MAY 2018 The Jade Lily Kirsty Manning
The Jade Lily is a sweeping story of friendship, loyalty, love and identity from the popular author of The Midsummer Garden.
Description Praise for The Midsummer Garden
'This is a rich, sensual, and evocative novel, fragrant with the smell of crushed herbs and flowers, and haunted by the high cost that women must sometimes pay to find both love and their vocation.' Kate Forsyth
'...compelling, passionate and admirable.' Australian Women's Weekly
In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm, when her grandfather is dying. With only weeks left together, her grandparents begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century.
In 1939, two young girls meet in Shanghai, the 'Paris of the East': beautiful local Li and Viennese refugee Romy form a fierce friendship. But the deepening shadows of World War Two fall over the women as Li and Romy slip between the city's glamorous French Concession and the desperate Shanghai Ghetto. Eventually, they are forced separate ways as Romy doubts Li's loyalties.
After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. As she peels back the layers of their hidden lives, she begins to question everything she knows about her family - and herself.
A compelling and gorgeously told tale of female friendship, the price of love, and the power of hardship and courage to shape us all.
About the Author Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760294793 Kirsty Manning grew up in northern New South Wales. A country girl with wanderlust, her travels and studies have taken Format: Paperback - C format her through most of Europe, the east and west coasts of the United States and pockets of Asia. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 456 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Kirsty's first novel was the enchanting The Midsummer Garden published in 2017. The Jade Lily, compelling and pacey, is Bic2: Fiction & related items her second book. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Woodend, Victoria Kirsty is a partner in the award-winning Melbourne wine bar Bellota, and the Prince Wine Store in Sydney and Melbourne. She lives with her husband and three children amid an old chestnut grove in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria.
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Lovesome Sally Seltmann
An offbeat and beguiling story of finding your own happiness.
Description My warm breath makes a beautiful fog before me. It's times like this when I feel most alive. I feel free, and at one with the world and everything around me. It's an invigorating version of euphoria. But I don't want to always go home alone; I want someone to come home to.
It's 1995 and 21-year-old Joni Johnson is fresh out of art school and loving her life. Working at Harland, a French restaurant, makes her happy - it's as romantic as she is herself. Harland's owner, Lucy, and chef, Dave, make her evenings both entertaining and complicated. By day, Joni sets up her easel in her backyard bungalow, turns on her music, and paints.
But when Joni's best friend, Annabelle, arrives on the doorstep one night ecstatic in love, everything changes. The life Joni has built for herself seems lacklustre in comparison to Annabelle's rising star. And when Annabelle makes a beeline for the one man who seems interested in Joni, it looks unlikely that their friendship will survive.
Tender, funny and romantic, Lovesome is a triumph.
About the Author Sally Seltmann is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. From 2000 to 2009, she used the stage name, New Buffalo. Under that name, she wrote, performed, arranged and produced her debut album in September 2004. Her second album appeared in March 2007. Seltmann and Canadian singer-songwriter Feist co-wrote the song, 1234, which became a Top 10 hit on the United States Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, she released her third solo album and formed an indie rock trio, Seeker Lover Keeper, with fellow Australians Sarah Blasko and Holly Throsby. They issued a self-titled album in June 2011, which peaked at number three on the ARIA Albums Chart. She is currently working on a new solo album and a new Seeker Lover Keeper album, both of which are likely to be released in the new twelve months. This is her first book. Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760632878 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Newtown, NSW
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Eleanor's Secret Caroline Beecham
An engrossing wartime mystery of past deceptions, family secrets and long-lasting love...
Description London, 1942 When art school graduate, Eleanor Roy, is recruited by the War Artist Advisory Committee, she comes one step closer to realising her dream of becoming one of the few female war artists. But breaking into the art establishment proves difficult until Eleanor meets painter, Jack Valante, only to be separated by his sudden posting overseas.
Melbourne 2010 Although reluctant to leave her family at home, Kathryn can't refuse her grandmother Eleanor's request to travel to London to help her return a precious painting to its artist. But when the search uncovers a long-held family secret, Kathryn has to make a choice to return home or risk her family's future, as Eleanor shows her that safeguarding the future is sometimes worth more than protecting the past.
Eleanor's Secret is at once a surprising mystery and compelling love story.
About the Author Caroline Beecham grew up at the English seaside and relocated to Australia to continue her career as a writer and producer in film and television. She has worked on a documentary about Princess Diana lookalikes, a series about journeys to the ends of the earth, as well as a feature film about finding the end of the rainbow. Caroline decided on a new way of storytelling and studied the craft of novel writing at the Faber Academy in 2012. She has an MA in Film & Television and a MA in Creative Writing and lives with her husband and two sons by Sydney harbour. Her first novel, Maggie's Kitchen, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2016.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760295660 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Birchgrove, NSW
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Someone Like You Karly Lane
From the best-selling author of Third Time Lucky comes an intriguing, funny and romantic story about past lives and new beginnings.
Description When bestselling author, twenty-nine year old Hayley Stevens, walks in on her husband, Paul, and her best friend in bed together, she knows her life will never be the same again.
One year later, Hayley stowed her last bag in her much-loved Audi Coupe and said goodbye to the city. She was excited to be heading west to Lochway, a small colonial village sitting on the beautiful Macdonald River. Wanting peace and quiet, Hayley had impulsively bought a cosy sandstone cottage there surrounded by lush rose gardens, with a small overseer's cottage - ideal for a writer's retreat.
What she didn't expect was the almost immediate 'gift' of a very noisy donkey named Errol. Nor did Hayley expect to meet her handsome new neighbour, Luke Mason, when she was covered in mud trying to drag Errol out of Luke's dam. The strange thing was though that Luke seemed very familiar to her.
As Hayley slowly gains acceptance into her small community and starts writing again she becomes almost afraid of the inexplicable visions she sees. What does it all mean? And why does Luke refuse to listen to her?
Written with warmth and humour, Someone Like You is an intriguing, funny and romantic story about past lives and new beginnings.
About the Author Karly Lane lives on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. Proud mum to four beautiful children and wife of one very patient mechanic, she is lucky enough to spend her day doing the two things she loves most - being a mum and writing stories set in beautiful rural Australia.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760296896 Her bestselling novels include North Star, Morgan's Law, Bridie's Choice, Poppy's Dilemma, Gemma's Bluff, Tallowood Format: Paperback - C format Bound, Second Chance Town, Third Time Lucky, If Wishes Were Horses and Six Ways to Sunday. Someone Like You is Dimensions: 234x153mm her eleventh novel. Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: North Coast, NSW
Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Her Mother's Daughter Alice Fitzgerald
Set across two decades in London and Ireland, Her Mother's Daughter sees the lives of a troubled and emotionally abusive mother and her innocent ten-year-old daughter change forever after one summer holiday.
Description 1980: Josephine escapes her home in Ireland, hoping never to return. She starts a new, exciting life in London, but as much as she tries, she can't quite leave the trauma of her childhood behind.
Seventeen years and two children later, Josephine gets a call from her sister to tell her that their mother is dying and wants to see her - a summons she can't refuse.
1997: Ten-year-old Clare is counting down to the summer holidays, when she is going to meet her grandparents in Ireland for the first time. She hopes this trip will be 'just what the doctor ordered' and cheer her mum up.
But family secrets can't stay buried forever and following revelations in Ireland Josephine and her family unravel, perhaps to the point of no return.
About the Author Alice Fitzgerald has worked as a journalist for six years. She has been published in literary journals, online at Refinery29 and Hello Giggles and in magazines including Hello!. Her Mother's Daughter is her debut novel. Born in London to Irish parents, she now lives in Madrid. You can find her on Twitter @AliceFitzWrites.
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A&U UK MAY 2018 The Missing Pieces of Us Fleur McDonald
Sometimes you have to resolve the past before you can face the future.
Description Lauren Ramsey is a teacher whose mantra is to never let a child fall through the cracks. But Lauren is so concerned about the welfare of a little boy in her kindy class she doesn't realise her own daughter, Skye, needs help.
At fourteen, Skye Ramsey is dealing with the usual pressures faced by teenage girls, from the pitfalls of social media to coping with fickle friends and the attention of boys. The only person who seems to listen to Skye is Tamara Thompson, the manager of her favourite clothes shop.
Tamara knows what it's like to be a troubled teen because as an adolescent she felt unloved and overlooked. She now has a successful career and a partner who adores her, but her sense of worthlessness and fear of rejection are threatening to overwhelm her.
All three women are searching for a happier future, but finding it may lie in resolving secrets from their pasts . . .
From the bestselling author of Red Dust and Crimson Dawn comes a moving and intriguing novel about love, friendship and how the truth can sometimes set us free.
About the Author Fleur McDonald has lived and worked on farms for much of her life. After growing up in the small town of Orroroo in South Australia, she became a jillaroo before spending twenty years farming 8000 acres, east of Esperance, WA.
Fleur likes to write about strong women overcoming adversity, drawing inspiration from her own experiences in rural Australia. She is the best-selling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies, Purple Roads, Silver Clouds and Crimson Dawn, Emerald Springs, Indigo Storm, Sapphire Falls, The Missing Pieces of Us, Suddenly One Summer, and Fool's Gold as well as the ebook exclusive If You Were Here. Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781760633363 Format: Paperback - B format Fleur currently lives in Esperance with her two children and a Jack Russell terrier. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 324 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Fiction & related items Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Esperance, WA
Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted.
Description Joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016 - Fiction category - Winner of the 2016 Stella Prize.
She hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says, 'I need to know where I am.' The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still on the doorknob, surprised. He says, almost in sympathy, 'Oh, sweetie. You need to know what you are.'
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of nowhere. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, forced to wear strange uniforms, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious armed jailers and a 'nurse'. The girls all have something in common, but what is it? What crime has brought them here from the city? Who is the mysterious security company responsible for this desolate place with its brutal rules, its total isolation from the contemporary world? Doing hard labour under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue -- but when the food starts running out it becomes clear that the jailers have also become the jailed. The girls can only rescue themselves.
The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage.
With extraordinary echoes of The Handmaid's Tale and Lord of the Flies, The Natural Way of Things is a compulsively readable, scarifying and deeply moving contemporary novel. It confirms Charlotte Wood's position as one of our most thoughtful, provocative and fearless truth-tellers, as she unflinchingly reveals us and our world to ourselves.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781760633387 'As a man, to read it is as unsettling as receiving one piece of bad news after another. It is confronting. Yet anyone who Format: Paperback - B format reads it, man or woman, is going to be left with a sense that a long-hidden truth has been revealed to them. The Natural Dimensions: 198x128mm Way of Things is a brave, brilliant book. I would defy anyone to read it and not come out a changed person.' Malcolm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Knox, author of The Wonder Lover Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: 'This is a stunning exploration of ambiguities - of power, of morality, of judgment. With a fearless clarity, Wood's elegantly Previous Titles: Author now living: Marrickville (Sydney), NSW. spare and brutal prose dissects humanity, hatreds, our ambivalent capacities for friendship and betrayal, and the powerful appearance - always - of moments of grace and great beauty. The book's ending undid me through the shape of the world it reveals as much as its revisions of escape and survival. It will not leave you easily; it took my breath away.' Ashley Hay, author of The Railwayman's Wife Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Vogel Winner 2018 Vogel Winner 2018
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Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Babylon Berlin Volker Kutscher
The first book in the bestselling German crime series, coming to Netflix Australia in January 2018.
Description A GEREON RATH MYSTERY
'Political maelstrom, a populist right on the march -- sound familiar? . . . It's fabulous debauchery and naughtiness, a political maelstrom and a ticking timebomb.' The Guardian
1929: When a car is hauled out of the Landwehr Canal with a mutilated corpse inside, Detective Inspector Gereon Rath claims the case. Soon his inquiries drag him ever deeper into the morass of Weimar Berlin's 'Roaring Twenties' underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning and shady politics.
Now a major international television series
'Unrelenting in tension until an explosive climax; as well as delivering the thrills Kutscher captures perfectly in dark tones the menacing atmosphere and lurking threats of a unique -- and pivotal -- time and place in history.' Craig Russell, author of the Jan Fabel series
'Twenties Germany in all its seedy splendour: impressive.' Sarah Ward, author of In Bitter Chill
'Gripping, skilfully plotted and rich in historical detail.' Mrs Peabody Investigates
'Evocative thriller set in Berlin's seedy underworld during the Roaring Twenties.' Mail on Sunday Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781760527921 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x128mm Volker Kutscher was born in 1962. He studied German, Philosophy and History, and worked as a newspaper editor prior Extent: 528 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery to writing his first detective novel. Babylon Berlin, the start of an award-winning series of novels featuring Gereon Rath Bic2: and his exploits in late Weimar Republic Berlin, was an instant hit in Germany. Since then, a further four titles have Illustrations: appeared, most recently Marzgefallene in 2014. The series was awarded the Berlin Krimi-Fuchs Crime Writers Prize in Previous Titles: 2011 and has sold over one million copies worldwide. Volker Kutscher works as a full-time author and lives in Cologne. Author now living:
Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 The Late Show Michael Connelly
'Connelly has created wonderful characters with Bosch and Haller, and Ballard will easily be as beloved. Connelly is a master of crime fiction.' - Associated Press
Description 'The Late Show introduces a terrific female character: Detective Renée Ballard ... this new star is a beauty ... Ballard is complicated and driven enough to sustain the series Connelly doubtless has in mind for her. Connelly writes passionately about, and captures especially well here, the detective's high when the pieces of a puzzle fall into place.' - Janet Maslin, New York Times
Los Angeles can be a dangerous city - never more so than in the dead of night.
Renee Ballard works the night shift at the LAPD in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.
But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night.
As the cases entwine, they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won't give up her job - no matter what the department throws at her.
About the Author A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the international bestselling author of the Harry Bosch thriller series and the highly acclaimed legal thriller series featuring Mickey Haller, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers. His most recent #1 bestsellers were The Late Show, introducing a new series protagonist, Detective Renee Ballard and the twentieth in his Harry Bosch series, Two Kinds of Truth. Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781760633462 Format: Paperback - B format Michael Connelly has been President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into 39 Dimensions: 198x129mm languages and have won awards all over the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards. Extent: 480 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: BOSCH, the TV series based on Michael's novels, is the most watched original series on Amazon Prime Instant Video. Illustrations: The third series screened in 2017 on SBS TV in Australia. A fourth series is in production. Previous Titles: Author now living: Michael Connelly lives in Tampa, Florida, with his family.
