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Recently Released How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your oneworld Publications January – June 2011 Page 2 Page 4 Page 6 Page 10 Page 12 Page 16 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Contents 1 Contents Coming Soon 2 – 22 New in Paperback 23 – 32 Recently Released 33 – 34 Beginner’s Guides 35 – 37 Coping With 38 Select Backlist 39 – 41 Contact Details 42 For more information visit www.oneworld-publications.com 2 Coming Soon A Cupboard Full of Coats Yvvette Edwards Redolent of Monica Ali and Zadie Smith, Yvvette Edwards’s striking debut is a searing story of family, jealousy, and tragic betrayal Fourteen years ago Jinx’s mother was brutally murdered in their East London home. Overwhelmed by the part she played, Jinx’s whole life has been poisoned by guilt. Then an old friend of her mother’s appears on her Fiction About the Author doorstep. He wants to revisit the events leading UK: April 2011 Yvvette Edwards lives with to that terrible night, forcing Jinx to confront US: June 2011 her family in East London. A Paperback Original her past, and offering her the possibility of Cupboard Full of Coats is her 216mm x 135mm redemption alongside the pain of remembrance. first novel. 288pp Estranged from her husband and detached from £12.99/ $14.95 her son, Jinx knows that this is her only chance 9781851687978 to end the emotional paralysis that has blighted her life. But the friend has his own secrets to share, and over the course of one weekend they unravel an unforgettable drama, stoked with violence and passion. Rich with voices from East London and the West Indies, Edwards’s narrative is delivered with a unique and uncompromising bite that announces a new talent in British fiction. “It was early spring when Lemon arrived, while the crocuses in the front garden were flowering and before the daffodil buds had opened, the Friday evening of a long, slow February, and I had expected when I opened the front door to find an energy salesperson standing there, or a charity worker selling badges, or any one of a thousand random insignificant people whose existence meant nothing to me or my world. He just knocked, that was all, knocked the front door and waited, like the fourteen years since the night I’d killed my mother hadn’t happened at all...” For more Fiction titles visit www.oneworld-publications.com For more Fiction titles visit www.oneworld-publications.com Coming Soon 3 A Cupboard Full of Coats Yvvette Edwards Redolent of Monica Ali and Zadie Smith, Yvvette Edwards’s striking debut is a searing story of family, jealousy, and tragic betrayal Fourteen years ago Jinx’s mother was brutally murdered in their East London home. Overwhelmed by the part she played, Jinx’s whole life has been poisoned by guilt. Then an old friend of her mother’s appears on her Fiction About the Author doorstep. He wants to revisit the events leading UK: April 2011 Yvvette Edwards lives with to that terrible night, forcing Jinx to confront US: June 2011 her family in East London. A Paperback Original her past, and offering her the possibility of Cupboard Full of Coats is her 216mm x 135mm redemption alongside the pain of remembrance. first novel. 288pp Estranged from her husband and detached from £12.99/ $14.95 her son, Jinx knows that this is her only chance 9781851687978 to end the emotional paralysis that has blighted her life. But the friend has his own secrets to share, and over the course of one weekend they unravel an unforgettable drama, stoked with violence and passion. Rich with voices from East London and the West Indies, Edwards’s narrative is delivered with a unique and uncompromising bite that announces a new talent in British fiction. For more Fiction titles visit www.oneworld-publications.com For more Fiction titles visit www.oneworld-publications.com 4 Coming Soon The Heart Specialist Claire Holden Rothman Heartwarming and inspiring, Rothman’s debut is a gracefully wrought story of a brilliant woman fighting for recognition in a world on the brink of change. An incredible story of perseverance and passion, The Heart Specialist sets the young, headstrong Agnes White against the prejudice and arrogance of the medical establishment in a battle that will eventually grant her the right to Fiction save lives as a practising doctor. Set against the About the Author UK: March 2011 upheaval and social strictures of the early 1900s Claire Holden Rothman has Paperback Original and based on true events, this unforgettable worked as a lawyer, teacher, B Format novel is a testament to the spirit, intelligence, newspaper columnist, and translator in her native 336pp and determination we summon when people £8.99 Montreal. 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I could not let the men see. ‘It’s not just me,’ I said. ‘I am not just one young lady.’ To this day I don’t know where I found the breath to speak.” “Beautiful, moving, utterly captivating .” Lawrence Hill – author of The Book of Negroes “Dr Agnes White is fascinating: an authority on the human heart who knows so little of the workings of her own.” Caroline Adderson – author of Pleased to Meet You For more Fiction titles visit www.oneworld-publications.com Coming Soon 5 For more Fiction titles visit www.oneworld-publications.com 6 Coming Soon The Gendarme Mark Mustian What if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost? What if they reappeared at the end of your life and you wished you had never remembered? To those around him, Emmet Conn is an old man on the verge of senility, a feisty World War I veteran who lost his memory during the war. Now, at the end of his life, he suddenly finds himself beset by vivid dreams of a march across Fiction a foreign land, of appalling acts of cruelty, and About the Author UK: March 2011 the anguish of a lost love – and realizes, to his Mark Mustian is an author, Paperback Original horror, they are memories of events purposely attorney, and city commissioner. 216mm x 135mm forgotten. As his grasp on the past and present He lives with his wife and three children in Tallahassee, Florida. 304pp begins to break down, he sets out on a final £12.99 journey to find the love of his life and beg her 9781851688265 forgiveness. In this extraordinarily haunting novel, Mustian examines how love can transcend nationalities and politics, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit fights to survive even in the face of hopelessness. “It dawns on me, even through the depths of the dream, that I know this language. I have always known it. 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