APRIL 2016 The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest

Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest's astonishing debut novel elevates the ordinary to the extraordinary in this multi -generational tale set in contemporary south London.

Sales points • A major literary event. The first novel by award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest, a storyteller of extraordinary power and humanity • Kate Tempest is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting and distinctive voices of her generation. She has won the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry and was recently selected as a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Society. Her debut album was nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize • For fans of NW by Zadie Smith, Brick Lane by Monica Ali, Junot Diaz, Jon McGregor and Dave Eggers.

Description It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind. This corner of the city. Everything is yours and nothing else exists but this. South London.

Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are escaping the city with a suitcase full of stolen money. Taking us back in time, and into the heart of the capital, The Bricks that Built the Houses explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life with a powerful moral and literary microscope, exposing the everyday stories that lie behind the tired faces on the morning commute, and what happens when your best intentions don't always lead to the right decisions.

Wise but never cynical, and driven by empathy and ethics, it leads us into the homes and hearts of ordinary people and their families and communities, giving us a unique perspective on how we live with and love each other.

The Bricks that Builds the Houses introduces a thrilling new literary voice.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781408857311 Poet, rapper, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest grew up in south-east London, where she still lives. Her epic poem, Format: Paperback Brand New Ancients - a modern-day myth set in south London - won the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry in Dimensions: 216x135mm 2013, making her the first-ever recipient under 40. Her plays include GlassHouse, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted. Her Extent: 256 pages

Main Category: F Fiction debut solo album, Everybody Down, a narrative-led hip hop record based on The Bricks that Built the Houses, was Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2014. Kate Tempest's second poetry collection, Hold Your Own was published in Illustrations: 2014, when she was also named by the Poetry Society as a Next Generation Poet, a once a decade accolade. The Previous Titles: Author now living: Bricks that Built the Houses is her first novel.

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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Nice Work (If You Can Get It) Celia Imrie

Witty and enchanting, the second novel from the well-loved actress and Sunday Times bestselling author of Not Quite Nice follows the hilarious exploits of retired expats in the South of France.

Sales points • Not Quite Nice was a Sunday Times bestseller, spending four weeks in the top ten and attracting a huge amount of publicity, including rave reviews and Simon Mayo's influential BBC Radio 2 Book Club. • Celia Imrie is a wildly popular British comic actress whose star is riding high following the release of the successful The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Major films starring Celia set for 2016 release are: Year by the Sea, Cure of Wellness and Ab Fab: The Movie. • The perfect escapist summer read set in the South of France - full of glitz and glamour, loveable characters and comic exploits. Nice Work will be supported by a major marketing and publicity campaign.

Description Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and Cannes' red-carpets, lies the sleepy town of Bellevue-Sur-Mer.

Sheltered from the glittering melee, it is home to many an expat - although it hasn't proved quite as peaceful as expected. Now an enterprising band of retirees has resolved to show it's never too late to start afresh, and open a restaurant.

Snapping up a local property and throwing themselves into preparations, Theresa, Carol, William and Benjamin's plans are proceeding unnervingly well. But when Theresa encounters a mysterious intruder, she begins to wonder what secrets the building is concealing.

Meanwhile Sally, an actress who fled the stage to live in quiet anonymity, has decided not to be involved. She's far too busy anyway, shepherding around a gaggle of A-listers including a suave Russian with a super-yacht and a penchant for her company.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781408876916 As the razzmatazz of Cannes Film Festival penetrates Bellevue-Sur-Mer, its inhabitants become entangled in a complex Format: Paperback - C format pattern of love triangles and conflicting business interests, and something starts to feel distinctly oeuf. Finding themselves Dimensions: 216x135mm inexplicably knee-deep in suspicion and skullduggery, the restaurateurs realise they can no longer tell who's nasty and Extent: 336 pages

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Sub Category: F Fiction Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning actress best known for her parts in the films Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her roles on stage include Dotty in Noises Off and Mrs Tilehouse in The Sea, and, on television, Diana in After You've Gone, Vera in A Dark Adapted Eye and Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques. Her latest films are Year by the Sea, Cure of Wellness and Absolutely Fabulous. Celia's Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Nice Work (If You Can Get It) 8 Copy Pack

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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Not Quite Nice Celia Imrie

A gloriously funny and charming debut novel about the joys and challenges of living abroad from one of the UK's best-loved actresses!

Sales points • For fans of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach, Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle and the novels of Dawn French • Celia Imrie is much loved by the nation for her light-hearted roles in British comedies - fans of her films will love the similar humour of the novel.

Description Sunday Times Bestseller

Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice.

With its beautiful villas, its bustling cafes and shimmering cerulean sea, the village sparkles like a diamond on the French Mediterranean coast. Once the hideaway of artists and writers, it is now home to the odd rock icon and Hollywood movie star, and, as Theresa soon discovers, a close-knit set of expats. There's Carol, the infinitely glamorous American and her doting husband David; the erstwhile British TV star Sally; the ferocious Sian and her wayward Australian poet husband; the sharply witty Zoe with her strangely youthful face and penchant for white wine - and the suave Brian who catches Theresa's eye...

As Theresa settles to the gentle rhythm of seaside life she embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. However, life is never quite as simple as it seems and as skeletons start to fall out of several closets, Theresa begins to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as nice as it first appeared...

Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781408846896 Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning actress best known for her parts in the films Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee. In Format: Paperback - B format February 2015 she returns as Madge in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her roles on stage include Dotty in Dimensions: 198x129mm Noises Off and Mrs Tilehouse in The Sea, and, on television, Diana in After You've Gone, Vera in A Dark Adapted Eye Extent: 336 pages

Main Category: F Fiction and Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques. Last year she brought her cabaret/revue show Laughing Matters to Crazy Coqs and Sub Category: F Fiction then to the St James Theatre. Her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, was published in 2011. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: www.celiaimrie.info @CeliaImrie

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APRIL 2016 The Trees Ali Shaw

A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Station Eleven, following four people as they struggle to survive in a world where nature fights back - from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet.

Sales points • An epic and enchanting novel that will capture the imaginations of those who love Patrick Ness and Haruki Murakami, Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away and Station Eleven • The Girl with Glass Feet was nominated for a number of awards and won the Desmond Elliott Prize, and The Man Who Rained garnered glowing reviews. The Trees is certain to attract attention • A striking look at environmental concerns, this depiction of nature's revenge on humanity is perfect for publicity and ideal for book clubs.

Description There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins

There is no warning. No chance to prepare.

They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, beating at the air with their branches, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest.

Buildings are destroyed and power lines felled. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves. Something creeps and whispers overhead. A wolf begins to howl

Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when it becomes clear that no help is coming, he has little choice but Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) to venture out into this unrecognisable world. The trees reach to the horizon, seemingly the work of centuries rather than ISBN: 9781408862254 hours. But Adrien's wife Michelle is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether she is alive or dead Format: Paperback and whether the trees have come for her too. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages

Main Category: F Fiction When Adrien meets Hannah - a woman who sees the arrival of the trees as a sign of renewal rather than destruction - Sub Category: F Fiction and Seb, her teenage son, they persuade him to join them. Together, they pack up what remains of their lives and set out Illustrations: to find Hannah's forester brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife - and to discover just how deep the forest goes. Previous Titles: Author now living: Their journey through the trees will take them into unimaginable territory: to a place of terrible beauty and violence, of deadly enemies and unexpected allies, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.

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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 The Vanished Lotte Hammer, Soren Hammer translated by Martin Aitken

The third in the international bestselling five-part Konrad Simonsen series, a chilling tale from the authors of The Hanging

Sales points • The first book in the Konrad Simonsen series, The Hanging, has sold over 26,000 copies. • The crime series has sold over 150,000 copies in Denmark alone. • Foreign rights to the series have been sold in 22 different countries. • For readers of Jo Nesbo and Lars Kepler and fans of The Killing and The Bridge

Description Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead.

At first glance, his death appears to be a tragic accident. However, when Detective Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is called to investigate, he notices that something doesn't add up. Did he fall?

When life-sized images of a vanished girl are discovered plastering the walls of the dead man's attic, the case takes a new and sinister turn. Who is she? Could she be alive?

Soon the homicide team find themselves delving into the past, but as they approach the truth, Simonsen is forced to confront long-hidden skeletons in his own cupboard.

About the Author Lotte and Soren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte worked as a nurse after finishing her training in 1977 and her brother Soren was a trained teacher and a lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. After Soren moved into the house where Lotte lived with her family in 2004 they began writing crime novels together. To date, they have written five books in this series. The Outcasts is the third.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781408860304 Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken, an acclaimed translator of Danish literature. His work has appeared on both Format: Paperback sides of the Atlantic in book form as well as in countless journals and magazines, including Harper's Magazine and The Dimensions: 234x153mm New Yorker. Recent translations include fiction by Helle Helle, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Dorthe Nors, Kim Leine and Simon Extent: 288 pages

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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 The Hanging Lotte Hammer and Soren Hammer

New into paperback, The Hanging is the first in an exciting six-part crime series. An explosive introduction to the dark world of Copenhagen police investigator Konrad Simonsen.

Sales points • A nerve-wrenching look at justice and retribution • A spectacular crime tale straight from the heart of Scandinavia • Fans of Danish Crime including television series The Killing and The Bridge along with nordic crime fiction • Film rights for an international production in negotiation • CATEGORY: CRIME FICTION

Description On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are called in to investigate this horrific case - the men hanging in a geometric pattern; the scene so closely resembling a public execution. When the identities of the five victims and the disturbing link between them is leaked to the press, the sinister motivation behind the killings quickly becomes apparent to the police. Up against a building internet campaign and even members of his own team, Simonsen finds that he must battle public opinion and vigilante groups in his mission to catch the killers.

A nerve-wrenching look at justice and retribution, The Hanging is a spectacular crime tale straight from the heart of Scandinavia.

About the Author Lotte and Søren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte worked as a nurse after finishing her training in 1977 and her brother Søren was a trained teacher and a lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. After Søren moved into the house where Lotte lived with her family in 2004 they began writing crime novels

Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) together. To date, they have written four books in this series. The Hanging is the first. ISBN: 9781408843208 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 The Girl in the Ice Lotte Hammer, Soren Hammer translated by Paul Norlen

The second in the international bestselling five-part Konrad Simonsen series, a chilling tale from the authors of The Hanging

Sales points • The second book in the international best selling five-part series, from the Danish brother and sister duo! The Hanging (Book 1) was published in 2013. • The crime series has sold over 147,000 copies in Denmark. • Foreign rights in the series have been sold to 22 countries including Japan, Korea and Russia. • Book 3, The Vanished, publishes in 2016!

Description Under the heartless vault of the Greenland's artic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has revealed her.

When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to investigate this horrific murder and he sees how she was attacked, it triggers a dark memory and he realises this was not the killer's only victim. As Simonsen's team work to discover evidence that has long since been buried, they unearth truths that certain people would rather stayed forgotten, disturbing details about the moral standing of some of Denmark's political figures are revealed and powerful individuals are suddenly working against them. But the pressure is on as it becomes clear that the killer chooses victims who all look unsettlingly similar, a similarity that may be used to the investigators' advantage, just so long as they can keep the suspect in their sights.

About the Author Lotte and Soren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte worked as a nurse after finishing her training in 1977 and her brother Soren was a trained teacher and a lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of

Price: $16.99 (NZ$18.99) Engineering. After Soren moved into the house where Lotte lived with her family in 2004 they began writing crime novels ISBN: 9781408845738 together. To date, they have written five books in this series. The Girl in the Ice is the second. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Translated from the Danish by Paul Norlen. Extent: 448 pages

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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Hinterland Caroline Brothers

An exquisite, unsettling novel about refugees and what it is to be underage, homeless and invisible in a foreign land.

Sales points • This debut novel gets under the skin of this enormous global issue in the way only exquisite fiction can • Can be compared to the film, In This World by Michael Winterbottom, as well as The Road Home by Rose Tremain, Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed and Shadow by Michael Morpurgo • Caroline Brothers is a journalist who has spent years researching and reporting on refugees. Her work has been featured on the cover of the New York Times

Description Two young boys cross a river in the middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their lives depend on this journey. With nothing but the clothes on their backs, Aryan and his little brother Kabir travel by truck, boat, train, bus and on foot across a Europe they desperately hope will offer them a future they can no longer wait for in Afghanistan. Kabul-Tehran- Istanbul-Athens -Rome-Paris-London - this is the route they cling to, the mantra they repeat in their prayers, and the only option they can see before them.

Hinterland is the story of two ordinary brothers whose courageous gamble brings home the devastating human consequences of war.

About the Author Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin America. She has contributed to the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Guardian, Independent and Sunday Times Magazine among others, and was a reporter and an editor at the International New York Times. She is the author of War and Photography, and the novel Hinterland, first published by Bloomsbury in 2012. She divides her time between London and Paris.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) ISBN: 9781408876855 carolinebrothers.com @CaroBrothers Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 La Place de l'Etoile Patrick Modiano

The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation.

Sales points • Patrick Modiano is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014. • Modiano's first three novels together make a trilogy of the dark and morally ambiguous period of the German Occupation of Paris • La Place de l'.toile appears here in English for the very first time, translated by Frank Wynne. • His screenplays include Lacombe Lucien, directed by Louis Malle, 1974.

Description This astonishing first novel by one of France's greatest living writers was among the earliest to seriously question both wartime collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The epigraph reads:

In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man and says: 'Excuse me, monsieur, where is La Place de l'.toile?' The young man points to the star on his chest.

The narrator of this wild and whirling satire is a hero on the edge, who imagines himself in Paris under the German Occupation. Through his mind stream a thousand different possible existences, where sometimes the Jew is king, sometimes a martyr, and where tragedy disguises itself as farce. Real and fictional characters from Maurice Sachs and Drieu La Rochelle, Marcel Proust and the French Gestapo, Captain Dreyfus and the Petainist admirals, to Freud, Hitler and Eva Braun spin past our eyes. But at the centre of this whirligig is La Place de l'.toile, the geographical and moral centre of Paris, the capital of grief.

With La Place de l'.toile Patrick Modiano burst onto the Parisian literary scene in 1968, winning two literary prizes, and preparing the way for the next two books - The Night Watch and Ring Roads - in what is regarded as his trilogy of the

Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) Occupation. ISBN: 9781408867952 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Patrick Modiano was born in Paris in 1945 in the immediate aftermath of World War Two and the Nazi occupation of Extent: 188 pages

Main Category: F Fiction France, a dark period which continues to haunt him. After passing his baccalaur.at, he left full-time education and Sub Category: F Fiction dedicated himself to writing, encouraged by the French writer Raymond Queneau. From his very first book to his most Illustrations: recent, Modiano has pursued a quest for identity and some form of reconciliation with the past. His books have been Previous Titles: Author now living: published in forty languages and among the many prizes they have won are the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Acad.mie fran. aise (1972), the Prix Goncourt (1978) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2012). In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 The Harder They Come T. C. Boyle

A thought provoking look at the fine line between heroism and savagery from the New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle

Sales points • For fans of Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford • T. C. Boyle is a New York Times bestselling author and a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. He has a loyal readership so review coverage is guaranteed • This is T. C. Boyle's biggest novel since The Tortilla Curtain.

Description Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten's military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home.

Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara - a farrier who refuses to recognize the authority of the government - is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider, perennially dressed in camouflage and with his head shaved to the bone, has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behaviour become steadily more extreme, he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible for his family or Sara to halt.

The latest novel by internationally bestselling author T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative. A deep and disturbing meditation on the roots of American gun violence, it explores the fine line between heroism and savagery, and just how far a parent can be held accountable for the actions of his child.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781408859957 T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of ten collections of stories and fourteen novels, most recently, San Format: Paperback - B format Miguel, followed by the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters

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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 The Bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Sales points • A controversial and daring novel by a young Gulf writer which took the Arab world by storm. • Winner of the IPAF 2013 award, the most prestigious Arabic literature prize in the world. • Young and highly-promotable author, outspoken on topical issues such as migrant worker conditions in the Gulf.

Description Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid bows to family and social pressure, and sends her back home with her baby son, Jos

Brought up struggling with his dual identity, Jos. clings to the hope of returning to his father's country when he is eighteen. He is ill-prepared to plunge headfirst into a world where the fear of tyrants and dictators is nothing compared to the fear of 'what will people say'. And with a Filipino face, a Kuwaiti passport, an Arab surname and a Christian first name, will his father's country welcome him?

The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion.

About the Author Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper. He lives in Kuwait City.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) Jonathan Wright has translated a dozen novels and other major works from Arabic to English, starting in 2008 after thirty ISBN: 9789927101793 years as a journalist, mostly in the Middle East. He won the 2013 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for Youssef Format: Paperback - B format Ziedan's Azazeel and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2014 for his translation of Hassan Blasim's The Iraqi Dimensions: 198x129mm Christ. Extent: 384 pages

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Bloomsbury Qatar APRIL 2016 Rise Karen Campbell

By the author of This Is Where I Am: an exhilarating, luminous novel about freedom and forgiveness, and finding your place in the world.

Sales points • Will appeal to fans of Maggie O'Farrell, Chris Cleave and also James Robertson's And the Land Lays Still • Campbell's most recent novel, This Is Where I Am, was selected as a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and has so far sold more than 20,000 copies since March 2013 • Tackling contemporary questions of nationhood and identity through the issue of Scottish Independence and the debates surrounding sustainable energy, Rise is an important and powerful story of living in the modern world.

Description Justine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man who between them have almost broken her she heads north to the mountains and the valleys of the Highlands. She is looking for somewhere to hide.

Michael and Hannah are also running. With their two sons and their tattered marriage they have come to the village of Kilmacarra. They are looking for somewhere they can once again call home.

In a place of standing stones - an ancient landscape in a country on the brink of change - a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine. Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a referendum and the community around them fracturing, each must question where they truly belong.

And, as the ground beneath their feet begins to give up its secrets, and the darkness Justine fled grows close, each must also find a way to face their ghosts.

About the Author Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University's renowned Creative Writing Masters, and author of The Twilight

Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life and, most recently, This Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at ISBN: 9781408856758 Bedtime. A former police officer, and council PR, Karen Campbell won the Best New Scottish Writer Award in 2009. She Format: Paperback - B format lives in Galloway, Scotland. www.karencampbell.co.uk Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages

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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 John Crow's Devil Marlon James

With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, this stunning novel is set in James's native Jamaica.

Sales points • From the winner of the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 • 'A powerful first novel Writing with assurance and control, James uses his small-town drama to suggest the larger anguish of a postcolonial society struggling for its own identity.' - New York Times Book Review • 'A writer whose importance can scarcely be questioned.' - Independent

Description On a day beginning with a bad omen - black vultures, locally called John Crows, crash through the church windows - a man calling himself Apostle York 'set pon Pastor Bligh like when you beat a mangy dog' and evicts the drunken pastor. So begins a fire-and-brimstone power mongering that sets the village on a path to destruction. James combines evangelical ideas about spiritual warfare with the folk traditions of voodoo and magic, producing a transfixing blend of horror and metaphor. The result is a mesmerising treatise on the nature of good and evil, faith and madness, guilt and forgiveness.