To find out more, visit Michael's official website www.michaelconnelly.com.au or follow him on Facebook www.facebook. com/MichaelConnellyBooks or on Twitter @Connellybooks. Michael Connelly MAY 2018 The Last Hour Harry Sidebottom
An assassination in ancient Rome, and 24 hours to expose the conspirators and save the Emperor. Gladiator meets Jason Bourne in this thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, for readers of Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow and Robert Fabbri.
Description A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the sun is setting over the centre of the known world. Far below, the river is in full flood. The City of Rome lies spread out before him on the far bank. Footsteps pound up the stairs. He's been set up. An enemy is closing in; he is cornered. He jumps.
Bruised and battered, he crawls out of the raging river. He is alone and unarmed, without money or friends, trapped in a deadly conspiracy at the heart of the Empire. The City Watch has orders to take him alive; other, more sinister, forces want him dead. As the day dies, he realises he has only 24 hours to expose the conspirators, and save the leader of the world. If the Emperor dies, chaos and violence will ensue. If the Emperor dies, every single person he loves will die.
He must run, bluff, hide and fight his way across the Seven Hills. He must reach the Colosseum, and the Emperor. He must make it to The Last Hour.
About the Author Harry Sidebottom was brought up in racing stables in Newmarket where his father was a trainer. He took his Doctorate in Ancient History at Oxford and has taught at various universities including Oxford, where he lectures in Ancient History. His first book Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction was published in 2004 to critical acclaim and he has published numerous chapters in books, and articles and reviews in scholarly journals. His foray into fiction began with Fire in the East, the first of his six-novel 'Warrior of Rome' series, which has sold over half a million copies worldwide. His next series, Throne of the Caesars, was equally acclaimed. The Last Hour, his tenth novel, introduces us once again to Marcus Clodius Ballista, hero of the 'Warrior of Rome' books.
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Zaffre MAY 2018 Good Friday Lynda La Plante
From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, this is Jane Tennison's story, from rookie police officer to fully-fledged detective.
Description In the race to stop a deadly attack just pray she's not too late...
March, 1976. The height of The Troubles. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe.
When detective constable Jane Tennison survives a deadly explosion at Covent Garden tube station, she finds herself in the middle of a media storm. Minutes before the blast, she caught sight of the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him, she is nevertheless a key witness and put under 24-hour police protection.
As work continues round the clock to unmask the terrorists, the Metropolitan police are determined nothing will disrupt their annual Good Friday dinner dance. Amid tight security, hundreds of detectives and their wives and girlfriends will be at St Ermin's Hotel in central London. Jane, too, is persuaded to attend.
But in the week leading up to Good Friday, Jane experiences a sudden flashback. She realises that not only can she identify the bomber, but that the IRA Active Service Unit is very close to her indeed. She is in real and present danger. In a nailbiting race against time, Jane must convince her senior officers that her instincts are right before London is engulfed in another bloodbath.
About the Author Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National Theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows. Her novels have all been international bestsellers. Her original script for the much- acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society. Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781785763304 Tennison was adapted by ITV and broadcast in March 2017 in the UK with international broadcast to follow. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Visit www.lyndalaplante.com for further information. You can also follow Lynda on Facebook and Twitter. Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Crime & mystery Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre MAY 2018 Exile James Swallow
An explosive new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Nomad.
Description Nomad was explosive. This is nuclear.
A vicious Serbian gang whose profits come from fake nuclear weapons.
A disgraced Russian general, with access to the real thing.
A vengeful Somali warlord, with a cause for which he'd let the world burn.
A jaded government agency, without the information to stop him.
Only one man sees what's coming. And even he might not be able to prevent it...
Racing breathlessly from uncharted CIA prisons to the skyscrapers of Dubai, from stormbeaten oil rigs off the African coast to the ancient caverns beneath the city of Naples, Marc Dane returns in the explosive new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Nomad.
About the Author James Swallow is an veteran author and scriptwriter with over 15 years of experience in fiction, television, radio, journalism, new media and video games. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author of 38 novels with over 750,000 books currently in print, in nine different worldwide territories. He was nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his writing on the critically acclaimed Deux Ex: Human Revolution, 2013's blockbuster videogame with over 2.18 million copies sold.
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Zaffre MAY 2018 Nomad James Swallow
Someone has betrayed your country and murdered your friends. You're the only suspect. And the only one who can stop them striking again...
Description Find the truth before they find you...
Marc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 - he's forced into the front line.
However the evidence seems to point towards Marc as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his country, he must race against time to clear his name. With nowhere to turn to for help and no one left to trust, Marc is forced to rely on the elusive Rubicon group and their operative Lucy Keyes. Ex-US Army, Lucy also knows what it's like to be an outsider, and she's got the skills that Marc is sorely lacking.
A terrorist attack is coming, one bigger and more deadly than has ever been seen before. With the eyes of the security establishment elsewhere, only Lucy and Marc can stop the attack before it's too late.
About the Author James Swallow is an veteran author and scriptwriter with over 15 years of experience in fiction, television, radio, journalism, new media and video games. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author of 38 novels with over 750,000 books currently in print, in nine different worldwide territories. He was nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his writing on the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution, 2013's blockbuster videogame with over 2.18 million copies sold.
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Zaffre MAY 2018 The Mayfly James Hazel
A high-octane thriller from an exhilarating new voice, perfect for fans of Thomas Harris and MJ Arlidge.
Description It's happening again. A mutilated body discovered in the woods. A murderous plan conceived in the past. A reckoning seventy years in the making...
Charlie Priest, ex-detective inspector turned London lawyer, is hired by influential entrepreneur Kenneth Ellinder to investigate the murder of his son. But Priest is no ordinary lawyer. Brilliant yet flawed, this case will push him, and those closest to him, to the edge.
Priest traces the evidence back to the desperate last days of the Second World War. Buried in the ashes of the Holocaust is a secret so deadly its poison threatens to destroy the very heart of the establishment. With more victims going missing, Priest realises that not everyone should be trusted. As he races to uncover the truth, can he prevent history from repeating itself?
About the Author Before turning his hand to writing, James Hazel was a lawyer in private practice specialising in corporate and commercial litigation and employment law. He was an equity partner in a regional law firm and held a number of different department headships until he quit legal practice to pursue his dream of becoming an author. He has a keen interest in criminology and a passion for crime thrillers, indie music and all things retro. James lives on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds with his wife and three children.
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Zaffre MAY 2018 Anything for Her GJ Minett
She asks him for help faking her own suicide. But then she disappears for good. A devilish, upmarket psychological thriller, for fans of Peter Swanson, Sabine Durrant and Clare Mackintosh.
Description You'd do anything for the one that got away...wouldn't you?
When Billy Orr returns home to spend time with his dying sister, he bumps into his ex-girlfriend Aimi, the love of his life. He might not have seen her in eleven years, but Billy's never forgotten her. He'd do anything for her then, and he'd do anything for her now.
When Aimi tells him that she wants to escape her abusive husband, Billy agrees to help her fake her own death. But is she still the Aimi that Billy remembers from all those years ago?
Once Aimi disappears, Billy has to face the possibility that perhaps she had different reasons for disappearing - reasons that might be more dangerous than she's led him to believe...
Sometimes trusting the one you love is the wrong thing to do.
About the Author G.J. Minett studied at Cambridge and then spent many years as a teacher of foreign languages. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, and won the 2010 Chapter One Prize for unpublished novels with the opening chapter of The Hidden Legacy. You can follow him on Twitter @gjminett and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/grahamminettauthor
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Zaffre MAY 2018 The First Dance Catherine Law
A romantic and moving novel for fans of Anna Hope and Tracy Rees
Description 1924
In the aftermath of World War One, eleven-year-old Alexa has everything she ever needed. Growing up in the beautiful Cornwall countryside with a loving mother and father, she doesn't realise that life could be any different.
But when her mother dies, everything is thrown into turmoil, and she's sent away to boarding school.
1931
Now finished at school and desperate for adventure, Alexa flees Cornwall and takes a job as companion to a wealthy woman.
Together they travel to Venice, and here Alexa finds her life full of excitement, passion and romance - although possibly more than she bargained for.
And when life doesn't go to plan she realises that maybe the thing she's been looking for has been waiting at home all along...
About the Author Catherine Law was born in Harrow, Middlesex in 1965 and has been a journalist for twenty-two years, having trained first as a secretary at the BBC and then attending the London College of Printing. She now works on a glossy interiors magazine and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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Zaffre MAY 2018 Lies TM Logan
A stunning new voice in thriller writing; a debut novel to take your breath away
Description When Joe Lynch stumbles across his wife driving into a hotel car park while she's supposed to be at work, he's intrigued enough to follow her in.
And when he witnesses her in an angry altercation with family friend Ben, he knows he ought to intervene. But just as the confrontation between the two men turns violent, and Ben is knocked unconscious, Joe's young son has an asthma attack - and Joe must flee in order to help him.
When he returns, desperate to make sure Ben is OK, Joe is horrified to find that Ben has disappeared.
And that's when Joe receives the first message... Gripping, unputdownable and packed with twists and turns from the first page to the very last, this stunning thriller will make you question whether we can ever really trust the ones we love...
About the Author TM Logan was born in Berkshire to an English father and a German mother. He studied at Queen Mary and Cardiff universities before becoming a national newspaper journalist. He currently works in communications, in the field of higher education, and lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children. Follow him on Twitter @TMLoganAuthor
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Twenty7 MAY 2018 The Madonna of The Mountains Elise Valmorbida
Gone With the Wind in WWII Italy - A tale of love and survival set in the Veneto region, where Maria Vittorio must keep her family together against all the odds.
Description 1923
Maria Vittoria is embroidering a sheet for her dowry trunk.
Her father has gone to find her a husband. He's taken his mule, a photograph and a pack of food: home-made sopressa sausage, cold polenta, a little flask of wine--no need to take water--the world is full of water.
It's Springtime, when a betrothal might happen, as sudden as a wild cyclamen from a wet rock, as sweet as a tiny violet fed by melting mountain snow. There are no eligible men in this valley or the next one, but her Father will not let her marry just anyone, and now, despite Maria's years, she is still healthy. Her betrothed will see all that. He'll be looking for a woman who can do the work.
Maria can do the work. Everyone in the contra says that.
And the lord knows Maria will need to be able to work. Fascism blooms as crops ripen, the state craves babies just as the babies cry for food. Maria faces a stoney path, but one she will surely climb to the summit.
In sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli co l'arna, feel the mulberry leaves cut finer than organdy, hear the silence that enfolds Maria when Achille - that oz of a man - lifts his hand to her, and feel the strain of one woman attempting to keep her family together in the most testing of times.
About the Author Elise Valmorbida grew up Italian in Australia, but fell in love with London. She's a designer, writer and teacher of creative Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9780571336333 writing. In recent years, she produced a feature film. Her fiction includes Matilde Waltzing, The TV President and The Format: Paperback - C format Winding Stick. Her non-fiction includes SAXON - The Making of a Guerrilla Film, and The Book of Happy Endings, now Dimensions: 234x153mm published in four languages and four continents. Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: IsLINGTON, LONDON
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Faber Fiction MAY 2018 Closer Than You Know Brad Parks
A taut, compulsively readable thriller, with a cat-and-mouse plot of almost unbearable suspense, featuring two strong and accessible lead female characters.
Description Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.
It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. But now that she's survived into adulthood - with a loving husband, a steady job, and a beautiful baby boy named Alex - she thought that turmoil was behind her.
Until one Tuesday evening when she goes to pick up Alex from childcare only to discover he's been removed by Social Services. And no one will say why. It's a terrifying scenario for any parent, but doubly so for Melanie, who knows the unintended horrors of what everyone coldly calls 'the system'.
Her nightmare mushrooms when she arrives home to learn her house has been raided by sheriff's deputies, who have found enough cocaine to send Melanie to prison for years. The evidence against her is overwhelming, and if Melanie can't prove her innocence, she'll lose Alex forever.
Meanwhile, assistant commonwealth's attorney Amy Kaye - who has been assigned Melanie's case - has her own troubles. She's been dogged by a cold case no one wants her to pursue: a serial rapist who has avoided detection by wearing a mask and whispering his commands. Over the years, he has victimised dozens of women.
Including Melanie. Yet now her attacker might be the key to her salvation ... or her undoing.
About the Author Brad Parks is the only author to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of crime fiction's most prestigious prizes. A former reporter with The Washington Post and The Star-Ledger (Newark), he lives in Virginia with his wife and Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9780571334391 two children. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 360 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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Faber Fiction MAY 2018 What You Want to See Kristen Lepionka
PI Roxane Weary is back, in the thrilling follow-up to the hit-debut The Last Place You Look.
Description Shaken by the outcome of her last big case, PI Roxane Weary is keeping a low profile. When she takes on a new client who suspects his fiancee is cheating on him, Roxane is happy to have landed a run-of-the-mill surveillance job. Until, that is, Marin Strasser, the woman she's been tailing, turns up dead.
The police are convinced her client is the one who pulled the trigger. Certain - and scared - that things aren't so straightforward, Roxane starts to follow a paper trail that gets more dangerous the farther it goes.
So who really was Marin Strasser? Who could have wanted her dead? And how can Roxane stop her work from once again pushing away the few people she thinks she can trust?
About the Author Kristen Lepionka grew up mostly in a public library and could often be found in the adult mystery section well before she was out of middle school. Her writing has been selected for Shotgun Honey, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Grift, and Black Elephant. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her partner and two cats.
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Faber Fiction MAY 2018 The Last Place You Look Kristen Lepionka
What really happened to Sarah Cook? A head-on collision between an allegedly closed case and a tenacious, troubled private investigator who doesn't know when to quit.
