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WHEN MR DOG BITES BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE Brian Conaghan 16/01/2014

Blindingly funny, poignant, rude and unforgettable - EXTENT 320 Brian Conaghan’s breathtakingly original novel does for Tourette’s Syndrome what The Curious Incident of the Dog in the US PUBLISHER Night-time did for Asperger’s BLOOMSBURY

TRANSLATION RIGHTS Dylan Mint has Tourette’s. His life is a constant battle to keep BLOOMSBURY the bad stuff in -- the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that seems to escape whenever he gets stressed ... But a routine visit RIGHTS SOLD to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed con- versation between the doctor and his mother, Dylan discovers that he’s going to die next March.

So he decides to grant himself three parting wishes, or ‘Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It’. Number one on the list is to have ‘real’ intercourse with his stunning and aloof classmate Michelle Malloy. Secondly, Dylan pledges to ‘fight heaven and earth, tooth and nail, dungeons and dragons’ so that his best friend Amir can find a new ‘best bud’. And finally he has to get his dad back from the war so that his mum can stop crying so much.

It’s not a long list, but it’s ambitious, and he doesn’t have much time. But as Dylan sets out to make his wishes come true, he discovers that nothing - and no-one - is quite as he had previously supposed.

Brian Conaghan is the author of the acclaimed YA novel The Boy Who Made It Rain (Sparkling Books, 2011). He is a forty-year-old Scot, living and working as a teacher in Dublin, and has an MLitt in Creative Writ- ing from the University of Glasgow. When Mr Dog Bites is his second book. FICTION

PIG’S FOOT BLOOMSBURY UK Carlos Acosta PUBLICATION DATE 30/10/2013

A Waterstones Eleven Pick for 2013 EXTENT 352 Oscar Kortico, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet of wooden shacks and red earth deep in the Cuban hin- US PUBLISHER terland, is a sardonic teller of tales – some taller than others – BLOOMSBURY of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love and identity, spanning TRANSLATION RIGHTS three generations. BLOOMSBURY

RIGHTS SOLD One day Oscar Kortico wakes to find himself utterly alone in FRANCE: EDITIONS KERO the world. As the sole descendant of his family line he is not sure what to do or where he should go, but in the midst of this uncertainty, he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him: ‘No man knows who he is until he knows his past, the history of his country.’

As Oscar sets out to find his ancestral village of Pata de Puerco and the meaning of the magical pig’s-foot amulet he has inherited, the search for his country’s hidden history becomes entangled with his search for the truth about himself.

Ambitious in scope, yet intimate in tone, rippling with vitality and driven by passion, full of dark comedy, magical history and startling revelations, Pig’s Foot is a dazzling evocation of Cuba’s tumultuous history.

Carlos Acosta was born in Havana in 1973 and trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba. He has been a principal at the English National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the American Bal- let Theater and the Royal Ballet, and has danced as a guest artist all over the world, winning numerous international awards. He is the author of the autobiography No Way Home. www.carlosacosta.com

Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He is also the translator of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Purgatory and Figueras’s Kamchatka. FICTION

WAKE UP HAPPY BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE EVERY DAY 13/02/2014 EXTENT Stephen May 288

US PUBLISHER From the Costa-shortlisted author of Life! Death! Prizes!: an BLOOMSBURY exhilarating modern fairy tale of risk, reward and happy- ever-afters TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY Nicky and Russell have been friends since 1968 when they were four. For forty years they have stayed in touch, always spend- RIGHTS SOLD ing Russell’s birthday together – primarily so that Russell can remind Nicky of how much more successful he is, and how far he has come since their Bedfordshire childhood.

Nicky has always known Russell was rich, but he had no idea how astronomically rich Russell was until he drops dead, on his birthday, in his San Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness. And now Nicky has come up with an uncharacteristi- cally daring plan. If Nicky were to become Russell and leave his old life lying dead on the bathroom floor, then he, his wife Sarah and their daughter Scarlett could start again. Only with better clothes, better hair, better stuff and a better future: everything that money can buy. Especially happiness.

But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack, the impact of Nicky’s hasty decision begins to be felt by all those around him: by his daughter; his own distant, confused father; a young English woman who has come to America in search of her dad and by the mysterious Catherine, an ex-soldier who seems to take an unhealthy interest in Nicky’s movements...

Sharp, funny, warm and acutely observed, Wake Up Happy Every Day is a novel about dreams and delusions, family and friendship, and what happens when you do actually find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Stephen May’s first novelTag published by a small Welsh press and won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 2009 Welsh Book of the Year. His second, Life! Death! Prizes!, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’. www.sdmay.com @RealStephenMay

‘One is reminded of Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius … it’s a warm novel, written with a wry wit, and the end is as uplifting as a good bra’ Kate Saunders, THE TIMES

‘Life! Death! Prizes! is a raw, funny and heartfelt book, full of surprising tenderness and hope – a fine achievement’ A.L. Kennedy FICTION

THE HIDDEN LIGHT BQFP PUBLICATION DATE OF OBJECTS 01/10/2013 Mai al Nakib EXTENT tbc For fans of Amy Tan, Alice Munro and Jhumpa Lahiri comes a sophisticated, cosmopolitan new voice from TRANSLATION RIGHTS Kuwait. Debut author blends a Kuwaiti perspective with BLOOMSBURY an American dimension. RIGHTS SOLD The objects that surround us tell the stories of our lives, sometimes in unexpected ways.

Amerika, a young girl renamed to celebrate the US role in the liberation of Kuwait begins to regret her new name and her conservative society; a Palestinian teenager is reluctantly drawn into a botched suicide bombing; a middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs in the Middle East. These intimate and surprising stories take a quiet look at people’s lives; at their dreams, relationships and secret longings,a nd the power of objects to reveal memories and tell stories.

The recent history of the Middle East- the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the US occupation of Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict- provides the backdrop for this collection of short stories.

A sophisticated, cosmopolitan voice from the Middle East, Mai al Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University in the US and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. This is her first collection of short stories. Al Nakib lives in Kuwait and is currently working on her first novel. FICTION

A GIRL LIKE YOU BLOOMSBURY UK Maureen Lindley PUBLICATION DATE 06/06/2013 From the author of The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel which sold in fourteen languages. EXTENT 384

A spectacular coming-of-age tale that sheds light on a US PUBLISHER dark moment in American history and the difficulty of BLOOMSBURY finding your home in the ruins of war. TRANSLATION RIGHTS Thirteen-year-old Satomi Baker is used to being different. It is BLOOMSBURY 1939, and in rural west-coast California being half-white and RIGHTS SOLD half-Japanese gets you noticed. Her parents seem so happy together, and so proud to be American, but she has never felt she exactly fits in even though her striking looks have caught the eye of the most popular boy at school.

When war is declared, Satomi’s father Aaron is one of the first to sign up, and he is sent to the base at Pearl Harbor. He never returns. News of the Japanese attack transmits through the Bakers’ crackling radio. Satomi’s strong, stoical mother Tamura is flung into a private realm of grief - while all around them the world changes irrevocably. The community that has tolerated its foreign residents for decades suddenly turns on them, and along with thousands of other Japanese-American citizens (and anyone with ‘one drop of Japanese blood’ in them) they are sent to a brutal labour camp in the wilderness which future generations will choose to forget.

At Manzanar Satomi learns what it takes to survive, who she can trust, and what it means to be American. But it will be years before she will discover who she really is under the surface of her skin. A Girl Like You is her story, and the riveting and moving story of a lost generation.

Maureen Lindley was born in Berkshire and grew up in Scotland. She was trained as a psychotherapist and also worked as a photographer, antique dealer and a dress designer before writing her first book,The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel. Maureen lives in the Wye valley on the Welsh borders with her husband.

Praise for Private Papers of Eastern Jewel:

‘Riveting - (a) captiviating novel’ Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans

‘Breathtaking’ Adeline Yen Mah, author of Falling Leaves OPTION PUBLISHERS: THAI: SANSKRIT RUSSIAN: RIPOL ‘Essential ... a thrilling read’ Harper’s Bazaar ROMANIAN: POLIROM POLISH: PROZYNSKI ‘An exotic story of sexual promiscuity, opium and opulence’ MARATHI: MEHTA Mail on Sunday LITHUANIAN: ALMA ITALIAN: NERI POZZA HUNGARIAN: ULPIUS KIADO HEBREW: AGAM GREEK: OCEANIDA GERMAN: BERLIN CROATIAN: PROFIL BULGARIAN: PROZORETZ FICTION

FROM A DISTANCE BLOOMSBURY UK Rafaella Barker PUBLICATION DATE 01/04/2013

‘I love Raffaella Barker’s books’ – Maggie O’Farrell EXTENT TBC In April 1946 Michael, a soldier, returns, brutalised by war, and finds he cannot face the life that awaits him at home. Caught US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY in a moment on a platform he leaps onto a train to the western tip of Cornwall, and in doing so changes his destiny. Finding TRANSLATION RIGHTS himself in the bohemian colony of artists gathered on the BLOOMSBURY Cornish coast after the war, his fate is shaped by his heart, his RIGHTS SOLD new environment and the fragmented Britain he has come back to.

More than fifty years later, a man arrives in Norfolk to reluctantly claim his inheritance, a disused lighthouse, half hidden in the shadows of the past, now ready to cast its beam forward. At the helm of a successful business with a well-run existence, Kit is fairly certain he doesn’t want to see anything the lighthouse’s beam illuminates. But the choice is out of his hands.

In a farmhouse, a woman falters in the middle of her life, and watches it run on like a film without her. Luisa is a semi- professional cook who inherits her flair for making magic with ice cream from her Italian family. She has lived through her children and now they are leaving home. The constant push and pull of family life has turned like the tide of the Norfolk sea, and she is suspended, without direction.

When Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the consequences of that split-second decision made by Michael all those years ago.

Moving between the post-war artists’ colony around St Ives in Cornwall and present-day Norfolk, Raffaella Barker’s new novel explores the secrets and flaws as well as the wholeness of heart that shape our interactions across generations. From a Distance is a nuanced and compelling story of human connection and the yearning desire we have to belong to something or someone.

Raffaella Barker is the author of seven acclaimed novels. Come and Tell Me Some Lies, The Hook, Hens Dancing, Summer- time, Green Grass, Poppyland and A Perfect Life. She has also written a novel for young adults, Phosphorescence. She lives in Norfolk.

‘One of the cleverest and freshest of British novelists’ Daily Mail

‘She writes beautifully...Combining, with apparent ease, emotion and admirable precision’ Independent on Sunday

‘Glittering prose’ Financial Times

‘Raffaella Barker is a writer of talent’ Times Literary Supplement

‘To write well and with such open-hearted affection is an achievement’ Observer FICTION

THE HIRED MAN BLOOMSBURY UK Aminatta Forna PUBLICATION DATE 28/03/2013

A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the EXTENT 464 memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and US PUBLISHER: Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning author Aminatta GROVE ATLANTIC (TBC) Forna TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing RIGHTS SOLD winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which THE NETHERLANDS: has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of the NIEUW AMSTERDAM SPAIN: SANTILLANA windows, glass darkened with dirt, today stands open, and the lively chatter of English voices carries across the fallow fields. Laura and her teenage children have arrived.

A short distance away lies the hut of Duro Kolak who lives alone with his two hunting dogs. As he helps Laura with repairs to the old house, they uncover a mosaic beneath the ruined plaster and, in the rising heat of summer, painstakingly restore it. But Gost is not all it seems; conflicts long past still suppurate beneath the scars.

Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and Britain and also spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of two novels, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She has also written short stories and essays as well as for radio and television and presented arts magazine and documentary programmes, and was recently appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Aminatta Forna lives in London.

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‘I found myself so eagerly consuming the story that I was missing the subtlety of her whispered prose and had to keep turning back to previous chapters. Forna is an author who demands much thought from her reader — not to mention Googling the fantastically complex Balkan Wars just to keep up. This is a novel to be passed on judiciously, like a special gift, a tale of two summers you may well want to read twice.’ Evening Standard OPTION PUBLISHERS: CHINESE (SIMPLIFIED): BEI- JING HEPING YAHUA CZECH: EUROMEDIA DENMARK: TIDERNE SKIFTER FINLAND: INTO HOLLAND: AILANTUS GERMANY: DVA POLAND: ALBATROS SLOVAK: IKAR SPAIN: ALFAGUARA NORWAY: GYLDENDAL FICTION

MIMI BLOOMSBURY UK Lucy Ellmann PUBLICATION DATE 14/02/2013 ‘A wildly hilarious, modern film noir in fiction form, it’s the sort of novel you love or hate immediately. I loved EXTENT 352 every minute’ Sunday Telegraph US PUBLISHER It’s Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted BLOOMSBURY plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. ‘Ya can’t sit there all day, buddy, TRANSLATION RIGHTS looking up people’s skirts!’ chides a weird gal in a coat like a BLOOMSBURY duvet. She then kindly conjures the miracle of a taxi. While recuperating with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling RIGHTS SOLD cat, Harrison adds items to his life’s work, a List of Melancholy Things (puppetry, shrimp-eating contests, Walmart...) before going back to rhinoplasties, liposuction, and the peccadilloes of his obnoxious colleagues.

Then Harrison collides once more with the strangely helpful woman, Mimi, who bursts into his life with all her curves and chaos. They soon fall emphatically in love. And, as their love- making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air.

By turns celebratory and scathing, romantic and dyspeptic, Mimi is a story of music, New York, sculpture, martinis, public speaking, quilt-stealing, eggnog and, most of all, love. A vibrant call-to-arms, this is Lucy Ellmann’s most extraordinary book to date.

Born in Illinois, Lucy Ellmann was dragged to England as a teenager. Her first novel,Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fic- tion Prize. It was followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango? A Lament, Dot in the Universe and Doctors & Nurses. She now lives in Edinburgh.

‘It is bolshy, life-affirming, feminist and energetic. It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf.’ Sunday Times

‘Mimi is ringing with love and rage and hope. Ellmann’s best sentences are so springy and rhythmic, they make you think of a Slinky coursing down the sweet spot of a staircase, happy as Larry’ Susie Boyt, Independent

‘Lucy Ellmann is the most unladylike of lady novelists...Now comes Mimi...A lively, sweet, funny tale of well-off Manhat- tanites in love. It has kittens, beautiful apartments and tender kisses.’ The Times

‘Poignant and hilarious ... Mimi holds a lot toentertain and inflame’ Daily Telegraph FICTION

THE GAMAL BLOOMSBURY UK Ciarán Collins PUBLICATION DATE 11/04/2013 Skippy Dies meets The Butcher Boy in a wickedly funny and heartbreaking modern-day Romeo and Juliet EXTENT 480

Meet Charlie. People think he’s crazy. But he’s not. People think US PUBLISHER he’s stupid. But he’s not. People think he’s innocent... BLOOMSBURY

TRANSLATION RIGHTS He’s the Gamal. BLOOMSBURY

Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinéad and RIGHTS SOLD James and the bad things that happened. But he can’t tell it yet, at least not till he’s worked out where the beginning is.

Because is the beginning long ago when Sinéad first spoke up for him after Charlie got in trouble at school for the millionth time? Or was it later, when Sinéad and James followed the music and found each other? Or was it later still on that terrible night when something unspeakable happened after closing time and someone chose to turn a blind eye?

Charlie has promised Dr Quinn he’ll write 1,000 words a day, but it’s hard to know which words to write. And which secrets to tell...

This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, of how daring to be different can be dangerous and how there is nothing a person will not do for love.

Exhilarating, bitingly funny and unforgettably poignant, this is a story like no other. This is the story of the Gamal.

Ciarán Collins was born in County Cork in 1977. He teaches English in a school in West Cork. The Gamal is his first novel.

‘Astonishing. Inventive. Playful. Unique. A novel to savour. Ciarán Col- lins is the real deal’ Column McCann

‘Perfectly captures the joys and sorrows of adolescence and the mad- dening claustrophobia of a small Irish village. Its nearest literary ancestor would be The Catcher in the Rye’ Edna O’Brien

‘There is nothing quite like reading a first novel by a truly original new talent. Ciaran Collins’s tale of star-crossed lovers explores the darkness, cruelty and bitterness behind the banter of Irish village life. A novel of wit, boisterous humour and also inevitable tears. Collins is in a great Irish story-telling tradition going back to Roddy Doyle, Sean O’Faolain and Flann O’Brien’ Gavin Esler FICTION

HELIUM BLOOMSBURY UK Jaspreet Singh PUBLICATION DATE 09/05/2013

A haunting novel of one of the most shocking moments in EXTENT 256 the history of the Indian nation from the award-winning author of Chef US PUBLISHER: BLOOMSBURY USA On November 1st 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira TRANSLATION RIGHTS Gandhi’s assassination, nineteen-year-old student Raj travels BLOOMSBURY back from a class trip with his mentor, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the RIGHTS SOLD professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight.

Years later, after moving to the United States, Raj finds himself compelled to return home and to find his professor’s widow, the beautiful and enigmatic Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains painful memories emerge, and Raj realises he must face the distressing truth about his father’s role in a geno- cidal pogrom. But, as they soon discover, the path inexorably leads back to that day at the station.

Fusing documentary and fictional impulses, Helium deals with one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation: the massacre of the Sikh citizens. Jaspreet Singh has crafted an affecting and important story of memory, collective silences and personal trauma.

Jaspreet Singh is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a former research scientist. His story collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, won the 2004 Quebec First Book Prize. Chef, his first novel, received the Alberta Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for four awards including the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Born in India, he moved to Canada in 1990.

