APRIL 2016 Maggie's Kitchen Caroline Beecham
Amid the heartbreak and danger of London in the Blitz of WWII, Maggie Johnson finds her courage in friendship and food.
Sales points • Take our word for it: read it, love it, or your money back • A warm hearted novel of family secrets and great love, told with poignancy and humour • Influencer marketing to famous foodies (Julie Goodwin, Stephanie Alexander, Maggie Beer, Annabel Crabb etc) • Includes wartime recipes • Author is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy • Targeted social media advertising to fans of Call the Midwife, Foyle's War etc (estimated reach 45,000) • CATEGORY: Popular fiction
Description They might all travel the same scarred and shattered streets on their way to work, but once they entered Maggie's Kitchen, it was somehow as if the rest of the world didn't exist.
When the British Ministry of Food urgently calls for the opening of restaurants to feed tired and hungry Londoners during WWII, Maggie Johnson seems close to realising a long-held dream.
Navigating a constant tangle of government red-tape, Maggie's Kitchen finally opens its doors to the public and Maggie finds that she has a most unexpected problem. Her restaurant has become so popular that she simply can't find enough food to keep up with the demand for meals.
With the help of twelve-year-old Robbie, a street urchin, and Janek, a Polish refugee dreaming of returning to his native land, she evades threats of closure from the Ministry. But breaking the rules is not the only thing she has to worry about. . . as Maggie fights to keep her beloved Kitchen open, she discovers that some secrets have the power to change Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) everything. ISBN: 9781760293048 Format: Paperback - C format About the Author Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages Caroline has worked as a writer, television producer and director in Europe, the US and Australasia. With an MA in
Main Category: F Fiction Creative Writing from UTS, she now lives in Sydney with her family and Maggie's Kitchen is her first novel for adults.
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Fighting Season Bram Connolly
Introducing Matt Rix... Australian commando. An explosive thriller from the heart of Afghanistan.
Sales points • An action-packed thriller that's as authentic as it gets • Author is a decorated former Australian Special Forces commander • For fans of Andy McNab and Chris Ryan • 'City Lights' outdoor advertising campaign in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane CBDs • One of Chris Masters' "Uncommon Soldiers", Bram has had multiple tours to Afghanistan • Now living in Dubai, he will be in Australia for publication • CATEGORY: Thriller
Description Afghanistan, 2010, Matt Rix is the platoon commander of Yankee Platoon, an Australian Special Forces Unit operating within the badlands of Uruzghan Provence.
At the beginning of its 6-month deployment, one of the platoon's vehicles is destroyed by a huge roadside bomb and a popular member of the platoon is killed instantly.
Objective Rapier, a shadowy Taliban commander, is identified as the most likely culprit, and Rix vows to pursue him across the troubled country until he is neutralised. But things are not at all what they seem.
In the end Matt is left with only one choice, follow the rules and survive Afghanistan, or gamble everything in an effort to beat Rapier at his own game.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781760290382 With a number of tours to Afghanistan under his belt, Bram Connolly turned to writing fiction after a twenty-year career Format: Paperback - C format with the Australian Army. Having joined as a seventeen year old, he rose through the ranks to retire from the Special Dimensions: 234x153mm Forces as a Major in 2011. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for Leadership in Combat in 2010 and is Extent: 336 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Landing Susan Johnson
Jonathan Lott, recently divorced, is about to find how much love really matters in a funny, delightful and poignant novel that lays out the human condition - looking for love in all of its many forms with secrets, polite lies, desperation, compromise and joy.
Sales points • A warm and funny novel about love and mid-life from one of Australia's best writers • Ideal for reading groups • For readers who loved The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide • My Hundred Lovers sold more than 6000 copies across all formats • CATEGORY: Popular fiction
Description Jonathan Lott is confused. His wife has left him for a woman and he doesn't like living alone. Is it true that an about-to-be- divorced man in possession of a good fortune is in need of a new wife? Would Penny Collins do, divorced herself, school teacher and frustrated artist? What about beautiful Anna, blown in from who knows where, trailing broken marriages behind her? There's a lot happening at The Landing, where Jonathan has his beach house, and he's about to find out how much love matters.
Susan Johnson's stunning new novel, written with her trademark wit and insight, brilliantly observes what it is to be human and to love: the betrayals, the long and the short alliances, the disappointments and the joys. The Landing celebrates all of it with verve and style.
About the Author Susan Johnson was shortlisted for the 1991 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel Flying Lessons, shortlisted for the 1994 National Book Council's Banjo Award for the novel A Big Life and shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2000 for her memoir A Better Woman. Her other books include Hungry Ghosts, Messages from Chaos, Women Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) Love Sex (editor and contributor) and Life in Seven Mistakes. The Broken Book was shortlisted for the 2005 Nita B ISBN: 9781760294014 Kibble Award; the Best Fiction Book section of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award; the Westfield/Waverley Library Format: Paperback - B format Literary Award, and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal Award for an Outstanding Australian Literary Work. Her Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 288 pages last novel, My Hundred Lovers, was published in 2012 to critical acclaim.
Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: FA Popular Fiction In 2010 she returned from ten years in London to live in Brisbane. She is a feature writer at Qweekendmagazine. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Kangaroo Point, QLD
Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Windy Season Sam Carmody
From an impressive new voice in Australian literature, a novel where safe harbour seems always just out of reach.
Sales points • Shortlisted in the 2014 Australian/Vogel's Award • A rich combination of the poetic and the coarse - think Andrew McGahan meets early Tim Winton • It's pacey with writing that's often starkly beautiful • Fantastic descriptions of life on a trawler and those hard coastal towns • Extensive pre-publication promotion via social reading sites • Targeted social media advertising to fans of Australian literary fiction including Tim Winton (estimated reach 35,000) • CATEGORY: Literary fiction
Description Sam Carmody is a real literary talent, with an artist's inquiring mind and a natural feel for the beauty and toughness of language. Charlotte Wood, author of the award-winning The Natural Way of Things
A young fisherman is missing from the crayfish boats in the harsh West Australian coastal town of Stark. There's no trace at all of Elliot, there hasn't been for some weeks and Paul, his younger brother, is the only one who seems to be active in the search. Taking Elliot's place on their antagonistic cousin's boat, Paul soon learns how many opportunities there are to get lost in those many thousands of kilometres of lonely coastline.
