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TABLE OF CONTENTS PICADOR PAPERBACK VERTICAL FARM, THE 31 Dr. Dickson Despommier BY NIGHTFALL 2 WHY THE WEST RULES—FOR NOW 32 Michael Cunningham Ian Morris THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS 4 MARRIAGE ARTIST, THE 34 Guy Deutscher Andrew Winer WHITE HOUSE DIARY 6 TRUE MEMOIRS OF LITTLE K, THE 35 Jimmy Carter Adrienne Sharp HOW TO BECOME A SCANDAL 8 NOVEMBER BACKLIST TIE-INS 36 Laura Kipnis SLEIGHTS OF MIND 37 EYE OF THE STORM, THE 9 Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde, (MOVIE TIE-IN) with Sandra Blakeslee Patrick White PADRE PIO 38 CRISIS CARAVAN, THE 10 Sergio Luzzatto Linda Polman KINGDOM UNDER GLASS 39 UNEXPECTED LIGHT, AN 11 Jay Kirk VERIFICATIONIST, THE 40 (EARLY RELEASE, (REISSUE) ON SALE AUGUST 2ND, 2011) Donald Antrim Jason Elliot ON BALANCE 42 NICKEL AND DIMED 12 Adam Phillips (EARLY RELEASE, DECEMBER BACKLIST TIE-INS 43 ON SALE AUGUST 2ND, 2011) Barbara Ehrenreich PICADOR CRIME 44 SEPTEMBER BACKLIST TIE-INS 13 RECENT PICADOR HIGHLIGHTS 46 TRAVELS IN SIBERIA 14 BESTSELLING BACKLIST 48 Ian Frazier READING GROUP GUIDES 50 CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF 16 SUBSIDARY RIGHTS 52 Nelson Mandela CUSTOMER SERVICE 54 WAIT FOR ME! 18 Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire INDEX 60 FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR 19 Hazel Rowley EDEN 20 Yael Hedaya Cover design by Henry Sene Yee AMEXICA 21 Ed Vulliamy HYPOTHERMIA 22 Arnaldur Indrid–ason OCTOBER BACKLIST TIE-INS 24 SUNSET PARK 26 Paul Auster LISTEN TO THIS 28 Alex Ross POISONING THE PRESS 30 Mark Feldstein Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:08 PM Page 2

PAPERBACK MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM By Nightfall A Novel A New York Times Bestseller

“Cunningham is drawn to simple, potent plots, saving his energy for the hearts and minds, the groins and guts, of his characters. Yet he makes [us] turn the pages . . . [as he] puts us inside a man’s head, allowing us to look out at his life, which is more satisfying than using events to let us look inward.” —Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review

Peter and Rebecca Harris: midforties, denizens of Man- hattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committee careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Until Rebecca’s much younger, look-alike brother, Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, “the mistake”), comes to visit. Fiction This poetic and compelling masterpiece is a heart- 978-0-312-61043-2 breaking look at a marriage and the way we live now. $15.00 • NCR Full of shocks and after shocks, By Nightfall is a novel Trade Paperback 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp. about the uses and meaning of beauty, and the place of Hardcover love in our lives. 978-0-374-29908-8 eBook “A great writer . . . Cunningham has again pulled off 978-1-4299-7809-5 his trick of combining the novel of ideas with the juicy read. The characters in By Nightfall deceive, spy Also available on and gossip about one another; but while all that is Flesh and Blood going on, Nightfall also studies the concepts of beauty 978-0-312-42668-2 $15.00 and genius as they are expressed in the contemporary A Home at the End of the World art world. . . . A delicious book.” —Newsday 978-0-312-20231-6 $15.00 The Hours 978-0-312-24302-9 $14.00 Laws for Creation 978-0-312-42607-1 $13.00 Specimen Days 978-0-312-42502-9 $14.00

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“Engrossing . . . By Nightfall is an exemplar of the crossover megahit that authors of all genders and genres dream of: an entertaining page-turner that’s bound for, and deserving of, literary eternity.” —Meredith Mara, San Francisco Chronicle RICHARD PHIBBS “There are sentences here so powerfully precise and beautiful that they almost hover above the page.” —Karen Valby, Entertainment Weekly • NEXT Selection • National Print Advertising “Cunningham reigns supreme. . . . For pure, elegant • National Public Radio efficient beauty, [he] is astounding. He’s developed Campaign this captivating narrative voice that mingles his own • National Print Coverage sharp commentary with Peter’s much-heroic desire. • National Bestseller Half Henry James, half James Joyce, but all Cunning- The New York Times ham, it’s an irresistible performance.” Los Angeles Times —Ron Charles, The Washington Post IndieBound • Indie Next Pick “[Cunningham’s] vigorous explorations of art and its • Select Author Events meaning—along with a thick veil of eroticism—keep • Internet Marketing the pages turning.” —People (four stars) Digital Advertising and Social Media Campaign Reading Group Promotion and Online Reading Group Guide Picador Reading Group e-Newsletter and Website Feature michaelcunninghamwriter.com • Backlist Promotion

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM’s novel The Hours won both the Pulitzer Prize and a PEN/Faulkner Award, and became an Academy Award–winning film, starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep. An earlier novel, A Home at the End of the World, was also made into a film, starring Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek, and Robin Wright Penn. He lives in New York.

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PAPERBACK GUY DEUTSCHER Through the Language Glass Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages An Economist Best Book of the Year

“A book so robustly researched and wonderfully told that it is hard to put down . . . Deutscher brings together more than a century’s worth of captivating characters, incidents, and experi- ments that illuminate the relationship between words and mind.” —Christine Kenneally, New Scientist

The debate began nearly a century ago: Where does language come from, is it an artifact of our culture, or written in our very DNA? In recent years, the leading linguists have seemingly settled the issue—all language is fundamentally the same, and does not shape our thinking in any significant way. Guy Deutscher says they’re wrong. From Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, and through a strange and dazzling Language Arts history of the color blue, Deutscher argues that our 978-0-312-61049-4 $18.00 • NCR mother tongues do indeed shape our experience of the Trade Paperback world. Audacious, delightful, and provocative, Through 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" • 320 pp. the Language Glass is certain to be a classic of intellec- Includes 8 b&w photos; 10 b&w tual discovery. illust.; one 8-pg color insert Hardcover “Deutscher confidently asserts that a language influ- 978-0-8050-8195-4 ences how its users perceive the world. The book is a eBook thrilling and challenging ride.” 978-1-4299-7011-2 —Christopher Schoppa, The Washington Post

“Fascinating reading . . . Deutscher does not merely weave little-known facts into an absorbing story. He also takes account of the vast changes in our perceptions of other races and cultures over the past two centuries. . . . Enjoy the little-trodden linguistic bypaths along which he so knowledgeably leads.” Also available —Derek Bickerton, The New York Times Book Review The Unfolding of Language 978-0-805-08012-4 $17.00

