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Accompanying a palliative care team, Susana Moreira Marques travels death our of at and hour now the to a forgotten corner of northern Portugal: Trás-os-Montes, a rural area abandoned by the young. She visits villages where old ways of life are disappearing. She listens to families facing death and gives us their stories in their words as well as through her own meditations. Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques’ book speaks about death in a fresh way.

Praise for Now and at the Hour of Our Death

‘Fearless and luminous and full of grace; it travels to the edge of death and ﬁ nds life there. Its attention to the particulars of love – between the ones who will go and the ones they will leave – is something close to sublime.’ Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

‘Moreira Marques pays tribute to the palliative care doctors, yet she also delivers a ﬁ erce warning to the more foolish and damaging aspirations of contemporary medicine.’ Iona Heath, author of Matters of Life and Death: Key Writings

‘Written with great compassion, and with the economy and precision usually reserved for poetry.’ Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being

‘Moreira Marques’ great achievement is to situate dying so squarely within life MARQUES MOREIRA SUSANA itself. She liberates death and dying back into the messy business of living.’ Anne Karpf, author of How to Age

‘One of the best books ever written about the meaning of life’s end.’ Ana Dias Ferreira, Time Out Lisbon

ISBN 978-1-908276-62-9 01395 Non-Fiction ISBN 9781908276629 £8.99 / $13.95 9 781908 276629 now and at the hour.indd 1 21/04/2015 22:44 AND

BRET EASTON ELLIS OTHER AND the OTHER DOGS

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FORTHCOMING IN 2015 Ivan Vladislavicé 101 Detectives • 4 The Folly • 5 Oleg Pavlov Requiem for a Soldier • 6 Susana Moreira Marques Now and at the Hour of Our Death • 7 Haroldo Conti Southeaster • 8 Lina Wolff Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs • 9 Anakana Schofield Martin John • 10

COMING SOON IN NEW EDITIONS Juan Pablo Villalobos - Quesadillas • 11 Elvira Dones - Sworn Virgin • 11

New & Noteworthy • 12 Top Sellers & Hot Titles • 14 BY THE WINNER OF THE $150,000 WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE ‘One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today.’ - andré brink IVAN VLADISLAVICÁ •101 DETECTIVES

9781908276568 (tp) • 9781908276575 (e) hat kind of detective am i? £10 / $15.95 WEardrum or tympanum? Gullet june 2015 or aesophagus? Pussy or pudenda? A 216 pp, trade paper Detective needs a language almost as fiction much as a language needs a Detective. world english (excl. south africa) In this new collection of stories, selling points • Literary darling with notable admir- award-winning author Ivan ers, (Geoff Dyer, Adam Thirlwell, Teju Vladislaviéc invites readers to do Cole, Patrick Flanery, Neel Mukherjee) some detective work of their own. • Builds on praise for author’s two re- Each story can be read as just cent novels: Double Negative and The that – a story – or you can dig a Restless Supermarket little deeper. Take a closer look, • Topical: Investigates the new South examine the artefact from all Africa in fearless ways. angles, and consider the clues • Book will appeal to those with an inter- and patterns concealed within. est in language play in literature, e.g. the growing army of fans of Georges Perec and other Oulipo writers • ARCs / co-op available

IVAN VLADISLAVIÁC Ivan Vladislavic ‘ is the author of several collections of stories and acclaimed novels including Double Negative (And Other Stories, 2013) and The Restless Super- market (And Other Stories, 2014). His work has won many awards, including the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize. He is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.