Fierce, evocative and memorable, this is an Australian story set within an often wild and unforgiving sea, where mysterious influences are brought to bear on the inhospitable town and its residents.
About the Author Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Western Australia. The Windy Season was shortlisted for the 2014 Vogel's literary Award, Australia's most prestigious ISBN: 9781760111564 award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of thirty-five. Carmody's short fiction and non- fiction has Format: Paperback - C format been published widely online and in print, including the Griffith Review and ABC's The Drum, and in The Review of Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 288 pages Australian Fiction. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian
Main Category: F Fiction Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards. He has won a WA Music Award for his song-writing. Carmody is currently living Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction in Darwin on Australia's Northern Territory coast lecturing in creative writing at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Higher Illustrations: Education. Previous Titles: Author now living: Darwin, WA
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Storm and Grace Kathryn Heyman
Their love knows no limits - but the further you go, the more dangers there are. Love becomes obsession and lust becomes control. A riveting thriller in the tradition of Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep.
Sales points • A riveting portrait of a marriage that devolves from lustful love to fear and suspicion • Brilliant addition to the popular 'marriage thriller' genre, in the tradition of Gone Girl • A glamorous tropical setting, a fascinating background of free diving (as seen in the great film The Big Blue), sexy lead characters and a truly compelling storyline • Perfect literary/commercial crossover • Extensive pre-publication promotion via social reading sites • Targeted social media advertising to fans of Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep (estimated reach 50,000) • Kathryn will speak about her own experience of domestic violence and the growing nightmare of women murdered by their partners • CATEGORY: Literary fiction
Description World-famous free-diver Storm Hisray hits Grace Cain like a bolt from the blue. Instantly smitten, she abandons her life in the city to follow him to his idyllic Pacific island. There he teaches Grace the ways of the deep, and she learns to sink to unimaginable depths on one single breath. As their world narrows to the two of them, she learns, too, the dazzling pleasures of her body - but Storm hides as many secrets as the sea.
Storm begins training Grace to be his new star, and life is blissful until a female diver is featured on the cover of Sports Weekly as 'The Mermaid of the Deep'. Storm starts pushing Grace further and further beyond her limits - both in and out of the water. As her resistance grows, Storm's temper takes a frightening turn and Grace fears she is in deeper - and more dangerous - water than she has ever imagined possible. With a secret of her own, Grace's fears grow to haunt her, even as she prepares for one last, desperate descent. Deeper than anyone has ever been before, this will be the death- Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) defying moment which will make both of their careers. But is death ready to be defied? ISBN: 9781743313633 Format: Paperback - C format And now, a year after Grace's record, surrounded by the world's media, Storm prepares for the most important dive of his Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 360 pages life. Narrated by a chorus of mesmerising sirens, Storm and Grace explores the dazzling thrill of the deep, and its
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Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living: Birchgrove, NSW Kathryn Heyman is the author of five novels, including Floodline, The Accomplice and Captain Starlight's Apprentice, published internationally and in translation. She has received an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Awards, and been nominated for the Orange Prize, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Critic's Awards, the Kibble Prize, and the West Australian Premier's Book Awards. She has written Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Storm and Grace 8 copy pack
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Crossing Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch teams up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller in the new thriller from international bestselling author Michael Connelly.
Sales points • Bosch is back! SBS has just confirmed that Season 2 will air with a double episode premiere on Wednesday 4 May at 8.30pm • Season 2 is based on Trunk Music, The Drop and The Last Coyote and promises to be every bit as good as Season 1 • TPB edition sold 70,000 copies across ANZ •
Description Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired his half-brother, the maverick Defence Attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department for forcing him out. Although it wasn't the way he wanted to go, Bosch has to admit that being out of the game has its benefits.
Until Mickey asks him to help on one of his cases, and suddenly Harry is back where he belongs, right in the centre of a particularly puzzling murder mystery. The difference is, this time Bosch is working for the defence, aiming to prevent the accused, Da'Quan Foster, from being convicted. And not only does the prosecution seem to have a cast-iron case, but having crossed over to 'the dark side' as his former colleagues would put it, Bosch is in danger of betraying the very principles he's lived by his whole career.
With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. But as Bosch gets closer to discovering the truth, he makes himself a target.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781760293741 Michael Connelly, a former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is the author of 20 acclaimed LAPD Detective Harry Format: Paperback - B format Bosch thrillers and several courtroom thrillers featuring 'The Lincoln Lawyer', defence attorney Mickey Haller, as well as Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages stand-alone bestsellers such as The Poet. His first Bosch novel, The Black Echo, based in part on a true crime that had
Main Category: F Fiction occurred in Los Angeles, was published in 1992 and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by the Mystery Writers of Sub Category: FF Crime & Mystery America. Connelly has followed that up with 27 more novels. His books have been translated into 39 languages and have Illustrations: won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Shamus, Dilys, Nero, Barry, Audie, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber Previous Titles: Author now living: (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards. Michael lives with his family in Tampa, Florida.
Michael Connelly APRIL 2016 Wilde Lake Laura Lippman
The brilliant, moving and psychologically complex new standalone novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of After I'm Gone, And When She Was Good, and What the Dead Know.
Sales points • Classic stand-alone Laura Lippman thriller • A thrilling modern day reworking of To Kill a Mockingbird • A major New York Times bestseller with huge ebook sales
Description Luisa 'Lu' Brant is the newly elected - and first female - state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her revered father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn't see many homicides.
As Lu prepares for the trial, the case dredges up painful memories, reminding her small but tight-knit family of the night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another man's life. Only eighteen, AJ was cleared by a grand jury. Now, Lu wonders if the events of 1980 happened as she remembers them. What details might have been withheld from her when she was a child?
The more she learns about the case, the more questions arise. What does it mean to be a man or woman of one's times? Why do we ask our heroes of the past to conform to the present's standards? Is that fair? Is it right? Propelled into the past, she discovers that the legal system, the bedrock of her entire life, does not have all the answers. Lu realises that even if she could learn the whole truth, she probably wouldn't want to.
About the Author Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Since the publication of What the Dead Know, each Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) of her hardcovers has hit the New York Times bestseller list. A recent recipient of the first-ever Mayor's Prize, she lives in ISBN: 9780571321759 Baltimore, New Orleans and New York City with her family. To Find out more about Laura visit www.lauralippman.com Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 368 pages
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Faber Fiction APRIL 2016 Wilde Lake 8 copy pack
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Faber Fiction APRIL 2016 Beast Paul Kingsnorth
Beast plunges you into the world of a man alone in search of enlightenment. He faces an existential battle with himself, the elements, and with a creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.