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“A gifted writer, [Deutscher] picks his way nimbly past overblown arguments to a sensible compromise. . . . A strong case for exploring more limited forms of linguistic relativity . . . it is through just such incremen- tal distinctions that science advances, and that we move ever closer to understanding the human mind.” —Amanda Katz, The Boston Globe

“Jaw-droppingly wonderful . . . A marvelous and JANIE STEEN surprising book. The ironic, playful tone at the begin- ning gradates into something serious that is never pompous, something intellectually and historically • National Print Coverage complex and yet always pellucidly laid out. It left me • Internet Marketing breathless and dizzy with delight.” Targeted Blog Outreach —Stephen Fry, presenter of Stephen Fry in America, www.guydeutscher.org host of QI, and author of Moab Is My Washpot • Academic Marketing Campaign

GUY DEUTSCHER is the author of The Unfolding of Language. He is an honorary research fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the

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PAPERBACK JIMMY CARTER White House Diary

A New York Times Bestseller

The personally annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter—filled with insights into his presidency and his lasting impact on issues that still affect America and the world today

Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary. He provided unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. But this extraordinary document has never been made public—until now. By carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle Biography East. We witness his interactions with such 978-0-312-57719-3 complex personalities as Teddy Kennedy, Henry $20.00 • $23.00 Can. Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Trade Paperback Begin. 6" x 9" • 592 pp. Remarkably, thirty years after the fact, he has Includes one 24-page b&w insert annotated the diary with his candid reflections on Hardcover the people and events that shaped his presidency, 978-0-374-28099-4 and on the many lessons learned. Offering an eBook unprecedented look at both the man and his 978-1-4299-9065-3 tenure, this fascinating book will stand as a unique contribution to the history of the American presidency.

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“Fascinating. . . . The pace gives a sense of what it is like to be president, and the entries contain blunt appraisals of the people with whom he dealt.” —The New York Times

“Outstanding . . . [White House Diary] fleshes out our impressions of Carter with compelling, day-by-day AND MUSEUM PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY SARA SAUNDERS, JIMMY CARTER details. . . . Anyone seeking insight into the thrity- ninth president of the United States would do well to • National Print Advertising pick up [this] book.” —The Christian Science Monitor • National Print Coverage • National Bestseller “Stands out as a substantial contribution to the history The New York Times of the presidency . . . a uniquely unfiltered look at Los Angeles Times what occupying the Oval Office day to day means.” The Denver Post —Los Angeles Times USA Today The Wall Street Journal IndieBound • Internet Marketing Online Advertising and Social Media Campaign Targeted Website and Blog Outreach Picador Website Feature whitehousediarybook.com

JIMMY CARTER, our thirty-ninth president, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. The author of numerous bestsellers—including An Hour Before Day- light and Our Endangered Values—he and his wife, Ros- alynn, live in Plains, Georgia, but continue to travel around the world in support of the Carter Center, a nonprofit organization advancing peace and health, and other humanitarian causes.

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PAPERBACK September LAURA KIPNIS How to Become a Scandal Adventures in Bad Behavior With a New Preface

“In this brilliant, funny take on our downfall-a- minute age” (People), Laura Kipnis looks at the fascinating stagecraft of four classic public scandals.

We all relish a good scandal—the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (diapers, cigars)—the better. But why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them? The motifs are classic—revenge, betrayal, ambi- tion, madness—though the pitfalls are ones we all negotiate daily. Every one of us is a potential scandal, and “Kipnis speculates brilliantly and amusingly about the trouble to which people will go to get themselves exposed” (Christopher Hitchens).

“Scandal has never had it so good. . . . Kipnis [takes] Sociology material that self-respecting people are supposed to 978-0-312-61057-9 resist and [treats] it with such smarts that the reader $15.00 • $17.00 Can. feels nothing short of enlightened. . . . She delivers all Trade Paperback the thrills.” 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 240 pp. —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Includes 21 b&w photos throughout Hardcover 978-0-8050-8979-0 eBook • National Print Coverage 978-1-4299-3065-9 • National Radio Campaign • Internet Marketing Targeted Current Affairs and Political Blog Outreach www.laurakipnis.com

LAURA KIPNIS is the author of Against Love: A Polemic. She lives in New York and Chicago.

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MOVIE TIE-IN September PATRICK WHITE The Eye of the Storm

Nobel Prize winner Patrick White’s masterpiece, The Eye of the Storm, is being republished to tie-in with the release of the film, starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, and Geoffrey Rush.

In White’s 1973 classic, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Now a Hunter is facing death while her impatient children— Sir Basil, the celebrated actor, and Princess de Lasca- Major bane, an adoptive French aristocrat—wait. It is the dying mother who will command attention, and who Motion in the midst of disaster will look into the eye of the Picture storm. “An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragi- comic, almost Chekhovian . . . Eye of the Storm [is] an intensely dramatic masterpiece” (The Australian).

“Beautiful and heroic . . . Every passage merits attention and gives satisfaction.” —The New York Times Book Review

“In his major post-war novels, the pain and earnest- ness of the individual’s quest for ‘meaning and design’ can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else Fiction/Literature in contemporary Western prose.” 978-0-312-59532-6 $16.00 • NCR —The Sunday Times (UK) Trade Paperback 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 608 pp. • Movie Tie-in Art eBook 978-1-4299-7730-2 • Co-Promotion with Movie Distribution eBook • National Broadcast and Print Media Campaign 978-1-4299-7730-2 • Internet Marketing Digital Advertising and Social Media Campaign Targeted Entertainment and Literary Blog Outreach Picador e-Newsletter and Website Feature

PATRICK WHITE was born in England in 1912 to Australian parents and was educated in London. He is the author of twelve novels including Voss (1957), Rid- ers in the Chariot (1961), and The Vivisector (1970). In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. He died in September 1990. September 9 Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:09 PM Page 10

PAPERBACK September LINDA POLMAN The Crisis Caravan What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? Is it always better to act rather than do nothing? Should humanitarian aid operations be held responsible for the consequences of their deeds?

In her no-holds-barred, controversial exposé, Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravan takes us to war zones around the globe, showing how aid operations and the humanitarian world have become a feature of military strategy. Impassioned, gripping, and even darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman “gives some powerful examples of unconscionable assis- tance . . . a world where aid workers have become enablers of the atrocities they seek to relieve” (The Boston Globe).