About the Author Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica. John Crow's Devil is his debut novel, published in North America in 2005 to widespread acclaim. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. His second novel, The Book of Night Women (Oneworld 2009), won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld 2014), won the American Book Award, the Anisfield- Wolf Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015, and featured in over twenty best books of the year lists. His short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Esquire and Granta. He teaches at Macalester College, Minnesota, USA.

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 French Concession Xiao Bai

A richly atmospheric, fast-paced thriller teeming with femme fatales, criminals and double-agents, French Concession reveals an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence and betrayal.

Sales points • 'Rich with historical detail, French Concession is a sensual, intellectual thriller which, like human memory, is pulled from the chaos of truth and lies, desire and regret.' Simon van Booy

Description 1931: a time of revolution, money and adventure.

A boat arrives in Shanghai harbour to the raucous sound of firecrackers. An important official in the Nationalist Party has returned from Hong Kong, accompanied by his striking wife, Leng. An assassin suddenly appears, firing three bullets before killing himself. Leng disappears in the ensuing chaos.

Hseuh, a Franco-Chinese photographer, is captivated by Leng's beauty. But he has his own problems: he suspects that his White Russian lover, Therese, is cheating. When Hseuh is arrested in the French Concession and forced to become a police spy, he realizes that in the steamy, devious world of Shanghai, no one is whom they appear. Therese is secretly an arms dealer, supplying Shanghai's gangs, while Leng, has her own ties to a menacing new gang led by a charismatic Communist. Soon, Hseuh is forced to play both sides, spinning his own lies in a feverish struggle to stay alive.

About the Author Xiao Bai was born in 1968 in Shanghai. French Concession was published in 2011 in China; it is his first novel to be translated into English. In 2013 his novella Xu Xiangbi the Spy won the 10th Annual Shanghai Literary Prize. Xiao Bai lives in Shanghai.

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 Preparation for the Next Life Atticus Lish

A gut-wrenching love story between an illegal migrant from the Uighur tribe in Asia and a damaged Iraq War veteran set in the underbelly of New York.

Sales points • Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner • Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2015 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction • 'Devastatingly good. My heart was a different size by the time I finished.' Ned Beauman, author of The Teleportation Accident • 'Punches its way, bare-knuckled, through every millennial New York novel centring around middle-class intellectual characters kicking typical tales of artsy, east-coast intelligentsia romance into a dumpster.' Observer • 'Impressive Charged with breathless momentum substantial and beguiling This is, in the end, a profoundly political book.' Guardian • 'Astonishing nothing less than a triumph, worthy of every heroic adjective a critic could throw. It is a reminder, plain and simple, of what fiction is for.'Financial Times • 'A blistering novel bigger than the sum of its parts.' The Times

Description In post-9/11 New York, Zou Lei is an illegal immigrant from northwest China. Forced to work fourteen-hour days and live in squalor, she nevertheless embraces the many freedoms her adopted homeland has to offer. Damaged by three tours in Iraq, veteran Brad Skinner comes to New York with the sole intention of partying as hard as he can in order to forget what he's seen. Impulsive and angry, Skinner's re-entry into civilian life seems doomed. But when he meets Zou Lei they discover that new beginnings may be possible for both of them, that is if they can survive homelessness, lockup and Skinner's post-traumatic stress disorder.

Set in the underbelly of New York, Preparation for the Next Life exposes an America as seen from the fringes of society in devastating detail and destroys the myth of the American Dream through two of the most remarkable characters in

Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) contemporary fiction. ISBN: 9781780748337 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Atticus Lish is the author of Life is With People. He served a brief stretch in the Marine Corps in the warfree period Extent: 432 pages

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 A Perfect Crime A Yi

A chilling literary thriller about a motiveless murder in provincial China.

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Description On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he's also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins.

A shocking investigation into the despair that traps the rural poor as well as a technically brilliant excursion into the claustrophobic realm of classic horror and suspense, A Perfect Crime is a thrilling and stylish novel about a motiveless murder that echoes Kafka's absurdism, Camus' nihilism and Dostoyevsky's depravity.

About the Author A Yi is a Chinese writer living in Beijing. He is the author of two collections of short stories and has published fiction in Granta and the Guardian. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the People's Literature Top 20 Literary Giants of the Future.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781780749297 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 Beyond the Horizon Ryan Ireland

An astonishing sojourn into the darkest parts of Western American lore.

Sales points • An extraordinary debut novel in the style of Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner. • A truly unique and completely original new voice to contemporary fiction. • Huge prize potential (Man Booker, Folio, Guardian First Book Award, Dylan Thomas Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Substantial review coverage. • 'Expertly plotted, artfully executed, compulsively readable a writer who has something to say.' Los Angeles Review of Books • 'Ireland blends fanciful history with magic realism to create a critical allegory of the American expansionist experience Intellectual in theme, literary in execution: think Gabriel Garcia Marquez reimagining Little Big Man.' Kirkus Reviews

Description In frontier America, a man lives with a pregnant woman who is not his wife. When a stranger appears and advises him to register the baby as his own at a fabled military outpost, the man sets out on a lonely journey across an arid and hostile terrain. Soon after he departs, the stranger kills the woman before setting off in pursuit of the man. As their parallel journeys unfold, we learn of the man's childhood working with his father on a ship rife with cannibalism and their subsequent life in a port town; we watch the stranger as he assumes many guises to shape-shift his way through history in pursuit of the man, a pawn in his brutal game of rewriting the founding myths of the American West. Menacing, visceral and lyrical, Beyond the Horizon is an audacious debut: an astonishing sojourn into the darkest parts of Western lore that showcases a bold and enormous new talent in contemporary fiction.

About the Author Ryan Ireland was born and raised in Ohio. He lives in the village of Alpha with his wife and three children. He is a strong advocate for public libraries with work appearing in Public Library Quarterly and Voice of Youth Advocates . His writing has also been published in Fogdog Review , Seems , and Writing on the Edge . In 2009, he was recognized by Glimmer Train as one of the 25 Best New Writers. Beyond the Horizon is his first novel. Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) ISBN: 9781780745992 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 Midnight in Berlin James MacManus

As the threat of war escalates in Berlin 1938, might clandestine love hold the key to an unlikely peace?

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Description In 1939, British Colonel Noel Macrae, stationed in Berlin and witness to the rise of the Reich, decides that he might be the only Englishman with the opportunity to avert war. As he attempts to convince the British government of his mission, the colonel becomes torn between his government's orders and his own personal beliefs, especially as he falls in love with a German- Jewish woman. Blackmailed by the Nazis, the woman and her family have faced unspeakable horrors, and the colonel must do whatever it takes to help her escape.

But the colonel doesn't know that the Gestapo have formed a plan of their own. Aware of the colonel's intense hatred of the Nazi regime, the Gestapo work to draw him into a fabricated plot against Hitler. As the colonel finds himself caught up in a tangled web of shifting loyalties, corruption, and shocking indifference, he soon realizes he must find a way to hold on to his sense of humanity to save not only the woman he loves but also himself.

Inspired by true events and characters, James MacManus's Midnight in Berlin is a love story set against a world on the brink of war that will leave you in awe of the human capacity for self-sacrifice and resilience.

About the Author James MacManus has worked in the newspaper business for 46 years. He is currently the Managing Director of the Times Literary Supplement.

He is the author of On the Broken Shore (The Language of the Sea, UK edition), and Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg which was made into a film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

His latest book, Black Venus, is a vivid novel of Charles Baudelaire and his lover Jeanne Duval, the Haitian cabaret singer Price: $39.99 (NZ$42.99) ISBN: 9780715650332 who inspired his most famous and controversial poems, set in nineteenth-century Paris. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x150mm Extent: 412 pages

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Duckworth Trade APRIL 2016 Sleep in Peace Tonight James MacManus

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Description it's January 1941, and the Blitz is devastating England. Food supplies are low, Tube stations in London have become bomb shelters, and U-boats have hampered any hope of easy victory. Though the United States maintains its isolationist position, Churchill knows that England is finished without the aid of its powerful ally.

Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's most trusted adviser, is sent to London as his emissary, and there he falls under the spell of Churchill's commanding rhetoric---and legendary drinking habits. As he experiences life in a country under attack, Hopkins questions the United States' silence in the war. But back home FDR is paranoid about the isolationist lobby, and even Hopkins is having trouble convincing him to support the war.

As Hopkins grapples with his mission and personal loyalties, he also revels in secret clubs with newsman Edward R. Murrow and has an affair with his younger driver. Except Hopkins doesn't know that his driver is a British intelligence agent. She craves wartime action and will go to any lengths to prove she should be on the front line. This is London under fire, and it's only when the night descends and the bombs fall that people's inner darkness comes to light.

In Sleep in Peace Tonight, a tale of courage, loyalty, and love, and the sacrifices one will make in the name of each, James MacManus brings to life not only Blitz-era London and the tortuous politics of the White House but also the poignant characters and personalities that shaped the course of world history.

About the Author James MacManus is the author of four books and the fifth, a novel called Midnight in Berlin, is due to be published in the UK in January 2016 and in the US in the April that year.

After a lifelong career as a journalist, which included many years as a foreign correspondent in Africa and the Middle Price: $22.99 (NZ$23.99) ISBN: 9780715650615 East, James launched a parallel career as an author in 2005. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm His historical novels, the last two set around WW2, have won praise from critics here and in the US, especially for the Extent: 360 pages quality of the research and the narrative strength of the stories. Main Category: F Fiction

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Duckworth Trade APRIL 2016 Lovely Head and Other Plays Neil LaBute

Neil LaBute is arguably the most challenging, provocative, and acclaimed playwright of his generation.

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Description Lovely Head and Other Plays brings together his most masterful and affecting recent shorter works.

The title play, which had its American premiere at La MaMa in 2012, rivetingly explores the relationship between a nervous older man and a glib young prostitute, as their evening together drives toward a startling conclusion.

Also included is the one-act play The Great War, which looks at a divorcing couple and the ground they need to cross to reach their own end of hostilities; In the Beginning, which was written as a response to the Occupy movement and produced around the world in 2012-13 as part of Theatre Uncut; The Wager, the stage version of the film Double or Nothing starring Adam Brody; the two-handers A Guy Walks Into a Bar, Over the River and Through the Woods, and Strange Fruit; and two powerful new monologues, Bad Girl and The Pony of Love.

About the Author Neil LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, LaBute was raised in Spokane, Washington. He studied theater at Brigham Young University (BYU), at BYU he also met actor Aaron Eckhart, who would later play leading roles in several of his films. He produced a number of plays that pushed the envelope of what was acceptable at the conservative religious university, some of which were shut down after their premieres. LaBute also did graduate work at the University of Kansas, New York University, and the Royal Academy of London.

LaBute's latest film is The Wicker Man, an American version of a British cult classic. His first horror film, it starred Nicolas Cage and Ellen Burstyn and was released on September 1, 2006 by Warner Bros. Pictures to scathing critical reviews Price: $25.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781468307054 and mediocre box office. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm He recently worked with producer Gail Mutrux on the screen adaptation of The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff. Extent: 176 pages

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BLM Overlook APRIL 2016 Things We Said Today Neil LaBute

Neil LaBute is one of America's most provocative and lauded playwrights, and his darkly exhilarating talent is on glorious view in this collection.

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Description Things We Said Today features the scripts for Neil LaBute's groundbreaking Directv project 10x10-a series of short films written and directed by LaBute based on ten compelling original monologues, five each for men and women.

Also included are five short plays displaying the power and scope of Neil LaBute's creative vision. In Pick One, three white guys come up with a way to solve America's problems; in The Possible, one young woman seduces another's boyfriend for an unexpected reason. Call Back features an actress and actor who spar about a past encounter that she, unnervingly, remembers much better than he does. Good Luck (In Farsi), 'a pleasingly astringent study in competitiveness and vanity' (The New York Times) has two actresses pulling out all the stops in a pre-audition psych out; and in Squeeze Play a father and his son's baseball coach strike a mutually beneficial deal. Rounding out the collection are two monologues commissioned as part of Centerstage's 'My America' project.

About the Author Neil LaBute's plays include bash, In a Forest, Dark and Deep, and Reasons to be Happy. His films include In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Shape of Things, Obsession, Some Velvet Morning, and Dirty Weekend. He is a 2013 recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Price: $25.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781468309775 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages

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BLM Overlook APRIL 2016 The Insect Farm Stuart Prebble

A cleverly plotted crime novel of love, jealousy and suspense from the author of The Grumpy Old Men TV series.

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Description Brothers Jonathan and Roger Maguire each have an obsession. For Jonathan, it is his beautiful and talented girlfriend Harriet. For Roger, it is the elaborate universe he has constructed in a shed in their parents' garden, populated by millions of tiny insects.

But Roger lives in an impenetrable world of his own and, after the mysterious death of their parents, Jonathan is forced to give up his studies to take care of him. This obligation forces Jonathan to live apart from Harriet - further fuelling his already jealous nature.

Their lives are abruptly shattered by a sudden and violent death, and Jonathan is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with the police. Does Roger know more than he is letting on? A cleverly plotted mystery with a shock ending, The Insect Farm - Stuart Prebble's awaited new novel - will linger long in the mind of its readers.

About the Author Apart from being one of the leading broadcasters and producers of his generation, Stuart Prebble is an acclaimed writer of fiction and non-fiction. Among his publications are two novels, five comedy books based on the Grumpy Old Men TV series which he produced and, more recently, a book about the Falklands War, Secrets of the Conqueror, published by Faber and Faber in 2012. The Insect Farm is his latest novel.

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Alma Books APRIL 2016 Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? Judith Butler

In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media and portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war.

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Description This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and starvation, and can easily be dismissed. In the twisted logic that rationalizes their deaths, the loss of such populations is deemed necessary to protect the lives of ‘the living. ’ This disparity, Butler argues, has profound implications for why and when we feel horror, outrage, guilt, loss and righteous indifference, both in the context of war and, increasingly, everyday life.

This book discerns the resistance to the frames of war in the context of the images from Abu Ghraib, the poetry from Guantanamo, recent European policy on immigration and Islam, and debates on normativity and non-violence. In this urgent response to ever more dominant methods of coercion, violence and racism, Butler calls for a re-conceptualization of the Left, one that brokers cultural difference and cultivates resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of state violence and its vicissitudes.

About the Author Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Frames of War, Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781784782474 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x150mm Extent: 224 pages

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Verso Trade APRIL 2016 Diaboliad and Other Stories Mikhail Bulgakov

'Having found his niche at MatchMat, the quiet, gentle, fair-haired Korotkov had completely expunged from his soul the idea of the existence in the world of the so-called vicissitudes of fate'.

Sales points • From the author of The Master and Margarita (currently Alma Classics' top-selling classic in translation, and one of the most popular contemporary modern classics). • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Bulgakov's life and works. • Stunning design and finish (spot-UV and super-matt lamination).

Description In Bulgakov's 'Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare.

This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro- Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume, which also explore the themes of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of The Master and Margarita.

About the Author Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891--1940) is one of the foremost satirists of the twentieth century and is most famous for The Master and Margarita.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) ISBN: 9781847494726 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 164 pages

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Alma Classics APRIL 2016 A Dog's Heart Mikhail Bulgakov

'There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway. Nevertheless, if you live in Moscow and have a brain in your head, you'll pick up reading willy-nilly, and without attending any courses. Out of the forty thousand or so Moscow dogs, only a total idiot won't know how to read the word 'sausage'.'

Sales points • From the author of The Master and Margarita (currently Alma Classics' top-selling classic in translation, and one of the most popular contemporary modern classics) • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Bulgakov's life and works • Stunning design and finish (spot-UV and super-matt lamination).

Description When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted into the ranks of the Soviet state.

A parodic reworking of the Frankenstein myth and a vicious satire of the Communist revolution and the concept of the New Soviet man, A Dog's Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world.

About the Author Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891--1940) is one of the foremost satirists of the twentieth century and is most famous for The Master and Margarita.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) ISBN: 9781847495686 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 176 pages

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Alma Classics APRIL 2016 Persuasion Jane Austen

'You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope I have loved none but you.'

Sales points • Ideal for students, only $11.99 • Beautiful package with spot-UV and super-matt lamination • One of the world's most popular classics. • Thoroughly edited and extensively annotated. • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Austen's life and works.

Description Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and whose reappearance causes her to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future.

Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath and infused with its author's trademark wit, Austen's last completed novel, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women in the early nineteenth century

About the Author The witty and sharply satirical novels of Jane Austen (1775-1817) have an influence that shows no sign of waning, with continual adaptations and echoes in contemporary culture, and an everenthusiastic audience.

Price: $11.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9781847495709 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages

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Alma Classics APRIL 2016 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins

"For sheer plotting genius, Collins had no rival. If you've never read this, I can promise you one of the most gripping stories of all time." Philip Pullman

Sales points • Ideal for students • Beautiful package with spot-UV and super-matt lamination • One of the world's most popular classics • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Collins's life and works.

Description "She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steeled his heart against her." In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires thwarted by her previous engagement to Sir Percival Glyde. But all is not as it seems with Sir Percival, as becomes clear when he arrives with his eccentric friend Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are further deepened by the ghostly appearances of a woman in white, apparently harbouring a secret that concerns Sir Percival's past.

A tale of love, madness, deceit and redemption, boasting sublime Gothic settings and pulse-quickening suspense, The Woman in White was the first best-selling Victorian sensation novel, sparking off a huge trend in the fiction of the time with its compulsive, fascinating narrative.

About the Author Wilkie Collins (1824-89) is most famous for his novels The Moonstone and The Woman in White, in which he pioneered 'sensation' writing, the influence of which can still be seen today in the genres of crime and mystery.

Price: $11.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9781847495716 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 640 pages

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Alma Classics APRIL 2016 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire

'This is Ennui! With a reluctant tear, He dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah. You know him, reader, this fastidious monster, Hypocrite reader - kindred spirit - brother!'

Sales points • Dual-language edition • Brand-new translation by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer • Beautifully packaged • The greatest classic of French poetry.

Description Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in a great metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism.

Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form of the original French, but also makes powerful English poetry in its own right.

About the Author Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations and prose poems have been equally influential.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) ISBN: 9781847495747 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages

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Alma Classics APRIL 2016 A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov

Translated by Martin Parker and Neil Cornwell

Sales points • Beautiful package with spot-UV and super-matt lamination • One of the world's most popular classics • Includes Princess Ligovskaya.

Description On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious exploits of his former comrade Pechorin. Engaging in various acts of duelling, contraband, abduction and seduction, Pechorin, an archetypal Byronic anti-hero, combines cynicism and arrogance with melancholy and sensitivity. Causing an uproar in Russia when it was first published in 1840, Lermontov's brilliant, seminal study of contemporary society and the nihilistic aspect of Romanticism - accompanied here by the unfinished novel Princess Ligovskaya - remains compelling to this day.

About the Author A soldier in the Russian army stationed in the Caucasus, Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) became a hugely famous and influential Romantic poet. His life was cut short in a duel with a fellow officer.

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Alma Classics APRIL 2016 The Game of Chess and Other Stories Stefan Zweig

'They were no longer partners keen to test out their abilities in lighthearted play; they were enemies bent on each other's destruction.'