Description Sarah Cook, a beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and sits on death row, though he always maintained his innocence. With his execution only weeks away, his devoted sister, insisting she has spotted Sarah at a local gas station, hires PI Roxane Weary to look again at the case. Reeling from the recent death of her cop father, Roxane finds herself drawn to the story of Sarah's vanishing act, especially when she thinks she's linked Sarah's disappearance to one of her father's unsolved murder cases involving another teen girl. Despite her self-destructive tendencies, Roxane starts to hope that maybe she can save Brad's life and her own.
With echoes of Sue Grafton, Dennis Lehane and Serial, The Last Place You Look is the gripping debut of both a bold new voice and character.
About the Author Kristen Lepionka grew up mostly in a public library and could often be found in the adult mystery section well before she was out of middle school. Her writing has been selected for Shotgun Honey, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Grift, and Black Elephant. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her partner and two cats.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa David Peace
Extraordinary, standalone novel from the legendary David Peace, about one of Japan's greatest ever writers.
Description Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927.
These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen -
Inspired and informed by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act and obsession of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own.
About the Author David Peace - named in 2003 as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists - was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty, and Nineteen Eighty Three), GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Damned Utd, and Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. The final part of his Tokyo Trilogy - to follow Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City - will publish in 2019. Patient X is his tenth novel. He lives in Tokyo.
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Faber Fiction MAY 2018 Lean on Pete film tie-in Willy Vlautin
Film tie-in edition of Willy Vlautin's unforgettable story of a friendship and hope in dark times.
Description Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of a year; and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, he's been pretty much on his own for some time.
Lean on Pete opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track. Once part of a vibrant racing network, Portland Meadows is now seemingly the last haven for washed up jockeys and knackered horses, but it's there that Charley meets Pete, an old horse who becomes his companion as he's forced to try to make his own way in the world.
About the Author Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Vlautin started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and quickly became immersed in music. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver's Too Much Water So Close to Home that inspired him to start writing stories. Vlautin has published three novels, The Motel Life (2006) and Northline (2008) and Lean on Pete (2010), which was shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His fourth novel, The Free was published in 2014.
Vlautin founded the band Richmond Fontaine in 1994. The band has produced nine studio albums to date, plus a handful of live recordings and EPs. Driven by Vlautin's dark, story-like songwriting, the band has achieved critical acclaim at home and across Europe. 2014 will see the debut album from Vlautin's new band, The Delines, featuring vocalist Amy Boone (The Damnations).
Vlautin currently resides in Scappoose, Oregon.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Lean on Pete Willy Vlautin
From the acclaimed author of The Motel Life and Northline comes another hugely moving slice of Americana.
Description Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of a year; and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, he's been pretty much on his own for some time.
Lean on Pete opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track. Once part of a vibrant racing network, Portland Meadows is now seemingly the last haven for washed up jockeys and knackered horses, but it's there that Charley meets Pete, an old horse who becomes his companion as he's forced to try to make his own way in the world.
A portrait of a journey - populated by a vivid cast of characters against a harsh landscape - Lean on Pete is also the unforgettable story of a friendship and of hope in dark times.
About the Author Described by Mojo as 'one of America's most fundamental artists in words and music' Willy Vlautin is the author of two highly acclaimed novels, The Motel Life (2005) and Northline (2007). He is also the frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine, whose albums include 'Post to Wire' and most recently 'We Used to think the Freeway sounded like a River'. An avid fan of horseracing, he can often be found writing behind a closed circuit monitor at Portland Meadows racetrack.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney
A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century.
Description Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances's friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi.
Desperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gem-like precision and marked by a sly sense of humour, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.
About the Author Sally Rooney was born in the west of Ireland in 1991. Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017, she studied English at Trinity College, Dublin, and her writing has been featured in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, and Granta.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Every Day Above Ground Glen Erik Hamilton
A thrilling heist-gone-wrong novel. Every Day Above Ground is the third book of Glen Erik Hamilton's multi- prize winning Van Shaw series, set in Seattle.
Description Former Army Ranger Van Shaw is out of money, and struggling to keep on the straight and narrow. When an old contact shows up on his doorstep, fresh out of prison and claiming to know the whereabouts of a hidden stash of gold, Van feels the powerful pull of his past. The trouble is, some things are too good to be true . . .
About the Author Glen Erik Hamilton is a Seattle native. His first Van Shaw novel, Past Crimes (2015) won a Strand Critics Circle Award as well as the Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel, and was nominated for the Edgar, Nero, and Barry Awards.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Past Crimes Glen Erik Hamilton
For fans of Lee Child and Dennis Lehane, an unputdownable series debut, from a thrilling new voice in American crime writing.
Description If my grandfather's letter had stopped at the comma, I would have tossed it in the trash... I would have mentally told the old man to stick it, if it hadn't been for the last three words. If you can...Van Shaw was raised to be a thief, but at the age of eighteen he abruptly abandoned the illicit life and joined the US Army, leaving behind Seattle and the grandfather who taught him the trade. But after ten years of estrangement, Van's grandfather has suddenly asked him to come home. He does so, only to find his grandfather shot in the head and bleeding out on the kitchen floor.
While the police focus on Van as the prime suspect, he plunges back into an underworld he had vowed never return to, putting his criminal sensibilities back to work to ferret out the attacker and unearth the shocking secret of why his grandfather called him home after so many years. But in a violent, high-stakes world where the lines between right and wrong are easily blurred, Van finds that the secrets held by those closest to him are the deadliest of all.
About the Author Glen Erik Hamilton is a Seattle native and is currently working on a second novel featuring Van Shaw and Seattle's criminal underworld.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Hard Cold Winter Glen Erik Hamilton
Former Army Ranger and thief Van Shaw is thrust into a maelstrom of danger as lethal and unpredictable as the war he left behind in this emotionally powerful and gritty follow-up to the acclaimed debut Past Crimes.
Description When an old crony of Van Shaw's late grandfather calls in a favor, he embarks on a journey deep into the remote forest of the Olympic Mountains in search of a missing girl tied to his own criminal past.
Discovering a brutal murder scene, Van finds himself caught between a billionaire businessman on the one side and vicious gangsters on the other. In an attempt to survive Van will have to face some of the toughest questions of his life, not least over his relationship with his iron-willed girlfriend, Luce. But with the clock ticking, a desperate Van may just need every ally he can get, especially as someone prepares to unleash a firestorm on Seattle that could burn them all to ashes.
About the Author Glen Erik Hamilton is a Seattle native and is currently working on a second novel featuring Van Shaw and Seattle's criminal underworld.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 The Children of Men P. D. James
The Children of Men is P.D. James's stand-alone dystopian novel of mass infertility and chilling mystery.
Description The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.
About the Author P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).
James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Kolymsky Heights Lionel Davidson
The book that came in from the cold; this much celebrated spy thriller on the Faber backlist is repackaged and reissued.
Description 'The best thriller I've ever read.' Philip Pullman
Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless night, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible...
'Sensationally good. Cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed. One of the great thrillers of the last century.' Charles Cumming
About the Author Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carre. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009.
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Faber Paperback MAY 2018 The Unaccompanied Simon Armitage
The eleventh single volume of poetry from one of the Britain's most celebrated and influential contemporary poets, Simon Armitage - now in paperback.
Description 'The most popular English poet since Larkin.' Sunday Times
After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage's eleventh collection of poems heralds a return to his trademark contemporary lyricism. The pieces in this multi-textured and moving volume are set against a backdrop of economic recession and social division, where mass media, the mass market and globalisation have made alienation a commonplace experience and where the solitary imagination drifts and conjures.
The Unaccompanied documents a world on the brink, a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates, where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction, where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial Yorkshire, and where alarm bells for ailing communities go unheeded or unheard. Looking for certainty the mind gravitates to recollections of upbringing and family, only to encounter more unrecoverable worlds, shaped as ever through Armitage's gifts for clarity and detail as well as his characteristic dead-pan wit. Insightful, relevant and empathetic, these poems confirm The Unaccompanied as a bold new statement of intent by one of our most respected and recognised living poets.
'A writer who has had a game-changing influence on his contemporaries.' Guardian
'Armitage is that rare beast: a poet whose work is ambitious, accomplished and complex as well as popular.' Sunday Telegraph
'The best poet of his generation.' Craig Raine, Observer
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9780571333851 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of Dimensions: 198x129mm numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), Paper Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Poetry Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (2014) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). Bic2: Poetry by individual poets He also writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Illustrations: Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, Previous Titles: Author now living: performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.
Faber Poetry MAY 2018 White Houses Amy Bloom
Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers.
Description In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives.
Told by the indomitable Hick, White Houses is the story of Eleanor and Hick's hidden love, and of Hick's unlikely journey from her dirt-poor childhood to the centre of privilege and power.
From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan's Washington Square, Amy Bloom's new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.
Filled with fascinating back-room politics, the secrets and scandals of the era, and exploring the potency of enduring love, it is an imaginative tour-de-force from a writer of extraordinary and exuberant talent.
About the Author Amy Bloom is the acclaimed author of three collections of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out (Granta, 2010), Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, also published in one volume Rowing to Eden (Granta, 2015) and three novels, Lucky Us (Granta, 2014), Away (Granta, 2007), and Love Invents Us. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.
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Granta MAY 2018 Lucky Us Amy Bloom
A thrilling and resonant novel from the author of Away, about loyalty, ambition, and the pleasures and perils of family, set in 1940s America.
Description When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers to care for them and a father who could not be considered a parent, Iris and Eva become one another's family. Iris wants to be a movie star; Eva is her sidekick. Together, they journey across 1940s America from scandal in Hollywood to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island, stumbling, cheating and loving their way through a landscape of war, betrayals and big dreams.
About the Author Amy Bloom is the acclaimed author of three collections of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out (Granta, 2010), Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, also published in one volume Rowing to Eden (Granta, 2015) and three novels, Lucky Us (Granta, 2014), Away (Granta, 2007), and Love Invents Us. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781847089397 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: New York
Granta Paperbacks MAY 2018 Away Amy Bloom
An extraordinary story of young Lillian Leyb and her long odyssey across America.
Description Away is the extraordinary story of an accidental hero, young Lillian Leyb. Her family murdered in a Russian pogrom, in which her three-year-old daughter Sophie vanished, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way. In 1920s New York she is taken under the wing of both Reuben and Meyer Burstein, the family Impresario and his matinee-idol son. But then Lillian's cousin Raisele arrives with news of Sophie. Driven by wild hope, Lillian sets off on an odyssey across America, travelling from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Skid Row and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail.
Away is storytelling at its finest - epic in sweet, intimate and psychologically acute, big hearted, witty and unsentimental.
About the Author Amy Bloom is the acclaimed author of three collections of short stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out (Granta, 2010), Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, also published in one volume Rowing to Eden (Granta, 2015) and three novels, Lucky Us (Granta, 2014), Away (Granta, 2007), and Love Invents Us. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.
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Granta Paperbacks MAY 2018 Painter to the King Amy Sackville
A novel of brilliance, imagination, intrigue and style -- about the painter Velazquez and his royal subject and benefactor, King Philip IV of Spain.
Description This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess.
Unfolding through series of masterly set-pieces and glancing sketches, this is a novel of brilliance, imagination and sheer style -- about what is shown and what is seen, about art and life.
About the Author Amy Sackville was born in 1981. She studied English and Theatre Studies at Leeds, and went on to do an MPhil in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. Her first novel was The Still Point, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and won the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and her second was Orkney, which won a 2014 Somerset Maugham Award. www.amysackville.co.uk
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781783783908 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 Strange Heart Beating Eli Goldstone
Leda, in a plot twist, has been killed by the swan. Her grieving widower travels from London to Latvia to untangle the rest of her story.
Description Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never mentioned. Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides to travel to Leda's home village in Latvia to patch her story together. But with each new person that he turns to for answers, Seb is met instead by more questions about Leda, her past and their life together.
A darkly funny, seductive novel that confronts the black undercurrent of possession inherent in love, Strange Heart Beating is a breathtaking debut from an author whose vision is both acerbic and tender.
About the Author Eli Goldstone lives in Margate and is a graduate of the City University Creative Writing MA. She is the former prose editor of Cadaverine.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781783783502 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 The Half Sister Catherine Chanter
The psychologically intense second novel from Catherine Chanter, author of The Well.
Description When she was sixteen, Diana left her unhappy family and set out to make a new life. Twenty-five years later, she has arrived. Recently married to Edmund, there are just the two of them living at Wynhope, his family's historic country home, both happy for the past to be locked away and for the future to be free from responsibility.
But when Diana hears that her mother has died, she impulsively asks estranged half-sister Valerie and her nine-year-old son to stay. The night of the funeral, fueled by wine and years of resentment, the sisters argue and a terrible accident occurs. The foundations of a well-ordered life start to crack and the lies begin to surface, one secret after another demanding a voice. And then there's the boy, watching, waiting.
The Half Sister is a profound and haunting portrayal of those who are imprisoned by the past and by their struggle to find the words which will release them.
About the Author Catherine Chanter was born and raised in the West Country. She has written for BBC Radio 4 and has had short stories and poetry published in a wide range of anthologies and publications. Chanter has a Masters, with distinction, in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University, and won the Yeovil Poetry Prize in 2010. The Well, her debut novel, won the 2013 Lucy Cavendish Prize for Unpublished Fiction, was longlisted for the 2015 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and was picked for the Richard and Judy Book Club.
Besides being an author, Catherine has led education provision within the NHS for young people with significant mental health problems. She currently works for a charity which seeks to engage excluded and vulnerable children and teenagers in learning.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781786891242 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Trade MAY 2018 Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four David Peace
The first book in the acclaimed Red Riding Quartet.
Description Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Eddie Dunford's got the job he wanted - crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Evening Post. He didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan's wings stitched into her back.
In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings the passion and stylistic bravado of an Ellroy novel to this terrifyingly intense journey into a secret history of sexual obession and greed, and starts a highly acclaimed crime series that has redefined how the genre is approached.
About the Author David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. In 2007, he was named GQ Writer of the Year. He lives in Japan.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781781259894 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail MAY 2018 Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace
The second novel in the acclaimed Red Riding Quartet.
