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the University of Bolton. She lives in the city of Durham. lives of Bolton. She the University broadcast on Radio 4. In 2003 she was awarded an Alumni Fellowship by by an Alumni Fellowship 2003 she was awarded on Radio 4. In broadcast , and have been , and have Magazine newspapers including Stand and anthologies, . Her short stories have appeared in short appeared stories have . Her of Brooklyn Child and Angel Love Elvis Another Another Columbus Day, is the author of the novels, She and Bo Fowler. Bradbury’s final class, along with Toby Litt, John Boyne, Richard Beard Beard Richard Boyne, John Litt, Toby final class, along with Bradbury’s Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she was in Malcolm she was in Malcolm of East Anglia, where at the University Writing a degree in Literature and Philosophy and then doing an MA in Creative and then doing an MA in Creative and Philosophy in Literature a degree studied acting before completing studied acting before Jenkins Born in Bolton in 1965, Janette abhorrent acts without being corrupted them? by abhorrent the choices we make are called into question. Is it possible to commit Is called into question. make are the choices we curiosities.Two people act against their consciences simply to get by, and people act against their consciences simply to get by, curiosities.Two morality and conflicting sympathies – richly evocative and full of morality and conflicting sympathies – richly evocative conjures a tawdry, tantalising, troubling world of unclear tantalising, troubling a tawdry, Bones conjures Little amount of wand waving will make their problems disappear. disappear. amount of wand waving will make their problems sudden death? And how will Jane argue her innocence? It seems that no argue her innocence? It will Jane sudden death? And how certificates? How will they explain their connection to Johnny Treble’s Treble’s Johnny will they explain their connection to How certificates? come knocking – how will the doctor explain the absence of his medical come knocking – how it seems that Jane’s spell of good fortune is not going to last. The police spell of good fortune is not going to last. it seems that Jane’s Johnny Treble, who calls on Swift’s help for his rich mistress’s predicament, predicament, help for his rich mistress’s on Swift’s who calls Treble, Johnny When this unlikely pair become involved with a rakish music hall star, with a rakish music hall star, When this unlikely pair become involved who wipes their brows. questions – the desperate young women not minding that it is a cripple girl questions – the desperate young Grateful to her benefactor and his wife, Jane assists him and asks no assists him to her benefactor and his wife, Jane Grateful have problems, and Mr Swift does what is required, calmly and discreetly. calmly and discreetly. does what is required, and Mr Swift problems, have in certain boarding houses across town. The young actresses who live there there who live actresses The young town. across houses in certain boarding as they hurry past the markets, stage doors and side shows to appointments as they hurry stage doors and side shows the markets, past Jane does her best to keep up with the doctor, her twisted bones throbbing, her twisted bones throbbing, does her best to keep up with the doctor, Jane girl, and Mr Swift is no ordinary doctor… girl, and Mr Swift finds lodging and work assisting a doctor. But Jane Stretch is no ordinary Stretch Jane But a doctor. assisting finds lodging and work It’s 1899. London. A young girl is abandoned by her feckless family and her feckless family girl is abandoned by A young 1899. London. It’s JANETTE JENKINS JANETTE Bones Little CHATTO & WINDUS FICTION Suddenly, aKnockontheDoor ETGAR KERET and Letters. 2010 hewasawarded theChevalier medallionofFrance’s Order ofArts won theCamerad’Or prize forbestfirstfeature atCannesin2007. In and Jellyfish, hisfirstfilmasadirector alongwithhis wife Shira Geffen, and Zoetrope. He hasalsowrittenanumberofaward-winning screenplays, published intheNew York Times have beentranslatedintotwenty-nine languages.His writinghasbeen literature andcinema.He istheauthoroffive bestsellingcollections,which Born in Tel Aviv in1967,Etgar Keret isoneoftheleadingvoices inIsraeli establishes himasoneofthegreat international writersofourtime. on theDoor isatonceKeret’s mostmature andmostplayfulwork yet, and he unfoldstoreveal acompletelydifferent maninside.Suddenly, aKnock young womanfindsazipinherboyfriend’s mouth,andwhensheopensit A pathologicalliardiscovers A onedaythatallthelieshetellscometrue. that hetellhimastory, somethingtotakehimawayfrom thereal world. A manbargesintoawriter’s houseand,holdingaguntohishead,demands familiar andfierce humanity. circumstances are oftenstrangeandsurreal, hischaractersare defined by a with absurdity, humour, longingandcompassion,thoughtheir Exuding arare combinationofdepthandaccessibility, Keret’s talesoverflow of hisprodigious