unique profile of China’s legendary northeast territory and TERRITORy: WO TERRITORy: WE & ARAbIC And how one man created something lasting and beautiful in a devastated land. a rich and original chronicle of its people. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOmSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: dAvId bLACk AGENCy Sandy Tolan is the author of The Lemon Tree. He has written for the New York Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995. He is the author of The Last Days of Old ANZ pub dATE: 01 mARCH 2015 Times Magazine and for more than 40 other publications. Tolan has produced HARdbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 ANZ pub dATE: 01 JuLy 2015 Beijing, and divides his time between Pittsburgh and Singapore. Tpb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 HARdbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 radio documentaries for NPR and PRI and his work has won numerous awards.

www.sandytolan.com / @RamallahCafe

An Intelligent person’s Guide The Armchair Scientist to Education The Surprising Science Hidden in your Home Tony Little Chris Woodford

Tony Little, Head Master of Eton, provides a unique insight into the fundamental Seriously surprising science from the sofa questions concerning education in the modern world he perfect way to enjoy science in and around the house, The Armchair Scientist here is a growing crisis in British education; each year brings greater focus Tintroduces you to the incredible scientific explanations behind a variety of Ton the measurement of academic attainment, yet employers complain that household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky floorboards to the our schools are not producing people fit for the workplace. The virtue of a well- mechanics of microwaves, how washing-up liquid works, and how to soundproof 11 JuNE 2015 rounded education is under attack. Have we become a nation ‘over schooled and HARdbACk / 9781472912220 / £16.99 a room using science. under educated’? EbOOk / 9781472912244 / £14.99 TERRITORy: WO Is it better to build skyscrapers like wobbly jellies or stacks of biscuits? TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOmSbuRy Head Master of Eton, Tony Little has drawn on a lifetime of experience to address 04 JuNE 2015 Can you burn your house down with an electric drill? HARdbACk / 9781472913111 / £18.99 the central questions concerning education, including such topics as pupil self- ANZ pub dATE: 01 ApRIL 2015 How many atoms would you have to split to power a lightbulb? EbOOk / 9781472913128 / £16.99 Tpb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 confidence, teacher training, progress, crises, and authority, providing essential TERRITORy: WO reading not only for the concerned parent, but also the teaching profession. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOmSbuRy The Armchair Scientist answers all these questions, and hundreds more. You’ll never look at your home the same way again. Tony Little was educated at Eton College and has taught at various schools in ANZ pub dATE: 01 ApRIL 2015 HARdbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 the UK. He has led three schools over the past 25 years and was appointed Head Chris Woodford has been a professional science writer for 25 years. After graduating Master of Eton in 2002. Working with state and independent institutions at home from Cambridge University with a degree in natural sciences, he has gone on to and abroad he has become a passionate believer in the transformative effect of write many science education books, including the best-selling Cool Stuff series. good, modern boarding schools.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 31 26/08/2014 16:20 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 32 26/08/2014 16:20 bill Oddie unplucked bill Oddie

A compelling collection of Bill Oddie’s latest magazine columns, website blogs and general musings

ill Oddie has been the voice and face of birding broadcasting for more than three Bdecades. In this new book, Bill has compiled and expanded a collection of his recent published musings about birds and birdwatching. Writing in his witty and inimitable style, Bill is sure to entertain and enthrall his many fans with this new book of thoughts and opinions on the world of natural history in Britain and abroad. The book is illustrated throughout with Bill’s charming and comic line drawings.

Bill Oddie is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician who has developed an established reputation as a keen and committed birdwatcher 19 MARCH 2015 and conservationist. He has written a number of bestselling books on this subject HARDbACk / 9781472915313 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781472915320 / £14.99 including the legendary Bill Oddie’s Little Black Bird Book. His many television TERRITORy: wO credits include being the first presenter of Springwatch. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99

Cuckoo

Cheating by Nature Nick Davies

One of nature’s great mysteries, the arms race between the wily cuckoo and its ever more discriminating host birds revealed

he cuckoo is Nature’s most famous cheat, regularly manipulating and deceiving Tother species into raising its young. Nick Davies has studied this remarkable interaction for the past thirty years and shows that cuckoos are among the most cunning creatures in the natural world. Using shrewd detective skills and field experiments, he reveals the astonishing and beautiful adaptations that have taken place in the cuckoos’ long battle to keep on outwitting their hosts. 26 MARCH 2015 The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs by leading wildlife HARDbACk / 9781408856567 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781408856574 / £14.99 photographers, including Richard Nicoll, and pen-and-wash drawings done in TERRITORy: wO the field by renowned Norfolk-based artist James McCallum. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. His cuckoo TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 research has been presented on BBC Radio 4, and as a BBC film, produced by Mike Birkhead and narrated by David Attenborough.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 33 26/08/2014 10:52 bill Oddie unplucked Few and Far between bill Oddie On the Trail of britain’s Rarest Animals

A compelling collection of Bill Oddie’s latest magazine columns, website blogs Charlie Elder and general musings Award-winning writer Charlie Elder travels the length and breadth of Britain ill Oddie has been the voice and face of birding broadcasting for more than three to track down our rarest and most endangered animals Bdecades. In this new book, Bill has compiled and expanded a collection of his recent published musings about birds and birdwatching. Writing in his witty and eeking both the beautiful and the bizarre, Charlie Elder goes in search of Britain’s inimitable style, Bill is sure to entertain and enthrall his many fans with this new Srarest and most endangered animals. Travelling the length and breadth of book of thoughts and opinions on the world of natural history in Britain and abroad. the UK, and meeting up with experts along the way, he tracks down secretive The book is illustrated throughout with Bill’s charming and comic line drawings. and scarce mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects living on the brink – ranging from the iconic Scottish Wildcat and surreal Spiny Seahorse to Bill Oddie is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician the striking Golden Oriole, outlandish Wart-biter Cricket and sinister Black Rat. who has developed an established reputation as a keen and committed birdwatcher 19 MARCH 2015 26 APRIL 2015 Few and Far Between celebrates the diversity on our doorstep and highlights the and conservationist. He has written a number of bestselling books on this subject HARDbACk / 9781472915313 / £16.99 HARDbACk / 9781472905185 / £16.99 natural treasures we risk losing. EbOOk / 9781472915320 / £14.99 EbOOk / 9781472905178 / £16.99 including the legendary Bill Oddie’s Little Black Bird Book. His many television TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM credits include being the first presenter of Springwatch. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: MbA LITERARy Charlie Elder is a journalist. For the last twenty-five years he has written for AGENTS newspapers ranging from the Independent to the Times of Tonga in the South ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 Pacific. He is currently head of production on the Herald in Plymouth. His first HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 book, While Flocks Last, was published in 2009.

Cuckoo Tales of Remarkable birds Cheating by Nature Dominic Couzens

Nick Davies An exploration of strange and surprising bird behaviour from throughout the avian world One of nature’s great mysteries, the arms race between the wily cuckoo and its ever more discriminating host birds revealed hroughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable Tbehaviours abound: the wooing of female Fairywrens by males that are not he cuckoo is Nature’s most famous cheat, regularly manipulating and deceiving their mates, the legendarily dangerous Cassowary, the apparent ‘divorce’ of long- Tother species into raising its young. Nick Davies has studied this remarkable term Albatross couples. This new book takes a series of baffling situations from interaction for the past thirty years and shows that cuckoos are among the most each continent to illustrate a great diversity of bird behaviour from throughout cunning creatures in the natural world. Using shrewd detective skills and field the world. Each story examines the truths and the mythology to shed light on why experiments, he reveals the astonishing and beautiful adaptations that have taken these birds do the things they do. An intriguing book from an author with a unique place in the cuckoos’ long battle to keep on outwitting their hosts. ability to engage with his audience. 26 MARCH 2015 12 MARCH 2015 The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs by leading wildlife HARDbACk / 9781408856567 / £16.99 HARDbACk / 9781408190234 / £18.99 Dominic Couzens is a naturalist and author who has written many books on birds EbOOk / 9781408856574 / £14.99 EbOOk / 9781408190258 / £18.99 photographers, including Richard Nicoll, and pen-and-wash drawings done in TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO and other wildlife including RSPB The Secret Lives of Garden Birds and RSPB The the field by renowned Norfolk-based artist James McCallum. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife. His most recent book is The Secret Lives of Puffins with photographer, Mark Sisson. Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. His cuckoo TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 research has been presented on BBC Radio 4, and as a BBC film, produced by Mike Birkhead and narrated by David Attenborough.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 33 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 34 26/08/2014 10:52 wild Camping

A Guide to wild Camping and Foraging in britain and Ireland Stephen Neale

Escape the noise, clutter and stress of everyday life with this revolutionary guide to wild camping

rom getting back to nature with a tent and some matches, to enjoying a pub Fdinner and camping out in the garden afterwards, this beautifully illustrated guide shows you how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms.

With advice on finding water, foraging for food, making a fire, setting up shelter and staying within the law, the bulk of the book features the best places to wild camp in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. 07 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781472900340 / £14.99 EbOOk / 9781472900357 / £12.99 Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly … What’s not to like? TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Stephen Neale is a journalist and writer, and the author of Camping by the Waterside. He is the Editor of Outdoor Focus (for the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’ ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Guild) and spends most of his spare time setting up camp with his family in the wilderness, and writing about how amazing our country is.

www.camponwater.com / @camponwater

The Secret Life and Curious Ria Mishaal Afterlife of Seashells © Helen Scales

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

he shell-making molluscs are among the most successful of all animals. They Tlive extraordinary lives in many strange places; they provide food and homes for other animals, and across the ages, their shells, sculpted by evolution and 21 MAy 2015 mathematics, have become powerful symbols of sex and death, prestige and war. HARDbACk / 9781472911360 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781472911377 / £14.99 They have become currency, been tapped for mind-bending drugs, and even EXPORT TPb / 9781472916709 / £12.99 exchanged for human lives. Shells help heal the rift between us and the living TERRITORy: wO world; The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells shows why this matters, and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy reveals the story of these undersea wonders of calcium carbonate. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 Marine biologist Helen Scales tagged sharks in California, catalogued marine life in the Andaman Sea, and studied the diverse fish that live on coral reefs in the South Pacific, before becoming an author and presenter of science programmes on BBC Radio 4. Her credits include Inside Science, Home Planet and The Museum of Curiosity.

www.helenscales.com / @helenscales

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 35 26/08/2014 10:52 wild Camping The breakfast bible A Guide to wild Camping and Foraging in britain and Ireland Seb Emina & Malcolm Eggs

Stephen Neale ‘Seb is to breakfast what Brian Cox is to space’ Observer

Escape the noise, clutter and stress of everyday life with this revolutionary hen it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end guide to wild camping Wall books. A crack team of eggsperts have come up with recipes ranging from the iconic full English to more exotic fare such as omelette Arnold Bennett and rom getting back to nature with a tent and some matches, to enjoying a pub pães de queijo from South America. Interspersed with these are notes on hot topics Fdinner and camping out in the garden afterwards, this beautifully illustrated such as the top songs to boil an egg to, forgotten breakfast cereals of the 1980s and guide shows you how to get stuck into wild camping in all its forms. the analysis of Freud’s famous ‘breakfast dream’. With its beguiling mix of recipes, advice, illustrations and miscellany, The Breakfast Bible is, unquestionably, the With advice on finding water, foraging for food, making a fire, setting up shelter most important book of the day. and staying within the law, the bulk of the book features the best places to wild camp in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. 07 MAy 2015 12 FEbRuARy 2015 Seb Emina is the creator and editor of The London Review of Breakfasts blog, where PAPERbACk / 9781472900340 / £14.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408842720 / £8.99 he writes under the nom de plume of ‘Malcolm Eggs’. His writing has appeared in EbOOk / 9781472900357 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408839904 / £8.99 Beautiful wildernesses; tiny budgets; environmentally-friendly … What’s not to like? TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO newspapers and books internationally. He lives in Paris and London. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Stephen Neale is a journalist and writer, and the author of Camping by the Waterside. londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com / @sebemina He is the Editor of Outdoor Focus (for the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’ ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Guild) and spends most of his spare time setting up camp with his family in the wilderness, and writing about how amazing our country is. www.camponwater.com / @camponwater

The Secret Life and Curious The Detox kitchen bible Ria Mishaal Afterlife of Seashells © Lily Simpson and Rob Hobson

Helen Scales The cookbook that will leave you feeling cleansed from the inside out – with delicious weekend and weekly detox plans A fascinating slice of marine biology and cultural history, revealing wonders that can be held in the palm of your hand he Detox Kitchen philosophy is all about bright, inspiring and nutritious food Tthat will make your skin glow, your hair shine, your stress levels fall and your he shell-making molluscs are among the most successful of all animals. They energy increase. Using mouth-watering flavour combinations and an encyclopaedic Tlive extraordinary lives in many strange places; they provide food and homes 12 FEbRuARy 2015 knowledge of ingredients, chef Lily Simpson and nutritionist Rob Hobson bring you HARDbACk / 9781408852859 / £25.00 21 MAy 2015 for other animals, and across the ages, their shells, sculpted by evolution and TERRITORy: wO this ultimate bible of detox food. The 200 vibrant recipes are all wheat-, dairy- and HARDbACk / 9781472911360 / £16.99 mathematics, have become powerful symbols of sex and death, prestige and war. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy refined-sugar-free, and include pad thai with brown rice noodles, turkey burgers EbOOk / 9781472911377 / £14.99 They have become currency, been tapped for mind-bending drugs, and even EXPORT TPb / 9781472916709 / £12.99 with cabbage slaw, salmon and dill fishcakes, and beetroot brownies. With exquisite 21 MAy 2015 exchanged for human lives. Shells help heal the rift between us and the living TERRITORy: wO photography, this is the definitive guide to eating your way to radiant health. EbOOk / 9781408852866 / £21.99 world; The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells shows why this matters, and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy reveals the story of these undersea wonders of calcium carbonate. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 A unique detox food delivery service, and now with two delis in London, The ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $49.99 / NZ $59.99 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 Detox Kitchen was founded by inventive chef Lily Simpson in 2012, and launched Marine biologist Helen Scales tagged sharks in California, catalogued marine life to dazzling acclaim and a loyal following of celebrity clients. Rob Hobson is an in the Andaman Sea, and studied the diverse fish that live on coral reefs in the expert nutritionist who runs two consultancies in London. Together they are a South Pacific, before becoming an author and presenter of science programmes dynamic team shaking up the food industry. on BBC Radio 4. Her credits include Inside Science, Home Planet and The Museum of Curiosity. www.detoxkitchen.co.uk / @TheDetoxKitchen www.helenscales.com / @helenscales

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 35 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 36 26/08/2014 10:52 The benares Cookbook Atul kochhar

A bewitching cookbook with exquisite recipes from Benares, Atul Kochhar’s acclaimed Michelin-starred Indian restaurant

tul Kochhar’s sublime, world-class cuisine is showcased in this beautiful book Aof recipes from Benares restaurant in Mayfair. More than 80 signature dishes reflect Atul’s combination of excellent British produce with modern Indian style. An unforgettable meal might start with a cocktail such as Atul’s favourite Passion Fruit Chutney Martini, include the warming heat from Tandoori Macchi, and be sweetened by a Rose and Raspberry Bhapa Dhoi. This is a true celebration of 19 FEbRuARy 2015 HARDbACk / 9781472900265 / £30.00 Atul’s expert gastronomy – a cookbook to treasure and use to conjure the masterly EbOOk / N/A / N/A Michelin spirit in your home. With stunning photography by Mike Cooper. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Atul Kochhar is one of the finest Indian chefs in the UK and the recognisable face ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 of Indian cuisine on television. He has featured on the BBC’s Great British Menu, HARDbACk / AuS $59.99 / NZ $75.00 MasterChef and Saturday Kitchen.

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MasterChef: The Masters

Master chefs from around the globe celebrate their favourite dishes for a perfect weekend

ave you ever wondered what chefs love to cook when they are in their own Hkitchen? Away from the intensity and heat of restaurant service, what food makes them happiest on a weekend off? More than 30 globally renowned chefs have each shared three recipes for weekend treats in this special MasterChef anthology of food at home.