Description If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the 'Red Riding Quartet', is one long nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead - would be considered villains in most people's books. Fraser and Whitehead have one thing in common though, they're both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown prostitutes.
And as the summer moves remorselessly towards the bonfires of Jubilee Night, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large. Out of the horror of true crime, David Peace has fashioned a work of terrible beauty. Like James Ellroy before him, David Peace tells us the true and fearsome secret history of our times.
About the Author David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. In 2007, he was named GQ Writer of the Year. He lives in Japan.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781781259900 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail MAY 2018 Red Riding Nineteen Eighty David Peace
Third novel in the acclaimed Red Riding Quartet.
Description Nineteen Eighty is set against an evolving backdrop of power, corruption and lies. The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter struggles to solve the hellish crimes and bring an end to the horror, but is drawn ever deeper into a world of bent coppers and sleaze. After his house is burned down, his wife is threatened and his colleagues turn against him, Hunter's quest becomes personal as he has nothing left to lose.
Nineteen Eighty is a compelling battle between two desperate men, each determined to destroy the other. This third volume of the Red Riding Quartet displays Peace's unique voice which places him as one of the UK's finest crime writers.
About the Author David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. In 2007, he was named GQ Writer of the Year. He lives in Japan.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781781259917 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail MAY 2018 Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three David Peace
David Peace concludes his Red Riding Quartet and once again the Ripper is the backdrop for a roller-coaster of fear and corruption.
Description Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Piggott - who's as near as you get to a hero in Peace's world - and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance.
Nineteen Eighty Three is an epic tale which concludes an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative and remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years.
About the Author David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. In 2007, he was named GQ Writer of the Year. He lives in Japan.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9781781259924 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail MAY 2018 The Baby Bible: A guide to taking care of your bump, your baby and yourself Bec Judd
A comprehensive month by month guide to pregnancy, birth and beyond from mother of four and media personality Bec Judd and her dream team of experts.
Description What you're not expecting, when you're expecting ...
Bec Judd has been pregnant quite a lot: three pregnancies, three deliveries and four gorgeous newborn babies. From carrying a baby, delivering it, feeding it and raising it, Bec has experienced almost everything motherhood can throw at you and she wants to share the secrets and stories that she has learned along the way. Not to mention all those things about pregnancy, birth and motherhood that often come as a complete surprise.
Join Bec and her dream team of experts (an obstetrician, a midwife, an ultrasound specialist, a women's health physio and a paediatric sleep specialist) as they take you month by month through your pregnancy. They will share their insider advice on the best ways to eat for two (or three!), stay in shape and get you and your baby sleeping well.
This gorgeous, comprehensive handbook contains a wealth of honest, practical and sometimes hilarious advice to prepare you and your baby for life after birth.
About the Author Rebecca Judd is one of Australia's best-known personalities, working as a television presenter and brand ambassador for some of the country's biggest companies. She is also a mum to four young children.
In 2008 Bec moved to Melbourne from her hometown of Perth with husband Chris, and consequently undertook ambassador roles with some of Australia's best-known brands. She can be seen on Channel Nine as the host of popular travel show Postcards and previously as the weekend weather presenter, and you can hear her on KIIS FM radio as the Price: $34.99 co-host for the 3PM Pick-Up and on the incredibly popular Mamamia podcast Hello Bump. Bec's fashion and lifestyle ISBN: 9781760631307 blog, Rebecca Judd Loves (RJL), is one of the most read blogs in Australia. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 230x170mm Extent: 304 pages Bec's passion for interior design and her distinct sense of style have led to many notable opportunities. She has designed Bic1: Pregnancy, birth & baby care multiple sell-out ranges of bedding and soft furnishings for Adairs and worked with highly regarded property developer R. Bic2: Illustrations: Corp. Previous Titles: Author now living: Dulwich Hill Rebecca has a Bachelor of Science Degree (HCS) and has worked as a speech pathologist at The Alfred Hospital and Cabrini Hospital in Melbourne. Her greatest achievements to date are her children, Oscar, Billie, and twins Tom and Darcy. Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 A Mother's Choice Elle Halliwell
When well-known fashion journalist Elle Halliwell fell pregnant with her first child, she was faced with an impossible choice: continue with the pregnancy or begin treatment for leukaemia...
Description On May 1st 2016 Elle Halliwell, the hugely popular Daily Telegraph Fashion Editor, was diagnosed with leukemia. Two weeks later just as she was telling friends and family about the grim diagnosis she found out she was 4 weeks pregnant with her first child.
She was faced with an impossible choice: either terminate her unborn baby and begin the treatment that gave her the best chance of survival, or continue with the pregnancy and delay effective intervention for her cancer, a course that could lead to her death.
Elle chose her baby over herself, a mother's choice. Her memoir details her illness, her pregnancy, and against all the odds, the ultimate triumph of giving birth to her son in December 2016. Almost a year later she is still on the road to recovery but has discovered a new passion for nutrition and healthy living. Her journey remains hard but the trials of the last year and a half have made her more determined than ever to live well and regain her health for the sake of her family and her son.
A Mother's Choice is compelling, moving and inspiring.
About the Author Every week Elle Halliwell keeps millions of Australians up to date on all things entertaining and stylish thanks to her work with the country's top media outlets.
With more than a decade's experience in print and television media, the Australian journalist has become one of the country's favourite showbiz and fashion commentators, reporting beauty, style and celebrity news via her weekly columns in The Daily and Sunday Telegraph's and number one national radio show, Confidential on Nova. Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760632779 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Headstrong Daughters: Inspiring stories from the new generation of Australian Muslim women Nadia Jamal
Nadia Jamal takes us inside the lives of ordinary Muslim women from around Australia, showing how they find ways to stay true to their faith, and to themselves as well. These candid and moving stories reveal a side to Australian life that is little known and often misunderstood.
Description How would you feel as a guest about sitting in a suburban living room that is for women only? What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman could not have one outside of a marriage? Could you stay home to mourn a husband for four months and ten days?
Headstrong Daughters takes us inside the lives of Muslim women in Australia today. They are working professionals, mothers, and students. At home they are finding ways to stay true to their faith as well as to themselves, navigating the expectations of their families and the traditions they brought with them to their new country.
But things are not always what they seem. These candid, moving and sometimes surprising stories reveal a side to Australian life that is little known and often misunderstood. Inspiring, warm and determined, these women are the new face of Islam in Australia.
About the Author Nadia Jamal is a former senior journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and co-author of the award-winning Glory Garage: Growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia. She has become a lawyer and works as a financial crime analyst.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760293314 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 232 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Islamic life & practice Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Lidcombe, NSW
Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 The Name of Death Klester Cavalcanti
The powerful true-life story of a Brazilian boy who became the world's most prolific killer - now a major motion picture.
Description Julio Santana grew up in a poor fishing family in Brazil. At the age of 17 he killed his first man. His payment: food for his family.
In the course of his career as an assassin, Julio was to murder more than 490 people across the length and breadth of Brazil. Klester Cavalcanti, perhaps Brazil's greatest investigative journalist, became fascinated with the story of a normal man who became one of the world's most prolific murderers. Over the course of seven years, Cavalcanti interviewed Santana by phone, and used his skills as a journalist to trace the path of his life and infamous career. The result is an extraordinary insight into a killer, and the almost unimaginable scale of his crimes.
The Name of Death has been adapted into a major motion picture produced by Fernando Meirelles (director of City of God, Blindness, and The Constant Gardener) and Globo Filmes, released in Brazil in July 2017 and to be distributed globally in 2018.
About the Author Born in 1969, Klester Cavalcanti is considered one of the greatest Brazilian investigative journalists. He worked for many years with the leading news magazine in Brazil, Veja. His books, Viuvas da Terra (2004), The Name of Death (2006), and Days of Hell in Syria (2012), have each won him the prestigious Jabuti literature prize in Brazil.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781760632328 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Brazil
Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 A Very Rude Awakening: The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour Peter Grose
In May of 1942, the war seemed very far away to most Sydneysiders - until the night the three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour and caused an unforgettable night of mayhem, high farce, chaos and courage. A ground-breaking look at one of the most extraordinary stories of Australia at war.
Description On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspapers devoted more pages to horse racing than to Hitler.
That Sunday night the party came to a shattering halt when three Japanese midget submarines crept into the harbour, past eight electronic indicator loops, past six patrolling Royal Australian Navy ships, and past an anti-submarine net stretched across the inner harbour entrance. Their arrival triggered a night of mayhem, courage, chaos and high farce which left 27 sailors dead and a city bewildered. The war, it seemed, was no longer confined to distant desert and jungle. It was right here at Australia's front door.
Written at the pace of a thriller and based on new first person accounts and previously unpublished official documents, A Very Rude Awakening is a ground-breaking and myth-busting look at one of the most extraordinary stories ever told of Australia at war.
About the Author Peter Grose is a former publisher at Secker + Warburg, founder of Curtis Brown Australia, and was until recently the chairman of ACP (UK). He is the author of An Awkward Truth published by Allen + Unwin in 2009.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781760633301 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 328 pages Bic1: Australasian & Pacific history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Allen & Unwin MAY 2018 Bourdieu: A critical introduction Tony Schirato with Mary Roberts
A systematic account of the full body of work of the French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu, one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. By showing the development of Bourdieu's thinking over his full career, Schirato and Roberts throw new light on his influential 'thinking tools', including habitus, capital, cultural reproduction, field and class.
Description Throughout his career, French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu sought to interrogate what he described as the 'social unconscious', the means by which power is held and transmitted across generations. Bourdieu's work has been hugely influential in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities for decades, yet Schirato and Roberts argue that few scholars are using Bourdieu's work to its full potential.
Bourdieu's work is so wide-ranging that commentary tends to focus on particular theoretical concepts he developed or his books on particular fields of inquiry. However Bourdieu continued to develop themes in his work across his whole career, and much of the richness of his thinking is lost if this isn't taken into account.
Drawing on recently released lectures, Schirato and Roberts offer a systematic account of Bourdieu's full body of work, from his early research in Algiers to his last lectures in Paris. They show how Bourdieu continued to develop his concepts of habitus, field, capital, power and socio-cultural reproduction well into his later years. They also offer a nuanced reading of Bourdieu's thinking about education, class, language, knowledge and culture beyond the individual books Bourdieu published on these topics.
This critical introduction to Bourdieu is essential reading for all Bourdieu scholars, and for researchers and thinkers using Bourdieu's work in their own social and cultural analysis.
'A terrific book, which sets out a comprehensive overview of Bourdieu's oeuvre in a way that no other text I know has done' - Professor John Frow, University of Sydney Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781760111748 About the Author Format: Paperback - C format Tony Schirato is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Macau, and formerly taught at Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Victoria University Wellington in New Zealand, and at Central Queensland University in Australia. He is co-author of Bic1: Philosophy introductions to Bourdieu, Foucault and Judith Butler, and author of Understanding Sports Culture and Sports Discourse. Bic2: Social theory Mary Roberts is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Macau. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Ts: Wellington, NZ, JW: Canber
A&U Academic MAY 2018 Island Nurses Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson
A story about two remarkable women and how they forged their careers in a remote place; a story of community and the births and deaths that shape its ups and downs; a classic story of making do and overcoming adversity; and a story of hope and new life.
Description Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson live and work on remote Great Barrier Island-so called because it faces the full brunt of the wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 kilometres away. With a population of about 1000, no reticulated electricity, no ATM machine, no street lights and one pub, this is a wildly beautiful place. It has a long history of farming, whaling and fishing, and the people who live here are a resilient lot, proud of their community.
Midwifery and nursing on a remote island bring a wide range of dramas and emergencies, and here Adele and Leonie share the islanders' stories-sometimes tragic, sometimes happy, sometimes funny-from over 30 years of challenging yet uplifting work.
About the Author Adele Robertson and Leonie Howie have lived and worked on Great Barrier Island for over 30 years.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781760633530 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
A&U New Zealand MAY 2018 My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture Kazuo Ishiguro
Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro.
Description A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with his homeland of Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.
About the Author Kazuo Ishiguro's seven published books have won him wide renown and many honours around the world. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day, which won the 1989 Booker Prize and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His latest novel is The Buried Giant.
In October 2017 Ishiguro was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature.
Price: $9.99 ISBN: 9780571346547 Format: Dimensions: 178x115mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Literature & literary studies Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty Jacqueline Rose
A daring and provocative look at the role of mothers in culture, history and the human heart.
Description Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty is guided by a simple argument: that motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge - or rather bury - the reality of our own conflicts, of psychic life, and what it means to be fully human. Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealizable, of course) to repair.
To the familiar claim that too much is asked of mothers - a long-standing feminist plaint - Rose adds a further dimension. She questions what we are doing when we ask mothers to carry the burden of everything that is hardest to contemplate about our society and ourselves. By making mothers the objects of licensed cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart.
To demonstrate this vicious paradox at work, Rose explores a range of material: investigative writing and policies on motherhood, including newspaper reports, policy documents, and law; drama, novels, poetry, and life stories past and present; social history, psychoanalysis, and feminism. An incisive, rousing call to action, Mothers unveils the crucial idea that unless we recognise what role we are asking mothers to perform in the world, and for the world, we will continue to tear both the world and mothers to pieces.
About the Author Jacqueline Rose is a British academic who is currently professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Her most recent book was Women in Dark Times. A regular contributor to the London Review of Books, she is also a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9780571331437 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Social & political philosophy Bic2: Feminism & feminist theory Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction MAY 2018 1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
This is an astonishing trove of the strangest, funniest, and most improbable tidbits of knowledge from the clever lot at the hugely popular BBC quiz show QI.
Description The sock-blasting, jaw-dropping, side-swiping phenomenon that is QI serves up a sparkling new selection of 1,342 facts to leave you flabbergasted.