Sales points • The second book in Paul Kingsnorth's trilogy, following on from his award-winning novel The Wake • Written in more accessible language than The Wake • His debut novel, The Wake, won the Gordon Burn Prize and the Bookseller Book of the Year Award, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Folio Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize • A disturbing literary work, in the vein of William Golding and David Peace
Description Beast by Paul Kingsnorth is the second book in his Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with the acclaimed ('A resonant, eloquent ballad of English identity, pride and fierce independence. It is a thrilling story. Read it out loud. It is like nothing else.' - Mark Rylance) and prize-winning novel, The Wake.
Edward Buckmaster is a man alone on a west country moor. What he has left behind we don't yet know, but will discover; what he faces is a battle with himself, the elements, and with something he begins to see on the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.
This short, shocking, exhilarating novel confirms Paul Kingsnorth as one of the most daring and rewarding English novelists writing in the Modernist tradition of Ted Hughes and William Golding.
About the Author Paul Kingsnorth's debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Folio Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He is also the author of two non- fiction books, One No, Many Yeses and Real England, and a poetry collection, Kidland. He co-founded the Dark Mountain Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Project, a global network of writers, artists and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink. ISBN: 9780571322077 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 176 pages
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Faber Fiction APRIL 2016 London Rain Nicola Upson
The latest instalment of the much-loved series starring Josephine Tey from Nicola Upson.
Sales points • The latest novel in the acclaimed Josephine Tey series • Widespread review coverage expected for this terrific novel
Description May, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king.
Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots - but adultery, treachery and pent-up jealousies stalk the corridors of Broadcasting House. At the height of the Coronation celebrations, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose is called in to investigate the murder of one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters. A second victim - his mistress, and the play's leading actress - suggests that the motive lies close to home, but Josephine suspects that the killings are linked to a decade-old scandal.
With Archie's hands tied by politics, and his attention taken by another, seemingly unrelated death, it is left to Josephine to get to the truth. As her relationship with Marta Fox reaches a turning point, she is forced to confront at first-hand the deadly consequences of love, deceit and betrayal.
Rich in the atmosphere of coronation London and the early days of Broadcasting House, the sixth novel in Nicola Upson's 'Josephine Tey' series sets an audacious, deeply personal crime against the backdrop of one of the most momentous days in British history.
About the Author Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey - one of the leading authors of
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. She lives with her partner in Cambridge and spends much of her time in Cornwall. ISBN: 9780571287765 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 300 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Night of Wenceslas Lionel Davidson
A nailbiting Cold War thriller from the author of the bestselling Kolymsky Heights.
Sales points • Kolymsky Heights has sold over 100,000 copies since being reissued by Faber in 2015 • The perfect read for fans of John Le Carre and Graham Greene • Out of print for decades until re-issued by Faber, this is a wonderful lost classic
Description The award-winning debut thriller from the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights.
In London, young Nicholas Whistler leads a disappointing and repetitive life. When repairs to his beloved sports car land him in debt, he's sent to Prague to carry out a seemingly simple assignment. But he soon finds himself trapped between the secret police and the clutches of the mysterious Vlasta. Nicholas must face the fact that he is now a spy, whether he likes it or not.
About the Author Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas, was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carre. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. He died in 2009.
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 You Don't Have To Live Like This Benjamin Markovits
From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes a darkly comic and brutally insightful vision of contemporary America in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Sales points • Benjamin Markovits returns with an incredible new novel about modern America which will appeal to fans of Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and Joshua Ferris • The book is guaranteed to receive massive coverage in the national press, Benjamin regularly writes and reviews for publications such as Guardian, The Paris Review and The New York Times • The decline and regeneration of Detroit is an incredibly topical issue, generating a huge amount of discussion and interest online
Description Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out.
Robert James, wealthy and influential, a success story of the dotcom bubble, wants to become a political player. His plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit - the poster child for urban decline - and build a new America from their boarded-up ruins. For a small investment, Marnier can transform himself into a twenty-first-century pioneer. The realities of life on America's urban frontier soon become apparent. For every hopeful misfit who's come for a fresh start there's a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by the new colonials. Marnier finds himself caught in the middle of everyone else's battles - between local and outsider, rich and poor, black and white - until a terrible accident forces him to take sides.
About the Author Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of six previous novels: The Syme Papers, Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days and Childish Loves. He has published essays, stories, ISBN: 9780571313426 poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Format: Paperback - B format Review and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages Holloway, University of London.
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 August is a Wicked Month Edna O'Brien
A reissue of Edna O'Brien's ground-breaking novel.
Sales points • Little Red Chairs, Edna O'Brien's most recent novel, was published to widespread acclaim in late 2015 and sold 4,000 copies across ANZ • Repackaged to appeal to a whole new generation of readers • Faber will also be re-issuing The Country Girls Trilogy and A Pagan Place
Description Banned in several countries upon first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. But she soon discovers that independence isn't quite so straightforward.
About the Author Since her debut novel The Country Girls Edna O'Brien has written over twenty works of fiction along with a biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron. She is the recipient of many awards including the Irish Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Art's Gold Medal and the Ulysses Medal. Born and raised in the west of Ireland she has lived in London for many years.
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Supernotes Affair Agent Kasper, translated by John Cullen and Luigi Carletti
Based on a true story, this is the international bestseller about the agent who had to die.
Sales points • A shocking expose and thrilling story of international espionage that takes us around the world from Italy to Cambodia • The Supernotes Affair was a bestseller in Italy when it was first published in March 2014 • An amazing story with huge commercial potential - true crime with the fast pace of a thriller and an irresistible international espionage characters straight from a James Bond film • Agent Kasper has been interviewed on all the major Italian TV and radio talk shows • Alexandra Milchan, the executive producer of The Wolf of Wall Street, has bought film rights
Description Agent Kasper is kidnapped in Cambodia whilst on a mission for the CIA to investigate counterfeit money schemes. He is supposed to disappear forever. Because Kasper has uncovered something so terrible, so explosive and so damaging that the intelligence service he works for wants him dead. When Kasper finds himself in the appalling squalor of one of the world's most notorious prison camps near Phnom Penh, the corrupt guards sent to execute him spot an opportunity and wonder - is Kasper worth more alive? A page-turning and nail-biting read, The Supernotes Affair tells the sensational story of an innocent man's determination to survive.