THE FOLLY

r and mrs malgas are going 9781908276643 (tp) • 9781908276650 (e) Mquietly about their lives when £10 / $15.95 a mysterious squatter appears november 2016 on the vacant plot next to their 200 pp, trade paper home. Arriving with portmanteau fiction uk, commonwealth (excl south africa) in hand and a head full of extraordinary ideas, the stranger praise for ivan vladislavić at once begins to fashion tools ‘One of a handful of writers working from rusty debris. Soon he enlists in South Africa after apartheid whose Mr Malgas’s help: drawn in by the work will still be read in fifty years.’ stranger’s conviction, Mr Malgas – jan steyn, the white review struggles to catch sight of the ‘Vladislavić’s narrative intelligence is grand mansion that is supposedly nowhere more visible than in his way with springing up around them. His language itself . . . we enter incidents in vision, however, continues to fail medias res – as though they were piano him – until, one day, it doesn’t. études – and exit them before we have overstayed our welcome.’ – teju cole An evocative allegory on the rise and fall of apartheid, The Folly ‘Sensitively attuned to the uncanny is a comic and philosophical phenomena that explode from the social masterpiece. fault lines of his city.’ – patrick flanery ALSO FROM AND OTHER STORIES the restless supermarket 9781908276322 (tp) 9781908276339 (e) £10 / $15.95 / £8 (e)

double negative 9781908276261 (tp) 9781908276278 (e) £10 / $15.95 / £8 (e) FROM THE SOLZHENITSYN AND RUSSIAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNER ‘Pavlov . . . would make Faulkner envious.’ - aleksei mokrousov

OLEG PAVLOV • translated from the Russian by ANNA GUNIN

9781908276582 (tp) • 9781908276599 (e) et in the vast kazakh steppes £10 / $15.95 Sof the crumbling Soviet Em- july 2015 pire, Oleg Pavlov’s kaleidoscope of 200 pp, trade paper a tale is peopled with soldiers and fiction prisoners, hoboes and refugees world english and mice that steal medicines. Po- selling points etic, tragic and darkly comic, the • Third title by Oleg Pavlov to be pub- novel is at once a grotesque por- lished by And Other Stories; will build trayal of late Soviet reality and an on praise for Captain of the Steppe apocalyptic allegory in the vein of and The Matiushin Case Faulkner and Kafka. • Follows in the tradition of the ‘labour camp writing’ traditions pioneered by ‘As dark and bitter as ersatz coffee.’ Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov and adds – daily mail a unique absurdist humour ‘[Pavlov] combines a traditional Rus- • A novel on life in the Russian army sian faith in the humanising power of has a topical interest at the moment, given the conflict in Ukraine literature with a boisterous energy and • ARCs / co-op available imagination.’ – times literary supplement

OLEG PAVLOV Oleg Pavlov has won the Russian Booker Prize (2002) and Solzhenitsyn Prize (2012). Born in Moscow in 1970, Pavlov spent his military service as a prison guard in Kazakhstan. He later be- came Solzhenitsyn’s assistant and was inspired to continue the great writer’s work. WINNER ENGLISH PEN AWARD ‘Fearless and luminous and full of grace.’ - leslie jamison

translated from the Portuguese by JULIA SANCHES • SUSANA MOREIRA MARQUES

ccompanying a pa l l i at i v e 9781908276629 (tp) • 9781908276636 (e) Acare team, Susana Moreira £8.99 / $13.95 Marques travels to a forgotten cor- september 2015 ner of northern Portugal: Trás-os- 128 pp, trade paper Montes, a rural area abandoned nonfiction world english by the young. She visits villages where old ways of life are disap- selling points pearing. She listens to families • Blurbs from Leslie Jamison, Iona facing death and gives us their Heath, Gavin Francis & Anne Karpf stories in their words as well as • Appearances: Edinburgh Book Festi- through her own meditations. val, London, New York City (w/Les- lie Jamison) r i l l i a n t ly b l e n d i n g t h e • Compare: The Empathy Exams (Les- immediacy of oral history lie Jamison), Can’t We Talk About Bwith the sensibility of philosophi- Something More Pleasant (Roz cal reportage, Moreira Marques’ Chast), The Year of Magical Thinking book speaks about death in a (Joan Didion), Say Her Name (Fran- fresh way. cisco Goldman), or Levels of Life (Julian Barnes) • ARCs / co-op available.

SUSANA MOREIRA MARQUES is a Lisbon-based writer who has worked at the BBC World Service (London). Her journalism has won several prizes, including the 2012 UNESCO ‘Human Rights and Integration’ Journalism Award (Portugal). This is her first book. ‘Neither the old man nor Boga ever said more than was needed. And yet they understood each other perfectly.’

Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man have worked side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basket weavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself

entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he has long yearned for. SOUTHEASTer

Echoes of John Berger and Ernest Hemingway sound throughout the evocative prose of this great Argentinian writer. A twentieth-century classic, Southeaster is a central work in Haroldo Conti’s oeuvre.

Praise for Haroldo Conti and Southeaster

‘Conti is a writer for whom place is character, not backdrop, and what a place, what a character. He’s a revelation.’ Tim Winton

‘Haroldo Conti was one of Argentina’s fi nest prose writers at the time he was “disappeared” by the military junta in the mid 1970s. He was fi fty-one years old. This fi rst publication of his work in English introduces us not only to one of South America’s fi nest twentieth-century writers but to a world view, a landscape and a unique literary vision that is essential to our time.’ CONTI HAROLDO John Burnside ‘Neither the old man nor Boga ever said more than was needed. And yet they understood each other perfectly.’ ‘Haroldo is a river, a delta with many streams that embrace the islands as they pass. His literature is directed at the solitude of others, and it bringsOver the coursea warm of a season, Boga and the old man have worked side by side embrace, in the same way the river does.’ on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basket Eduardo Galeano weavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he hasA long CLASSIC yearned for. NOVELSOUTHEASTer BY THE WINNER OF THE

Echoes of John Berger and Ernest Hemingway sound CASAthroughout theDE LAS AMÉRICAS PRIZE evocative prose of this great Argentinian writer. A twentieth-century classic, Southeaster is a central work in Haroldo Conti’s oeuvre. ‘One of the great ISBN 978-1-908276-60-5 01595 Argentinian writers.’ Praise for Haroldo Conti and Southeaster Fiction ISBN 9781908276605 - gabriel garcía márquez £10 / $15.95 9 781908 276605‘Conti is a writer for whom place is character, not backdrop, and what a place, what a character. He’s a revelation.’ Tim Winton southeaster.indd 1 18/05/2015 15:30 ‘Haroldo Conti was one of Argentina’s fi nest prose writers at the timeHAROLDO he was CONTI•transl from the Spanish by JON LINDSAY MILES “disappeared” by the military junta in the mid 1970s. He was fi fty-one years old. This fi rst publication of his work in English introduces us not only to one tp e of South America’s fi nest twentieth-century writers but to a world9781908276605 view, a ( ) • 9781908276612 ( ) or a season, boga and the old man landscape and a unique literary vision that is essential to our time.’ £10 CONTI HAROLDO / $15.95 Fhave worked side by side on the John Burnside aug 2015 (uk) nov 2015 (us) banks of the Paraná river, cutting 256 pp, trade paper ‘Haroldo is a river, a delta with many streams that embrace the islands as they reeds to sell to local basketweav- pass. His literature is directed at the solitude of others, and it brings a warm fiction ers. But when the old man falls embrace, in the same way the river does.’ world english Eduardo Galeano sick and dies, Boga abandons him- selling points self entirely to the river and the • First UK translation of a modern life of solitary drifting he has long Argentinian classic yearned for. • Haroldo Conti was one of the ‘disap- Echoes of John Berger and Ernest ISBN 978-1-908276-60-5 peared’ in the Dirty War of the 1970s 01595 Hemingway sound throughout - his biography is of wide interest Fiction the evocative prose of this great • Will appeal to those interested in ISBN 9781908276605 Argentinan writer. A twentieth- £10 / $15.95 9 781908 276605 the environment, waterways, sailing, boating and nature writing century classic, Southeaster is a • Prize-winning author praised by central work in Haroldo Conti’s southeaster.indd 1 18/05/2015 15:30 important Latin American writers oeuvre. including Eduardo Galeano and ‘Conti is a writer for whom place is Gabriel García Márquez character, not backdrop, and what • Academic course adoption potential a place, what a character. He’s a • ARCs / co-op available revelation.’ –tim winton HAROLDO CONTI Haroldo Conti was born in Buenos Aires in 1925. In his professional life, Conti was employed as an actor, bank clerk, Latin teacher and screen- writer. Arrested after the military coup of 1976, Conti is currently included on the list of perma- nently disappeared. BRET EASTON ELLIS AND the OTHER DOGS ‘Neither the old man nor Boga ever said more than was needed. And yet they understood each other perfectly.’

entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he has long yearned for. SOUTHEASTer

Praise for Haroldo Conti and Southeaster

‘Conti is a writer for whom place is character, not backdrop, and what a place, what a character. He’s a revelation.’ Tim Winton

‘Haroldo is a river, a delta with many streams that embrace the islands as they pass. His literature is directed at the solitude of others, and it brings a warm embrace, in the same way the river does.’ Eduardo Galeano WINNER, VI MAGAZINE PRIZE ‘Lina Wolff’s exuberance and narrative zest are ISBN 978-1-908276-60-5 BRET EASTON ELLIS 01595 AND exquisite.’ Fiction ISBN 9781908276605 the OTHER DOGS - rebecka åhlund, £10 / $15.95 9 781908 276605 borås tidning southeaster.indd 1 18/05/2015 15:30 L I NtranslatedA from W the SwedishO L by FRANKF F PERRY • LINA WOLFF T R A N S L A T E D B Y F R A N K P E R R Y rom her decrepit apartment 9781908276643 (tp) • 9781908276650 (e) Fin Barcelona, sharp-eyed young £10 / $15.95 Araceli watches as students woo january 2016 teachers and servants dominate 304 pp, trade paper their masters. Nesting stories fiction world english within stories, Wolff’s adroit novel upends the social order and selling points brings lovers and loners together. • Black humour and setting will appeal With Bolaño-esque humour, Wolff to fans of Bolanõ, Almodovar asks: what chance does love have • Combines best of what’s trending in this dog-eat-dog world? in translated fiction - devastating understatement, plot-cum-theory, ‘Take a look at this, read it, experi- absurdism-cum-politics, experimental ence it. . . that’s the only way to con- paragraphing, unornamented but ex- vey the gravity, depth and lightness ceptionally vivid prose - in completely of Lina Wolff’s prose, her tender yet naturalised English pitiless character descriptions, her distinctive L butI N alsoA naturalW O L wayF F of • compare: Valeria Luiselli, Javier piecingT R A N togetherS L A T E D the B Y novel F R A’sN dispaK P E-R R Y Marias, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz rate parts into a shimmering whole. ’ • Striking angle on sex and gender – eva johansson, svenska dagbladet • Author has appeared in Granta magazine (in English) • ARCs / co-op available LINA WOLFF Lina Wolff has lived and worked as a transla- tor and writer in Sweden, Italy and Spain. Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs has won the pres- tigious Vi magazine literature prize, and was shortlisted for the Swedish Radio prize for Best Novel of the Year. FROM THE AUTHOR OF MALARKY ‘Profane, strange, hilarious, and necessary . . . A beguiling triumph.’ - patrick dewitt

ANAKANA SCHOFIELD

9781908276667 (tp) • 9781908276674 (e) a r t i n j o h n s i t s b e s i d e y o u £10 Mon the train. He needs to see february 2016 that look in your eyes, the sur- 256 pp, trade paper prise of his touch upon your leg, fiction and the repugnance. A testament uk/commonwealth (excl canada) to Anakana Schofield’s skill and selling points audacity, with a Beckettian grasp • Malarky recieved very broad reviews of the loops and circuits of a mo- coverage in North America/the UK, lester’s mind, Martin John is a bril- including national radio and TV. liant exploration of a marginal • Schofield, an eccentric and engaging character – the kind many have speaker, has a strong social media experienced, but whom few of us profile . . . and is threatening to bring have understood. a concertina with her on tour. • A well-connected ‘writer’s writer’, ‘A very moving and terrific book.’ adept at self-promotion, who travels - daniel handler (aka lemony snicket) frequently in the UK and Ireland. For praise for Malarky from • ARCs / co-op available Margaret Atwood, Helen Oyeyemi, Emma Donoghue, Jenny Diski, Jess Walter, Colum McCann, & more, visit anakanaschofield.com. ANAKANA SCHOFIELD is an Irish-Canadian writer. Malarky, her debut novel, won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in Canada and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in the United States, where it was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. Her criticism has been published in The Irish Times, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books blog. ‘Astonishing, ‘A much-needed jolt brilliant and to the Anglosphere unabashed by cocooned in its taboos of any realism-induced kind.’ narcolepsy.’ – ismail kadare – neel mukherjee

