NEWORLD O PUBLICATIONS Spring & Summer 2012 Oneworld Highlights Page 2 Page 6 Page 8 Page 10 Page 12 Page 16 Page 18 Page 24 Page 25 Page 30 Page 31 Page 36 Contents Contents Coming Soon 2 New in Paperback 24 Recently Released 30 Coping With 37 Beginner’s Guides 38 Select Backlist 40 Contacts 46 For more information visit www.oneworld-publications.com 2 Coming Soon This Flawless Place Between Bruno Portier A beautiful, modern-day reimagining of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, one of the world’s most influential and treasured spiritual texts Evoking inspirational classics like The Alchemist, This Flawless Place Between is a transcendent story about the end of life. It is a story of love, of the choices we make and the paths we walk, and how the great divide that we have built between the living and those that have passed is no divide at all. Fiction On an isolated stretch of road in the Tibetan About the Author: • UK: April 2012 mountains, a motorbike skids off the road. Bike and Bruno Portier is a writer, photographer, and • US: May 2012 riders spin over the edge, plunging into a ravine. A • Hardback documentary maker. He Tibetan peasant hurries to help, but while the young • B Format travelled around Asia • 208 pages husband tries in vain to save his wife’s life, the stranger for twelve years before • £10.99/$16.95 focuses on guiding her spirit along the new path it undertaking a PhD in social anthropology and writing • 9781851688500 must take. So begins a cathartic journey that carries this, his first novel. Ebook: Anne away from her broken body and back through • 9781851688517 the traumas and ecstasies of her life. As she revisits her past, and the futures of those she will leave behind, she begins to accept not only her death but also her life – and that what happens next will be up to her. A luminous novel for all those who loved Siddhartha and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. “This inspiring novel will quench anyone’s thirst for knowledge and spirituality.” Psychologies magazine For more fiction visit www.oneworld-publications.com Coming Soon 3 For more fiction visit www.oneworld-publications.com 4 Coming Soon Running the Rift Naomi Benaron Winner of the 2010 Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it’s impossible to stay apolitical – where the man who used to sell you gifts for your family now spews hatred, where the girl who flirted with you in the lunchroom refuses to look at you, where your Hutu coach is secretly training the very soldiers who will hunt down your family. Yet in an environment increasingly restrictive for the Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream of becoming Fiction About the Author: Rwanda’s first Olympic medal contender in track, • UK: March 2012 Naomi Benaron teaches at a feat he believes might deliver him and his people • Paperback Original Pima Community College, from this violence. When the killing begins, Jean • B Format Arizona and online through • 384 pages the Afghan Women’s Patrick is forced to flee, leaving behind the woman, • £8.99 Writing Project. An advocate the family, and the country he loves. Finding them • 9781851689217 for African refugees in again is the race of his life. her community, she has Ebook: worked extensively with The Bellwether Prize is awarded biennially by • 9781780740782 genocide survivor groups in Barbara Kingsolver for an unpublished novel that Rwanda. She has won the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for addresses issues of social justice. It has previously Short Fiction and the Lorian been awarded to The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Hemingway Short Story (also published by Oneworld). Competition. She is also an Ironman triathlete. “Truly fearless writing...culturally rich and completely engrossing.” Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible “Unflinching and beautifully crafted...a memorable read...Highly recommended.” Library Journal For more fiction visit www.oneworld-publications.com Coming Soon 5 I Turn Out the Lights Zoya Pirzad The internationally acclaimed bestseller from Iran now debuting in the English language This multi-award winning novel set in southern Iran follows an Iranian-Armenian housewife’s struggles to find fulfilment within her family’s expectations. A model 1960s wife and mother, Clarisse leads an unremarkable life. She has all she’s ever wanted: a well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighbourhood of Abadan. Swaddled in the comforting monotony of cleaning, cooking, sewing, shopping, and dining at the Oil Company club, Clarisse’s greatest anxiety is keeping the peace with her critical mother, unmarried sister, distant husband, and Fiction About the Author: quarrelling children. • UK: May 2012 Zoya Pirzad is a renowned • US: June 2012 Iranian-Armenian