talenttobearinthis,hisfifthbestsellingcollection. always unusual,theNew York Times of Israel’s writers.Hilarious, mostradicalandextraordinary wittyand Etgar andone Keret story isaningeniousandoriginalmasteroftheshort , leMonde, theGuardian, theParis Review declared hima‘genius’. Keret bringsall Englander Sondra SilverstonandNathan Translated byMiriamShlesinger, Serial rights:Chatto&Windus the Translation ofHebrewLiterature Translation rights:TheInstitutefor US rights:FSG Market: UKCWEUXCANZ ISBN: 9780701186678 Pages: 288 Size: 174x118mm Price: £12.99 Publicaton: February www.gracemccleen.com Grace McCleenlives inLondon.TheLandofDecoration isherfirstnovel. literature. heroine to contemporary belonging andisolation,beliefdoubt,itintroduces ablazingnew Decoration isaharrowing ofgoodandevil, andheartbreaking story andgorgeousprose, TheLandof With itsintenselytautstorytelling and Judith mustfacethemheadontokeepherfamilysafe. be God’s But choseninstrument. withpower comes hugeconsequences, a crisp, dazzlingwhite.Judith miracles.In canperform fact,shemightjust wool, andcellophane. The nextmorningtheground outsideherwindow is a snow stormin The LandofDecoration madeofshavingfoam,cotton terrified ofwhat Neil mightdotoheratschoolon Monday, Judith conjures town, where astrikethreatens Father thefactory works. One Sunday night, school, Neil Lewis’s bullyinghasreached afeverish, dangerous pitchand,in Judith’s troubles are mounting.At homeshedoubtsherfather’s love. At craft basket. from thingsnobodyelsewantedandscrapsshehasinheritedfrom Mother’s model of The Promised Landwhichshehasbuiltinherbedroom, made has gone:Judith consolesherselfwith The LandofDecoration, anintricate Good Thoughts. Judith’s motherwasfunandlikedtomakethings,butshe father’s nighttheyeatBitter faith:every Greens, read theBible andPonder Ten-year-old Judith McPherson isamisfit. 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Bethan and has had a play broadcast Authors) and writer and assistant producer, as a television documentary researcher, and Goldsmiths at Chichester University Writing has taught Creative with her family. in Brighton lives College, London. She From the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom – her best friend’s big Tom – her best friend’s on first lays eyes the moment Marion From – she is smitten. And when he comes blond, blue-eyed broad, brother, a newly Service qualified Marion, to be a policeman, National home from the signs that to acknowledge Unable is determined to win him. teacher, is enough that her love something is amiss, she plunges into marriage, sure for both of them... claim on his has another life, another equally overpowering Tom But is also besotted Museum, a curator at the Brighton affections. Patrick, unknown to a world previously eyes Tom’s with his policeman, and opens condemned by were status’ in an age when those of ‘minority to him. 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. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. died in Auschwitz . She Française Suite began writing Suite that Irène was here occupied territory).German It daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l’Evêque (in to the safety of the small village of Issy-l’Evêque Paris daughters from the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small with her husband and two and moved occupied France the Germans She was prevented from publishing when from was prevented . She in the Blood and Fire Française All Our Worldly Goods Worldly Our The Courilof Affair, All such as the posthumously published Suite in her lifetime or soon after, , , Le Bal Golder author of David she became a bestselling novelist, where Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France for Revolution Russian 1918 her family fled the In banker. Jewish Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Némirovsky Irène the brilliant novelist she was later to become. the brilliant novelist in human relationships, Irène Némirovsky’s first novel shows sure signs of sure shows first novel Némirovsky’s Irène in human relationships, With a biting satirical eye and a characteristic perception for the fault lines perception and a characteristic a biting satirical eye With way of loving. and the demands of making a living, between a woman’s needs and a man’s needs and a man’s a woman’s and the demands of making a living, between suspicion, in the apparently unbridgeable gap between a life of idle wealth a life of idle wealth unbridgeable gap between suspicion, in the apparently misunderstanding, as Denise is driven mad with desire and jealous mad with desire is driven misunderstanding, as Denise In the mournful Paris autumn their love flounders on mutual autumn their love mournful Paris the In the idyll has to end and Yves must return to his mundane office job. to his mundane office job. must return Yves the idyll has to end and summer nights and Yves’ intensity, Denise falls passionately in love, before before falls passionately in love, Denise intensity, Yves’ summer nights and Denise, whose rich husband is often away on business. Intoxicated by by is often away on business. Intoxicated whose rich husband Denise, holidays. He becomes infatuated by a beautiful, bored young woman, young a beautiful, bored becomes infatuated by holidays. He comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent idyllic childhood where comfortable of Hendaye, resort Atlantic money fallen on hard times, who returns for the summer to the rich, for the summer to times, who returns money fallen on hard Yves Harteloup, scarred by the war, is a disappointed young man, old is a disappointed young the war, by scarred Harteloup, Yves love, it is also a tragic satire of French society after the Great War. society after the Great of French it is also a tragic satire love, she was only twenty-three. An intense storyshe was only twenty-three. of self-destructive and blighted is Irène Némirovsky’s first novel, published when first novel, Némirovsky’s is Irène The Misunderstanding Evening Standard Evening emotional restraint.’ ‘A novelist of the very first order, perceptive to a fault and shy in her perceptive first order, of the very novelist ‘A IRÈNE NÉMIROVSKY IRÈNE Misunderstanding The CHATTO & WINDUS FICTION The Innocents FRANCESCA SEGAL a Features Writer atTatler . wrote the Debut Fictionand was,untilrecently, Column intheObserver Telegraph, FTMagazine andtheJC,amongstothers.For three years she Her work hasappeared inGranta, theGuardian, theDaily, theObserver Oxford andHarvard universities before becomingajournalistandcritic. London in1980.Brought up intheUKandAmerica,shestudiedat The daughterofanovelist andaneditor, Francesca Segal wasbornin universal dramaunfolds,withassuranceandgrace. 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Back When We Were Grownups, The Amateur Marriage, DiggingtoAmerica and otherbestsellingnovels, includingTheAccidental Tourist , Saint Maybe, novels are set.She isthePulitzer prize-winning authorof Born inMinneapolis in1941,Anne Tylerlives inBaltimore where her life maymove on,butsomethingswillforever remain thesame. emerge from hisgrief, theyare alsoareassuringly poignantreminder that as well wornandfamiliartoAaron asDorothy herself. to AsAaron starts toreappear normalmarriageareThe cracksthatstart intheirperfectly she staysforlonger, andastheytalkalsobicker... while,leavingAaron longingformore.only comesforashort But gradually life. But thenDorothy tomaterialize intheoddestplaces.At starts first,she with asuccessfullinein‘Beginner’s Guides’ stageandaspect of toevery ploughs on.He busieshimselfwithwork atthefamilyfirm,apublisher around himfussandflapbringcasserole aftercasserole, Aaron some elusive biscuits–leaves Aaron bereft andthehouseawreck. Asthose The accidentthatkilledDorothy –involving anoaktree, asunporch and first place;andothersjustwalkedstraighton by. simply ignored thefact;someseemedto have forgottenshe’d diedin the When Dorothy camebackfrom thedead,Aaron noticedthatsomepeople The Beginner’s Goodbye ANNE TYLER Agency Serial rights:HanniganSalkyGetzler Getzler Agency Translation rights:HanniganSalky US rights:RandomHouseInc Market: UKCWXC ISBN: 9780701187194 Pages: 176 Size: 216x135mm Price: £16.99 Publicaton: April Breathing Lessons

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Mountain. Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish on a Spanish Year A Sierra: and Sacred War Civil Spanish of the Shadows Andalus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain of Moorish the Secrets Unlocking Andalus: ; of Flamenco in Search include Duende: A Journey books about Spain mara novels. His acclaimed non- fiction His the setting of his Cámara novels. Valencia, has lived for several years in years for several has lived Webster Jason up in England, Brought unruly passions and divide the Spanish people today. people unruly passions and divide the Spanish delves into issues that rouse into issues that rouse delves Body occasional doped-out high, Some Other Starring the determined Cámara, with his love of flamenco and brandy, and of flamenco and brandy, the determined Cámara, with his love Starring twisting, the scene-setting vivid and the atmosphere powerfully authentic. authentic. powerfully twisting, the scene-setting vivid and the atmosphere . The plot is fast and . You Kills the Bull his widely praised debut with Or This is the second novel in Webster’s dark and witty series, following and witty series, following dark Webster’s in This is the second novel secrets, and forcing him to question his own doubts and desires. doubts him to question his own and forcing secrets, web of corruption and violence, uncovering deep animosities and hidden of corruptionweb and violence, uncovering Valencia’s seafront. As Cámara untangles these threads, he stumbles into a As Cámara untangles these threads, seafront. Valencia’s are set on demolishing El Cabanyal, the colourful fisherman’s quarter on Cabanyal, the colourful fisherman’s El set on demolishing are the beach; there are rows and threats about abortion clinics; the town hall about abortion clinics; the town and threats rows are the beach; there of his flat; the body of a well-known paella chef has been washed up on well-known of his flat; the body of a Max Cámara is feeling low. Ominous cracks have appeared in the walls in appeared cracks have Ominous is feeling low. Cámara Max most powerful drives and secrets.’ Independent and secrets.’ drives most powerful Like the best detective stories, this book becomes a scrutiny stories, this book of our Like the best detective ‘One of the most attractive figures to enter recent detective fiction... fiction... recent detective to enter figures of the most attractive ‘One JASON WEBSTER JASON Body Other Some CHATTO & WINDUS POETRY/NON-FICTION Wilkie Collins PETER ACKROYD copies, andThames:Sacred River. Hetoliterature. holdsaCBEforservices fiction bestsellers,London: The Biography, whichhassoldover halfamillion biographer, poetandhistorian. He istheauthorofacclaimednon- Peter Ackroyd isanaward-winning novelist, aswell asabroadcaster, humour andsympatheticunderstanding. lifeofagreata ravishinglyentertaining storyteller, fullofsurprises,richin last novel –Blind Love. Told withPeter Ackroyd’s thisis inimitableverve taking tooktheirtoll.Collinsdiedin1889,inthemiddleofwritinghis had three children. Bothwomenremained devoted asillness andopium- and MrsDawson’, withayounger mistress, Martha Rudd, withwhomhe with thewidowed Caroline Graves, andalsohadasecondliaison,as‘Mr But Collinshadhis own secrets: henever years married,butlived forthirty known works. sensational The Woman in White, heproduced anintriguingarrayoflesser The Moonstone detective novel –oftencalledthefirsttrue –andthe to tackletheestablishmentheadon.Aswell ashisenduringmasterpieces, facade. He wasafighter, never afraidtopointoutinjusticesandshams,or blackmail andpoisonings–thatlayhiddenbehindthecity’s respectable Collins, likeDickens, wasfascinatedby thesecrets andcrimes–thefraud, with theothergreat Londonchronicler, CharlesDickens. 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In story 2010hisshort But Grass’, andin2011‘East 1992 hefreelanced aswriter, editorandjournalist,mostlyforthe Daily Will Cohuwasbornin1964.Educated atExeter College,Oxford, from always thegreat lifeline. againsttheelementswithoutandwithin–howstruggle laughteris The Wolf Pit isadark comedyabouthow we attempttoholdtogetherand bear ofamanbutfrailasmoth,diestheloneliestdeathcanhave. at Bramble Carrto the heatofAustralian outback,where Uncle Bob, a Fromself-destruction. thehead-highsnowdrifts andsledgingadventures andtheblackdogof where idyllisriddledwithdrink,drugs, therural years agothatiscompelling,dangerous, funnyandfrightening;aplace Here isthedark underbellyofJames Herriott’s Yorkshire: aBritain offorty each other, anddisastrously, adored thesamewoman. merchant navyand‘escaped’ totheNew World –sailedtogether, fought tables, tothetwowildrovers, Uncle BobandUncle Bill, whojoinedthe family: from thelandladyofFox andHounds whodancednudeonthe sharpwit–we meettheeccentricsinandoutside with awonderfully Exquisitely written, withthetenderperspective ofachild–butflecked family. the moorsdidn’t stopthecouple’s poisoned relationship infectingthewhole grandfather’s love destructive affairwithanotherwoman. 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happily – with her husband and son in Oxfordshire. her blog IUsedToBeSomebody and this book. She now lives and works – and works lives now and this book. She her blog IUsedToBeSomebody she wrote about this in the Observer both she wrote was a sensation and prompted finally decided she’d had enough of 60-hour weeks and resigned. The piece resigned. weeks and had enough of 60-hour finally decided she’d of her son before going back to her old job, but by November 2009 she had November but by going back to her old job, of her son before of a national newspaper. In 2007, she took nine months off after the birth In of a national newspaper. ’s Political Editor, and the youngest political editor and the youngest Editor, Political she became the Observer’s before moving to a career in national political jouranlism. In 2004 In jouranlism. political national in career a to moving before Telegraph Evening on the Grimsby as a reporter started her career Hinsliff Gaby visceral pull of home, but also the lure of meaningful work. visceral pull of home, but also the lure leaders. It is essential – and optimistic – reading for anyone who feels the for anyone – and optimistic – reading is essential leaders. It who are teetering on the edge, but it is also a wake-up call to opinion who are is a must-read for guilt-torn parents of both sexes of both sexes for guilt-torn parents is a must-read Wife a Half architecture, around the world in politics, psychology, neuroscience and even and even neuroscience psychology, the world in politics, around Based on personal experience but also drawing on new thinking from Based

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