NEW EDITIONS, NEW FORMATS SWORN VIRGIN QUESADILLAS elvira dones juan pablo villalobos 9781908276681 9781908276698 £7.99 £7.99 october 2016 january 2016 256 pp, paperback 192 pp, paperback fiction fiction

hen hana’s dying uncle calls h i l e h i s fat h e r p r e ac h e s W her home from the city, W Hellenic virtues and he asks her to marry a local practises the art of the insult, boy and run the household. Orestes’ mother prepares Unable to accept the arranged hundreds of quesadillas for marriage but resolved to Orestes and the rest of their remain independent, she brood: Aristotle, Archilocus, must vow in accordance with Callimachus, Electra, Cas- tradition to live the rest of her tor and Pollux. After another life in chastity as a man – and fraudulent election and the so becomes Mark. For a sworn disappearance of two younger virgin, there is no way back. brothers, Orestes heads off on Years later, however, when he an adventure. Anything goes receives an invitation to join in this madcap Mexican sat- a cousin in the States, Mark ire about politics, big fami- sees a chance to escape. But lies, and what it means to be what does he know about middle class. being a woman? ‘Black comedy done with a light ‘Spring-clear prose and a slyly sub- touch . . . stylish, scabrous, and versive vision.’ – kapka kassabova, hugely enjoyable.’ – justine jordan, the guardian ‘best books of 2013’, the guardian NEW & N TEW RTHY THE ALPHABET OF BIRDS SJ Naudé•translated by the author 9781908276445 • JAN 2015 • £10/$15.95 • 304 PP Longlisted for the 2015 Frank O’Connor Award

‘Disturbing yet uplifting.’ – tls

‘Cool and intelligent, unsettling and deeply felt.’ – damon galgut

‘Luminously written, and brilliantly orchestrated.’ – neel mukherjee ‘Beautifully shaped and often heartbreaking stories . . .this collection announces the arrival of a writer of great humanity and style.’ – patrick flanery

ESPERANZA STREET•NIYATI KENI 9781908276483 • FEB 2015 • £10/$15.95 • 320 PP ‘The pungent smells, sounds, and flavors ofEsperanza Street stand out . . . [a] vivid portrayal of a crumbling yet vibrant barrio.’ – publishers weekly ‘[A] tender coming-of-age story . . . in this luminous, revelatory study on the connection between person and place, Keni knits a delicate tale of an entangled and endangered community.’ – kirkus reviews SIGNS PRECEDING THE END OF THE WORLD Yuri Herrera•translated by Lisa Dillman 9781908276421 • MAR 2015 • £10/$15.95 • 128 PP ‘Short, suspenseful . . . outlandish and heartbreaking.’ – new york times ‘Poetic and defamiliarizing . . .in this legend-rich book, to immi- grate is to enter forever the land of the shades.’ – wall street journal

‘Marvellously rich.’ – the guardian

‘Mexico’s greatest novelist.’ – francisco goldman ‘Yuri Herrera must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled to hell, and heaven, and back again . . . Nothing else explains the vastness of his understanding.’ – valeria luiselli Angela Readman’s stories have appeared in a I’d never thought that if Elvis was a woman, and number of anthologies and magazines, winning A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her ‘other half’ worked in a chippy, he’d be my mam. But I could awards such as the Inkspill Magazine Short multiplies, she is still not satisﬁ ed. Love transforms a mother working down hardly see my mother for Elvis now. Elvis jiggled Story Competition and the National Flash the chippy – into Elvis. Clary’s father puts antlers on stu ed rabbits to make the chips, hips tick-tocking like an over-wound Fiction Competition. In 2012 she was shortlisted jackalopes, but when her mother walks out on them Clary has to help her father clock, all because someone asked how she was.

for the Costa Short Story Award for Don’t Try if they are to survive. AT TRY THIS DON'T HOME from ‘There’s a Woman Works Down the This at Home – an award she would go on to Chip Shop’ win in 2013 with the story ‘The Keeper of the Beautiful, sharp and fearless, Costa Short Story Award winner Angela Jackalopes’. Readman is also a published poet. Readman’s debut collection is aptly titled, for each story packs its share of explosive material. Exposing all kinds of prejudice – against age, status, disability – the stories also o er quirky new strategies for troubled lives. If Angela Carter is Readman’s fairy godmother, then David Lynch is her wicked stepfather. Don’t say you weren’t warned . . .