Trees sleep at night. Google searches for 'How to put on a condom' peak at 10.28pm. There is no word for time in any Aboriginal language. Scotland has 421 words for snow. Emoji is the fastest growing language in history. Astronauts wear belts to stop their trousers falling up. The name Donald means 'ruler of the world'. Tanks are exempt from London's Congestion charge. The anti-spam industry is worth more than the spam industry. Florida has more bear hunters than bears. Selfies kill more people than sharks. Two-thirds of deaths in the world go unrecorded. On each anniversary of its landing on Mars, the Curiosity rover hums 'Happy Birthday' to itself. Nostalgia was classified as a disease by the Royal College of Physicians until 1899. 1 in 3 children pretend to believe in Santa Claus to keep their parents happy. Black coffee drinkers are more likely to be psychopaths. When you blush so does the lining of your stomach. Quidditch, Digestive biscuits and overdrafts were all invented in Edinburgh. The world's only Cornish pasty museum is in Mexico. Nobody knows why the Oscars are called the Oscars. Las Vegas hosts an awards ceremony for people who make awards. In 2015, America's 'National Hero Dog Award' was won by a cat. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
If there are any facts you don't believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on www.qi. com
About the Author John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI and founding producer of The News Quiz, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and No Such Thing As The News. John Mitchinson, QI's first researcher, used to run the marketing for Waterstones and is the co-founder of award-winning publisher Unbound. James Harkin, QI's Head Elf, presents BBC 2's No Such Thing As The News, the hugely popular podcast No Such Thing as a Fish and produces The Museum of Price: $17.99 ISBN: 9780571332472 Curiosity. Anne Miller is a scriptwriter and researcher for QI and writes a literary column for Standard Issue magazine. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 170x105mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: TV tie-in humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.
Description The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over. Bees can play football. Cholesterol is good for you. Camels gave humans the common cold. English has 3,000 words relating to drunkenness. In 1851 all the 436,800 sandwiches sold in London were ham. Books used to be put on shelves with their spines facing inwards. A German airline allows an extra kilo of hand luggage, provided it's books. There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way. Iceland has more volcanoes than footballers.
About the Author John Lloyd CBE is the creator of QI and founding producer of The News Quiz, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and No Such Thing As The News.
James Harkin, QI's Head Elf, presents the QI Elves' podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and BBC 2's No Such Thing As The News. He also produces The Museum of Curiosity.
Anne Miller is a scriptwriter and researcher for QI. She is Head Researcher for BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity and writes a literary column for Standard Issue magazine.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9780571339105 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Non Fiction MAY 2018 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off John Mitchinson, John Lloyd and James Harkin
1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off - a buffet groaning with mouth-watering nuggets.
Description Did you know that: cows moo in regional accents; the entire internet weighs less than a grain of sand; the dialling code from Britain to Russia is 007; potatoes have more chromosomes than human beings; the London Underground has made more money from its famous map than it has from running trains; Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTin is pronounced 'Chin chin' and means penis; the water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body; Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs; Saddam's bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler's bunker; Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machinegun to kill a hedgehog.
1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off will make you look at the universe (and your socks) in an alarming new way.
About the Author John Lloyd has a broadcasting background. As a radio producer he devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. John Mitchinson is from the world of books. The original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, he became Managing Director of Cassell, and now runs Unbound.
Price: $17.99 ISBN: 9780571297931 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 170x105mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
1,399 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop - the top ten bestseller packed full of outrageously brilliant facts.
Description Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, the QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten.
Pigs suffer from anorexia.
Wagner always wore pink silk underwear.
Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie.
Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn.
It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit.
J.K. Rowling has no middle name.
The first computer mouse was made of wood.
If there are any facts you don't believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on QI's website.
About the Author John Lloyd devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. John Mitchinson was the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase Price: $17.99 ISBN: 9780571308958 and Fable, and now runs Unbound. James Harkin is QI's Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the Format: Paperback presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Dimensions: 170x105mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
1,411 QI Facts to Knock You Sideways, by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin, contains all-new facts from the QI team to astonish, delight and enlighten.
Description 1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year's groaning sack of astonishment. Prepare to be knocked sideways...
Orchids can get jetlag.
Lizards can't walk and breathe at the same time.
There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie.
Ladybird orgasms last for 30 minutes.
Traffic lights existed before cars.
Sir Bruce Forsyth is four months older than sliced bread.
The soil in your garden is 2 million years old.
If there are any facts you don't believe, or if you want to know more about them, all the sources can be found on qi.com.
About the Author John Lloyd devised The News Quiz and To the Manor Born for radio before moving to television to start Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. John Mitchinson was the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's, became Managing Director of Cassell, where he published The Beatles, Michael Palin and Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase Price: $17.99 ISBN: 9780571329847 and Fable, and now runs Unbound. James Harkin is QI's Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the Format: Paperback presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Dimensions: 170x106mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
The fourth in QI's bestselling facts series, and the most dazzling yet - now in paperback!
Description The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you speechless.
- Flowers get suntans - Denmark imports prisoners - Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest - The Republic of Ireland first got postcodes in 2015 - Martin Luther King Jr got a C+ in Public Speaking - No one in the UK dies of 'natural causes' - Penguins can't taste fish
About the Author John Lloyd is the award-winning producer of Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. John Mitchinson was the original Marketing Director of Waterstone's and now runs indie publisher Unbound. James Harkin is QI's Senior Researcher and Script Editor and is one of the presenters of the number one podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.
Price: $17.99 ISBN: 9780571329830 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 170x105mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Humour Bic2: Humour Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Conundrum Jan Morris
A new edition of Jan Morris's remarkable and beautifully written account of her transition from man to woman.
Description As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the book generated enormous interest around the world, and was chosen by The Times as one of the '100 Key Books of Our Time'.
About the Author Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets), and Conundrum. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and, more recently, the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer's World, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9780571341139 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Biography: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Empire of the Clouds: The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft James Hamilton-Paterson
Empire of the Clouds is a brilliant, nostalgic and provocative look at the golden age of British aircraft, from the post-war jet age to the recent sad decline. This is an updated edition to celebrate the centenary of the foundation of the Royal Air Force, in April 2018.
Description In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex.
How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? What became of the great industry of de Havilland or Handley Page? And what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age?
About the Author James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of Gerontius, winner of a Whitbread Prize; Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds; Playing With Water; and most recently, of the wild comic trilogy Cooking With Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace and Rancid Pansies. He is also an unabashed fan of great aircraft.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9780571341481 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 Bic2: History of engineering & technology Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 To Throw Away Unopened Viv Albertine
Brave, intimate, and deeply confessional, this is the long-awaited follow-up to Viv Albertine's sensational bestselling memoir.
Description At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, the musician Viv Albertine received news that her mother was dying, and spent a few final hours with the woman who was, in a sense, the love of her life. In the turbulent weeks after the funeral, Viv made a series of discoveries that revealed the role of family conflicts in propelling her towards the uncompromising world of punk.
Part radical reinvention of the memoir form; part feminist manifesto; part domestic noir; part polemic on motherhood; To Throw Away Unopened is an indefinable book exploring the nature of intimacy. Unapologetically honest, this is a story of human dysfunctionality which miraculously reveals how we do manage to function, live, and love.
About the Author Born in Sydney, songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in cult female punk band The Slits. She was a key player in British counter-culture before her career in TV and film Directing. Her first solo album The Vermilion Border was released in 2012, and her memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys was a Sunday Times, Mojo, Rough Trade, and NME Book of the Year in 2014, as well as being shortlisted for the National Book Awards.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9780571342907 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MAY 2018 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. Viv Albertine
The story of a life lived unscripted, told from the heart.
Description In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.
A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male- dominated music scene and became part of a movement that changed music.
A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv's life post-punk - taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again - Clothes Music Boysis a remarkable memoir.
About the Author Songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in the hugely influential female punk band The Slits. A confidante of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Viv was a key player in British punk culture. Alongside The Slits, she collaborated with numerous musicians, including Adrian Sherwood, before marking out a career in television and film production. After a hiatus of twenty-five years, Viv's first solo album, The Vermillion Border, was released in 2012 to great critical acclaim.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9780571328284 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x130mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Music Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World Billy Bragg
Against a backdrop of Cold War politics, rock and roll riots and a newly assertive generation of working-class youth, the songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg charts the history, impact and legacy of skiffle - Britain's first indigenous pop movement.
Description Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it.
It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s.
Emerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post- war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year.
Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section.
About the Author Stephen William 'Billy' Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic themes. Billy's music is heavily centred on bringing about change and getting the younger generation involved in activist causes.
Price: $24.99 For the entirety of Bragg's 30-year-plus recording career he has been involved with grassroots political movements, and ISBN: 9780571327751 this is often reflected in his lyrics. Bragg said in an interview: 'I don't mind being labelled a political songwriter. The thing Format: Paperback - B format that troubles me is being dismissed as a political songwriter.' Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Rock & Pop music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 As Time Goes By Derek Taylor
With a new foreword by Jon Savage, the classic memoir of the 1960s music industry by one of the Beatles' most trusted friends.
Description Derek Taylor's iconic memoir is a rare opportunity to be immersed in one of the most whirlwind music sensations in history: Beatlemania. As Time Goes By tells the remarkable story of Taylor's trajectory from humble provincial journalist to loved confidant right at the centre of the Beatles' magic circle. In charming, conversational prose, Taylor shares anecdotes and reminiscences so vivid and immediate that you find yourself plunged into the beating heart of 1960s counterculture. Whether watching the debut performance of 'Hey Jude' in a country pub or hearing first-hand gossip about a star-studded cast of characters, Taylor's unique narrative voice forges an autobiography like no other.
Reissued here in a brand new edition with a foreword by celebrated writer Jon Savage, this long-admired memoir is a cult classic of the genre awaiting a new readership.
About the Author Derek Taylor (7 May 1932 - 8 September 1997) was an English journalist, writer, publicist and record producer. He is best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles, for whom he became one of several associates to earn the moniker ""the Fifth Beatle"".
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9780571342662 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Music: styles & genres Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MAY 2018 X and Why: The naked truth behind gender in the modern world Tom Whipple
In a modern world of gender neutrality, equality and fluidity, Tom Whipple, science editor of the Times, explores the most surprising questions about the differences between the sexes - unpacking the central psychology of our relationships.
Description Were we ever designed to be a monogamous species? Is it true that all women are bisexual? Is testosterone to blame for making men monsters?
This is a book about the place where biology meets behaviour - and where sexual differences in our bodies most closely translate into gender differences in the mind.
In this timely twenty-first century reboot of the seminal bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus, Whipple travels far and wide - from a gay penguin sanctuary in Germany to the headquarters of the world's biggest online dating agency in New York - and draws on the latest studies in behavioural science as well as fascinating explorations into anthropology to produce a surprising tale of expectations and mismatches.
If you are currently single, this book is about your place in the dating market - your successes, your failures and what they mean. If you are married, it is about why you chose the person you are with, why they chose you - and the circumstances in which either of you might put it all at risk and stray. And if you are part of the LGBTQ+ community, this book might just give you an insight into the emerging science behind your sexuality.
Even if none of these apply to you, this book will show that love and sex are not quite as simple as a Mills and Boon novel. The truth, as Whipple demonstrates, is in the minor anomalies, rather than the accepted wisdoms - and it is these which provide the most revealing windows into the deeper mysteries of human sexuality and gender.
Price: $24.99 About the Author ISBN: 9781780723488 Tom Whipple is the award-winning science editor of the London Times. This is his second book. How to Win Games and Format: Paperback - Demy format Beat People was published by Random House in the UK and HarperCollins in the US in 2015. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Mathematics & science Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Short Books MAY 2018 The Imperial Tea Party: Family, politics and betrayal - the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance Frances Welch
Written with Frances Welch's famously waspish eye for detail, this is another fascinating, percipient, revelatory and often quite hilariously funny book from the master of Russian history.
Description Russia and Britain were never natural bedfellows. But the marriage, in 1894, of Queen Victoria's favourite granddaughter, Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas marked the beginning of an uneasy Anglo-Russian entente that would last until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
As Frances Welch recounts in her inimitable wry style, the three extraordinary meetings that took place during those years, although well-intentioned and generally hailed as successes, were beset by misunderstandings and misfortunes. Whether it was the Romanovs suffering the draughty rooms and wet hunting expeditions at Balmoral, or Queen Victoria complaining about the food on her first and only state visit to the Russian Empire at the port of Revel, or everyone succumbing to seasickness on arrival at Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight.
The two families could not know, as they waved each other fond goodbyes from their yachts at Cowes in 1909, that they would never meet again. King George infamously denied his Romanov cousins exile in Britain when the Bolsheviks were closing in in 1917, but the assassination of the Tsar and his family horrified him, and whether or not things might have turned out differently if he had accepted their plea for refuge has been the subject of speculation ever since.
The British and Russian Royal Families met three times before the Romanovs' tragic end in 1918. The Imperial Tea Party draws back the curtain on those pivotal encounters between these two great dynasties; encounters that had far reaching consequences for 19th century Europe and beyond.
About the Author Frances Welch is the author of Rasputin (2014), The Russian Court at Sea (2011), Romanov Fantasy (2008) and Sydney Price: $29.99 Gibbes: Tutor to the Children of the Last Tsar (2004), all published by Short Books. Frances Welch has written for the ISBN: 9781780723068 Sunday Telegraph, Granta, The Spectator and the Financial Times. She lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Short Books MAY 2018 LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Randall Sullivan
The true crime classic with a new introduction by Randall Sullivan - to tie in with the 2018 film starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whittaker.
Description LA, 1997. The city is restless and simmering with tension. In two seemingly unconnected attacks, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. are brutally murdered. Across town, a black off-duty cop is gunned down by a white undercover cop in broad daylight.
Award-winning journalist Randall Sullivan's searing investigation uncovers a mass of connections to Suge Knight and his infamous label Death Row Records. But as Sullivan follows his leads into the darkest corners of the city, he finds the case thwarted at every turn by the LAPD itself - and realises that he is caught in a web of police corruption that spreads wider than he could have ever imagined.
About the Author Randall Sullivan is an award-winning journalist and has written for The Washington Post, the Guardian and Esquire, and is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. He is the author of six books and the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the William Randolph Hearst Feature Writing Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781786892102 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: True crime Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS MAY 2018 193000197 Dominic Dromgoole
Hamlet Globe to Globe takes readers across all seven continents on a fascinating journey into the world of Shakespeare, Hamlet and the stage. From Dominic Dromgoole, former Artistic Director of The Globe Theatre
Description Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe players toured all seven continents, and almost 200 countries, performing the Bard's most famous play. They set their stage in sprawling refugee camps, grand Baltic palaces and heaving marketplaces - despite food poisoning in Mexico, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa and political upheaval in Ukraine.