About the Author Agent Kasper is a half-Italian and half-American former secret agent. He was one of the most effective operatives of Italy's secret services. A jet pilot, skydiver, Krav Maga instructor and firearms instructor, he now lives on a farm outside Rome and runs his own martial arts studio. Luigi Carletti is a journalist and writer.
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 Undying: A Love Story Michel Faber
A heartbreaking chronicle of losing the love of your life by Michel Faber, the award-winning author of The Book of Strange New Things.
Sales points • 'Michel Faber addressed these love poems to his wife after her death. They are lucid, tender and wise, and they pulse with this fine writer's intelligence' - Ian McEwan • 'Heart-breaking, tender, intimate, harrowing . . . this is a stunning testimony to love. In the aftermath, when even the sight of snowflakes hurts the bereaved heart, one truth remains: love outlives the body, love outlives death' - Mary Costello • 'I was touched by the spirit of these poems, their vulnerably sober and steady way of addressing grief' - Christopher Reid • 'A painful little treasure' - Christopher Brookmyre • 'Searing yet beautiful' - Rev Richard Holloway
Description How can you say goodbye to the love of your life?
In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic, candid and true, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is like to have to say goodbye.
All I can do, in what remains of my brief time, is mention, to whoever cares to listen, that a woman once existed, who was kind and beautiful and brave, and I will not forget how the world was altered, beyond recognition, when we met.
About the Author Michel Faber has written nine other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, and most recently The Book of Strange New Things, which was ISBN: 9781782118541 shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award 2015. Born in Holland, brought up Format: Hard Cover in Australia, he now lives in the UK. This is his first poetry collection. Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 160 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 Some Rain Must Fall And Other Stories Michel Faber
Bestselling author Michel Faber's debut joins Canongate's Canons series with the dazzling Some Rain Must Fall.
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Description The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things.
Michel Faber's short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. 'Some Rain Must Fall' juxtaposes the tragic circumstances of traumatised schoolchildren with the interior monologue of a teacher/psychologist enlisted to aid their recovery. In the pseudo-sci-fi 'Fish' a mother tries to protect her child in a terrifying world where fish swim through the streets and lurk in alleyways. Faber's collection is rich and assured, with a dazzling reach.
About the Author Michel Faber has written nine books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Book of Strange New Things, The Fire Gospel and The Fahrenheit Twins. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.
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Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber
Author of the bestselling The Crimson Petal and the White returns after twelve years with an all-out masterpiece about love and the search for meaning in an unfathomable universe.
Sales points • Michel Faber's first major novel since The Crimson Petal and the White • The second format will feature two different covers on the same ISBN - a male and a female to reflect Bea and Peter as the two main characters • The Crimson Petal and the White has sold over 1 million copies worldwide • 'Michel Faber's second masterpiece, quite different to The Crimson Petal and the White but every bit as luminescent and memorable. It is a portrait of a living, breathing relationship, frayed by distance. It is an enquiry into the mountains faith can move and the mountains faith can't move. It is maniacally gripping' - David Mitchell • 'As gripping as any thriller . . . A work of originality and insight' The Times • 'There are some novels that come along, when writing a review seems superfluous and all one wants to do is to grab someone by the shoulders and say: "Look, just read the damn thing!". This is one of them. In this thoughtful, deeply moving page-turner, Faber excels himself' Scotsman • 'A novel of love, grief, a dystopian travelogue, a triumph of imaginative fiction with interests in story, language, body, the environment and the power of belief an engrossing and affecting book. The remarkable Michel Faber is deft in his use of both humour and philosophical thinking.' - Ramona Koval, The Monthly (Book of the Month)
Description 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .'
Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything - his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781782114086 Michel Faber has written eight other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the Format: Paperback - B format highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fire Gospel and The Fahrenheit Twins. He has also written two Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 592 pages novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short-story awards,
Main Category: F Fiction including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.
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Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 Beatlebone Kevin Barry
One of the most talked-about novels of 2015. Winner of the Goldsmiths prize and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.
Sales points • Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize • Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards • Like Don Quixote meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Beatlebone sends one of the twentieth century's biggest icons on a wild metaphysical quest to Ireland's wild west coast
Description John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.
A novel of family, ghosts, love, music and the quest for truth, Beatlebone recounts a wild journey through the west of Ireland in 1978. At its helm is John, a maddened genius fleeing fame and seeking peace. With his deadpan Irish driver, Cornelius, at his side, John is hellbent on reaching the Island of Dorinish, an assignment he arranged ten years before. Lyrical, freewheeling, quixotic and fun, Bealtlebone is a sad and beautiful comedy.
About the Author Kevin Barry is the author of the novel City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohane he was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author's Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature and the IMPAC Prize. Beatlebone, his second novel, was the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Award.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781782116165 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 Fear of Dying Erica Jong
A joyful and life-affirming novel from this multi-million copy international best-selling author. Join her, be fearless.
Sales points • 'I loved Fear of Dying. I found it irreverent, funny, tender and very wise and it made me feel more alive' - Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry • Fear of Dying received widespread reviews, praise and press attention garnering enthusistic responses from Fay Weldon to Rachel Joyce and Shirley Conran to Woody Allen • Fear of Flying sold 27 million copies internationally - Fear of Dying has a fresh photographic package to tie in with that huge potential audience •
Description Vanessa Wonderman is smart, sexy - and sixty. After a lifetime of crazy families, New York high society and playing a soap opera archvillain bitch, she's not ready to give up yet.
But life's not so carefree any more. Her parents are dying, her husband's in hospital and her wild-child daughter is pregnant.
So when she signs up to a casual encounters site, she's thinking of leaving her wifelife behind - at least for a little bit. However, the most painful parts of your past always have away of surprising you. Will she learn in time how to live, how to love, how to be fearless?
About the Author Erica Jong is a poet, novelist, and essayist, best known for her eight New York Times bestselling novels, including Fear of Flying (which has sold twenty-seven million copies in more than forty languages) and Fear of Fifty. Her work has Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) appeared all over the world. ISBN: 9781782117476 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien
An epic and resonant novel about the far-reaching effects of China's revolutionary history, told through the stories of two interlinked musical families, from the 1940s to the present day.