“Polman’s style is brusque, hard-boiled, with a satirist’s eye for gallows humor.” —Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker

“Ms. Polman’s prose is scorching.” —The Economist Current Events 978-0-312-61058-6 “Marvellous, cool, brusque, fearless. Carries echoes of $15.00 • NCR the African writings of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Trade Paperback 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 240 pp. Greene.” —The Guardian (UK) Hardcover 978-0-8050-9290-5 • National Print Coverage eBook • Internet Marketing 978-1-4299-5576-8 Digital Advertising Targeted Current Affairs and Political Blog Outreach www.lindapolman.nl.uk • Academic Marketing Campaign

LINDA POLMAN is an Amsterdam-based journalist who for fifteen years has reported from war zones for a range of European radio stations and newspapers. She is the author of We Did Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage.

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PAPERBACK Early Release, On Sale 8/2/2011Month JASON ELLIOT An Unexpected Light Travels in Afghanistan Tenth Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword

Jason Elliot’s journey through one of the most mystifying and volatile countries in the world is “a ruefully funny and exciting” (The New York Times) adventure.

Part travelogue, part historical evocation, part personal quest, and part reflection on the joys and perils of passage, this acclaimed synthesis of description and insight remains as relevant today as when it first appeared. An Unexpected Light is a remarkable, poignant book about Afghanistan and a heartfelt reflection on the experience of travel itself.

“Elliot is an enthralling writer with a great gift for evoking places, people, and atmosphere, from the pastoral calm of a fertile valley to the terrifying sights and sounds of war.” —Los Angeles Times Travel/Memoir 978-0-312-62205-3 $18.00 • NCR “Lyrical . . . alluring . . . a poignant remembrance, hued Trade Paperback in the mixed reds of war and sunset, that comes close 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 512 pp. to a place that has already changed beyond imagina- Includes 2 maps tion.” —San Francisco Chronicle Hardcover 978-0-312-27459-7 “I’m sure this book will soon be among the classics of travel.” —Doris Lessing

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Also available JASON ELLIOT is the author of Mirrors of the Unseen Mirrors of the Unseen and The Network. He lives in England. 978-0-312-42733-7 $16.00

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PAPERBACK Early Release, On Sale 8/2/2011 BACK BARBARA EHRENREICH Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America The Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Classic Bestseller with a New Afterword “Captivating . . . Promise that you will read this explosive little book cover to cover and pass it on to all your friends.” —The New York Times

Nickel and Dimed is a publishing phenomenon having sold more than two million copies. Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand account of life in low-wage America has become an essential part of the national discourse. Now, in a new afterword, Ehrenrich explains why, ten years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.

“Impassioned, fascinating, profoundly significant, and wildly entertaining . . . Nickel and Dimed is not only Business & Economics important but transformative in its insistence that we 978-0-312-62668-6 take a long hard look at the society we live in.” $15.00 • $17.00 Can. —Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Trade Paperback 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 272 pp. “Valuable and illuminating . . . Barbara Ehrenreich is Hardcover our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism.” 978-0-8050-6388-2 —The New York Times Book Review eBook 978-1-4299-2664-5 • A Picador Reissue Also available • National Radio Campaign Bait and Switch • National Print Coverage 978-0-8050-8124-4 $13.00 • Internet Marketing Blood Rites Targeted Current Affairs and Political 978-0-8050-5787-4 $19.00 Blog Outreach Bright-Sided • Academic Marketing Campaign 978-0-312-65885-4 $15.00 Dancing in the Streets 978-0-8050-5724-9 $16.00 BARBARA EHRENREICH is the author of seven- teen books, including the bestsellers Bright-Sided and Global Woman 978-0-8050-7509-0 $17.00 Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harper’s and This Land Is Their Land The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New 978-0-8050-9015-4 $15.00 York Times and Time magazine. 12 August Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:09 PM Page 13

2/2011 BACKLIST TIE-INS September EMMANUEL CARRÈRE Lives Other Than My Own (Holt, 978-0-8050-9261-5, $26) My Life as a Russian Novel (978-0-312-56930-3, $15) I Am Alive and You Are Dead (978-0-312-42451-0, $14) Class Trip & The Mustache (978-0-312-42233-2, $14) The Adversary (978-0-312-42060-4, $14)

HENRY HITCHINGS The Language Wars (FSG, 978-0-374-18329-5, $27) The Secret Life of Words (978-0-312-42856-3, $17) Defining the World (978-0-312-42620-0, $14)

TONY HORWITZ Midnight Rising (Holt, 978-0-8050-9153-3, $28) A Voyage Long and Strange (978-0-312-42832-7, $18) Blue Latitudes (978-0-312-42260-8, $17)

DENIS JOHNSON Train Dreams (FSG, 978-0-374-28114-4, $18) Nobody Move (978-0-312-42961-4, $14) Jesus’ Son (978-0-312-42874-7, $13) Tree of Smoke (978-0-312-42774-0, $16)

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PAPERBACK IAN FRAZIER Travels in Siberia

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

“An uproarious, sometimes dark yarn filled with dubious meals, broken-down vehicles, abandoned slave-labor camps, and ubiquitous statues of Lenin—On the Road meets The Gulag Archipel- ago. . . . Endlessly fascinating.” —The New York Times Book Review

In this astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region’s fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Fazier reveals Siberia’s role in history—its science, economics, and politics—with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we’ll never think about it in the same way again. Travel With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells 978-0-312-61060-9 the stories of Siberia’s most famous exiles, from the $20.00 • $23.00 Can. Trade Paperback well-known—Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 560 pp. (numerous times)—to the lesser known (like Natalie Includes 24 b&w illust.; Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her one map; one 8-pg b&w insert dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suf- Hardcover fering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime. 978-0-374-27872-4 Travels in Siberia is a captivating, totally Frazierian eBook take on what the author calls “the amazingness” of 978-1-4299-6431-9 Russia, and “a masterpiece of nonfiction writing— Also available tragic, bizarre, and funny” (San Francisco Chronicle). Family 978-0-312-42059-8 $20.00 Fish’s Eye 978-0-312-42169-4 $14.00 Gone to New York 978-0-312-42504-3 $15.00 Great Plains 978-0-312-27850-2 $15.00

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“While the hand- and mind-numbing trip through geographic purgatory couldn’t have been a joy, the humor and genuine awe Frazier injects into his depic- tions are the stuff of a great vicarious vacation. A-” —Entertainment Weekly

“Siberia provides Frazier the perfect canvas to paint © SIGRID ESTRADA what may be his masterpiece.” —The Boston Globe • National Print Advertising “[Travel writing] is revived by Ian Frazier’s Travels in • National Public Radio Siberia. . . . He candidly addresses Siberia’s tragedies Campaign and opportunities, even as his narrative offers, like • National Print Coverage explorer stories of old, all the thrills of armchair travel.” —Harper’s magazine • An Indie Notable Pick • Internet Advertising “Frazier is a sophisticated, intense writer who— Digital Advertising and Twain-like—uses a deceptive style of naiveté and Social Media Campaign Outreach to Travel and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions . . . Russian Cultural Sites always beautifully written, often very funny, serious, Picador e-Newsletter and moving in its cumulative impact . . . marvelously and Website Feature observant.” —The New York Review of Books • Backlist Promotion