writer and But her tranquillity ends forever with the arrival • Paperback Original novelist. She has written of an enigmatic Armenian family across the • B Format two novels and three street. The debonair widower, his beguiling collections of short stories, • 288 pages tween daughter, and his mother, a domineering • £8.99/$15.00 all of which have enjoyed aristocrat with an exotic past, steal their way • 9781851689255 international success. Her most recent collection of into Clarisse’s home. And before she has time Ebook: stories The Bitter Taste of to understand what’s happening, passions, • 9781780740843 Persimmon won the prize for Best Foreign Book of 2009 politics, and a plague of locusts have whipped up in France. She grew up in emotions that she never knew she had. Suddenly, Abadan, where this novel is there are options, opinions, desires, a wholly set, and now lives in Tehran. different life ready for the taking – but only if she can figure out what they are. Published to instant acclaim in Pirzad’s native Iran and winning multiple awards, including the prestigious Houshang Golshiri award for Best Novel of the Year, I Turn Out the Lights is a humorous yet poignant insight into the hopes and aspirations of Iranians in the years that led to the Islamic Revolution. For more fiction visit www.oneworld-publications.com 6 Coming Soon No Worse Enemy The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan Ben Anderson The most intimate and gripping account of the Afghan War Informed by five years embedded with the Grenadier Guards and US Marines (one described him as a “brave motherf***er”), critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ben Anderson (Panorama and Dispatches) provides a gripping account of the chaos at the heart of the Afghanistan war. The only journalist to Current Affairs/ have witnessed every recent major Afghan military About the Author: Military History campaign, Anderson reveals the disturbing chasm Ben Anderson has been • UK: March 2012 between the official rhetoric of peaceful withdrawal making documentaries and writing for over 14 years, • US: March 2012 and the deadly reality on the ground. • Hardback producing over 40 films • 234 x 156mm Including interviews with military top brass, Anderson for the BBC, Channel 4, and the Discovery Channel. He • 304 pages charts the progress of the West’s counter-insurgency has presented five of his • £16.99/$24.95 strategy, the so-called ‘Good War’, and recounts how own series for BBC2, and • 9781851688524 the country, and Taliban-stronghold Helmand province fronted four programmes Ebook: in particular, has descended into ever-increasing levels for Panorama. He has been • 9781851688630 a finalist for a BAFTA award of violence. Detailing IED explosions, multiplying UK and has written for The and US casualties, civilian deaths, and Taliban fighters Times, Guardian, Esquire, who melt into the local population, No Worse Enemy is London Review of Books, a bold and frightening insight into the longest war of Daily Mirror, and the Daily Mail. modern times. “One of the best war reports I have ever seen. Brilliant is an overused word but I thought it was truly brilliant.” David Dimbleby on Ben Anderson’s film,Taking on the Taliban For more current affairs titles visit www.oneworld-publications.com Coming Soon 7 For more current affairs titles visit www.oneworld-publications.com 8 Coming Soon Inside Job The Rogues Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century Charles Ferguson The definitive big picture on the financial crisis – and our financial future – from the man behind the Academy Award–winning documentary When Charles Ferguson’s documentary film Inside Job hit cinemas, it was a sensation – opening the public’s eyes to the mistakes and misdeeds that dragged the global economy into crisis. But Ferguson was only able to show 2 percent of the material he gathered. Now, he Business/ delivers the rest, in this shocking, must-read sequel. About the Author: Current Affairs Charles Ferguson won the Based on explosive interviews conducted personally • UK: May 2012 Academy Award for Best • Paperback Original by Ferguson, as well as primary documents buried in Documentary Feature in 2011 • 216 x 135mm court records and archives, Inside Job the book traces for his acclaimed film Inside • 288 pages in gripping detail how the financial industry and its Job, which was narrated by Matt Damon and is among • £11.99 enablers went rogue. Ferguson shows how three decades the top 30 documentary • 9781851689156 of deregulation on both sides of the Atlantic invited the releases of all time. A former Ebook: crisis, particularly as key players cycled through positions entrepreneur with a PhD • 9781780740720 of power in government, “independent” academia, and in political science from MIT, he began his career big-ticket finance.