Ferran Adrià, Andoni Aduriz, Michael Anthony, Elena Arzak, Jason Atherton, Joe Bastianich, Lidia Bastianich, Claude Bosi, Massimo Bottura, Claire Clark, 05 MARCH 2015 Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot, Andrew Fairlie, Peter Gilmore, Peter Gordon, HARDbACk / 9781472904119 / £25.00 Bill Granger, Angela Hartnett, Tom Kerridge, Tom Kitchin, Atul Kochhar, Pierre EbOOk / N/A / N/A TERRITORy: wO Koffmann, Neil Perry, Pascal Proyart, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Joan and Jordi TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Roca, Ruth Rogers, Curtis Stone, David Thompson, Mitch Tonks, Tetsuya Wakuda, Ashley Palmer-Watts, Marco Pierre White. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $45.00 / NZ $55.00 @masterchefuk

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 37 26/08/2014 10:52 The benares Cookbook Pigs & Pork Simon Wheeler

Atul kochhar © River Cottage Handbook No.14

A bewitching cookbook with exquisite recipes from Benares, Atul Kochhar’s Gill Meller acclaimed Michelin-starred Indian restaurant In the fourteenth River Cottage Handbook, Gill Meller shows how to keep pigs tul Kochhar’s sublime, world-class cuisine is showcased in this beautiful book and cook with pork Aof recipes from Benares restaurant in Mayfair. More than 80 signature dishes reflect Atul’s combination of excellent British produce with modern Indian style. eeping these curious, intelligent and lovable animals brings a great deal of An unforgettable meal might start with a cocktail such as Atul’s favourite Passion Kenjoyment, and when the time comes, they provide you with a fine carcass with Fruit Chutney Martini, include the warming heat from Tandoori Macchi, and which to create a range of delicious pork products – in the most sustainable and be sweetened by a Rose and Raspberry Bhapa Dhoi. This is a true celebration of 19 FEbRuARy 2015 hands-on way possible. Pigs & Pork gives expert advice on setting up home, caring HARDbACk / 9781472900265 / £30.00 Atul’s expert gastronomy – a cookbook to treasure and use to conjure the masterly EbOOk / N/A / N/A for and feeding pigs, on arranging for their eventual slaughter and on butchery Michelin spirit in your home. With stunning photography by Mike Cooper. TERRITORy: wO techniques. Recipes include the definitive roast pork with crackling, farmhouse TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy 12 MARCH 2015 pâtés, sausages, rillettes, pork pies, Scotch eggs, bacon and salami. And of course, Atul Kochhar is one of the finest Indian chefs in the UK and the recognisable face HARDbACk / 9781408817926 / £14.99 there are guidelines for setting up a proper hog roast, River Cottage-style. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 EbOOk / N/A / N/A of Indian cuisine on television. He has featured on the BBC’s Great British Menu, HARDbACk / AuS $59.99 / NZ $75.00 TERRITORy: wO MasterChef and Saturday Kitchen. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Head chef Gill Meller has been part of the River Cottage team for ten years. Working closely with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Gill has been a major part of all activities www.benaresrestaurant.com / @atulkochhar / @Benaresofficial ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 at River Cottage, including sourcing the ethically produced ingredients, teaching HARDbACk / AuS $32.99 / NZ $39.99 at the cookery school, appearing on the Channel 4 television series and creating the ever-changing menu at the exceptional restaurant.

www.rivercottage.net / @GillMeller

MasterChef: The Masters River Cottage Australia

Master chefs from around the globe celebrate their favourite dishes for a perfect Nicholas Wilson Paul west weekend © Bountiful recipes from the Australian River Cottage, by ‘new Hugh’ Paul West ave you ever wondered what chefs love to cook when they are in their own – tying in to Lifestyle’s major Australian television series Hkitchen? Away from the intensity and heat of restaurant service, what food makes them happiest on a weekend off? More than 30 globally renowned chefs have etween Sydney and Melbourne, and nestled among the pristine Sapphire Coast each shared three recipes for weekend treats in this special MasterChef anthology Band Mount Gulaga, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has sown the seed for a brand of food at home. new River Cottage, handing over the baton to his Australian counterpart, Paul West – a fresh, exciting face on the global food scene. Here, Paul offers more than 100 Ferran Adrià, Andoni Aduriz, Michael Anthony, Elena Arzak, Jason Atherton, innovative and delicious recipes including pumpkin scones, roast aubergine salad, Joe Bastianich, Lidia Bastianich, Claude Bosi, Massimo Bottura, Claire Clark, 05 MARCH 2015 salt crust chicken and warm curd cake with honey rhubarb. With an introduction Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot, Andrew Fairlie, Peter Gilmore, Peter Gordon, HARDbACk / 9781472904119 / £25.00 by Hugh (and a sprinkling of his recipes), this beautiful book glows with luminous Bill Granger, Angela Hartnett, Tom Kerridge, Tom Kitchin, Atul Kochhar, Pierre EbOOk / N/A / N/A photography of the Australian landscape and enticing recipe photographs by TERRITORy: wO 09 APRIL 2015 Koffmann, Neil Perry, Pascal Proyart, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Joan and Jordi TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Mark Chew. Roca, Ruth Rogers, Curtis Stone, David Thompson, Mitch Tonks, Tetsuya Wakuda, HARDbACk / 9781408858387 / £25.00 TERRITORy: wO ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 Ashley Palmer-Watts, Marco Pierre White. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Born in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Paul West trained at HARDbACk / AuS $45.00 / NZ $55.00 Melbourne’s renowned Vue de Monde. He now runs River Cottage Australia and @masterchefuk 08 OCTObER 2015 presents the acclaimed Lifestyle television series of the same name. The much- EbOOk / 9781408858400 / £21.99 anticipated third series airs in April 2015, and will be broadcast on More4.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 37 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 38 26/08/2014 10:52 sketch Pierre Gagnaire and Mourad Mazouz

A dreamscape book about one of the world’s most exotic and extraordinary restaurants: London’s sketch

ketch is a unique meeting place in Mayfair with diverting treasures to be Sdiscovered in every room. Now its myriad food, drink and entertainment styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium of all things sketch. At its heart is amazing cuisine. World-renowned, three-Michelin-star chef Pierre Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic menus and interlaced with the recipes are stories and art from the wonderful 07 MAy 2015 gastrodome, presented by restaurateur Mourad Mazouz. A sensual feast in a book, HARDbACk / 9781472906854 / £50.00 with photography by Jean Cazals. EbOOk / N/A / N/A TERRITORy: wO Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 created unique experiences in six international cities. HARDbACk / AuS $89.99 / NZ $110.00

Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical mastery. He is a leading figure of modern French cuisine and three-Michelin-star, mad-scientist food experiments, with restaurants around the world.

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The Seahorse Cookbook Mitch Tonks

A celebratory tour of the highly acclaimed Seahorse restaurant and its suppliers

he Seahorse Cookbook is a beacon of seafood brilliance, showcasing more than 70 T delectable dishes served at the glorious shore-side eatery in Dartmouth through the course of a year, and capturing pearls of advice from fish expert Mitch Tonks. Cherished by critics, foodies and locals, The Seahorse is a rare and beautiful gem in Britain’s sea of restaurants, championed ‘Best Seafood Restaurant in the UK 2013’ by the Good Food Guide and ‘Best UK Restaurant 2012’ by Observer Food Monthly.

With beautiful photography from Chris Terry. 21 MAy 2015 HARDbACk / 9781472905598 / £25.00 Mitch Tonks, voted Tatler’s Restaurateur of the Year, has published numerous EbOOk / N/A / N/A TERRITORy: wO seafood cookbooks, developed the Eat Fish iPhone app, created the South Devon TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Seafood Academy and runs one of the finest restaurants in the UK: The Seahorse. Television appearances include Saturday Kitchen, Market Kitchen, MasterChef, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 AuGuST 2015 Great Food Live, Fish Food and Mitch and Matt’s Big Fish. Mitch also demonstrates HARDbACk / AuS $45.00 / NZ $55.00 at various cookery schools and regional festivals throughout the year.

www.mitchtonks.co.uk / www.seahorserestaurant.co.uk / @MitchTonks

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 39 26/08/2014 10:52 sketch Spuntino Laurie FletcherLaurie

Pierre Gagnaire and Mourad Mazouz © Russell Norman

A dreamscape book about one of the world’s most exotic and extraordinary From the bestselling author of POLPO come recipes and inspiration from restaurants: London’s sketch Spuntino – the New York-influenced diner taking London by storm ketch is a unique meeting place in Mayfair with diverting treasures to be fter the success of Venetian-inspired restaurant POLPO, Russell Norman Sdiscovered in every room. Now its myriad food, drink and entertainment Ascoured the Big Apple’s scruffiest boroughs to find inspiration for an urban styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium of all things diner. The result, Spuntino, delivers big bold flavours with a dose of swagger to the sketch. At its heart is amazing cuisine. World-renowned, three-Michelin-star crowds who flock to its pewter-topped bar. Spuntino will take you on a culinary chef Pierre Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic adventure to New York and back as Russell maps out his walks through the city’s menus and interlaced with the recipes are stories and art from the wonderful quirkiest neighbourhoods. The 120 recipes include truffled egg toast, zingy salads 07 MAy 2015 gastrodome, presented by restaurateur Mourad Mazouz. A sensual feast in a book, HARDbACk / 9781472906854 / £50.00 and prohibition-era cocktails. With radiant photography capturing New York’s with photography by Jean Cazals. EbOOk / N/A / N/A visceral grittiness, Spuntino pays homage to the energy and dynamism inspired TERRITORy: wO 04 JuNE 2015 by the world’s greatest melting pot. Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy HARDbACk / 9781408847176 / £25.00 TERRITORy: wO most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Russell Norman spent four years running some of London’s most venerated created unique experiences in six international cities. HARDbACk / AuS $89.99 / NZ $110.00 restaurants in the Caprice Holdings group, before turning his back on the high 10 SEPTEMbER 2015 life, getting an octopus tattoo and setting up Venetian bàcaro POLPO in scruffy Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical EbOOk / 9781408847183 / £21.99 Soho. Polpetto, Spuntino, Mishkin’s and the Ape & Bird followed and he has recently mastery. He is a leading figure of modern French cuisine and three-Michelin-star, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 presented the BBC2 series The Restaurant Man. mad-scientist food experiments, with restaurants around the world. HARDbACk / AuS $45.00 / NZ $55.00 www.spuntino.co.uk / @Spuntino www.sketch.uk.com / @sketchlondon

The Seahorse Cookbook Social Sweets John Carey Mitch Tonks © Jason Atherton

A celebratory tour of the highly acclaimed Seahorse restaurant and its suppliers Jason Atherton’s collection of top desserts to make at home he Seahorse Cookbook is a beacon of seafood brilliance, showcasing more than 70 ore than 100 recipes make up this heavenly collection of desserts from Jason T delectable dishes served at the glorious shore-side eatery in Dartmouth through MAtherton: perfect treats to share with friends and family. It is not only a the course of a year, and capturing pearls of advice from fish expert Mitch Tonks. showcase of Jason’s favourite sweet dishes, but also a celebration of the flavours Cherished by critics, foodies and locals, The Seahorse is a rare and beautiful gem and techniques that have inspired him from around the world. in Britain’s sea of restaurants, championed ‘Best Seafood Restaurant in the UK 2013’ by the Good Food Guide and ‘Best UK Restaurant 2012’ by Observer Food Monthly. Having worked under Pierre Koffmann, Nico Ladenis, and Marco Pierre White,

With beautiful photography from Chris Terry. 21 MAy 2015 Jason Atherton ran Verre and Maze for Gordon Ramsay before opening his own HARDbACk / 9781472905598 / £25.00 incredible fine-dining empire. Jason is not only a world-class culinary alchemist, EbOOk / N/A / N/A Mitch Tonks, voted Tatler’s Restaurateur of the Year, has published numerous 16 JuLy 2015 he is also featured in national newspapers, magazines and TV series, most recently TERRITORy: wO HARDbACk / 9781472905567 / £25.00 seafood cookbooks, developed the Eat Fish iPhone app, created the South Devon TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy starring as the host of Great British Menu and My Kitchen Rules. Seafood Academy and runs one of the finest restaurants in the UK: The Seahorse. EbOOk / N/A / N/A TERRITORy: wO ANZ Pub DATE: 01 AuGuST 2015 Television appearances include Saturday Kitchen, Market Kitchen, MasterChef, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy www.jasonatherton.co.uk / @_JasonAtherton Great Food Live, Fish Food and Mitch and Matt’s Big Fish. Mitch also demonstrates HARDbACk / AuS $45.00 / NZ $55.00 at various cookery schools and regional festivals throughout the year. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 SEPTEMbER 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 www.mitchtonks.co.uk / www.seahorserestaurant.co.uk / @MitchTonks

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 39 26/08/2014 10:52 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 40 26/08/2014 10:53 Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions Ashridge School Business

Adam Smith’s 7 Deadly Sins © Eve Poole

An agenda-setting look at how the market is run by rules that are well past their sell-by date

n Science, no one believes the earth is flat any more. Economists, on the other Ihand, haven’t budged from their original worldview. Market Capitalism depends on seven big ideas: competition, the ‘invisible hand’, utility, agency theory, pricing, shareholder value, and limited liability. Eve Poole argues that if you zoom in on any of these firm foundations, they start to blur and wobble. Here she offers alternative 26 MARCH 2015 views for a healthier system. HARDbACk / 9781472916792 / £25.00 EbOOk / 9781472916808 / £21.99 TERRITORy: wO Eve Poole teaches at Ashridge Business School. She has also worked for Deloitte TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Consulting in the financial services industry, and the Church Commissioners, who run a £6 billion portfolio. Her clients range from EY and Tesco to the Foreign Office ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and this breadth of experience makes her a popular commentator on leadership, ethics, and public life.

www.evepoole.livejournal.com / @evepoole

The Success Formula

How Smart Leaders Deliver Outstanding value Andrew Kakabadse Andrew kakabadse ©

A ground-breaking guide to improving your company culture and achieving the results that matter

nterviews with over 80 leading organisations in private, public and third Isectors from all over the world have led Andrew Kakabadse to a fascinating insight: superior stakeholder engagement is a happy by-product of superior value delivery. The Success Formula demonstrates how value-delivery-led organisations 26 MARCH 2015 are outperforming their strategy-led counterparts and how the world’s best HARDbACk / 9781472916846 / £25.00 organisations deliver value to their stakeholders. This authoritative guide shows EbOOk / 9781472916853 / £21.99 leaders how to improve the way they gather evidence to create a value-delivery TERRITORy: wO culture that maximises the benefits for their organisations and stakeholders. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 Andrew Kakabadse is Professor of Governance and Leadership at Henley Business HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 School, Emeritus Professor at Cranfield School of Management and Visiting Professor at US, Australian, French and Chinese universities. His research covers boards, top teams, government and policy design. He has published 41 books, over 240 articles and 18 monographs.

www.kakabadse.com / @Kakabadse

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 41 26/08/2014 10:53 Capitalism’s Toxic Managing for Success Assumptions How to Spot the Signs of Managerial Incompetence in Marilyn Livingstone

© Advance Ashridge School Business

Adam Smith’s 7 Deadly Sins © Morgen witzel Eve Poole A practical guide to avoiding incompetence, rather than fixing problems once An agenda-setting look at how the market is run by rules that are well past they’ve occurred their sell-by date orgen Witzel tackles the problem of incompetence in the round by exploring the n Science, no one believes the earth is flat any more. Economists, on the other 23 APRIL 2015 Mpolitical, cultural, psychological and personal factors that lead to incompetency Ihand, haven’t budged from their original worldview. Market Capitalism depends HARDbACk / 9781472904966 / £25.00 at the top. Using international case studies from Ford Motor Company and Lehman EbOOk / 9781472904973 / £21.99 on seven big ideas: competition, the ‘invisible hand’, utility, agency theory, pricing, TERRITORy: wO Brothers, practical solutions are provided for avoiding incompetence by changing shareholder value, and limited liability. Eve Poole argues that if you zoom in on any TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy the culture within organisations and the ways in which managers are trained and of these firm foundations, they start to blur and wobble. Here she offers alternative 26 MARCH 2015 developed to truly manage for success and minimise failure. views for a healthier system. HARDbACk / 9781472916792 / £25.00 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 EbOOk / 9781472916808 / £21.99 HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 TERRITORy: wO Morgen Witzel is a fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University Eve Poole teaches at Ashridge Business School. She has also worked for Deloitte TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy of Exeter Business School. He is author of more than twenty books including the Consulting in the financial services industry, and the Church Commissioners, who bestsellers Tata: The Evolution of a Corporate Brand and Doing Business in China. run a £6 billion portfolio. Her clients range from EY and Tesco to the Foreign Office ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 His articles have appeared in the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Smart HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and this breadth of experience makes her a Manager, Financial World, and many others. popular commentator on leadership, ethics, and public life. www.morgenwitzel.com / @MorganWitzel www.evepoole.livejournal.com / @evepoole

The Success Formula backstabbers and bullies

How Smart Leaders Deliver Outstanding value UCL 1999-2014 How to Recognise and Cope with the Dark Side of People at © Andrew Kakabadse work Andrew kakabadse © Adrian Furnham A ground-breaking guide to improving your company culture and achieving the results that matter An engaging guide to preventing dark side behaviour, and dealing with the nasty, negative narcissists we encounter in the workplace nterviews with over 80 leading organisations in private, public and third Isectors from all over the world have led Andrew Kakabadse to a fascinating he idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet insight: superior stakeholder engagement is a happy by-product of superior value Tfor far too long and only now are the statistics on the sheer numbers who fail delivery. The Success Formula demonstrates how value-delivery-led organisations coming out. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical 26 MARCH 2015 are outperforming their strategy-led counterparts and how the world’s best HARDbACk / 9781472916846 / £25.00 perspectives on dark side behaviour and leadership failure, including recognising organisations deliver value to their stakeholders. This authoritative guide shows EbOOk / 9781472916853 / £21.99 and coping with over-confident, narcissistic and psychopathic leaders. This book leaders how to improve the way they gather evidence to create a value-delivery TERRITORy: wO 21 MAy 2015 goes beyond the science to explore corporate culture corruption and the nature of culture that maximises the benefits for their organisations and stakeholders. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy HARDbACk / 9781472915504 / £25.00 corporate crime today. Most importantly, it makes recommendations for avoiding EbOOk / 9781472915511 / £21.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 TERRITORy: wO appointing leaders who fail and preventing dark side behaviour in the workplace. Andrew Kakabadse is Professor of Governance and Leadership at Henley Business HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy School, Emeritus Professor at Cranfield School of Management and Visiting Adrian Furnham is Professor of Psychology at University College London. He Professor at US, Australian, French and Chinese universities. His research covers ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 has written over 1,000 scientific papers and 70 books and is among the most HARDbACk / AuS $50.00 / NZ $60.00 boards, top teams, government and policy design. He has published 41 books, over well-known and productive psychologists in the world. Adrian is a newspaper 240 articles and 18 monographs. columnist, previously at the Financial Times, now at the Sunday Times, and is a regular contributor to national and international radio and television stations. www.kakabadse.com / @Kakabadse buSINESS 41 42 buSINESS

TradeAdult_6.0.indd 41 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 42 26/08/2014 10:53 The Monuments

The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest One-day Races Peter Cossins

An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary ‘classic’ races in world cycling

he Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is Tcycling’s one-day tests that professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called ‘Monuments’. Each provides the sport’s outstanding performers with a chance to measure themselves against each other in cycling’s most challenging tests. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of Paris– Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win them. In The Monuments, Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these 12 MARCH 2015 extraordinary races. PAPERbACk / 9781408846834 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408846827 / £8.99 TERRITORy: wO Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling for twenty years. He has covered TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy sixteen editions of the Tour de France and spent three years as editor of Procycling magazine. He has also contributed to the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Telegraph, the Sunday Express and the Sunday Herald and in 2012 he collaborated with Tour de France winner Stephen Roche on his autobiography, Born to Ride.