Advance praise for Don’t Try This at Home

‘In a fantastical world of witches, saints and talking toys, Angela Readman’s characters struggle to escape the prison of their all-too-real circumstances. A wonderful, wonder-full debut collection.’ Adam Marek, author of Instruction Manual for Swallowing

‘Sparky, shining writing that zings from the page. Subversive, funny and incisive.

A real talent.’ READMAN ANGELA Sarah Hilary, author of Someone Else’s Skin

‘With coolly unassuming delivery and not a single word out of place, this is storytelling at its best. A remarkable collection of delightfully skewed stories.’ Caroline Smailes, author of The Drowning of Arthur Braxton

ISBN 978-1-908276-52-0 01595 Fiction (Short Stories) NEW & N TEW ISBN 9781908276520 RTHY £10 / THE$15.95 ADVENTURES9 781908 276520 OF THE BUSTS OF EVA PERON dont try this at home.indd 1 Carlos Gamerro•translated by Ian Barnett 20/10/2014 22:47:03 9781908276506 • MAR 2015 • £10/$15.95 • 352 PP ‘A comically charged and slyly satirical tale that strips away the high rhetoric of history and politics, and reveals the squabbling egos underneath.’ – the skinny ‘[A] hilarious political satire . . . Carlos Gamerro provides a comical glimpse into a slice of Argentina’s political past. Here we have an entertaining, absorbing and thought-provoking piece of literature with a loveable protagonist.’ – buzz

TREGIAN’S GROUND Anne Cuneo•translated by Roland Glasser & Louise Rogers Lalaurie 9781908276544 • APR 2015 • £10/$15.95 • 528 PP ‘Tregian’s Ground certainly has many cinematic qualities of the best kind . . .The vivid, free-flowing translation more than does justice to [a] marvellously rich and multi-layered piece of work . . . Serious students of either history or music are not going to be disappointed.’ – classical music magazine

Angela Readman’s stories have appeared in a DON’TI’d never thought that if Elvis was a woman, and TRY THIS AT HOME•ANGELA READMAN number of anthologies and magazines, winning A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her ‘other half’ worked in a chippy, he’d be my mam. But I could awards such as the Inkspill Magazine Short multiplies, she is still not satisﬁ ed. Love transforms a mother working down hardly see my mother for Elvis now. Elvis jiggled Story Competition and the National Flash the chippy – into Elvis. Clary’s father puts antlers on stu ed rabbits to make the chips, hips tick-tocking like an over-wound Fiction Competition. In 2012 she was shortlisted jackalopes, but when her mother walks out on them Clary has to help her father clock, all because someone9781908276520 asked how she was. • MAY 2015 • £10/$15.95 • 176 PP

for the Costa Short Story Award for Don’t Try if they are to survive. AT TRY THIS DON'T HOME from ‘There’s a Woman Works Down the This at Home – an award she would go on to Chip Shop’ win in 2013 with the story ‘The Keeper of the Beautiful, sharp and fearless, Costa Short Story Award winner Angela Jackalopes’. Readman is also a published poet. Readman’s debut collection is aptly titled, for each story packs its share of explosive material. Exposing all kinds of prejudice – against age, status, disability – the stories also o er quirky new strategies for troubled lives. By the Winner of the 2013 Costa Short Story Award If Angela Carter is Readman’s fairy godmother, then David Lynch is her wicked stepfather. Don’t say you weren’t warned . . . Winner, Best Short Story Collection, 2015 Saboteur Awards Advance praise for Don’t Try This at Home

‘Angela Readman’s stories are fantastic, delightful gifts. You don’t open them, they open you. They open you to the amazing, the tragic, the odd and the gorgeous. This is a very special collection.’ Toby Litt, author of Hospital Longlisted for the 2015 Frank O’Connor Award ‘In a fantastical world of witches, saints and talking toys, Angela Readman’s characters struggle to escape the prison of their all-too-real circumstances. A wonderful, wonder-full debut collection.’ Adam Marek, author of Instruction Manual for Swallowing 10 Best Spring Reads, The Independent ‘Sparky, shining writing that zings from the page. Subversive, funny and incisive.