“He is besotted, happy, free, on high-alert, drunk with space. Perhaps Russians are such good dancers, he thinks, because they exist in such an enormous country. Frazier expands to fill the space, and his awe is contagious.” —Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

“The year’s best travelogue.” —Vogue

IAN FRAZIER is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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PAPERBACK NELSON MANDELA Conversations with Myself

With a Foreword by President Barack Obama “A prisoner became a free man; a liberation figure became a passionate voice for reconciliation; a party leader became a president who advanced democracy. . . . He has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him.” —from the Foreword by President Barack Obama

Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an Biography/Political Science unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversa- 978-0-312-61168-2 tions with Myself gives readers access to the private $18.00 • NCR man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes Trade Paperback and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing 6" x 9" • 480 pp. Includes 58 b&w illus.; 2 maps troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his cell on Hardcover Robben Island; writing journals while on the run dur- 978-0-374-12895-1 ing the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and eBook conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of 978-1-4299-8839-1 recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint. An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.

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“A literary album . . . Intensely moving, raw, and unmediated . . . Provides the fullest picture yet of Nelson Mandela. . . . A necessary book.” —Peter Godwin, The Observer (UK)

“[In Conversations] there are fascinating glimpses of the inner man, and flashes of his celebrated humor.” ANDREW ZUCKERMAN —Donna Bryson, Chicago Tribune • National Print Advertising “This book will reduce the reader to both rapture and • National Print Coverage tears . . . deeply moving.” —Financial Times • National Bestseller The New York Times “A truly unprecedented moment in publishing, [a] The Washington Post stunning collection . . . nothing short of a monumen- The Boston Globe tal historical document.” —The Daily Beast USA Today IndieBound • Internet Marketing Digital Advertising and Social Media Campaign Targeted Blog and Website Outreach Picador Website Feature www.nelsonmandela.org

NELSON MANDELA was born in Transkei, South Africa in 1918. He joined the African National Con- gress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party’s apartheid policies after 1948. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island prison and then later moved to Pollsmoor prison, during which time his reputation as a potent symbol of resistance to apartheid grew steadily. Released from prison in 1990, Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994. He is the author of the international bestseller Long Walk to Freedom.

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PAPERBACK October DEBORAH MITFORD, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE Wait for Me! Memoirs “Touching . . . Moving . . . [An] enjoyable new memoir . . . Compelling as a portrait of a vanish- ing world.” —The Wall Street Journal

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest in the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy. Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside to tea with Adolf Hitler and her sister Unity in 1937, and to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. “Charming, captivating, and at times wickedly funny. Wait for me! [is] the refrain of young ‘Debo,’ the baby of the family. Now ninety, she has caught up beautifully” (Time).

“A national treasure.” —The New York Times

“It [is] hard to resist this book. . . . A feat of writing, both wise and anguished, that puts her big sisters in Biography the shade.” —Allison Pearson, The Telegraph (UK) 978-0-312-61064-7 $18.00 • $20.00 Can. “[Debo] is in possession of what I can only describe as Trade Paperback a uniquely Mitford-esque sensibility: loving but 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 400 pp. unsentimental . . . able to find the ridiculous in Includes two 16-pg b&w inserts Hardcover almost anything.” —The Observer (UK) 978-0-374-20768-7 eBook 978-1-4299-1793-3 • National Print Coverage • Internet Marketing Outreach to Literary and Anglophile/royalty sites Picador e-Newsletter and Website Feature

DEBORAH VIVIEN FREEMAN-MITFORD CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE, is the author of Counting My Chickens and Home to Roost, among other books, and her letters have been collected in The Mitfords and In Tearing Haste.

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PAPERBACK OctoberMonth HAZEL ROWLEY Franklin and Eleanor An Extraordinary Marriage “Hazel Rowley’s crackling new biography of the Roosevelt marriage . . . speaks volumes.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

In this groundbreaking account of the marriage, critically acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention—private and public—that kept FDR and Eleanor together. Most of all, she depicts an extraordinary evolution—from conventional Victorian marriage to the bold and radical partnership that has made Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt go down in history as one of the most inspiring and fascinating couples of all time.

“I will go so far as to say that if you are going to read only one book about this extraordinary couple, this is the one.” —James Srodes, The Washington Times Book Review

“Any lover of popular history and unorthodox relationships (juicy bits included) will adore this History engaging biography.” —Jessica Gross, Slate 978-0-312-61063-0 $18.00 • $20.00 Can. Trade Paperback “A sensitive, hugely compelling portrait.” 6" x 9" • 384 pp. —Megan O’Grady, Vogue (Best Biography of 2010) Includes 8-pg b&w insert Hardcover • NEXT Selection 978-0-374-15857-6 • National Print Coverage eBook 978-1-4299-6287-2 • Internet Marketing Outreach to American History Sites www.hazelrowley.com • Academic Marketing Campaign

HAZEL ROWLEY is the author of three previous biographies: Christina Stead: A Biography, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year; Richard Wright: The Life and Times, a Washington Post Best Book; and Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean- Paul Sartre, translated into thirteen languages. She

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PAPERBACK October YAEL HEDAYA Eden A Novel From a lead writer of the original In Treatment comes an “accomplished, acutely observed novel” (Publishers Weekly).

Eden is no paradise: it is the stifling, rural community in which upscale urban escapees, the separated Alona and Mark reunite under the resentful scrutiny of Roni, Mark’s needy adolescent daughter. Against the rich panorama of Eden’s oldtimers and newcomers, Roni’s father and stepmother are jolted out of their own absorbing concerns and a new family structure begins to form out of an unlikely set of characters. Through a portrait of family entanglements, disappearing countryside, and disappointed expectations, Yael Hedaya, “does an excellent job of presenting the struggles, joys, and intimate moments of middle age through this aus- tere, beautifully crafted, and many-voiced novel” (Booklist).