A Clean break

My Story Christophe bassons with benoît Hopquin and Peter Cossins

The autobiography of cycling’s Mr Clean who refused to dope or to remain silent about doping – and was exiled from the sport

assons’ professional cycling career was a successful one albeit never in the Bfull glare of the media. That all changed when, in 1988, the Festina doping scandal broke and he shot to fame as one of the handful of clean riders in the peloton – and as the only pro who dared to speak openly about the topic. His willingness to denounce the doping culture set him against cycling teams’ owners, 07 MAy 2015 management and his peers – the likes of Lance Armstrong, Richard Virenque, PAPERbACk / 9781472910387 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781472910370 / £8.99 Christophe Moreau. A year later, Bassons found himself exhausted and exiled. His TERRITORy: wE career was over. This is his story. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: EDITIONS STOCk

Christophe Bassons was a professional cyclist between 1996 and 2001, racing with ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 the likes of Lance Armstrong, Tyler Hamilton and Richard Virenque. He now works for the French Ministry of Sport and Culture to prevent doping. Peter Cossins has been writing and reporting on cycling for over 20 years. He is a former editor of Procycling and the author of The Monuments.

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The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest One-day Races The Obsession, Science and Luck behind the world’s Fastest Cyclists Peter Cossins Michael Hutchinson An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary ‘classic’ races in world cycling A fascinating and funny investigation into cyclists’ incessant pursuit of speed he Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is by one of the sport’s top professionals Tcycling’s one-day tests that professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called ‘Monuments’. Each provides the sport’s outstanding or professional cyclists, going faster and winning are closely related. Yet performers with a chance to measure themselves against each other in cycling’s Fsurprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is more important than a desire to most challenging tests. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of Paris– win. Faster looks at the things that make you faster – training, nutrition, the right Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as psychology – and explains how they work, and how what we know about them unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win changes constantly. It’s a book about why cyclists do what they do, what the riders, them. In The Monuments, Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these 12 MARCH 2015 26 MARCH 2015 their coaches and the boffins get up to behind the scenes, and why the idea of going extraordinary races. PAPERbACk / 9781408846834 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408837771 / £8.99 faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us. EbOOk / 9781408846827 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408843741 / £8.99 TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling for twenty years. He has covered TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Michael Hutchinson is a cyclist with more than 50 British championship titles to sixteen editions of the Tour de France and spent three years as editor of Procycling his name. He has represented Britain at the World Championships and Northern magazine. He has also contributed to the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 Ireland at the Commonwealth Games, and was previously a member of the all- PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Telegraph, the Sunday Express and the Sunday Herald and in 2012 he collaborated conquering GB track squad, training with the likes of Chris Hoy and Bradley with Tour de France winner Stephen Roche on his autobiography, Born to Ride. Wiggins. He is the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly and a commentator for most major cycling events on Eurosport.

A Clean break The Strangers who Came My Story Home Christophe bassons with benoît Hopquin and The First Australian Cricket Tour of England, 1878 Peter Cossins John Lazenby

The autobiography of cycling’s Mr Clean who refused to dope or to remain silent A compelling and beautifully-drawn social history of the first Australian cricket about doping – and was exiled from the sport tour of England assons’ professional cycling career was a successful one albeit never in the he Ashes cricket series is the oldest, and arguably most keenly-contested, rivalry Bfull glare of the media. That all changed when, in 1988, the Festina doping Tin international sport. Yet the first representative Australian cricket team to scandal broke and he shot to fame as one of the handful of clean riders in the tour England in 1878 regarded themselves as Englishmen. The Strangers Who peloton – and as the only pro who dared to speak openly about the topic. His Came Home brings that summer to life, telling the story of eleven extraordinary willingness to denounce the doping culture set him against cycling teams’ owners, 07 MAy 2015 12 MARCH 2015 men who travelled thousands of miles, risking life and limb, playing 43 matches in management and his peers – the likes of Lance Armstrong, Richard Virenque, PAPERbACk / 9781472910387 / £8.99 HARDbACk / 9781408842874 / £18.99 England during a demanding but ultimately triumphant homecoming; how their EbOOk / 9781472910370 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408842881 / £18.99 Christophe Moreau. A year later, Bassons found himself exhausted and exiled. His TERRITORy: wE EXPORT TPb / 9781408844663 / £12.99 glorious achievements on the field of play threw open the doors to international career was over. This is his story. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: EDITIONS STOCk TERRITORy: wO sports touring, and how these men from the colonies provided the stimulus for TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Australian nationhood through their sporting success. Christophe Bassons was a professional cyclist between 1996 and 2001, racing with ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 12 MARCH 2015 the likes of Lance Armstrong, Tyler Hamilton and Richard Virenque. He now works HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 John Lazenby is a freelance journalist on national newspapers and a sports for the French Ministry of Sport and Culture to prevent doping. Peter Cossins has TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 broadcaster for radio and television. His book, Test of Time: Travels in Search of a been writing and reporting on cycling for over 20 years. He is a former editor of Cricketing Legend was selected as a finalist for the MCC/Cricket Society’s Book of the Procycling and the author of The Monuments. Year award in 2005 and chosen as one of The Wisden Cricketer’s Books of the Year.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 43 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 44 26/08/2014 10:53 wisden on Grace

An Anthology Jonathan Rice

In the centenary of W.G. Grace’s death, Wisden celebrates the ‘Champion’ – still to many the greatest cricketer who ever lived

isden was first published in 1864, the year that William Gilbert Grace, then Waged 16, made his debut in first-class cricket. The great man made his first appearance in the 1865 edition and today the continuing interest in, and influence of, Grace on cricket is remarkable.

Wisden on Grace records the highlights of an astonishing playing career, but the real treasures are to be found in the opinions and articles written about – and by 26 MARCH 2015 – W.G. during his lifetime and afterwards. HARDbACk / 9781472911636 / £20.00 EbOOk / 9781472911643 / £17.99 TERRITORy: wO In the year of the centenary of W.G.’s death, Wisden’s tribute to Grace is a delight TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy for any cricket lover. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $40.00 / NZ $50.00 Jonathan Rice is a well-respected Wisden writer as well as the author of a wide variety of cricketing books.

Sea Fever

The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors Sam Jefferson

An enthralling collection of the real-life adventures that inspired our best-loved maritime authors, including Conrad, Hemingway and Masefield

ow did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the Hkey scenes in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson’s cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of Treasure Island? How did Masefield survive Cape Horn and a near- nervous breakdown to write his celebrated poem Sea Fever? 09 APRIL 2015 Behind many a great sea story is a real-life adventure that inspired it, and Sea Fever HARDbACk / 9781472908810 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781472908827 / £14.99 explores the dangerous, exciting and often eccentric escapades of literature’s sailing TERRITORy: wO stars, giving us a fascinating insight into how fact fed into fiction. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

Sam Jefferson is a journalist and maritime historian, and the author of Clipper ANZ Pub DATE: 04 MAy 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 Ships and the Golden Age of Sail (Bloomsbury). He is a former Deputy Editor of Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today and Traditional Boats and Tall Ships.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 45 26/08/2014 10:53 wisden on Grace Danish Dynamite

An Anthology The Story of Football’s Greatest Cult Team Jonathan Rice Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen and Mike Gibbons

In the centenary of W.G. Grace’s death, Wisden celebrates the ‘Champion’ – still The story of the coolest international football team in history – the iconic 1980s to many the greatest cricketer who ever lived Denmark national team – told in English for the first time isden was first published in 1864, the year that William Gilbert Grace, then eralding from a country with no real football history to speak of and a Waged 16, made his debut in first-class cricket. The great man made his first Hpopulation of five million, the Denmark side of the 1980s was one of the last appearance in the 1865 edition and today the continuing interest in, and influence truly iconic international football teams. Although they did not win a trophy, they of, Grace on cricket is remarkable. claimed something much more important and enduring: glory, and in industrial quantities. The story of Danish Dynamite, as the team became known, is the story Wisden on Grace records the highlights of an astonishing playing career, but the of a team of rock stars in a polyester Hummel kit, a team that had it all and blew real treasures are to be found in the opinions and articles written about – and by 26 MARCH 2015 07 MAy 2015 it in spectacular style. Featuring interviews with the players themselves, this is a – W.G. during his lifetime and afterwards. HARDbACk / 9781472911636 / £20.00 PAPERbACk / 9781408844861 / £8.99 joyous celebration of one of the most life-affirming teams the world has ever seen. EbOOk / 9781472911643 / £17.99 EbOOk / 9781408844854 / £8.99 TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO In the year of the centenary of W.G.’s death, Wisden’s tribute to Grace is a delight TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Rob Smyth works for the Guardian and has also written for Wisden, Intelligent for any cricket lover. Life, GQ Style, Sports Illustrated and the official Manchester United magazine. Lars ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 Eriksen lives in Copenhagen where he writes about sport, culture and food for the HARDbACk / AuS $40.00 / NZ $50.00 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Jonathan Rice is a well-respected Wisden writer as well as the author of a wide Guardian and various other publications. Mike Gibbons has written for the Planet variety of cricketing books. World Cup website, extracts of which have been republished in numerous books.

Sea Fever wisden Cricketers’ Almanack The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime 2015 Authors The 152nd edition of the world’s most famous sports book, published every Sam Jefferson year since 1864

An enthralling collection of the real-life adventures that inspired our best-loved perennial bestseller loved by cricket fans and bibliophiles around the world maritime authors, including Conrad, Hemingway and Masefield A and published every single year since its first edition in 1864, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, as ever, contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket ow did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with some of the Hkey scenes in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis finest sports writing of the year. Together with Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of Stevenson’s cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in the Year awards, and the brilliant obituaries, Wisden’s trenchant opinion, compelling his writing of Treasure Island? How did Masefield survive Cape Horn and a near- features and comprehensive records, make it a ‘must-have’ for every cricket fan. nervous breakdown to write his celebrated poem Sea Fever? 09 APRIL 2015 09 APRIL 2015 This is Lawrence Booth’s fourth year as Editor of Wisden. He is also cricket writer Behind many a great sea story is a real-life adventure that inspired it, and Sea Fever HARDbACk / 9781472908810 / £16.99 HARDbACk / 9781472913562 / £50.00 for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is EbOOk / 9781472908827 / £14.99 EbOOk / N/A / N/A explores the dangerous, exciting and often eccentric escapades of literature’s sailing TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game. stars, giving us a fascinating insight into how fact fed into fiction. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

Sam Jefferson is a journalist and maritime historian, and the author of Clipper ANZ Pub DATE: 04 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 HARDbACk / AuS $99.00 / NZ $130.00 Ships and the Golden Age of Sail (Bloomsbury). He is a former Deputy Editor of Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today and Traditional Boats and Tall Ships.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 45 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 46 26/08/2014 10:53 Addicted to Adventure

between Rocks and Cold Places bob Shepton

The incredible life and adventures of Reverend Bob Shepton, sailing and climbing in the most remote places on earth

ob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his late 70s, Bbut is known around the world as a climber, sailor and adventurer. In this fascinating journey through his extraordinary life, he recounts some of his most extreme and hair-raising escapades. We follow Bob as he sails round the world with a group of school children, is dismasted off the Falklands, is trapped in ice, and makes first ascents of mountains only accessible by boat. 17 APRIL 2015 Sir Ranulph Fiennes: ‘A wonderful true tale of adventure.’ PAPERbACk / 9781472905871 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781472905895 / £8.99 TERRITORy: wO Bear Grylls: ‘As a Commando, Bob is clearly made of the right stuff !’ TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy

Bob Shepton has been a Royal Marine, a Reverend in London’s East End and a ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 school chaplain. He has also made some 60 first ascents of mountains in Greenland and Arctic Canada. He has won the Piolet d’Or (a sought-after mountaineering award) and Yachtsman of the Year, and his writing regularly appears in sailing and climbing magazines worldwide.

blood Ransom

Stories from the Front Line in the war Against Somali Piracy John boyle

The first book to look at the issue of modern-day piracy from every side of the war – from pirate to hostage to president

or the first time in history, every superpower on the planet has united against Fa common enemy – a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys. Crammed together in tiny open boats and armed with ancient AK47s and rocket propelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. Many die at sea. But occasionally these modern-day pirates hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews that will be ransomed for millions of dollars. 23 APRIL 2015 Using interviews with pirates, hostages, skippers, security guards and politicians, HARDbACk / 9781472912671 / £16.99 EbOOk / 9781472912688 / £14.99 John Boyle paints a vivid picture of a seemingly unwinnable war. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy 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 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 side, and being drawn into the incredibly complex situation. Few people have any understanding of the overall picture, and John’s investigation gives us a unique insight into an ongoing war.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 47 26/08/2014 10:53 Addicted to Adventure Game, Set and Match between Rocks and Cold Places Secret weapons of the world’s Greatest Tennis Players Revealed bob Shepton Mark Hodgkinson The incredible life and adventures of Reverend Bob Shepton, sailing and climbing in the most remote places on earth A must-read for all tennis fans. The world’s greatest players share their top tips on how to improve your game ob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his late 70s, Bbut is known around the world as a climber, sailor and adventurer. In this ith contributions from current and past greats of tennis, including Maria fascinating journey through his extraordinary life, he recounts some of his most WSharapova, Andy Murray, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Grigor Dimitrov, extreme and hair-raising escapades. We follow Bob as he sails round the world Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Martina Navratilova to name but a few, who better to with a group of school children, is dismasted off the Falklands, is trapped in ice, improve your game than the men and women who have won grand slam titles and makes first ascents of mountains only accessible by boat. and held the world No. 1 ranking? 17 APRIL 2015 14 MAy 2015 Sir Ranulph Fiennes: ‘A wonderful true tale of adventure.’ PAPERbACk / 9781472905871 / £8.99 HARDbACk / 9781472905772 / £12.99 Top tips from the pros include: EbOOk / 9781472905895 / £8.99 EbOOk / N/A / N/A TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO ‘How to disguise your serve’ with Pete Sampras Bear Grylls: ‘As a Commando, Bob is clearly made of the right stuff !’ TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy ‘How to move on grass’ with Eugenie Bouchard ‘How to be a world class coach’ with Nick Bollettieri Bob Shepton has been a Royal Marine, a Reverend in London’s East End and a ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 HARDbACk / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 school chaplain. He has also made some 60 first ascents of mountains in Greenland Mark Hodgkinson is the author of Andy Murray: Champion: The Full Extraordinary and Arctic Canada. He has won the Piolet d’Or (a sought-after mountaineering Story and Lendl: The Man Who Made Murray. award) and Yachtsman of the Year, and his writing regularly appears in sailing and climbing magazines worldwide. @thetennisspace blood Ransom Nell McAndrew’s Guide to Stories from the Front Line in the war Against Somali Piracy Running John boyle Everything you Need to know to Train, Race and More

The first book to look at the issue of modern-day piracy from every side of the Nell McAndrew and Lucy waterlow war – from pirate to hostage to president Sub three-hour marathon runner Nell McAndrew’s practical guide to running or the first time in history, every superpower on the planet has united against Fa common enemy – a couple of thousand rag tag underfed men and boys. ell McAndrew is passionate about running. If you are too – or want to be – then Crammed together in tiny open boats and armed with ancient AK47s and rocket Nthis is the book for you! Whether you’re starting out, or looking to improve 24 APRIL 2015 propelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. Many die at sea. But PAPERbACk / 9781472905758 / £12.99 your performance, this insightful handbook is packed with tips, effective training occasionally these modern-day pirates hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews EbOOk / 9781472908414 / £12.99 plans and advice from fellow runners. that will be ransomed for millions of dollars. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy 23 APRIL 2015 Find out how to get the most from your training – with 5k, 10k and marathon HARDbACk / 9781472912671 / £16.99 Using interviews with pirates, hostages, skippers, security guards and politicians, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 training plans, along with helpful advice on nutrition, injuries and women’s running EbOOk / 9781472912688 / £14.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 John Boyle paints a vivid picture of a seemingly unwinnable war. TERRITORy: wO (including exercise and pregnancy). TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy John Boyle is a lawyer turned filmmaker. Whilst filming for National Geographic Nell McAndrew is a fitness expert and runner. @Nell_McAndrew on the war against the Somali pirates, he found himself meeting victims on every ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99 side, and being drawn into the incredibly complex situation. Few people have any Lucy Waterlow is a freelance journalist and keen club runner and has written for understanding of the overall picture, and John’s investigation gives us a unique many national publications including the Daily Mail, the Sun, Sky News, OK and insight into an ongoing war. New. @LucyRunningFeat

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 47 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 48 26/08/2014 10:53 Thirty-One Nil

On the Road with Football’s Outsiders: A world Cup Odyssey James Montague

The story of the immense struggle to qualify for the 2014 Brazilian World Cup, Thirty-One Nil is a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of world football

amed after the greatest victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualifiers have Never seen (Australia’s 31-0 victory over American Samoa), Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey in the qualifying campaign chasing a place at the World Cup Finals. From the endlessly humiliated San Marino to lowly Haiti; from war-torn Lebanon to the oppressed and fleet-footed players of Eritrea, James Montague gets intimately and often 21 MAy 2015 dangerously close to some of the world’s most extraordinary teams, and tells their PAPERbACk / 9781408851630 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408851593 / £8.99 exceptional stories. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy James Montague is a journalist and author who writes for the New York Times, CNN, GQ and World Soccer. His first book When Friday Comes: Football in the War ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Zone won him Best New Writer at the 2009 British Sports Book of the Year Awards and he was described in Sports Illustrated as ‘The Indiana Jones of soccer writing.’