Sales points • Ideal for students • Beautiful package with spot-UV and super-matt lamination • Brand-new translation of one of the world's greatest rediscovered classics • Unique collection

Description When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw. When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compatriot travelling on the same ship and decides to reveal the harrowing secret behind his formidable chess knowledge, a chilling tale of imprisonment and psychological torment unfolds.

Stefan Zweig's last and most famous story, 'The Game of Chess' was written in exile in Brazil and explores its author's anxieties about the situation in Europe following the rise of the Nazi regime. The tale is presented here in a brand-new translation, along with three of the master storyteller's most acclaimed novellas: 'Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman', 'The Invisible Collection' and 'Incident on Lake Geneva'.

About the Author One of the most prominent European writers of the 1920s and 1930s, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) left his native Austria in 1934 following the rise of Nazism, committing suicide in exile in Brazil.

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Alma Classics APRIL 2016 The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind Professor A. C. Grayling

Best-selling author A. C. Grayling explains how, fuelled by original and unorthodox thinking, war and technological invention, the seventeenth century became the crucible of modernity

Sales points • By the author of The Good Book, (40,000 hardback copies sold worldwide), and New York Times bestseller, The God Argument (50,000 hardback copies sold worldwide) • A. C. Grayling, Chairman of The Man Booker Prize 2014, writes broadly across the national press and is constantly in the media spotlight • Strong publicity and review coverage if guaranteed for this high profile author, especially for this, his best and biggest book yet • This book will appeal to readers of Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men and The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

Description What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch the execution of a king? Or consider the difference between a magus casting a star chart and the day in 1639, when Jonathan Horrock and William Crabtree watched the transit of Venus across the face of the sun from their attic, successfully testing its course against Kepler's Tables of Planetary Motion, in a classic case of confirming a scientific theory by empirical testing.

In this turbulent period, science moved from the alchemy and astrology of John Dee to the painstaking observation and astronomy of Galileo, from the classicism of Aristotle, still favoured by the Church, to the evidence-based, collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon. And if the old ways still lingered and affected the new mind set - Descartes's dualism an attempt to square the new philosophy with religious belief; Newton, the man who understood gravity and the laws of motion, still fascinated to the end of his life by alchemy - by the end of that tumultuous century 'the greatest ever change Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) in the mental outlook of humanity' had irrevocably taken place. ISBN: 9781408870389 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm About the Author Extent: 320 pages A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London. He believes that Main Category: HP Philosophy philosophy should take an active, useful role in society and is a prolific author, whose books include philosophy, ethics, Sub Category: HP Philosophy Illustrations: biography, history, drama and essays. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Previous Titles: Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular Author now living: contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week, and CNN News. His most recent book is The Challenge of Things, published in 2015.

Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 The Age Of Genius 8 Copy Pack

Includes 8 copies The Age Of Genius plus free reading copy.

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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times Professor A. C. Grayling

A new collection of essays on our conflicted and prejudiced world by the best-selling author of The God Argument and The Reason of Things

Sales points • A. C. Grayling, this year's Booker Prize Chairman, writes broadly across the national press and is constantly in the media spotlight • Strong publicity and review coverage is guaranteed for this high profile author who is an experienced and popular veteran of the publicity and festival circuit • The combined sales through Bookscan of Grayling's essays from The Meaning of Things to Thinking of Answers amount to 132,000 copies in the UK only

Description A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.

The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds.

Whether he is writing about the First World War and its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening and hopeful.

About the Author A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, UK. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He believes that philosophy should take an

Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on ISBN: 9781408864623 Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio Format: Paperback and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a Fellow of Dimensions: 198x129mm the World Economic Forum at Davos, and advises on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human Extent: 320 pages

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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Thatcher Stole My Trousers Alexei Sayle

Elegantly written and painfully funny: the second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed stand-up comedian, novelist and actor

Sales points • Alexei Sayle's unique brand of surreal, angry, political comedy has brought him legions of fans who will be eager to learn of his early days on the comedy circuit - and how he created his unique style • This is more than just a memoir, it's a hugely entertaining history of British stand-up comedy, with a roll-call of British comedians from Keith Allen to Rik Mayall to Lenny Henry and French & Saunders • Alexei regularly appears on television and in the media, is still able to rile up pretty much anyone and plans to tour the country with a stand-up routine based on the book and coinciding with publication

Description In 1971 Alexei Sayle, raised by communist parents in 1950s Liverpool set out to find his fortune in London. It was a city where punk was in its infancy, unemployment was high, the weekly branch meetings of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) group took place in the Bellman bookshop, a young Margaret Thatcher had just been made Secretary of State for Education and stand-up comedy was unheard of.

Less than a decade later Alexei was the first MC of London's only comedy club, the Comedy Store, and the landscape of British comedy had altered forever. 'The only completely new thing that I could bring was an authentic working class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who'd kick your head in.'

From his years as a Chelsea Art School student through his varied career as a clerk in the DHSS office, a text-book illustrator, a dinner lady and a drama teacher, to his early experiences in fringe theatre and the discovery that he could make people laugh, Thatcher Stole My Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics came together in electrifying ways. Recounting the opening season of the Comedy Store, his experiences with the Alternative Cabaret, the Comic Strip and the Young Ones, and his friendships with the comedians who, like him would soon become household names, this is Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) a unique and beguiling blend of social history and memoir. ISBN: 9781408864562 Format: Paperback Fascinating, funny, angry and entertaining, it is a story of class and comedy, politics and love, Doc Martins and Tiswas. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages

Main Category: B Biography/autobiography About the Author Sub Category: B Born in Liverpool, the only child of Communist parents, Alexei moved to London in 1971 to attend Chelsea Art School. He Illustrations: became the first MC of the Comedy Store and later the Comic Strip. After years of stand-up, television, sitcoms, films and Previous Titles: Author now living: even a hit single, he published his first highly acclaimed collection of short stories. Barcelona Plates was followed by The Dog Catcher, two novels: Overtaken and The Weeping Women Hotel and a novella, Mister Roberts. The first volume of Alexei's memoirs was Stalin Ate My Homework.

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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria Janine di Giovanni

A searing, intimate account of the conflict in Syria by someone uniquely equipped to tell the story from the inside

Sales points • Janine di Gionvanni is a highly visible author for talk circuits, radio, magazine, TV and is becoming the leading non- academic expert on Syria as she has rare access to both sides • She is soon to begin shooting a documentary film to accompany the book • Janine di Giovanni's TED Talk on Syria at the US Institute of Peace and has been seen by hundreds of thousands on YOUTUBE • For fans of The Bookseller of Kabul by .sne Seierstad and Ingrid Christophersen, John McCarthy's You Can't Hide the Sun and Fergal Keane's Season of Blood

Description In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relationship with the country, starting with her coverage of the peaceful uprising and continuing as the situation quickly turned into one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawn to the stories of the ordinary people caught up in the conflict, Syria came to consume her every moment, her every emotion.

Speaking to those directly involved in the war, di Giovanni relays here the personal stories of rebel fighters thrown in jail at the least provocation; of children and families forced to watch loved ones taken and killed by regime forces with dubious justifications; and the stories of the elite, holding pool parties in Damascus hotels, trying to deny the human consequences of the nearby shelling.

Delivered with passion, fearlessness and sensitivity, The Morning They Came For Us is an unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration, charting an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war - and an unforgettable testament to human resilience in the face of devastating, unimaginable horrors. Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781408868294 About the Author Format: Paperback Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for over 20 years. She has written seven books, including the critically acclaimed Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Madness Visible, The Place at the End of the World, and, most recently, a biography of the Magnum Photographer Eve

Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Arnold. She is the Middle East Editor of Newsweek, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a regular contributor to the Sub Category: B New York Times, Granta and Harper's among many others. A frequent foreign policy analyst on British, American and Illustrations: French television, she has won many awards including Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award, Previous Titles: Author now living: the National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Media Awards, and the Spear's Memoir of the Year Award for Ghosts by Daylight. She is a Fred Pakis scholar in International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served as the president of the jury of the Prix Bayeux for war reporters and is a media leader at the World Economic Forum, Davos. She lives in Paris with her son. Bloomsbury

APRIL 2016 How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Kiese Laymon

Passionate, powerful and searing: a timely collection of essays on issues of race, culture, family and what is tearing modern America apart, by a vibrant and unique new voice in US literature

Sales points • Laymon is fast becoming a recognisable name in American cultural and political commentary, and this acclaimed collection is the first chance for readers to see the broad range and skill of his writing • A captivating series of essays tackling contemporary issues of race, family, celebrity and violence, all through Laymon's unique, impassioned voice • Certain to draw in readers of The Empathy Essays by Leslie Jamison and Pulp Head by John Jeremiah Sullivan, as well as other collections by writers such as Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith

Description 'I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies - once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the left-overs of a weak work-study check, once by my mother and twice by myself. Not sure how or if I've helped many folks say yes to life, but I've definitely aided in a few folks dying slowly in America, all without the aid of a gun'

Kiese Laymon grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. That was where he started to write and where he began to seek to create an honest account of living in the US, a country striving to declare itself multi-cultural, post-racial and mostly innocent. This is that account.

Drawing on his own personal experiences, these essays are Laymon's attempt to deal with many issues occupying America today, from race, identity and writing to music, celebrity and violence. Through letters between his own disparate family members, pleas to performers whose voices will never be heard again, recollections of his own failure to become a world-famous emcee, analysis of the growing culture of fear in the media and detailed accounts of his clashes with an education system that has both advanced and failed the generation he grew up in, Laymon gets closer not only to the Price: $31.99 (NZ$34.99) truth behind himself, but to the promises behind the promised land. ISBN: 9781408868164 Format: Hard Cover Searing and passionate, this timely collection of essays introduces a vibrant new voice in US literature and offers a unique Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 160 pages insight into the forces that are tearing America apart today.

Main Category: D Literature Sub Category: D Literature About the Author Illustrations: Kiese Laymon was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State Previous Titles: Author now living: University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA from Indiana University and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Vassar College. He has written essays and stories for numerous publications including Esquire, ESPN, Colorlines, NPR, Gawker, Truthout, Longman's Hip Hop Reader, The Best American Non-required Reading, Guernica, Mythium and Politics and Culture. Laymon was selected a member of the Root 100 in 2013 and 2014, Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Quentin Blake: A Visual Biography Lady Ghislaine Kenyon

Based on interviews with the subject, this visual biography is an intimate portrait of Quentin Blake, the much- loved illustrator and artistic genius of our age.

Sales points • An intimate portrait of one of the greatest and most loved artists of our time. • An endlessly fascinating figure in the world of illustration and children's writing • First ever biography of Quentin Blake • Essential reading for those interested in Roald Dahl, children's writing and the history of illustration. • Author gives personal account of Quentin Blake and interviews some of closest friends and colleagues • Includes colour and black and white illustrations throughout

Description Quentin Blake's work is loved by millions the world over. Ghislaine Kenyon has known Blake for many years and has worked with him staging exhibitions. She has and will continue to record many interviews with him about his work. Interviewing school friends and contemporaries at the The Royal College of Art, the author responds to a desire to place Blake, his work and working processes in the context of other creative geniuses. It aims to answer two key questions: who is the person behind the work and how does one join up with the other?

About the Author Ghislaine Kenyon worked formerly as Deputy Head of Education at the National Gallery and then Head of Learning at Somerset House. She has curated several exhibitions, including Tell Me a Picture in 2000 with Quentin Blake.

Price: $50.00 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781441130075 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 212x145mm Extent: 256 pages

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Continuum Trade APRIL 2016 Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality Jules Howard

A ground-breaking exploration of death and its role in evolution

Sales points • An entertaining and enchantingly written voyage of discovery • Written by a popular and charismatic broadcast personality • Cutting edge, with interviews with leading scientists in the field

Description As you read these words Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business; eating, reproducing, thriving . Yet the life of almost every single entity draws nearer and nearer to certain death. Why? Why is death such a universal companion to life on Earth? Why haven't animals evolved to break free of its shackles?

In this ground-breaking exploration of death, Jules Howard attempts to shed evolutionary light on this, one of our biggest and most unshakeable taboos. Encountering some of the world's oldest animals, and meeting the scientists attempting to unravel their mysteries, Jules also comes face-to-face with evolution's outliers; the animals that may one day avoid death altogether.

Written in his familiar engaging and humorous style, Jules's journey inevitably ends with our own fate: can we ever become immortal? And even if we could, would we really want to?

About the Author Jules Howard is a zoologist, writer, blogger and broadcaster. He writes on a host of topics relating to zoology and wildlife conservation, and appears regularly in BBC Wildlife Magazine and on radio and TV, including on BBC's The One Show, Nature and The Living World as well as BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today programme. Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world. Death on Earth is his second book, following Sex on Earth (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781472915085 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages

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Sigma APRIL 2016 You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia Jack Lynch

An illuminating exploration of reference books through time and across cultures, from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi to Wikipedia.

Sales points • Great micro-history: the reference book is a fascinating window on the history of human knowledge. • Energized, entertaining, and erudite: Written for lay readers, but with all the scholarship of a high-level academic. • Broad audience: reference books in one form or another touch our lives daily. Jack Lynch's fascinating chronicle will appeal to readers of all ages interested in history, culture, science, law, literature, and medicine.

Description Knowledge is of two kinds, said Samuel Johnson in 1775. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge-reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries.

You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge.

About the Author Price: $40.99 (NZ$43.99) Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He specializes in English literature of the eighteenth century ISBN: 9780802777522 Format: Hard Cover and the history of the English language. He is the author of several books including The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Dimensions: 235x156mm Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park and Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Extent: 320 pages Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. He lives in New Jersey. Main Category: G Reference

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Bloomsbury USA APRIL 2016 Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography John Berger and Jean Mohr

A new edition of John Berger and Jean Mohr's classic investigation into the nature of photography and what makes it so different from other art forms

Sales points • Reissued to coincide with the ninetieth birthday of John Berger, one of our greatest living intellectuals • John Berger's books have sold 170,000 copies through BookScan • Another Way of Telling was first published in 1982 and has been unavailable

Description In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised (originally published in 1982 and unavailable for many years), the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact.

Asking a range of questions - What is a photograph? What do photographs mean? How can they be used? - they give their answers in terms of a photograph as 'a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photography are often contradictory'. From these beginnings they develop a theory of photography that has at its centre the form's essential ambiguity, arguing that photography is totally unlike a film and has nothing to do with reportage. Rather, it constitutes 'another way of telling'.

The unique combination of critic and photographer results in a work that moves beyond the landmarks established by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag to establish a new theory of photography.

This unique combination of words and pictures includes 230 photographs by Jean Mohr.

About the Author John Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and Price: $53.99 (NZ$56.99) political insight, include the Booker Prize-winning novel G, To the Wedding and King. Amongst his outstanding studies of ISBN: 9781408864456 art and photography are The Success and Failure of Picasso, About Looking and the internationally acclaimed Ways of Format: Paperback Seeing. He lives and works in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Dimensions: 198x153mm Extent: 304 pages Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). Main Category: AJ Sub Category: Jean Mohr was born in Geneva in 1925. A documentary photographer who has worked with many of the world's leading Illustrations: humanitarian organisations, he has collaborated with John Berger on a number of projects including A Fortunate Man and Previous Titles: Author now living: The Seventh Man.

Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Spit and Polish: Old-Fashioned Ways to Banish Dirt, Dust and Decay Lucy Lethbridge

Essential household tips from the Victorian era to the modern day - time-honoured, thrifty and environmentally- friendly domestic solutions still useful today

Sales points • Lucy Lethbridge has established a reputation as a social historian of the period; Servants, her social history of the twentieth century, brilliantly retold through the eyes of the household servants, sold over 22,000 copies across all editions in the UK • Beatifully packaged and lavishly illustrated in colour, this is the perfect gift for any fan of Downton Abbey

Description From cobweb brushers, carpet sweepers and awkward corners to the damp cloth versus the dry duster; how to get rid of water marks or heat rings on polished wood; the antibacterial qualities of simple vinegar, and using lemon rind to clear limescale: here are the methods, techniques and essential household knowledge that generations once took for granted.

Combining fascinating 'below-stairs' social history with startling facts and useful tips, Lucy Lethbridge here restores fast- disappearing skills to keep at bay dust, rust, limescale and mildew; laundry, hygiene, polishing and the endless dishes. Here, beautifully illustrated and entertainingly presented, are a bygone era's keys to a clean house.

About the Author Lucy Lethbridge has written for a number of publications and is also the author of several children's books, one of which, Who Was Ada Lovelace?, won the 2002 Blue Peter Award for non-fiction. Servants was published to critical acclaim by Bloomsbury in 2012. She lives in London.

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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It Wendell Potter

New York Times bestselling author Wendell Potter and investigative reporter Nick Penniman expose legalized corruption across our political system and explain how we can reclaim our country.

Sales points • A transformative, in-the-round look at how legal bribery has corroded our government more deeply than we imagine. • From Wendell Potter's own Deadly Spin to Merchants of Doubt and Unaccountable, many of Bloomsbury Press's finest hours (and most robust sales) have been with broad, whistleblowing exposes. • Well-known, well-placed authors who are on the front lines of reform and connected to a large network of reformers, which they will tap into on publication for events, media, op-eds, etc. • An issue more urgent than ever in an election year.

Description The link between ordinary American people and their government is broken, and special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums has completely changed the character of politics, determining what elected representatives stand for and how they spend their time. The marriage of great wealth and political influence has strangled the political process, leaving us unable to address our most pressing problems as a nation, from climate change to the wealth gap. It defines the terms of our daily concerns: from the cars we drive to the air we breathe, even to the bodies we occupy.

In this powerful work of reportage, Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman, two of Washington's most vigilant watchdogs, expose legalized corruption and link it to the kitchen-sink issues citizens face every day. Inciting our outrage, the authors then introduce us to the army of reformers laying the groundwork for change, ready to be called into action. They touch on the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United, but explain why it is not the insurmountable road block many imagine. The battle plan for reform presented is practical, realistic, and concrete in terms of dates, people, and legislation. No one except the lobbyists likes business as usual, and this book intends to lead the charge in the effort to catalyze public Price: $43.99 (NZ$46.99) initiative. ISBN: 9781632861092 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm An impassioned, infuriating, yet ultimately hopeful call to arms, Nation on the Take lays bare the reach of moneyed Extent: 320 pages interests and charts a way forward, toward the recovery of America's original promise. Main Category: JP Politics

Sub Category: JP Politics Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Wendell Potter is a senior analyst at the Center for Public Integrity, the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Author now living: Media and Democracy, and a leading critic of the health insurance industry. His book Deadly Spin won the 2011 Ridenhour Book Prize.

Nick Penniman is executive director of the organization Issue One. He was previously publisher of the Washington Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Crisis Point: Why We Must – and How We Can – Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America Trent Lott

Two eminent former senators reach across the political aisle to identify the most corrosive sources of our current political dysfunction, and to point the way forward.

Sales points • Two of their respective parties' most respected leaders: With their decades of service, Daschle and Lott remain towering figures and powerful voices in American politics. • A remarkable bipartisan collaboration: Daschle and Lott have forged an inspiring working relationship by focusing on the values and goals which unite them. Their message is an important one, and they crucially lead by example. • Dual media appearances: The senators have been speaking together on this issue for some time (and drawing crowds), and together they will be dynamic guests for both liberal and conservative media.