Praise for Chef :

‘A very learned, gifted and sensitive writer’ Basharat Peer

‘Singh writes of a beautiful place that dances on the razor wire of INdia and Pakistan’s disputed border. His prose redefines an exhausted situation giving it new light’ Justine Hardy, The Times

‘Its themes of food and war and love and poetry form a series of intricate tightropes that the author treads skilfully, bringing us, RIGHTS SOLD IN CHEF: in a short book, a lot of pleasures’ Michael Palin, Observer Book ITALY: PIEMME of the Year FRANCE: BUCHET CHASTEL INDIA: PENGUIN ‘This is a subtle, lyrical novel, told in fragments, and infused with SPANISH (WORLD): PARAMO EDICIONES a sense of the beauty of the Kashmir landscape, the pain of unrequited love, and the ugliness of the hostilities between India and Pakistan’ Independent on Sunday FICTION

GLORIA BLOOMSBURY UK Kerry Young PUBLICATION DATE:11/04/2013

The stunning new novel from the author of the Costa and EXTENT Commonwealth - shortlisted Pao 400

Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY USA single violent act changes her life forever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. As TRANSLATION RIGHTS all around them the city convulses with political change, Glo- BLOOMSBURY ria’s desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl, RIGHTS SOLD and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own.

Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening that she must reconcile with the realities of her life, her love of Jamaica and a past that is never far behind her.

Set against the turbulent backdrop of a country on the cusp of a new era, Gloria is an enthralling and illuminating story of love and redemption.

Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and a mother of mixed Chinese-African heritage. She came to England in 1965 at the age of ten. Kerry’s early life with her father, a businessman who operated within Kingston’s shadow economy, provided the inspiration for Pao, her first novel. which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. She lives in Leicestershire.

Praise for Pao:

‘A blindingly good read’ Observer

‘With grace, authenticity and humour, Young lets Jamaica’s political history shine through the life story of her charming yet fallible hero. Brilliant’ Daily Mail

‘A pacy but absorbing saga of domestic struggle and gang- land manoeuvring set against the violent backdrop of postwar Jamaican politics ... [A] punchy tale of pungent characters and impassioned entanglements’ Independent on Sunday

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SIGN OF THE CROSS BLOOMSBURY UK Thomas Mogford PUBLICATION DATE 11/04/2013 In the second of Thomas Mogford’s exciting crime series Spike Sanguinetti investigates the underbelly of Malta and EXTENT 240 all of its darkness and danger A domestic dispute has escalated into a bloodbath. US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY

When his uncle and aunt are found dead, Spike Sanguinetti TRANSLATION RIGHTS must cross the Mediterranean to Malta for their funerals, leav- BLOOMSBURY ing the courtroom behind. But the more he learns about their RIGHTS SOLD violent deaths, the more he is troubled by one thing: what could have prompted a mild-mannered art historian to stab his wife before turning the knife upon himself?

Reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Zahra, Spike embarks on a trail that leads from the island’s squalid immigrant camps to the or- nate palazzos of the legendary Knights of St John. In Malta, it seems, brutality, greed and danger lie nearer to the surface than might first appear. SHADOW OF THE ROCK A humid summer night in Gibraltar. Lawyer Spike Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old friend, Solomon Hassan, waiting on his doorstep.

Solomon is on the run. A Spanish girl has been found with her throat cut on a beach in Tangiers and he is accused of her murder. He has managed to skip across the Straits but the Moroc- can authorities want him back.

Spike travels to Tangiers to try to delay Solomon’s extradition, and there meets a beautiful Bedouin girl. Zahra is investigating the disappearance of her father, a trail which leads mysteriously back to Solomon. Questioning how well he really knows his friend, Spike finds himself drawn into a dangerous game of secrets, corruption and murderous lies.

Thomas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for the UEFA Champions League. His first novel in the Spike Sanguinetti series, Shadow of the Rock, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. It received a starred review from Library Journal, which described it as a ‘breathtaking debut ... Mogford’s exotic locales, gorgeous prose, and closing twist make this debut a showstopper’. Thomas Mogford is married and lives with his family in London.

‘[An] excellent thriller … by [a] rising star ... Exciting and assured – with a hero wonderfully called Spike Sanguinetti ... popular fiction at its best’Spectator Books of the Year

‘Makes ideal, if rather disturbing, reading if you’re holidaying in Morocco ... Evocative, engrossing and entertaining’ The Times

‘Very original ... and brilliantly rendered ... a rare and enviable talent’ William Boyd FICTION

SIDNEY CHAMBERS BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE AND THE PERILS OF 09/05/2013 EXTENT THE NIGHT TBC US PUBLISHER James Runcie BLOOMSBURY USA The second in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series - six TRANSLATION RIGHTS detective novels spanning thirty years of British history BLOOMSBURY 1955. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest and part-time RIGHTS SOLD detective, is back. Accompanied by his Labrador, Dickens, and RUSSIA: AST the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King’s College Chapel; a case of arson at a glamour photographer’s studio and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester’s finest spin bowler.

Alongside his sleuthing, Sidney has other problems. Can he decide between the glamorous socialite Amanda Kendall and Hildegard Staunton, the beguiling German widow? To make up his mind Sidney takes a trip abroad, only to find himself trapped in a web of international espionage just as the Berlin Wall is going up. SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Praise for The Shadow of Death:

‘An undiluted pleasure’ Scotsman

‘The cosiest of cozy murder mysteries ... consistently charming’ New York Times Review

‘Chambers turns out to be a winning clergyman-sleuth, and Runcie’s literary authority is repeatedly demonstrated in the construction of his elegant tales ... there is no denying the winning charm of these artfully fashioned mysteries’ Independent

‘Alexander McCall Smith’s Mma Ramotswe is going to have to look to her laurels! Sidney Chambers’s adventures are thoroughly captivating and engaging’ Amanda Craig, author of Love in Idleness

James Runcie is the son of the Arhcbishop of Canterbury, as well as Director of the Bath Literary Festival and author of four novels, The Discovery of Chocolate, The Colour of Heaven, Canvey Island, and East Fortune. He is also an award-winning filmmaker and theatre director and has scripted several films for BBC Television. He directed a documentary following a year in the life of J.K. Rowling. James Runcie lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two daughters. GENERALGENERAL NON-FICTION NON FICTION

RETURN OF A KING: PUBLICATIONBLOOMSBURY DATE: UK EXTENTPUBLICATION DATE The Battle for Afghanistan 04/02/2013 US RIGHTS William Dalrymple EXTENT TRANSLATION608 RIGHTS A towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling RIGHTSUS PUBLISHER SOLD historian William Dalrymple ALFRED A KNOPF

In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first IMPRINTTRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high RIGHTS SOLD mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. FRANCE: BUCHET CHASTEL On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of POLAND: NOIR SUR BLANC occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and ITALY: ADELPHI the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain’s greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen.

Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and, using for the first time, contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning and bestselling historian, William Dalrymple’s masterful retelling of Britain’s greatest imperial disaster is a powerful and important parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris, for our times.

William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for His- tory, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memo- rial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone Crossword Award and has three times been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2012 he was appointed Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fel- low in Humanities at Princeton University. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

‘Enchantingly written...In Dalrymple’s usual happy style of historical narrative, applied to a fascinating, neat and highly suggestive series of events, this long and involved book will be a great success, and bring the famous story to a large new audience’ Philip Hensher, Spectator

‘Clear-eyed, non-judgemental, sober history, beautifully told’ Observer

‘This sorry saga has been recounted many times, but never that I can OPTION PUBLISHERS: recall as well as by Dalrymple. He is a master story-teller’ BRAZIL: COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS Max Hastings, Sunday Times BULGARIA: PROZORETZ GERMANY: BLOOMSBURY ‘Of the books swooped into being by his scholarship this one is the VERLAG most magnificent ... This book would be compulsive reading even if it GREECE: METAICHMIO were not a uniquely valuable history’ Diana Athill, Guardian HOLLAND: ATLAS ITALY: ADELPHI ‘Sparkling ... Dalrymple has written some marvellous books on the FRANCE: NOIR SUR BLANC British in Asia but this, I think, is his best. Extensively researched and MALAYALAM: MATHRUB- HUMI beautifully written’ Daily Telegraph SLOVENIA: AVRORA SPAIN: KAIROS ‘Warp-speed historical narrative meticulously researched ... My only re- TAIWAIN: CITE BUSINESS gret reading this wonderful history is that it was not published a decade earlier’ Evening Standard GENERAL NON-FICTION

GLORIOUS BLOOMSBURY UK MISADVENTURES PUBLICATION DATE Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of Russian 01/08/2013 EXTENT America 320 Owen Matthews US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY USA

An untold chapter of America’s past, a fascinating insight into a TRANSLATION RIGHTS centuries-old love story, Glorious Misadventures is an expansive his- BLOOMSBURY tory of Russian colonisation from the Guardian Award-shortlisted author RIGHTS SOLD At the dawn of the nineteenth century two great European empires met on the far side of the world. Conquistadors from Russia and Spain had been moving towards each other across the wildernesses of Siberia and the New World for centuries: now one Russian aristocrat and adventurer eyed greedily the last great unclaimed Imperial prize on earth, America’s Pacific Coast.

Nikolai Rezanov – diplomat, courtier, millionaire and gambler – was an Imperial dreamer who set out to transform the precarious fur-hunting stations of the Alaskan coast into the hub of a Russian colony stretching from Siberia to California. His quest led him to Spanish San Fran- cisco, where he became captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, a ‘dark-eyed angel’ who embodied his dreams of both love and Empire. More remarkable still, Rezanov’s ambitious plan very nearly succeeded – by 1818 the westernmost set- tlements of the Tsar’s dominions were in Sonoma County, California, and on the Islands of Hawaii.

Glorious Misadventures traces Rezanov’s dream of a Russian Ameri- can Empire from the intrigues of the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World. Matthews uses first-hand accounts, archives and his own extensive travels in Rezanov’s footsteps to create a brilliantly original history of one of Russia’s most eccentric Empire-builders, both a visionary and a failure, a hero and a scoundrel.

Owen Matthews was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine in Bosnia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chechnya and OPTION PUBLISHERS: Iraq. His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, The Times, the Telegraph, the Spectator, Vogue, and GQ. BRAZIL: GLOBO CZECH: JOTA Owen’s first book,Stalin’s Children, was published to critical acclaim in DENMARK: GYLDENDAL 2008, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Orwell Prize ESTONIA: ERSEN for political writing, and selected as one of the Books of the Year by FINLAND: OTAVA the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator. It was translated FRANCE: BELFOND into twenty-six languages and the French version was shortlisted for GERMANY: GRAF VERLAG GREECE: MINOAS the Prix Medicis. HUNGARY: ALEXANDRA ICELAND: URDUR Owen Matthews is currently a contributing editor for Newsweek maga- GUOMUNDSOTTIR zine, based in Istanbul and Moscow. ITALY: PIEMME INDONESIA: PT ELEX Praise for Stalin’s Children: ISRAEL: KINNERET JAPAN: HAKUSUISHA ‘Heartbreaking, romantic and utterly compelling ... An astonishing NETHERLANDS: MISTRAL NORWAY: GYLDENDAL personal history of love, death and betrayal’ Simon Sebag Montefiore POLAND: ALBATROS ROMANIA: METEOR ‘A Russian Wild Swans...Some of the stories will stay with me forever’ SWEDEN: HISTORIKA MEDIA Sunday Times THAILAND: SANSKRIT TURKEY: PHOENIX GENERAL NON-FICTION

THE IMPULSE BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE SOCIETY 04/03/2014 EXTENT The Embattled Self in the Age of 320

Technological Innovation TRANSLATION RIGHTS Paul Roberts BLOOMSBURY RIGHTS SOLD From the bestselling author of The End of Oil and The End of Food, a moment-defining book about how our technologically driven economy has pushed our “culture of narcissism” into hyper- drive over the last three decades—and what we can still do about In every facet of postindustrial society - -the way we eat, the way we communicate and entertain, the way we work, the way we court lovers and raise children, educate and govern -- technology and affluence now let us reach our goals with a speed and efficiency unimaginable even a generation ago. But the result, Paul Roberts warns, is not all milk, honey, and gold. Companies now reflexively maximize short- term gain at the expense of long-term success. Politicians resort with ever-greater speed to nasty campaign tactics, and can count on their damaging claims to spread before the facts catch up with them. Con- sumers engage in serial over-indulgence in a self-tailored bubble. And the costs are substantial: financial volatility, health epidemics, environ- mental exhaustion and political paralysis, to say nothing of a growing, gnawing dissatisfaction.

Over thirty years ago, Christopher Lasch published his landmark book, The Culture of Narcissism, which struck a chord and became a runaway bestseller. Lasch’s analysis was largely cultural, but the real story has always been an economic one, and the conditions that led to increas- ing selfishness and the breakdown of society have only gotten worse. Paul Robert digs down to the economic roots of the problem, shows how it has metastisized to affect every facet of our lives and our ability to navigate the future. In clear, cogent prose that mixes illuminating analysis and vibrant reporting, Roberts not only tells the fascinating story of how the impulse society came to be, but shows how, perhaps, it still may be reversed.

Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil and The End of Food. As a journalist, his writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Wash- ington Post, The New Republic, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 1999, and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005. Roberts also appears regularly on TV and radio. He lives in Washington State. GENERAL NON FICTION

THE DARJEELING BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE QUARTET FALL 2015 EXTENT The Imperial Rise and Modern 288

Decline of the World’s Greatest TRANSLATION RIGHTS Jeff Koehler BLOOMSBURY RIGHTS SOLD

Until just a few years ago, India was the world’s leading producer of tea (although overtaken by China, it still produces three times more than the third on the list,Kenya), with vast estates stretching over As- sam in the northeast; Munnar, in the hills of above Kerala in the south; and Nilgiri, in Tamil Nadu. But the best tea comes from the 87 gardens in the Himalaya foothills around Darjeeling. It is here that ecology, history, tradition, culture, and terroir come together to create a perfect product with an unduplicatable essence—in this case, the world’s pre- mium tea, “the champagne of tea.” Darjeeling is the indisputable jewel in India’s tea-producing crown.

The Darjeeling Quartet is at once a fascinating chronicle of the role of tea in cultural history, a colorful portrait of India over the past two centuries, and an illuminating journey into the arcane and satisfying world of tea production today, especially through the lens of Raja Banerjee, the owner of the 87 Darjeeling estates. It is a story rich in history, intrigue, and empire, adventurers and unlikely successes, in culture, mythology and religions, ecology and terroir, of the looming Himalayas and drenching monsoons. It is also the story of how the industry spiraled into decline by the end of the twentieth century, and how this edenic spot in the high Himalayas seethes with union unrest and a violent independence struggle, as it confronts the devastating effects of climate changes and decades of harming farming practices. In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky’s bestselling Cod and Salt, The Dar- jeeling Quartet explores a unique product and a way of life that has had a huge impact on civilization.

Jeff Koehler is an American writer, traveler, and cook. He is the author of Morocco: A Culinary Journey with Recipes from the Spice-Scented Markets of Marrakech to the Date-Filled Oasis of Zagora and the upcoming The Country Cooking of Spain. His writing has appeared in Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Eating Well, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Barcelona, Spain. GENERAL NON-FICTION

ON THE TRAIL OF BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE GENGHIS KHAN: 24/09/2013 EXTENT An Epic Journey Through the 352

TRANSLATION RIGHTS Land of Nomads BLOOMSBURY

Tim Cope RIGHTS SOLD The extraordinary adventure of one man’s journey following in GERMANY: PIPER MALIK the footsteps of Genghis Khan’s conquering armies Genghis Khan’s vast Mongol Empire, a union of Mongol and Turkic tribes in the thirteenth century AD to form the largest contiguous land empire in history, had its beginnings in a single tribe roaming the Mon- golian steppe. Inspired by the martial might of these pastoral nomads unified under a ruthless leader, adventurer Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn’t been successfully completed since the days of the Empire: to travel by horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from the ancient capital of Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Crimea, and the Ukraine to the Danube River in Hungary.

On the Trail of Genghis Khan, Cope’s journey took him an incredible 6,000 miles and three years to complete.

From horse-riding novice to spending weeks in the saddle, to fending off wolves and would-be horse-thieves in a wide and threateningly open landscape, Cope grappled with the nomadic way of life that has defined the region for thousands of years. Passing through the haunting extremes of sub-zero plateaux to deep forests, from the scorching Kazakh desert and over the treacherous mountains of the Carpathians, Cope encountered incredible hospitality from those he met along the way – a tradition that is the linchpin of human survival on the steppe.

Successive Soviet leaders would come to see the steppe as an uncivi- lized backwater ripe for exploitation. Stalin’s push for industrialization brought calamity, where up to 2.2 million nomads starved to death in state-run collectives. In 1947, the Soviet Atomic Agency designated an area of the region as officially ‘empty’, allowing ground tests of atomic bombs, exposed over a million people to radiation.

Today, Cope bears witness to how the traditional ways hang precari- ously in the balance in the post-Soviet world, in a region still coming to terms with debilitating poverty, corruption, alcoholism and the violent upheaval left in the wake of Soviet rule. Packed with historical insights and personal adventure, On the Trail of Genghis Khan is at once a celebration of and an elegy to an ancient, proud population, where the uncertainty of the future threatens to blow away the fragile traditions of the past.