Hamlet: Globe to Globe tells the story of this unprecedented theatrical adventure, in which Dromgoole shows us the world through the prism of Shakespeare's universal drama, and asks how a 400-year-old tragedy can bring the world closer together.
About the Author Dominic Dromgoole was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London from 2006 to 2016. He is the author of The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting and of Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life, which won the inaugural Sheridan Morley prize. He regularly contributes to the Sunday Times and other publications.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781782116929 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Prose: non-fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS MAY 2018 Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals Amy Leach
A highly irresistible debut that celebrates the universe in all its wondrous glory.
Description This is a book about the universe which begins with swimming salmon and ends with the starry sky. From the tiniest Earth dwellers to far-flung celestial bodies - considering everything from the similarity of gods to donkeys, to exploding stars and exploding sea cucumbers - Amy Leach rekindles our communion with the world. This stunning debut will leave you with a deeper understanding of the universe and a greater sense of the magic that surrounds us.
About the Author Amy Leach grew up in Texas. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and reviews. She has been recognised with the Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She lives in Montana.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781786893550 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate PBS MAY 2018 Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control Barbara Ehrenreich
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
Description A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life - from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture.
But Natural Causes goes deeper -- into the fundamental unreliability of our bodies and even our 'mind-bodies', to use the fashionable term. Starting with the mysterious and seldom-acknowledged tendency of our own immune cells to promote deadly cancers, Ehrenreich looks into the cellular basis of aging, and shows how little control we actually have over it. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. But the latest science shows that the microscopic sub-units of our bodies make their own 'decisions', and not always in our favour.
We may buy expensive anti-aging products or cosmetic surgery, get preventive screenings and eat more kale, or throw ourselves into meditation and spirituality. But all these things offer only the illusion of control. How to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality - that is the vitally important philosophical challenge of this book.
Drawing on varied sources, from personal experience and sociological trends to pop culture and current scientific literature, Natural Causes examines the ways in which we obsess over death, our bodies, and our health. Both funny and caustic, Ehrenreich then tackles the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end - while still revelling in the lives that remain to us.
About the Author Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling Smile or Die and Nickel and Dimed. She writes regularly for Time, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and various British newspapers including The Times and the Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781783784912 Guardian. She lives in Virginia, USA. Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Society & social sciences Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 Natural Causes 8 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes 8 copies of Natural Causes, plus free reading copy.
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Price: $239.92 ISBN: 9324551063354 Format: Point of Sale Dimensions: mm Extent: pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm John Connell
The intimate account of a year on an Irish farm - and a fascinating history of man's long relationship with the cow.
Description Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the ways of the farmer and the way of the cows. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the outhouses, milking the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. But alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when depression takes hold, when an argument erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid. The Cow Book is the story of a calving season. It is also the story of the cow itself, from its domestication and worship as a God by the Ancient Egyptians to the modern practice of mechanized herds, via the figure of the cowboy, the destruction of the American buffalo, the demise of the aboriginal jackaroos and the consequences of BSE. And, above all, it is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, of his relationship with his birthplace of County Longford, with the community around the family farm, with the animals he tends, and with his father.
About the Author John Connell was published in Granta's New Irish Writing issue, and has also had a story published on Granta.com. He lives on his family farm, Birchview, in County Longford, and this is his first book.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781783784172 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Autobiography: general Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 Granta 143: After the Fact Sigrid Rausing
What happens on the ground once the news cycle moves on? This issue of Granta looks at what comes next.
Description Britain is leaving the European Union. Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Palmyra's monuments have been destroyed by ISIS. The Antarctic shelf is breaking up. The warnings, the debates, the arguments and the elections have all given way to reality. What happens on the ground once the news cycle moves on? How do we understand what we've done, and why? This issue of Granta looks at what comes next.
Don McCullin and Charles Glass return to a ruined Palmyra; Gavin Francis and Esa Aldegheri cross four Syrian borders on a motorbike; Jason Cowley on Harlow, a former 'Mark One New Town' where he grew up; Ben Rawlence on climate change relocation programmes.
Plus excellent new fiction, poetry and photography.
About the Author Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781909889163 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: pages Bic1: Anthologies (non-poetry) Bic2: Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 The Balkans, 1804-2012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers Misha Glenny
A refreshed edition of the landmark history of the Balkans.
Description In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the bloodshed, invasions and nationalist fervour that have come to define our understanding of the south-eastern edge of Europe. In doing so, he reveals that groups we think of as implacable enemies have, over the centuries, formed unlikely alliances, thereby disputing the idea that conflict in the Balkans is the ineluctable product of ancient grudges. And he exposes the often- catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the rest of Europe, raising profound questions about recent Western intervention.
Updated to cover the last decade's brutal conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia, the surge of organised crime in the region, the rise of Turkey and the rocky road to EU membership, The Balkans remains the essential and peerless study of Europe's most complex and least understood region.
About the Author Misha Glenny was born in 1958 and educated at Bristol University and Charles University in Prague. His coverage of the fall of communism in 1989-90 was widely acclaimed. During the Yugoslavia crisis of the early 1990s he was Central Europe correspondent for the BBC World Service. In 1993 he won a Sony Award for his coverage of Yugoslavia. Glenny speaks German, Czech and Serbo-Croat and has lived and worked all over the Balkans. His books include DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You and the highly praised McMafia, 'one of the essential non-fiction works of our time', which has been adapted as a major BBC 1 drama for 2018.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781783784523 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 800 pages Bic1: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Bic2: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 Civilisations: How Do We Look / Eye of Faith Mary Beard
Companion to the BBC series CIVILISATIONS.
Description Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard examines the history of beauty in civilisation.
Beginning with the Jericho painted skulls from 10,000 years ago, and the extraordinary figures of Ain Ghazal. It examines in depth the creativity that gave identity to ancient Egypt, where colossi of powerful rulers were also matched by the depictions of citizens and the wider population. From there, we explore the unprecedented art of the Greek revolution, where beauty and the perfection of the human figure set a benchmark for all Western art to come, and profoundly influenced the flowering of human sculpture in Rome. Finally, it moves to China to examine the vast army of Terracotta Warriors commissioned by the first emperor, and ends with the unexpected figure of Monk Wuxia, a mummified Buddhist monk created from the body of the monk himself.
About the Author Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Parthenon, Confronting the Classics and SPQR and Women and Power. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.
Find her on Twitter @wmarybeard
Price: $34.99 ISBN: 9781781259993 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x146mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Classical history / classical civilisation Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress David Olusoga
Companion to the BBC series CIVILISATIONS.
Description What happened to art in the great Age of Discovery when civilisations encountered each other for the first time?
In the Americas, the Spanish were so baffled by Aztec art that they melted the gold treasures they looted, repurposing it to make their own glorious art. David Olusoga explores the reactions of Europeans in Africa amidst the Ife and Kongo, and show Albert Eckhout's incredible studies of Brazilians as encountered by the Dutch. Olusoga explains how the Japanese remained steadfast to their own artistic identity in the face of their own increasing influence from the Dutch, and show how on the other hand India was changed forever by the arrival of the East India Company.
About the Author David Olusoga is an Anglo-Nigerian historian and producer. Working across radio and television, his programmes have explored the themes of colonialism, slavery and scientific racism. He has travelled extensively in Africa, and has been drawn to Namibia and its troubled history for several years. He has written three books: The Kaiser's Holocaust, The World's War and Black and British: A Forgotten History. He currently works as a producer for the BBC.
Find him on Twitter @David Olusoga http://www.davidolusoga.com/
Price: $34.99 ISBN: 9781781259979 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 220x146mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Classical history / classical civilisation Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages Jack Hartnell
A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours.
Description Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more contested than the body in the medieval world.
In Medieval Bodies, art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which the people of the Middle Ages thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves. In paintings and reliquaries that celebrated the - sometimes bizarre - martyrdoms of saints, the sacred dimension of the physical left its mark on their environment. In literature and politics, hearts and heads became powerful metaphors that shaped governance and society in ways that are still visible today. And doctors and natural philosophers were at the centre of a collision between centuries of sophisticated medical knowledge, and an ignorance of physiology as profound as its results were gruesome.
Like a medieval pageant, this striking and unusual history brings together medicine, art, poetry, music, politics, cultural and social history and philosophy to reveal what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages.
Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.
About the Author Jack Hartnell is Lecturer in Art History at University of East Anglia. He has previously held positions at Columbia University, the Courtauld Institute, the Max-Planck-Institut and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781781256794 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 History Repeating: Why Populists Rise and Governments Fall Sam Wilkin
The laws of political turmoil laid bare in five astonishing stories.
Description Political risk analyst Sam Wilkin was taken aback when he noticed that key indicators of trouble had started showing up in his own back yard. Could it really be true that Peru, the Philippines and Thailand were less risky than places like France? Bear in mind, Thailand's last military coup was about three years ago... Reader: it was true.
Now that political instability has come home, it's a good moment to ask: what causes it? How can you tell when your country is headed for turbulence? And what does the best social science say we can do about it?
A colourful romp through the history of recent revolutionary moments becomes a profound enquiry into the machinery of social unrest. Why are farming nations so unstable? Is there really a 'resource curse' on mineral-rich nations? Do tall rulers last longer? Just how good was the Czar's wine cellar? Wilkin answers all these questions and more in pursuit of the holy grail of political science: how to make things better without first making them much, much worse.
About the Author Sam Wilkin is a senior advisor to Oxford Analytica, a geopolitical analysis firm that counts more than 25 world governments among its clients. He is also a senior advisor to Oxford Economics, one of the world's foremost global forecasting consultancies. His previous book is Wealth Secrets of the One Percent.
Find him on Twitter @samwilkin www.samwilkin.com
Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9781781259689 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Comparative politics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's most vital frontlines Tony Juniper
Rainforests are key to the health of our world - they maintain the water and air cycles, store carbon, and have yielded countless numbers of medical drugs. We have already destroyed half their area. We need urgently to save the half that's left. This book explains why - and how.
Description Rainforests are the lungs of our planet - regulators of the earth's temperature and weather. They are also home to 50 per cent of the world's animals and plants - which for centuries have been the source of many of our key medicines. And yet we've all heard of their systematic destruction; the raising of trees to make way for plantations of oil palms or cattle, the disenfranchisement of indigenous peoples, and the corruption that leads to illegal logging and pollution.
But this is the full story you've never heard: an in depth, wide-ranging, first-hand narrative that not only looks at the state of the world's tropical rainforests today and the implications arising from their continuing decline, but also at what is being done, and can be done in future, to protect the forests and the 1.6 billion people that depend upon them. It is inspirational, too, in its descriptions of the rainforest's remarkable birds and plants ... and its indigenous people.
Rainforest is a personal story, drawing on the author's many years' experience at the frontline of the fight to save the rainforests, explaining the science and history of the campaigns, and what it has felt like to be there, amid the conflicts and dilemmas.
About the Author Dr. Tony Juniper is Britain's best known environmental campaigner. He has published several successful and award- winning books including the Sunday Times bestseller What Has Nature ever done for us? and Saving Planet Earth. He has worked on efforts to conserve tropical forests for more than thirty years, including with BirdLife International, Friends of the Earth (where he served as director) and as an Advisor to The Prince's Rainforests Project.
Find him on Twitter @TonyJuniper | www.tonyjuniper.com
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781781256367 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue Ryan Holiday
A unique account from behind the scenes of the case that rocked the media world - and the billionaire mastermind behind it.
Description In 2016, one of the giants of modern journalism fell: Gawker Media, infamous for saying what other outlets wouldn't say, was sued for publishing Hulk Hogan's sex tape, lost the case and went bust. After countless other lawsuits it seemed that Gawker had finally run out of luck. But luck had nothing to do with it.
Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and billionaire investor, had masterminded the whole thing. Still furious at an article that had outed him ten years previously, and increasingly disgusted at Gawker's unscrupulous reporting methods, Thiel had spent nearly a decade meticulously plotting a conspiracy that would lead to the demise of Gawker and its founder, Nick Denton. After a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, the settlement of $140million in favour of Hogan ended it.
The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for free speech? For privacy? For culture?
In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by exclusive interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious - and successful - secret plots in recent memory.
About the Author Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; and other books about marketing, culture and the human condition. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as multi-platinum musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world. He lives Price: $32.99 in Austin, Texas. ISBN: 9781788160834 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Media, information & communication industries Bic2: Press & journalism Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 The Economist Guide to Financial Management 3rd Edition John Tennent
Third edition of the classic primer on business finance
Description The world of finance can be a minefield for the unwary. Without training, very few managers are prepared for the challenges of dealing with management reports, budgets and capital proposals, and find themselves embarrassed by their lack of understanding.
This classic book, now in its third edition, supplies a step-by-step guide to the whole territory: 'how to assemble a budget', 'how to read variances on a report', 'how to construct a proposal to invest in new equipment'.
By examining the actual things that managers have to do, each chapter explores the range of principles that can be applied, illustrates practical techniques and provides general guidance.
The book will help the reader understand financial jargon, financial statements, management accounts, performance measures, budgeting, costing, pricing, decision-making and investment appraisal. New material brings this edition up to date with chapters on crowdfunding and the influence of global uncertainty on the best-laid financial plans.
About the Author John Tennent is co-author of The Economist Guide to Business Modelling and The Economist Guide to Cash Management. He is an accountant, who for the past 20 years has been involved in training and consultancy with firms such as Unilever, BOC, BAE, Kraft, Thomson Corp, BT, St Gobain and EMI.
Price: $32.99 ISBN: 9781781259146 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 416 pages Bic1: Economics Bic2: Economics Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Business MAY 2018 The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea Bill Emmott
Is it the end of the world as we know it? A former editor of the Economist explains how Western democracies must change in order to recover and thrive. Now in paperback
Description When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power. We have seen it at various times in Japan, France and Italy and now it is infecting much of Europe and America, as the vote for Brexit in the UK has vividly shown. This insularity, together with increased inequality of income and wealth, threatens the future role of the West as a font of stability, prosperity and security. Part of the problem is that the principles of liberal democracy upon which the success of the West has been built have been suborned, with special interest groups such as bankers accruing too much power and too great a share of the economic cake.