A real talent.’ READMAN ANGELA Sarah Hilary, author of Someone Else’s Skin ‘With coolly unassuming delivery and not a single word out of place, this is ‘Angela Readman’s prose exhibits two complimentary styles: storytelling at its best. A remarkable collection of delightfully skewed stories.’ Caroline Smailes, author of The Drowning of Arthur Braxton fabulation is rendered deadpan, while wonderfully inventive

ISBN 978-1-908276-52-0 01595 similes are used to describe the everyday . . .[Her] medium is Fiction (Short Stories) ISBN 9781908276520 £10 / $15.95 9 781908 276520 metaphor writ large . . .Borges, Kafka and Angela Carter will all dont try this at home.indd 1 be reference20/10/2014 22:47:03 points, but there is something joyfully distinctive about Readman’s voice . . . Readman’s gift for emotional nuance is every bit as keen as her eye for the surreal.’ – sunday telegraph T P SELLERS & H T TITLES SWIMMING HOME•DEBORAH LEVY 9781908276025 (1st) / £10 9780571299607 (2nd, AOS / Faber&Faber) / £8.99 176 PP LIFETIME SALES: 100,000+ shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2012 Author of the Year, National Book Awards 2012 The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013

A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 BLACK VODKA•DEBORAH LEVY 9781908276162 • 2013 • £12 • 144 PP ‘There is a sexy hauteur in Deborah Levy’s prose. . . The rasp- ing, deadpan delivery of these ten new stories emit a dreamy harshness at once jaded and invigorating.’ – new statesman

‘Fabulously jolting . . . accomplished and uncanny.’ – the guardian

‘These ominous, odd, erotic stories burrow deep into your brain.’ –ft ‘[Black Vodka] explores love, loss, and betrayal . . . through elegantly conceived and executed prose.’ – independent on sunday

AN AMOROUS DISCOURSE IN THE SUBURBS OF HELL Deborah Levy (Poetry) 9781908276469 • 2014 • £7.99/$12.95 • 96 PP A Salon.com Book of the Year, 2014 #Readwomen Book of the Year 2014 ‘Like an indelible pop song, Levy’s text chooses all the right, simple words with an uncanny melody. . .Discourse wastes no time doing anything but shaking you up.’ – bookslut T P SELLERS & H T TITLES LIGHTNING RODS•HELEN DEWITT 9781908276117 (1st) / £10 978-1908276292 (2nd) / £7.99 192 PP ‘A razor-sharp comic masterpiece.’ – financial times ‘A masterclass in contained satirical exploration.’ – tls

‘This is excellent: cold and crazy.’ – new yorker ‘An extremely funny satire on office politics, sexual politics, American politics, and the art of positive thinking.’ – the guardian

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE•JUAN PABLO VILLALOBOS translated by Rosalind Harvey• 96 pp 9781908276001 (1st) / £10 • 9781908276285 (2nd) / £6.99 LIFETIME SALES: 8,500+ shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award 2011 The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012 ‘Funny, convincing, appalling . . . a punch-packer for one so small.’ – ali smith, daily telegraph book of the year ‘A deliberate, wild attack on the conventions of literature.’ – adam thirlwell BY NIGHT THE MOUNTAIN BURNS Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel•translated by Jethro Soutar 9781908276407 • 2014 • £10/$15.95 • 288 PP shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 A Financial Times Translated Book of the Year 2014 ‘A delightfully candid, deceptively sober narrative.’ – helen oyeyemi ‘Poignant . . . This fascinating story emerges from the speaker’s attempts to make sense of the calamities of his homeland.’ – publishers weekly Contact, Distribution, and Sales Info

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