Half-time Phil Beresford

The Glorious Sporting Summer of 1934 © Robert winder

Three sporting victories from Fred Perry, Hedley Verity & Henry Cotton in one remarkable fortnight provide an atmospheric account of life between the wars

et against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was a spectacular Ssummer for English sport. The Ashes Test at Lord’s saw Verity bowl England to a famous innings victory; that same day, Cotton began the first qualifying round of the British Open, a tournament he went on to win with a game so sparkling the Daily Express called it ‘the best round of golf ever played’. And within a fortnight, 21 MAy 2015 HARDbACk / 9781472908926 / £18.99 Perry had taken the Wimbledon title. EbOOk / 9781472908933 / £18.99 TERRITORy: wO Together, the stories of these three contests – and their three very English heroes TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy – weave a vivid portrait of an England that has faded from view. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 Robert Winder was Literary Editor of the Independent and Deputy Editor of Granta. He is the author of several books, including Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey and Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. His most recent book is The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 49 26/08/2014 10:53 Thirty-One Nil Alone

On the Road with Football’s Outsiders: A world Cup Odyssey The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry James Montague bill Jones

The story of the immense struggle to qualify for the 2014 Brazilian World Cup, The previously-untold story of the life and tragic early death of John Curry, one Thirty-One Nil is a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of the most famous ice skaters in history of world football ver 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry win Olympic figure skating amed after the greatest victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualifiers have Ogold in 1976. Overnight he became an international star as he singlehandedly Never seen (Australia’s 31-0 victory over American Samoa), Thirty-One Nil is the changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet he was an absolute story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey in the mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gift. An often-tortured man qualifying campaign chasing a place at the World Cup Finals. From the endlessly of labyrinthine complexity, Curry’s is a story of childhood nightmares, furious humiliated San Marino to lowly Haiti; from war-torn Lebanon to the oppressed ambition, sporting genius, lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, and fleet-footed players of Eritrea, James Montague gets intimately and often 21 MAy 2015 07 MAy 2015 financial ruin and deep personal tragedy. For the first time, Alone untangles the dangerously close to some of the world’s most extraordinary teams, and tells their PAPERbACk / 9781408851630 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408853566 / £8.99 extraordinary web of his toxic, troubled, brilliant – and short – life. EbOOk / 9781408851593 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408853443 / £8.99 exceptional stories. TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Bill Jones’ first book The Ghost Runner was published in 2011 to widespread critical James Montague is a journalist and author who writes for the New York Times, acclaim. It was shortlisted for the William Hill Sport Book of the Year, and won CNN, GQ and World Soccer. His first book When Friday Comes: Football in the War ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 him the ‘Best New Writer’ category at the British Sports Book Awards. He lives PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 FORMAT / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Zone won him Best New Writer at the 2009 British Sports Book of the Year Awards in the North of England. and he was described in Sports Illustrated as ‘The Indiana Jones of soccer writing.’

Half-time Reckless Phil Beresford

The Glorious Sporting Summer of 1934 © The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña Robert winder Alasdair Fotheringham

Three sporting victories from Fred Perry, Hedley Verity & Henry Cotton in one The first biography of Luis Ocaña, one of the greatest cyclists of the twentieth remarkable fortnight provide an atmospheric account of life between the wars century whose rivalry with ‘The Cannibal’ Eddy Merckx is legendary et against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was a spectacular uis Ocaña seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling’s greatest ever rider, Ssummer for English sport. The Ashes Test at Lord’s saw Verity bowl England LEddy Merckx. Their rivalry defined Ocaña’s entire career, yet he was the one rider to a famous innings victory; that same day, Cotton began the first qualifying round capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. An enigmatic outsider of the British Open, a tournament he went on to win with a game so sparkling the to both the Spanish and French throughout his career, he died in mysterious Daily Express called it ‘the best round of golf ever played’. And within a fortnight, 21 MAy 2015 circumstances aged just 48. A fascinating, complicated character both on and off HARDbACk / 9781472908926 / £18.99 Perry had taken the Wimbledon title. EbOOk / 9781472908933 / £18.99 his bike, Ocaña’s fierce determination, impetuosity and recklessness created some TERRITORy: wO 04 JuNE 2015 of the most beautiful and gripping episodes in the history of the sport. Reckless is Together, the stories of these three contests – and their three very English heroes TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy PAPERbACk / 9781408845905 / £8.99 the first biography in English of this fascinating champion. EbOOk / 9781408846001 / £8.99 – weave a vivid portrait of an England that has faded from view. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 TERRITORy: wO HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Alasdair Fotheringham has been the cycling correspondent for the Independent Robert Winder was Literary Editor of the Independent and Deputy Editor of Granta. and the Independent on Sunday since 2001, and has covered the Tour de France He is the author of several books, including Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 and other major cycling races since 1992. He is a regular contributor to the Express PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Journey and Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. His most recent and Reuters on cycling, as well as Cycle Sport and Cycling Weekly. The Eagle of book is The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden. Toledo, his biography of the Spanish cyclist Federico Martín Bahamontes, was published in 2012.

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Philippe brunel Bernard

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

he life of Bernard Hinault, the French cyclist who won the Tour de France five 04 JuNE 2015 Ttimes, is seen through stories and photographs in a celebration of this great HARDbACk / 9781472912961 / £40.00 cyclist’s career. EbOOk / N/A / N/A TERRITORy: wE Known as the Badger, Hinault is one of only five cyclists to have won all three TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uITGEvERIJ kANNIbALL Grand Tours, and the only one to have finished either first or second in each Tour de France he finished, winning in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 and coming second ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 in the following two years. HARDbACk / AuS $80.00 / NZ $99.00

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

Philippe Brunel is a writer and journalist for L’ E q u i p e . His book Merkx Intime was a bestseller in France.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 51 26/08/2014 10:53 Hinault An English Spring

Philippe brunel Bernard Memoirs

A visually stunning celebration of the life of legendary French cyclist Bernard HINAULT Cormac Murphy-O’Connor Hinault A compelling and illuminating memoir by one of the most outstanding figures he life of Bernard Hinault, the French cyclist who won the Tour de France five of the English Catholic Church in the post-war years 04 JuNE 2015 Ttimes, is seen through stories and photographs in a celebration of this great HARDbACk / 9781472912961 / £40.00 cyclist’s career. EbOOk / N/A / N/A ardinal O’Connor was the Leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales TERRITORy: wE Cfrom 2000-2009. A highly respected figure, he nonetheless navigated his way Known as the Badger, Hinault is one of only five cyclists to have won all three TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uITGEvERIJ through tempestuous times whilst in office. In 2000 it emerged that his handling kANNIbALL Grand Tours, and the only one to have finished either first or second in each Tour of a priest who was a compulsive abuser of children was severely misjudged. In de France he finished, winning in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1985 and coming second ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 2006 he fired his press aide, Stephen Noon, for being homosexual, suggesting in the following two years. HARDbACk / AuS $80.00 / NZ $99.00 that his position was ‘incompatible’ with the teaching of the Church. O’Connor 26 MARCH 2015 addresses these issues, and discusses his relations with Popes Benedict and Francis, He remains the last French winner of the Tour de France. HARDbACk / 9781472913142 / £20.00 making An English Spring compulsive reading for those of both religious and non- EbOOk / 9781472913159 / £17.99 TERRITORy: wO religious persuasions. Philippe Brunel is a writer and journalist for L’ E q u i p e . His book Merkx Intime was TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy a bestseller in France. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor was Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster ANZ Pub DATE: 04 MAy 2015 from 2000-2009 and previously Bishop of Arundel and Brighton. He is a HARDbACk / AuS $40.00 / NZ $50.00 leading ecumenist with a devoted following both within and outside of his own Communion.

Stations of the Cross Timothy Radcliffe

A profound Lenten reflection on Christ’s passion from the bestselling religious writer Timothy Radcliffe, beautifully illustrated by Martin Erspamer

n Stations of the Cross, the bestselling religious author Timothy Radcliffe offers Ireaders his own reflections on Christ’s passion, from his condemnation by Pilate to his burial. Each reflection is illustrated in full colour by the award-winning liturgical artist Martin Erspamer. Perfect Lenten reading, Stations of the Cross is a beautiful invitation to deeper meditation and richer contemplation during this solemn season of prayer and penance.

15 JANuARy 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781472916761 / £9.99 A former Master of the world-wide Dominican Order, Timothy Radcliffe is now EbOOk / 9781472916761 / £9.99 based in Oxford but remains an itinerant lecturer, broadcaster, preacher and retreat TERRITORy: wE/EXCAN + uSA giver. His bestselling books include What’s The Point of Being a Christian?, What’s TRANSLATION RIGHTS: LITuRGICAL PRESS The Point of Going to Church?, Take the Plunge and I Call You Friends, all published

ANZ Pub DATE: 02 FEbRuARy 2015 by Bloomsbury Continuum. PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 51 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 52 26/08/2014 10:53 Contemplative Prayer

An Exploration Dom David Foster

A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism

avid Foster, author of the bestselling Reading with God and Deep Calls to Deep D(Bloomsbury), extends their discussion of contemplative prayer in terms of its philosophical framework. Contrasting a traditional framework with one based on continental philosophy, Foster explores a number of metaphysical and epistemological questions as well as the place of silence in a philosophy of language. He defends traditional insights of the mystical tradition, including its underlying metaphysical realism, religious experience as awareness of God, and the role of 07 MAy 2015 apophatic discourse in mysticism, arguing that the sense of God’s absence can be PAPERbACk / 9781408187104 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408187128 / £12.99 a threshold of prayer. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Dom David Foster is a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, where he was Prior and Novice Master, as well as Chaplain of Downside School. He now teaches in the ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 Benedictine College of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.

Coming Out Christian in the Roman world

How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire Douglas boin

A new interpretation of early Christian history in the Roman Empire that overturns centuries of myth and misunderstanding

he supposed collapse of Roman civilisation is still lamented more than 1,500 Tyears later, and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that toppled the empire. Not so, argues Douglas Boin, who instead shows that a small minority movement rose to transform society – politically, religiously and culturally 14 MAy 2015 – but it was a gradual process that happened over centuries. Using this insightful HARDbACk / 9781620403174 / £18.99 EbOOk / 9781620403181 / £12.99 approach to the story of Christians in the Roman world, Douglas Boin rewrites, TERRITORy: wE and rediscovers, the fascinating early history of a world faith. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AyESHA PANDE LITERARy Douglas Boin is an expert on the religious history of the Roman Empire. He is ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 currently assistant professor of ancient and late antique Mediterranean history at HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 Saint Louis University and has worked extensively as an archaeologist in Rome. He lives in St Louis.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 53 26/08/2014 10:53 Contemplative Prayer The Crooked Maid An Exploration Dan vyleta

Dom David Foster ‘A seriously good novel from a seriously fine writer’ Mail on Sunday, Book of the Week A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism he Second World War is over – and yet it lives on. As the initial phase of Tdenazification draws to a close, people across Vienna begin to rebuild their lives. avid Foster, author of the bestselling Reading with God and Deep Calls to Deep Anna Beer returns to the city she fled years earlier upon discovering her husband’s D(Bloomsbury), extends their discussion of contemplative prayer in terms infidelity. She has come back to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Travelling of its philosophical framework. Contrasting a traditional framework with one on the same train is eighteen-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home based on continental philosophy, Foster explores a number of metaphysical and to the secrets of his family’s past. As Anna and Robert navigate an unrecognisable epistemological questions as well as the place of silence in a philosophy of language. city, beneath the bombed-out ruins a man battles demons from his past and hides He defends traditional insights of the mystical tradition, including its underlying from a future that is deeply uncertain for all. metaphysical realism, religious experience as awareness of God, and the role of 07 MAy 2015 15 JANuARy 2015 apophatic discourse in mysticism, arguing that the sense of God’s absence can be PAPERbACk / 9781408187104 / £12.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408854044 / £8.99 Dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late EbOOk / 9781408187128 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408832851 / £8.99 a threshold of prayer. TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM 1960s. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He has written TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: wRITER’S HOuSE two previous novels, Pavel & I and The Quiet Twin, which was shortlisted for the Dom David Foster is a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, where he was Prior Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. A Canadian by adoption, Dan Vyleta teaches and Novice Master, as well as Chaplain of Downside School. He now teaches in the ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 Creative Writing at Durham University. PAPERbACk / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Benedictine College of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome. www.danvyleta.com

Coming Out Christian in the God is an Astronaut Roman world Alyson Foster

How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire ‘A witty and original novel, rich in pithy insights, gloriously spot-on with regard to the yearning middle-aged heart’ Barbara Trapido Douglas boin ess Frobisher is a botany professor, her husband, Liam, works for a space tourism A new interpretation of early Christian history in the Roman Empire that Jcompany called Spaceco. Spaceco has just become front-page news: one of overturns centuries of myth and misunderstanding their shuttles exploded shortly after lift-off, killing everyone on board. The press descends. With the future of the company in doubt, two filmmakers approach he supposed collapse of Roman civilisation is still lamented more than 1,500 Liam about making a documentary on the space tourism industry. Seeing this as Tyears later, and intertwined with this idea is the notion that a fledgling religion, an opportunity to save Spaceco, Liam agrees to cooperate, assembling a team for Christianity, went from a persecuted fringe movement to an irresistible force that another trip into space. When he asks Jess to go, she must decide how far she is toppled the empire. Not so, argues Douglas Boin, who instead shows that a small willing to go to save her faltering marriage and her life as she knows it. minority movement rose to transform society – politically, religiously and culturally 14 MAy 2015 12 FEbRuARy 2015 – but it was a gradual process that happened over centuries. Using this insightful HARDbACk / 9781620403174 / £18.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408845035 / £8.99 Alyson Foster has a BA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and EbOOk / 9781620403181 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781408845226 / £8.99 approach to the story of Christians in the Roman world, Douglas Boin rewrites, TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: wE received her MFA from George Mason University, where she was a Completion and rediscovers, the fascinating early history of a world faith. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AyESHA PANDE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: wSk Fellow. Alyson Foster lives in Washington DC, where she works for the National LITERARy Geographic library and writes for the Nat Geo Watch blog. Douglas Boin is an expert on the religious history of the Roman Empire. He is ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 currently assistant professor of ancient and late antique Mediterranean history at HARDbACk / AuS $39.99 / NZ $49.99 @alysonfoster Saint Louis University and has worked extensively as an archaeologist in Rome. He lives in St Louis.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 53 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 54 26/08/2014 10:53 The Ghost Runner

A Makana Mystery Parker bilal

A question of honour. An eye for an eye. The truth cannot stay buried for ever

t is 2002 and as the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are Irunning high on Cairo’s streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of the wife and daughter he lost, is shaken out of his grief when a routine surveillance job leads him to the horrific murder of a teenage girl. Seeking answers, he travels to an oasis town on the edge of the great Sahara desert. As violence follows him through the twisting, sand- blown streets, Makana discovers that the truth can be as deadly and as changeable as the desert beneath his feet. 12 FEbRuARy 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781408841136 / £7.99 EbOOk / 9781408841129 / £7.99 Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven TERRITORy: wE critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Following on TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH from The Golden Scales and Dogstar Rising, The Ghost Runner is his third Makana Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $14.99 / NZ $18.99 Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.

wake up Happy Every Day Stephen May

‘The sense of jeopardy leaps from the page, and so does the writing. Hooked’ Elle

icky has always known Russell was rich, but he has no idea how astronomically Nrich Russell is until his friend drops dead, on his fiftieth birthday, in his San Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness. And now Nicky has come up with an uncharacteristically daring plan. If Nicky were to become Russell and leave his old life lying dead on the bathroom floor, then he and his family could start again. But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack, the impact of Nicky’s hasty decision begins to be felt by everyone around him.

