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Debut Novel from World Famous Ballet Dancer, Carlos Acosta, Makes the Waterstones Eleven **Under strict embargo until 20.00 GMT, Monday 14th January 2013** DEBUT NOVEL FROM WORLD FAMOUS BALLET DANCER, CARLOS ACOSTA, MAKES THE WATERSTONES ELEVEN The debut literary stars of 2013 predicted in the third annual Waterstones Eleven Pig’s Foot, the debut novel from award-winning dancer and Principal Guest Artist for the Royal Ballet, Carlos Acosta, has been selected as one of this year’s Waterstones Eleven. He is joined on the list of debuts tipped for critical and commercial success by French opera director Michel Rostain, whose novel – a fictionalised account of his grief following the death of his son - won the Prix Goncourt for Debut Fiction in 2011. Announced this evening (Monday 14th January) at a reception at Waterstones’ flagship store in London’s Piccadilly, the Waterstones Eleven is seen as an indicator of potential bestsellers and literary prize contenders for the year ahead. The 2013 team includes: 27-year-old PhD student Hannah Kent, who found herself at the heart of a six-way global publishing bidding war for her novel, Burial Rites; D.W. Wilson, the recipient of the University of East Anglia’s inaugural Man Booker Prize Scholarship and winner of the BBC Short Story Award in 2011; award-winning journalist Sathnam Sanghera, whose novel takes inspiration from Arnold Bennett’s classic The Old Wives’ Tale and tells the story of three generations of a family through the prism of a Wolverhampton corner shop; and Taiye Selasi, a graduate of both Yale and Oxford, whose path to becoming a writer was encouraged by Toni Morrison. Waterstones Managing Director James Daunt said: ‘It is in bookshops - the bricks and mortar kind - that new writers are most easily discovered and championed. The Waterstones Eleven puts new writing at the forefront of the literary calendar and it has quickly become a celebration our readers trust. I look forward to reading, discussing and arguing about these books in the months to come and to following the brilliant writing careers our authors are destined to enjoy.’ Now in its third year, the Waterstones Eleven will build on the huge success of the past two years, which saw the leading bookseller champion a range of debut titles that went on to dominate bestseller lists and to be longlisted, shortlisted and even win some of the most highly regarded literary prizes in the world. Notable titles from previous lists include: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, the bestselling debut novel of 2012, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen, which won The Desmond Elliott Prize in 2012; The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011; and When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman, one of the top ten bestselling books of 2011. With authors hailing from six countries around the globe, the eleven books will receive the full and committed backing of Waterstones branches and booksellers across the UK, as well as support online and through their loyalty card programme, The Waterstones Card, which reaches 1.5 million readers. The list in full (in alphabetical order by author): Pig’s Foot by Carlos Acosta (Bloomsbury, 30th October) Idiopathy by Sam Byers (Fourth Estate, 25th April) Y by Marjorie Celona (Faber and Faber, 17th January) The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence (Hodder & Stoughton, 31st January) Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Picador, 29th August) The Fields by Kevin Maher (Little, Brown, 7th March) The Son by Michel Rostain (Tinder Press, 23rd May) The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland, 27th June) Marriage Material by Sathnam Sanghera (William Heinemann, 26th September) Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (Viking, 4th April) Ballistics by D.W. Wilson (Bloomsbury, 1st August) 1 All authors are available for interview. For further information, interview and image requests please contact Maura Brickell, Liz Hyder or Anwen Hooson at Riot Communications on 020 3174 0118 or Maura: [email protected] / 07557 373026 Liz: [email protected] / 07939 372865 Anwen: [email protected] / 07899 798885 NOTES TO EDITORS 1. The Waterstones Eleven was open to debut literary fiction, first published in the UK in English in 2013. 2. The Waterstones business is the UK’s leading high street bookseller, operating through 288 shops across the UK and Ireland, employing over 4,000 people. Waterstones is the only national specialist book retailer of scale in the UK, with the average sized shop merchandising a range of around 30,000 individual books, with 200,000 titles in the largest shop. Waterstones was acquired by A&NN Group, an investment subsidiary of the family trust associated with international investor and businessman, Alexander Mamut, from HMV Group PLC on 29th June 2011. 3. Waterstones.com lists over 2 million books and offers free delivery to any UK address or Waterstones shop. The Waterstones Eleven in detail: Pig’s Foot by Carlos Acosta From Pata de Puerco (Pig’s Foot), a small hamlet of wooden shacks and red earth deep in the Cuban hinterland, comes a tale of revolution, family secrets, identity and love across three generations. As he sets out to find the lost village of his ancestors and the meaning of the magical pig’s foot amulet he has inherited, Oscar Kortico’s search for his country’s hidden history becomes entangled with his search for the truth about himself. Through the retelling of family stories, we glimpse Cuba’s tumultuous history, from the arrival of slaves, through the war of independence, to dictatorship and a kind of freedom. ‘A vast, ambitious book with startling language and a beautifully woven story’ - Michael Scott, Waterstones Swindon About the author: Carlos Acosta was born in Havana in 1973 and trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba. He has been a principal at the English National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Ballet, and has danced as a guest artist all over the world, winning numerous international awards. He is also the author of the autobiography No Way Home. Carlos lives in London. Idiopathy by Sam Byers Katherine has given up trying to be happy. 30 years old, stuck in a town and a job she hates, her mounting cynicism and vicious wit repel the people she wants to attract, and attract the people she knows she should repel. When Katherine and Daniel, her ex, find that their former friend Nathan has returned from a stint in a psychiatric ward, they decide to meet to heal old wounds and reaffirm their friendship. But will a reunion end well? Idiopathy skewers the tangled relationships and unhinged narcissism of a self-obsessed generation. ‘A savagely funny and bracingly true novel about the messes people make of their lives, and of each other’ - Mark Richards, Commissioning Editor, Fourth Estate About the author Sam Byers was born in 1979. He is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He has published fiction in Granta, Tank, and Blank Pages and regularly reviews books for the TLS. Sam lives in Norwich. Y by Marjorie Celona 2 Why would a mother abandon her baby? Can this act ever be a sign of love? And if your mother left you on a doorstep, would you be able to forgive her? Abandoned as a newborn then bounced between foster homes, Shannon eventually finds stability with Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. ‘A beautiful story of the resilience of the human spirit, with almost more heartache than it is possible to bear’ - Jon Howells, PR & Brand Communications Manager, Waterstones About the author Marjorie Celona received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Ailene Barger Barnes Prize. Her stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train and Harvard Review. Born and raised on Vancouver Island, she lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence Alex Woods knows that he hasn’t had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won’t endear him to the local bullies. And he knows that even the most improbable events can happen – he’s got the scars to prove it. What he doesn’t know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered, reclusive widower Mr Peterson, he’ll make an unlikely friend, someone who tells him that you only get one shot in life. So when, aged 17, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in uproar, he’s fairly sure he’s done the right thing… ‘A lovely, quirky novel which kept me enthralled from the first page to the last’ - Leilah Skelton, Waterstones Doncaster About the author Gavin Extence was born in 1982 and grew up in Swinehead, Lincolnshire. From the ages of five to 11, he enjoyed a brief but illustrious career as a chess player, winning numerous national championships and travelling to Moscow and St Petersburg to pit his wits against the finest young minds in Russia. He won only one game. Gavin is currently working on his second novel and when he is not writing, enjoys cooking, amateur astronomy and going to Alton Towers. He lives in Sheffield. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Set in Iceland in 1829, Burial Rites re-tells the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, who was condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men.
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