Sales points • A triumphant achievement of scale, and a groundbreaking exploration of the persuasive power of Chinese revolution • Links together the critical revolutionary events and philosophies of the last 75 years through to the modern day: the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and subsequent government clampdown, modern day Shanghai • A Dickensian cast of richly drawn characters, tenderly and lovingly imagined • Brilliantly and sensitively translates the Chinese experience, philosophy, ideas of selfhood and way of life for a Western readership • Conveys the rich creativity and history of the Chinese language, writing and literature
Description In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming.
As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent, to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a history of revolutionary idealism, music, and silence, in which three musicians, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow, the violin prodigy Zhuli, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves, their fates reverberate through the years, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-Ming - and for Marie.
Written with exquisite intimacy, wit and moral complexity, Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new ISBN: 9781783782666 generation. It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution and its effects on personal and national Format: Paperback - Demy format identity, and an unforgettable meditation on China today. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 480 pages
Main Category: F Fiction About the Author Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Madeleine Thien is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes (2001) and the novels Certainty (2006) and Dogs at Illustrations: the Perimeter (Granta, 2012), which was shortlisted for Berlin's 2014 International Literature Award and won the Frankfurt Previous Titles: Author now living: Book Fair's 2015 LiBeraturpreis. Her books and stories have been translated into 23 languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Five Dials, and Brick, and her story 'The Wedding Cake' was shortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. The daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants to Canada, she lives in Montreal. Granta APRIL 2016 The Tidal Zone Sarah Moss
A poignant, funny and engrossing exploration of family life, centred around a cataclysmic event and its aftermath; from the author of Night Waking and Signs for Lost Children.
Sales points • The breakout novel for this extraordinarily talented and versatile writer, which will find her new fans as well as reaching a devoted and supportive existing readership • Night Waking has sold over 30,000 copies in the UK • Moss's novel Bodies of Light was published to ecstatic critical acclaim and secured her reputation as an important, risk-taking author • Praise for Signs for Lost Children: • 'Sarah Moss is one of our country's most underrated writers...[Signs for Lost Children is] full of humanity, historical insight and beautiful writing...If there is one author you take a chance on this year, let it be her - it's time, and money, well spent.' - The Times • 'Stunning...the richness of Moss's work is astonishing. Few writers demonstrate such quietly magisterial command of the rocky territories of both the heart and mind.' -Independent
Description Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing. In that moment, he is plunged into a world of waiting, agonising, not knowing. The story of his life and the lives of his family are rewritten and re-told around this shocking central event, around a body that has inexplicably failed.
In this exceptionally courageous and unflinching novel of contemporary life Sarah Moss goes where most of us wouldn't dare to look, and the result is riveting - unbearably sad, but also miraculously funny and ultimately hopeful. The Tidal Zone explores parental love, overwhelming fear, illness and recovery. It is about clever teenagers and the challenges of Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) marriage. It is about the NHS, academia, sex and gender in the twenty-first century, the work-life juggle, and the politics of ISBN: 9781783783076 packing lunches and loading dishwashers. It confirms Sarah Moss as a unique voice in modern fiction and a writer of Format: Paperback - Demy format luminous intelligence. Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 272 pages
Main Category: F Fiction About the Author Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the Illustrations: University of Warwick. She is the author of four novels: Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Previous Titles: Author now living: Uncovered Award in 2011, Bodies of Light and Signs for Lost Children; and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Iceland, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013.
Granta APRIL 2016 All for Nothing Walter Kempowski, translated by Anthea Bell
A brilliantly evocative, atmospheric novel about the delusion and indecision of a wealthy family in the last days of the Third Reich as the Russians advance from the east.
Sales points • A bestseller in German in 2006 (90,000 copies), which sealed Kempowski's reputation • Historically important with a devastating human story at its heart • Portrays the situation in the east of Germany as the Russians advanced in 1945 • Presents the self-delusions, complicities and denials of the German people at the end of the war, exploring universal epic themes through domestic setting • Exquisite translation by Anthea Bell
Description In January 1945, the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family seals itself off from the world.
Protected from the deprivation and chaos around them, they make no preparations to leave until a decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing. Finally joining the great trek west, the remaining members of the family face at last the catastrophic consequences of the war.
Profoundly evocative of the period, sympathetic yet painfully honest about the motivations of its characters, All for Nothing is a devastating portrait of the complicities and denials of the German people as the Third Reich comes to an end.
About the Author Walter Kempowski (1929 - 2007) was one of Germany's most important post-war writers. He is known for his acclaimed Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) series of novels German Chronicles (Deutsche Chronik) and his immense, eight-volume collection of first-hand accounts ISBN: 9781847087218 of World War II, Echo Soundings (Das Echolot), the final volume of which, Swansong 1945, was published by Granta in Format: Paperback - B format English in 2014. His last novel All for Nothing (Alles Umsonst), a bestseller in Germany in 2006 and critically applauded, Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages sealed his reputation. It is available here in translation for the first time.
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Granta Paperbacks APRIL 2016 The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry
A sumptuously imagined novel of passion, ideas and friendship.
Sales points • Second novel by the critically acclaimed author of After Me Comes the Flood (longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, selected for Waterstones Book Club and WHSmith Travel Fresh Talent, and which has sold over 20,000 copies across all editions) • Sarah Perry's breakout book - will appeal to readers of AS Byatt, Jessie Burton and Sarah Waters
Description Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scientific and medical discovery which defined the era, The Essex Serpent has at its heart the story of two extraordinary people who fall for each other, but not in the usual way.
They are Cora Seaborne and Will Ransome. Cora is a well-to-do London widow who moves to the Essex parish of Aldwinter, and Will is the local vicar. They meet as their village is engulfed by rumours that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming human lives, has returned. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist is enthralled, convinced the beast may be a real undiscovered species. But Will sees his parishioners' agitation as a moral panic, a deviation from true faith. Although they can agree on absolutely nothing, as the seasons turn around them in this quiet corner of England, they find themselves inexorably drawn together and torn apart.
Told with exquisite grace and intelligence, this novel is most of all a celebration of love, and the many different guises it can take.
About the Author Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD in creative writing from Royal Holloway, and has been the writer in residence at the Gladstone Library and the UNESCO World City of Literature Writer in Residence in Prague. Her first
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) novel, After Me Comes the Flood, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Folio Prize, and won the East ISBN: 9781781255445 Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2014. She lives in Norwich. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 416 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 I Don't Like Where This Is Going: Book #2 of the Wylie 'Coyote' Melville series John Dufresne
A wild ride into the dark heart of America.
Sales points • A left-field noir where Elmore Leonard meets the Coen brothers, complete with Asian gangs, corrupt cops and murderous hillbillies • Stand-out packaging and low first-edition pricing will make this a very pick-up-able literary crime caper
Description Wylie 'Coyote' Melville - burnt-out professional therapist and hobbyist forensic consultant - needs a break. South Florida might be home, but it's also home to bad memories and local gangsters bearing grudges. So Wylie and his ace poker- playing best friend Bay Lettique head to the tawdry glitz of Las Vegas to lie low for a while.
But when Wylie and Bay see a woman fall from the balcony of her hotel on the Strip, their low-profile Vegas vacation soon turns into a murder investigation. With the powers-that-be keen to cover up all trace of the woman's death, Wylie starts to follow a trail that leads him across the vast and lawless deserts of redneck Nevada and deep into the heart of a human trafficking conspiracy.
A crime caper filled with Dufresne's trademark black humour, I Don't Like Where This is Going continues the story of Wylie's haphazard investigations into America's bankrupt political system, where power and influence are on sale and the corrupt prey on the innocent.
About the Author John Dufresne is a professor in the MFA programme at Florida International University and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of eight novels, including No Regrets, Coyote, the first book in the Wylie Melville series, also published by Serpent's Tail, and New York Times Notable Books Love Warps the Mind a Little and Louisiana Power & Light. He lives in Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) Dania Beach, Florida. ISBN: 9781781253243 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 352 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 The World of Simon Rich Simon Rich
Classic and new work from Simon Rich - never before published outside the USA - to tie in with Simon's BBC Radio 4 show of the same name.
Sales points • Simon Rich's BBC Radio 4 series is on air in June - think Meet David Sedaris • Simon's comedy series based on his book The Last Girlfriend on Earth is a hit show in the US • Simon worked on the film Inside Out for Pixar • Famous fans include Caitlin Moran, Lauren Laverne, Matt Haig and the creators of Peep Show
Description The world is a bewildering place and we're ill-equipped to deal with it. From the horrors of childhood to the vagaries of old age, from confused people to humiliated animals, we're all just trying - and often failing - to keep it together. How carefully should you answer when asked what you'd take to a desert island? What do you do if your parents are reading your diary? How useful is a Swiss Army Knife? And what's A Brief History of Time really about?
Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Simon Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives, from the most minute of anxieties to one of life's biggest questions: Does God really have a plan for us? Yes, it turns out. Now if only He could remember what it was ...
'Simon Rich is very much laugh-out-loud funny. He can conjure authentic, from- the-abdomen laughter on almost every page. He stacks surrealism on top of slick satire on top of pure childish silliness in such a brilliant and condensed way, there are sometimes three laugh-out-loud moments within the same paragraph... He is exactly the right kind of writer for the internet: funny, high-concept, accessible, short, sharable, a James Thurber for the Twitter age' - Matt Haig
About the Author Simon Rich is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was president of The Harvard Lampoon. Shortly after Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) graduation he became a writer for Saturday Night Live. He worked on Inside Out for Pixar and is currently writing and ISBN: 9781781257487 producing the hit comedy Man Seeking Woman. He lives in New York City. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 The Little Communist Who Never Smiled Lola Lafon, translated by Nick Caistor
A novel telling the true story of Nadia Comaneci, icon of a lost age.
Sales points • Nadia Comaneci is a worldwide icon; published in time for the 2016 Olympics, The Little Communist Who Never Smiled will be a hit with literary readers, book clubs and lifelong gymnastics fans alike • Winner of the 2015 Prix Femina and a hatful of other literary prizes
Description Montreal 1976. A fourteen-year-old girl steps out onto the middle of the floor at the Montreal Forum and into history. 20 seconds on the uneven bars is it all it takes for Nadia Comaneci, the slight, unsmiling child from Communist Romania, to etch herself into the collective memory. The electronic scoreboard, as astonished as the spectators at what has just happened, shows 1.00. The judges have awarded an unprecedented perfect ten, the first in Olympic gymnastics.
In The Little Communist Who Never Smiled, Lola Lafon tells the story of Comaneci's journey from growing up in rural Romania to her eventual defection to the United States in 1989. Adored by young girls in the west and appropriated as a political emblem by the Ceausescu regime, Comaneci's life was scrutinised wherever she went. Lafon's novel is a powerful re-imagining of a childhood in the spotlight of history, politics and destiny.
About the Author Lola Lafon is a writer, musician, anarchist and feminist. The author of four novels, Lafon was born in France and grew up in Sofia and Bucharest. She lives in Paris.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781781255148 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 The Silent Cry Kenzaburo Oe, translated by John Bester
Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe's most important novel.
Sales points • With sales of the two most recent editions well in excess of 6,000 copies, The Silent Cry is a dependable backlist staple and an all-time classic which will still be here long after we're gone • Kenzaburo Oe is one of the most important writers of the 20th century, and the second Nobel laureate to join the series-look of the newly redesigned Serpent's Tail Classics • Winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature • Kenzaburo Oe's latest novel Death by Water was published by Grove Press in October 2015
Description It is the 1960s and the Nedokoro brothers have long-since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for Tokyo to work as a translator and English professor; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student protests. Takashi's return to Japan coincides with a local Korean supermarket magnate's offer to buy the brothers' ancestral storehouse, pitting Mitsusaburo and Takashi against one another and dredging up family histories perhaps best forgotten.
Oe's dark masterpiece of family psychology is the most important Japanese novel of the post-war period and a strange, unsettling tale of how the call of blood and history echoes down the generations.
About the Author Kenzaburo Oe is Japan's most important living writer. Born in 1935 on the island of Shikoku, Oe studied literature at Tokyo University before spending the sixties in Paris where he came under the influence of Sartre. After his debut novel, he wrote a string of books dissecting contemporary Japan, including Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!, The Pinch Runner Memorandum and the essay collection Hiroshima Notes, on the impact on Japan's national psyche of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of the Second
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) World War. ISBN: 9781781255650 Format: Paperback - B format He lives in Tokyo with his wife and his eldest son Hikari, who was born with severe brain damage; many of the narrators Dimensions: 198x129mm in Oe's fiction have brain-damaged children, most notably in the semi-autobiographical novel A Personal Matter. He won Extent: 288 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 Without Trace Simon Booker
Her daughter missing, her childhood sweetheart the only suspect: a gripping and suspenseful debut thriller.