So how is this threat to be countered? States such as Sweden in the 1990s, California at different times or Britain under Thatcher all halted stagnation by clearing away the powers of interest groups and restoring their societies' ability to evolve. To survive, the West needs to be porous, open and flexible. From reinventing welfare systems to redefining the working age, from reimagining education to embracing automation, Emmott lays out the changes the West must make to revive itself in the moment and avoid a deathly rigid future.
About the Author Bill Emmott was the editor-in-chief of the Economist from 1993 to 2006, and is now a writer and consultant on international affairs. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, La Stampa and Nikkei Business. He is the author of several books, including 20:21 Vision: 20th-Century Lessons for the 21st Century (2003), Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India and Japan will Shape our Next Decade (2008) and Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future (2012).
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781781257357 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Geopolitics Bic2: Political structures: democracy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 India: Superfast, Primetime, Ultimate Nation Adam Roberts
A compelling portrait of modern India - and where it should go next.
Description Today, India stands on the threshold of global dominance. And as it faces the road ahead, attention focuses on one man: its Prime Minister, Nahrendra Modi. A controversial figure in his own country and abroad, he has garnered unprecedented political support while facing criticism for his nationalism, his record in government and his economic policies.
As it seeks to control its relationships with China and Pakistan, to revitalise its economy and improve the health and education prospects of its citizens, the key to understanding its future may lie in understanding its leader. Here, Adam Roberts, formerly South Asia bureau chief for the Economist, builds up an unflinching portrayal of the man at India's helm, the country's enormous potential - and its equally vast challenges.
Drawing on years of on-the-ground research, and interviews with everyone from wayside fortune-tellers to Modi himself, India: Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what the future holds for the world's greatest nation.
About the Author Adam Roberts is European Business and Finance correspondent for the Economist, based in Paris. Previously, he was South Asia bureau chief for the same magazine. He is the author of The Wonga Coup.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781781256466 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: Politics & government Bic2: Biography: historical, political & military Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 Beyond Infinity: An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe Eugenia Cheng
Inside the weird and wonderful world of infinity, from endless hotels to bottomless cookie-jars - now in paperback.
Description Even small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely many decimal numbers between zero and one. Are these two types of infinity the same? Are they larger or smaller than each other? Can we even talk about 'larger' and 'smaller' when we talk about infinity? In Beyond Infinity, international maths sensation Eugenia Cheng reveals the inner workings of infinity.
What happens when a new guest arrives at your infinite hotel - but you already have an infinite number of guests? How does infinity give Zeno's tortoise the edge in a paradoxical foot-race with Achilles? And can we really make an infinite number of cookies from a finite amount of cookie dough?
Wielding an armoury of inventive, intuitive metaphor, Cheng draws beginners and enthusiasts alike into the heart of this mysterious, powerful concept to reveal fundamental truths about mathematics, all the way from the infinitely large down to the infinitely small.
About the Author Eugenia Cheng is Honorary Fellow in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield and Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was educated at the University of Cambridge and did post-doctoral work at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice. Since 2007 her YouTube lectures and videos have been viewed over a million times. A concert pianist, she also speaks French, English and Cantonese, and her mission in life is to rid the world of maths phobia. She is the author of How to Bake Pi.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781781252864 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Mathematics Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 Imperial Triumph: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine Michael Kulikowski
Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life in an action-packed narrative.
Description Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite this volatility, the Romans were able to see off successive attacks by Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths and to extend and entrench their position as masters of Europe and the Mediterranean. This books shows how they managed to do it.
Professor Michael Kulikowski describes the empire's cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome's Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, and the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth century under Constantine and his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes turned - and the beginning of the parting of ways between the eastern and western empires.
About the Author Michael Kulikowski is Professor of History and Classics at Penn State University, where his research and writing ranges widely across ancient and early medieval history. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His books include Rome's Gothic Wars, described by Bryn Mawr Classical Review as 'exceptional' and by Military History Review as 'breezy and animated, yet authoritative'.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781846683718 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 386 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End Elizabeth Drayson
A thrilling account of the life of Spain's last Moorish king and the ending of seven centuries of Spanish Islam.
Description In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end. It is an action-packed story of intrigue, treachery, cruelty, cunning, courtliness, bravery and tragedy.
Basing her vivid account on original documents and sources, Elizabeth Drayson traces the origins and development of Islamic Spain. She describes the thirteenth-century founding of the Nasrid dynasty, the cultured and stable society it created, and the feuding which threatened it and had all but destroyed it by 1482, when Boabdil seized the throne. The new Sultan faced betrayals by his family, factions in the Alhambra palace, and ever more powerful onslaughts from the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, monarchs of the newly united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.
By stratagem, diplomacy, courage and strength of will Boabdil prolonged his reign for ten years, but he never had much chance of survival. In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella, magnificently attired in Moorish costume, entered Granada and took possession of the city. Boabdil went into exile. The Christian reconquest of Spain, that has reverberated so powerfully down the centuries, was complete.
About the Author Elizabeth Drayson teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge. She is Lorna Close Fellow in Spanish at Murray Edwards College and lecturer in Spanish at Peterhouse. Her books include The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava (2007) and The Lead Books of Granada (2013).
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781781256879 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: History Bic2: European history Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles Robert Knapp
Robert Knapp finds a new answer to the old question: why did Christianity take root and spread in the ancient Roman world?
Description Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world became susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 BC to the end of the first century.
Survival, honour and wellbeing were the chief preoccupations of Jews and polytheists alike. In both cases, the author shows, people turned first to supernatural powers. According to need, season and place polytheists consulted and placated vast constellations of gods, while the Jews worshipped and contended with one almighty and jealous deity.
Professor Knapp considers why any Jew or polytheist would voluntarily dispense with a well-tried way of dealing with the supernatural and trade it in for a new model. What was it about the new religion that led people to change beliefs they had held for millennia and which in turn, within four centuries of the birth of its messiah, led it to transform the western world? His conclusions are as convincing as they are sometimes surprising.
About the Author Robert Knapp taught ancient history for over thirty years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has published extensively on the world of the Roman Empire, including Invisible Romans (Profile 2011).
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781781252086 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Ancient history: to c 500 CE Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade MAY 2018 As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 Valerie Wilmer
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by the renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams.
Description In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture. Placing the achievements of African-American artists such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sun Ra in their broader political and social context, Wilmer evokes an era of extraordinary innovation and experimentation that continues to inspire musicians today.
As vital now as when it was first published in 1977, As Serious As Your Life is the essential story of one of the most dynamic musical movements of the twentieth century.
About the Author Val Wilmer is an internationally acclaimed photographer, journalist, author and black music historian who has been documenting African-American music since 1959. In that time she has interviewed and photographed almost every significant figure in post-war jazz, blues and R&B, from Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk to Sun Ra and Albert Ayler via Muddy Waters and Aretha Franklin.
As a photographer, her work features in the permanent collections of the British Library, the V&A Museum and the National Portrait Gallery; as a writer and historian, she has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography and the New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz. She lives in London.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781788160711 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Blues Bic2: Jazz Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Serpents Tail MAY 2018 Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree Jillian Scudder
A quirky layperson's guide to how things work in the Universe and why things are the way they are, from shooting stars on Earth, to black holes, to entire galaxies.
Description In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in our solar system formed within the same gas cloud. Without our grandparent the Sun, we would not exist, and the Sun in turn relies on the Milky Way as its home. The Milky Way rests in a larger web of galaxies that traces its origins right back to tiny fluctuations in the very early Universe.
Following these cosmic connections, we discover the many ties that bind us to our Universe. Based around readers' questions from the author's popular blog 'Astroquizzical', the book provides a quirky layperson's guide to how things work in the Universe and why things are the way they are, from shooting stars on Earth, to black holes, to entire galaxies.
For anyone interested in the 'big picture' of how the cosmos functions and how it is all connected, Jillian Scudder is the perfect guide.
About the Author Jillian Scudder is an astrophysicist and assistant professor at Oberlin College, Ohio. She has been writing 'Astroquizzical', a blog answering space-related questions from the public, for over four years. Her writing has also been published in Forbes, Quartz, Medium, and The Conversation. This is her first book.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9781785783340 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Science: general issues Bic2: Popular science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MAY 2018 The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore Peter Laws
A celebratory exploration of what our morbid tendencies can teach us about humanity, society and spirituality from the 'Sinister Minister'.
Description The Frighteners follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre, to understand why so many people love things that are spooky, morbid and downright repellent. He meets vampires, hunts werewolves in Hull, talks to a man who has slept on a mortuary slab to help him deal with a diagnosis, and is chased by a chainsaw- wielding maniac through a farmhouse full of hanging bodies.
Staring into the darkness of a Transylvanian night, he asks: What is it that makes millions of people seek to be disgusted and freaked out? And, in a world that worships rationality and points an accusing finger at violent video games and gruesome films, can an interest in horror culture actually give us safe ways to confront our mortality? Might it even have power to re-enchant our jaded world?
Grab your crucifixes, pack the silver bullets, and join the Sinister Minister on his romp into our morbid curiosities.
About the Author Peter Laws is the author of crime fiction novels Purged and Unleashed (Allison & Busby, 2017) and is an ordained Baptist Minister. He writes a monthly horror movie column for the Fortean Times and hosts the popular podcast/YouTube show The Flicks That Church Forgot, exploring the deeper and sometimes spiritual themes of morbid culture. He is a regular public speaker and lives in Bedfordshire with his wife and two young children.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781785782206 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Psychology Bic2: Religion & beliefs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MAY 2018 The 50 Greatest National Parks of the World Aaron Millar
Exploring the history, science and secrets of the greatest national parks around the world.
Description Olympus, the Grand Canyon, Uluru and the Serengeti: national parks are home to the wonders of our natural world.
Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar explores the greatest national parks of the world, giving insider tips on how best to discover their secrets.
From the home of the highest waterfall in the world in Canaima, Venezuela to the beautiful fjords of Hardangervidda, Norway, to searching for the giant panda in Jiuzhaigou, China and exploring the culture in Cinque Terre, Italy, this guide tells of the history, legends and cultures of each great national park, and tells you how to see them at their awe-inspiring best.
About the Author Aaron Millar is an award-winning travel writer. He contributes regularly to The Times, the Guardian, National Geographic Traveller and many other national and international publications. He has presented travel documentaries for National Geographic and is the 2014 British Guild of Travel Writers Travel Writer of the Year.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785783395 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Travel writing Bic2: Zoos & wildlife parks Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MAY 2018 The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and Risk Adam Plowright
An illuminating portrait of France's youngest ever President and what his victory means for Europe and the world.
Description 'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening Standard
THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISH
From total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader since Napoleon is intent on conquering the world stage.
But what lies beneath the facade of this youthful, ultra-confident and calculating president? How did someone from small- town France assemble -- in just 12 months -- the network, team and finances to win the presidency? Now elected, can he make the French feel better about themselves? Can he rally Europe around him and turn the tide of right-wing nationalism sweeping the continent? Critically, what will his presidency mean for Britain?
Featuring never-before printed interviews with key members of Macron's team, his friends, mentors and political detractors, acclaimed Paris-based journalist Adam Plowright asks: can the shine on this brilliant new president last?
And for how long?
About the Author Adam Plowright is a former deputy editor-in-chief at Agence France Presse. Based in Paris, he has been a journalist for fifteen years.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785783623 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 300 pages Bic1: Biography: historical, political & military Bic2: Politics & government Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MAY 2018 Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History Adrian Mourby
Visit the historic places where great works of literature were written.
Description Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Miserables in an attic in Guernsey and Noel Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion.
Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination - from the Brontes' Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood's Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh cafe where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter's first adventures - Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature.
Rooms of One's Own takes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, New York and Bangkok and unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works of literature.
About the Author Adrian Mourby was an award-winning BBC drama producer before turning to full-time writing. He has published three novels, two AA travel guides and a book of humour based on his Sony Award-winning Radio 4 series Whatever Happened To...? In recent years Adrian has won two Italian awards for his travel journalism. He also writes extensively on opera and has produced operas by Mozart, Handel and Purcell, both in the UK and in Europe.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785783388 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides Bic2: Literature: history & criticism Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MAY 2018 The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon Cherry Lewis
The first-ever biography of the man behind the disease - and a pioneer of medical science.
Description Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after.
In 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease so precisely that we still diagnose it today by recognising the symptoms he identified. The story of this remarkable man's contributions to the Age of the Enlightenment is told through his three passions - medicine, politics and fossils.
As a political radical Parkinson was interrogated over a plot to kill King George III and revealed as the author of anti- government pamphlets, a crime for which many were transported to Australia; while helping Edward Jenner set up smallpox vaccination stations across London, he wrote the first scientific study of fossils in English, which led to fossil- hunting becoming the nation's latest craze - just a glimpse of his many achievements.
Cherry Lewis restores this neglected pioneer to his rightful place in history, while creating a vivid and pungent portrait of life as an 'apothecary surgeon' in Georgian London.
About the Author Cherry Lewis is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. A geologist by training, she worked in the oil industry as well as in the press office of the University of Bristol before turning her interests to the history of geology. She is the author of The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785783364 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Biography: science, technology & medicine Bic2: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: MAY 2018 Richard Feynman: A Life in Science John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
A new edition of the acclaimed biography of the Nobel prize-winner published for the 100th anniversary of Feynman's birth.
Description One hundred years on from his birth, and 30 since his death, Richard Feynman's discoveries in modern physics are still thoroughly relevant. Magnificently charismatic and fun-loving, he brought a sense of adventure to the study of science.
His extraordinary career included war-time work on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, a profoundly original theory of quantum mechanics, for which he won the Nobel prize, and major contributions to the sciences of gravity, nuclear physics and particle theory.
Interweaving personal anecdotes and recollections with clear scientific narrative, acclaimed science writers John and Mary Gribbin reveal a fascinating man with an immense passion for life - a superb teacher, a wonderful showman and one of the greatest scientists of his generation.
