AUGUST 2018 Putney Sofka Zinovieff From the acclaimed author comes a brilliant, challenging novel about a bohemian family in 1970s London and the consequences of a taboo relationship Sales points • Sofka Zinovieff 's previous books have received widespread critical acclaim. Her most recent, The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me was a New York Times Editors ' Choice, 2015. Putney will have a major publicity campaign, including masses of author interviews and events. • Sensitively exploring a taboo subject (a sexual relationship between a child and an adult), this novel is a perfect book club read. • Will appeal to fans of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst, Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn and Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner. Description From the acclaimed author comes a brilliant, challenging novel about a bohemian family in 1970s London and the consequences of a taboo relationship Ralph Boyd 's first glimpse of 9 year-old Daphne will be etched on his mind forever. Dark, teasing, slippery as mercury, she seems neither boy nor girl, but sprite something elemental. An up-and-coming composer, Ralph is visiting the writer Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. In its colourful rooms and unruly garden, Ralph finds an intoxicating world of sensuous ease and bohemian abandon that captures the mood of the moment. Entranced, he knows he will return. But Ralph is twenty-five and Daphne is only a child, and even in the liberal 1970s a fast-burgeoning relationship between a man and his friend 's daughter must be kept secret. Years later, after a turbulent youth and a failed marriage, Daphne watches her twelve-year-old daughter Libby mimic the gestures of adult sexuality, and is finally forced to confront her own childhood and its shocking truths. Putney is a bold, thought-provoking novel about the moral lines we tread, the stories we tell ourselves and the eyes of society. Written in lyrical, evocative prose, it is a rich tale of family, friendship, guilt and responsibility. Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 ISBN: 9781408895764 About the Author Format: Paperback Sofka Zinovieff was born in London. She studied social anthropology at Cambridge, then lived in Greece and Moscow. Dimensions: mm Extent: 384 pages She is the acclaimed author of three works of non-fiction, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens, Red Princess: A Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Revolutionary Life and The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me, a New York Times Editors ' Choice 2015, Bic2: andone previous novel, The House on Paradise Street. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Daily Illustrations: Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Spectator and the Independent. She divides her time Previous Titles: Author now living: between Athens and England. sofkazinovieff.com Bloomsbury AUGUST 2018 Putney 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of Putney, plus free reading copy. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $239.92 NZ $263.92 ISBN: 9781526696175 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUGUST 2018 Invitation to a Bonfire Adrienne Celt A seductive, sensual and sinister love triangle set in 1930s America and inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage Sales points • A smart, seductive thriller the perfect blend of literary meets commercial, and an ideal reading group title • A brilliantly vivid and atmospheric setting in the form of 1920s Russia and 1930s America • Adrienne Celt 'sdebut novel, The Daughters, won the PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction and was an NPR Best Book of the Year and an NYPL Favorite Book of the Year: expect widespread review coverage for this talented American author • Perfect for fans of Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker and Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Description A seductive, sensual and sinister love triangle set in 1930s America and inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage Zoya Andropova, a young Russian refugee, finds herself in an elite New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by her new country 's paranoia about Soviet spies. When she meets charismatic fellow Russian emigre Leo Orlov whose books Zoya has obsessed over for years everything seems to change. But she soon discovers that Leo is bound by the sinister orchestrations of his brilliant wife, Vera, and that their relationship is far more complex than Zoya could ever have imagined. About the Author Adrienne Celt 'sdebut novel, The Daughters, won the PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction and was an NPR Best Book of the Year and an NYPL Favorite Book of the Year. Her story 'Temples' was included in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016. Her work has appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Prairie Schooner, Esquire, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, The Price: AU $29.99 NZ $32.99 Millions, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in fiction from Arizona State University, draws weekly comics at ISBN: 9781408895153 loveamongthelampreys.com and lives in Tucson. Format: Paperback - C format adriennecelt.com Dimensions: mm Extent: 256 pages @celtadri Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUGUST 2018 Invitation to a Bonfire 8 Copy Pack Contains 8 copies of Invitation to a Bonfire, plus free reading copy. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $239.92 NZ $263.92 ISBN: 9781526696168 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury AUGUST 2018 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Sales points • This is the first novel by the award-winning, bestselling author George Saunders a true literary event • Tenth of December was a New York Times bestseller, and included in their 10 Best Books of the Year list. It sold over 400,000 copies worldwide, with 12,000 coming from UK markets. • George Saunders is one of the most lauded and respected US writers, and has been included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year list. • To be accompanied by an extensive marketing and publicity campaign. Description WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH A masterpiece ' Zadie Smith Extraordinary ' Daily Mail Breathtaking ' Observer A tour de force ' The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a Price: AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and ISBN: 9781526603968 stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Format: Paperback - B format Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Dimensions: mm Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in Bic2: Historical fiction the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end' Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world 's 100 most influentialBloomsbury people by Pb AUGUST 2018 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 'This wrenching new novel by Jesmyn Ward digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare. A must' Margaret Atwood Sales points • Multi-award winning author. Salvage the Bones won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and a 2012 Alex Award. Men We Reaped was a finalist for the National Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Literary Award and won the Chicago Tribute Heartland Prize • Salvage the Bones has sold nearly 190,000 copies across all editions. Men We Reaped, Ward's memoir, has sold almost 50,000 copies across all editions • For fans of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (12,000 TCM), Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Sellout by Paul Beatty (150,000 TCM), Ruby by Cynthia Bond • Top of Buzzfeed's '32 Most Exciting Books Coming In 2017' list • For fans of Academy Award Best Picture-winning movie Moonlight Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST 2017 CARNEGIE MEDAL FINALIST 2017 'This wrenching new novel by Jesmyn Ward digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare.