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Adult Trade July-December 2016 BLOOMSBURY NEW TITLES BLOOMSBURY BLOOMSBURY bloomsbury.com NEW TITLES Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 5600 Fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5800 @BloomsburyBooks For Australia & New Zealand enquiries: • Tel: +61 2 8820 4900 JUL @BloomsburySyd Y–DECEMBER 2016 Y–DECEMBER Prices, publication dates and jackets are subject to change and may vary To view the online version of this catalogue please visit: bloomsbury.com/uk/catalogues JULY–DECEMBER 2016 July – December 2016 2 Original Fiction 10 Crime 13 Paperback Fiction 20 Fiction (Also Available) 23 Original Non-fiction 36 Nature Writing & Outdoors 39 Popular Science 42 Food 46 Sport 51 Maritime 53 Military 54 Business 60 Religion 62 Paperback Non-fiction 78 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales 80 Index 82 Social Media Contacts export information TPB trade paperback PAPERBACK B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm) The Theoretical Foot M. F. K. Fisher An unpublished novel by the iconic food writer, this portrait of 1930s bohemian life will take the literary world by storm usan and Joe never want this perfect summer to end. It is the 1930s, and society Sfrowns on the slack morals of couples living in sin – but judgement is suspended at the haven on Lake Geneva where Joe’s friend Sara and her lover Tim preside. Here, surrounded by orchards heavy with plums, they are thrust into an exotic milieu of artistic Americans. As one day is recounted through the eyes of seven characters, the group’s hidden tensions and desires are revealed. This lost gem by one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated food writers is a witty, bold portrait of bohemian life. 19 MAY 2016 M. F. K. Fisher is credited with inventing American food writing and was one of its HARDBACK • 9781408880036 • £16.99 preeminent figures in the twentieth century. She published over twenty-five books EBOOK • 9781408880050 • £14.99 encompassing essay collections, short stories, memoirs, journals, one other novel, EXPORT TPB • 9781408880852 • £12.99 Not Now But Now, and her classic work, Consider the Oyster. Born in Michigan in TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ABNER STEIN 1908, she lived in California and died in 1992. ANZ PUB DATE 1 JUNE 2016 TPB • AUS $28.00 • NZ $32.99 The Memory Stones Caroline Brothers A sweeping, epic tale of a young woman’s disappearance in 1970s Argentina and its consequences that echo through generations uenos Aires, 1976. Osvaldo Ferrero and his wife Yolanda escape the city’s heat Bwith their daughters, Julieta and Graciela, who is madly in love. On their return, the military junta stages a coup, and Osvaldo has to flee. When Graciela’s fiancé, and then Graciela herself, are abducted, Osvaldo can only witness the disintegration of his family from exile, while Yolanda fights on the ground to reclaim their daughter. Soon they realise they may be fighting for an unknown grandchild as well. The Memory Stones is a lyrical, devastating portrait of a family, and a country, striving to rebuild in the aftermath of terror. 14 JULY 2016 Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University HARDBACK • 9781408844496 • £16.99 College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin EBOOK • 9781408844502 • £12.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408872826 • £12.99 America, and as a journalist at the International New York Times. She is the author TERRITORY: WO of War and Photography, and the novel Hinterland. She divides her time between TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY London and Paris. ANZ PUB DATE 1 AUGUST 2016 TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 carolinebrothers.com • @CaroBrothers 2 ORIGINAL FICTION Thirst Benjamin Warner For fans of The Well and The Bees, a scintillating literary thriller about the measures a couple takes to survive hen Eddie Chapman arrives home one searing summer Friday, the power is out Wand there is no running water. The pipes everywhere, it seems, have gone dry. Thirst takes place in the immediate aftermath of a mysterious disaster. Eddie, his wife Laura and their neighbours suffer the effects of the heat, their thirst and the terrifying realisation that no one may be coming to help. As violence rips through the community, the Chapmans are forced to recall secrets from their past and question their present humanity. In crisp, compelling prose, Benjamin Warner asks readers to do the same. 14 JULY 2016 Benjamin Warner teaches creative writing at Towson University. He holds an MFA HARDBACK • 9781408865040 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408865071 • £10.99 from Cornell University. Thirstis his first novel. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. EXPORT TPB • 9781408865057 • £12.99 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: C. FLETCHER & COMPANY ANZ PUB DATE 1 AUGUST 2016 TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $36.99 Everything Love Is Claire King From the acclaimed author of The Night Rainbow, a poignant, unforgettable story of the happy endings we conceive for ourselves oored on his houseboat on the edge of Toulouse, Baptiste Molino helps other Mpeople navigate the waters of happiness, yet remains careful never to make ripples of his own. However, between Sophie, the young waitress in his local bar who believes it’s time for Baptiste to rediscover passion, and his elegant and enigmatic new client Amandine Rousseau, this fragile status quo is now at risk. When the rising tensions on the city streets cause his mysterious past to catch up with him, Baptiste finds himself torn between finally pursuing his own happiness and safeguarding that of the one he loves. 28 JULY 2016 Claire King’s debut novel, The Night Rainbow, was published by Bloomsbury in HARDBACK • 9781408868423 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408868447 • £14.99 2013. She is also the author of numerous prize-winning short stories. After fourteen EXPORT TPB • 9781408868430 • £12.99 years in southern France, Claire has recently returned to the UK and now lives TERRITORY: WO with her family by a canal in Gloucestershire. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE 1 AUGUST 2016 claire-king.com • @ckingwriter TPB • AUS $28.00 • NZ $39.99 ORIGINAL FICTION 3 Hide Matthew Griffin ‘Tender, restrained, Hide is the freshly imagined story of a gay male couple … A great love story’ Edmund White endell Wilson, a taxidermist, and Frank Clifton, a veteran, meet after the WSecond World War – in a time when such love holds real danger. Severing nearly all ties with the outside world, they carve out a home for themselves, protected by the routine of self-reliant domesticity. But when Wendell finds Frank lying motionless outside at the age of eighty-three, their life together begins to unravel. As Frank’s memory deteriorates, Wendell must come to terms with the consequences of half a century in seclusion: the lives they might have lived – and the impending, inexorable loss of the one they had. 11 AUGUST 2016 HARDBACK • 9781408867082 • £16.99 Matthew Griffin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was born and EBOOK • 9781408867112 • £14.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408867099 • £12.99 raised in North Carolina and currently lives with his husband in Louisiana, where TERRITORY: WE he is a visiting professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Hide is his TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BRANDT & first novel. HOCHMAN ANZ PUB DATE 1 SEPTEMBER 2016 matthewgriffinwriter.com • @mattygrif TPB • AUS $28.00 • NZ $29.99 4 ORIGINAL FICTION A Doubter’s Almanac Ethan Canin The flame of genius scorches every generation it touches ilo Andret is studying at UC Berkeley when his brilliance of Mmind is first recognised. The research he begins there makes him a legend, but California in the 1970s is rife with temptations. These expose a dark need in Milo, and it is this duality that ultimately unravels his life. It is a duality that his son inherits – and must conquer. This major work of seductive beauty from one of our foremost writers is a novel of flawed characters and unreachable dreams, of the bonds that tie and the passions that destroy. Ethan Canin is the author of seven books, including the story collection The Palace Thief and the novel America America. He is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and divides his time between Iowa and northern Michigan. He is also a physician. ethancanin.com 25 AUGUST 2016 HARDBACK • 9781408879641 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781408879627 • £10.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781408879658 • £12.99 Praise for America America: TERRITORY: COMM/UKEXCAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WILLIAM MORRIS ‘With an unusually magical entwining of character, voice, and story, Ethan Canin has written one brilliant narrative after ANZ PUB DATE 1 MARCH 2016 TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99 another … One of the best writers at work today’ Lorrie Moore ‘Glorious … Canin’s rich, plangent prose is extraordinary … A revelation’ Sunday Telegraph ALSO AVAILABLE PAPERBACK 9780747598725 • £7.99 ORIGINAL FICTION 5 Confidence Rowland Manthorpe & Kirstin Smith Starter for Ten meets Essays in Love in a funny, thought-provoking philosophical novel about the power – and dangers – of confidence llie’s final year at university is hurtling to a close. Defeated by her dissertation Eand unable to commit to her faultlessly supportive boyfriend, she is disenchanted with university life. Charlie, on the other hand, is determined to use his final year to play the field, develop his brilliant business idea and basically have an awesome time. They are both in for a surprise. For, as they experience – in life and love – the triumphs and pitfalls that confidence brings, it becomes clear that although God may be dead, they’ll still need a miracle if they’re to make it through finals. 25 AUGUST 2016 EBOOK • 9781408833513 • £12.99 Rowland Manthorpe is an editor at Wired magazine. His writing has been published EXPORT TPB • 9781408802540 • £14.99 in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Telegraph and Spectator.
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