“A richly textured contemporary family story.” —The Jewish Week Fiction 978-0-312-42726-9 “A graceful exploration of loneliness . . . and the worm $20.00 • $23.00 Can. that gnaws at the heart of all things.”—Kirkus Reviews Trade Paperback 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" • 496 pp. Hardcover • National Print Coverage 978-0-8050-9265-3 • Internet Marketing eBook Outreach to Literary Sites and Bloggers 978-1-4299-4996-5 Outreach to Jewish Media Reading Group Promotion and Online Reading Group Guide Picador Reading Group e-Newsletter and Website Feature

YAEL HEDAYA is one of the lead writers for the Also available original In Treatment, the acclaimed Israeli TV series Accidents adapted for HBO. The author of Housebroken and Acci- 978-0-312-42604-0 $18.00 dents, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Housebroken Award in 2006, Hedaya teaches creative writing at Tel 978-0-312-42090-1 $18.00 Aviv University and screenwriting at Sapir College in

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PAPERBACK OctoberMonth ED VULLIAMY Amexica War Along the Borderline With a New Afterword “Vulliamy, with a mix of irony and pathos, writes like a latter-day Graham Greene.” —Tamar Jacoby, The New York Times Book Review

In 2009, Ed Vulliamy traveled two thousand miles along the frontier from the Pacific Coast to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war. He describes in revelatory detail the dreaded narco gangs; the smuggling of people, weapons, and illegal drugs; and the interrelated economies of drugs and the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Amexica takes us far beyond today’s headlines. It is a street-level portrait, by turns horrific and sublime, of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself.

“Vulliamy paints a terrifying and authoritative portrait of violence.” —David Reiff, The Wall Street Journal Current Affairs/History 978-0-312-61061-6 “An absorbing odyssey…Vulliamy’s reporting is fault- $18.00 • $20.00 Can. lessly brave. . . . The scenery and characters he meets Trade Paperback 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 400 pp. are brought alive with vividness and intensity.” Includes one map; one 8-pg b&w —Alex Spillius, The Telegraph (UK) insert Hardcover • National Print Coverage 978-0-374-10441-2 • National Radio Campaign eBook 978-1-4299-7702-9 • Select Author Events • Internet Marketing Digital Advertising Targeted Current Affairs and Political Blog Outreach • Academic Marketing Campaign

ED VULLIAMY was the New York correspondent for The Observer from 1997 to 2003 and spent many years as an international correspondent for The Guardian. The author of Seasons in Hell, Vulliamy lives in London

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PAPERBACK ARNALDUR INDRI–DASON Hypothermia An Icelandic Thriller

Inspector Erlendur returns to investigate a suspi- cious suicide in this critically acclaimed Icelandic thriller from Arnaldur Indrid–ason.

Inspector Erlendur has spent his entire career strug- gling to evade the ghosts of his past. But ghosts are vis- iting him, both at a séance attended by a dead woman, and in the reemerging puzzle of two young people who went missing thirty years ago. And there’s the ghost of the detective’s disastrous marriage—which, despite the pleas of his drug-addled daughter, he is unwilling to confront. Erlendur is also still obsessed with the disap- pearance of his brother, who vanished without a trace when they were boys. He can run from his ghosts for only so long, and, when they finally catch up with him, Erlunder is forced to face the heart shattering truth of his past. A haunting novel of suspense from the chilly shores of Iceland, Hypothermia is Scandinavian crime fiction at its best. Mystery 978-0-312-61059-3 “Indrid–ason and Steig Larsson have produced two of $15.00 • NCR the best crime novels of the year.” Trade Paperback —The Independent (UK) 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 320 pp. Hardcover 978-0-312-56991-4 eBook 978-1-4299-4016-0

Also available Arctic Chill 978-0-312-65530-3 $15.00 The Draining Lake 978-0-312-42858-7 $14.00 Jar City 978-0-312-42638-5 $15.00 Silence of the Grave 978-0-312-42732-0 $14.00 Voices 978-0-312-42806-8 $15.00 22 October Picador Fall 2011_Final.qxp:New Picador Template 2007 3/2/11 4:09 PM Page 23

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“What’s Icelandic for ‘we have ourselves a winner’?” —Newsday

“A remarkable series.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Haunting and compelling, this novel has an intense INGÓLFSSON EINAR FALUR personal quality that keeps your reading.” —The Oklahoman • Co-Promotion with Operation Napoleon “Every one of these writers is good [Hakan Nesser, (Minotaur), including Kjell Eriksson, Ake Edwarson, Helene Tursten, Karin Excerpt Fossam], but in my book, Arnaldur Indrid–ason is • National Print Coverage even better.” —Joe Queenan, Los Angeles Times • Special Retail Offer/Backlist Promotion “Defiantly unconventional crime fiction . . . Psycholog- • Internet Marketing ically astute, beautifully told, and filled with insight Digital Advertising and into matters of life and death.” Social Media Campaign —Booklist (starred review) Mystery and Genre Site Outreach “Highly recommended for fans of Indrid–ason’s previ- So Good It’s Criminal Website Feature and ous mysteries and for lovers of Scandinavian crime e-Newsletter/e-Card fiction.” —Library Journal (starred review)

ARNALDUR INDRI-DASON won the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel for both Jar City and Silence of the Grave, and, in 2005, Silence of the Grave also won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of the year. He lives in Iceland.

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BACKLIST TIE-INS

ANDRÉ ACIMAN Alibis (FSG, 978-0-374-10275-3, $25)

Eight White Nights (978-0-312-68056-5, $15)

Call Me by Your Name (978-0-312-42678-1, $14)

False Papers (978-0-312-42005-5, $14)

Out of Egypt (978-0-312-42655-2, $16)

JEFFREY EUGENIDES The Marriage Plot (FSG, 978-0-374-20305-4, $28)

Middlesex (978-0-312-42773-3, $15)

The Virgin Suicides (978-0-312-42881-5, $14)

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AMITAV GHOSH River of Smoke (FSG, 978-0-374-17423-1, $28)

Sea of Poppies (978-0-312-42859-4, $15)

MICHAEL T. KLARE The Race for What’s Left (Holt, 978-0-8050-9126-7, $27)

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet (978-0-8050-8921-9, $16)

Blood and Oil (978-0-8050-7938-8, $18)

Resource Wars (978-0-8050-5576-4, $17)

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN That Used to Be Us (FSG, 978-0-374-28890-7, $28)

Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0 (978-0-312-42892-1, $16)

The World Is Flat 3.0 (978-0-312-42507-4, $16)

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PAPERBACK PAUL AUSTER Sunset Park A Novel A New York Times Bestseller

“Paul Auster is one of those sages with confounding talent—confounding for one because he’s simply that good . . . he belongs among Vonnegut, Roth, and DeLillo. . . . Now is the time to herald the Post-Recession Novel. Sunset Park looks to be it.” —The Daily Beast