Stephen May’s first novel, Tag, won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 2009 Welsh Book of the Year. His second, Life! Death! Prizes!, was published by Bloomsbury in 12 FEbRuARy 2015 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the Guardian’s ‘Not the PAPERbACk / 9781408840764 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408840757 / £8.99 Booker Prize’. Originally from Bedford, he now lives and works in West Yorkshire. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy www.sdmay.com / @RealStephenMay ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 55 26/08/2014 10:53 The Ghost Runner Terms & Conditions A Makana Mystery Robert Glancy

Parker bilal ‘Every book seems to have “funny and life-affirming” written on it but this one actually is’ Matt Haig, author of The Humans A question of honour. An eye for an eye. The truth cannot stay buried for ever rank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but t is 2002 and as the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are FFrank believes he has lost more, he is missing memories. All he remembers is Irunning high on Cairo’s streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print. But when his brother takes the native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of the wife and daughter he family company into business with an inventively cruel corporation** and Alice, lost, is shaken out of his grief when a routine surveillance job leads him to the his wife, starts to seem oddly unlike the woman he remembers, Frank’s world horrific murder of a teenage girl. Seeking answers, he travels to an oasis town on the starts to unspool and the terms and conditions that he has lived his life by*** edge of the great Sahara desert. As violence follows him through the twisting, sand- begin to change. blown streets, Makana discovers that the truth can be as deadly and as changeable as the desert beneath his feet. 12 FEbRuARy 2015 12 FEbRuARy 2015 *apparently quite a serious one PAPERbACk / 9781408841136 / £7.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408852255 / £8.99 **we can’t tell you what it’s called for legal reasons, but believe us, it’s evil EbOOk / 9781408841129 / £7.99 EbOOk / 9781408852194 / £8.99 Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: wO ***and which are rarely in his favour critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Following on TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy from The Golden Scales and Dogstar Rising, The Ghost Runner is his third Makana Robert was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved from Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge, before working PAPERbACk / AuS $14.99 / NZ $18.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona. in London in public relations. By day he still works in PR, by night he writes. He currently lives in New Zealand with his wife and children.

@RobertGlancy wake up Happy Every Day Miss Carter’s war Stephen May Sheila Hancock

‘The sense of jeopardy leaps from the page, and so does the writing. Hooked’ Elle The story of a remarkable woman – the story of our times. A stunning debut novel from iconic actor and bestselling author Sheila Hancock icky has always known Russell was rich, but he has no idea how astronomically Nrich Russell is until his friend drops dead, on his fiftieth birthday, in his San t is 1948 and the young and beautiful Marguerite Carter has lost her parents and Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness. And now Nicky has come up Isurvived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. She returns with an uncharacteristically daring plan. If Nicky were to become Russell and leave to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of his old life lying dead on the bathroom floor, then he and his family could start Cambridge. Now she pins back her unruly auburn curls, draws a pencil seam up again. But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack, her legs, ties the laces on her sensible black shoes, and sets out towards her future the impact of Nicky’s hasty decision begins to be felt by everyone around him. as an English teacher in a girls’ grammar school. For Miss Carter has a mission – to fight social injustice, to prevent war and to educate her girls. Stephen May’s first novel, Tag, won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 2009 Welsh Book of the Year. His second, Life! Death! Prizes!, was published by Bloomsbury in 12 FEbRuARy 2015 26 FEbRuARy 2015 Sheila Hancock received an OBE for services to drama in 1974 and a CBE in 2011. 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the Guardian’s ‘Not the PAPERbACk / 9781408840764 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408843604 / £7.99 Since the 1950s she has enjoyed a career across film, television, theatre and radio. EbOOk / 9781408840757 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408833841 / £7.99 Booker Prize’. Originally from Bedford, he now lives and works in West Yorkshire. TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO Her memoir, The Two of Us, was a number one bestseller and won the British Book TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Award for Author of the Year. Her second book, Just Me, was also a bestseller. She www.sdmay.com / @RealStephenMay lives in London and France. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 55 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 56 26/08/2014 10:53 what was Promised Tobias Hill

‘A dazzling and deeply affecting portrait of a city struggling back to prosperity ... One of the outstanding writers of his generation’ Observer

n post-war London children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders Istrive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find the Mother Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are strangers in a strange land; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take all that the world owes them. In the markets and tenements of Bethnal Green the three families live and work together in uneasy harmony, until Michael shatters the balance between them, changing the courses of all their lives. 12 MARCH 2015 Tobias Hill was born in London. In 2003 the TLS nominated him as one of the best PAPERbACk / 9781408840924 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408840917 / £8.99 young writers in Britain. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the PEN/Macmillan Prize TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. What Was Promised is his fifth novel. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

A God in Every Stone kamila Shamsie

‘I can’t recommend A God in Every Stone too strongly – this is her best novel yet’ Antonia Fraser, Guardian, Summer Reading

ummer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, Sabout to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army.

Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will 12 MARCH 2015 bring them together again. PAPERbACk / 9781408847237 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408847220 / £8.99 TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM Kamila Shamsie is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saffron, Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and has been translated into ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 more than twenty languages. She is one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2013, she grew up in Karachi and lives in London.

@kamilashamsie

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 57 26/08/2014 10:53 what was Promised The Prince’s boy Tobias Hill Paul bailey

‘A dazzling and deeply affecting portrait of a city struggling back to prosperity ‘One of the wittiest, most panacheful and most graceful writers we have’ ... One of the outstanding writers of his generation’ Observer Ali Smith n post-war London children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders ay 1927. Dinu Grigorescu, aged nineteen, is newly arrived in Paris from Istrive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette MBucharest. An innocent in a new city, still grieving the loss of his beloved Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find the Mother mother, Dinu is guided in la vie de Bohème by a distant cousin. Drawn tentatively, Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are secretly, to the Bains du Ballon d’Alsace, a notorious place rumoured to offer the strangers in a strange land; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take all that the world men of Paris everything they crave, Dinu meets Razvan, the adopted child of a owes them. In the markets and tenements of Bethnal Green the three families live man of refinement – a prince’s boy – whose stories of Proust entrance Dinu, and and work together in uneasy harmony, until Michael shatters the balance between who becomes the young man’s teacher in the ways of the world. This is a work of them, changing the courses of all their lives. exquisite sensual delicacy from a master. 12 MARCH 2015 26 MARCH 2015 Tobias Hill was born in London. In 2003 the TLS nominated him as one of the best PAPERbACk / 9781408840924 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408851951 / £8.99 Paul Bailey’s novels include At The Jerusalem, which won a Somerset Maugham EbOOk / 9781408840917 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408851883 / £8.99 young writers in Britain. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM TERRITORy: wE Award and an Arts Council Writers’ Award; the Booker Prize-shortlisted Peter Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the PEN/Macmillan Prize TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw Smart’s Confessions and Gabriel’s Lament; Sugar Cane, Kitty and Virgil, Uncle Rudolf for Fiction and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. and most recently Chapman’s Odyssey. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster and What Was Promised is his fifth novel. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 the George Orwell Memorial Awards. He lives in London. PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

A God in Every Stone The Giraffe’s Neck kamila Shamsie Judith Schalansky

‘I can’t recommend A God in Every Stone too strongly – this is her best novel Translated from the German by Shaun whiteside yet’ Antonia Fraser, Guardian, Summer Reading ‘“Remarkable” is too small a word. It is very funny, desperately sad and real, ummer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, and ultimately, shocking’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Sabout to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood nge Lohmark is the last of her kind. As the Biology teacher at the Charles and loyalty in the British Indian army. IDarwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany, for her adaptation is everything. Yet in the course of a school year, it is Inge who is revealed Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost to be the one falling behind in the race to survive, as everything and everyone an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is now abandons the old ways to adapt to the new environment. The Giraffe’s Neck is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later an outstanding novel that by parodying old-style school textbooks, including the when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will 12 MARCH 2015 26 MARCH 2015 clever use of illustration, wittily and poignantly evokes the demise of its protagonist bring them together again. PAPERbACk / 9781408847237 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408837795 / £8.99 and the passing of an era. EbOOk / 9781408847220 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408843789 / £8.99 TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM TERRITORy: wE Kamila Shamsie is the author of In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SHuRkAMP vERLAG Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 in Greifswald in the former East Germany. for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saffron, Broken Verses and Burnt She studied Art History and Communication Design and now works as a freelance Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and has been translated into ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 writer. Schalansky’s previous book, the international bestseller, Atlas of Remote PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 more than twenty languages. She is one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists Islands (I Never Visited and Never Will), was published to acclaim in the UK and 2013, she grew up in Karachi and lives in London. the USA in 2010. She lives in Berlin.

@kamilashamsie Shaun Whiteside is a translator from German, French, Italian and Dutch.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 57 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 58 26/08/2014 10:53 Hollow Mountain

A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery Thomas Mogford

‘Popular fiction at its best’ Susan Hill

he late-morning sun rises high over the Rock of Gibraltar as a child stumbles Tupon a man’s severed arm, a plaything of the apes. In the narrow streets of the Old Town below, Spike Sanguinetti’s business partner is critically injured in a hit- and-run. Reluctantly, Spike must abandon his search for his girlfriend, Zahra, and return home to Gibraltar, where he is drawn into a case protecting the interests of a ruthless salvage company hunting for treasure in the Straits. As Spike battles to save his law firm, he begins to realise that his search for Zahra has triggered a terrifying sequence of events, and that everything he holds dear is under threat. 09 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781408846575 / £7.99 EbOOk / 9781408846568 / £7.99 Thomas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for TERRITORy: wO the European Parliament. His first two novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Shadow of the Rock and Sign of the Cross, were published by Bloomsbury in 2012 and 2013 respectively, to great critical acclaim. Thomas Mogford is married and ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $14.99 / NZ $18.99 lives with his family in London.

www.thomasmogford.com / @ThomasMogford

The wives of Los Alamos TaraShea Nesbit

‘With chilling implications and charged, sure-footed prose, this is a novel – and writer – of consequence’ Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

heir average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, TLondon and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They were constrained by the words they couldn’t say, the letters they couldn’t send. Though they were strangers, they came together. But then ‘the project’ was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the atomic bomb. 09 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781408845899 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408845981 / £8.99 TaraShea Nesbit teaches creative writing and literature courses at the University TERRITORy: wE of Denver. A graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St Louis, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JuLIE bARER TaraShea is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 59 26/08/2014 10:53 Hollow Mountain History of the Rain A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery Niall williams

Thomas Mogford Longlisted for the Man booker Prize

‘Popular fiction at its best’ Susan Hill ‘Extremely moving ... By the final chapter I was weeping’ Sunday Times he late-morning sun rises high over the Rock of Gibraltar as a child stumbles edbound in her attic room beneath the rain, plain Ruth Swain is in search of Tupon a man’s severed arm, a plaything of the apes. In the narrow streets of the Bher father. To find him, Ruthie must first trace the Swains, their jutting jaw Old Town below, Spike Sanguinetti’s business partner is critically injured in a hit- lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin, from the restless Reverend Swain, her great- and-run. Reluctantly, Spike must abandon his search for his girlfriend, Zahra, and grandfather, to grandfather Abraham, to her father Virgil – via pole-vaulting, return home to Gibraltar, where he is drawn into a case protecting the interests salmon fishing, poetry and a wild rain-sodden history of the pursuit of the of a ruthless salvage company hunting for treasure in the Straits. As Spike battles impossible on fourteen acres of the worst farming land in Ireland. A celebration to save his law firm, he begins to realise that his search for Zahra has triggered a of books, love and the healing power of storytelling, this is an exquisite, funny terrifying sequence of events, and that everything he holds dear is under threat. 09 APRIL 2015 09 APRIL 2015 novel in which every sentence sings. PAPERbACk / 9781408846575 / £7.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408852057 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408846568 / £7.99 EbOOk / 9781408852019 / £8.99 Thomas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wE Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eight novels including the European Parliament. His first two novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PFD John and Four Letters of Love for which he has recently completed the screenplay for Shadow of the Rock and Sign of the Cross, were published by Bloomsbury in 2012 Element Pictures. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine. and 2013 respectively, to great critical acclaim. Thomas Mogford is married and ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $14.99 / NZ $18.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 lives with his family in London.

www.thomasmogford.com / @ThomasMogford

The wives of Los Alamos No Country TaraShea Nesbit kalyan Ray

‘With chilling implications and charged, sure-footed prose, this is a novel – and ‘A moving and compelling tale, full of richly-satisfying ironies’ Enid Shomer, writer – of consequence’ Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife author of The Twelve Rooms of the Nile heir average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, n November 1989 an immigrant couple is discovered murdered in a small town TLondon and Chicago – and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at Iin upstate New York. They lie together as though just disengaged from a long least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship in the desolate military embrace. These killings have been two centuries in the making. town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They were constrained by the words they couldn’t say, the letters they From nineteenth-century Ireland and England to India, Italy, Poland and North couldn’t send. Though they were strangers, they came together. But then ‘the project’ America – the tides of history sweep people across continents. Weaving together was unleashed and even bigger challenges faced the women of Los Alamos, as private histories and historical personalities, through betrayals and friendships, they struggled with the burden of their contribution towards the creation of the through riots and splitting of nations on the Indian subcontinent, an East European atomic bomb. 09 APRIL 2015 09 APRIL 2015 pogrom and the Triangle fire in New York City, we are inexorably led towards the PAPERbACk / 9781408845899 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408843345 / £8.99 terrible intimacy of that murder in a sleepy town. EbOOk / 9781408845981 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408824948 / £8.99 TaraShea Nesbit teaches creative writing and literature courses at the University TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM of Denver. A graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St Louis, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JuLIE bARER TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CuRTIS bROwN Kalyan Ray’s family was uprooted from the Ganges Delta (now Bangladesh) through TaraShea is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of a combination of natural disasters, political upheaval, and poverty. He was educated Denver. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 in India and the US, and now lives in both countries. Ray has been a taxi driver in PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Calcutta, nurse’s assistant at the psychiatric wing of an Upstate New York hospital, professor of literature in the US and visiting professor of Comparative Theology in the Philippines.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 59 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 60 26/08/2014 10:53 The Hidden Light of Objects Mai Al-Nakib

‘A subtle flair for perfection, an exciting new literary voice’ The National

young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of A 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. 23 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / 9789927101168 / £7.99 EbOOk / 9789927101144 / £8.99 Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from TERRITORy: wO Brown University in the USA and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy 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. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

From a Distance Raffaella barker

‘A beautifully written, superior romance perfect for a hammock on a sunny day’ Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

n April, 1946, Michael returns on a troopship from the war. On impulse, he is Icaught in a moment at a station and takes the train heading west to Cornwall. In doing so he changes his destiny. May, 2012, and Kit, a charming stranger, arrives in a coastal Norfolk village to take up his inheritance – a de-commissioned lighthouse, half hidden in the shadows of the past, but now sweeping its beam forward through time. Married Luisa falters in the flow of her life as her children begin to fly the nest. When Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the consequences of that split- second decision made by Michael all those years ago. 07 MAy 2015 Raffaella Barker is the author of seven acclaimed novels including the bestselling PAPERbACk / 9781408854150 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408833742 / £8.99 Hens Dancing and Summertime; she has also written a novel for young adults. She TERRITORy: wO is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and Harper’s Bazaar and teaches on TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy the Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of East Anglia and the Guardian UEA Novel Writing Masterclass. She lives by the sea in Norfolk. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 @raffaellabarker

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 61 26/08/2014 10:53 The Hidden Light of Objects Sidney Chambers and Mai Al-Nakib The Problem of Evil

‘A subtle flair for perfection, an exciting new literary voice’ The National James Runcie young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of ‘We should welcome him to the ranks of classic detectives’ Daily Mail A 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 ur favourite clerical detective is back with four longer mysteries in which Canon his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. OSidney Chambers attempts to stop a serial killer; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond gallery; uncovers the fact that an ‘accidental’ drowning on a film shoot may not them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the have been so accidental after all; and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous baby from a hospital in the run-up to Christmas, 1963. Meanwhile, Sidney wrestles stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold with the problem of evil, attempts to fulfil the demands of Dickens, his faithful extraordinary memories. 23 APRIL 2015 07 MAy 2015 Labrador, and contemplates, as always, the nature of love. PAPERbACk / 9789927101168 / £7.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408851012 / £7.99 EbOOk / 9789927101144 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408851005 / £7.99 Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning Brown University in the USA and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy film-maker and the author of eight novels. His popular detective series is set to literature at Kuwait University. The Hidden Light of Objects is her first collection of become a six-part show on ITV, Grantchester, starring James Norton. He lives in short stories. She lives in Kuwait, and is currently writing her first novel. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 London and Edinburgh. PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 www.jamesruncie.com / @james_runcie

From a Distance Close Call Raffaella barker A Liz Carlyle Novel

‘A beautifully written, superior romance perfect for a hammock on a sunny day’ Stella Rimington Wendy Holden, Daily Mail ‘She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, n April, 1946, Michael returns on a troopship from the war. On impulse, he is Graham Greene and John le Carré’ Wall Street Journal Icaught in a moment at a station and takes the train heading west to Cornwall. In doing so he changes his destiny. May, 2012, and Kit, a charming stranger, arrives in n a Middle Eastern souk, CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked. At the time a coastal Norfolk village to take up his inheritance – a de-commissioned lighthouse, Ihe was infiltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his cover had half hidden in the shadows of the past, but now sweeping its beam forward through been blown or if the act was just an arbitrary attack on Westerners. Months later, time. Married Luisa falters in the flow of her life as her children begin to fly the the incident remains a mystery. Now, Liz Carlyle and MI5 have been charged with nest. When Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the consequences of that split- the task of watching the international under-the-counter arms trade: a trade that second decision made by Michael all those years ago. has been booming in the wake of the Arab Spring. As the clock counts down, 07 MAy 2015 04 JuNE 2015 Liz finds herself on a manhunt through Paris and Berlin, and into her own long- Raffaella Barker is the author of seven acclaimed novels including the bestselling PAPERbACk / 9781408854150 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408841075 / £7.99 forgotten past. A past buried so deep that she never thought it would resurface ... EbOOk / 9781408833742 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408841068 / £7.99 Hens Dancing and Summertime; she has also written a novel for young adults. She TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wE is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and Harper’s Bazaar and teaches on TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CAPEL & LAND Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her the Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of East Anglia and the career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter- Guardian UEA Novel Writing Masterclass. She lives by the sea in Norfolk. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and seven Liz @raffaellabarker Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 61 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 62 26/08/2014 10:53 The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters Michelle Lovric

‘Michelle Lovric is devilishly clever, fiendishly comic and generally just an irresistible novelist. I delighted in every page’ Elizabeth Gilbert

reland, mid 1800s, the age of the Famine and of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Iwhen Europe burns with a passion for long, flowing hair. So when seven Irish sisters, born into fatherless poverty, grow up with curls cascading down to their ankles, men are not slow to recognise their potential. Riches and fame follow, and a palace in Venice, but the sisters’ dark pasts trail behind them like the tresses on their heads, and success comes at a terrible price ... A bewitching tale of exploitation, sibling rivalry, sexual betrayal and financial skulduggery – and an extraordinary 04 JuNE 2015 luxuriance of exuberant Irish hair. PAPERbACk / 9781408833445 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408833438 / £8.99 TERRITORy: wE Michelle Lovric is the author of four novels – Carnevale, The Floating Book (a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH WHSmith Read of the Week), The Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction) and The Book of Human Skin (a 2011 TV Book Club pick), as well as ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 four children’s books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New York Times bestseller.