Tim Cope is a professional adventurer, author, filmmaker, and moti- vational speaker. He has worked as a guide in Antarctica, studied as a wilderness guide in the Finnish and Russian Arctic, ridden a bicycle across Russia to China, and rowed a boat through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. His book Off the Rails: Moscow to Beijing on Recumbent Bikes was published by Penguin Australia; he created a documentary of the same name for ABC Australia, as well as a 6-part series “The Trail of Genghis Khan,” covering the journey of this book. He lives in Victoria, Australia. www.timcopejourneys.com author photo courtesy of the author GENERAL NON-FICTION

STORY OF A DEATH BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE FORETOLD 12/09/2013 The Coup Against Salvador Allende, EXTENT 9th September 1973 352 US PUBLISHER Oscar Guardiola-Rivera BLOOMSBURY USA

The gripping story of the military coup against Salvador Al- TRANSLATION RIGHTS lende, President of Chile - what was at stake and what his legacy BLOOMSBURY means for the world today. RIGHTS SOLD On 11 September 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile, Latin America’s first and only democratically elected Marxist president, was deposed in a violent coup d’état. Early that morning the phone lines to Allende’s office were cut, loyal army officers were arrested and shortly afterwards bombs from four British-made Hawker Hunter jets began slamming into the presidential palace. Allende refused to leave his post, making broadcasts to encourage the Chilean people until the last pro- government radio station was silenced. Later that day he was found dead, with the gold-plated AK-47 (a gift from Fidel Castro) by his side. His death remains a subject of controversy.

The coup had been planned for months, even years before it actually happened. In fact, the moment Allende’s electoral victory in 1970 became a possibility, Chilean business leaders and the CIA worked together to secure a prompt and dramatic end to the Chilean experiment, known as the vía chilena. Why Allende seemed such a threat and how the coup was engineered is the story Oscar Guardiola-Rivera tells, drawing on a wide range of sources, including phone transcripts and recently released documents. It is a radical retelling of a moment in history that shocked the world, one which continues to resonate today as governments and peoples grapple with many of the same problems that Allende faced.

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera teaches international law and international affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has served as an aide to the Colombian Congress and as a consultant to the United Na- tions in South America. He has lectured in law, philosophy, and politics on three continents and is the author of What if Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Lead the North into the 22nd Century.

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THE GOD ARGUMENT: BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE The Case against Religion and for Humanism 14/03/2013

A. C. Grayling EXTENT 320 The first book to deal with all the arguments against religion and, equally important, to put forward an alternative - humanism US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY USA There have in recent years been a number of books - notably those by Christopher Hitchens, Richards Dawkins and Sam Harris - that have TRANSLATION RIGHTS taken issue with religion and argued against it. Both sides in the debate BLOOMSBURY have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake. The God Argument thoroughly and calmly examines all the argu- RIGHTS SOLD ments and associated considerations offered in support of religious be- DENMARK: LOXODONTA lief, and does so fully aware of the reasons people have for subscribing to religion, and the needs they seek to satisfy by doing so. And because it takes account of all the issues, its solutions carry great weight.

In the first part of the book, Grayling asks: What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief right across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious, and do they stand up to scrutiny? Can there be a clear, full statement of these arguments which once and for all will show what is at stake in this debate?

In the second half of the book he asks: What is the alternative to religion as a view of the world and a foundation for morality? Is there a world-view and a code of life for thoughtful people who wish to live with intellectual integrity, based on reason, evidence and a desire to do and be good that does not interfere with people’s right to their own beliefs and freedom of expression?

The God Argument is the definitive examination of these questions, and a statement of the humanist outlook that recommends itself as the ethics of the genuinely reflective person.

A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, and a Professor of Philosophy and multi-talented author. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN News. Grayling’s other works directly and indirectly related to this one include The Good Book and Towards the Light: The Story ofthe Struggle for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West.

Praise for The Good Book:

‘Deeply humane and subtle in its thought as well as being imbued with a rare spirit of enlightenment’ Financial Times

‘Grayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional aphoristic twist...straight alpha material’ Sunday Telegraph

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ROY G. BIV: BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE An Exceedingly Surprising Book 17/09/2013

About Color EXTENT 224 Jude Stewart Full colour throughout TRANSLATION RIGHTS A stunning and original exploration of the colors of the rainbow, BLOOMSBURY from Sweden’s “black socks of envy” to Britain’s pink-colored machismo. RIGHTS SOLD

Color is all around us every day. We use it to interpret the world—red usually means stop, blue means water, orange means construction. But it is also written into our metaphors, of speech and thought alike: yellow means cowardice; green means envy—unless you’re in Germany, where yellow means envy, and you can be “beat up green and yellow.”

Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, digs into this rich subject with gusto. What color is the universe? We might say it’s black, but astro- physicists think it might be turquoise. Unless it’s beige. To read about color from Jude Stewart is to unlock a whole different way of looking at the world around us—and bringing it all vividly to life.

ROY G BIV (which is shorthand for the seven colours of the rainbow - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) is organized around the rainbow and is lavishly designed, with cross-references that liven up each page. (Follow the thread of imperialism, for example, from the pink-colored colonies on maps of the British Empire to the green wallpaper that might have killed Napoleon.) A lovingly packaged, distinctive book, it will be the only one of its kind, an esential reference and inspiration for designers and artists, as well as a unique, beautiful, and irresistible book for just about anyone.

Jude Stewart writes about design and culture for Slate, The Believer, Fast Company, GOOD, I.D. and other publications. She also writes a blog about color for PRINT. She lives in Chicago.

Her website is www.judestewart.com. GENERAL NON-FICTION

A GUINEA PIG BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE NATIVITY 07/11/2013 EXTENT The classic Christmas story, starring cast of guinea pigs 64

You know the story ... Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethle- US PUBLISHER hem, only to find there’s no room at the inn. Then along come angels, BLOOMSBURY USA shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger. A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you’ve TRANSLATION RIGHTS never seen it before: with (you guessed it) guinea pigs photographed BLOOMSBURY in the starring roles. Sweet, humble and funny, they bring their own RIGHTS SOLD guinea-pig-joyfulness to the nativity in a way that is completely irresistible.

It’s the perfect stocking filler! GENERAL NON-FICTION

LOST CAT BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE Caroline Paul 09/04/2013 with illustrations by EXTENT 176 Wendy MacNaughton with line drawings

What do our pets do when they’re not with us? Caroline Paul TRANSLATION RIGHTS and Wendy MacNaughton offers a tender, hilarious, illustrated BLOOMSBURY tale about how they used everything from cutting-edge technology to psychics to track the adventures of their beloved cat Tibia RIGHTS SOLD ITALY: SALANI Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things GERMANY: HEYNE couldn’t get worse. But then her beloved cat, Tibia, disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed. But they were also ... jealous. Betrayed? Their anxious cat had suddenly become a swashbuckling cat adventurer. Where had he gone? And, more importantly, did he love someone else more? Caroline and Wendy were determined to find out.

Using GPS technology, cat cameras, psychics, and animal communica- tors, the authors of Lost Cat embarked on a quest to discover what their cat did when they weren’t around. Told through writer Caroline Paul’s rich and warmly poignant narrative and Wendy MacNaughton’s playful and astute illustrations, Lost Cat is a book for animal lovers, pet owners, and anyone who has ever done anything desperate for love.

Caroline Paul (carolinepaul.com) is the author of East Wind, Rain (HarperCollins, 2006) and Fighting Fire (St. Martin’s, 1999). Wendy MacNaughton (wendymacnaughton.com) is the creator of the acclaimed Rumpus illustrated column and her work has appeared widely from Time Out New York to 7 x 7 and GOOD magazines to Gizmodo and the New York Times.

‘A delightful read for all those of us who would be lost without our cats.’ Suzy Becker, two-million-copy New York Times bestselling author of All I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat

‘The writing and drawings are funny. Nutty. Heartwarming. Smart. Loopy. Full of Love.’ Maira Kalman

‘You may say that love is not a word for feelings between people and books. I say I loved this book. I felt giddy when I read it. I smiled constantly and made snorty crack-up noises, the kind that make the people around you go, What?! Then I’d get choked up, and then I’d be giddy again, and all the way through, I didn’t want it ever to end. I think we can all agree that’s love.’ Mary Roach, best-selling author of Stiff and Packing for Mars GENERAL NON-FICTION

UNBORED BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE Joshua Glenn and Published

Elizabeth Foy Larsen EXTENT 352 The most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published-jam-packed with information, ideas, and TRANSLATION RIGHTS activities for children and their parents to share together BLOOMSBURY

UNBORED is the guide and activity book every modern kid needs. Vi- RIGHTS SOLD brantly designed, lavishly illustrated, brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it’s crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable but also designed to get kids engaged with the wider world. With contributions from a diverse crowd of experts, the book provides kids with information to round out their world view and inspire them to learn more.

From how-tos on using the library or writing your representative to a graphic history of video games, the book isn’t shy about teaching. Yet the bulk of the 350-page mega-resource presents hands-on activities that further the mission in a fun way, featuring the best of the old as well as the best of the new: classic science experiments, crafts and upcycling, board game hacking, code-cracking, geocaching, skateboard repair, yarn-bombing, stop-action movie-making-plus tons of sidebars and extras, including trivia, best-of lists, and Q&As with leading thinkers whose culture-changing ideas are made accessible to kids for the first time.

Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech skills to be creative, try new things, and change the world. And it encourages parents to participate. Un- bored is exciting to read, easy to use, and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humor. Kids will just think it’s awesome.

Contributors include Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE magazine; Colin Beavan, the No Impact Man; Douglas Rushkoff, renowned media theorist; Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG; John Edgar Park, a CG supervisor at DisneyToon Studios; and Jean Railla, founder of GetCrafty.com and Etsy consultant.

Joshua Glenn is cofounder of the websites Significant Objects, Hilo- brow, and Semionaut, and has authored and edited a number of books. Together with Elizabeth Foy Larsen, he writes a parenting column based on Unbored for Slate. He lives in Boston and has two sons, ten and thirteen.

Elizabeth Foy Larsen was a member of the team that launched Sassy, a magazine for teen girls. Her writing on families has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, the Daily Beast, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis and has two sons and a daughter, ages seven to twelve.

Tony Leone is a principal of Leone Design. His work has been hon- ored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Brand Design Association, and has been featured in Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, and elsewhere. He has a son in kindergarten and a newborn daughter. GENERAL NON-FICTION A MORE BEAUTIFUL BLOOMSBURY USA QUESTION: PUBLICATION DATE 28/01/2014

Warren Berger EXTENT 304

To get the right answer in business and in life you have to ask the TRANSLATION RIGHTS right question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows it’s both BLOOMSBURY an art and a science. RIGHTS SOLD The Harvard Business Review looked at 300 of the most creative, GERMANY: BLOOMSBURY KOREA: BOOK 21 successful executives in business and found that they shared a number JAPAN: DIAMOND INC of tendencies and characteristics, but one stood out at the top of the list—they all were master questioners.

It’s not necessity, but a question—a “beautiful” question—that is the mother of invention. The world’s leading innovators, inventors, business entrepreneurs, and creative minds, seem to be exceptionally good at asking questions. For some, their greatest successes—their breakthrough inventions, hot startup companies, the radical solutions they’d found to stubborn problems—could be traced to a “beautiful” question, or series of questions, they’d formulated and then answered. Innovator and writer Warren Berger, who’s been asking questions his entire life, brilliantly captures these innovative query-makers to try and determine what makes a question particularly beautiful, from Tim Westegren wondering how to “map the DNA of music,” a project that would grow into the wildly successful Pandora internet radio service, to Abby Brown, creating a school desk with a raised seat as she thought about how she could accommodate some fidgeting students.

As A More Beautiful Question will illustrate, whether we’re solving tough personal or profesional problems, rejuvenating businesses, or re- inventing education or government or the ways we live… it all begins with the asking.

Warren Berger, an expert on design thinking and innovation, is author of the acclaimed book Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Business and Your Life, which was named Business Week’s “Best Innovation & Design Books of the Year.” Berger also writes for Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and was a longtime contributing editor at Wired magazine. He has appeared on NBC’s “Today Show,” ABC’s “World News,” many times on CNN, and as a frequently-used expert source on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” www.AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com GENERAL NON FICTION

HOW THE BEATLES BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE ROCKED THE PUBLISHED EXTENT KREMLIN 304 Ross King TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY The improbable, irresistible story of how the music of the Bea- tles helped bring down the Soviet Union--plus ten never-before- RIGHTS SOLD seen photos of the Beatles from 1962.

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contra- band LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world populated by Blue Meanies but the USSR, where a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the British Invasion.

The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a part in waking up an entire generation of Soviet youth, opening their eyes to seventy years of bland official culture and rigid authoritarianism. Soviet leaders had suppressed most Western popular music since the days of jazz, but the Beatles and the bands they inspired-both in the West and in Russia- battered down the walls of state culture.

Leslie Woodhead’s How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin tells the unforgettable-and endearingly odd-story of Russians who discovered that all you need is Beatles. By stealth, by way of whispers, through the illicit late night broadcasts on Radio Luxembourg, the Soviet Beatles kids tuned in. “Bitles,” they whispered, “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.”

Leslie Woodhead, OBE is one of Britain’s most distinguished documentary filmmakers. His films have won many international awards, including recognition by the Emmy and Peabodys in America, and by BAFTA, and the Royal Television Society in the UK. He is the author of two books, My Life as a Spy and A Box Full of Spirits. He lives in Cheshire, England. GENERAL NON FICTION

LEONARDO AND BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE THE LAST SUPPER PUBLISHED EXTENT Ross King 352

TRANSLATION RIGHTS The Last Supper is an image familiar to everyone, the story of BLOOMSBURY its execution is not. In Leonardo and the Last Supper, the best-selling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome tells that extraordinary story RIGHTS SOLD BRAZIL: RECORD CANADA: DOUBLEDAY Milan, 1496 and forty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci has a reputa- GERMANY: RANDOM HOUSE tion for taking on commissions and failing to complete them. He is in HOLLAND: DE BEZIGE BIJ a state of professional uncertainty and financial difficulty. For eighteen ISRAEL: KINNERET months he has been painting murals in both the Sforza Castle in Milan ITALY: RIZZOLI and the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The KOREA: SEMICOLON latter project will become the Last Supper, a complex mural that took a full three years to complete on a surface fifteen feet high by twenty feet wide. Not only had he never attempted a painting of such size, but he had no experience whatsoever in painting in the physically demanding medium of fresco.

For more than five centuries the Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark has called it ‘the keystone of European art’, and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. Even today, according to Clark, we regard the painting as ‘more a work of nature than a work of man’. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic ‘miracle’, which was created against the backdrop of momen- tous events both in Milan and in the life of Leonardo himself.

In Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King tells the complete story of this creation of this mural: the adversities suffered by the artist during its execution; the experimental techniques he employed; the models for Christ and the Apostles that he used; and the numerous personalities involved - everyone from the Leonardo’s young assistants to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who commissioned the work. Ross King’s new book is both a record of Leonardo da Vinci’s last five years in Milan and a ‘biography’ of one of the most famous works of art ever painted.

Ross King is the highly praised author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Mi- chelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives just outside Oxford. GENERAL NON-FICTION

MEETING THE BLOOMSBURY UK ENEMY PUBLICATION DATE: The Human Face of the Great War 15/08/2013 EXTENT Richard van Emden 320 US PUBLISHER The first book to concentrate on what actually happened when BLOOMSBURY USA enemies met face to face as human beings in the First World War, whether on the battlefield, as prisoners of war or as relatives TRANSLATION RIGHTS of the fallen after the fighting was over BLOOMSBURY From the first British casualty of the war – an elderly language teacher RIGHTS SOLD shot and mortally wounded as he attempted to leave Germany in Au- gust 1914 – to the account of the British prisoner released on his word of honour that he would return, in order that he might visit his dying mother in England, leading First World War historian Richard van Emden has unearthed remarkable accounts of what happened when nationals from Britain and Germany – countries with long-established ties of kinship, culture and friendship – clashed on both the Western Front and the Home Front.

The First World War conjures harrowing scenes of shattered trees, barbed-wire wastelands and colossal loss of human life. While this is one part of the story, it is not the complete picture. The war also thrust together the opposing sides in complex and unusual situations, demonstrating both the horrendous brutality and the great humanity of those who found themselves, directly or indirectly, caught up in the conflict.

Meeting the Enemy tells the famous story of the Christmas truce alongside less well-known stories of other truces. It explores what happened when enemy lines came between married couples, as British women who had married Germans were classed as ‘enemy aliens’ in their own country; how enemies went to extraordinary lengths to make sure families of fallen or captured soldiers knew their fates; how soldiers on both sides played blackly comic tricks on each other to relieve the boredom and stagnation of trench warfare.

With extensive research and a focus on individual stories, including extracts from unpublished diaries and letters and a wealth of photographs, Richard van Emden shows the human face of the Great War as it has never been seen before.

Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written fourteen books on the subject including Boy Sol- diers of the Great War and The Last Fighting Tommy. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Britain’s Last Tommies, Britain’s Boy Soldiers, the award-winning Roses of No Man’s Land, and most recently, War Horse: The Real Story. He lives in West London.

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OWNING THE EARTH BLOOMSBURY USA The Transforming History of Land PUBLICATION DATE: Ownership 12/11/2013 EXTENT Andro Linklater 320

From the author of the acclaimed Measuring America, a dazzling TRANSLATION RIGHTS chronicle, through history and across cultures, about how the BLOOMSBURY ability to own the land we inhabit has shaped modern society. RIGHTS SOLD Barely two centuries ago, most of the world’s productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history by, Andro Linklater persuasively argues, the most creative and at the same time destruc- tive cultural force in the modern era—the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land.