From the bestselling author of Invisible and The New York Trilogy comes a new novel set during the 2008 economic collapse. Sunset Park opens with twenty- eight-year-old Miles Heller trashing out foreclosed homes in Florida, where he fled to seven years earlier. When Miles falls in love with Pilar Sanchez he finds himself fleeing once again, returning to New York where his family still remains, and into an abandoned house of twentysomething squatters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Interweaving various points of view—that of Miles’s father, an independent book publisher try- Fiction ing to stay afloat, and Miles’s mother, a celebrated 978-0-312-61067-8 actress preparing to return to broadway—Sunset $15.00 • $17.00 Can. Park’s “father-son story is in fact the warmest line of Trade Paperback narrative Auster has ever written” (Alan Cheuse, 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 320 pp. Dallas Morning News). Hardcover 978-0-8050-9286-8 eBook 978-1-4299-4727-5

Also available Auggie Wren’s Christmas Collected Prose Man in the Dark Story 978-0-312-42992-8 $20.00 978-0-312-42851-8 $14.00 978-0-8050-7723-0 $15.00 Hand to Mouth Oracle Night The Book of Illusions 978-0-312-42232-5 $14.00 978-0-312-42366-7 $14.00 978-0-312-42901-0 $15.00 Inner Life of Martin Frost Timbuktu The Brooklyn Follies 978-0-312-42703-0 $11.00 978-0-312-42894-5 $13.00 978-0-312-42900-3 $14.00 Invisible Travels in the Scriptorium City of Glass 978-0-312-42982-9 $15.00 978-0-312-42629-3 $12.00 978-0-312-42360-5 $15.00

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“The latest and arguably most user-friendly among the whip-smart fiction canon of Paul Auster . . . [A] winning novel . . . In Sunset Park, Auster seems to carry all of humanity inside him.” —The Boston Globe

“A swift-moving, character-driven narrative, explores guilt, luck, and our enduring need for human contact © NANCY CRAMPTON and a sense of belonging. Powerful . . . Readers might find their one regret is seeing the book end.” • National Print Advertising —Richmond Times-Dispatch • National Print Coverage • A New York Times Editors’ “A haymaker of a contemporary American novel, real- Choice istic and serious as your life.” • An Indie Next Pick —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Select Regional Author Events “Exquisitely crafted, surprisingly tender . . . A story grounded in the potent emotions of love, loss, regret, • Internet Marketing Digital Advertising and and vengeance, and the painful reality of current day Social Media Campaign calamities like evictions and bankruptcies.” Outreach to Literary Sites —NPR’s “Books We Like” Reading Group Promotion and Online Reading Group Guide Picador Reading Group e-Newsletter and Website Feature • Backlist Promotion

PAUL AUSTER is the bestselling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brook- lyn Follies, and Oracle Night, among many other works. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was a national bestseller. His work has been translated into forty-three languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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PAPERBACK ALEX ROSS Listen to This

With a New Essay for the Paperback Edition

“Ross veers effortlessly from Mozart to Radiohead, from Kurt Cobain to Brahms, bringing a pop fan’s enthusiasm to the composers and treating the rock stars seriously as musicians. . . . A joy for a pop fan or a classical aficionado.” —The New York Times Book Review

Listen to This—which collects Alex Ross’s finest writing for The New Yorker since 1994—is the rare book that moves across the entire landscape of music, from classical music to rock and back again. In essays that are at once erudite and lively, Ross tells of his own late-blooming discovery of pop and relates the newest music to centuries of musical tradition. In a previously unpublished essay, he brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vividly sketches canonical Music 978-0-312-61068-5 composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives $18.00 • $20.00 Can. us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such Trade Paperback as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 400 pp. students at a Newark high school and indie-rock Includes 11 b&w illust. throughout hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Hardcover Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full 978-0-374-18774-3 complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, eBook and brimming with insight, Listen to This is “an indis- 978-1-4299-7761-6 pensable, erudite collection” (Entertainment Weekly).

Also available The Rest Is Noise 978-0-312-427719 $19.00

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“A cause for celebration . . . Listen to This deserves to stand next to the best-written modern books on music.” —Tom Nolan, San Francisco Chronicle

“A posture of eclectic inquiry infuses this absorbing collection.” —Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe © DAVID MICHALEK © DAVID

“Ross casts his net widely. The book contains wonderful essays on Verdi, Schubert, Brahms, and Marian • NEXT Selection Anderson. . . . So graceful, so pithy, so thoughtful, and full of insight . . . one cannot believe that anyone • National Review Coverage who loves music would not love Listen to This.” • National Public Radio —F. Cord Volkmer, The Christian Science Monitor Campaign • An IndieBound Bestseller “Running through every piece is a spirit of adventure, • Select Author Events common sense, joy, and, ultimately, engagement.” • Internet Marketing —Alan Moores, The Seattle Times Digital Advertising and Social Media Campaign “A thinker with style and a stylist who thinks . . . Alex Outreach to Classical Ross is one of the great civilized pleasures anywhere Music Sites Picador e-Newsletter on any subject.” —Jeff Simon, Buffalo News and Website Feature www.therestisnoise.com “Ross avoids jargon, he explains, he writes in real lan- • Backlist Promotion guage. He reminds me of my other favorite music critic, Bernard Shaw.” —Roger Ebert • Academic Marketing Campaign

ALEX ROSS has been the music critic for The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, which was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2008, he received a McArthur Fellowship.

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PAPERBACK November MARK FELDSTEIN Poisoning the Press Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture “Delicious . . . entertaining, and well researched. . . . Reads like All the President’s Men as directed by the Coen brothers.” —The Washington Post

Poisoning the Press recounts the bitter quarter-century battle between the postwar era’s most embattled politi- cian and its most reviled newsman. The struggle between Nixon and Anderson included bribery, blackmail, forgery, bugging, burglary, spying, and sexual smears—even a White House plot to assassinate Anderson. Mark Feldstein traces the arc of this confrontation between a vindictive president and a flamboyantly crusading muckraker. Their vendetta symbolized and accelerated the growing conflict between the government and the press, a clash that would long outlive both men. Poisoning the Press is “an absolutely essential book for anyone interested in American political history” (NPR).

“A furiously paced real-life thriller, Mark Feldstein’s History multi-decade history works as both gripping drama 978-0-312-61070-8 $20.00 • $23.00 Can. and darkly funny analysis. . . . A must-read.” Trade Paperback —Time Out (New York) 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 496 pp. Includes one 8-pg. b&w insert Hardcover • National Radio Campaign 978-0-374-23530-7 eBook • National Print Coverage 978-0-312-61070-8 • Internet Marketing Digital Advertising Targeted Current Affairs and Political Blog Outreach

MARK FELDSTEIN was an investigative correspondent for CNN, ABC, and other news outlets for two decades, earning an Edward R. Murrow Achievement Award and two George Foster Peabody Awards.