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Outlaws Javier Cercas

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

‘One of the best contemporary European novelists’ Scotsman

ne day, in an amusement arcade in Gerona, Ignacio Cañas, a timid, middle- Oclass sixteen-year-old encounters two tearaways: the beautiful Tere and her glamorous boyfriend, El Zarco. Hopelessly in love with Tere, Cañas crosses the border into El Zarco’s dangerous world of booze, drugs and robbery. Twenty- five years later, Tere appears in Cañas’s lawyer’s office, to ask for his professional help, and the three-way love affair begins again. Brilliantly plotted, fast-paced and morally complex, Outlaws firmly establishes Javier Cercas as one of the most rewarding novelists writing anywhere in the world today. 04 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781408844205 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408844212 / £8.99 Javier Cercas is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books have won TERRITORy: wE numerous awards, sold more than a million copies worldwide and been translated TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CARMEN bALCELLS into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona. AGENCy

ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 Anne McLean is the translator of works by Julio Cortázar, Hector Abad and Juan PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Gabriel Vásquez among others. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in Toronto.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 63 26/08/2014 10:53 The True and Splendid History The visitors of the Harristown Sisters Patrick O’keeffe

Michelle Lovric ‘O’Keeffe writes with meticulous plainness about failure, fresh beginnings and the seemingly inescapable consequences of who you are and where you’re from’ ‘Michelle Lovric is devilishly clever, fiendishly comic and generally just an Independent irresistible novelist. I delighted in every page’ Elizabeth Gilbert n a warm July night, a homeless man comes to the door of James’s apartment reland, mid 1800s, the age of the Famine and of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oin a college town in Michigan. Walter has a sunburnt face, smells like dry wood Iwhen Europe burns with a passion for long, flowing hair. So when seven Irish and claims there is an old lady lying in the middle of the road. But when James goes sisters, born into fatherless poverty, grow up with curls cascading down to their to look, there’s nobody to be seen, and he begins to question the stranger’s motives. ankles, men are not slow to recognise their potential. Riches and fame follow, and a palace in Venice, but the sisters’ dark pasts trail behind them like the tresses on Walter’s arrival stirs up memories that James thought he’d left behind in Tipperary. their heads, and success comes at a terrible price ... A bewitching tale of exploitation, Slowly he unearths the long-ago mysteries: what the men in the village were sibling rivalry, sexual betrayal and financial skulduggery – and an extraordinary 04 JuNE 2015 18 JuNE 2015 whispering about, what happened to his Aunt Tess and whether people, especially luxuriance of exuberant Irish hair. PAPERbACk / 9781408833445 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408850886 / £8.99 his nemesis Kevin, ever really change. EbOOk / 9781408833438 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408850817 / £8.99 TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM Michelle Lovric is the author of four novels – Carnevale, The Floating Book (a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE SAyLE AGENCy Patrick O’Keeffe was born and grew up in Co. Limerick, and moved to the US in WHSmith Read of the Week), The Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize his twenties. His first book, The Hill Road was published by Bloomsbury in 2005; for Fiction) and The Book of Human Skin (a 2011 TV Book Club pick), as well as ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 in the USA it won the prestigious Story Prize ahead of such authors as William PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 four children’s books. Her book Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion was a New Boyd, T. C. Boyle, James Salter and Robert Coover. He teaches in the graduate York Times bestseller. creative writing programme at Ohio University. www.michellelovric.com @PatrickOKeefe

Outlaws The Following Girls Javier Cercas Louise Levene

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean ‘Acerbic and gloriously evocative ... Fizzes with cracking one-liners, acute observations and acidic social satire’ Sunday Telegraph ‘One of the best contemporary European novelists’ Scotsman he happiest days of your life? Not for Baker, sixteen and sick of it as she moves ne day, in an amusement arcade in Gerona, Ignacio Cañas, a timid, middle- Tmiserably between lessons packed with palm fibre and the use of the dative. Oclass sixteen-year-old encounters two tearaways: the beautiful Tere and her Baker’s only solace is her fifth-form gang – the Four Mandies – and a low-calorie glamorous boyfriend, El Zarco. Hopelessly in love with Tere, Cañas crosses the diet of king-sized cigarettes, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain border into El Zarco’s dangerous world of booze, drugs and robbery. Twenty- and consummate game player. So begins a passionate friendship that will threaten five years later, Tere appears in Cañas’s lawyer’s office, to ask for his professional her future, menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone help, and the three-way love affair begins again. Brilliantly plotted, fast-paced she holds dear. The Following Girls weaves the minutiae of Seventies girlhood and morally complex, Outlaws firmly establishes Javier Cercas as one of the most into an unsparing tragi-comedy of shrinking horizons, dangerous alliances and rewarding novelists writing anywhere in the world today. 04 JuNE 2015 18 JuNE 2015 not-so-happy families. PAPERbACk / 9781408844205 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408842904 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408844212 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408844328 / £8.99 Javier Cercas is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books have won TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime, numerous awards, sold more than a million copies worldwide and been translated TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CARMEN bALCELLS TRANSLATION RIGHTS: uNITED AGENTS which was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott first novel prize, and Ghastly into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona. AGENCy Business. She has been the dance critic of the Sunday Telegraph since 1998. She ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 lives in London with her husband and their two children. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Anne McLean is the translator of works by Julio Cortázar, Hector Abad and Juan PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Gabriel Vásquez among others. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in Toronto.

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A Memoir ben watt

‘Romany and Tom is the most beguiling book you’ll read all year’ Independent

ommy Watt was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician whose 1950s heyday Ttook him into the glittering heart of London’s West End. Romany Bain was a RADA-trained Shakespearian actress who had triplets in her first marriage before becoming a leading showbiz feature writer. Divorcees from very different backgrounds, they came together like colliding trains in 1957. Both a personal journey and a portrait of Ben Watt’s parents, Romany and Tom is a vivid story of family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. It is about who we are, where we come from, and how we love and live with each other for a long time. 15 JANuARy 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781408845103 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408845264 / £8.99 Ben Watt is a musician, DJ and author. His first book, Patient: The True Story of a TERRITORy: wE Rare Illness was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Sunday Times TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAvID GODwIN Book of the Year. For twenty years he was one half of alt-pop duo Everything But The Girl. He lives in north London with his wife Tracey Thorn and their children. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 @Ben_Watt

Owning the Earth

The Transforming History of Land Ownership Andro Linklater

‘A sprawling political history of the globe’ Scotsman

arely two centuries ago, most of the world’s productive land still belonged Beither communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern was consigned to history by the notion of private ownership of land, which laid waste to traditional communal civilisations, displaced entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom, and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. Owning the Earth offers a radically new view of the evolution of society and politics through the most creative – and, at the same time, 15 JANuARy 2015 destructive – cultural force of the modern era. PAPERbACk / 9781408855430 / £10.99 EbOOk / 9781408824597 / £10.99 TERRITORy: wO Andro Linklater was the author of Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy as well as The Code of Love and several other books. He lived in England. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 65 26/08/2014 10:53 Romany and Tom white beech

A Memoir The Rainforest years ben watt Germaine Greer

‘Romany and Tom is the most beguiling book you’ll read all year’ Independent ‘A powerful account of Greer’s attempt to reverse the calamitous environmental impact of Australian history on one patch of land ... Fascinating’ Evie Wyld, ommy Watt was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician whose 1950s heyday Financial Times Ttook him into the glittering heart of London’s West End. Romany Bain was a RADA-trained Shakespearian actress who had triplets in her first marriage n 2001 Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge: sixty before becoming a leading showbiz feature writer. Divorcees from very different Ihectares of dairy farm in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, backgrounds, they came together like colliding trains in 1957. Both a personal clearing and devastation, had been abandoned to their fate. To have turned down journey and a portrait of Ben Watt’s parents, Romany and Tom is a vivid story of the chance to help these acres of exotic pasture grass, impenetrable curtains of family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. It is about who we are, tangled Lantana canes, and few remaining White Beeches back to health would where we come from, and how we love and live with each other for a long time. 15 JANuARy 2015 29 JANuARy 2015 have been to succumb to despair. When her first replanting shot up to make a PAPERbACk / 9781408845103 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408846735 / £9.99 forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, EbOOk / 9781408845264 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408846704 / £9.99 Ben Watt is a musician, DJ and author. His first book, Patient: The True Story of a TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: wE she knew that at least here biodepletion could be reversed. Rare Illness was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Sunday Times TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAvID GODwIN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AITkEN ALEXANDER Book of the Year. For twenty years he was one half of alt-pop duo Everything But Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist The Girl. He lives in north London with his wife Tracey Thorn and their children. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 NOvEMbER 2014 voice of the mid-twentieth century. From 1998 to 2003 she was Professor of English PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Greer’s ideas @Ben_Watt have created controversy ever since The Female Eunuch became an international bestseller in 1970. She is the author of many other books.

Owning the Earth The Sixth Extinction

The Transforming History of Land Ownership An unnatural History Andro Linklater Elizabeth kolbert

‘A sprawling political history of the globe’ Scotsman ver the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on Oearth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted arely two centuries ago, most of the world’s productive land still belonged to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped Beither communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch out the dinosaurs. or church. But that pattern was consigned to history by the notion of private ownership of land, which laid waste to traditional communal civilisations, Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of researchers, geologists, botanists and displaced entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique marine biologists to tell the stories of a dozen species, including the Panamian concept of individual freedom, and a distinct form of representative government golden frog and the Sumatran rhino, some already gone, others at the point of and democratic institutions. Owning the Earth offers a radically new view of the vanishing. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy and evolution of society and politics through the most creative – and, at the same time, 15 JANuARy 2015 15 JANuARy 2015 compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human. destructive – cultural force of the modern era. PAPERbACk / 9781408855430 / £10.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408851241 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408824597 / £10.99 EbOOk / 9781408851234 / £9.99 TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999. She is the Andro Linklater was the author of Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE RObbINS author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Front-line Report on Climate Change, Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy as well as The Code OFFICE which was based on ‘The Climate of Man’, her three-part series, of Love and several other books. He lived in England. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 FEbRuARy 2015 which won several awards including the 2006 National Magazine PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Award for Public Interest. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 65 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 66 26/08/2014 10:53 The Triple Package

what Really Determines Success Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld

‘If you care at all about the social pressures underpinning success and failure ... you will want to read this’ Sunday Times

t might be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups consistently achieve Idisproportionate levels of success. But why? Drawing on groundbreaking original research and startling statistics, The Triple Package uncovers the secret to their irrefutable success: i) a superiority complex, ii) insecurity, iii) impulse control. Examining these three components, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld explore the motivational drive that leads to the rise of cultural groups and offer lessons that we can all learn from. Provocative and probing, The Triple Package will completely 12 FEbRuARy 2015 transform the way we think about success. PAPERbACk / 9781408852293 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408852224 / £8.99 TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is the author TRANSLATION RIGHTS: wILLIAM MORRIS of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2011. Jed Rubenfeld is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 of Law at Yale Law School. He is also the author of the million copy bestselling The Interpretation of Murder and The Death Instinct.

@amychua

The Nile

Downriver through Egypt’s Past and Present Toby wilkinson

‘His take on ancient and colonial history is impeccable ... Compelling’ Observer

rom Herodotus’s day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the FNile has been Egypt’s heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers now carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – farming and fishing – continues much as it has for millennia. Egypt is a palimpsest – every age has left its trace – and Toby Wilkinson is the perfect guide to understanding the layers past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, 12 FEbRuARy 2015 conservative yet rapidly changing land. PAPERbACk / 9781408843567 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408839935 / £9.99 TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM Toby Wilkinson read Egyptology at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of Clare TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw College. He is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Egyptian History, and the author of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (2010) which ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. He is currently Head of the International Strategy Office at the University of Cambridge and lives in Suffolk.

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 67 26/08/2014 10:53 The Triple Package Two Turtle Doves what Really Determines Success A Memoir of Making Things Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld Alex Monroe

‘If you care at all about the social pressures underpinning success and failure ‘This is a tremendous book. A generous story of making, looking, travelling ... you will want to read this’ Sunday Times and growing up’ Edmund de Waal t might be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups consistently achieve rowing up in 1970s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild gardens, Idisproportionate levels of success. But why? Drawing on groundbreaking original GAlex Monroe was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental research and startling statistics, The Triple Package uncovers the secret to their influence, but with sisters to love him and brothers to fight for him, he made nature irrefutable success: i) a superiority complex, ii) insecurity, iii) impulse control. into his world. Creation became a compulsion, whether it was go-carts and guns, Examining these three components, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld explore the booby-traps, boats, bikes or scooters. And then, of course, it was jewellery. From motivational drive that leads to the rise of cultural groups and offer lessons that full-out warfare waged against the local schoolboys to the most intricate designs we can all learn from. Provocative and probing, The Triple Package will completely 12 FEbRuARy 2015 26 FEbRuARy 2015 for necklaces and earrings, Two Turtle Doves is about where we find our creativity, transform the way we think about success. PAPERbACk / 9781408852293 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408841204 / £8.99 how we remember and why we make the things we do. EbOOk / 9781408852224 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408841198 / £8.99 TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM TERRITORy: wE Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is the author TRANSLATION RIGHTS: wILLIAM MORRIS TRANSLATION RIGHTS: GRAHAM MAw Alex Monroe grew up in rural Suffolk and showed a keen interest in art and design of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 CHRISTIE from an early age. Alex trained at Sir John Cass School of Art in Whitechapel. He most influential people in 2011. Jed Rubenfeld is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 set up his business in South London in 1986 and Alex Monroe Jewellery is now an PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 of Law at Yale Law School. He is also the author of the million copy bestselling The PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 iconic and internationally successful brand. Interpretation of Murder and The Death Instinct. www.alexmonroe.com @amychua

The Nile Inside a Pearl

Downriver through Egypt’s Past and Present My years in Paris Toby wilkinson Edmund white

‘His take on ancient and colonial history is impeccable ... Compelling’ Observer ‘A glittering, delicious, tender and funny memoir about his fifteen years in Paris’ New York Times rom Herodotus’s day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the FNile has been Egypt’s heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its hen Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, he was forty-three years old, economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Wspoke no French and knew just two people in the whole city. But he soon Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture, and by the time steamers now carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which he left, fifteen years later, he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and rural life – farming and fishing – continues much as it has for millennia. Egypt television, and had made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves St Laurent to is a palimpsest – every age has left its trace – and Toby Wilkinson is the perfect Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. Edmund White has always written about guide to understanding the layers past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, 12 FEbRuARy 2015 26 FEbRuARy 2015 the rewards of friendship, and never more poignantly than in this tribute to a conservative yet rapidly changing land. PAPERbACk / 9781408843567 / £9.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408837764 / £9.99 fascinating woman and her city. EbOOk / 9781408839935 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408837863 / £9.99 TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM TERRITORy: wE Toby Wilkinson read Egyptology at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of Clare TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM Edmund White is the author of many novels including the classic A Boy’s Own College. He is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Story and most recently, Jack Holmes and His Friend; two previous memoirs, My Egyptian History, and the author of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (2010) which ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 Lives and New York Boy; biographies of Jean Genet, Marcel Proust and Arthur PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. He is currently Head of the International Rimbaud; and several other works of non-fiction, including The Flâneur. He lives Strategy Office at the University of Cambridge and lives in Suffolk. in New York City and teaches writing at Princeton University.