Description Tom Daschle and Trent Lott are two of the most prominent senators of recent time. Both served in their respective parties' leadership positions from the 1990s into the current century, and they have almost sixty years of service between them. Their congressional tenure saw the Reagan tax cuts, a deadlocked Senate, the Clinton impeachment, 9/11, and the Iraq War. Despite the tumultuous times, and despite their very real ideological differences, they have always maintained a positive working relationship, one almost unthinkable in today's hyper-partisan climate.

In their book, Daschle and Lott come together from opposite sides of the aisle to sound an alarm on the current polarization that has made governing all but impossible; never before has the people's faith in government been so dismally low. The senators itemize damaging forces--the permanent campaign, the unprecedented money, the 24/7 news cycle--and offer practical recommendations, pointing the way forward. Most crucially, they recall the American people, especially our leaders, to the principles enshrined in the Constitution, and to the necessity of debate but also the imperative of compromise--which will take leadership, vision, and courage to bring back.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$42.99) Illustrated with personal stories from their own eminent careers and events cited from deeper in American history, Crisis ISBN: 9781632864611 Format: Hard Cover Point is an invaluable work that comes at a critical juncture. It is a work of conscience, as well as duty, written with Dimensions: 234x156mm passion and eloquence by two men who have dedicated their lives to public service and share the conviction that all is far Extent: 304 pages from lost. Main Category: JP Politics

Sub Category: JP Politics Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle co-founded the Bipartisan Policy Center and serves as Chair of the Author now living: Center for American Progress Board of Directors. His books include Like No Other Time, on the 107th Congress, and Critical, on the health care crisis.

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, co-founder of the Breaux- Bloomsbury USA APRIL 2016 The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure Henry Petroski

A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.

Sales points • URGENT TOPIC: Our crumbling infrastructure affects individual lives and our local and national economy and future. • THE PERFECT AUTHOR: Petroski is an acclaimed professor of history and engineering. • PAST AND PRESENT: The history behind our infrastructure is as interesting as its present and future are urgent. • RETURN TO FORM: Henry's most recent books have been intimate portraits of more niche topics like the architecture of his home in Maine. The Road Taken is a compelling return to Henry's earlier books like The Pencil and To Engineer is Human.

Description physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as "structurally deficient." This crisis--and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis--shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.

In The Road Taken, acclaimed historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from historical and contemporary perspectives and explains how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Recounting the long history behind America's highway system, Petroski reveals the genesis of our interstate numbering system (even roads go east- west, odd go north-south), the inspiration behind the center line that has divided roads for decades, and the creation of such taken- for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights--all crucial parts of our national and local infrastructure. His history of the rebuilding of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in the conception, funding, design, and building of major infrastructure projects, while his forensic analysis of the street he lives on--its potholes, gutters, and curbs--will engage

Price: $39.99 (NZ$42.99) homeowners everywhere. ISBN: 9781632863607 Format: Hard Cover A compelling work of history, The Road Taken is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and Dimensions: 234x153mm anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our Extent: 336 pages

Main Category: JP Politics aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.

Sub Category: JP Politics Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of eighteen previous books, including The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America, and The Essential Engineer. He lives in North Carolina. Bloomsbury USA APRIL 2016 Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age Bruce Watson

Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, Light captures the wonder and awe of humanity's study of light across three millennia of discovery.

Sales points • An accessible and thrilling portrait of our understanding of light: The narrative follows light's evolution through myth, religion, art, architecture, philosophy, photography, technology, and ultimately physics. • An accessible and thrilling portrait of our understanding of light: The narrative follows light's evolution through myth, religion, art, architecture, poetry, philosophy, photography, technology, and ultimately physics. • A tribute to the human intellect: Eclectic samplings of scripture, poetry, art, science, invention, and innovation. • Irrevocably changes the reader's perspective: You will see a sunrise or sunset as you never have before.

Description Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine.

Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while Dante dreamed a "heaven of pure light." Later, following Leonardo's advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas. During the Scientific Revolution, Galileo gathered light in his telescope, Descartes measured the rainbow, and Newton used prisms to solidify the science of optics. But even after Newton, light was an enigma. Particle or wave? Did it flow through an invisible "ether"? Through the age of Edison and into the age of lasers, Light reveals how light sparked new wonders--relativity, quantum electrodynamics, fiber optics, and more.

Although lasers now perform everyday miracles, light retains its eternal allure. "For the rest of my life," Einstein said, "I will reflect on what light is." Light explores and celebrates such curiosity.

Price: $37.99 (NZ$39.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781620405598 Bruce Watson is a frequent contributor to Smithsonian magazine, writing on topics ranging from eels to pi to profiles of Format: Hard Cover artists and writers. His work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Dimensions: 235x156mm other publications. Watson is the author of four books, including Bread and Roses, Sacco and Vanzetti (nominated for an Extent: 304 pages

Main Category: PDZ Popular Science Edgar Award), and Freedom Summer. He lives in western Massachusetts.

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Bloomsbury USA APRIL 2016 Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures Amy Goldman, photographs by Jerry Spagnoli foreword by M Mark

A gift for gardeners, foodies, and photo enthusiasts: ravishing contemporary daguerreotypes of a decade of garden harvests, celebrating the beauty of heirloom fruits and vegetables.

Sales points • Breathtaking photos: Literally, there were gasps when Amy sent us sample material. • The perfect gift -- an heirloom in itself: This book operates on three levels, but it will be a beautiful object first, for gardeners, locavores, and fans of photography, complete with daguerreotypes by a world-class photographer. The production values will honor the haunting beauty of the art: 7-color printing, with matte black and silver; matte pages with gloss on the images. The hardcover case will be wrapped in silver paper. • Powerhouse author: Amy Goldman has been described as perhaps the world's premier vegetable gardener by the president of the New York Botanical Garden. Daughter of a NYC real estate mogul, she is also a noted philanthropist. And she is part of a biodiversity preservation power couple: her husband, Cary Fowler, was executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. She has been profiled in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and has appeared numerous times on PBS' The Victory Garden and on Martha Stewart Living.

Description On two hundred acres in the Hudson Valley, Amy Goldman grows heirloom fruits and vegetables-an orchard full of apples, pears, and peaches; plots of squashes, melons, cabbages, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, and beets. The president of the New York Botanical Garden has called her perhaps the world's premier vegetable gardener. It's her life's work, and she's focused not only on the pleasures of cultivating the land or feeding her family-she's also interested in preserving our agricultural heritage, and the beautiful and unique heirlooms that truly are organic treasures.

Over nearly fifteen years, the acclaimed photographer Jerry Spagnoli has visited Amy's gardens to preserve these cherished varieties in another way-with the historical daguerreotype process, producing ethereal images with a silvery, luminous depth and a timeless beauty, underscoring the historical continuity and value of knobby gourds, carrots pulled Price: $115.99 (NZ$124.99) from the soil, and fruit picked fresh from the tree. ISBN: 9781620407776 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 305x229mm In Heirloom Harvest, his photographs are accompanied by an introduction by Amy, a foreword by Jerry Spagnoli, and an Extent: 192 pages afterword by M Mark-comprising an exquisite package, an artist's herbarium worthy of becoming an heirloom itself. Main Category: WB Food And Drink

Sub Category: WB Food And Drink Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Amy Goldman is one of the foremost heirloom plant conservationists in the United States. She is the author of Melons for Author now living: the Passionate Grower, The Compleat Squash, and The Heirloom Tomato. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

Jerry Spagnoli is America's premier daguerreotypist. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Bloomsbury USA APRIL 2016 River Cottage Australia Paul West

Tying in with the third series of the new River Cottage Australia TV series

Sales points • River Cottage Australia is about to be broadcast in the UK for the first time, following excellent reviews and viewing figures • The TV series is hugely appealing to viewers in Britain, with a charismatic host and a healthy dose of exoticism (as well as lots of ingredients that will seem reassuringly familiar) • River Cottage is firmly behind the new show, and fully supports Paul

Description Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has sowed the seed for a brand new River Cottage - in Australia! Somewhere between Melbourne and Sydney, and nestled between the pristine Sapphire Coast and the imposing Mount Gulaga, lies the beautiful old dairy farm which is now the home of River Cottage Australia, and 'new Hugh' Paul West.

Paul is a fresh, exciting face on the global food scene, as well as a brilliant presenter. Predictably, there is a healthy dose of competition between Hugh and Paul. They have fought over who can catch the first octopus and have raced to find the first mushroom of the year. But they have similar passions - sustainability and environmental issues being at the forefront - and on the farm they discover fantastic bounty as they forage for food and share the products of their culinary skills with the locals.

Featuring recipes from the first three series of River Cottage Australia, this is the cookbook that will reveal the delicious dishes which Paul has been creating on the farm. The book is divided into seven chapters and includes more than 120 recipes such as pumpkin scones, roasted octopus salad, baked salmon, spiced aubergine salad, pig on a spit, borlotti bean broth, raw courgette salad and warm curb cake with honey rhubarb. With a preface by Hugh (and a sprinkling of his recipes throughout), plus atmospheric, beautiful photography by Mark Chew, this is one of the best cookery books of the year.

Price: $45.00 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781408858387 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Born in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Paul West trained as chef at Melbourne's renowned Vue de Dimensions: 246x189mm Monde. He has worked in all areas of food production - from being a WWOOFer (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) in Extent: 320 pages

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Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Paul Hollywood's Bread Paul Hollywood

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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Ivan Ramen Ivan Orkin

Recipes, love and obsession from Tokyo's most unlikely noodle joint.

Sales points • UNIQUE STORY: Edgy and personality-driven, Ivan Ramen chronicles Orkin's fascinating and unmatched journey to becoming an American authority on ramen in Japan, a cult figure in the food world and a food media darling. • PEERLESS AND AUTHORITATIVE: Despite the explosive popularity of ramen, there is currently no definitive English- language book on the subject. Ivan Ramen is the book on ramen, drawing from Orkin's expertise on and passion for traditional Japanese ramen. • BOLD DESIGN: Chris Ying's eye-catching and functional recipe designs have been widely praised and are the anchor of the book.

Description In 2007, Ivan Orkin, a middle-aged Jewish guy from Long Island, did something crazy. In the food-zealous, insular megalopolis of Tokyo, Ivan opened a ramen shop. He was a gaijin (foreigner), trying to make his name in a place that is fiercely opinionated about ramen. At first, customers came because they were curious, but word spread quickly about Ivan's handmade noodles, clean and complex broth, and thoughtfully prepared toppings. Soon enough, Ivan became a celebrity - a fixture of Japanese TV programmes and the face of his own best-selling brand of instant ramen. Ivan opened a second location in Tokyo and has returned to New York City to open two US branches.

Ivan Ramen is essentially two books in one: a memoir and a cookbook. In these pages, Ivan tells the story of his ascent from wayward youth to a star of the Tokyo restaurant scene. He also shares more than forty recipes, including the complete, detailed recipe for his signature Shio Ramen; creative ways to use extra ramen components; and some of his most popular ramen variations. Written with equal parts candour, humour, gratitude and irreverence, Ivan Ramen is the only English- language book that offers a look inside the cultish world of ramen making in Japan. It will inspire you to forge your own path, give you insight into Japanese culture, and leave you with a deep appreciation for what goes into a seemingly simple bowl of noodles.

Price: $44.99 (NZ$46.99) ISBN: 9781472911674 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Ivan Orkin is the owner of Ivan Ramen, which has two locations in Tokyo and two in New York. Follow Ivan online at Dimensions: 247x189mm www.ivanramen.com and on Twitter @ivanramen. Extent: 224 pages

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Absolute Press APRIL 2016 Indian Harvest: Classic and Contemporary Vegetarian Dishes Vikas Khanna

A vibrant vegetarian cookbook from New York's hottest Indian chef.

Sales points • A charismatic (and photogenic) rising star chef: Khanna is the host of MasterChef India and has made frequent appearances on American TV. He has been named one of People Magazine India's Sexiest Men Alive, and has graced the cover of Men's Health India. He was also voted by an Eater reader poll as New York's Hottest Chef an unprecedented two years in a row. • For the international culinary adventurer, the creative vegetarian, and the NYC food snob. Vegetarians are always looking for new tricks, and Khanna sacrifices no flavor in this colorful trove of recipes. He's a celebrity chef with something to offer to everyone. • Gorgeous package: with more than 200 color photographs by Michael Swamy (another Cordon Bleu-educated chef, as well as a food stylist and photographer), and by Khanna himself.

Description One of Vikas Khanna's favorite places in the world growing up was the garden he and his grandmother planted at their home in Amritsar, India. He would rush home from school to tend to the aromatic basil and cardamom, tomatoes, peas, and squash. His intimate knowledge of spices and produce would guide him on his journey to become the Michelin- starred chef at one of New York's most highly regarded Indian restaurants, Junoon. And this knowledge of nature's bounty and its seasons informs his inspiring and beautiful cookbook, in which vegetables are the star ingredients. Vegetables have always been integral to Indian cuisine, and Khanna's dishes expertly showcase their natural goodness, their flavor and color and hidden nuances.

Khanna brings together traditional recipes, handed down over generations, alongside exciting new ones--for soups, salads, and starters; main courses; rice dishes and lentil dishes; breads; condiments; desserts; and drinks. Though the flavors are complex, the recipes are written to be simple and inviting, to encourage seasonal substitutions and experimentation. Vikas Khanna's love of food and culture, his enthusiasm and warm hospitality shines on every page.

Price: $53.99 (NZ$56.99) Bursting with 125 recipes and more than 200 color photographs from Michael Swamy and Khanna himself, Indian ISBN: 9781632862006 Harvest opens a new world of inspiration to vegetarians and omnivores alike. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 248x190mm About the Author Extent: 416 pages Main Category: WBB Vikas Khanna was born and raised in Amritsar, India, and studied at the Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Sub Category: Bleu. He is the host of MasterChef India and has been a guest chef on The Martha Stewart Show, a consultant chef on Illustrations: Kitchen Nightmares, and a judge on Throwdown! with Bobby Flay and Hell's Kitchen. He was a 2014 finalist for the James Previous Titles: Author now living: Beard Book Award for his book Return to the Rivers, and his Flatiron restaurant, Junoon, has been awarded a Michelin star. Khanna lives in New York.

Bloomsbury USA APRIL 2016 Africa39 Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Discover the best new writing from Africa, by 39 writers under 40 - with an introduction by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka

Sales points • Promotion for two years minimum involving the Hay Festival, the British Council, Arts Council England, English PEN and International PEN • International promotion at the Port Harcourt Festival (Nigeria) and at Hay Festivals, including in Kells (Ireland), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Xalapa (Mexico), Nairobi (Kenya), Segovia (Spain), Kolkata (India) and Dakar (Bangladesh)

Description Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava. Who will be the next generation?

Following the successful launch of Bogota39, which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, including Daniel Alarcon, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize), Santiago Roncagliolo (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and Juan Gabriel Vasquez (short-listed for the IFFP), and Beirut39 which published Randa Jarrar, Rabee Jaber, Joumana Haddad, Abdellah Taia and Samar Yazbek, Africa39 will bring to worldwide attention the best work from Africa and its diaspora. From the dazzling list of 39 writers chosen by the judges, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has selected richly rewarding short stories, extracts from novels, fables and other work by writers from Africa south of the Sahara, or its diaspora, and created a collection of some of the most varied and exciting new work in world literature today.

Africa39 is a Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young African writers from south of the Sahara. It will be launched at the PH Book Festival in UNESCO's World Book Capital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in October 2014.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408869024 The three judges are: Margaret Busby, Elechi Amadi, Osonye Tess Onwueme Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm About the Author Extent: 320 pages

Main Category: F Fiction Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is a freelance editor and critic, and was former deputy editor of Granta magazine.

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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War Deborah Cadbury

Princes at War takes up the story where the film The King's Speech ended as king and country are plunged into the Second World War and the greatest crisis in modern times

Sales points • Following the huge success of the Academy award winning film, The King's Speech (2010), there is a popular appeal to this era of history • An Emmy award-winning documentary maker, Deborah Cadbury has a proven talent for producing tense and exciting narrative non-fiction • Draws upon fresh, new material, recently released records from the FBI, Public Records Office, Lambeth Palace Library and Bodleian Library

Description King George V predicted that his eldest son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world's press broke their Great Silence: King Edward VIII was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorced American socialite.

A life spent in the shadow of his charismatic elder brother left the new king, George VI, magnificently unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire; this would be a baptism of fire. Hitler's Third Reich was tearing up the old Kingdoms of Europe one by one, and the familiar contours of London were being transformed by sandbags. As Great Britain braced herself for war, the faltering new king struggled to manage internal divisions within the royal family and feared betrayal as intelligence mounted of the Duke and Duchess of Windsors' suspected treachery during the worst days of the war. Drawing on personal accounts from the royal archives and other new sources, Deborah Cadbury goes behind palace doors to uncover the very private conflict between George VI and his too charming older brother; a conflict so bitter it was unresolvable while they were both alive.

Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) Cadbury's intimate and gripping account of familial tensions amongst kings and princes, provides a unique look at one of ISBN: 9781408845080 Format: Paperback the most turbulent periods in British history. Overcoming his stammer was only the beginning, and Cadbury goes on to Dimensions: 198x129mm reveal just what it took for George VI to rise to the challenge of leading his country during its time of greatest peril - and at Extent: 432 pages what price. Main Category: HB History

Sub Category: HBG World History Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Deborah Cadbury is the author of seven acclaimed books including Chocolate Wars, The Dinosaur Hunters, The Lost Author now living: King of France and The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, for which her accompanying BBC series received a BAFTA nomination. Before turning to writing full time she worked for thirty years as a BBC TV producer and executive producer and has won numerous international awards including an Emmy. She lives in London. Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi Piers Moore Ede

From the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Honey and Dust: a captivating memoir of a year spent in the holy city of Varanasi

Sales points • For the many fans of the travel writing of William Dalrymple, Colin Thubron and Rory Stewart • An intimate and beguiling portrait of a kaleidoscopic city caught in the crucible of change • For anyone who has ever been or ever dreamed of going to India and is fascinated by this vibrant, contradictory country

Description 'It seems that all of life has its assigned place on the stone steps leading down to the Ganges'

Piers Moore Ede first fell in love with Varanasi when he passed through it on his way to Nepal in search of wild honey hunters. In the decade that followed it continued to exert its pull on him, and he returned to live there, to discover what it is that makes the spiritual capital of India so unique.

In this intoxicating city, Piers encounters sweet-makers and sadhus, mischievous boatmen and weary bureaucrats, silk weavers and musicians. His ultimate discovery, however, is of the remarkable interplay between death and life, light and dark.

About the Author Piers Moore Ede has contributed to many literary, travel and environmental publications, including the Daily Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, Ecologist, Traveller and Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Honey and Dust, winner of a D. H. Lawrence Prize for Travel Writing, and All Kinds of Magic. He lives in East Sussex with his wife and daughter.

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Bloomsbury Pb APRIL 2016 Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir Ta-Nehisi Coates

Powerfully evocative, Coates recalls life of struggle on the edge of chaos, and what is was like to be a young black man in desperate times.

The National Book Award Winning author of "Between the World and Me".