Spreading from both shores of the North Atlantic, it laid waste to traditional communal civilizations, displacing entire peoples from their homelands, but at the same time brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. By contrast, as Linklater demonstrates, other great civilizations, in Russia, China, and the Islamic world, evolved very different structures of land ownership and thus very different forms of government and social responsibility.

The history and evolution of land ownership is a fascinating chronicle in the history of civilization, offering unexpected insights about how various forms of democracy and capitalism developed, as well as a revealing analysis of a future where the Earth must sustain nine billion lives. Seen through the eyes of remarkable individuals—Chinese emperors; German peasants; the seventeenth century English surveyor William Petty, who first saw the connection between private property and free-market capitalism; the American radical Wolf Ladejinsky, whose land redistribution in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea after WWII made possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies, Owning the Earth presents a radically new view of mankind’s place on the planet.

Andro Linklater is the acclaimed author of Measuring America, The Fabric of America, An Artist in Treason, and Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die. He lives in England GENERAL NON-FICTION

FURIES BLOOMSBURY PRESS USA PUBLICATION DATE: War in Europe, 1450-1700 PUBLISHED EXTENT Lauro Martines 336

Rich, intriguing history from a leading scholar of early modern TRANSLATION RIGHTS Europe, bringing alive the wars and armies that shaped the con- BLOOMSBURY tintent’s path out of the Dark Ages to modernity RIGHTS SOLD During the European Renaissance, an age marked equally by revo- SPAIN: CRITICA lutionary thought and constant warfare, armies rather than philoso- phers shaped the modern European nation state. “Mobile cities” of mercenaries and other paid soldiers made up of astonishingly diverse aggregations of ethnicities and nationalities marched across the land, looting and savaging enemy territories.

In the 15th century, Poland hired German, Spanish, Bohemian, Hun- garian, and Scottish soldiers. Later, Sweden fought in Muscovy with Irish, English, Scottish, French and German troops. Units of Croats, Germans, Walloons, Albanians, and especially Swiss served in French armies. In the Netherlands, Italians and Spaniards fought beside Irish- men, Germans, Dalmatians, and Walloons. Regiments of Swiss pike- men fought for Spain, France, and Venice, as well as for German and Italian princes. Companies of Poles, Hungarians, and Croatians fought in German regiments.

Growing national economies, unable to pay or feed massed armies for any length of time, thus became war states, an early nationalism which would later consume modern Europe. Furies: War in Europe 1450-1700 by acclaimed historian of the Renaissance Lauro Martines compellingly and simply delivers the story of modern Europe’s martial roots, cap- turing the brutality of early modern war and how it shaped the history of a continent.

Lauro Martines is one of the world’s foremost historians of the Ital- ian Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. He is the author of nine books, most recently the critically acclaimed titles Fire in the City: Savon- arola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence (OUP 2007) and April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici (OUP 2004). Formerly a professor at UCLA, he has lived in London for many years. GENERAL NON-FICTION

THE SOCIETY FOR BLOOMSBURY PRESS USA PUBLICATION DATE: USEFUL KNOWLEDGE 11/06/2013 Joanthan Lyons EXTENT 320 A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment - think 1776 meets The Metaphysical Club TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlighten- ment to America--an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for RIGHTS SOLD the political one that followed. With the “first Drudgery” of settling the American colonies now well and truly past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was high time that the colonists set about improving the lot of humankind through collaborative inquiry. From Franklin’s idea emerged the American Philosophical Society, an association hosted in Philadelphia and dedicated to the harnessing of man’s intellectual and creative powers for the common good. The animus behind the Society was and is a disarmingly simple one-that the value of knowledge is directly proportional to its utility. This straightforward idea has left a profound mark on American society and culture and on the very idea of America itself - and through America, on the world as a whole.

From celebrated historian of knowledge Jonathan Lyons comes The Society for Useful Knowledge, telling the story of America’s coming-of- age through its historic love affair with practical invention, applied science, and self-reliance. Offering fresh, original portraits of figures like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, and the inimitable, endlessly inventive Franklin, Lyons gives us vital new perspective on the Ameri- can founding. He illustrates how the movement for useful knowledge is key to understanding the flow of American society and culture from colonial times to our digital present.

Jonathan Lyons is the author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (Bloomsbury Press 2009). He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than 20 years. He holds a doctorate in sociology, and has taught at George Mason University, Georgetown University, and Monash University in Aus- tralia. He lives in Washington, DC. GENERAL NON FICTION

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PUBLICATION DATE: HAMILTON 01/10/2013 The Rivalry That Forged a Nation EXTENT 464 John Ferling TRANSLATION RIGHTS A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our repub- BLOOMSBURY lic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America. RIGHTS SOLD

From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of deep themes in American history.

The decade of the 1790s has been called the “age of passion.” Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic— each side convinced that the other’s goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was at stake was not a moment’s political advantage, but the future course of the American experiment in democracy. In this epochal debate, no two figures loomed larger than Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.

Both men were visionaries, but their visions of what the United States should be were diametrically opposed. Jefferson, a true revolutionary, believed passionately in individual liberty and a more egalitarian society, with a weak central government and greater powers for the states. Hamilton, a brilliant organizer and tactician, feared chaos and social disorder. He sought to build a powerful national government that could ensure the young nation’s security and drive it toward economic greatness.

Jefferson and Hamilton is the story of the fierce struggle—both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal—between these two titans. It ended only with the death of Hamilton in a pistol duel, felled by Aaron Burr, Jefferson’s vice president. Their competing legacies, like the twin strands of DNA, continue to shape America to this day. Their personalities, their passions, and their bold dreams for America leap from the page in this epic new work from one of our finest historians.

John Ferling is professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of many books on American Revolutionary history, including The Ascent of George Washington; Almost a Miracle, an acclaimed military history of the War of Independence; and the award- winning A Leap in the Dark. He and his wife, Carol, live near Atlanta, Georgia. GENERAL NON FICTION

GOSPEL OF BLOOMSBURY PRESS USA PUBLICATION DATE: FREEDOM PUBLISHED Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from EXTENT Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That 240 Changed a Nation TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY

Jonathan Rieder RIGHTS SOLD The first ever trade history of a landmark in American history- -Martin Luther King Jr’s legendary “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency fal- tered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight “moderate” clergymen who branded the protests extremist and “untimely.”

King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the “Letter from Bir- mingham Jail”-a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln. His insistence on the urgency of “Freedom Now” would inspire not just the marchers of Birmingham and Selma, but peaceful insurgents from Tiananmen to Tahrir Squares.

Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the Letter-illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King’s surviving colleagues, and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963. Gospel of Freedom gives us a startling perspective on the Letter and the man who wrote it: an angry prophet who chastised American whites, found solace in the faith and resilience of the slaves, and knew that moral appeal without struggle never brings justice.

Jonathan Rieder is professor of sociology at Barnard College, Colum- bia University. He is the author of The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism. He has been a regular commentator on TV and radio, a contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and a contributing editor for the New Republic. GENERAL NON FICTION

THE DOUBLE V: BLOOMSBURY PRESS USA How Wars, Protest, and Harry PUBLICATION DATE Truman Desegregated America’s Military PUBLISHED EXTENT Rawn James, Jr 304

The century-long struggle to achieve equality for America’s TRANSLATION RIGHTS black soldiers and sailors, in a stirring narrative history by the BLOOMSBURY author of Root and Branch RIGHTS SOLD Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Tru- man. But in reality, Truman’s history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years of legal, political, and moral struggle.

Beginning with the Revolutionary War, African Americans had used military service to do their patriotic duty and to advance the cause of civil rights. The fight for a desegregated military was truly a long war-decades of protest and labor highlighted by bravery on the fields of France, in the skies over Germany, and in the face of deep-seated racism on the military bases at home. Today, the military is one of the most truly diverse institutions in America.

In The Double V, Rawn James, Jr., the son and grandson of African American veterans, expertly narrates the remarkable history of how the strugge for equality in the military helped give rise to their fight for equality in civilian society. Taking the reader from Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama, The Double V illuminates the African Ameri- can military tradition as a metaphor for their unique and dynamic role in American history.

A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Rawn James, Jr., has practiced law for a decade in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and their children. GENERAL NON FICTION

THE WARS OF BLOOMSBURY PRESS USA PUBLICATION DATE: RECONSTRUCTION 21/01/2014 The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most EXTENT Progressive Era 352 TRANSLATION RIGHTS Douglas R. Egerton BLOOMSBURY RIGHTS SOLD A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality—in the face of murderous violence—in the years after the Civil War

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-seces- sionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, took a seat on the state’s Supreme Court. Not even the most optimistic abolitionists thought such milestones would occur in their lifetimes. The brief years of Reconstruction marked the United States’ most progressive moment prior to the civil rights movement.

Previous histories of Reconstruction have focused on Washington politics. But in this sweeping, prodigiously researched narrative, Doug- las Egerton brings a much bigger, even more dramatic story into view, exploring state and local politics and tracing the struggles of some fifteen hundred African-American officeholders, in both the North and South, who fought entrenched white resistance. Tragically, their movement was met by ruthless violence—not just riotous mobs, but also targeted assassination. With stark evidence, Egerton shows that Reconstruction, often cast as a “failure” or a doomed experiment, was rolled back by murderous force. The Wars of Reconstruction is a major and provocative contribution to American history.

Douglas R. Egerton is a professor of history at LeMoyne College. He is the author of six books, including Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey, Gabriel’s Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802, and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America. He lives near Syracuse, New York. GENERAL NON FICTION

THE KENNEDY BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: HALF-CENTURY 22/10/2013 Presidency, Assassination, and Enduring EXTENT Legacy of John F. Kennedy 352 TRANSLATION RIGHTS Larry J. Sabato BLOOMSBURY An original and illuminating narrative revealing John F. Ken- RIGHTS SOLD nedy’s lasting influence, by the acclaimed political analyst Larry J. Sabato.

John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago—yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato—himself a teenager in the early 1960s and inspired by JFK and his presidency—explores the fascinating and powerful influence he has had over five decades on the media, the general public, and especially on each of his nine presidential successors.

A recent Gallup poll gave JFK the highest job approval rating of any of those successors, and millions remain captivated by his one thousand days in the White House. For all of them, and for those who feel he would not be judged so highly if he hadn’t died tragically in office, The Kennedy Half-Century will be particularly revealing. Sabato reexam- ines JFK’s assassination using heretofore unseen information to which he has had unique access, then documents the extraordinary effect the assassination has had on Americans of every modern generation through the most extensive survey ever undertaken on the public’s view of a historical figure. The full and fascinating results, gathered by the accomplished pollsters Peter Hart and Geoff Garin, paint a compelling portrait of the country a half-century after the epochal killing. Just as significantly, Sabato shows how JFK’s presidency has strongly influenced the policies and decisions—often in surprising ways—of every president since.

Among the hundreds of books devoted to JFK, The Kennedy Half-Centu- ry stands apart for its rich insight and original perspective. Anyone who reads it will appreciate in new ways the profound impact JFK’s short presidency has had on our national psyche.

Larry J. Sabato is the founder and director of the renowned Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. He has appeared on dozens of national television and radio programs, including 60 Minutes, Today, Hardball, and Nightline. He has coanchored the BBC’s coverage of U.S. presidential returns and inaugurations, and has authored or edited more than a dozen books on American politics, including the highly praised A More Perfect Constitution—Why the Constitution Must Be Revised: Ideas to Inspire a New Generation. His other books include Feeding Frenzy, about press coverage of politicians; The Rise of Political Consultants; and Barack Obama and the New America. Sabato runs the acclaimed Crystal Ball website, which has the most comprehensive and accurate record of election analysis in the country. In 2001, the University of Virginia gave him its highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. GENERAL NON-FICTION THE HISTORY AND BLOOMSBURY USA UNCERTAIN FUTURE PUBLICATION DATE: 16/09/2014 OF HANDWRITING EXTENT 272

Anne Trubek TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY In The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Anne Trubek chroni- RIGHTS SOLD cles the history of handwriting—from the development of writing in Sumeria some 6,000 years ago to the development of the computer— and its impact on culture and civilization. This comes at a defining moment, as in our digital age, handwriting is increasingly being phased out of the classroom amidst rigorous debate over a lowering of standards. Does the decline of handwriting as a mode of writing signal a degra- dation of writing, thinking, and cognitive skills? Or is it just another evolution in the history of writing?

Participating journalistically to learn and question the changing nature of writing, Trubek visits the new digital Museum of Writing in London; the Crime Museum in Washington, D.C., where forensic linguistics is developed to identify patterns of typing in individuals; the Calligraphy Museum in Moscow and the Society of Scribes in New York City, where calligraphy endures in both art and daily practice.

Trubek’s fascinating narrative surveys the larger questions about what we will gain and lose through the current revolutionary—but not new—transition from one writing technology to another.

Anne Trubek is a tenured professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and English at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. She is an expert on digital writing as well as an intellectual journalist specializing in literature, culture, history, and education. Her articles have appeared in The Econo- mist, The Atlantic, Wired, Smithsonian, Mother Jones, and elsewhere.. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR

THE LIFE OF LUCIAN BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE FREUD 06/10/2016 EXTENT William Feaver tbc

US PUBLISHER Lucian Freud is one of the most important artists of the twentieth- TBC century. Hailed as the ‘best living realist painter’ in his life time, his work was exhibited by Peggy Guggenheim at the age of just sixteen, TRANSLATION RIGHTS is in museum collections all over the world and fetches huge prices at auction. RIGHTS SOLD HOLLAND: ATLAS CONTACT Born in Berlin in 1922 to Jewish parents, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian’s family moved to England in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. Enrolling in the Central School of Art, he spent most of his time avoiding academic instruction and funded both his studies and misadventures in London’s Soho with gold he stole from his father’s stash.

Freud knew Picasso, the Woolfs, Stephen Spender, George Orwell, Henry Moore, spent a sojourn on Goldeneye with Ian Fleming and was a great friend and gambling partner of Francis Bacon. His love life was eventful – he was married first to muse Kitty Garman, daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein, and second to Caroline Blackwood (much to the fury of her mother, the Marchioness of Dufferin), had countless lovers – including in their number Greta Garbo – and fathered fourteen known children. The subjects of his portraits include David Hockney, Jerry Hall, Kate Moss and the Queen.

William Feaver, former art critic at the Observer, was a long-time friend of Freud’s and curated exhibitions of his work at the Tate and Museo Correr in Venice. He had unprecedented access to Freud, from the start of their friendship in the 1970s. Drawing on a huge volume of tapes and notes of innumerable conversations, plus the memories of close friends now dead, The Life of Lucian Freud will be the definitive, inspiring and indispensable biography of a life like no other. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR

POPE FRANCIS BLOOMSBURY CONTINUUM, UK Paul Vallely PUBLICATION DATE: The election of Pope Francis took everyone by surprise. From the 01/06/2013 moment he was elected everything he did was a surprise and deeply symbolic. Not least the choice of the name Francis, indicating an op- EXTENT tion for the poor and the dispossessed. The Holy Spirit is indeed full 224 of surprises. US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY USA But this modest man with a winning smile who dislikes opulence, luxury and excess is already surrounded by controversy. Why did he TRANSLATION RIGHTS not defend the radical Jesuits in the Argentine who fought against the evil regime of Videla and Galtieri. What will he now do about the RIGHTS SOLD Falkland Islands(Las Malvinas) which he has often publicly declared should belong to the Argentine. How will he respond to President Kirchner`s pleadings that as Pope he should now once again declare the Falklands to be an Argentine territory. The political consequences are considerable

Though a man of humility and openness, it is unlikely that he will change the Church`s teaching on abortion, contraception, the ministry of women or gay marriage and civil partnership.

Above all, how will Pope Francis set about reforming the Roman Curia whose corruption and skullduggery finally defeated his predecessor.

Paul Vallely is an experienced journalist and a highly intelligent observer of the Catholic Church. This is not an instant potted biography. It is a wise and perceptive portrait of a man of whom Vallely has high hopes and expectations. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR

ISLAND SUMMERS BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Tilly Culme-Seymour 04/07/2013 In 1947 Tilly’s grandmother bought an island. Its name is Småhølmene EXTENT and it sits just off the coast of Norway. At first sight, the island seems TBC bare, hardly more than a collection of rocks rising determinedly US PUBLISHER out of the water. But Mor-mor, as she was known, could see that BLOOMSBURY USA Småhølmene was more than that when she purchased it in exchange for a mink coat. TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY She built a two-storeyed wooden cabin on the island, an enclave against the sea water that would dash against the outlying rocks, galloping up RIGHTS SOLD the lagoon to slap against the moored boats. This is where Mor-mor and her young family would come every summer, escaping their mol- lycoddled life in the English countryside to run wild, get burnt, forage for juniper berries, thieve for gull eggs and swim in the shining sea. Lean and chic, Mor-mor smoked voraciously and scandalised the local villagers by cycling to the shops in nothing but a healthy tan. She loved the island fiercely; in her otherwise turbulent life, its rugged outcrops, messy abundance and promise of absolute solitude were constants that lasted throughout the years.

This is the inheritance that Tilly embraced many years later when her own mother brought her family to Småhølmene. And when the island was in danger of being sold, she was spurred to do something that no one else had done before – she decided to spend a winter there, alone with her boyfriend. Fending for themselves, they were utterly cut off from outside help. But, in the silence of the cold, they gradually discovered that even in the bleakest of times, the island could take on new life.

Glittering and bittersweet, Island Summers lovingly portrays three generations of women and the island that became so irrevocably part of their lives. Now Mor-mor’s great-grandchildren are taking their turn, enjoying endless summers on Småhølmene, continuing the story that was begun over fifty years ago.