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PAPERBACK NovemberMonth DR. DICKSON DESPOMMIER The Vertical Farm Feeding the World in the 21st Century “A world-changing innovation whose time has come. This visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world’s food supply and at the same time solving one of the greatest environmental crises facing us today.” —Sting

Imagine a world where every city has its own local food source grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature’s gro- cery store—imagine the world of the vertical farm. When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America’s food, water, and energy crises, he didn’t just think big—he thought up. In this groundbreaking book, “Despommier has quickly become the central figure in what could be a world- wide revolution” (Scientific American).

“A book you will read, and then, you will read it again. It is a book that could begin a revolution. Let’s hope it does.” —Bonnie Jeane Adams, Chicago Examiner Environment/Science 978-0-312-61069-2 “Nobody has ever dreamed as big as Dr. Dickson $16.00 • $18.50 Can. Despommier.” —New York magazine Trade Paperback 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" • 320 pp. Includes four 8-pg. color inserts • National Print Coverage Hardcover 978-0-312-61139-2 • National Radio Campaign eBook • Internet Marketing 978-1-4299-4604-9 Digital Advertising and Social Media Campaign Outreach to Environmental Organizations and Food Activist Groups Book Trailer Picador Website Feature www.verticalfarm.com • Academic Marketing Campaign

DR. DICKSON DESPOMMIER spent thirty-eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia. He lives

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PAPERBACK IAN MORRIS Why the West Rules—for Now The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future A New York Times Bestseller

“A lucid thinker and a fine writer . . . Morris uses a minimum of academic jargon and is possessed of a welcome sense of humor that helps him guide us through this grand game of history as if he were an erudite sportscaster.” —Orville Schell, The New York Times Book Review

A story fifty thousand years in the making, Why the West Rules—for Now claims a place among the modern classics of world history. Author Ian Morris— polymath, internationally renowned scholar, and “the world’s most talented ancient historian”—explains anew the story of Western dominance in this unified theory of all things geopolitical. Brilliantly informed, scholarly, vibrant, and entertaining, Why the West Rules—for Now is “a stunningly informative, imagina- tive, and engaging account . . . provocative . . . and History intellectually stimulating” (Glenn C. Altschuler, 978-0-312-61169-9 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). $22.00 • NCR Trade Paperback “A remarkable book . . . an important book—one that 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 768 pp. challenges, stimulates, and entertains. Anyone who Includes 11 b&w illust.; 51 maps; does not believe there are lessons to be learned from 33 graphs & charts; 6 tables history should start right here.” —The Economist Hardcover 978-0-374-29002-3 eBook 978-1-4299-7704-3

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“Morris’s new book illustrates perfectly why one really scholarly book about the past is worth a hundred fan- ciful works of futurology. . . . He has brilliantly pulled off what few modern academics would dare to attempt: a single-volume history of the world . . . ingenious.” —Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs © LINDA A. CICERO, STANFORD NEWS SERVICE © LINDA A. CICERO, STANFORD “A formidable, richly engrossing effort to determine why Western institutions dominate the world . . . A • National Print Coverage superior contribution to the grand-theory-of-human- • Academic Marketing history genre.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Campaign

“The first history of the world that really makes use of what modern technology can offer to the interpreta- tion of the historical process. The result is a path- breaking work that lays out what modern history should look like.” —The Financial Times

“The greatest nonfiction book written in recent times.” —The Business Standard

“Three books wrapped into one: an exciting novel that happens to be true; an entertaining but thorough historical account of everything important . . . and an educated guess about what will happen in the future.” —Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse

IAN MORRIS is Willard Professor of Classics and History at Stanford University. He has published ten scholarly books, including, most recent, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires, and has directed excavations in Greece and Italy. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California.

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PAPERBACK November ANDREW WINER The Marriage Artist A Novel “Potent . . . a high-minded fusion of dark anti-love story and ethnographic detective fiction.” —Jan Stuart, The Boston Globe

When the wife of renowned art critic Daniel Licht- mann plunges to her death, she is not alone. Lying next to her is Benjamin Wind, the very artist Daniel most championed. Dedicating himself to uncovering the secrets of their relationship, Daniel discovers a web of mysteries leading back to pre-World War II Vienna. Ambitious, haunting, and stunningly written, The Mar- riage Artist is an “elaborate psycho-political-sexual puzzle, with . . . hard truths, startling visions, and eerie insights into the mystical and memorializing powers of art, and that endless hunger we call love” (Booklist).

“Moves between lyricism and noir to hint at those mysteries less easily explained, such as the nature of identity—and the confounding bonds between hus- band and wife.” —Vogue

Fiction “A story that is engrossing and haunting.” 978-0-312-61072-2 —M. L. Johnson, The Salt Lake Tribune $15.00 • $17.00 Can. Trade Paperback “A tour de force of provocative ideas . . . expressed 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 400 pp. through emotionally riveting characters.” Hardcover —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 978-0-8050-9178-6 eBook 978-1-4299-9599-3 • NEXT Selection • National Print Coverage • Reading Group Guide Bound in Book • Internet Marketing Outreach to Literary Sites Reading Group Promotion Picador Reading Group e-Newsletter and Website Feature

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PAPERBACKPAPERBACK NovemberNovember ADRIENNE SHARP The True Memoirs of Little K A Novel “Sit back and be told a story, the rich and fantastic memoirs of ninety-nine-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska, ballerina with the Russian Imperial Ballet, mistress to tsars and grand dukes. . . . Sharp tells her story in an almost magical way.” —Los Angles Times

Exiled in Paris, the frail, elderly Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar’s Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Kschessinska’s riveting storytelling soon thrusts us into a world lost to time: that great intersec- tion of the Russian court and the Russian theater. Through the memories of her own triumphs and defeats, we witness the stories that changed history: from the seething beginnings of revolution to the end of a grand, decadent way of life that belonged to the nineteenth century. Based on fact, The True Memoirs of Little K is “an engrossing tale of love, loss, and history” (The Wichita Eagle). Fiction 978-0-312-61071-5 “Brilliant . . . If only we’d had history teachers this $15.00 • $17.00 Can. knowledgeable—and this much fun.” Trade Paperback —O, The Oprah Magazine 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 384 pp. Hardcover “A riveting historical tale . . . with beautifully detailed, 978-0-374-20730-4 eBook often conversational language, Sharp describes a lost 978-1-4299-6285-8 world, pre-revolution Saint Petersburg.” —The Christian Science Monitor

• National Print Coverage • Reading Group Guide Bound in Book • Internet Marketing Outreach to Literary Sites Reading Group Promotion Picador Reading Group e-Newsletter and Website Feature

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BACKLIST TIE-INS November

PÉTER NÁDAS Parallel Stories (FSG, 978-0-374-22976-4, $40)

A Book of Memories (978-0-312-42796-2, $18)

Fire and Knowledge (978-0-312-42751-1, $16)

A. N. WILSON Dante in Love (FSG, 978-0-374-13468-6, $26)

Our Times (978-0-312-68049-7, $20)

After the Victorians (978-0-312-42515-9, $19)

My Name Is Legion (978-0-312-42514-2, $15)

Winnie and Wolf (978-0-312-42862-4, $15)

JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN Pulphead (FSG, 978-0-374-53290-1, $15)

Blood Horses (978-0-312-42376-6, $15)

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PAPERBACK December STEPHEN L. MACKNIK AND SUSANA MARTINEZ-CONDE, WITH SANDRA BLAKESLEE Sleights of Mind What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

“This book will change the way you think about the mind.” —Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world’s greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. The implications of neuromagic go beyond illuminating our behavior; early research points to new approaches for everything from the diagnosis of autism to marketing techniques and education. Sleights of Mind is a “tour through consciousness, attention, and deception via the marriage of professional magic and cognitive neuroscience” (Vanessa Schipani, The Scientist).