Sales points • 'A beautifully written, loving portrait of a strong father bringing his sons to manhood' --Booklist • 'A remarkable, blunt portrait of an adolescence filled with danger, chaos, flaws, and tragedy . . . a love story, dispatched from the front lines of a family' --Time Out • 'the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States' --New York Observer

Description Ta Nehisi grew up in 1980s Baltimore when the city was on the verge of chaos: drugs, gangs and the constant threat of violence haunted the young black man's life wherever he went. A boy need to learn the knowledge fast and Coates's father, Paul, was a fine teacher: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. As the father kept his family safe, he also taught his two sons the tactics to survive and make it out, eventually making it to Howard University.

The Beautiful Struggle is a moving father and son story, about the reality that tests us and the love that saves us.

About the Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story 'The Case for Reparations'. His second memoir 'Between the World and Me' was a hugely acclaimed and best selling book, shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2015, Coates was awarded Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) a MacArthur Genius Award. ISBN: 9781784785345 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 288 pages

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Verso Trade APRIL 2016 The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz Aaron Swartz

The writings of the computer genius and Internet hacktivist whose tragic suicide shook the world.

Sales points • 'A kid genius ... Aaron was not just, or even primarily, a computer geek. His defining feature was a constant struggle for what he believed was right.' - Lawrence Lessig • 'Aaron had an unbeatable combination of political insight, technical skill, and intelligence about people and issues. I think he could have revolutionized American (and worldwide) politics. His legacy may still yet do so.' - Cory Doctorow • 'I always found it genuinely inspiring to watch Swartz exude courage and commitment at such a young age.' - Glenn Greenwald • 'This volume makes clear what those of us who knew Aaron already grasped: when we lost Aaron, we lost one of the most exciting minds of our time.' - Chris Hayes • 'We've lost a fighter. We've lost somebody who put huge energy into righting wrongs.' - Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Description In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, under arrest and threatened with thirty-five years of imprisonment for downloading material from the JSTOR database, committed suicide. He was twenty-six years old. But in that time he had changed the world we live in: reshaping the Internet, questioning our assumptions about intellectual property, and creating some of the tools we use in our daily online lives.

Besides being a technical genius and a passionate activist, he was also an insightful, compelling, and cutting critic of the politics of the Web. In this collection of his writings that spans over a decade he shows his passion for and in-depth knowledge of intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. The Boy Who Could Change the World contains the life's work of one of the most original minds of our time.

About the Author Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) was involved in the development of RSS, Creative Commons, web.py, and Reddit. He helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2009 and founded the online group Demand Progress. He is Price: $34.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781784784966 survived by his parents and two brothers, who live in Chicago. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages

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Verso Trade APRIL 2016 Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition B.R. Ambedkar

'What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.' -Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste

Sales points • 80th Anniversary, special edition. • 'Annihilation of Caste has to be read No Hindu who prizes his faith above life itself can afford to underrate the importance of this indictment.' -M.K. Gandhi • 'What Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to caste India. Arundhati Roy's introduction is expansive and excellent. S. Anand's annotations have style and perfection.' -Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders & India's Hidden Apartheid • 'For the 1930s, Annihilation of Caste was a case of marvellous writing with conceptual clarity and political understanding - something the world should know about. The annotations illumine the whole book. Roy's essay has the sharp political thrust one has come to expect from her.' -Uma Chakravarti, author of Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas of 'Ancient' India and Pandita Ramabai: A Life and a Time • 'Arundhati Roy's 'The Doctor and the Saint' manages to convey an intimate and deeply felt sensitivity to the history that produced Annihilation of Caste. The annotations do an excellent job of providing supplementary information, corroboration and relevant citations A robust edition of an under-appreciated classic.' -Satish Deshpande, Professor of Sociology, Delhi University • 'S. Anand's annotations are very thorough and on the whole based on first-rate and current scholarship on South Asia and elsewhere Arundhati Roy's essay is punchy, eye-opening and provocative There is very little left of the saintly stature of the Mahatma once Roy is done with him, while Ambedkar, quite rightly, is left standing as the man in full control of his senses and his very considerable intellect.' -Thomas Blom Hansen, Director, Stanford's Center for South Asia

Description B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India.

Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar - a figure like W.E.B. Du ISBN: 9781784783525 Bois - offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social Format: Paperback - C format system. The world's best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never Dimensions: 210x140mm buried. Extent: 416 pages

Main Category: JFC Cultural Studies Sub Category: JFC Cultural Studies Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste in 'The Doctor and the Saint,' Illustrations: examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to Previous Titles: Author now living: resonate. Roy takes us to the beginning of Gandhi's political career in South Africa, where his views on race, caste and imperialism were shaped. She tracks Ambedkar's emergence as a major political figure in the national movement, and shows how his scholarship and intelligence illuminated a political struggle beset by sectarianism and obscurantism. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar's anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be Verso Trade APRIL 2016 Marx and Human Nature Norman Geras

'Striking elegance, economy, and argumentative power.'-Times Literary Supplement

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Description In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. rather, his later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfill both explanatory and normative functions. Over one hundred and thirty years after Marx's death, this book-combining the strengths of analytical philosophy and classical Marxism-rediscovers a central part of his heritage.

About the Author Norman Geras Norman Geras was born in 1943 in what is now Zimbabwe, and came to England in 1962 to study at Oxford. He started teaching at the University of Manchester where he would become a Professor in the Department of Government. He was an important part of the New Left movement and an editorial board member and contributor at New Left Review. He contributed to Marxist political theory throughout his life, most prominently in his books Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend and Literature of Revolution: Essays on Marxism. On his retirement he started a blog, normblog, and remained a prolific voice on politics until his death in 2013.

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Verso Trade APRIL 2016 Public Sphere and Experience: Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere Oskar Negt

With a new, up-to-date introduction from Alexander Kluge.

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Description The 'public sphere' is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt's groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture.

About the Author Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century as well as filmmaker, director, screenwriter and an important social critic.

Oskar Negt is an award-winning filmmaker, TV producer, theorist and editor. He is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hannover.

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Verso Trade APRIL 2016 Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism Ellen Meiksins

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Description Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of 'postmodern' fragmentation, 'difference,' and con- tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using them to identify the specificity of capitalism as a system of social relations and political power. She goes on to explore the concept of democracy in both the ancient and modern world, examining its relation to capitalism, and raising questions about how democracy might go beyond the limits imposed on it.

About the Author ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of many books, including Democracy Against Capitalism and, with Verso, The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Citizens to Lords, Empire of Capital and Liberty and Property.

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Verso Trade APRIL 2016 Radical Thinkers Set 12 Radical Thinkers

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Verso Trade APRIL 2016 Perpetual Guest Barry Schwabsky

Leading art critic explores the connections between art's past and present

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Description The idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art's present must also account for the ongoing life and changing fortunes of its past.

In surveying the art world of this past decade, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer faces-among them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei, Chris Ofili, and Lorna Simpson-but their forebears, both recent (Jeff Wall, Nancy Spero, Dan Graham, Cindy Sherman) and more distant (Velazquez, Manet, Matisse, and the portraitists of the Renaissance).

'The art critic,' Schwabsky writes, 'formalizes and deliberately exemplifes the role of the spectator who realizes the artist's work, not by leaving it just as it is, but by adding something to it, making a personal contribution.'

Despite the hysterical pronouncements of criticism's demise, Schwabsky's rich and subtle considerations of art's complexly intertwined traditions are an indispensable contribution to understanding our present moment.

About the Author Barry Schwabsky is Art Critic for the Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum and has contributed to many publications, including the London Review of Books and New Left Review. His previous books include Words for Art: History, Criticism, Theory, Practice, a collection of essays on art writing and art writers, as well as several volumes of poetry. He lives in New York.

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Verso Academic APRIL 2016 Fall of the Turkish Model Cihan Tugal

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Verso Academic APRIL 2016 Modernist Papers Fredric Jameson

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Verso Academic APRIL 2016 In the Flow Boris Groys

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Verso Academic APRIL 2016 Reading Capital: Unabridged Edition Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar

A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time.

Sales points • Fiftieth anniversary edition with a major new introduction by Etienne Balibar. • There is a major Althusser revival underway, and Macherey and Ranciere are key contemporary philosophical references. • This edition will enrich and expand the new discussions of Marx's Capital and of contemporary capitalism.

Description ginally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, which sought to reconstruct Western Marxism from its foundations. Previously only available in English in a highly abridged form, this 50th anniversary edition restores original chapters by Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Ranciere, accompanied by a major new introduction by Etienne Balibar on the book's continued impact.

About the Author LOUIS ALTHUSSER (1918-1990) taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.

ETIENNE BALIBAR is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is a Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine.

JACQUES RANCIERE is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII.

PIERRE MACHEREY is a French Marxist literary critic at Universite Lille Nord de France.

ROGER ESTABLET is a French scholar of the sociology of education. A student of Louis Althusser, Establet is an emeritus professor at University of Provence. Price: $64.99 (NZ$69.99) ISBN: 9781784781415 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 235x156mm Extent: 688 pages Main Category: JP Politics Sub Category: JFF Current Affairs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Verso Academic APRIL 2016 Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist Robert Verkaik

The only journalist to interview 'Jihadi John' reveals how Mohammed Emwazi went from London teenager to world's most wanted terrorist

Sales points • The first book on Islamic State's brutal executioner, who became no. 1 on the British hit list before being killed by a US air strike in November 2015 • Reveals, for the first time, how Emwazi and Verkaik came to meet, and what the author learnt during their correspondence, including allegations that a younger Emwazi was beaten up by police officers • New revelations about Jihadi John's travels in Europe that were not picked up by UK security services • A wide-ranging critique from an expert analyst, it includes exclusive interviews and correspondence.

Description When Islamic State's black-masked executioner, 'Jihadi John', was revealed to be Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old IT graduate from west London, senior security editor Robert Verkaik was shaken more than most. In 2010 he'd interviewed this man. At the time Emwazi had claimed MI5 were ruining his life. He was desperate for his story to be told, believing that going public might force the security services to leave him alone. He later told Verkaik that he felt like a 'dead man walking.'

Verkaik's investigation into the making of 'Jihadi John' leads him to the disturbing questions that Emwazi left behind. What led him, and many other young Muslim men, to come to Verkaik for help in the first place? And why do hundreds of other Britons wish to join Islamic State? Frightening, thoughtprovoking and urgent, Jihadi John assesses the threat IS poses to the UK and examines how the actions of our security services might help create the same enemy we're trying to defeat.

About the Author Robert Verkaik is a freelance security editor who writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail and the Independent. He was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010 as home affairs editor of the Independent, later

Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) becoming the only journalist to interview Mohammed Emwazi in his lifetime. Verkaik lives in the UK. ISBN: 9781780749433 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy Deborah McDonald

A story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe and saw a woman born to indulgence and selfishness sacrifice everything for love - only to be betrayed.

Sales points • The first biography of Moura Budberg (nee Zakreskaya) to employ the full range of previously unexamined letters, diaries and unofficial documents • Uses recently released MI5 papers, plus personal testimonies to discover the truth behind the myths • The extraordinary drama of Moura's world is brought to life in a sensational narrative • Recent press attention surrounding Moura has revealed her to be Nick Clegg's great-great aunt.

Description Spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed everything for love, only to be betrayed. When Lockhart arrived in Revolutionary Russia in 1918, his official mission was Britain's envoy to the new Bolshevik government, yet his real assignment was to create a network of agents and plot the downfall of Lenin. Lockhart soon got to know Moura and they began a passionate affair, even though Moura was spying on him for the Bolsheviks. But when Lockhart's plot unravelled, she would forsake everything in an attempt to protect him from Lenin's secret police. Fleeing to a life of exile in England and taking a string of new lovers, including Maxim Gorky and H. G. Wells, Moura later spied for Stalin and for Britain amidst the web of scandal surrounding the Cambridge spies. Through all this she clung to the hope that Lockhart would finally return to her.

Grippingly narrated, this is the first biography of Moura Budberg to use the full range of previously unexamined letters, diaries and documents. An incredible true story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe, A Very Dangerous Woman brings her extraordinary world vividly to life with dramatic resonances to rival the most Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) sensational novel. ISBN: 9781780747972 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm About the Author Extent: 352 pages Deborah McDonald is the author of Clara Collet 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman and The Prince, His Tutor and Main Category: B Biography/autobiography the Ripper: The Evidence Linking James Kenneth Stephen to the Whitechapel Murders. She lives on the Isles Of White. Sub Category: BG Biography: General Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Oneworld APRIL 2016 Data-ism: Inside the Big Data Revolution Steve Lohr

'Big data has the potential to make us healthier and more effective. Learn why, and what will happen, in Steve Lohr's important new book.' Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google

Sales points • Unrivalled access: Lohr knows the big corporate and government players from his decades at the New York Times; he reveals the big money as well as the big news scoops being made in big data and what that means for the rest of us • Essential business read: This will be required reading for every manager trying to keep on top of the leading practices for grabbing information and customers • Big data, Moneyball style: Lohr delivers a book full of outsized, colourful characters, in the style of bestseller Michael Lewis

Description Data is the vital raw material in our modern information economy. There is already an incredible amount of digital data in the world, and it's doubling every two years. Business decisions used to be based on experience and intuition - now detailed data analysis is the name of the game. Those bits and bytes are transforming our world.

Steve Lohr, chief technology reporter at the New York Times, takes us to meet the people at the centre of this digital revolution and shows how we, both as individuals and institutions, will need to exploit, protect and manage our data in order to remain competitive. Beyond a vast array of illuminating insights and rich anecdotes, he asks provocative questions about the policies and practices surrounding digital data. The answers he finds will reach far and wide to affect every one of us.

About the Author Steve Lohr is a senior writer and reporter for the New York Times, where he writes about the intersection of technology, business and society and contributes to the internationally-read Bits blog. His journalism has been hailed as 'a tour de force' (Nature). He lives in New York City.

Price: $22.99 (NZ$23.99) ISBN: 9781780748368 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 Forensic Science: A Beginner's Guide Jay Siegel

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 The Beginner's Guide To The Victorians David Gange

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Description Dr David Gange looks beyond the stereotypes of factories, child labour and the pursuit of progress at all costs. Featuring famous figures like Dickens and Disraeli, The Victorians: A Beginner's Guide is an accessible introduction to a fascinating period and an examination of how our perceptions of it have changed.

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Price: $22.99 (NZ$23.99) ISBN: 9781780748283 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages

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Oneworld APRIL 2016 The Strangers Who Came Home: The First Australian Cricket Tour of England John Lazenby

A compelling and beautifully drawn social history of the first Australian cricket tour of England

Sales points • An engrossing combination of cricket writing and social history • John Lazenby's first book, Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend was longlisted for the William Hill Prize and chosen as one of The Wisden Cricketer's Books of the Year • Expect review coverage in both the sports and the broadsheet press, and widespread author publicity on publication

Description The Ashes cricket series, played out between England and Australia, is the oldest - and undoubtedly the most keenly- contested - rivalry in international sport. And yet the majority of the first representative Australian cricket team to tour England in 1878 in fact regarded themselves as Englishmen.

In May of that year the SS City of Berlin docked at Liverpool, and the Australians stepped onto English ground to begin the inaugural first-class cricket tour of England by a representative overseas team. As they made their way south towards Lord's to play MCC in the second match of the tour, the intrepid tourists - or 'the strangers' as they were referred to in the press - encountered arrogance and ignorance, cheating umpires and miserable weather. But by defeating a powerful MCC side which included W.G. Grace himself in a single afternoon's play, they turned English cricket on its head. The Lord's crowd, having begun by openly laughing at the tourists, were soon wildly celebrating a victory that has been described as 'arguably the most momentous six hours in cricket history' and claiming the Australians as their own.

The Strangers Who Came Home is a compelling social history which brings that momentous summer to life, telling the story of these extraordinary men who travelled thousands of miles, risking life and limb, playing 43 matches in England (as well as several in Philadelphia, America, on their return journey) during a demanding but ultimately triumphant homecoming. It reveals how their glorious achievements on the field of play threw open the doors to international sports Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) touring, and how these men from the colonies provided the stimulus for Australian nationhood through their sporting ISBN: 9781408843970 Format: Paperback success and brought unprecedented vitality to international cricket. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages About the Author Main Category: WSJC John Lazenby has since 1997 worked as a freelance journalist on national newspapers including The Times, the Sunday Sub Category: Illustrations: Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph and as a sports broadcaster for both radio and Previous Titles: television. His first book, Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend was longlisted for the William Hill Prize. Author now living: He lives in London.

Wisden APRIL 2016 Lost Boys: Inside Football's Slave Trade Ed Hawkins

A shocking expose of football's human-trafficking scandal.

Sales points • The first book to deal with this issue in detail - a new angle on corruption in sport • Ed Hawkins is an award-winning journalist, and this is investigative journalism at its fearless best

Description From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football's slave trade - the beautiful game turned ugly.

Talent-spotted by scouts, these kids are told they could be 'the next big thing'. But the reality is very different. Having spent their family's life savings to join a much-hyped academy, they soon discover the academies barely exist and that they have been exploited. Only a tiny percentage of the hopefuls are chosen just to be coached for the slim chance of a professional contract; the rest are abandoned. With no money to go home - let alone the confidence to face their heartbroken families - the Lost Boys find themselves stuck in the country they have been trafficked to, with crime often their only means of survival.

The Lost Boys exposes for the first time the anatomy of football's human-trafficking scandal, the extent of the abuse, and how it ruins lives and threatens the credibility of the sport. With unique access to a charity trying to rescue and repatriate the children and a special investigative unit set up to stem the problem, Ed Hawkins gets under the fingernails of one of the most serious and heart-rending issues in sport today.

Lost Boys is investigative journalism at its best: shocking, moving, and hoping to make a real difference.

About the Author Ed Hawkins is an award-winning sports journalist. He has twice been named the Sports Journalists Association's Sports Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781472914941 Betting Writer of the Year. His previous book, Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Format: Paperback of the Year award and was Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2013 book of the year. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: WS Sport Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Sport APRIL 2016 Sod it! Eat Well: Healthy Eating in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond Anita Bean

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BLM Sport APRIL 2016 Kicking Off: How Women in Sport Are Changing the Game Sarah Shephard

Will women in sport - underpaid, undervalued and underestimated for so long - ever compete on a level playing field?

Sales points • An engaging, interesting read. This isn't a tub-thumping polemic - instead a well-crafted exploration of the issues - but not afraid to confront the many elephants in the room. • High calibre interviews - a well-connected journalist in an in-depth investigation of women's experiences in sport • A timely book - women athletes are breaking through, but many barriers still remain

Description There's a battle being fought. It's raging on the sports fields, in the newsrooms and behind the scenes at every major broadcaster. The warriors are women in sport and in this book their battles will be broken down to discover if, and how they can ever be won. At a time when women in sport are fighting for equality with more vigour than ever, this is a book that looks behind the headlines to see whether progress is really being made and tells the stories that can no longer be ignored. It will be a vital tool in helping women to switch their focus from the battle field to the sports field, once and for all.

Why do the most successful female athletes earn less than their male counterparts?

Why do so few elite sportswomen have the profile their talent deserves?

Why are girls still growing up believing that sport is 'for boys'?

Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) All this and more, covered in a candid and revealing book written by the Features Editor at Sport magazine. ISBN: 9781472913838 Format: Paperback About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Sarah Shephard is Features Editor at Sport magazine and has interviewed cover stars including Usain Bolt, Roger Main Category: JFSJ1 Federer, Andy Murray, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Bradley Wiggins, Serena Williams, and many more. In December 2012 she Sub Category: was named Writer of the Year at the UTV Media Awards. She has also contributed features to Men's Health, Runner's Illustrations: World and Men's Fitness. Previous Titles: Author now living:

BLM Sport APRIL 2016 Green Guide to Butterflies Of Britain And Europe Robert Goodden and Rosemary Goodden

A helpful guide to butterflies, suitable for both the general reader and the amateur naturalist.

Sales points • 150 of the most common species of butterfly; illustrated in colour throughout • Compact, easy-to-use format; the ideal pock-size guide

Description Aimed at both the general reader and amateur naturalist, this guide offers information on observing and identifying 150 of the most commonly encountered butterfly species in Britain and Europe. Each butterfly's habits, range and important characteristics are described, while colour paintings show each butterfly in detail. There are sections on the four stages of the life-cycle of butterflies and on breeding butterflies. Sound advice on conservation issues is also offered. The book can be used as both a home reference and a pocket companion in the field.

About the Author Robert Goodden was on the Joint Committee for the Conservation of British Insects from its foundation, and a member of other conservation and entomological organisations. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society by two of the Society's presidents He has broadcast regularly on the BBC's Wildlife and The Living World series and has written a number of books on butterflies and insects, including The Field Guide to British Butterflies.

Price: $9.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9781472916426 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 104 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Bloomsbury Natural History APRIL 2016 Green Guide to Garden Wildlife Of Britain And Europe Bob Gibbons

A helpful guide to garden wildlife, suitable for both the general reader and the amateur naturalist.

Sales points • 150 of the species most commonly found in British and European gardens; illustrated in colour throughout • Compact, easy-to-use format; the ideal pocket-size guide

Description Aimed at both the general reader and amateur naturalist, this guide offers information on observing and identifying 150 of the species most commonly encountered in gardens of Britain and Europe. Each species' habits, range and important characteristics are described, while colour paintings show each in detail. There are sections on and how to encourage wildlife into your garden and how to watch it. Sound advice on conservation issues is also offered. The book can be used as both a home reference and a pocket companion in the field.

About the Author Bob Gibbons is a renowned botanist, author and tour leader who is based in Dorset but has travelled across much of Europe and the world in search of wildlife. His previous titles include Wildflower Wonders, Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Insects and Bloomsbury Pocket Guide to Trees and Shrubs.

Price: $9.99 (NZ$12.99) ISBN: 9781472916440 Format: Paperback Dimensions: xmm Extent: 104 pages

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Bloomsbury Natural History APRIL 2016 Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland Mark Golley

An updated edition of the popular Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland in association with the Wildlife Trusts.

Sales points • Leading bird artist David Daley provides more than 1,000 full colour illustrations featured throughout the book • The book provides identification tips, information on habitat and calls for over 280 bird species seen in Britain and Ireland • Brand new and fully updated version of a practical and informative guide

Description Stunningly illustrated and simple to use, this brand new, fully updated, edition of a practical and informative guide is a must for any birdwatcher's pocket. Whether observing what is feeding, nesting or bathing in your garden, or further afield, or trying to identify a bird on the wing, this book is perfect for use at home, out in the car or in the field.

Arranged in taxonomic species order, it is ideal for both the beginner and the more experienced birdwatcher. The comprehensive and informative jargon-free text is written by birdwatching expert Mark Golley. This book is packed with identification tips, details of habitat and calls for over 280 bird species, and includes all those seen regularly in Britain and Ireland, as well as some of the less common migrants. It is illustrated throughout with more than 1,000 spectacular, full- colour illustrations by leading bird artist David Daly.

About the Author Mark Golley is a regular contributor to birding magazines and is well known for his refreshing and easy approach to bird identification. He spent four years as warden of the world-famous Cley Marshes nature reserve, close to where he lives in North Norfolk.

David Daly is one of Europe's leading bird artists. He has taken part in a number of expeditions to various parts of the Price: $31.99 (NZ$34.99) world. His work has been exhibited widely and his illustrations have appeared in numerous books and calendars as well ISBN: 9781472917461 as prestigious magazines including British Birds. He lives in County Wexford, Ireland. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x148mm Extent: 208 pages

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Bloomsbury Natural History APRIL 2016 Born To Be Wild: Hundreds of free nature activities for families Hattie Garlick, photographs by Nancy Honey

Born to Be Wild has a simple message. It's fun for families to be in the outdoors. It's easy to have that fun. And having fun outdoors needn't cost the earth.

Sales points • Features a range of outdoor activities (building, climbing, cooking, art) - complex and simple - suitable for children aged 2 to 12, including mixed-age groups • Hundreds of imaginative ways for parents, grandparents and child carers to save money without cutting back on fun • Very easy to navigate, and can be used over and over throughout the year • Activities are illustrated in newly commissioned photos by award-winning photographer Nancy Honey • Has enthusiastic backing from the RSPB, who said the book is an inspired piece of thinking and that Hattie Garlick has the wonderful knack of engaging whole families in nature, in ways that are exciting, easy to do, and require little more than a child's boundless imagination. • Includes activities that take ten minutes or absorb whole afternoons, and activities that need just an urban balcony and that you can do in your nearest bit of real wilderness • Activities immerse families in nature so that, while playing, children learn a huge amount about the seasons, geography and animals without realising

Description Want to save cash, your child's imagination and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need.

Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more sophisticated than a small person's imagination and access to a little outdoor space.

Organised seasonally and then by material, it lets parents skip straight to Spring and then to 'Blossom', 'Grass' or 'Earth' etc. according to their present need.

Price: $19.99 (NZ$32.99) Everything you need to engage in and create all of its hundreds of activities can be found in your kitchen cupboard. No ISBN: 9781472915337 expensive art supplies or outward-bound kit required. All you need is the 'Toolkit' listed at the front of the book. These Format: Paperback ordinary household essentials include recycled food containers, scraps of paper, string, glue and an empty jar or two. Dimensions: 246x189mm Extent: 256 pages Main Category: WDH Along the way Hattie Garlick talks to families, organisations, cultures and communities who have rebuilt their relationships Sub Category: with nature with extreme or inspiring results, and introduces scientists, psychologists and other experts who explain why Illustrations: nature matters in our kids' modern lives. Previous Titles: Author now living: About the Author Hattie Garlick is a former journalist for the Times, where she wrote features, comment and news, and now contributes to the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine, the Financial Times magazine, Bloomsbury Natural History APRIL 2016 Birds of Borneo 2nd Edition Susan Myers

A completely revised and redesigned edition of the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Borneo.

Sales points • The first ever comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to the birds of Borneo, now fully revised and redesigned, with text and maps opposite the plates • Covers 640 species in unprecedented detail with a colour map for every species. Includes more than 1600 colour artworks arranged into 137 spectacular plates • A new title in the extensive and acclaimed Helm Field Guides series

Description Birds of Borneo is the first comprehensive guide to the varied avifauna of this island biodiversity hotspot, which comprises the tiny state of Brunei, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the Indonesian state of Kalimantan.

More than 630 bird species have been recorded on Borneo and, using the most up-to-date taxonomy and nomenclature, this guide includes all recently split species and also gives full coverage of distinctive Bornean races where they differ from their counterparts on neighbouring islands or in mainland South-east Asia. Borneo is of particular ecological significance; the unique combination of its tropical latitude and the relief of the land, which includes high mountains and rainforests, has created many isolated micro-habitats which have enabled a remarkable number of different species of birds to evolve, many of which are endemic to the island.

Every species recorded is described in detail with key identification characteristics and habitat information given, plus a colour distribution map. All species are illustrated, with paintings by the same expert team of artists who worked on the celebrated Birds of South-East Asia, also in the Helm Field guides series.

About the Author Susan Myers is an experienced bird tour leader for US tour company Wings, specialising in southern Asia. Having grown

Price: $60.00 (NZ$70.00) up in Australia, she now lives in Seattle, USA, while spending much of each year in Asia. ISBN: 9781472924445 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 216x140mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: WNCB Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Helm Ornithology APRIL 2016 Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe Wouter Beukema, Ilian Velikov, Jan Van Der Voort and Jeroen Speybroek

This is the definitive and up-to-date field guide to all the reptiles and amphibians of Europe.

Sales points • Covers all 215 species of reptiles and amphibians in Europe • Superb colour illustrations depicting every species and all major geographical variations • Up-to-date distribution map included for every species

Description The taxonomy and systematics of European reptiles and amphibians have changed a lot in recent years, yet there is no modern, up-to-date field guide available that covers all the species. This new book addresses this deficiency. Every species will be covered in detail with a focus on identification and geographical variation; species texts also cover distribution, habitat and behaviour. A detailed up-to-date map is included for each species. Superb colour illustrations depict every species and all major variations. This groundbreaking new guide will become the definitive field reference for these two groups of animals.

About the Author Jeroen Speybroeck holds a PhD in biology and works at the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) in Belgium.

Wouter Beukema is a Dutch herpetologist focusing on biogeography, evolutionary ecology and conservation.

Bobby Bok teaches biology to teenagers and dedicates his free time to travelling through Europe in search of amphibians and reptiles.

Jan Van Der Voort is a Belgian civil servant whose quest for many years has been to photograph all the species of European amphibians and reptiles. Price: $39.99 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781408154595 Format: Paperback Ilian Velikov is a Bulgarian-born artist living and working in London. Since an early age he has had a keen interest in Dimensions: 216x140mm nature and wildlife, and especially reptiles and amphibians. Extent: 320 pages

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Helm Ornithology APRIL 2016 Botticelli Reimagined Edited by Mark Evans

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Description Published to accompany the V&A's major spring exhibition, Botticelli Reimagined, 5 March to 3 July 2016 The Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is one of the greatest artists of all time. Renowned for the iconic Birth of Venus and Primavera, his work has become part of our collective visual memory, influencing product development, fashion design and artists as diverse as Andy Warhol, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rene Magritte and Jeff Koons. But Botticelli's fame today was by no means a foregone conclusion. Quickly forgotten after his death, he was only rediscovered as an artist in the nineteenth century - and much of what we know of his work has been pieced together from fragmentary evidence; only three of his works are signed or documented. Since then, 'Botticelli' has been interpreted in many different ways, and has led to many questions. How does a painter acquire international fame? What made Botticelli a pop icon? Why are his works considered timeless? What is it that makes him so 'European' that his Venus appears on the 10 cent coin? What we can say - safely - is that Botticelli, more than any other Old Master, inspired and continues to inspire modern and contemporary art.

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V&A Publications APRIL 2016 C.F.A. Voysey Karen Livingstone

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V&A Publications APRIL 2016 The Making of India Kartar Lalvani

The first ever history of India to explore the benefits - institutional, political and civil - of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent

Sales points • This book will delight and enrage in equal measure • The author will promote his book both here and in India • Validation from Anil Seal, the foremost historian of modern India

Description The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small sea-faring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's large democracy in the twenty-first century.

About the Author Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE, FRPharmS, DSc, is founder and chairman of Vitabiotics, Britain's leading vitamin company. Born in Karachi in 1931, Kartar moved to Mumbai in 1947 and to London in 1956 to study pharmacy at Chelsea, before undertaking his doctorate at Bonn University. An honorary Professor at University of Franche Comt., Besan.on, France, Kartar is also a philanthropist, private scholar and historian.

Price: $50.00 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781472924827 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages

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Continuum Trade APRIL 2016 Catholic Social Teaching: A Guide for the Perplexed Dr Anna Rowlands

Opens to a student, policy maker, business leader, social activist and Church audience the background to, context for, and content of Catholic Social Teaching.

Sales points • Valuable course book for university courses in political theology, public theology and Christian ethics • First introductory CST text also aimed at general readers: policy makers, business leaders, voluntary sector • Recent significant interest in, and impact of, CST in UK in the last few years

Description Anna Rowlands offers a clear and accessible guide to the main time periods, key figures, documents and themes of thinking developed as Catholic Social Teaching (CST). A wealth of material has been produced by the Catholic Church during its long history which considers the implications of Scripture, doctrine and natural law for the way they conduct our life together in community - most particularly in the tradition of social encyclicals dating from 1891. Rowlands takes a fresh approach in weaving overviews of the central principles with case studies which relate to contemporary social policy themes, and by considering the increasingly critical questions concerning the role of CST in a pluralist and post-secular context. As such this book offer both an incisive overview of this distinctive body of Catholic political theology and a new and challenging contribution to the debate about the transformative potential of CST in contemporary society.

About the Author Anna Rowlands is a Political, Moral and Practical Theologian based at King's College, London, UK. Her research focuses on the practical and intellectual development of Catholic Social Thought, with particular interest in ethical responses to contemporary migration, theological responses to the recent financial crisis and reflection on the nature of political authority and the political vocation.

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Continuum Religious APRIL 2016 The Battle of the Somme Matthias Strohn

The battle of the Somme is the most famous battle of World War I in the English-speaking world. This wide- ranging collection of articles sheds new light on this famous story, examining it from all angles.

Sales points • The battle of the Somme is the most famous battle of World War I for the English-speaking world and will feature prominently in the official British commemorations of the war in 2016. • This volume takes a new approach, moving away from the Anglocentric tradition to treat the battle from all perspectives. This allows for a diverse range of authors from the major European and US academic institutions, as well as such renowned military writers as Professor Sir Hew Strachan, Major-General Dr Jonathan Bailey and Major- General Mungo Melvin.

Description Published to coincide with the commemoration of the centenary of the battle of the Somme, this new study comprises twelve separate articles written by some of the foremost military historians, each of which looks at a specific aspect of the battle. Focusing on key aspects of the British, French and German forces, overall strategic and tactical impacts of the battle and with an introduction by renowned World War I scholar Professor Sir Hew Strachan, The Battle of the Somme is a timely collection of the latest research and analysis of the battle.

The terrors of the Somme have largely come to embody trench warfare on the Western Front in the modern imagination, but this new book looks beyond the horrendous conditions and staggering casualty rates to provide new, insightful research on one of the most pivotal battles of the war.

About the Author Dr. Matthias Strohn was educated at the Universities of Muenster (Germany) and Oxford. He has lectured at Oxford University and the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Shrivenham. Since 2006 he has been a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and in 2011 he was also made a Senior Research

Price: $50.00 (NZ$55.00) Fellow at the University of Buckingham. He holds a commission in the German army and is currently a member of the ISBN: 9781472815569 military attache reserve. He was published widely on 20th century German and European military history. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233 xmm Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. Extent: 288 pages

Main Category: JW Military He also serves on the Strategic Advisory Panel of the Chief of the Defence Staff, on the UK Defence Academy Advisory Sub Category: JW Board, and on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His books include the first volume of his Illustrations: projected three-volume work The First World War (2001), The First World War: A New Illustrated History (2003), and Carl Previous Titles: Author now living: von Clausewitz's On War (2007).

Osprey APRIL 2016 AD Skyraider Units of the Korean War Rick Burgess and Warren Thompson

Built by Douglas to replace World War 2 dive- and torpedo-bombers, the AD Skyraider was the single most effective naval aircraft of the Korean War, despite the emergence of jet fighters during the conflict.

Sales points • The 'Able Dog' is a true classic of Naval Aviation that has fascinated aircraft enthusiasts because of its accomplishments and its ruggedness and large payload. It served long into the 'Jet Age' as a highly capable anachronism. • The authors have used personal accounts from AD pilots who flew in the Korean War and have illustrated the book with many previously unpublished photographs. • Korean War-period titles have been good sellers in the past ten years, appealing to modelers, wargamers and military enthusiasts.

Description The Douglas AD Skyraider is considered the most effective naval aircraft of the Korean War despite the emergence of new jet fighters that were to capture public imagination. Built to replace the World War II workhorses like the Dauntless, Helldiver and Avenger dive and torpedo bombers, the Skyraider operated numerous combat missions from carrier decks and from US Marine Corps land bases throughout the conflict. Drawing from personal interviews with AD pilots, the authors paint a harrowing picture of the deadly combat of this often forgotten air war as pilots took on Chinese and North Korean forces during daring night attacks and whilst outnumbered in daytime attacks.

About the Author Rick Burgess is the editor or co-author of four books on US naval aviation history (including Osprey Combat Aircraft 77 - US Navy A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War, 2009). He is also a contributor to several editions of Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet. He is a columnist for Air International magazine and his articles on military aviation have been published in numerous other periodicals and journals, including Air Forces Monthly, Wings of Gold, The Hook, Rotor Review, International Air Power Review, World Air Power Journal, Combat Aircraft, The Navy and US Naval Institute Proceedings.

Price: $29.99 (NZ$31.99) Rick is a retired US Navy lieutenant commander with more than 2900 flight hours as a navigator, tactical coordinator and ISBN: 9781472812643 mission commander in P-3C aircraft, and with duty on board numerous aircraft carriers, service as an intelligence officer Format: Paperback and editorship of Naval Aviation News magazine. He has served as managing editor of Seapower magazine since 1997. Dimensions: 248 x184mm Extent: 96 pages

Main Category: JW Military Warren Thompson has been a military aviation historian for more than 40 years. Most of his research has been focused Sub Category: JW on the Korean War and US nightfighter operations in World War 2. He has had more than 30 books published (including Illustrations: 12 for Osprey), as well as numerous magazine articles. In 2011 he was recognised as 'Contributor of the Year' for the Previous Titles: Author now living: Tailhook Association. He is also a life member in the Marine Corps Aviation Association and co-founder of the Sabre Pilots' Association. He lives in Germantown, Tennessee, with his wife of 51 years.

Jim Laurier is a native of New England, growing up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has been drawing since he Osprey APRIL 2016 Atlanta 1864 James Donnell

A highly illustrated account of the four-month struggle for control of Atlanta during the American Civil War. Sherman's victory over Hood in the battle was one of the key turning points in the American Civil War.

Sales points • The struggle for Atlanta was one of the major campaigns of the American Civil War in the Western Theatre. • The battle involved hundreds of thousands of men and some of the most famous commanders of the war including William T. Sherman, Joseph E. Johnston and John Bell Hood. • This highly illustrated new study will build on the success of recent American Civil War titles in the Campaign list.

Description Union Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman's telegraph: 'Atlanta is ours, and fairly won' had a huge impact on the course of the American Civil War. The culmination of a four-month campaign in the Western Theater, it propelled Abraham Lincoln to reelection.

Atlanta marked the beginning of the final Confederate struggle for survival. Union forces under Sherman lined up against Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee. The superior Union numbers forced the Confederates into a series of delaying actions from entrenched positions. When Hood replaced Johnston the Confederates launched increasingly attacking campaigns, but were finally forced to give up the city as the Union troops smashed their supply lines, denying the Confederacy their principal granary and manufacturing districts.

Sherman was left to embark on his famous March to the Sea.