Tilly Culme-Seymour studied English at Trinity College, Dublin. She is now based in London, where she writes on food and travel. This is her first book. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR

MY LITHUANIA BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: Rita Gabis 09/09/2014 EXTENT 320 Everybody has a secret. Everybody has a locked door, a dream with a message. In my family, I blurt the secrets. I take an axe to TRANSLATION RIGHTS the doors. BLOOMSBURY

Rita Gabis comes from a family of both Eastern European Jews and RIGHTS SOLD Lithuanian Catholics – and who recently discovered that the beloved grandfather she thought was a WWII resistance hero was actually a police chief collaborating with the Nazis in a town where thousands of Jews perished.

There are so many questions: How could this have happened? Why did he choose to collaborate? What was the extent of his involvement? Who were the people who worked with him?

And most importantly: What were the fates of those whose lives he helped dictate?

As soon as Rita learns that her grandfather was a collaborator, she embarks on a mission to discover the truth of who he was and what he had done. She begins by questioning her mother, a woman who is reluctant to speak about the war. Their already strained relationship makes any kind of honest discussion nearly impossible. Then, in a stroke of luck, there are the late night e-mails to the Central State Archives in Lithuania, and in return a flood of countless official documents detailing her grandfather’s involvement. The more information she finds, the more devastating the story becomes.

And then there is Rita’s unforgettable journey to the heart of the story – to Lithuania –and interviews with survivors of the town and those who knew her grandfather.

Rita Gabis is a poet and writer and has won the NYFA non-fiction award. Her poetry has appeared in The Massachusetts Review and Columbia Magazine. She lives in New York City and teaches part-time in the creative writing department at Hunter College.

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LET ME TELL YOU A BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: STORY 11/04/2013 A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood EXTENT 256 Renata Calverley US PUBLISHER The spellbinding true story of a little girl’s miraculous escape BLOOMSBURY USA from the Nazis during the Second World War TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY September, 1939. Przemyśl, Poland. Three-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the RIGHTS SOLD: basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story FINLAND: GUMMERUS about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld. She drifts back to sleep as the sound of thunder rages around them.

No one has explained to Renata what war is. She knows her Tatuś, a doctor, is in Europe with the Polish Army and that her beautiful Mamusia is not allowed to work at the university anymore. But, more than anything, she notices that their frequent visitors – among them Great Aunt Zuzia and Uncle Julek with their gifts of melon and lovely clothes – have stopped coming entirely. One morning Mamusia returns home with little yellow, six-pointed stars for them to wear. Renata thinks that they will keep them safe.

June, 1942. Two soldiers in grey-green uniforms burst into their apart- ment carrying guns. Renata, Mamusia and grandmother ‘Babcia’ are taken to the Ghetto and crammed into one room with other frightened families. The adults are forced to work long hours at the factory and to survive on next to no food. One day Mamusia and Babcia do not return from their shifts.

Renata is six years old. Utterly alone, she is passed from place to place and survives through the willingness of ordinary people to take the most deadly risks. Her unlikely blonde hair and blue eyes and other twists of fate save her life but stories become her salvation. Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales transport her to a magical world; David Copperfield reminds her what it is like to be on your own; and the family in Swallow and Amazons become the family she longs for.

A true story of the horrors of war, Let Me Tell You a Story is a powerful and moving memoir of growing up in extraordinary times, and of the magical discovery of books.

Renata Calverley was born in Poland in 1937. She has an Honours Degree in English Literature and American Studies from Nottingham University, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the London University Institute of Education and a Diploma in Creative Writing. A retired deputy head of a Sixth Form, she taught English for thirty- seven years, including twenty-five years at Aylesbury High School. She is an accomplished public speaker, regularly recounting her experiences to societies and interested parties across the UK. Renata Calverley lives in Oxford with her husband. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR

BECOMING BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: A LONDONER 26/09/2013 David Plante EXTENT US PUBLISHER The first volume of David Plante’s extraordinary diaries of a life BLOOMSBURY USA lived among the artistic elite, both a deeply personal memoir and a hugely significant document of cultural history TRANSLATION RIGHTS

Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted RIGHTS SOLD because it’s known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don’t apply. It is as if all the conventions of sex and clothes and art and music and drink and drugs don’t apply here in London...

Strangers to this new city, fleeing previous lives in New York and Athens, David Plante and Nikos Stangos are embarking on a new life together, a partnership which will endure for forty years. London, at a moment of ‘absolute respect for differences’, offers a freedom in love unattainable in their previous homes. From the King’s Road to Bloomsbury, worlds within worlds emerge: through Stephen Spender they meet Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Sonya Orwell, W. H. Auden, David Hockney, Jean Rhys, Christopher Isherwood, Germaine Greer among many others; connections appear to criss-cross, invisibly, though the air of London, interconnecting everyone.

David Plante has kept a diary of his life among the artistic elite for over half a century. Spanning his first fifteen years in London, from the mid-sixties to the early eighties, this first volume of memoirs draws on diary entries, notes, sketches and drawings to reveal a beautiful, intimate portrait of a relationship and a luminous evocation of a world of writers, poets, artists and thinkers.

David Plante is the author of the novels The Ghost of Henry James, The Family (nominated for the National Book Award), The Woods, The Country, The Foreigner, The Native, The Accident, Annunciation and The Age of Terror. He has published stories and profiles in theNew Yorker, and features in the New York Times, Esquire and Vogue. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR

YOUR GAME, BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: PROFESSOR CONWAY 22/07/2014 Siobhan Roberts EXTENT TRANSLATION RIGHTS Siobhan Roberts has written an authorized biography of British BLOOMSBURY mathematician John Horton Conway that also explains for lay readers the mathematical basics of some of his key accomplishments, includ- RIGHTS SOLD ing his work in set theory, number theory, finite groups, and surreal numbers.

Special attention is given to his work, along with Simon Kochen, on The Free Will Theorem, which uses physics, geometry, and philosophy to explain the existence of free will not only in humans but in elemen- tary particles. Although he is best known outside of academia as the inventor the Game of Life, fans of the game will revel in the theories, including cellular automata and the unpredictable law of genetics, that underpin the development of the game. A brilliant thinker with an extraordinarily playful nature and complicated private life, Conway was educated at the University of Cambridge where he became a full professor in 1983, and has been a professor at Princeton since 1986. He was installed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Empire in 1981 and won the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics in 1998.

Siobhan Roberts is a freelance science journalist and the author of Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering and King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry (Walker & Company). She has spent years interviewing Professor Conway, his colleagues, and family for the book. SCIENCE BEASTS What Animals Can Teach Us BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: About the Origins of Good and 04/03/2014

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY Bestselling author Jeffrey Masson shows us what the animals at the top of the food chain—orca whales, big cats, RIGHTS SOLD and more — can teach us about the origins of good and evil in ourselves.

There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orca whales. In the twentieth century alone, one of these animals killed 200 million members of its own species, the other killed none. Jeffrey Masson’s fascinating new book begins here: There is something different about us.

In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed what animals can teach us about our own emotions—about love (dogs), contentment (cats), grief (elephants), among others. But animals have much to teach us about the negative emotions such as anger and aggression as well, and in unexpected ways. In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the “wild” is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behavior to animals, to “beasts” (“he behaved no better than a beast”), and claim the high ground for our species. We are least human, we think, when we succumb to our primitive, animal ancestry. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.

Animals, at least predators, kill to survive, indeed, but there is nothing in the annals of animal aggression remotely equivalent to the violence of humankind. Our burden is that humans, and in particular humans in our modern industrialized world, are the most violent animals to our own kind in existence, or possibly ever in existence on earth. We lack what all other animals have: a check on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. It is here, Masson says, that animals have something to teach us about our own history.In Beasts, he brings to life the richness of the animal world and strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, an ex-psychoanalyst and former director of the Freud Archives, is the author of numerous bestselling books on animal emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep. He lives in New Zealand with his family. Visit his Web site at www.jeffreymasson.com. SCIENCE

A NEW HISTORY OF BLOOMSBURY PRESS USA PUBLICATION DATE: LIFE 04/03/2014 The Radical New Discoveries EXTENT 352 about the Origins and Evolution TRANSLATION RIGHTS of Life on Earth BLOOMSBURY Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward RIGHTS SOLD Revolutionary scientists Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward unravel the true story of life on Earth, from our beginnings on Mars to our eventual extinction For decades, our principal account of life on Earth has remained un- changed in spite of the flaws that various studies have exposed. Using their own groundbreaking research, scientists Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward here re-write the story of life on Earth, from the very beginning.

Starting with the formation of the Solar System, an estimated 4.6 billion years ago, A New History of Life begins by showing how life can travel from planet to planet and recounts how the first life on Earth in fact began on Mars. A vexation for many scientists, including Darwin, was not the inception of life, but its sudden growth and the speed with which species propagated. Kirschvink and Ward explore how the pres- ence of sulphur-eating microbes was responsible for delaying the rise of animals for billions of years, and reveal what forced fish out of the sea in the first place.

They examine how developments in the environment led to the planet freezing over many times before the emergence of monstrous dino- saurs and other giant animals, and look at the reasons for these great beasts’ eventual extinction, not an asteroid but a volcanic eruption that caused the biggest greenhouse effect in history. Finally charting the course of human evolution, from the first mutations, they will then tackle when the end of Earth life’s history will take place and whether it can possibly continue.

Joe Kirschvink received his PhD from Princeton University and is the Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology at the Califor- nia Institute of Technology. He runs a lab devoted to paleomagnet- ism, and is an authority on the use of magnetism as a diagnostic of the turbulent history of the planet.

Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology, and Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, and has appeared in numerous television documenta- ries and his eight-hour series, Animal Armageddon, was televised in 2009. He has also written seventeen books, including the bestselling Rare Earth and On Methuselah’s Trail, which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. SCIENCE

LAST APE STANDING BLOOMSBURY USA Chip Walter PUBLICATION DATE: PUBLISHED 27 human species evolved but only we remain. Why? EXTENT Over the past 180 years scientists have sifted through evidence that at 304 with 8 page insert least twenty-seven human species have evolved on planet Earth. Yet TRANSLATION RIGHTS of all of them, why does only one remain? What enabled us to survive BLOOMSBURY when so many other human species were shown the evolutionary door? RIGHTS SOLD

The author of Thumbs, Toes, and Tears—And Other Traits That Make Us Human, Chip Walter tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature’s brutal and capricious ways we stand here today, the only surviving humans, and the planet’s most dominant species. Draw- ing on a wide variety of scientific disciplines, he reveals how a rare evolutionary phenomenon led to the uniquely long childhoods that make us so resourceful and emotionally complex. He looks at why we developed a new kind of mind and how our highly social nature has shaped our moral (and immoral) behavior. And in exploring the traits that enabled our success, he plumbs the roots of our creativity and investigates why we became self-aware in ways that no other animal is. Along the way, Last Ape Standing profiles the mysterious “others” who evolved with us and who have also shaped our kind in startling ways —the Neanderthals of Europe, the “Hobbits” of Indonesia, the Denisovans of Siberia, and the recently discovered Red Deer Cave people of China, who died off just as we stood at the brink of civilization eleven thousand years ago.

Last Ape Standing is evocative science writing at its best—a witty, engaging, and accessible story that explores the forces that molded us into the peculiar and astonishing creatures we are. If you’re curious to understand the roots of why we do, feel, and think the things we do as a species and as individuals—good and bad, ingenious and cunning, heroic and conflicted––read this book.

Chip Walter is the founder of the popular website AllThingsHuman. net, a former CNN bureau chief, feature film screenwriter, PBS documentary filmmaker, and author-in-residence at the Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Economist, Discover, Scientific American, and numerous other publications and websites. He is author of three books and his writing has been published in six languages. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylva- nia.

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THE ATTACKING BLOOMSBURY PRESS USA PUBLICATION DATE: OCEAN 06/06/2013 EXTENT Brian Fagan 320 Brian Fagan returns to the topics that made The Great Warming a TRANSLATION RIGHTS bestseller: explaining the role of climate change in history, this BLOOMSBURY time focused on rising sea levels and how the ocean has given riches, and calamity, to humans on Earth’s coastlines RIGHTS SOLD The past fifteen thousand years - the entire span of human civilization - have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on Earth, and also because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines.

Global sea levels stabilised about six thousand years ago except for local adjustments that caused often quite significant changes to places like the Nile Delta. So the curve of inexorably rising seas flattened out as urban civilizations developed in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and South Asia. The earth’s population boomed, quintupling from the time of Christ to the Industrial Revolution. The threat from the oceans in- creased with our crowding along shores to live, fish, and trade.

Since 1860, the world has warmed significantly and the ocean’s climb has speeded. The sea level changes are cumulative and gradual; no one knows when they will end. The Attacking Ocean tells a tale of the rising complexity of the relationship between humans and the sea at their doorsteps, a complexity created not by the oceans, which have changed but little. What has changed is us, and the number of us on Earth.

Brian Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the Univer- sity of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Beyond the Blue Horizon, Elixir, the Los Angeles Times bestseller Cro-Magnon, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming, and many other books, including Fish on Friday, The Long Summer, and The Little Ice Age. He has decades of experience at sea and is the author of several titles for sailors, including the widely praised Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California. http://www.brianfagan.com/

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SPECTRUMS BLOOMSBURY USA David Blatner PUBLICATION DATE: Published From the author of The Joy of Pi and The Flying Book, an engaging new guide to the intricacies of the world around us. EXTENT 192 In Spectrums, David Blatner blends narrative and illustration to illumi- 2 colour throughout nate the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, TRANSLATION RIGHTS size, light, sound, heat, and time. There is actually very little in this uni- BLOOMSBURY verse that we can feel, touch, see, hear, or possibly even comprehend. RIGHTS SOLD: It’s not an easy task to stretch the mind to encompass both billions of GERMANY: BERLIN years and billionths of seconds; the distance to Jupiter and the size of JAPAN: KINOKUNIYA CO a proton; the tiny waves of visible light and gargantuan but invisible LTD gamma rays; or the freezing point of Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atom bomb. Exploring these far-reaching spectrums gives us fascinating perspective on our small but not insignificant place in the universe.

With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, illustrated by a wealth of photographs and diagrams, Blatner helps us “grok”-understand intuitively-six spectrums we encounter constantly, making our daily lives richer and more meaningful through greater appreciation of the bizarre and beautiful world in which we live.

David Blatner is known for his award-winning books, including The Joy of Pi, The Flying Book, and various books on computer science topics, such as InDesign, Quark XPress, and Photoshop. He lectures worldwide on electronic publishing. More than 500,000 copies of his books are in print in twelve languages. He and his wife and son live in Seattle, Washington.

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RIVER COTTAGE FRUIT BLOOMSBURY UK

PUBLICATION DATE: EVERY DAY! 12/09/2013

EXTENT Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 416 To tie in with a major new TV series, easy recipes that US PUBLISHER welcome fruit into cooking TEN SPEED Hugh has been unconsciously sneaking more and more fruit into TRANSLATION RIGHTS his recipes for a couple of years now - and he doesn’t want to stop! BLOOMSBURY He’s come up with a book that revolutionises the way that it’s used in cooking, with 200 recipes that are delicious, original and surreptitiously RIGHTS SOLD: healthy. A ‘piece of fruit’ in a lunch box, on the breakfast table or at the end of a meal is all very well. But we are still a nation who thinks it’s a bit racy to slice a banana onto our cornflakes in the morning. The fantastic resource of fruit - so delicious and so very very good for us - is ridiculously underexplored in our kitchens. This cookbook puts that right.

Hugh’s brilliant new recipes have carefully balanced flavour combinations for sturdy fare like marinated lamb and fig kebabs; goat tagine with apricots and almonds; chicken and fig couscous; venison stew with morello cherries; and pumpkin and pear curry. There are also fresh and zingy ideas like pineapple, melon and mint, as well as delicious cakes, tarts, pies, crumbles and puddings.

With glorious photography from Simon Wheeler, River Cottage Fruit Every Day! will bring a joyful fruitiness back to your kitchen and get you thinking about cooking in a whole new way.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy (twice), the André Simon Food Book of the Year (three times), the Michael Smith Award (twice), the Observer Food Monthly Best Cookbook and, in the US, the James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Hugh lives in Devon with his family.

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RIVER COTTAGE BLOOMSBURY UK HANDBOOK SERIES PUBLICATION DATE: COMING SOON:

These are the River Cottage Handbooks and have sold over 275,000 BOOZE copies to date. CURING AND SMOKING Indispensible guides to various food related topics with an introduction PIGS AND PORK from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and full-colour photographs as well as illustrations.

In the twelfth River Cottage Handbook, John Wright explains how to home-brew and make your own tipples. COOKERY & GARDENING

HISTORIC HESTON BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Heston Blumenthal 10/10/2013

The greatest British dishes, as reinvented by Heston Blumenthal EXTENT 400, slipcase, stained edges and British gastronomy has a grand old tradition that has been lost over ribbons time. Now our most inventive chef is out to reclaim it. Heston Blumenthal, whose name is synonymous with cutting-edge cuisine, US PUBLISHER nonetheless finds his greatest source of inspiration in the unique and BLOOMSBURY USA delicious food that our sceptered isle once produced. This has been the secret to his success at world-famous restaurants The Fat Duck and TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY Dinner, where a contrast between old and new, modern and historic, is key. RIGHTS SOLD

Historic Heston charts a quest for identity through the best of British cooking that stretches from medieval to late-Victorian recipes. Start with thirty historic dishes, take them apart, put them together again and what have you got? A sublime twenty-first-century take on delicacies including meat fruit (1500), quaking pudding (1660) and mock turtle soup (1892). Heston examines the history behind each one’s invention and the science that makes it work. He puts these dishes in their social context and follows obscure culinary trails, fer- reting out such curious sources as The Queen-like Closet from 1672 (which offers an excellent method for drying goose). What it adds up to is an idiosyncratic culinary history of Britain.