“Illuminating . . . the book points to an even deeper Science mystery: How the brain constructs its version of 978-0-312-61167-5 reality.” —Laura Sanders, Science News $16.00 • $18.50 Can. Trade Paperback 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" • 304 pp. • National Print Coverage Includes 12 b&w illust.; 19 b&w photos throughout • Internet Marketing Hardcover Outreach to Neuroscience and Medical Sites 978-0-8050-9281-3 www.sleightsofmind.com eBook • Academic Marketing Campaign 978-1-4299-5108-1

STEPHEN L. MACKNIK, PH.D., is Director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. SUSANA MARTINEZ-CONDE, PH.D., is Director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at BNI. SANDRA BLAKESLEE is a regular contributor to “Science Times” at The New York Times who specializes in the brain sciences, and the author of several books.

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PAPERBACK December SERGIO LUZZATTO Padre Pio Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age

“Luzzato tackles the curious sociology of sainthood: the cult of personality that ignores what ostensibly holy men and women are and instead imagines what they could be.” —Justin Moyer, The Washington Post

Padre Pio is one of the world’s most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. His miraculous feats included the ability to fly and to be present in two places at once. Most notable were his stigmata, hailed by millions as God-given yet viewed with suspicion by two popes—a controversy reignited by Sergio Luzzatto’s discovery of a letter from Pio requesting a secret delivery of carbolic acid. Neither a worshipful hagiography nor a character assassination, Padre Pio is “a rich story of faith versus science . . . [and] a solid exploration into the fine line between the faithful and the fraudulent in twentieth- century Catholicism” (Kirkus Reviews).

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SERGIO LUZZATTO is the author of The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini’s Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy. He is a professor of modern history at the University of Turin.

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In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist, Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy, environmental conser- vation, and created the famed African Hall at New York’s Museum of Natural History. Akeley risked death time and again in the jungles of Africa as he stalked animals for his dioramas and hobnobbed with outsized personalities of the era, such as Theodore Roosevelt and P. T. Barnum. Kingdom Under Glass is a “rollicking biography . . . an epic adventure . . . [and] a beguiling, novelistic portrait of a man and an era straining to hear the call of the wild” (Publishers Weekly).

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PAPERBACK DONALD ANTRIM The Verificationist A Novel PICADOR IS PROUD TO REISSUE THE BRILL

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DONALD ANTRIM is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the New York Public Library. He lives in New York City.

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AMEXICA; Ed Vulliamy 21 MARRIAGE ARTIST, THE; Andrew Winer 34 Antrim, Donald; VERIFICATIONIST, THE 40 Martinez-Conde, Susana; SLEIGHTS OF MIND 37 Auster, Paul; SUNSET PARK 26 Morris, Ian; WHY THE WEST RULES— Blakeslee, Sandra; SLEIGHTS OF MIND 37 FOR NOW 32 BY NIGHTFALL; Michael Cunningham 2 Mitford, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire; Carter, Jimmy; WHITE HOUSE DIARY 6 WAIT FOR ME! 18 CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF; NICKEL AND DIMED; Barbara Ehrenreich 12 Nelson Mandela 16 ON BALANCE; Adam Phillips 42 CRISIS CARAVAN, THE; Linda Polman 10 PADRE PIO; Sergio Luzzatto 38 Cunningham, Michael; BY NIGHTFALL 2 Phillips, Adam; ON BALANCE 42 Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire; POISONING THE PRESS; Mark Feldstein 30 WAIT FOR ME! 18 Polman, Linda; CRISIS CARAVAN, THE 10 Despommier, Dr. Dickson; VERTICAL FARM, Randall, Frederika; PADRE PIO 38 THE 31 Ross, Alex; LISTEN TO THIS 28 Deutscher, Guy; THROUGH THE Rowley, Hazel; FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR 19 LANGUAGE GLASS 4 Sharp, Adrienne; TRUE MEMOIRS OF EDEN; Yael Hedaya 20 LITTLE K, THE 35 Ehrenreich, Barbara; NICKEL AND DIMED 12 SLEIGHTS OF MIND; Stephen L. Macknik & Elliot, Jason; UNEXPECTED LIGHT, AN 11 Susana Martinez-Conde, with Sandra Blakeslee 37 EYE OF THE STORM, THE; Patrick White 9 SUNSET PARK; Paul Auster 26 Feldstein, Mark; POISONING THE PRESS 30 THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS; FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR; Hazel Rowley 19 Guy Deutscher 4 Frazier, Ian; TRAVELS IN SIBERIA 14 TRAVELS IN SIBERIA; Ian Frazier 14 Hedaya, Yael; EDEN 20 TRUE MEMOIRS OF LITTLE K, THE; HOW TO BECOME A SCANDAL; Adrienne Sharp 35 Laura Kipnis 8 UNEXPECTED LIGHT, AN; Jason Elliot 11 HYPOTHERMIA; Arnaldur Indrid–ason 22 VERIFICATIONIST, THE; Donald Antrim 40 Indrid–ason, Arnaldur; HYPOTHERMIA 22 VERTICAL FARM, THE; Dr. Dickson Despommier KINGDOM UNDER GLASS; Jay Kirk 39 31 Vulliamy, Ed; Kipnis, Laura; HOW TO BECOME AMEXICA 21 A SCANDAL 8 WAIT FOR ME!; Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire Kirk, Jay; KINGDOM UNDER GLASS 39 18 Jimmy Carter LISTEN TO THIS; Alex Ross 28 WHITE HOUSE DIARY; 6 White, Patrick; Luzzatto, Sergio; PADRE PIO 38 EYE OF THE STORM, THE 9 Macknik, Stephen L.; SLEIGHTS OF MIND 37 WHY THE WEST RULES—FOR NOW; Ian Morris 32 Mandela, Nelson; CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF 16 Winer, Andrew; MARRIAGE ARTIST, THE 34

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