About the Author James Donnell has been fascinated with the Civil War ever since he made a visit to the Gettysburg battlefield in elementary school. He has studied Civil War history and tactics for 25 years. In that time, he has amassed a considerable library of military history, in general, and Civil War history in particular. In 2000, he retired from the US Air Force, and is

Price: $29.99 (NZ$31.99) currently living in southeast Virginia, where he spends his spare time touring the innumerable Civil War sites in the area. ISBN: 9781472811530 Format: Paperback Steve Noon was born in Kent, UK, and attended art college in Cornwall. He's had a life-long passion for illustration, and Dimensions: 248 x184mm since 1985 has worked as a professional artist. He has provided award-winning illustrations for the publishers Dorling Extent: 96 pages

Main Category: HB History Kindersley, where his interest in historical illustration began. Steve has illustrated over 30 books for Osprey.

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Osprey APRIL 2016 Bolt Action: Duel in the Sun: The African and Italian Campaigns Peter Dennis

Scenarios and special rules for Bolt Action, covering operations in North Africa and Italy, sure to appeal to all fans of the game..

Sales points • A theatre book for Bolt Action, adding new rules, scenarios and troop types to the game. • Bolt Action has proven extremely popular, and this title continues the range beyond the basic army lists. • The theatre approach means that this volume appeals to many players, not just those who collect and game with a particular army.

Description With Duel in the Sun, players can take command of the doughty Desert Rats of Montgomery's 8th Army, the fast-moving and hard-hitting raiders of the Long Range Desert Army (LRDG), or Rommel's mighty Afrika Korps, to recreate some of the most iconic battles of World War II - Operations Compass, Crusader and Torch, Tobruk, and Alamein, amongst others. Offering scenarios, special rules and new troop types, this Theatre Book for Bolt Action also takes players across the Mediterranean from North Africa, where they can follow the Italian Campaign from the invasion of Sicily, through the battles for Anzio and Cassino, to the final assaults on the Gothic Line.

About the Author Warlord Games is one of the world's leading producers of wargaming miniatures, as well as the publisher of the successful Black Powder and Hail Caesar rule sets. Their Bolt Action range of 28mm World War II miniatures is the most extensive on the market and continues to grow and develop. Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Price: $39.99 (NZ$42.99) ISBN: 9781472807427 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 190x242mm Extent: 128 pages

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Osprey APRIL 2016 Camden 1780: The annihilation of Gates' Grand Army David Smith

Overconfident following his victory at Saratoga, American general Horatio Gates played into the hands of British commander Lord Cornwallis at Camden in 1780, suffering one of the worst American setbacks of the war.

Sales points • The battle of Camden is one of the most significant British victories in the southern theater of the American War of Independence and features some of the most famous characters of the war, notably Banastre Tarleton and his British Legion. • The defeat paved the way for Nathanial Greene to take command, leading to eventual American victory in the south and in the war more generally.

Description As the British refocused their war on the southern colonies in the hopes of triggering an outbreak of loyalism that would sweep the rebels aside. Under Sir Henry Clinton they captured Savannah in 1778, and Charleston in May, with Lord Cornwallis being left in command with just 8,500 men under him. Too thinly spread to guard the 15,000 square miles he was responsible for, Cornwallis went on the offensive, invading North Carolina and using Camden as a launch pad.

This new history reveals how Cornwallis was able to use his aggressive strategy to great effect and how the overconfidence of the re-formed America forces under Horatio Gates was to result in a shocking defeat on the night of 15 August - a defeat that would allow Cornwallis to push deep into North Carolina the following year, where he would only be stopped by defeat at Yorktown.

About the Author David Smith is a graduate of the Military Studies Master's Degree programme at the University of Chester. Having studied and worked in the United States he has a special interest in American military history, especially the Civil War and the War of Independence. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781472812858 Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Format: Paperback Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action Dimensions: 248 xmm Extent: 96 pages of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century. The son of the illustrator Michael

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Osprey APRIL 2016 Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 Prit Buttar

Drawing on first-hand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the the tumultuous events of the first year of the war, with the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia, followed by the Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia and the failed German advance towards Warsaw.

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Description Although the myriad of alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires in the early 20th century proved to be one of the primary triggers for the outbreak of the First World War, much of the actual fighting between these three nations has been largely forgotten in the West. Whilst battles such as Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele have been inscribed deeply on the public consciousness, with the exception of perhaps Tannenberg, the conflicts in the East do not hold the same recognition. In his new book, Prit Buttar seeks to correct this imbalance with a magisterial account of the chaos and destruction that reigned when three powerful empires collided. His harrowing narrative is driven by first-hand accounts and new, detailed archival research to create a dynamic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of the war, examining the battles of the Masurian Lakes and Tannenberg in East Prussia, followed by the Russo- Austrian clashes in Galicia, the failed German advance towards Warsaw, and the vicious fighting in the Carpathian mountains. Buttar reveals how delays in adapting to a modern war and inadequacies in supply and support arrangements, combined with a failure to plan for a long war, left the Central Powers struggling to keep up with events, and having to come to terms with the dreaded reality of a war on two fronts while Russia was driven towards revolution. A war that was initially seen by all three powers as a welcome opportunity to address both internal and external issues would ultimately bring about the downfall of them all.

About the Author Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he has worked as a GP, first near Bristol and now in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and serves on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He appears from Price: $23.99 (NZ$25.99) time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the ISBN: 9781472813183 medical press. An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th century military history, he previously wrote the critically Format: Paperback acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 (Osprey 2010) and Between Giants: Dimensions: 233 x152mm Extent: 488 pages The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (Osprey 2013). Published to coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of the Main Category: First World War, Collision of Empires is the first in a three-volume series, the definitive study of the First World War on the Sub Category: Eastern Front. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey APRIL 2016 F-15 Eagle versus MiG-23/25 Doug Dildy and Tom Cooper

Designed with the sole aim of outperforming the fearsome MiGs of the Soviet airforce, the F-15 Eagle was never to come up against the foes she was designed to fight. However, in the skies over Iraq, she did get the opportunity to test her abilities against the types of aircraft she was designed to combat.

Sales points • Covers the actions fought between the premier USAF fighter and the two Soviet-built adversaries that it was designed to defeat - the first time these types actually met in combat. • Provides an open analysis of the type in combat, whilst also acknowledging the huge advantages that superior American Command and Control, training and ground crew were to tilt the odds in the favour of the Eagle. • Both the Eagle and MiG-23/MiG-25 are heavily modelled in all the main scales (1/32nd, 1/48th and 1/72nd). •

Description Designed following the relatively poor performance of America's multi-role fighters during the Vietnam War, the F-15 Eagle was conceived as a dedicated air superiority fighter. But, having trained for 15 years in the Eagle it wasn't Eastern Bloc operated MiGs that the F-15 eventually came up against, but pilots of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi airforce.

This book analyses the combat between the American and Soviet 'Cold War fighters' in a balanced manner, examining how the technical abilities of the aircraft combined with the different levels of training available to opposing pilots and groundcrews allowed the F-15s to destroy the Iraqi offensive abilities within weeks of the First Gulf War starting. Packed with artwork, illustrations and photographs, this book places the reader in the cockpit during one of the last major dogfighting air wars in modern history.

About the Author Douglas C Dildy retired from the USAF after 26 years of service during which he commanded the 32nd Fighter Squadron and was vice commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing. A graduate of the USAF Academy as a history major and having a Price: $25.99 (NZ$28.99) masters degree in Political Science, Dildy has authored five books for Osprey - his volume Dunkirk 1940 in the Campaign ISBN: 9781472812704 series was a bestseller. He is a feature writer for Aviation Classics, an associate editor of Logbook and a regular Format: Paperback contributor to the Small Air Forces Observer magazines. Doug lives with his wife Ann in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dimensions: 248 xmm Extent: 80 pages

Main Category: JW Military Tom Cooper is the recognised expert on Arab MiG operators in general and, specifically, on Iraqi Air Force (IrAF) Sub Category: JW operations in combat against Iran and against the US-led coalition in the 1990s. He has co-authored two Osprey books on Illustrations: Iranian F-4 and F- 14 units as well as Osprey Combat Aircraft 44: Arab MiG-19 and MiG-21 Units in Combat. He also co- Previous Titles: Author now living: authored Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980-1988 and the ongoing (four volumes presently) Arab MiGs series with other publishers. Cooper lives in Olbendorf, Austria.

Jim Laurier is a native of New England and lives in New Hampshire. He attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Osprey APRIL 2016 Finland at War: the Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter, Toni Wirtanen and Chris Birks

The follow-up to Finland at War: The Winter War, this is the astonishing David and Goliath story of Finland's' military history during World War II.

Sales points • The second, and final, volume of an authoritative two-part collection which provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of Finland's forgotten history of winter warfare in World War II. • Perhaps the most important facet of WWII, the Eastern Front has a huge readership; Osprey has produced numerous landmark titles on this largely unknown topic, such as Battleground Prussia and Between Giants. • With little written on the subject in English, this expansive title fills a huge gap in the coverage of this important conflict.

Description Having foiled the Soviet invasion of the Winter War, the Finns found themselves embroiled in an ongoing conflict to maintain her borders as the Soviets recovered from the initial advances made by the Germans during the Barbarossa campaign. Yet as the red tide of Soviet forces pushed back the German army, the Finnish forces, despite their lack of equipment, obsolete machinery and miniscule manpower held firm against the Soviets throughout the continuation war, ensuring their post-war independence one the Western side of the Iron curtain.

But that was not the end of hostilities for the exhausted Finnish nation, as they turned their attentions to the Nazi forces embedded within their territory, calling up brigades populated with teenagers to force German forces inexorably back.

Featuring some incredible, never before seen photographs and first-hand accounts, this is the history of one of the most incredible moments in modern military history.

About the Author After graduating college, Vesa Nenye followed his family's illustrious military tradition and served his country, Finland, as a Tank Commander and an Arms & Munitions NCO. Upon leaving the armed forces, he became a member of the

Price: $59.99 (NZ$63.99) Panssarikilta - the armoured core heritage society in Finland. A veteran of historical and strategy gaming in Finland, Peter ISBN: 9781472815262 Munter founded a play-by-mail business and worked extensively as writer and translator of roleplaying supplements in the Format: Hard Cover late 80s. Peter is an ex-Marine from the Finnish Navy and currently works as a Managing Director in a games retail chain Dimensions: 242 x190mm that he established with Vesa Nenye in 1997. Toni Wirtanen served in the Kymi Jager Battalion of the Karelian Brigade as Extent: 304 pages Main Category: an infantry anti-tank specialist and has ever since been active with the reservist corps. Toni is best known for his work as Sub Category: the singer and songwriter in the rock band Apulanta, founded in 1991. Chris Birks moved from England to Bergen, Illustrations: Norway, aged 13, and, whilst studying at the University of Bergen, worked at building the Norwegian hobby scene for Previous Titles: Author now living: miniature strategy war-gaming. Chris now works as a teacher of mathematics and natural sciences.

Osprey APRIL 2016 Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II Michael G. Walling

Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II-an essence distilled from men's fear, anger, killing lust, courage, self-sacrifice, and agonizing death, mixed with bloodstained, oil-tainted water from the Arctic Sea.

Sales points • A former officer with the US Coast Guard, author Mike Walling is an award-winning historian with contacts at The History Channel, PBS, Naval History, and other media organizations. • Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, Germany's monumental offensive against the Soviet Union. • An affordable paperback version of the popular hardback book, packed full of interviews, entries from personal diaries and action reports.

Description In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken. Operation Barbarossa saw defeat after defeat heaped on the Soviet army. With Russia's forces left staggering under the strain and in desperate need of supplies, Britain and the United States launched an ambitious operation to resupply the Soviet Union using convoys sent through the Arctic. Their journey was punctuated by torpedo attacks in freezing conditions, Stuka dive bombers, naval gun fire, and weeks of total darkness in the Arctic winter, with ships disappearing below the waves weighed down by the ice and snow on their decks. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories from eyewitnesses and veterans of the convoys, plus original research into the Russian Navy archives at Murmansk, historian Michael G. Walling offers a fresh retelling of one of World War II's pivotal yet largely overlooked campaigns.

About the Author Michael G. Walling is author of several books, including Bloodstained Sea, winner of the 2005 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. An internationally recognized World War II expert, Walling is a contributing author to the US Naval Institute's Naval History magazine and has appeared on The History Channel and PBS as an aviation and naval Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) expert. After graduating from Montclair State College with a BA in Biology, Walling served in the US Coast Guard for six ISBN: 9781472811103 years as a commissioned officer and a senior petty officer. He has spent more than 45 years collecting stories from Format: Paperback veterans from World War II, Korea, Viet Nam, and Iraq as well as those of pilots, merchant seamen, and civilian personnel Dimensions: 233x152mm Extent: 312 pages with NATO and EUFOR in the Balkans. His research has included visits to Afghanistan; Russia; London; Sarajevo; Baska Main Category: Voda, Croatia; Halifax, Nova Scotia; St John's, Newfoundland; and New Orleans. Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey APRIL 2016 Imperial Chinese Armies 1840-1911 Philip Jowett

Explains and illustrates the Chinese Army during its period of repeated conflicts with the Western powers and Japan, this book appeals to wargamers, modellers and students of 19th century warfare, especially colonial campaigns.

Sales points • This volume fills the final major gap in Osprey's coverage of Chinese military history, and represents one of the most important period to Osprey's Western readership - China's wars against the Western powers in the 19th century. • The Opium Wars, covered in this title, are amongst the most requested topics Osprey receive, winning a January 2014 website poll with 11k votes. • Fully illustrated throughout, this book features rare photographs, and new colour artwork of exotic, little-known uniforms.

Description An in-depth analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of the Chinese forces that combated the British and French during the two Opium Wars, this history goes on to trace the forces who were drawn into internal wars and rebellions in the 1850s and 60s, the open warfare in North Vietnam, the string of defeats suffered during the First Sino-Japanese war and the Boxer Rebellion.

Providing an unparalleled insight into the dizzying array of troop types and unique uniforms, this is a history of the sometimes -painful modernization of China's military forces during one of her most turbulent periods of history

About the Author Philip Jowett was born in Leeds in 1961, and has been interested in military history for as long as he can remember. His first Osprey book was the ground-breaking Men-at-Arms 306: Chinese Civil War Armies 1911-49; he has since published the three- part sequence The Italian Army 1940-45 (Men-at-Arms 340, 349 and 353). A rugby league enthusiast and amateur genealogist, he is married and lives in Lincolnshire. Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781472814272 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248 x184mm Extent: 48 pages

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Osprey APRIL 2016 Nazi Moonbase Graeme Davis

A detailed pseudo-historical examination of the Nazi space program and of the layout of their moonbase, perfect for fans of conspiracy theory, retro-science-fiction and pulp adventure.

Sales points • The follow-up to The Nazi Occult, one of Osprey Adventures most popular and best-selling books. • Nazis on the moon have been a popular science-fiction trope which dates back to Robert Heinlein's novel Rocket Ship Galileo. • The 2012 spoof movie, Iron Sky, has recently reinvigorated idea of a Nazi Moonbase in the science-fiction community, with the recently released videogame Wolfenstein: The New Order including missions set in a Nazi moonbase.

Description In the dying days of World War II, Nazi Germany spent increasingly large amounts of its dwindling manufacturing capability on the construction of a small fleet of flying saucers capable of travel beyond the atmosphere. While these saucers were too few in number to affect the eventual outcome of the war, they did allow for a small, but fanatical Nazi group to escape Germany, first to Antarctica, and then on to the moon!

For the first time, the history of the Nazi space program has been revealed - with a focus on the design, construction, and layout of the moonbase. Using detailed maps, the entire moonbase is reconstructed, noting the locations of various important features, such as weapon emplacements, the Vril generator, the air recyclers and water extractors. The book also covers the various attempt by the allies to overcome this last Nazi stronghold through both subterfuge and outright battle.

About the Author Graeme Davis discovered mythology at the age of six thanks to a children's retelling of Homer's Odyssey in his school library and a Saturday-morning showing of Ray Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts. He studied archaeology at the University of Durham and has written a host of historical roleplaying sourcebooks for GURPS, Dungeons & Dragons, and

Price: $22.99 (NZ$25.99) other games. He is the author of a Dungeons & Dragons novel, a co-creator of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and a ISBN: 9781472814913 credited writer on more than 30 video games. He lives in northern Virginia with his wife Jamie, who is also a writer. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248 x184mm Extent: 80 pages

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Osprey APRIL 2016 Railway Guns of World War II Steven J. Zaloga

Packed with information, this authoritative and detailed history of World War II's largest and most powerful railway guns appeals to World War II enthusiasts, modellers, reenactors, wargamers, and anyone interested in military technology.

Sales points • World War II was the zenith of railway gun technology, with Nazi Germany leading the field. • Includes coverage of the legendary German 1,350-ton, 80cm-calibre Schwerer Dora, by far the biggest mobile artillery piece ever used. • Big guns are always a popular and exciting subject, and New Vanguard 205 Big Bertha Siege Artillery is one of the bestselling recent titles in the series.

Description World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns deployed at the start of the conflict were of World War I vintage, Germany's ambitious development programme saw the introduction of a number of new classes, including the world's largest, the 80cm-calibre Schwerer Gustav and Schwerer Dora guns, which weighed in at 1,350 tons and fired a huge 7-ton shell. This book provides an overview of the types of railway guns in service during World War II, with a special focus on the German railway artillery used in France, Italy and on the Eastern Front, and analyzes why railway guns largely disappeared from use following the end of the war.

About the Author Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK. ISBN: 9781472810687 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248 x184mm Extent: 48 pages

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Osprey APRIL 2016 The Sea Chart John Blake

Considers the history and development of the sea chart and the related nautical map, in both scientific and aesthetic terms.

Sales points • A magnificent and unique book that considers both the political significance and practical use of charts designed for use at sea. • A substantial collection of beautiful and important charts and illustrations that will appeal to seasoned navigators and mariners, as well as 'arm-chair sailors' • Key figures or milestones in the history of charting are then presented in stand-alone story box features.

Description To sail the oceans needed skill as well as courage and experience, and the sea chart with, where appropriate, the coastal view, was the tool by which ships of trade, transport or conquest navigated their course. This book looks at the history and development of the chart and the related nautical map, in both scientific and aesthetic terms, as a means of safe and accurate seaborne navigation. The Italian merchant-venturers of the early thirteenth century developed the earliest 'portulan' pilot charts of the Mediterranean. The subsequent speed of exploration by European seafarers, encompassing the New World, the extraordinary voyages around the Cape of Good Hope and the opening up of the trade to the East, India and the Spice Islands were both a result of the development of the sea chart and additionally as an aid to that development. By the eighteenth century the discovery and charting of the coasts and oceans of the globe had become a strategic naval and commercial requirement. Such involvements led to Cook's voyages in the Pacific, the search for the Northwest Passage and races to the Arctic and Antarctic.

The volume is arranged along chronological and then geographical lines. Each of the ten chapters is split into two distinct halves examining the history of the charting of a particular region and the context under which such charting took place following which specific navigational charts and views together with other relevant illustrations are presented. Key figures or milestones in the history of charting are then presented in stand-alone story box features. Price: $40.00 (NZ$50.00) ISBN: 9781844863143 This new edition features around 40 new charts and accompanying text. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 307x287mm Extent: 176 pages About the Author Main Category: TRLN Lieutenant-Commander John Blake, FRIN, spent twelve years in the Royal Navy. He has worked extensively with the UK Sub Category: Hydrographic Office, the producers of Admiralty Charts, and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation. John is the Illustrations: author of the acclaimed Conway publications The Sea Chart (2003) and Sea Charts of the British Isles (2005). His Previous Titles: Author now living: research interests span the maritime world, from nautical charts and surveying to merchant shipping.