This glorious tome also gives a unique insight into the way that Heston works, with signature dishes from both Dinner and The Fat Duck. With illustrations from the genius that is Dave McKean, and some of the most superb food photography you’ll ever see, Historic Heston is a book to treasure. You think you know about British cooking? Think again.

Entirely self-taught, Heston Blumenthal is the most progressive chef of his generation. In 2004 he won the coveted three Michelin stars in near-record time for his restaurant The Fat Duck. It has repeatedly been voted into the top ten of the World’s Best Restaurants by an international panel of 800 experts, as has his second restaurant Dinner. In 2006 he was awarded an OBE.

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BREAD BLOOMSBURY UK Paul Hollywood PUBLICATION DATE: PUBLISHED The last word in baking from the UK’s favourite expert EXTENT Paul Hollywood is Britain’s favourite baker. His new book is all about bread - how to make it and how to use it. But while it’s all very well making a lovely loaf of bread, can you guarantee that it won’t be US PUBLISHER wasted? You know those times when you have a lovely crusty loaf, BLOOMSBURY USA fresh from the oven, and you have a horrible feeling that after the initial excitement is over, half of it’s going to get pushed aside and not TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY eaten...? Well, maybe it’s time to bring bread back into mealtimes for real. Not only does Paul teach you exactly how to make a variety of RIGHTS SOLD breads, but for each one there is a spin-off recipe that shows you how to make a fantastic meal of it.

The book has six chapters, each with five bread recipes plus the spin- off recipes for main courses. Not only are Paul’s recipes delicious but they are also foolproof, with comprehensive step-by-step photographs. Try your hand at a basic white bloomer, which can be come a savoury picnic loaf; stilton and bacon rolls, which are excellent served with celery soup; fluffy crumpets, which become the base for eggs Benedict; flatbreads which are a natural pairing with chickpea masala; ciabatta, which the Italians have traditionally used as a base for tomatoey panzanella; pizza bases, which can become home-made fig, Parma ham and Gorgonzola pizzas; or white chocolate and raspberry bread, which makes for the best summer pudding you’ve ever tasted.

Tying in with the BBC2 television series, Paul Hollywood’s Bread is all that you could want from a book and more. Get baking!

The son of a baker, Paul Hollywood has shot to fame with his role as a judge on The Great British Bake Off. He worked as Head Baker at exclusive hotels including Cliveden and the Dorchester and he went on to launch The Paul Hollywood Artisan Bread Company, which now supplies Harrods among others.

www.paulhollywood.com / @hollywoodbaker

Praise for How to Bake:

‘I went straight for the flatbread recipe and it worked like a dream’ Nigel Slater

‘Home baking is all the rage – thanks in no small was to Paul Hollywood’ Sunday Telegraph COOKERY & GARDENING

POLPO BLOOMSBURY UK Russell Norman PUBLICATION DATE: PUBLISHED A Venetian Cookbook (of sorts) EXTENT WINNER OF THE GOURMAND AWARD FOR BEST BOOK 320 ON ITALIAN CUISINE 2013 US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY USA SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN AWARD 2012 TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012 RIGHTS SOLD Russell Norman is one of the most talked-about chefs on the GERMANY: CHRISTIAN Tatler Food scene, voted ‘Restaurateur of the Year’ at the 2011 VERLAG Awards HOLLAND: KARAKTER Tucked away in a backstreet of London’s edgy Soho district, POLPO is one of the hottest restaurants in town. Critics and food aficionados have been flocking to this understated bàcaro where Russell Norman serves up dishes from the back streets of Venice. A far cry from the tourist-trap eateries of the famous floating city, this kind of cooking is unfussy, innovative and exuberantly delicious.

The 140 recipes in the book include caprese stacks; zucchini shoe- string fries; asparagus with Parmesan and anchovy butter; butternut risotto; arancini, rabbit cacciatore; warm duck salad with wet walnuts and beets; crispy baby pizzas with prosciutto and rocket; scallops with lemon and peppermint; mackerel tartare; linguine with clams; whole sea bream; warm octopus salad; soft-shell crab in Parmesan batter with fennel salad; walnut and honey semifreddo; tiramisù; fizzy bellinis and glasses of bright orange spritz.

With luminescent photography by Jenny Zarins, which captures the unfrequented corners, the bustling bàcari and the sublime waterways of Venice, POLPO is a dazzling tribute to Italy’s greatest hidden cuisine.

Russell Norman spent four years running some of London’s most venerated restaurants in the Caprice Holdings group, before turning his back on the high life, getting a tattoo of an octopus on his back and setting up his own place in scruffy Soho. Fusing the energy of New York with the cuisine of Venice, it was an instant hit. POLPO has been followed in quick succession by Polpetto, da Polpo, Spuntino and Mishkin’s, among others. Russell Norman lives in London.

@PolpoSoho

Praise for POLPO:

‘Wonderful ... the dishes are simple, with relatively few ingredients, but they’re inspired. The grilled courgettes with toasted breadcrumbs, for instance, was sublime. The pages of my book are already smeared with olive oil and egg; a good sign’ Evening Standard

‘A brilliant Italian bacaro in London’s Soho’ Jay Rayner

‘It is inspiring when done this well’ Daily Telegraph COOKERY & GARDENING

ATUL’S CURRIES OF ABSOLUTE PRESS

PUBLICATION DATE: THE WORLD 14/03/2013

Atul Kochhar EXTENT TBC Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar maps out a collection of more than 200 wonderful curries in a celebration of the world’s US PUBLISHER most loved dish. BLOOMSBURY USA This is a book for spice lovers of all cuisines. Atul explores curries of the world, looking to his native India, of course, but also to Asia and TRANSLATION RIGHTS Africa, to the Americas, Europe and even the UK. Curry remains one BLOOMSBURY of the world’s most popular dishes and Atul’s collection of mouth- RIGHTS SOLD: watering dishes does more than enough to convince us why. Over 100 recipes show curry in all its fantastic forms, from mild to hot, continent hopping to reveal how one country shares with and differs from the next. A collection of inspiring, intoxicating spiced dishes that cover meat, fish and vegetable curries from all corners of the globe: this promises to be a book you will cook from again and again.

Atul Kochhar is one of the world’s leading chefs and the holder of a Michelin star since 2006 at his restarrant, Benares, in the heart of London’s Mayfair. His knwoledge and love for curries is legendary. He is also the author of Fish, Indian Style. COOKERY & GARDENING

CHRISTIE’S BLOOMSBURY UK ABSOLUTE PRESS

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PUBLICATION DATE: CHAMPAGNE AND 07/11/2013 EXTENT SPARKLING WINE 528 US PUBLISHER Tom Stevenson and Essi Avellan BLOOMSBURY USA A new edition of the world’s leading work on sparkling wine by TRANSLATION RIGHTS the world’s leading authority on Champagne and sparkling wine. BLOOMSBURY As consumption of both Champagne and sparkling wine is rising across the world, here is a fully revised, updated and expanded edition RIGHTS SOLD of the book that won Absolute Press and Tom Stevenson the World Gourmand Award for ‘Best Wine Book’, and which was also shortlisted for the Andre Simon Award. It was also the winner of the Salon International du Livre Gourmand ‘Best Wine Book’ (recognised by the French within 24 hours of coming off the press); the Noble Cuvée du Champagne Lanson Award and recipient of World Food Media Award’s ‘Silver Ladle’.

It was the first book to include the publication of Merret’s historic document that proved Champagne was a British invention. This ensured that it became (and still is) the only wine book ever to warrant a leader in a British national newspaper (The Guardian, 14 October 1998).

On first publication, over 150,000 copies were presold in French and German language editions alone. For this edition, Sterling in the USA are already on board to take 6,000 copies of the new edition.

Tom Stevenson has long been regarded as the world’s leading authority on Champagne and sparkling wine and is one of the world’s leading and most respected wine writers. He is also the author of Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopaedia, with sales of over 1.5 million in all editions worldwide.

Essi Avellan MW is one of the world’s most exciting and talented young wine writers, and only the second Scandinavian to gain the coveted Master of Wine qualification. She is the editor of FINE Cham- pagne Magazine. COOKERY & GARDENING

ICE CREAM ABSOLUTE PRESS Ben Vear PUBLICATION DATE: 04/07/2013 A benchmark book of ice cream recipes, from the third generation of one of England’s most famous and wonderful ice-cream EXTENT making families, Winstones. 288

This is a beautifully illustrated book that will include disciplines of all US PUBLISHER things iced and cold featuring over 100 recipes, from simple, delicious BLOOMSBURY USA ice creams such as strawberry and butterscotch chip to a fantastic array of other iced treats such as sorbets, smoothies, granitas, gelatos, frozen TRANSLATION RIGHTS yoghurts, milkshakes and some fun molecular experiments to boot. BLOOMSBURY

Winstones is one of theUK’s longest-running and most respected RIGHTS SOLD family ice-cream producers, founded by Ben’s great grandfather Albert Winstone in 1925 in the heart of the Cotswolds. All of the ice cream recipes in this book remain true to Albert’s original base recipe, brought up to scratch by Ben. I n July, Ben was featured in the Metro and the Guardian as one of Britain’s rising foodie stars and completed filming with Channel 4 for the new Heston Blumenthal series, Heston’s Mega Food (airs August 2012) giving guidance on ice-cream making and telling the tale of his historic family business.

Twenty-three-year-old Ben Vear is a fourth generation, award winning ice cream maker at his historic family business Winstones Ice Cream. He has recently been shortlisted as Young British Foodie of the Year (2012), Ben is the founder of the Campaign for Real Ice Cream and the Pop-up Pudding Parlour. COOKERY & GARDENING

MASTERCHEF: ABSOLUTE PRESS PUBLICATION DATE: THE FINALISTS 24/10/2013 The first tie-in book in an exciting new chapter for the world’s EXTENT most successful TV brand TBC US PUBLISHER A superb collection of 90 recipes from MasterChef Series 9’s three BLOOMSBURY USA finalists will showcase the food and culinary ambition that took each to the final of the competition. Half of the recipes will be new and -ex TRANSLATION RIGHTS clusive to the book. Beautifully designed and photographed by one of BLOOMSBURY the world’s best food photographers, David Loftus, this is a book for RIGHTS SOLD all fans of the series, and for foodies and cookbook lovers everywhere: a new concept and a new look for the publishing face of everyone’s favourite TV food show.

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THE BREAKFAST BIBLE BLOOMSBURY UK

PUBLICATION DATE: Seb Emina & Malcolm Eggs 14/02/2013

Everything there is to know about breakfast EXTENT 256

When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book US PUBLISHER to end all books, a delectable selection of recipes, advice, illustrations BLOOMSBURY USA and miscellany. TRANSLATION RIGHTS The recipes in the robust volume begin with the iconic full English, BLOOMSBURY which can mean anything as long as there are eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, bread, potatoes and beans RIGHTS SOLD involved before moving confidently on to more exotic fare such as kedgeree, omelette Arnold Bennett, waffles, American muffins, porridge, roast peaches, channa masala from India, borek from the Balkans and pães de queijo from South America. There are also useful tips like the top songs for boiling an egg to, and how to store mushrooms.

Interspersing the practicalities of putting a good breakfast together are essays and miscellanies from a crack team of eggsperts. Among them are H.P. Seuss, Blake Pudding, Poppy Tartt and Malcolm Eggs, who offer their musings on such varied topics as forgotten breakfast cereals of the 1980s, famous last breakfasts and Freud’s famous Breakfast Dream.

Whether you are a cereal purist, a dedicated fan of eggs and bacon or a breakfast-aficionado with a world view,The Breakfast Bible is the most important book of the day.

Seb Emina is the creator and editor of The London Review of Breakfasts blog, where he writes under the nom de plume of ‘Malcolm Eggs’. His writing has appeared in newspapers and books internationally. He lives in London. londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com / @sebemina COOKERY & GARDENING

EVERY GRAIN OF RICE BLOOMSBURY UK Fuchsia Dunlop PUBLICATION DATE: PUBLISHED A ground-breaking introduction to Chinese home cooking EXTENT Fuchsia Dunlop trained as a chef at China’s leading cooking school 352 and is internationally renowned for her delicious recipes and bril- US PUBLISHER liant writing about Chinese food. Every Grain of Rice is inspired by the NORTON healthy and vibrant home cooking of southern China, in which meat and fish are enjoyed in moderation, but vegetables play the starring TRANSLATION RIGHTS role. BLOOMSBURY

Try your hand at blanched choy sum with sizzling oil, Hangzhou broad RIGHTS SOLD beans with ham, pock-marked old woman’s beancurd or steamed HOLLAND: KARAKTER chicken with shiitake mushrooms, or, if you’re ever in need of a quick fix, Fuchsia’s emergency late-night noodles.

Many of the recipes require few ingredients and are startlingly easy to make. The book includes a comprehensive introduction to the key seasonings and techniques of the Chinese kitchen, as well as the ‘magic ingredients’ that can transform modest vegetarian ingredients into wonderful delicacies.

With stunning photography and clear instructions, this is an essential volume for beginners and connoisseurs alike.

Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine, and has been travelling around China collecting recipes for nearly two decades. She writes for the Financial Times, the New Yorker and the Observer, among others. Her previous books include the award-winning Sichuan Cookery and Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper. www.fuchsiadunlop.com / @fuchsiadunlop

Praise for Every Grain of Rice:

‘Delicious and authentic Chinese food made clear, easy and accessible. Brilliant’ Jamie Oliver

‘A world authority on Chinese cooking ... Her approach is a happy mixture of scholarly and gluttonous’ Observer Food Monthly

‘The best writer in the West ... on Chinese food’ Daily Telegraph

‘Fuchsia has a rare ability to convey an encyclopaedic knowledge of Chinese cuisine in a compelling and totally delicious way’ Heston Blumenthal

‘Fuchsia Dunlop joins the ranks of literary food writers such as Elizabeth David and Claudia Roden’ Independent COOKERY & GARDENING

INTERNATIONAL BLOOMSBURY USA

PUBLICATION DATE: NIGHTS 04/03/2014

Mark Kurlansky EXTENT 352 From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savory passport that takes families across the globe with delicious and accessible TRANSLATION RIGHTS recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical. BLOOMSBURY

Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe and wherever RIGHTS SOLD his daughter’s finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night’s dinner. Their tradition of International Nights has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia--and now the readers of International Nights--the recipes, stories, and insights he’s collected over more than thirty years of traveling the world writing about food, culture, and history, and his charming pen-and-ink drawings, which appear throughout the book.

International Nights is brimming with recipes for fifty-two special meals--appetizers, a main course, side dishes, and dessert for each-- one for every week of the year. Some are old favorites from Mark’s repertoire, and others gleaned from research. Always, they are his own version, drawn from techniques he learned as a professional chef and from many years of talking to chefs, producers, and household cooks around the world. Despite these insights, every recipe is designed to be carried out--easily--by any amateur chef, and they are designed to be completed with the assistance of children.

Mark and Talia invite you and your family into their kitchen, outfitted with overflowing packets of exotic spices and aromas of delicacies from Tanzania and Kazakhstan to Cuba and Norway. From there, recipes and toothsome morsels of cultural and historical information will fill your bellies and your minds, and transport you to countries all around the world.

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, and The Eastern Stars, among many other books. He lives in New York. Visit his Web site at www.markkurlansky.com. SPORT

FUTEBOL BLOOMSBURY UK The Brazilian Way of Life PUBLICATION DATE: 01/05/2014

Alex Bellos EXTENT 432 The bestselling classic completely updated for the World Cup 2014 - new chapter available July 2013 US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY USA The Brazilian football team is one of the modern wonders of the world. At its best it exudes a skill, flamboyance and romantic pull TRANSLATION RIGHTS like nothing else on Earth. Football is how the world sees Brazil and BLOOMSBURY how Brazilians see themselves. The game symbolises racial harmony, RIGHTS SOLD flamboyance, youth, innovation and skill, and yet football is also a microcosm of Latin America’s largest country and contains all of its contradictions.

Travelling extensively from the Uruguayan border to the northeastern backlands, from the coastal cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to the Amazon jungle -Bellos shows how Brazil changed football and how football shaped Brazil. He tells the stories behind the great players, like Pele and Garrincha, between the great teams, like Corinthians and Vasco de Gama, and the great matches, as well as extraordinary stories from people and pitches all over this vast country.

With an unerring eye for a good story and a marvellous ear for the voices of the people he meets, Alex Bellos describes the startling range of football spinoffs found in Brazil; from Autoball, literally football with cars and a giant leather ball to Ecoball, played in the heart of the rainforest, from Button football and its highly regulated procedures organised by fearsome Buttonistas to the truly alarming Footbull (yes with bulls).

Alex Bellos was formerly the correspondent for the Guardian and the Observer in Rio de Janeiro where he has lived and worked for four years. SPORT

THE MANAGER BLOOMSBURY UK Inside the Minds of Football’s Leaders PUBLICATION DATE: 29/08/2013

Mike Carson EXTENT 320 An examination of key leadership issues using in-depth interviews with the biggest names in football management, published US PUBLISHER with the full support of the League Managers’ Association. BLOOMSBURY USA

From the post room to the board room, everyone thinks they can be TRANSLATION RIGHTS the manager. But how do you manage outrageous talent? What do BLOOMSBURY you do to inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around RIGHTS SOLD a team in crisis? What’s the best way to build long-term success? How SLOVAKIA: TATRAN can you lead calmly under pressure? The issues are the same whether you’re managing a Premier League football team or a FTSE 100 company.

Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in football management reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans, these managers need to be the most adroit of leaders. In The Manager they explain their methods, give examples of lessons they’ve learned along the way, and describe the decisions they make and the leadership they provide.

Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue for managers in any walk of life and, in their own words, shows how the experts deal with the challenges they face in an abnormally high-pressure environment. Of- fering valuable lessons for business leaders and fascinating behind-the- scenes insights for football fans, The Manager is an honest, accessible and unprecedented look at the day-to-day work of these high-profile characters and the world of top-level football management.

Contents: A Piece of the Action (Roy Hodgson); The Art of One-on- One (Carlo Ancelotti); Behind the Scenes (Arsène Wenger); Building High-performing Teams (Sam Allardyce); The Field of Play (Roberto Mancini); Handling Outrageous Talent (José Mourinho); Pursuing a Career Under Pressure (Brendan Rodgers); Seeing the Bigger Picture (Harry Redknapp); Creating Sustained Success (Sir Alex Ferguson); Crisis Response and Turnaround (Walter Smith); Triumph and De- spair (Mick McCarthy).

Also featuring: Gerard Houllier, Tony Pulis, Martin O’Neill, Neil War- nock, Howard Wilkinson, Kevin Keegan, Dario Gradi, Andre Villas- Boas, David Moyes, Alex McLeish, Hope Powell, Martin Jol, Glenn Hoddle, Chris Hughton, David Platt, Paul Ince, and George Graham.

Mike Carson worked for McKinsey & Co for five years and now runs his own consulting business. He’s a leadership expert and a Manchester City fan. SPORT

LOST: BLOOMSBURY UK The Frank Vandenbroucke Story PUBLICATION DATE: 05/06/2014

John Deering EXTENT 320 Frank Vandenbroucke is the great lost talent of world road cycling. Born in Mouscron in Belgium in 1974, he went on to race for some US PUBLISHER of the biggest professional teams on the world circuit, and became the BLOOMSBURY USA darling of the cycling press for his daring approach to winning races. TRANSLATION RIGHTS Between 1993 and 1999 he won a slew of races, including the Liège– BLOOMSBURY Bastogne–Liège (known amongst the cycling fraternity as the hardest race in the world), Het Volk, Paris–Nice, Paris–Brussels and stages of RIGHTS SOLD the Tour of Spain. The Tour de France was in his sights.

But his personal life was another story; he became addicted to cocaine and succumbed to pressures within his teams to take EPO and other performance-enhancing drugs. The notorious Cofidis team – where he was joint team leader with David Millar – eventually broke him. He moved on to a number of other teams until he effectively ended his career in 2004, aged only 30. Five years later, he was dead.

Lost pieces together the chaos of VDB’s life and career, filling in the gaps between the outrageous highs and the tragic lows, and telling the story of one of cycling’s most talented but unconventional characters for the first time.

John Deering’s first book,Team on the Run, was a study of his time with the chaotic but charismatic Linda McCartney Cycling Team. Since then he has written two more books – Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force and 12 Months in the Saddle – and regularly contributes to publications such as Procycling, The Official Tour de France Guide and Ride Cycling Review. SPORT

FASTER: BLOOMSBURY UK The Art, Science, Dedication and PUBLICATION DATE: 27/03/2014

Luck Behind the World’s Fastest EXTENT 320

Cyclists US PUBLISHER Michael Hutchinson BLOOMSBURY USA For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster RIGHTS SOLD will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right – it’s the doing everything right that’s hard. And that’s what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchison.

With his usual deadpan delivery and an awareness that it’s all mildly preposterous, Hutchison looks at the things that make you faster – training, nutrition, the right psychology – and explains how they work, and how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower, and why, and how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style corners.

Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches and the boffins get up to behind the scenes, and about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.

Michael Hutchinson is a cyclist with more than 50 British champion- ship titles to his name. He represented Britain at the World Champion- ships and Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games in 2002, 2006 and 2010, and was previously a member of the all-conquering GB track squad, training with the likes of Chris Hoy and Bradley Wig- gins.

He is the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly and a commentator for most major cycling events on Eurosport.

This is his third book, and the follow-up to The Hour, for which he won the Best New Writer at the 2007 British Sports Book Awards. SPORT

FOUL PLAY: BLOOMSBURY UK The Dark Arts of Cheating in PUBLICATION DATE: 18/07//2013

Sports EXTENT Mike Rowbottom 208 US PUBLISHER Foul Play looks at cheating in sport in all its guises: from BLOOMSBURY USA doping to match-fixing, from tampering with equipment to mind games. Where to draw the line between games- TRANSLATION RIGHTS manship and outright cheating? Foul Play investigates the BLOOMSBURY lengths some people will go to just to win. RIGHTS SOLD: Foul Play dissects the age-old subject of cheating in all its absurdity. From plain old doping to claiming a marathon victory despite having driven the middle section of the race, from match-fixing to diving for a penalty - cheating in sport is as old as sport itself.

There are plenty of well-known cases of cheats being found out in sport: Ben Johnson, for example, was stripped of his 100m Olym- pic medal after a positive drugs test; South African cricketer Hansie Cronje was banned from all cricket for life after admitting involvement in match-rigging; the rugby union recently found itself having to deal with the “bloodgate” scandal. However, there are myriad other examples of bending the rules more subtly: pressuring the referee, demoralising an opponent with mind games, or shirt-pulling.

But what constititues cheating and where do we draw the line? Are some sports cleaner than others? Is cheating in one sport the same as cheating in another or does each sport’s distinctive culture set different standards? Is there such a thing as a sport without sin? Or, indeed, a sporting competitor?

This book is not a catalogue of past sporting misdemeanours so much as an investigation into the lengths to which some sports people have gone, and will go, to get the better of others. And also the lengths to which they will not go.

Mike Rowbottom has written about sport for The Times, the Guardian, the Observer and the Independent for more than two decades and is now chief features writer for insidethegames.biz. He has covered the last six summer Olympics and four winter Olympics, as well as many other sports. He co-wrote Olympic athlete Roger Black’s autobiography How Long’s The Course? and is the author of Usain Bolt: Fast as Lightning. SPORT

DANISH DYNAMITE BLOOMSBURY UK The Story of the World’s Coolest Football PUBLICATION DATE: Team 24/04/2014 EXTENT Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen and 288 Mike Gibobons US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY USA

Danish Dynamite is the story of the Denmark side of the 1980s, one of TRANSLATION RIGHTS the last truly iconic international football teams. They were a bewitch- BLOOMSBURY ing fusion of futuristic attacking football, languorous, Scandinavian RIGHTS SOLD cool and hard-living excess, which made them everyone’s second team in the mid-1980s.

The story of Danish Dynamite, as the team became known, is as much about an array of characters that a scriptwriter would kill for as it is about the football. They were rock stars in a polyester Hummel kit – and from a country with no real football history and a population of just five million. The fact that the players were so humble and likeable, everymen off the field and superheroes on it, is in complete contrast with the gaudy excess and charmless arrogance of today’s football stars. They chain-smoked (sometimes squeezing one in at half-time) and swilled beer. When they were rewarded for their qualification for the semi-final of Euro 84 with a 5am curfew, most of the players failed to make it back in time. This story simply could not happen anymore.

Like all the best stories, this has a bittersweet kick. The Danes ultimately imploded in spectacular style; at the time it was shocking, unfathomable stuff, but hindsight tells us it had to be this way. But their impact transcended results, and in 2008 World Soccer magazine’s experts’ poll put them as the 16th greatest team of all time – above any side in history from Argentina, Spain, Germany, Liverpool, Manchester United or Internazionale, and the only international side of the last 25 years to make the top 20.

Rob Smyth works for the Guardian and has also written for Wisden, Intelligent Life, GQ Style, Sports Illustrated and the official Manchester United magazine. This is his fifth book. Lars Eriksen is a Danish freelance journalist who writes about Danish football for the Guardian’s sports section. Mike Gibbons has written for the Planet World Cup website, extracts of which have been republished in numerous books, including a full article on George Best’s international career in George Best: A Celebration. SPORT

TUTENKHAMEN’S BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: TRACKSUIT 10/10/2013 The history of sport in 100-ish objects EXTENT 176 Tyers & Beach FULL COLOUR US PUBLISHER Tutankhamen’s Tracksuit ransacks the dusty lockers of the world’s BLOOMSBURY USA dressing rooms to present a unique collection of found (i.e. TRANSLATION RIGHTS made-up) objects drawn from history. Illuminating the most BLOOMSBURY famous moments, personalities and controversies in sport - from match-fixing in Ancient Egypt to Tweeted kiss-and-tells - no RIGHTS SOLD sporting stone is left unturned.

The 100 objects are presented as a unique collection of sporting ephemera curated by Gideon Rupert, Acting Director of the National Museum for Sport And Fishing, Orkney. The artefacts are interestingly varied: spoof diaries, school reports, advertisements, news articles, intercepted emails, letters, ticket stubs, movie treatments, prescriptions, postcards, seating plans, tactical diagrams, cave paintings, decorated pottery etc. Each tells the story of a well-known event or personality in an oblique and irreverent way.

Objects include:

* The optician’s prescription for the 1966 World Cup Russian linesman

* A news report of an ear-biting scandal in the Roman Gladiatorial arena

* An advert for Roger Bannister’s four-minute egg timer

* Transcript of Jose Mourinho’s translations of Bobby Robson’s managerial instructions

* Memo from Zeus to the Olympic Committee Of The Gods

* John McEnroe’s Little Book Of Calm

* Police Traffic Incident Report of Ben Hur chariot race

The book is designed in the style of a museum catalogue with curator’s notes, spurious academic references, and fictional sponsors’ logos. Mocked-up documents or photorealistic illustrations of each artefact are presented alongside a brief description of their history and provenance.

Alan Tyers is a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph. Beach is an illustrator and cartoonist who regularly contributes to the Cricketer magazine among many other publications. They are the authors of CrickiLeaks: The Secret Ashes Diaries, W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo, and Gin & Juice www.tyersandbeach.com SPORT

LUIS OCANA BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: BIOGRAPHY 22/05/2014 EXTENT Alasdair Fotheringham 320

Luis Ocaña was the one rider capable of beating the all-conquering US PUBLISHER Eddy Merkcx, aka ‘The Cannibal’, in his prime. But after Ocaña most BLOOMSBURY USA famously did so – early in the 1971 Tour de France – an appalling downhill crash in a thunderstorm wrenched away his leader’s jersey TRANSLATION RIGHTS – and with it his best chance of destroying Merckx’s reputation of BLOOMSBURY invincibility. RIGHTS SOLD SLOVAKIA: TATRAN Doomed to live in the shadow of cycling’s greatest ever rider, Ocaña’s entire career was defined by Merckx. But while everyone else threw in the towel and let Merckx rack up the wins, Ocaña never gave up. He was the one rider who refused to buckle under the all-conquering Bel- gian, and with a spectacular 120km solo breakaway in the 1971 Tour, he inflicted the worst ever defeat the Cannibal would endure.

This is the first ever biography in English of the man they dubbed ‘the Spanish Merckx’. Exiled from his home country at six, and an enigmatic outsider to both the Spanish and French throughout his career yet Spain’s second ever Tour de France winner (in 1973, when Merckx was absent), Ocaña’s story contains some of the most beautiful and gripping episodes in the history of the sport but ends with him tragically taking his own life in mysterious circumstances aged just 48.

Based in Spain since 1990, Alasdair Fotheringham has been the cycling correspondent for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday since 2001, and covered the Tour de France and other major cycling races, including the World Championships and the Olympics, since 1992. He is also a regular contributor to the Express and Reuters on cycling, as well as Cycle Sport and Cycling Weekly, and the world’s biggest cycling website, cyclingnews.com.

His first book,The Eagle of Toledo, a biography of cyclist Federico Martín Bahamontes, was published in 2012. SPORT

THE GREAT TAMASHA BLOOMSBURY UK Cricket, Corruption and the Rise PUBLICATION DATE: 04/07/2013 of Modern India EXTENT 272

James Astill US PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY USA The Great Tamasha is the story of modern India told through the glitzy, scandalous and mind-blowingly lucrative TRANSLATION RIGHTS BLOOMSBURY Twenty20 cricket tournament, the Indian Premier League. The IPL - merging the three forces of politics, business and RIGHTS SOLD: Bollywood - has transformed cricket and transfixed India like nothing before it.

On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League – cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment.

The Great Tamasha examines how a game and a country, both regarded as synonymous with infinite patience, managed to produce such an event. James Astill explains how India’s economic surge and cricketing obsession made it the dominant power in world cricket, off the field if rarely on it. He tells how cricket has become the central focus of the world’s second-biggest nation: the place where power and money and celebrity and corruption all meet, to the rapt attention of a billion eyeballs.

Astill crosses the subcontinent and, over endless cups of tea, meets the people who make up modern India – from faded princes to back-street bookmakers, slum kids to squillionaires – and sees how cricket shapes their lives and that of their country. Finally, in London he meets Indian cricket’s fallen star, Lalit Modi, whose driving energy helped build this new form of cricket before he was dismissed in disgrace: a story that says much about modern India.

The Great Tamasha is a fascinating examination of the most important development in cricket today. A brilliant evocation of an endlessly beguiling country, it is also essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of modern India.

James Astill is a journalist who has written for a range of publications around the world - from the Guardian to Japan Times. Since 2007 he has been the South Asia Bureau Chief for The Economist, stationed in New Delhi. He has won four major journalism awards including America’s Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defence. SELF HELP

IN THE KINGDOM OF BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: THE SICK 09/04/2013 EXTENT Laurie Edwards 256 A social history of how science, technology, and culture have TRANSLATION RIGHTS shaped the experience of chronic illness--from vaccinations, BLOOMSBURY patients’ rights, and activism, to social media. Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, “Everyone who is born holds RIGHTS SOLD dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.” Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three- quarters of all health care dollars, and untold pain and disability.

There has been an alarming rise in illnesses that defy diagnosis through clinical tests or have no known cure. Millions of people, especially women, with illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome face skepticism from physicians and the public alike. And people with diseases as varied as cardiovascular disease, HIV, certain cancers, and type 2 diabetes have been accused of causing their preventable illnesses through their lifestyle choices.

We must balance our faith in medical technology with awareness of the limits of science, and confront our throwback beliefs that people who are sick have weaker character than those who are well. Through research and patient narratives, health writer Laurie Edwards explores patient rights, the role of social media in medical advocacy, the origins of our attitudes about chronic illness, and much more. What The Noonday Demon did for people suffering from depression, In the Kingdom of the Sick does for those who are chronically ill.

Laurie Edwards has an M.F.A. and teaches health and science writing at Northeastern University. She has had several chronic illnesses since childhood. Her blog www.achronicdose.com receives several thousand monthly visitors and is linked to more than 180 medical blogs. Ed- wards is author of Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties, named one of 2008s Best Consumer Health Books by Library Journal. She lives outside Boston, Massachu- setts. the Samuel Johnson Prize BUSINESS

FINDING THE SPACE BLOOMSBURY PRESS USA PUBLICATION DATE TO LEAD: 07/01/2014 A Guide to Leadership Excellence through EXTENT Mindfulness 240 US PUBLISHER Janice Marturano BLOOMSBURY USA

Executives and leaders from all over North America have TRANSLATION RIGHTS sought out Janice Marturano’s mindful leadership training. BLOOMSBURY Fniding the Space to Lead brings it to readers everywhere. RIGHTS SOLD The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and feel overburdened and unsure. Often, books on leadership skills, time management, and “getting things done,” don’t speak to leaders’ fundamental sense that something is missing.

Developed by Janice Marturano, a senior executive with decades of experience in some of the world’s largest businesses, Mindful Leader- ship training integrates the practice of mindfulness—meditation and self-awareness—with the practical tools of management, enabling leaders to bring a wider range of their capacities to the challenges at hand. We already know from scientific research that mindfulness practices enhance mental health and improve clarity and focus. Finding the Space to Lead shows how this training has specific value for leaders. As one executive commented on Mindful Leadership training after a recent retreat: “The most valuable part for me was the realization that mindfulness is not a leadership tool or technique but a way of knowing myself that enables the leader inside of me to be fully realized.”

Mindful Leadership is not a new “leadership system” to add to the burden of already overworked people. It brings the concepts of mindfulness into the everyday life of the leader through specific exercises that address practical issues—the calendar, schedule, phone usage, meetings, to-do list, and strategic planning, as well as interpersonal challenges such as listening and working with difficult colleagues. Lead- ers who have experienced mindfulness training report that it provides a “transformative experience” with significant improvements in innovation, self-awareness, listening, and making better decisions.

In The Missing Piece, Marturano masterfully lays out her most successful techniques for promoting mindfulness in the busy executive’s working life.

Janice Marturano was for many years senior vice president and deputy general counsel at General Mills, a Fortune 200 corporation; she has also worked at Panasonic and Nabisco. At General Mills she initiated the company’s program in mindfulness for leaders, which has helped earn it the #1 ranking among American businesses for executive training. She is now the Director of the Institute for Mindful Leader- ship, which she founded and which offers this training to leaders from corporations, nonprofits, and other institutions. She lives in New York. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - BUSINESS

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Enlightening and game-changing, In Data We Trust describes the revolutionary change in the marketing environment in recent years, provides fascinating case studies and gives indispensable advice on smart use of customer data.