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Philby and the Great betrayal ben Macintyre

‘An unputdownable postwar thriller whose every incredible detail is fact not fiction’ Observer

im Philby is perhaps the most notorious British defector in history. He betrayed Kevery secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby’s two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, it unlocks what is perhaps the 12 MARCH 2015 last great secret of the Cold War. PAPERbACk / 9781408851784 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408851746 / £8.99 TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He is the author TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ED vICTOR of nine books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, the number ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 one bestseller Operation Mincemeat and, most recently, the Richard & Judy Book Club selection, Double Cross. He lives in London.

beasts

what Animals Can Teach us About the Origins of Good and Evil Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

‘A compelling look at what animals at the top of the food chain can teach us about anger, aggression and the history of human violence’ BBC Wildlife

nimals, at least predators, kill to survive, but animal aggression is not even Aremotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. Humans are the most violent animals to our own kind in existence. We lack what all other animals have: a check on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. In Beasts, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson brings to life the richness of the animal world and strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and 12 MARCH 2015 compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression. PAPERbACk / 9781620400746 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408833490 / £8.99 TERRITORy: wO Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of numerous bestselling books on animal TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with his family. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

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Philby and the Great betrayal A Pocketbook for the bride-to-be ben Macintyre Francesca beauman

‘An unputdownable postwar thriller whose every incredible detail is fact not ‘A wry guide to surviving the big day’ Marie Claire fiction’ Observer ithin these pages you will find everything you need to know (and a few things im Philby is perhaps the most notorious British defector in history. He betrayed Wyou don’t) in order to take the daring leap that is a modern marriage: from Kevery secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold the frivolous to the deeply serious, from the cultural to the historical, from the War. Philby’s two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 physics of the marital bed and the marriage customs of the Na people of China to and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby celebrity wedding dress designers and the etiquette of the bathroom. True, you better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a may not ever need to know the names of all of Elizabeth Taylor’s spouses or how story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience. With access to newly to say ‘My husband’ in Norwegian, but isn’t it fabulous that you do? released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, it unlocks what is perhaps the 12 MARCH 2015 12 MARCH 2015 last great secret of the Cold War. PAPERbACk / 9781408851784 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408843475 / £8.99 Francesca Beauman is a historian, journalist and television presenter. She is the EbOOk / 9781408851746 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408841426 / £8.99 TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM TERRITORy: COMM/Eu EXCAN, OM author of The Pineapple, The Woman’s Book, Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: A History of Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He is the author TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ED vICTOR TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONvILLE & wALSH the Lonely Hearts Ad and How to Crack an Egg with One Hand: A Pocketbook for of nine books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award the New Mother. She lives in London and Los Angeles and is married with two and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, the number ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 young children. PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 one bestseller Operation Mincemeat and, most recently, the Richard & Judy Book Club selection, Double Cross. He lives in London. beasts Overwhelmed what Animals Can Teach us About the Origins of work, Love and Play when No One Has the Time Good and Evil brigid Schulte Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ‘Startling ... May well do for time-poor workers what Lean In has done for guilt- ‘A compelling look at what animals at the top of the food chain can teach us about ridden working mums’ Evening Standard anger, aggression and the history of human violence’ BBC Wildlife rigid Schulte has baked cupcakes until 2 a.m., carried her BlackBerry on school nimals, at least predators, kill to survive, but animal aggression is not even Bfield trips, then gone back to work until 4 a.m. after her children were in bed. Aremotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. Humans are the most violent Like so many of us, she began to question whether it is possible to be anything you animals to our own kind in existence. We lack what all other animals have: a check want to be, have a family and still have time to breathe. In Overwhelmed, Schulte on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. In Beasts, maps the individual, historical and societal stresses that have ripped working Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson brings to life the richness of the animal world and mothers’ and fathers’ leisure to shreds, and embarks on a quest to put the pieces strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and 12 MARCH 2015 12 MARCH 2015 back together. This is a game-changing look at time, frenetic families and the search compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression. PAPERbACk / 9781620400746 / £8.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408849453 / £8.99 for an elusive moment of peace. EbOOk / 9781408833490 / £8.99 EbOOk / 9781408826690 / £8.99 TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of numerous bestselling books on animal TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AbNER STEIN Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and the emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep. He Washington Post Magazine. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she has won lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with his family. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 APRIL 2015 numerous writing awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Alexandria, PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Virginia, with her two children, Liam and Tessa, and her husband, Tom Bowman, Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio.

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Harnessing the Power of India’s unruly Democracy Simon Denyer

A gripping portrait of India today and an investigation into where the world’s fastest-growing country is heading

imon Denyer investigates the conflicts at the heart of the world’s most populous Sdemocracy, from its history of inherent greed to the rise of popular movements against corruption. Through original interviews with influential figures both inside and outside the government, Denyer exposes the battle taking place for a functioning democracy. Rogue Elephant paints a vivid and comprehensive picture of India today; of those with the power to affect that change and those driven to fight for it, of the tensions splitting the country, of the possible futures that await 26 MARCH 2015 it and of what may happen if the people cannot control its runaway power. PAPERbACk / 9781408849798 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408849781 / £9.99 TERRITORy: wE Simon Denyer studied Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has worked TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONvILLE & wALSH as a Reuters correspondent in numerous countries around the world, including Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, covering the 2004 Indian general election and the ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Asian tsunami. He has just moved to Beijing to become the Washington Post’s China Bureau Chief, and is President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia.

@simondenyer

The valley

A Hundred years in the Life of a Mining Family Richard benson

‘Intensely enjoyable, rich in quirks of social history and sizzling with the antagonisms only families generate ... Benson’s writing is a constant pleasure’ Sunday Times

he close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations Tof the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson’s great-grandmother Winnie’s ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the family’s attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat. Against a backdrop 26 MARCH 2015 of underground explosions, strikes and pit closures, these are deeply personal PAPERbACk / 9781408831632 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408834169 / £9.99 stories of man’s world sustained by strong women; of growing up, and the power TERRITORy: COMM/uk, OM of love and imagination to transform lives. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAvID GODwIN

Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller, The Farm, shortlisted ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 for the Guardian First Book Award 2005, a 2006 Richard & Judy Book Club choice and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He lives in London.

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Harnessing the Power of India’s unruly Democracy Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil war Simon Denyer Amanda vaill

A gripping portrait of India today and an investigation into where the world’s ‘Amanda Vaill has produced a work that is by turns gripping and heartbreaking, fastest-growing country is heading and utterly compelling’ Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana imon Denyer investigates the conflicts at the heart of the world’s most populous n a country in the throes of a civil war that many fear will engulf Europe, six Sdemocracy, from its history of inherent greed to the rise of popular movements Ipeople meet in besieged Madrid’s Hotel Florida. Amanda Vaill traces the tangled against corruption. Through original interviews with influential figures both wartime destinies of three couples – Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, inside and outside the government, Denyer exposes the battle taking place for a photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, and Arturo Barea, chief of Madrid’s functioning democracy. Rogue Elephant paints a vivid and comprehensive picture foreign press office, and his wife-to-be Ilsa Kulcsar. Drawing on unpublished letters of India today; of those with the power to affect that change and those driven to and diaries, official documents and recovered reels of film, she creates a brilliant fight for it, of the tensions splitting the country, of the possible futures that await 26 MARCH 2015 26 MARCH 2015 portrait of the conflict that defined a decade. Hotel Florida is a narrative of love, it and of what may happen if the people cannot control its runaway power. PAPERbACk / 9781408849798 / £9.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408833896 / £9.99 reinvention and truth: finding it, telling it and, if luck holds, living it. EbOOk / 9781408849781 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408833889 / £9.99 TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM Simon Denyer studied Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has worked TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONvILLE & wALSH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: FARRAR, STRAuSS Amanda Vaill is the bestselling author of Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara as a Reuters correspondent in numerous countries around the world, including & GIROuX Murphy – A Lost Generation Love Story, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, covering the 2004 Indian general election and the ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 Asian tsunami. He has just moved to Beijing to become the Washington Post’s China PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and on which subject she wrote an Bureau Chief, and is President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia. award-winning documentary. She lives in New York City.

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The valley Farmageddon

A Hundred years in the Life of a Mining Family The True Cost of Cheap Meat Richard benson Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott

‘Intensely enjoyable, rich in quirks of social history and sizzling with the ‘This eye-opening book, urging a massive rethink of how we raise livestock and antagonisms only families generate ... Benson’s writing is a constant pleasure’ how we feed the world, deserves global recognition’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Sunday Times n the post-war years there was a humanitarian desire to feed people effectively he close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations Iand cheaply. But now the insidious creep of industrial agriculture, powered by Tof the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson’s great-grandmother the remorseless drive to get more for less, has taken hold. Farm animals have Winnie’s ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, slowly disappeared from fields; the countryside is turning to wildlife desert, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and and mysterious and potentially deadly viruses have entered our food chain. banter as the family’s attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves Farmageddon is a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat. Against a backdrop 26 MARCH 2015 26 MARCH 2015 practices. Philip Lymbery takes an investigative journey behind the closed doors of underground explosions, strikes and pit closures, these are deeply personal PAPERbACk / 9781408831632 / £9.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408846346 / £9.99 of a runaway industry and strives to find a way to a better farming future. EbOOk / 9781408834169 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408846421 / £9.99 stories of man’s world sustained by strong women; of growing up, and the power TERRITORy: COMM/uk, OM TERRITORy: wO of love and imagination to transform lives. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAvID GODwIN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm welfare organisation, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller, The Farm, shortlisted ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 industrial farming. PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 for the Guardian First Book Award 2005, a 2006 Richard & Judy Book Club choice and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He lives in London. Formerly Political Editor at the Sunday Times, Isabel Oakeshott is a regular commentator on TV and radio, including BBC One’s Sunday Politics and the Today programme on Radio 4.

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How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life Alex bellos

‘Brings the quirks and eccentricities of numbers wonderfully to life’ Observer

rom triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded 09 APRIL 2015 Fcalculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his PAPERbACk / 9781408845721 / £8.99 signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey EbOOk / 9781408845752 / £8.99 TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, and meets a mathematician TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANkLOw & NESbIT who looks for universes in his garage. Get hooked on maths, as Alex delves deep into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 shaped the world we live in. PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. Curator-in-residence at the Science Museum and the Guardian’s maths blogger, he has worked in London and Rio de Janeiro, as the paper’s unusually numerate foreign correspondent. Alex’s Adventures in Numberland was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize and was a Sunday Times bestseller for more than four months.

www.alexbellos.com / @alexbellos

Pondlife

A Swimmer’s Journal Al Alvarez

‘A beautiful incantation to life at its simplest and best’ Philip Roth

he ponds of Hampstead Heath are fragments of nature nestled in north London. TFor the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist and poker player – has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his eighties, chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and honesty – from his nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles with the council to keep his disabled person’s Blue Badge, to the devastating effects of a stroke. Funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love and the importance of life’s small pleasures. 09 APRIL 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781408841020 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408841013 / £9.99 Al Alvarez is a poet, novelist, literary critic and author of non-fiction books on TERRITORy: wO topics ranging from suicide, divorce and dreams – The Savage God, Life After TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Marriage, Night – to poker and mountaineering – The Biggest Game in Town and Feeding The Rat. His most recent books are The Writer’s Voice and Risky Business. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 He lives in north London.

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Alex bellos ‘Deftly, Pizzichini weaves personal history with social reportage to create an exquisitely written chronicle of narcotically-induced mischief and madness’ ‘Brings the quirks and eccentricities of numbers wonderfully to life’ Observer Spectator rom triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded 09 APRIL 2015 n 2007, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Grand Fcalculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his PAPERbACk / 9781408845721 / £8.99 IUnion Canal. Her plan is to learn more about her working-class London forebears, signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey EbOOk / 9781408845752 / £8.99 but as her ancestors begin to take root in her head, Lilian is pulled into a strange TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, and meets a mathematician TRANSLATION RIGHTS: JANkLOw & NESbIT netherworld of drink, drugs, vagrant neighbours and criminals. Pete, an ex-burglar, who looks for universes in his garage. Get hooked on maths, as Alex delves deep brings her heroin and bags of pills and they lose consciousness on a regular basis. into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 23 APRIL 2015 But addiction has a relentless appetite and Lilian soon realises that, just like her shaped the world we live in. PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408835371 / £9.99 boat, she is sinking and must try to pull herself back. EbOOk / 9781408835364 / £9.99 TERRITORy: COMM/Eu, OM Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ANNETTE GREEN Lilian Pizzichini’s first book, Dead Men’s Wages won the 2002 CWA Gold Dagger Curator-in-residence at the Science Museum and the Guardian’s maths blogger, AGENCy for non-fiction. Her second, The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys, was published he has worked in London and Rio de Janeiro, as the paper’s unusually numerate in 2009 to critical acclaim. Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 foreign correspondent. Alex’s Adventures in Numberland was shortlisted for the BBC PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 the Times Literary Supplement and as writer-in-residence at a prison. She lives Samuel Johnson Prize and was a Sunday Times bestseller for more than four months. in London. www.alexbellos.com / @alexbellos

Pondlife The Disinherited

A Swimmer’s Journal A Story of Family, Love and betrayal Al Alvarez Robert Sackville-west

‘A beautiful incantation to life at its simplest and best’ Philip Roth ‘Stranger than fiction, but twice as fascinating, and leaving behind it a sense of bittersweet sympathy’ Lucy Worsley he ponds of Hampstead Heath are fragments of nature nestled in north London. TFor the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist and poker player n the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in – has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his Oa sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had eighties, chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and honesty – from his shot himself minutes after the death of his wife from cancer; Henry’s suicidal nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles despair had been driven equally by the failure of his claim to be the legitimate with the council to keep his disabled person’s Blue Badge, to the devastating effects son of Lord Sackville and heir to Knole. The Disinherited reveals the secrets and of a stroke. Funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love and the lies at the heart of an English dynasty, unravelling the parallel lives of Henry’s four importance of life’s small pleasures. 09 APRIL 2015 23 APRIL 2015 illegitimate siblings: in particular his older sister, Victoria, who on becoming Lady PAPERbACk / 9781408841020 / £9.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408843406 / £9.99 Sackville and mistress of Knole, by marriage, consigned her brothers and sisters EbOOk / 9781408841013 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408843413 / £9.99 Al Alvarez is a poet, novelist, literary critic and author of non-fiction books on TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wO to lives of poverty and disappointment. topics ranging from suicide, divorce and dreams – The Savage God, Life After TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Marriage, Night – to poker and mountaineering – The Biggest Game in Town and After studying History at Oxford University, Robert Sackville-West founded Toucan Feeding The Rat. His most recent books are The Writer’s Voice and Risky Business. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 Books in 1985. He chairs Knole Estates, the property and investment company PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 He lives in north London. which runs the Sackville family’s interests at Knole. In 2008, he and his wife and three children moved into the house, which has been occupied by the Sackville family for 400 years. His history of Knole and the Sackville family, Inheritance, was published in 2010.

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‘Unspeakable Things is essential for anybody who truly believes in equality and freedom’ Irvine Welsh

mart, clear-eyed and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender Sand power in the twenty-first century which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental health, queer politics and the Internet. Laurie Penny draws on her own experience in radical subcultures in Britain and America to debate cultural phenomena from economic justice and the Occupy movement, through eating disorders and social 07 MAy 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781408857694 / £9.99 control, to online dating and freedom of speech. A new sexual counter-revolution EbOOk / 9781408826089 / £9.99 is under way – and it’s up to us to fight for the future. TERRITORy: wO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Laurie Penny is Contributing Editor at the New Statesman and Editor-at-Large at ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 cult New York literary project The New Inquiry. She was the youngest person to PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for her blog ‘Penny Red’ which, like her first feminist book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, was a word-of-mouth hit. She has 75,000 followers on Twitter.

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war and Gold

A Five-Hundred-year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt kwasi kwarteng

‘Enormously entertaining ... So engagingly written that readers of all political persuasions should enjoy it’ Sunday Times

n the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast Iquantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, plunged into multiple wars, would 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. Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial 07 MAy 2015 debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a PAPERbACk / 9781408831687 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408848173 / £9.99 compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world. TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CAPEL & LAND Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and was elected as the Member of Parliament for ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Spelthorne in Surrey. His first book, Ghosts of Empire, was published to critical acclaim in 2011.

www.kwart2010.com / @kwasikwarteng

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 75 26/08/2014 10:53 unspeakable Things A Curious Career Jon Cartwri © Sex, Lies and Revolution Lynn barber

Laurie Penny ‘A riot of a read – funny, irreverent, artlessly frank’ Guardian

‘Unspeakable Things is essential for anybody who truly believes in equality and rom her early career at Penthouse to profiling eminent subjects including Gore freedom’ Irvine Welsh FVidal, Lady Gaga, James Stewart and Dirk Bogarde, Lynn Barber has always been at the forefront of the interviewing life. This glorious memoir, a sequel of sorts to mart, clear-eyed and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender her acclaimed An Education, is full of anecdotes and bursting with transcripts of Sand power in the twenty-first century which asks difficult questions about career highlights. In her inimitable frank and witty voice, A Curious Career opens dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental a fascinating window on to an extraordinary career, the inner worlds of people in health, queer politics and the Internet. Laurie Penny draws on her own experience the limelight, and on the world of journalism itself. in radical subcultures in Britain and America to debate cultural phenomena from economic justice and the Occupy movement, through eating disorders and social 07 MAy 2015 Lynn Barber has won six British Press Awards. She read English Literature at PAPERbACk / 9781408857694 / £9.99 07 MAy 2015 control, to online dating and freedom of speech. A new sexual counter-revolution EbOOk / 9781408826089 / £9.99 Oxford, worked for Penthouse magazine, the Sunday Express, Independent on PAPERbACk / 9781408837214 / £9.99 is under way – and it’s up to us to fight for the future. TERRITORy: wO Sunday, Vanity Fair, Observer, and now works for the Sunday Times. Her books EbOOk / 9781408837207 / £9.99 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TERRITORy: wE include two collections of interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber. Her memoir, Laurie Penny is Contributing Editor at the New Statesman and Editor-at-Large at TRANSLATION RIGHTS: RCw An Education, was made into a major film starring Carey Mulligan. She lives in ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MAy 2015 cult New York literary project The New Inquiry. She was the youngest person to PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 north London. be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for her blog ‘Penny Red’ ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 which, like her first feminist book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, @lynnbaba was a word-of-mouth hit. She has 75,000 followers on Twitter.