About the Author John Gribbin's numerous bestselling books include In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, 13.8, Science: A History and The Universe: A Biography. He is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was described as 'one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around' by the Spectator.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781785783722 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Popular science Bic2: Biography: science, technology & medicine Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MAY 2018 Introducing Mind and Brain: A Graphic Guide Angus Gellatly, Oscar Zarate
Explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision. This book traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging.
Description How do emotions affect your basic decision making? Why do certain smells prompt long-forgotten memories, and what makes us suddenly self-conscious?
How does the biological organ, the brain, give rise to all of the thoughts in your head - enable you to think, to feel, to be conscious and aware - to have 'a mind'?
Introducing Mind and Brain explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision. It traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging.
Clearly explained by Professor of Psychology Angus Gellatly and award-winning artist Oscar Zarate, they invite you to take a fresh look at the nature of mind, consciousness and personal identity.
About the Author Angus Gellatly was Professor of Psychology and Head of Department at Keele University and is now at the Open University. He used to write fiction in the days when he had the time.
Oscar Zarate is a highly acclaimed graphic artist who has illustrated many Introducing titles. His prize-winning graphic novel A Small Killing is known throughout the world.
Price: $12.99 ISBN: 9781785783135 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 168x118mm Extent: 176 pages Bic1: Popular psychology Bic2: Popular science Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Icon MAY 2018 The Last Hour Harry Sidebottom
An assassination in ancient Rome, and 24 hours to expose the conspirators and save the Emperor. Gladiator meets Jason Bourne in this thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, for readers of Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow and Robert Fabbri.
Description A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the sun is setting over the centre of the known world. Far below, the river is in full flood. The City of Rome lies spread out before him on the far bank. Footsteps pound up the stairs. He's been set up. An enemy is closing in; he is cornered. He jumps.
Bruised and battered, he crawls out of the raging river. He is alone and unarmed, without money or friends, trapped in a deadly conspiracy at the heart of the Empire. The City Watch has orders to take him alive; other, more sinister, forces want him dead. As the day dies, he realises he has only 24 hours to expose the conspirators, and save the leader of the world. If the Emperor dies, chaos and violence will ensue. If the Emperor dies, every single person he loves will die.
He must run, bluff, hide and fight his way across the Seven Hills. He must reach the Colosseum, and the Emperor. He must make it to The Last Hour.
About the Author Harry Sidebottom was brought up in racing stables in Newmarket where his father was a trainer. He took his Doctorate in Ancient History at Oxford and has taught at various universities including Oxford, where he lectures in Ancient History. His first book Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction was published in 2004 to critical acclaim and he has published numerous chapters in books, and articles and reviews in scholarly journals. His foray into fiction began with Fire in the East, the first of his six-novel 'Warrior of Rome' series, which has sold over half a million copies worldwide. His next series, Throne of the Caesars, was equally acclaimed. The Last Hour, his tenth novel, introduces us once again to Marcus Clodius Ballista, hero of the 'Warrior of Rome' books.
Price: $39.99 www.harrysidebottom.co.uk ISBN: 9781785764219 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Bic1: Sagas Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Zaffre MAY 2018 The Madonna of The Mountains Elise Valmorbida
Gone With the Wind in WWII Italy - A tale of love and survival set in the Veneto region, where Maria Vittorio must keep her family together against all the odds.
Description 1923 Maria Vittoria is embroidering a sheet for her dowry trunk.
Her father has gone to find her a husband. He's taken his mule, a photograph and a pack of food: home-made sopressa sausage, cold polenta, a little flask of wine-no need to take water-the world is full of water.
There are no eligible men in this valley or the next one, and her father will not let her marry just anyone, and now, despite Maria's years, she is still healthy. Her betrothed will see all that. He'll be looking for a woman who can do the work.
Maria can do the work. Everyone in the contra says that.
And the Lord knows Maria will need to be able to work. Fascism blooms as crops ripen, the state craves babies just as the babies cry for food. Maria faces a stoney path, but one she will surely climb to the summit.
In this sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli co l'arna, touch the mulberry leaves cut finer than organdie, and feel the strain of one woman attempting to keep her family safe in the most dangerous of times.
About the Author Elise Valmorbida grew up Italian in Australia, but fell in love with London. She's a designer, writer and teacher of creative writing. In recent years, she produced a feature film. Her fiction includes Matilde Waltzing, The TV President and The Winding Stick. Her non-fiction includes SAXON - The Making of a Guerrilla Film, and The Book of Happy Endings, now published in four languages and four continents.
Price: $49.99 ISBN: 9780571336326 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: IsLINGTON, LONDON
Faber Fiction MAY 2018 Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa David Peace
Extraordinary, standalone novel from the legendary David Peace, about one of Japan's greatest ever writers.
Description Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927.
These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen -
Inspired and informed by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act and obsession of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own.
About the Author David Peace - named in 2003 as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists - was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty, and Nineteen Eighty Three), GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Damned Utd, and Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. The final part of his Tokyo Trilogy - to follow Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City - will publish in Summer 2019. Patient X is his tenth novel. He lives in Tokyo.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9780571336241 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Fiction MAY 2018 The Contract: A John Q Thriller JM Gulvin
In New Orleans, Texas Ranger John Q is out of his jurisdiction, and possibly out of his depth ...
Description In New Orleans, Texas Ranger John Q is out of his jurisdiction, and possibly out of his depth. After a series of murders it seems that every time he asks questions there's trouble. But who could be trying to set him up, and why, and who can he turn to in a city where loyalties and family ties rule?
Infused with the rhythms of its iconic setting, The Contract is a thriller which keeps you gripped and guessing all the way to its endgame.
About the Author Born in the UK, JM Gulvin divides his time between Wales and the western United States. He is the author of many previous novels, as well as Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's bestselling travel book Long Way Down. He is married and has two daughters.
Price: $19.99 ISBN: 9780571323821 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Crime & mystery Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 The Green Hollow Owen Sheers
The extraordinary memorial to the 1966 Aberfan disaster for its 50th anniversary - the collective story as it has never been told.
Description In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and uses their collective memories to create a striking work of poetic power.
This is a portrait not just of what happened, but also of what was lost. What was Aberfan like in 1966? What were the interests of the people, the social life, the sporting obsessions, the bands of the day? What was the deeper history of the place? Why had it become the mining village it was, and what had it been before the discovery of coal under its soil? Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberfan like today?
The Green Hollow is a historical story with a deeply urgent contemporary resonance; a story of what can happen when a community is run by a corporation. It is also a story known along generational rather than geographic borders. Based on the BBC One production, The Green Hollow is a beautifully rendered picture of a time and place - and a life-altering event whose effects are irrevocable.
About the Author Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into ten languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean non-fiction narrative, won the Welsh Book of the Year. His awards for poetry and drama include the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill, The Hay Festival Poetry Medal and the Welsh Book of the Year for Pink Mist and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for his play The Two Worlds of Charlie F. He is Professor in Creativity at Swansea University and lives in Wales with his wife and children. His second novel, I Saw A Man, was published by Faber & Faber in June 2015.
Price: $29.99 ISBN: 9780571339075 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 112 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Plays MAY 2018 The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre Don Paterson
Illuminating and authoritative treatise on 'how a poem works', from the multi-award-winning poet, editor and professor of poetry.
Description Don Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. The Poem is a treatise on the art of poetry in three sections - one on lyric, the music of poetic speech; one on sign, and how poetry makes its unique kind of sense; and one on metre, the rhythm of the poetic line.
About the Author Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. His previous poetry collections include Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women, Landing Light, Rain and 40 Sonnets. He has also published two books of aphorisms, as well as translations of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, all three Forward Prizes, and the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the English Association and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and teaches at the University of St Andrews, where he is Professor of Poetry. Since 1997 he has been Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan. For many years he has also worked as a jazz musician and composer. He lives in Edinburgh.
Price: $44.99 ISBN: 9780571206629 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 752 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Poetry Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry MAY 2018 Soho Richard Scott
Debut collection presenting an uncompromising portrait of love and shame within London's Soho community.
Description In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and shame, drawing upon his experience of London's gay communities. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness, too, as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry of Verlaine.
The collection crescendos to Scott's tour de force, 'Oh My Soho!', where a night stroll under the street lamps of Soho Square becomes a search for true lineage, a reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing, and, above all, the finding of our truest selves.
About the Author Richard Scott grew up in London and studied at the Royal College of Music and at Goldsmiths College. He has been a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Jerwood/Arvon Poetry mentee, a member of the Aldeburgh 8 and an Open Spaces artist resident at Snape Maltings in Suffolk. His pamphlet Wound (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem 'crocodile' won the 2017 Poetry London Competition. Soho is his first book.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9780571338917 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Poetry by individual poets Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry MAY 2018 To Throw Away Unopened Viv Albertine
Brave, intimate, and deeply confessional, this is the long-awaited follow-up to Viv Albertine's sensational bestselling memoir.
Description At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, the musician Viv Albertine received news that her mother was dying, and spent a few final hours with the woman who was, in a sense, the love of her life. In the turbulent weeks after the funeral, Viv made a series of discoveries that revealed the role of family conflicts in propelling her towards the uncompromising world of punk.
Part radical reinvention of the memoir form; part feminist manifesto; part domestic noir; part polemic on motherhood; To Throw Away Unopened is an indefinable book exploring the nature of intimacy. Unapologetically honest, this is a story of human dysfunctionality which miraculously reveals how we do manage to function, live, and love.
About the Author Born in Sydney, songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in cult female punk band The Slits. She was a key player in British counter-culture before her career in TV and film Directing. Her first solo album The Vermilion Border was released in 2012, and her memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys was a Sunday Times, Mojo, Rough Trade, and NME Book of the Year in 2014, as well as being shortlisted for the National Book Awards.
Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9780571326211 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Memoirs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Social MAY 2018 Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay George Ewart Evans
A beautiful new edition of a classic book about English rural life.
Description Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanisation changed the entire nature of farming, the landscape and rural life for good. In the 1950s, George Ewart Evans sought out those who could recall the nineteenth-century customs, crafts, dialects, tools, smugglers' tales and rural beliefs which had endured from the time of Chaucer, and created this fascinating picture of a now vanished world.
About the Author Born in the mining town of Abercyon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-1988) was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. With the assistance of a tape recorder he collected oral evidence of the dialect, rural customs, traditions and folklore throughout East Anglia, and this work, reinforced by documental research, provided the background for his renowned East Anglian books.
Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9780571340545 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback MAY 2018 Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control Barbara Ehrenreich
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
Description A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life - from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture.
But Natural Causes goes deeper -- into the fundamental unreliability of our bodies and even our 'mind-bodies', to use the fashionable term. Starting with the mysterious and seldom-acknowledged tendency of our own immune cells to promote deadly cancers, Ehrenreich looks into the cellular basis of aging, and shows how little control we actually have over it. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. But the latest science shows that the microscopic sub-units of our bodies make their own 'decisions', and not always in our favour.
We may buy expensive anti-aging products or cosmetic surgery, get preventive screenings and eat more kale, or throw ourselves into meditation and spirituality. But all these things offer only the illusion of control. How to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality - that is the vitally important philosophical challenge of this book.
Drawing on varied sources, from personal experience and sociological trends to pop culture and current scientific literature, Natural Causes examines the ways in which we obsess over death, our bodies, and our health. Both funny and caustic, Ehrenreich then tackles the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end - while still revelling in the lives that remain to us.
About the Author Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling Smile or Die and Nickel and Dimed. She writes regularly for Time, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and various British newspapers including The Times and the Price: $39.99 ISBN: 9781783782413 Guardian. She lives in Virginia, USA. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Cultural studies Bic2: Medicine: general issues Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 The Cow Book: A Story of Life on a Family Farm John Connell
The intimate account of a year on an Irish farm - and a keyhole history of man's relationship with the cow.
Description Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the ways of the farmer and the way of the cows.
Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the outhouses, milking the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. But alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when depression takes hold, when an argument erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid.
The Cow Book is the story of a calving season. It is also the story of the cow itself, from its domestication and worship as a God by the Ancient Egyptians to the modern practice of mechanised herds, via the figure of the cowboy, the destruction of the American buffalo, the demise of the aboriginal jackaroos and the consequences of BSE. And, above all, it is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, of his relationship with his birthplace of County Longford, with the community around the family farm, with the animals he tends, and with his father.
About the Author John Connell's work has been published in Granta's New Irish Writing issue. He lives on his family farm, Birchview, in County Longford.
Price: $34.99 ISBN: 9781783784165 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x138mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Natural history Bic2: History Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Granta MAY 2018 Under the Lights and In the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer Gwendolyn Oxenham
Stories of the highs and lows of top-level women's football.
Description In 2004 football author, journalist and award-winning documentary maker Gwendolyn Oxenham played futebol feminino for Santos FC, Brazil. The team hitchhiked to practice, shared their field with a horse and wore hand-me-downs from the men's team.
If this was Brazil, the mecca of futebol, what did the women's game look like in other countries?
Under the Lights and in the Dark takes us inside the world of women's football, following players across the globe, from Portland Thorns star Allie Long, who trains in an underground men's league in New York City; to Fara Williams, who hid her homelessness from her teammates while playing for the English national team. Oxenham takes us to Voronezh, Russia, where players battle more than just snowy pitches in pursuing their dream of playing pro, and to a refugee camp in Denmark, where Nadia Nadim, now a Danish international star, honed her skills after her family fled from the Taliban.
Whether you're a newcomer to the sport or a die-hard fan, this is an inspiring book about stars' beginnings and adventures, struggles and hardship, and, above all, the time-honoured romance of the game.
About the Author Gwendolyn Oxenham is the author of Finding the Game: Three Years, Twenty-five Countries and the Search for Pickup Soccer (St Martin's Press) and the director of Pelada, an award-winning documentary. She has written for The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and Slate, and has an MFA in creative writing. A Duke University soccer alum who played for Santos FC in Brazil, she currently lives in Dana Point, California.
Price: $24.99 ISBN: 9781785783197 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Football (Soccer, Association football) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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