Osprey APRIL 2016 Tiger Tank Marcus Cowper

The perfect gift book - at an extremely attractive price point and ideal for countertop sales in military museums, this book is the essential short history of the Tiger Tank, the most famous tank in history. Full-colour illustrations help to bring this history to life.

Sales points • The Tiger is one of the most widely known and easily recognisable tanks of World War II. • Following on from the continued success of the Tank Spotter's Guide, Tiger Tank offers an attractive gift book package with huge mass market appeal, making it perfect for museums and heritage attraction gift shops and visitor centres. • Published in time for the Tank Museum's sell-out annual events: Tiger Day and Tankfest.

Description The German Tiger Tank was a monster of a machine that dominated the battlefields of Europe and is the most famous tank of World War II. Originally conceived in 1941 in response to the German Army's experience fighting British tanks and anti-tank guns in Western Europe and the North African desert, the Tiger cemented its reputation of near invincibility during the savage battles on the Eastern Front.

This new book is an accessible and informative history of the Tiger and its successor, the Tiger II or King Tiger, assessing its victory on the battlefield as it duelled against the best armour Allies had to offer. Gunsight and turret artwork place the reader 'inside' the tank during battle and help bring the remarkable history of the Tiger to life.

About the Author Marcus Cowper was born in London, UK, and studied medieval history at the universities of Manchester and Birmingham. Having worked for Osprey Publishing as an editor, since 2002 he has been the co-owner of Ilios Publishing, specializing in military history publishing. He is the author of a number of titles, including Fortress 55: Cathar Castles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1300, and lives and works in Oxford, UK. Price: $16.99 (NZ$17.99) ISBN: 9781472812940 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 190x130mm Extent: 128 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey APRIL 2016 US Army Green Beret in Afghanistan 2001-02 Leigh Neville

Operation Enduring Freedom, the War in Afghanistan, was one of the finest hours of the Green Berets. This title tells the story of the build-up to the conflict and how the men of the United States Army Special Forces took the war to the Tailban and al- Qaeda.

Sales points • The Green Berets are one of the most famous Special Forces units in the world. • Operation Enduring Freedom, the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, saw the Green Berets spearhead the coalition assault on the Taliban to great effect. • Leigh Neville's unparalleled access to previously unseen images and new first-hand accounts on this subject area will make this a crucial title for Special Forces enthusiasts and veterans.

Description In October 2001 the most militarily advanced nation on earth came into conflict with one of the least developed nations as American forces poured into Afghanistan. The tip of the spear was drawn from the US Special Forces community, and largely from the units of the United States Army Special Forces - the famous Green Berets, who together with the Special Activities Division of the CIA and the Afghan Northern Alliance overthrew the Taliban in a lightning campaign that redefined modern warfare.

This new study reveals the grueling Green Beret training and preparation, the specialized equipment they used in the field and traces their deployment throughout the campaign, from the first insertion of forces through to the fall of Kabul and Kandahar, the Taliban uprising at the notorious Fort of War in Mazar-e-Sharif, and the clearance of Tora Bora and Operation Anaconda in the Shahikot Valley.

About the Author Leigh Neville is an Australian national who has written a number of books on both modern conventional military units and special operations forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, and on their weapons and vehicles, including six titles for Price: $22.99 (NZ$25.99) Osprey, with several more in development. He has also consulted on military topics for several wargame companies and ISBN: 9781472814005 television documentary-makers. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two dogs. www.leighneville.com. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248 xmm Extent: 64 pages Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at

Main Category: JW Military Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including Sub Category: JW many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

Osprey APRIL 2016 Valentine Infantry Tank 1938–45 Bruce Newsome

A highly illustrated study of the most important British tank of World War II, which will sell to tank enthusiasts, modellers, wargamers and all those interested in British military history.

Sales points • This title is constantly requested by Osprey's readers and fills a significant gap in our World War II tank coverage. • Arguably the most important British tank of World War II and certainly the most-produced, the Valentine was the tank that chiefly rebuilt the British Army's tank force after the disaster at Dunkirk. • A mainstay of the British Army during the war, Valentine tanks fought right through to 1945, and thousands of Lend- Lease Valentines served in the Red Army.

Description The Valentine was Britain's most produced and most widely used tank of the Second World War. Having the strange distinction of falling somewhere between being an infantry tank and a cruiser tank, the Valentine first saw combat during Operation Compass in November 1941 and remained one of the main medium tanks in British service into 1943. As the Churchill became more prevalent the Valentine was relegated to specialist variants like amphibious and bridgelayer tanks, which would remain in service in the Far East to the end of the war.

This book describes the evolution of the Valentine design and weighs up its impact on the battlefield. Widely regarded today as one of the weaker tanks to be fielded during the war, it was exceptionally numerous - more Valentines were produced than any other British tank and it accounted for 25% of the tanks produced in Britain during the war.

About the Author Bruce Newsome, Ph.D., is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of California Berkeley. He consulted to governments on defense acquisitions while at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, and the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. His publications include: Making Tanks: How Britain Required, Design, and Produced the Best and Worst of Tanks, 1918-1945 (2015); Homeland Security (2015); Security and Risk Management (2014);

Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) Made, Not Born: Why Some Soldiers are Better than Others (2007). ISBN: 9781472813756 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248 xmm Extent: 48 pages

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Osprey APRIL 2016 World War II US Army Combat Equipments Gordon L. Rottman

A comprehensive illustrated guide to exactly what the World War II GI carried on the battlefield - belts, ammo pouches and bags, weapons holsters and cases, canteens, mess and first aid kit, packs, tools and bivouac equipment, which will appeal to all World War II historians, modellers, collectors and re-enactors.

Sales points • There is a lot of interest in web gear from modellers and this title is a comprehensive illustrated guide to exactly what web gear the American World War II Soldier (GI) carried with him, with photos and new color plates • Covers not only belts, pouches, packs and ammo bags, but also bivouac and cooking gear, first aid kits, tools, and miscellaneous items carried on the frontlines • An ideal reference guide for re-enactors and collectors of military antiques.

Description Discover what equipment a GI carried with him during World War II: what he had strapped around his body, what it contained, and what those items were used for.

In this highly illustrated book Special Forces veteran Gordon Rottman offers a truly comprehensive treatment of US World War II gear, covering not only basic belts, pouches and packs, but also mess gear, first aid gear, tools, bivouac/camping gear - essentially everything that a GI has to keep him alive and operational on the battlefield. Illustrated with wartime photos, new photos of kit from private collections and color plates showing both laid-out kit and half-figures of soldiers wearing the gear, this is set to become the primary equipment information resource for anyone interested in the kit and webbing used by US forces from D-Day to Berlin.

About the Author Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long- range patrol and intelligence assignments until retiring after 26 years. He was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer Price: $25.99 (NZ$27.99) at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas. ISBN: 9781472814241 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248 x184mm Extent: 64 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:

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APRIL 2016 The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind Professor A. C. Grayling

Best-selling author A. C. Grayling explains how, fuelled by original and unorthodox thinking, war and technological invention, the seventeenth century became the crucible of modernity

Sales points • By the author of The Good Book, (40,000 hardback copies sold worldwide), and New York Times bestseller, The God Argument (50,000 hardback copies sold worldwide) • A. C. Grayling, Chairman of The Man Booker Prize 2014, writes broadly across the national press and is constantly in the media spotlight • Strong publicity and review coverage if guaranteed for this high profile author, especially for this, his best and biggest book yet • This book will appeal to readers of Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men and The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

Description What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch the execution of a king? Or consider the difference between a magus casting a star chart and the day in 1639, when Jonathan Horrock and William Crabtree watched the transit of Venus across the face of the sun from their attic, successfully testing its course against Kepler's Tables of Planetary Motion, in a classic case of confirming a scientific theory by empirical testing.

In this turbulent period, science moved from the alchemy and astrology of John Dee to the painstaking observation and astronomy of Galileo, from the classicism of Aristotle, still favoured by the Church, to the evidence-based, collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon. And if the old ways still lingered and affected the new mind set - Descartes's dualism an attempt to square the new philosophy with religious belief; Newton, the man who understood gravity and the laws of motion, still fascinated to the end of his life by alchemy - by the end of that tumultuous century 'the greatest ever change Price: $54.99 (NZ$59.99) in the mental outlook of humanity' had irrevocably taken place. ISBN: 9780747599425 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm About the Author Extent: 320 pages A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London. He believes that Main Category: HP Philosophy philosophy should take an active, useful role in society and is a prolific author, whose books include philosophy, ethics, Sub Category: HP Philosophy Illustrations: biography, history, drama and essays. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Previous Titles: Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular Author now living: contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week, and CNN News. His most recent book is The Challenge of Things, published in 2015.

Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria Janine di Giovanni

A searing, intimate account of the conflict in Syria by someone uniquely equipped to tell the story from the inside

Sales points • Janine di Giovanni is a highly visible author for talk circuits, radio, magazine, TV and is becoming the leading expert on Syria, with rare access to both sides of the conflict • The book will be accompanied by a documentary film • Janine di Giovanni's TED Talk on Syria at the US Institute of Peace and has been seen by hundreds of thousands on YOUTUBE • For fans of The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad, John McCarthy's You Can't Hide the Sun and Fergal Keane's Season of Blood

Description In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relationship with the country, starting with her coverage of the peaceful uprising and continuing as the situation quickly turned into one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawn to the stories of the ordinary people caught up in the conflict, Syria came to consume her every moment, her every emotion.

Speaking to those directly involved in the war, di Giovanni relays here the personal stories of rebel fighters thrown in jail at the least provocation; of children and families forced to watch loved ones taken and killed by regime forces with dubious justifications; and the stories of the elite, holding pool parties in Damascus hotels, trying to deny the human consequences of the nearby shelling.

Delivered with passion, fearlessness and sensitivity, The Morning They Came For Us is an unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration, charting an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war - and an unforgettable testament to human resilience in the face of devastating, unimaginable horrors. Price: $36.99 (NZ$38.99) ISBN: 9781408851081 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for over 20 years. She has written seven books, including the critically acclaimed Dimensions: 216 x135mm Extent: 288 pages Madness Visible, The Place at the End of the World, and, most recently, a biography of the Magnum Photographer Eve

Main Category: D Literature Arnold. She is the Middle East Editor of Newsweek, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a regular contributor to the Sub Category: DNJ New York Times, Granta and Harper's among many others. A frequent foreign policy analyst on British, American and Illustrations: French television, she has won many awards including Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award, Previous Titles: Author now living: the National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Media Awards, and the Spear's Memoir of the Year Award for Ghosts by Daylight. She is a Fred Pakis scholar in International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served as the president of the jury of the Prix Bayeux for war reporters and is a media leader at the World Economic Forum, Davos. She lives in Paris with her son. Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Thatcher Stole My Trousers Alexei Sayle

Elegantly written and painfully funny: the second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed stand-up comedian, novelist and actor

Sales points • Alexei Sayle's unique brand of surreal, angry, political comedy has brought him legions of fans who will be eager to learn of his early days on the comedy circuit - and how he created his unique style • This is more than just a memoir, it's a hugely entertaining history of British stand-up comedy, with a roll-call of British comedians from Keith Allen to Rik Mayall to Lenny Henry and French & Saunders • Alexei regularly appears on television and in the media, is still able to rile up pretty much anyone and plans to tour the country with a stand-up routine based on the book and coinciding with publication

Description In 1971 Alexei Sayle, raised by communist parents in 1950s Liverpool set out to find his fortune in London. It was a city where punk was in its infancy, unemployment was high, the weekly branch meetings of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) group took place in the Bellman bookshop, a young Margaret Thatcher had just been made Secretary of State for Education and stand-up comedy was unheard of.

Less than a decade later Alexei was the first MC of London's only comedy club, the Comedy Store, and the landscape of British comedy had altered forever. 'The only completely new thing that I could bring was an authentic working class voice plus a threat of genuine violence - nobody in Monty Python looked like a hard case who'd kick your head in.'

From his years as a Chelsea Art School student through his varied career as a clerk in the DHSS office, a text-book Price: $36.99 (NZ$38.99) illustrator, a dinner lady and a drama teacher, to his early experiences in fringe theatre and the discovery that he could ISBN: 9781408864531 make people laugh, Thatcher Stole My Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics came together in electrifying Format: Hard Cover ways. Recounting the opening season of the Comedy Store, his experiences with the Alternative Cabaret, the Comic Strip Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages and the Young Ones, and his friendships with the comedians who, like him would soon become household names, this is

Main Category: B Biography/autobiography a unique and beguiling blend of social history and memoir.

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About the Author BLM Circus APRIL 2016 The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest

Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest's astonishing debut novel elevates the ordinary to the extraordinary in this multi-generational tale set in contemporary south London

Sales points • A major literary event. The first novel by award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest, a storyteller of extraordinary power and humanity • Kate Tempest is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting and distinctive voices of her generation. She has won the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry and was recently selected as a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Society. Her debut album was nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize • For fans of White Teeth and NW by Zadie Smith, Brick Lane by Monica Ali, Junot Diaz, Jon McGregor and Dave Eggers

Description It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind.

Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are escaping the city with a suitcase full of stolen money. Taking us back in time, and into the heart of the capital, The Bricks that Built the Houses explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life with a powerful moral and literary microscope, exposing the everyday stories that lie behind the tired faces on the morning commute, and what happens when your best intentions don't always lead to the right decisions.

Wise but never cynical, and driven by empathy and ethics, it leads us into the homes and hearts of ordinary people and their families and communities, giving us a unique perspective on how we live with and love each other.

The Bricks that Builds the Houses introduces a thrilling new literary voice.

Price: $36.99 (NZ$38.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781408857304 Poet, rapper, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest grew up in south-east London, where she still lives. Her epic poem, Format: Hard Cover Brand New Ancients - a modern-day myth set in south London - won the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry in Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages 2013, making her the first-ever recipient under 40. Her plays include GlassHouse, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted. Her

Main Category: F Fiction debut solo album, Everybody Down, a narrative-led hip hop record based on The Bricks that Built the Houses, was Sub Category: F Fiction nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2014. Kate Tempest's second poetry collection, Hold Your Own was published in Illustrations: 2014, when she was also named by the Poetry Society as a Next Generation Poet, a once a decade accolade. The Previous Titles: Author now living: Bricks that Built the Houses is her first novel.

BLM Circus APRIL 2016 The Trees Ali Shaw

A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Station Eleven, following four people as they struggle to survive in a world where nature fights back - from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet.

Sales points • An epic and enchanting novel that will capture the imaginations of those who love Patrick Ness and Haruki Murakami, Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away and Station Eleven. • The Girl with Glass Feet was nominated for a number of awards and won the Desmond Elliott Prize, and The Man Who Rained garnered glowing reviews. The Trees is certain to attract attention. • A striking look at environmental concerns, this depiction of nature's revenge on humanity is perfect for publicity and ideal for book clubs.

Description There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins

There is no warning. No chance to prepare.

They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves.

Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognisable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too.

Price: $36.99 (NZ$38.99) Then Adrien meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah's forester ISBN: 9781408862247 brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife - and to discover just how deep the forest goes. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside

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Sub Category: F Fiction Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Ali Shaw is the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet and The Man who Rained. He grew up in Dorset and graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in English Literature. He has since worked as a bookseller and at the Bodleian Library. He now lives in Oxford, with his wife and baby daughter. @Ali_Shaw alishaw.co.uk

Bloomsbury APRIL 2016 Reading Capital: Unabridged Edition Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar

A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time.

Sales points • Fiftieth anniversary edition with a major new introduction by Etienne Balibar. • There is a major Althusser revival underway, and Macherey and Ranciere are key contemporary philosophical references. • This edition will enrich and expand the new discussions of Marx's Capital and of contemporary capitalism.

Description Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, which sought to reconstruct Western Marxism from its foundations. Previously only available in English in a highly abridged form, this 50th anniversary edition.

About the Author LOUIS ALTHUSSER (1918-1990) taught philosophy for many years at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party.

ETIENNE BALIBAR is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is a Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine.

JACQUES RANCIERE is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII.

PIERRE MACHEREY is a French Marxist literary critic at Universite Lille Nord de France.

ROGER ESTABLET is a French scholar of the sociology of education. A student of Louis Althusser, Establet is an emeritus professor at University of Provence.

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Verso Trade APRIL 2016 Perpetual Guest Barry Schwabsky

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Verso Academic APRIL 2016 Fall of the Turkish Model Cihan Tugal

The brief rise and precipitous fall of 'Islamic liberalism'

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Description Just a few short years ago, the 'Turkish Model' was being hailed across the world. The New York Times gushed that prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) had 'effectively integrated Islam, democracy, and vibrant economics,' making Turkey, according to the International Crisis Group, 'the envy of the Arab world.' And yet, a more recent CNN headline wondered if Erdogan had become a 'dictator.'

In this incisive analysis, Cihan Tugal argues that the problem with this model of Islamic liberalism is much broader and deeper than Erdogan's increasing authoritarianism. The problems are inherent in the very model of Islamic liberalism that formed the basis of the AKP's ascendancy and rule since 2002-an intended marriage of neoliberalism and democracy. And this model can also only be understood as a response to regional politics-especially as a response to the 'Iranian Model'-a marriage of corporatism and Islamic revolution.

The Turkish model was a failure in its home country, and the dynamics of the Arab world made it a tough commodity to export. Tugal's masterful explication of the demise of Islamic liberalism brings in Egypt and Tunisia, once seen as the most likely followers of the Turkish model, and provides a path-breaking examination of their regimes and Islamist movements, as well as paradigm-shifting accounts of Turkey and Iran.

About the Author Cihan Tugal is the author of Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism. He is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Verso Academic APRIL 2016 Catholic Social Teaching: A Guide for the Perplexed Dr Anna Rowlands

Catholic Social Teaching is here explored in terms of its background, context, and its main content, discussed in an accessible way for students, policy makers and Church audience.

Sales points • Valuable course book for university courses in political theology, public theology and Christian ethics • First introductory CST text also aimed at general readers: policy makers, business leaders, voluntary sector • Recent significant interest in, and impact of, CST in UK in the last few years

Description Anna Rowlands offers a clear and accessible guide to the main time periods, key figures, documents and themes of thinking developed as Catholic Social Teaching (CST). A wealth of material has been produced by the Catholic Church during its long history which considers the implications of Scripture, doctrine and natural law for the way they conduct our life together in community - most particularly in the tradition of social encyclicals dating from 1891. Rowlands takes a fresh approach in weaving overviews of the central principles with case studies which relate to contemporary social policy themes, and by considering the increasingly critical questions concerning the role of CST in a pluralist and post-secular context. As such this book offer both an incisive overview of this distinctive body of Catholic political theology and a new and challenging contribution to the debate about the transformative potential of CST in contemporary society.

About the Author Anna Rowlands is a Political, Moral and Practical Theologian based at King's College, London, UK. Her research focuses on the practical and intellectual development of Catholic Social Thought, with particular interest in ethical responses to contemporary migration, theological responses to the recent financial crisis and reflection on the nature of political authority and the political vocation.

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