@pennyred war and Gold women of the world

A Five-Hundred-year History of Empires, Adventures The Rise of the Female Diplomat and Debt Helen McCarthy kwasi kwarteng ‘Carefully researched, stylishly written and highly entertaining history’ Sunday ‘Enormously entertaining ... So engagingly written that readers of all political Telegraph persuasions should enjoy it’ Sunday Times hroughout history, hundreds of British women defied social conventions to n the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast Tseek adventure and influence on the world stage. Yet until 1946, when after Iquantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, decades of campaigning and the heroic labours performed by women during the plunged into multiple wars, would lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, Second World War diplomatic careers were finally opened to both sexes, no British historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history woman could officially represent her nation abroad. This is their story of personal has been echoed many times, from the French Revolution to both World Wars, and professional struggle played out against the dramatic backdrop of war, super- right up to the present day. Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial 07 MAy 2015 21 MAy 2015 power rivalry and global transformation. Drawing on letters, memoirs, personal debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a PAPERbACk / 9781408831687 / £9.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408837801 / £9.99 interviews and government records, these heroines are brought vividly to life to EbOOk / 9781408848173 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408840047 / £9.99 compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world. TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM TERRITORy: wO enrich our understanding of Britain’s global history. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CAPEL & LAND TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History Helen McCarthy is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London. from Cambridge University and was elected as the Member of Parliament for ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 She studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University, PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Spelthorne in Surrey. His first book, Ghosts of Empire, was published to critical before earning her PhD from the University of London. She lives in east London acclaim in 2011. with her husband and two daughters. www.kwart2010.com / @kwasikwarteng

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A Life Rachel Holmes

‘Superb ... I doubt the reader will close this brilliant biography unmoved by this extraordinary woman’s life’ Jeanette Winterson, Daily Telegraph

leanor Marx’s life is packed with extraordinary achievements: she was the first to Ebring Ibsen to a British public, to translate Mme Bovary, to create the biography of her father Karl. But foremost amongst these was her strong, pioneering feminism. For Eleanor Marx, sexual equality was a necessary precondition for a just society and social contract. Not since Mary Wollstonecraft had any individual made such a profound contribution to British political thought and action. Rachel Holmes has gone back to original sources to create a life of the nineteenth-century woman 21 MAy 2015 who did more than any other to transform British politics, and who was unafraid PAPERbACk / 9781408852897 / £10.99 EbOOk / 9781408843239 / £10.99 to live her contradictions. TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP wATT 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 of Fifty Shades ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 of Feminism and co-commissioning editor of Sixty-Six Books. She lives in Gloucestershire.

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

n 1944 a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general Ion the Nazi-occupied island of Crete. 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 take the general to Cairo. In Kidnap in Crete, Rick Stroud reveals the devastating consequences of this mission. There have been other accounts, but this is the first to draw on all the sources, including SOE files, letters and private papers. 04 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / 9781408851791 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408851760 / £9.99 Rick Stroud is a film and television director, whose credits include Brideshead TERRITORy: wO Revisited and Monarch of the Glen. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy The Phantom Army of Alamein and co-author with Victor Gregg of Rifleman and King’s Cross Kid. He lives on a houseboat in Chelsea, London. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99

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A Life Ten Great buildings and the People They Made Rachel Holmes Tom wilkinson

‘Superb ... I doubt the reader will close this brilliant biography unmoved by this ‘Lively and quirky … It’s hard to imagine a history of buildings’ design being extraordinary woman’s life’ Jeanette Winterson, Daily Telegraph such good fun’ The Times leanor Marx’s life is packed with extraordinary achievements: she was the first to e don’t just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the Ebring Ibsen to a British public, to translate Mme Bovary, to create the biography Wspaces we inhabit. We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy of her father Karl. But foremost amongst these was her strong, pioneering feminism. and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create and destroy it. These aspects of buildings – For Eleanor Marx, sexual equality was a necessary precondition for a just society economic, erotic, political and psychological – are crucial if we are to understand and social contract. Not since Mary Wollstonecraft had any individual made such architecture properly. And understanding architecture helps us to understand our a profound contribution to British political thought and action. Rachel Holmes lives and our world. Through ten great buildings across the world Tom Wilkinson has gone back to original sources to create a life of the nineteenth-century woman 21 MAy 2015 04 JuNE 2015 reveals the powerful and intimate relationship between society and architecture who did more than any other to transform British politics, and who was unafraid PAPERbACk / 9781408852897 / £10.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408843673 / £9.99 and asks: can architecture change our lives for the better? EbOOk / 9781408843239 / £10.99 EbOOk / 9781408843680 / £9.99 to live her contradictions. TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN, OM TERRITORy: wE & GERMAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP wATT TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PFD Tom Wilkinson is writing a doctoral thesis on art history at University College Rachel Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot London, where he teaches an undergraduate course on architectural history. He Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor of Fifty Shades ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 has lectured on the history of art and architecture at the Courtauld Gallery and the PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 of Feminism and co-commissioning editor of Sixty-Six Books. She lives in University of Oxford. He has lived in Shanghai and Berlin and now lives in London. Gloucestershire. kidnap in Crete Packing up

The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse Rick Stroud brigid keenan

The extraordinary story of the kidnapping of a Nazi general in World War Two ‘A complete delight ... Can make you laugh out loud three or four times a page’ by Patrick Leigh Fermor and the SOE Mail on Sunday n 1944 a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general rigid Keenan is nearing the end of her career as a diplomatic wife or ‘trailing Ion the Nazi-occupied island of Crete. For thirty-two days they were chased across Bspouse’, now in Kazakhstan, where the local delicacy is horse meat and her the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy mere presence in one market place leads to a full-scale riot. But as the prospect of launch waiting to take the general to Cairo. In Kidnap in Crete, Rick Stroud reveals retirement looms for her husband AW, Brigid finds herself on the cusp of a whole the devastating consequences of this mission. There have been other accounts, new world – this time navigating the planning of both her daughters’ weddings, but this is the first to draw on all the sources, including SOE files, letters and getting a crash course in grandmotherhood and coping with her cancer diagnosis. private papers. 04 JuNE 2015 04 JuNE 2015 But packing up doesn’t mean packing in, and Brigid discovers that moving home PAPERbACk / 9781408851791 / £9.99 PAPERbACk / 9781408846926 / £8.99 and retiring harmoniously could just be her biggest challenge yet … EbOOk / 9781408851760 / £9.99 EbOOk / 9781408846919 / £8.99 Rick Stroud is a film and television director, whose credits include Brideshead TERRITORy: wO TERRITORy: wE Revisited and Monarch of the Glen. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAvID GODwIN Brigid Keenan is an author and journalist. She has worked as an editor on Nova The Phantom Army of Alamein and co-author with Victor Gregg of Rifleman and magazine, the Observer and the Sunday Times. She has published two fashion King’s Cross Kid. He lives on a houseboat in Chelsea, London. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 histories as well as Travels in Kashmir, Damascus and the bestselling Diplomatic PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 Baggage, and is a founding board member of the Palestine Festival of Literature. She lives in Pimlico, London, and Somerset.

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The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA E.G. vallianatos with Mckay Jenkins

illions of pounds of approved synthetic substances are dumped into the Menvironment every day. They seep into our water supply, are carried thousands of miles by wind and rain and remain potent long after they are deposited. All of these poisons are sanctioned – or in some cases, ignored – by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Half a century after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, we are poisoning our lands and waters with more toxic chemicals than ever. Poison Spring provides a devastating exposé of how the agency created to protect the environment has betrayed its mission.

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Junkyard Planet

Travels in the billion-Dollar Trash Trade Adam Minter

‘It’s an odd sort of compliment to say a book is a load of rubbish, but Adam Minter’s terrific Junkyard Planet is just that’ Irish Times

hen you drop your Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, Wwhere does it go? In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment. He takes us from back-alley Chinese computer recycling operations to high-tech facilities capable of processing a jumbo jet’s worth of recyclable trash every day. With unmatched access to and insight on the junk trade, it is an engaging, colourful, and sometimes troubling tale of consumption, innovation, and the ascent 11 JuNE 2015 of a developing world. PAPERbACk / 9781608197934 / £12.99 EbOOk / 9781608197927 / £12.99 TERRITORy: wE Adam Minter grew up in a family of scrap dealers in Minneapolis. He became TRANSLATION RIGHTS: wENDy SHERMAN a professional journalist and now serves as the Shanghai correspondent for ASSOCIATES Bloomberg World View, in addition to making regular contributions to the Atlantic, ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuLy 2015 Foreign Policy, and other publications. He now lives in Shanghai and blogs at PAPERbACk / AuS $19.99 / NZ $24.99 shanghaiscrap.com. Junkyard Planet is his first book.

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The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA ALL TRADE ORDERS TO: UK AREA MANAGERS Macmillan Distribution E.G. vallianatos with Mckay Jenkins Houndmills, Basingstoke, SOUTH WEST, SOUTH WALES, MIDLANDS & EASTERN COUNTIES Hants RG21 6XS OXFORDSHIRE & HAMPSHIRE Max Bridgewater David Simm Tel: +44 (0)1858 555 682 illions of pounds of approved synthetic substances are dumped into the Home: Tel: +44 (0)1256 302 692 Fax: +44 (0)1256 812 521 Tel: +44 (0)7714 849 550 Email: [email protected] Menvironment every day. They seep into our water supply, are carried thousands Export: Tel: +44 (0)1256 329 242 Email: [email protected] of miles by wind and rain and remain potent long after they are deposited. All of Fax: +44 (0)1256 842 084 NORTH ENGLAND, NORTH WALES these poisons are sanctioned – or in some cases, ignored – by the US Environmental [email protected] CITY OF LONDON, NORTHERN & SCOTLAND Terry Lee Protection Agency. Half a century after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, we are & EASTERN HOME COUNTIES Robin Birch Tel: +44 (0)7802 617 672 poisoning our lands and waters with more toxic chemicals than ever. Poison Spring Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Tel: +44 (0)7775 891 729 Email: [email protected] provides a devastating exposé of how the agency created to protect the environment 50 Bedford Square, Email: [email protected] has betrayed its mission. London, WC1B 3DP IRELAND Tel: +44 (0)207 631 5600 CENTRAL LONDON & Louise Dobbin Fax: +44 (0)207 631 5800 SOUTHERN HOME COUNTIES RepForce Ireland E.G. Vallianatos is the author of five books, including Harvest of Devastation and 07 MAy 2015 www.bloomsbury.com David Foy Tel: (+353 1)634 9927 This Land is their Land. He worked in risk evaluation at the EPA for twenty-five PAPERbACk / 9781608199266 / £12.99 Tel: +44 (0)7824 435 717 Email: [email protected] EbOOk / 9781608199259 / £12.99 years and lives in California. Email: [email protected] TERRITORy: wE SALES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: STRAuS LITERARy Deirdre O’Connell McKay Jenkins’ most recent book was What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a UK Sales Executive BLOOMSBURY INTERNATIONAL SALES TEAM ANZ Pub DATE: 01 JuNE 2015 Toxic World, was hailed as ‘a Silent Spring for the human body’. He lives in Delaware. Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 5904 50 Bedford Square, PAPERbACk / AuS $24.99 / NZ $29.99 Email: [email protected] London WC1B 3DP UK

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BLOOMSBURY OFFICES WORLDWIDE A D H Joanna Vallance Addicted to Adventure 47 Danish Dynamite 46 Half-time 49 International Sales Manager Tel: +44 (0)207 6315919 Alex Through the Looking- Darjeeling Quartet, The 27 Harder They Come, The 14 Mobile: +44 (0)7725 218296 Glass 73 Detox Kitchen Bible, The 36 Harry Mount’s Odyssey 29 Email: [email protected] All Saints’ Day Lovers, The 15 Disinherited, The 74 Hidden Light of Objects, The 61 BLOOMSBURY USA AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND INDIA, SRI LANKA & BANGLEDESH Alone 50 Doug White Bloomsbury Publishing Pty Ltd Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd Don’t Let Him Know 4 Higher Form of Killing, A 23 Another Little Piece of My Bloomsbury Publishing Level 4 Ground Floor, Vishrut Building Dreamland 28 Hinault 51 1385 Broadway, 5th floor 387 George St DDA Complex, Pocket C-6&7 Heart 25 New York, NY10018 Sydney 2000 NSW Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070 History of the Rain 60 At Hawthorn Time 12 USA Australia India E Hollow Mountain 59 Tel: +61 2 8820 4900 Tel: +91 11 04057 4957 Atoms Under the Floorboards 32 Tel: +212 419 5407 Edward Thomas 21 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Holy Sail, The 14 Eleanor Marx 77 www.bloomsburyanz.com B Hotel Florida 72 English Spring, An 52 Backstabbers and Bullies 42 How to Wear White 70

Bamboo Stalk, The 6 F How to Win Every Argument 21 AGENTS & REPRESENTATIVES WORLDWIDE Beasts 69 Fall of the House of Wilde, The 26 I SOUTH AFRICA LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN Benares Cookbook, The 37 Farmageddon 72 Jonathan Ball Shanta Inshiqaq Improbability of Love, The 12 Office B4, The District, International Sales Bill Oddie Unplucked 33 Faster 44 41 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, 1385 Broadway, 5th floor In Manchuria 31 Blood Ransom 47 Cape Town, South Africa, 7925 New York, NY10018 Few and Far Between 34 Tel No: +27 21 469 8900 USA Inside a Pearl 68 Breakfast Bible, The 36 Fax to Email: 086 270 0825 Tel: +1 212 419 5343 Field of the Cloth of Gold, The 11 Intelligent Person’s Guide to Email: [email protected] Bricks & Mortals 78 Fish Ladder, The 19 Education, An 31 SPAIN & PORTUGAL Burning Gates, The 5 Penguin Books S.A. THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA Following Girls, The 64 Intimate Bond, The 26 Glorieta de Quevedo, 9–7ºC (EXCLUDING UAE) 28015 Madrid, Spain Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing C From a Distance 61 Tel: +3491 593 1306 Qatar Foundation J Fax: +3491 593 4711 Villa 3, Education City Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions 41 Email: [email protected] PO Box 5825 G Junkyard Planet 79 Doha, Qatar Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ Celeste, Tel: +974 44542431 Gallipoli 22 ITALY The 7 K Penguin Books S.A. Email: [email protected] Game, Set and Match 48 Chaos of the Senses 3 Via Archimede 10 Kaleidoscope City 20 Ghost Runner, The 55 20129 Milano, Italy Chasing the Scream 17 Kidnap in Crete 77 Tel. +28 976 9353 Giraffe’s Neck, The 58 Email: [email protected] Children of the Stone 32 Kindness, The 8 Girl From Human Street, The 18 Clean Break, A 43 Girl in the Dark 22 Close Call 62 M Girl in the Ice, The 16 Coming Out Christian in the Managing for Success 42 God in Every Stone, A 57 Roman World 53 MasterChef: The Masters 37 God is an Astronaut 54 Contemplative Prayer 53 Mime Order, The 3 Guest at the Shooters’ Coup de Foudre 16 Miss Carter’s War 56 Banquet, A 27 Crooked Maid, The 54 Monopolists, The 25 Cuckoo 33 Monuments, The 43 Curious Career, A 76 Mr Mojo 24 Music Night at the Apollo 74

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TradeAdult_6.0.indd 81 26/08/2014 10:53 TradeAdult_6.0.indd 82 26/08/2014 10:53 N Secret Life and Curious Vera Brittain and the First Afterlife of Seashells, The 35 World War 17 Nell McAndrew’s Guide to Running 48 She Will Build Him a City 6 Visitors, The 64 New History of Life, A 20 Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins 13 W Nile, The 67 Sidney Chambers and The Wake Up Happy Every Day 55 No Country 60 Problem of Evil 62 Wallflowers 2 Not Quite Nice 7 Sixth Extinction, The 66 War and Gold 75 sketch 39 O We Are Pirates 5 Sleeping Dogs 10 Outlaws 63 Weathering 2 Social Sweets 40 Overwhelmed 70 Weightless 8 Sophia 18 Owning the Earth 65 What Was Promised 57 Sophie and the Sibyl 10 White Beech 66 P Spain 29 Wild Camping 35 Packing Up 78 Spuntino 40 Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack Paradise City 13 Spy Among Friends, A 69 2015 46 Pigs & Pork 38 Stations of the Cross 52 Wisden on Grace 45 Pleasure of Reading, The 23 Strangers Who Came Home, Wives of Los Alamos, The 59 The 44 Poison Spring 79 Women of the World 76 Success Formula, The 41 Pondlife 73 Sunlit Night, The 15 Prince’s Boy, The 58

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Q Tail Wags the Dog, The 30 Tales of Remarkable Birds 34 Quentin Blake 30 Terms & Conditions 56 R Thinkers of the New Left 28 Rape of Europa, The 19 Thirty-One Nil 49 Reckless 9 Triple Package, The 67 Reckless 50 True and Splendid History of Rise 9 the Harristown Sisters, The 63 Ritual 11 Two Turtle Doves 68

River Cottage Australia 38 U Rogue Elephant 71 Unspeakable Things 75 Romany and Tom 65 V S Valley, The 71 Sea Fever 45 Vanessa and Her Sister 4 Seahorse Cookbook, The 39

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