Coaching Essentials, 2ed RIGHTS SOLD: Patricia Bossons, Jeremy Kourdi & Denis Sartain

A comprehensive guide to executive coaching, this fully updated second edition ofers a wealth of practical, proven coaching tools and techniques. Essential reading for professional coaches, students, managers and leaders at all levels.

BRAND ANARCHY RIGHTS SOLD: Stephen Waddington & Steve Earl

Organisations of all types and sizes protect their reputations fiercely, but what can they do when things get out of control? How can they cope with the challenges of new media? This plain-speaking, shrewd book is a survival guide for anyone concerned what others think or say about them.

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Tamar Kasriel Futurescaping is an engaging guide to making better life decisions by adapting the best elements of business planning for personal success. ‘A powerful tool for decision-making and scenario-planning in an era of chaos and constant disruption. Kasriel has distilled the knowledge of successful business leaders, behavioural economists and even life coaches to help you make smarter choices in your career, family life, health and personal finances.’ David Rowan Editor, WIRED magazine RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - FICTION

WILDERNESS RIGHTS SOLD Lance Weller FRANCE: GALLMEISTER Epic, heartbreaking and poetic, Wilderness is the story of the GERMANY: origins of a nation. It is a tale of a horrific war and the great BERLIN VERLAG evil it ended, of the kindness of strangers and the unbreakable bonds of memory and love

PAINTER OF SILENCE RIGHTS SOLD: FRANCE: DENOEL Georgina Harding GERMANY: BLOOMSBURY An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the HOLLAND: AMBO ANTHOS Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original ITALY: EINAUDI friendship. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2012.

THE LIGHT OF AMSTERDAM David Park

Three sets of people brush against each other in the squares, museums and parks of Amsterdam, their lives are transfigured as they encounter the complexities of love in a city that challenges what has gone before. Tender and humane, and elevating the ordinary to something timeless and important, The Light of Amsterdam is a novel of compassion and rare dignity. Shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award

A LADY CYCLIST’S GUIDE TO KASHGAR RIGHTS SOLD US: BLOOMSBURY Suzanne Joinson ARABIC: BQFP BRAZIL: INTRINSECA; FRANCE: PRESSES DE LA CITE An extraordinary story of inheritance, belonging and the stories GERMANY: BLOOMS- that bind us to our past, set in modern-day London and 1920s BURY HOLLAND: HOUSE OF Kashgar. BOOKS ITALY: ELLIOT; SERBIA: LAGUNA SPAIN: ROCA

THE NIGHT RAINBOW Claire King RIGHTS SOLD HOLLAND: BRUNA The Night Rainbow is the story of Pea (Peony to her English mother, GERMANY: BERLIN Pivoine to her French father), the world she creates to win back her mother’s love, and the stranger she trusts to save them both. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - FICTION

LIFE! DEATH! PRIZES! Stephen May

Poignant, funny, unforgettable and with echoes of Roddy Doyle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the works of Jimmy McGovern and Paul Abbot, this is a story of grief, resilience and brotherly love. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award

THE GAMAL Ciaran Collins This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, of how daring to be different can be dangerous and how there is nothing a person will not do for love.

Exhilarating, bitingly funny and unforgettably poignant, this is a story like no other. This is the story of the Gamal.

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Hanan Al-Shaykh

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CLAY Melissa Harrison

A lyrical debut novel about innocence and experience, class and RIGHTS SOLD consumerism, Clay captures the delicate balance of life in the US: BLOOMSBURY city, between young and old, between nature and development, between recklessness and caution.

HINTERLAND RIGHTS SOLD ITALY: NEWTON Caroline Brothers COMPTON US: BLOOMSBURY Hinterland is a novel about two children in the aftermath of trauma; underage, homeless and invisible in a foreign land. It shows what happens when the adult world rushes in, and what our universe looks like from the other side of the glass, to those displaced children who are out there, even now, on the road. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - FICTION

BIG RAY RIGHTS SOLD Michael Kimball US: BLOOMSBURY USA

A short potent novel revealing a son’s complicated feelings in the aftermath of his obese father’s death.

RIGHTS SOLD: ADA’S RULES Alice Randall Ada’s Rules will hit a nerve in our overweight and weight-obsessed world. An inspiring role model, Ada is also a relatable everywoman: smart, sassy, soulful, and unforgettable. Her hard-earned rules are about changing a body and a life and also about falling back in love with the life you have.

RIGHTS SOLD: OUT OF IT ARABIC: BQFP Selma Dabbagh Moving from Palestine to London to the Gulf, this unique novel brilliantly depicts modern-day family life in Gaza Written with extraordinary humanity and humour, and moving between Gaza, London and the Gulf, Out of It is a tale that redefines Palestine and its people. It follows the lives of Rashid and Iman as they try to forge paths for themselves in the midst of occupation, religious fundamentalism and the divisions between Palestinian factions. It tells of family secrets, unlikely love stories and unburied tragedies as it captures the frustrations and energies of the modern Arab world.

HOMER: THE ODYSSEY ALSO BY SEYMMOUR Seymour Chwast CHWAST: THE CANTERBURY Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted TALES audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Now he turns to Homer’s Odyssey, one of the best- DANTE’S DIVINE known stories in history. The tale is one that begs for visual interpreta- COMEDY tion, filled with mythic characters we all know well: the Cyclops, the SOLD: Lotus-Eaters, the cannibal Laestrygonians, the Sirens, the monster BRAZIL: COMPANHIA Scylla (beside the whirlpool Charybdis), Poseidon, Athena, and Zeus. DAS LETRAS Featuring a bold black, white, and blue interior design throughout, and GERMANY: KNESE- BECK imbued with Chwast’s own sly humor, The Odyssey brings us a daz- TURKEY: KRONOS zling new vision of one of the epic journeys. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - NON FICTION

CITY RIGHTS SOLD P D Smith JAPAN: KAWADE SHOBO This remarkable history of urban culture worldwide, from the first city builders 7000 years ago, to today’s sprawling megacities, using the form of a popular guidebook to get to the heart of what makes cities thrive.

LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER RIGHTS SOLD BRAZIL: RECORD Ross King CANADA: In Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King tells the complete story DOUBLEDAY of this creation of this mural: the adversities suffered by the artist GERMANY: during its execution; the experimental techniques he employed; the RANDOM HOUSE models for Christ and the Apostles that he used; and the numerous HOLLAND: personalities involved - everyone from the Leonardo’s young assistants DE BEZIGE BIJ to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who commissioned the work. ISRAEL: KINNERET Ross King’s new book is both a record of Leonardo da Vinci’s last five ITALY: RIZZOLI years in Milan and a ‘biography’ of one of the most famous works of KOREA: SEMICOLON art ever painted.

BIRD SENSE RIGHTS SOLD SPAIN: DESTINO Tim Birkhead HOLLAND: DE BEZIGE BIJ A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses and behaviour that POLAND: GALAK- is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining TYKA stories and cutting-edge science. JAPAN: KAWADE SHOBO KOREA: XO BOOKS

THE WISDOM OF BIRDS RIGHTS SOLD KOREA: FOREST OF Tim Birkhead IMAGINATION HOLLAND: DE BEZIGE BIJ In The Wisdom of Birds, Birkhead takes the reader on a journey that CANADA: not only tells us about the extraordinary lives of birds - from concep- GREYSTONE tion and egg, through territory and song, to migration and fully fledged FINLAND: README.FI breeder - but also shows how, over centuries, we have overcome super- stition and untested ‘truths’ to know what we know, and how recent RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY

RIGHTS SOLD: CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS BRAZIL: OBJETIVA Patrick Wilcken HOLLAND: ATLAS KOREA: EVERICH Claude Lévi-Strauss, author of the modern classic Tristes tropiques, TAIWAN: ACROPOLIS was one of the most influential intellectuals in the second half of ITALY: SAGGIATORE the twentieth century, whose ideas and methods inspired the work US: PENGUIN of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan and arguably changed the face of Western thought.

CAIRO - revised and updated for April 2014 publication RIGHTS SOLD: GREECE: Ahdaf Soueif METAIXMIO SWEDEN: ALHAMBRHA US: PANTHEON Ahdaf Soueif, novelist, commentator, and activist, navigates her his- ITALY: DONZELLI tory of Cairo and her journey through the Revolution that’s redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian.

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ RIGHTS SOLD: ISRAEL: AM OVED Gerald Martin ARABIC: ARABIC SCIENTIFIC The first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred PUBLISHERS POLAND: Years Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera - the most popular BERTELSMANN international novelist of the last fifty years. PORTUGAL: DOM QUIXOTE BRAZIL: EDIOURO ROMANIA: LITERA CZECH: EUROMEDIA FRANCE: GRASSET TURKEY: KULTUR YAYINLARI CHINESE COMPLEX: LINKING HUNGARY: MAGVETO HOLLAND: MEULENHOF GREECE: MIKRI ARKTOS ITALY: MONDADORI SPAIN: RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORI CROATIA: SANDORF CHINESE SIMPLE: SHANGHAI TING TE SONG RUSSIA: SLOVO SLOVAK: TIMY BULGARIA: UNISCORP RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - NON FICTION: BLOOMSBURY USA

FEVER SEASON RIGHTS SOLD: Jeanette Keith

Brilliant new history from an acclaimed scholar-the forgotten story of the epidemic that nearly destroyed an American city, and the desperate valor of those who stayed behind.

WHAT? RIGHTS SOLD: Mark Kurlansky GERMANY: HOFFMAN UND CAMPE KOREA: RANDOM HOUSE RUSSIA: EXMO From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a playful, TURKEY: provocative, brilliantly illuminating little book that takes a very big look BUTIK YAYINCILIK at life’s big questions

EL NARCO RIGHTS SOLD SPAIN: URANO Ioan Grillo FRANCE: BUCHET The gripping account of the out-of-control drug wars that have CHASTEL brought chaos to Mexico written by a journalist who has lived and POLAND: REMI worked in Mexico for the last decade.

THE UNIVERSAL SENSE RIGHTS SOLD: Seth S. Horowitz

A fascinating exploration of how our own sense of hearing manipulates the way we think, consume, sleep, and feel.

Publisher’s Weekly starred review: ‘Horowitz has pulled off an unusual feat...This is an often eloquent introduction to what is known.’ RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - NON FICTION: ENVIRONMENT

STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN RIGHTS SOLD: James Hansen CHINA: POSTS & TEL- ECOMS PRESS IATLY: EDIZIONI AM- An urgent and provocative call to action from the world’s leading BIENTE climate scientist. JAPAN: NIKKEI BUSI- NESS PUBLICATIONS MALAYSIA: PROFES- SIONAL PUBLISHING BRAZIL: SENAC

THE GREAT DISRUPTION RIGHTS SOLD: BRAZIL: APICURI Paul Gilding GERMANY: VERLAG A major new analysis and action plan to deal with two linked chal- HERDER lenges to human ingenuity and human survival - the crisis of climate NETHERLANDS: MAURITS GROEN change and the world economic crash. TURKEY: BUTIK YAY- INCILIK KOREA: DOUREI

THE FATE OF THE SPECIES RIGHTS SOLD: Fred Guterl RUSSIA: ASTREL The revelatory account of the biggest threats we face as a species-and what we can do to save ourselves

SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL RIGHTS SOLD: David Rothenberg “The peacock’s tail,” said Charles Darwin, “makes me sick.” That’s because the theory of evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetics than the practical. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin’s observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty-and why nature is, indeed, beautiful. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - SPORT

RIGHTS SOLD: THE DIRTIEST RACE IN HISTORY HOLLAND: TIRION Richard Moore The men’s 100m final at the 1988 Olympics has been described as the dirtiest race ever but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson’s blistering time, the race is infamous for its athletes’ positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and Lewis, and the repercussions still felt almost a quarter of a century on.

THIS LOVE IS NOT FOR COWARDS RIGHTS SOLD Robert Andrew Powell

The story of Mexico’s infamous border city ravaged by violence, but held together by the resilience of its citizens and one beloved soccer team. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - MUSIC

50 LICKS RIGHTS SOLD: Pete Fornatele The illustrated, memorable, and rock-and-roll stories of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the 50th year featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band

ABBEY ROAD: RIGHTS SOLD: JAPAN Alistair Lawrence The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world with a foreword by Sir George Martin

RESPECT YOURSELF: Stax Records and the Independent RIGHTS SOLD: Spirit Robert Gordon The first popular book about the legendary Memphis record label by the authority on the subject, Robert Gordon, author of the classic book, It Came from Memphis

A Prince Among Stones: That Business with The Rolling RIGHTS SOLD: Stones and Other Adventures Prince Rupert Lowenstein

In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn’t understand why the Rolling Stones were broke. The man he asked for help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of rock ‘n’ roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as in his own words ‘A combination of bank manager, psychiatrist, and nanny,’ usually enthralled with his clients but often bemused and exasperated with them, too. Coolly impartial and dryly humorous, this is a refreshingly different take on the rock ‘n’ roll world from within its inner sanctum. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - COOKERY

COOKING FOR REAL LIFE RIGHTS SOLD: Joanna Weinberg

Cooking for real life is not about fiddly menus and impossible-to-find ingredients. It is about getting something delicious on the table, having fun and feeding the people you love. It is also about recognising that different situations in life call for different kinds of cooking. Although sometimes you may have hours to while away by a steaming pot, sometimes you really need a fast turnaround

EVERYBODY EVERYDAY RIGHTS SOLD: Alex Mackay How to cook six basic ingredients, six sauces and six slow-cooked meals, and then offers a kaleidoscope of variations for each. So, once you know how to bake salmon fillets, it’s a short step to paprika salmon with fennel and balsamic tomato dressing or one of five other options. Homemade basil pesto can become pesto meatballs with tomatoes and garlic or again, one of five other options. Imagine what can be done with roast aubergine, burgers, tomato compote, roast chicken and the rest of the heroes...

RIGHTS SOLD: A SLOW PASSION Ruth Brooks A Slow Passion is Ruth’s story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. What starts out as a ruthless vendetta against the snails that are deci- mating her hostas becomes a journey of discovery into the whys and wherefores of snail life.

With charming illustrations, A Slow Passion is a sweet, funny and surprising investigation into the hidden life of snails, which will change the way you look at the smaller (and slower) things in life.

THE FLAVOUR THESAURUS RIGHTS SOLD: Niki Segnit RIGHTS SOLD: BRAZIL: CASA DA A unique treasury of flavour combinations, offering endless diversion PALVRA and inspiration for the creative cook. FRANCE: MARABOUT The book is divided into flavour themes including Meaty, Cheesy, GERMANY: BLOOMS- Woodland and Floral Fruity. Within these sections it follows the form BURY of Roget’s Thesaurus, listing 99 popular ingredients alphabetically, and HOLLAND: PODIUM LITHUANIA: VAGA for each one suggesting flavour matchings that range from the classic PORTUGAL: LUA DA to the bizarre. PAPEL Winner of the Best Cover Design Award at the British Book Design RUSSIA: ASTREL and Production Awards 2010 SPAIN: DEBATE SWEDEN: FORUM

BOCCA Jacob Kenedy Jacob Kenedy, a self-avowed culinary magpie, travelled the length and breadth of the country over the course of a year, gathering up his favourite recipes - many of them obscure, some bizarre, all utterly delicious. Like the menu at Bocca di Lupo, Jacob’s award-winning London restaurant, this book is a thrilling, exotic journey through the true flavours of Italy: the hearty risotti of the north, the exquisite shellfish of the Veneto, the earthy sausages of Bologna, the fried street food of Rome, the baroque desserts of Naples and the Arab-influenced sweets of Sicily. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - GIFT TITLES

WHO MOVED MY STILTON? RIGHTS SOLD: Tyers and Beech An uproarious guide to getting ahead in business... the Victorian way... Follow in the footsteps of the world’s first capitalists and discover the original secrets of business success. Learn how to awaken your inner industrialist and build a commercial empire that will stand the test of time.

GIN AND JUICE RIGHTS SOLD: Tyers and Beech

A Victorian guide to parenting.

LE ROAD TRIP: A TRAVELLER’S JOURNAL OF LOVE RIGHTS SOLD: AND FRANCE RUSSIA: ASTREL Vivian Swift “J’adore Vivian Swift-my favorite travel writer, my favorite travel doo- dler. This book is a little secret pocket of treasure and intimacy. Enjoy every careful and carefree detail!” -Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

DOGS MAKE US HUMAN RIGHTS SOLD: ITALY: RIZZOLI Art Wolfe and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson From New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and premier wildlife photographer Art Wolfe comes a groundbreaking tribute to canine and human friendship around the globe-inspired by the classic photography book The Family of Man. RECENT HIGHLIGHTS - SELF HELP

MIDLIFE EATING DISORDERS RIGHTS SOLD Cynthia M. Bulik Midlife Eating Disorders-a landmark book-guides adults in understanding “Why me?” and “Why now?” It shows a connection between the rise in midlife ED and certain industries that foster discontent with the natural aging process. It also gives readers renewed hope by explaining how to overcome symptoms and access resources and support. Renowned eating disorder specialist Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., helps partners and family members develop compassion for those who suffer with ED-and helps health professionals appreciate the nuances associated with detecting and treating midlife eating disorders.

THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR RIGHTS SOLD: FINLAND: MINERVA Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph. D. A renowned psychologist helps women escape the body image trap.

MOB RULE RIGHTS SOLD: Hannah Evans The trials, tribulations and unexpected triumphs of being a lone Queen in a Kingdom of Kings. The first of its kind: a memoir about raising boys that is smart, honest and very funny. SUBAGENTS

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