Sales points • A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Gone Girl and Making a Murderer • Begins a series of Morgan Vine thrillers, centred around setting right miscarriages of justice • A great female-fronted thriller, which will appeal to readers of Kimberley Chambers and Casey Kelleher • A high-concept psychological thriller which will keep you guessing until the very end, with genuine word-of-mouth potential • Author is a screenwriter writing for BBC1 and ITV. Credits include The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Holby City • 'A cracking debut. A real page-turner with a compelling central character' - Mark Billingham
Description For four long years, journalist Morgan Vine has campaigned for the release of her childhood sweetheart Danny Kilcannon - convicted, on dubious evidence, of murdering his 14 year-old stepdaughter. When a key witness recants, Danny is released from prison. With nowhere else to go, he relies on single mum Morgan and her teenage daughter, Lissa. But then Lissa goes missing.
With her own child now at risk, Morgan must re-think all she knows about her old flame - 'the one that got away'. As the media storm around the mysterious disappearance intensifies and shocking revelations emerge, she is forced to confront the ultimate question: who can we trust...?
Introducing Morgan Vine, Without Trace is Simon Booker's debut thriller.
About the Author Simon Booker is an author and screenwriter who has written prime time TV drama for BBC1, ITV and US TV. His UK credits include The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Holby City and The Mrs Bradley Mysteries. He has written seven plays for
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) BBC Radio 4, worked extensively as a producer in television and radio, and as a journalist. Booker lives in London and ISBN: 9781785770227 Deal. His partner is fellow crime writer MJ McGrath. They often discuss murder methods over breakfast. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Twenty7 APRIL 2016 This Last Kiss: You can't run from true love for ever Madeleine Reiss
More than a decade on, can Rora learn to love again?
Sales points • An intelligent, emotional and romantic read - perfect for fans of Rowan Coleman and Lucy Dillon • Each chapter contains a single kiss in Rora's romantic journey - a clever concept that will appeal to readers of One Day and The Versions of Us • Madeleine's first novel, Someone to Watch Over Me, was the winner of The People's Novelist Competition
Description As original as One Day and as heartbreaking as Me Before You, This Last Kiss is the perfect emotional and romantic read.
Rora Raine is finally coming home to Hastings, twelve years after she left her grief-stricken father, and fled the love of her life, Carl. Struggling to support her bright but troubled daughter, Rora has convinced herself she'll never love again. When she meets a bumblingly charming stranger, Rora's heart begins to thaw. But, try as she might, she can't run from true love forever.
Funny, warm-hearted and soaringly romantic, This Last Kiss is the redemptive story of two star-crossed lovers, told through each and every kiss they share.
About the Author Madeleine Reiss was born in Athens. She worked for some years in an agency for street performers and comedians and then as a journalist and publicist. She has two sons and lives in Cambridge with her husband and her younger son. This Last Kiss is her second novel.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785761546 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages
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Zaffre APRIL 2016 Bra Boy: My life on the street, in the surf and in the ring Richie 'Vas' Vaculik with Sean Doherty
Sales points • A gritty male read perfect for Father's Day • The Bra Boys continue to create interest - we expect major publicity on publication • Proven track record in sales for books about them including Bra Boys (Harper Collins), sales in excess of 25,000 copies • Richie has appeared on Seven's SUNDAY and is well known from the doco Fighting Fear and The Crew, as well as his ongoing UFC career • CATEGORY: Memoir
Description Richie 'Vas' Vaculik grew up in the tough streets of Maroubra where surfing, fighting and drinking were the way of life for teenagers, and where joining the notorious Bra Boys was the pinnacle of ambition. Richie developed into one of Australia's most fearless big wave surfers, a figher so tough he now competes in the UFC, and of course a member of the Bra Boys. Richie always pushes to the limits, and sometimes beyond. A vicious brawl in a Queensland pub saw him charged with Grievous Bodily Harm and the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence. It was a wake up call that he had to change his life or end up either killing himself, killing someone else or in jail. He turned his focus to the discipline of MMA and is now one of Australia's top UFC fighters. This is his gritty, uncompromising memoir about growing up in the 'Bra, the gang, and about living life on the edge of an adrenaline charge - whether towing into fifteen metre waves at Shipstern Bluff, going toe to toe in brutal gang fights or entering the UFC cage.
About the Author Richie and fellow big wave surfer Mark Matthews were the stars of Garage Entertaiment's Fighting Fear, a documentary about their lives as Bra Boys, surfers and Richie's MMA career (Garage Entertainment were also the makers of the hit documentary Bra Boys). Richie is part of a weekly Foxsport UFC commentary team, and is also one of the three stars of the long-running Foxtel series The Crew, also produced by Garage Entertainment.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760292966 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 1 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Bra Boy 8 copy pack Point of Sale
Includes: 8 copies Bra Boy plus free reading copy
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 All This in 60 Minutes Nicholas Lee
The hilarious inside story of life on the road as a 60 Minutes cameraman.
Sales points • A tribute to hard-nosed, cynical journalism, seat-of-your pants reportage and the kind international news-gathering that just doesn't happen anymore • Author was a 60 Minutes cameraman for more than 30 years • One of the most-loved members of the crew - we have endoresments from the whole team: • 'Reading All This in 60 Minutes, I found myself laughing aloud. Often. [His] stories about George & Ian & Jennifer & Lizzie & the rest of the 60 Minutes mob are hilarious and well-told.' Ray Martin • We go inside the IRA, Idi Amin's torture cells, Israeli terrorist interrogations, royal palaces and mud huts • Unforgettable trips on B52s, warplanes, ultra lites, mock helicopters and the Orient Express • Meetings with the famous and the infamous: presidents, rock stars, despots, kings, princes, showgirls, pygmies and manic, charismatic gurus • CATEGORY: Memoir
Description For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee worked as a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia's most-respected and most- watched current affairs program, alongside Ray Martin, George Negus, Ian Leslie, Richard Carleton, Mike Munro, Jennifer Byrne, Liz Hayes and Tara Brown, among many others. All This in 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilarious memoir of his time with the show - of the crazy days of unlimited expense accounts, unbelievably expensive hotels, the fun and fear on the road, the terrifying plane rides, and the refugee camps and war zones. It goes inside the IRA, Idi Amin's torture cells, Israeli terrorist interrogations, royal palaces and mud huts. It recounts unforgettable trips on B52s, ultra lights, mock helicopters and the Orient Express. And details late, crazy nights with weird food, strange alcoholic concoctions and drugs on rollercoasters, as well as the madness and difficulty of being on the road for up to eight weeks with three other people who sometimes don't get on. And of course it wouldn't be 60 Minutes without all the meeting and mixing with the famous and infamous - from presidents, rock stars, despots, kings and princes, to showgirls, pygmies and manic, charismatic
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) gurus. ISBN: 9781760293000 Format: Paperback - C format All This in 60 Minutes is compelling, funny and utterly eye-opening. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages
Main Category: B Biography/autobiography About the Author Sub Category: BM Memoirs Nicholas Lee grew up in Central West NSW and worked as a cameraman for 10 years across a variety of news programs Illustrations: before joining Channel 9’s 60 Minutes when it launched in 1979. Over the next 30 years, Nicholas Lee travelled Previous Titles: Author now living: Carcoar, NSW extensively filming and living the world’s major news stories, before retiring in 2009. He and his wife Suzanne have two daughters.
Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 All This in 60 Minutes 8 copy pack Point of Sale
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Dust of Uruzgan Fred Smith
A personal story of Australia's war in Afghanistan as told by Fred Smith, star of 'Australian Story', Australian diplomat in Afghanistan and Australian Defence Forces favourite singer and composer of 'Dust of Uruzgan'.
Sales points • This is the first insider's overview of Australian involvement in Afghanistan • Fred is very well known to the 20,000 Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan who consider his album Dust of Uruzgan their soundtrack • Was the subject of the Australian Story's 'A Sapper's Lullaby' in 2013 • The album received rave reviews from critics: 'a cycle of songs that are raw, remarkably honest and suitably ambivalent about the nature of war.' Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald • His stage show, Dust of Uruzgan, in which he narrates and sings played to thousands of people in over 50 shows last year • CATEGORY: Memoir
Description Fred Smith has been described as 'Australia's secret weapon' in international diplomacy. As a career diplomat, he served in Afghanistan during the time Australian Defence Forces were engaged in our 'longest war' against Taliban insurgents. It was Fred's second career as a musician that came to the fore in Uruzgan province, where his guitar served as a bridge not only to the Australian troops, but also to the people of this war-torn region. His song about the death of Australian soldier Ben Ranaudo, 'The Dust of Uruzgan,' captured the hearts of many serving in Afghanistan and was recoded by Lee Kernaghan on his bestselling Tribute to Anzac album. A second song, 'Sapper's Lullaby' has become an anthem for soldiers and their families.
Now, with Australian forces out of Afghanistan, this book is the first comprehensive insider account of Australia's deep involvement there. Part memoir, part history, part anecdote, it is set against a subsistence agricultural province with a 5% literacy rate, in which tribal leaders colluded and conspired against one another in a society where trust had been Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) smashed by 35 years of brutal warfare. The cast of characters includes charismatic tribal leaders, corrupt Provincial ISBN: 9781760292218 Governors, domineering warlords, bustling US colonels, and courteous interpreters, all of whom Fred worked with daily Format: Paperback - C format during his unique mission. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 404 pages
Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Dust of Uruzgan recounts the struggles, setbacks and successes of a contingent of Australian soldiers, diplomats and aid Sub Category: BM Memoirs workers trying to make a difference in the midst of a hellhole, where truth and clarity were often buried and where 40 Illustrations: young Australian soldiers perished in the dust of Uruzgan. Previous Titles: Author now living: O'Connor, ACT About the Author Over the last 15 years Fred Smith has emerged as one of Australia's most interesting songwriters. He has spent the last 15 years all over the joint: working on peace keeping missions in Afghanistan and the South Pacific, touring in America Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Desert Vet: How a city boy became a Bedouin nomad and spent thirty years caring for a menagerie of camels and other exotic creatures Alex Tinson with David Hardaker
From the lush and leafy suburbs to the deserts of the United Arab Emirates, the extraordinary story of a most unusual vet.
Sales points • Inspiring memoir of an Australian expat's adventures building a life in a very different country • Provides unique insight into Bedouin life • Alex's main work is with camels but he also cared for the strange assortment of animals in the Sheiks' private zoos • All Creatures Great and Small for this decade • Though still resident in UAE, Alex will be in Australia for media calls on publication • CATEGORY: Memoir
Description Alex Tinson is a St Ives-born vet who was literally plucked from the Australian outback to become chief vet in charge of the United Arab Emirates President's racing camels. He was given one mission: to make the President's camels the best in the UAE and, indeed, all of Arabia. Along the way he also cared for a menagerie of most unusual animals from pet cheetahs and monkeys to strange desert lizards. It has also given him a rare entree into the life of the uber-rich Gulf Royal families and the world of the Bedouins.
This is the story of an extraordinarily successful and adventurous expatriate Australian. Compelling and intriguing, it takes you into a world that few have entered before.
About the Author ALEX TINSON has lived and worked in the Unietd Arab Emirates as a vet for nearly thirty years. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781760292829 DAVID HARDAKER is a television producer and a Walkley award winning journalist. He is a former ABC Middle East Format: Paperback - C format Correspondent and has lived and worked in Egypt. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 280 pages
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Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Alex Tinson: Harry the Lazy Camel; Harry the Lazy Camel's Birthday; Harry the Lazy Camel Goes to the Mountains; Harry the Lazy Camel Goes to China; (self-published). Author now living: AT: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; DH: Greenwich, NSW Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Writer's Room Charlotte Wood
A brilliant resource for established and beginning writers and for passionate readers everywhere from a range of acclaimed and much-loved writers, lovingly compiled by the brilliant and insightful Charlotte Wood.
Sales points • Based on the online journal The Writer's Room which has been essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and pure reading pleasure for booklovers • There are thousands of people studying creative writing at any given moment in Australia, every one of them hoping to learn the 'secret' of how to write from published writers • Charlotte's profile is on the rise since publication of The Natural Way of Things • Fabulous testimonials from writers and critics: • 'For writers, an indispensable resource; for readers, a pure pleasure.' - Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic, The Australian • 'A rich and sympathetic resource which goes straight to the heart of creativity.' - Joan London, author The Golden Age • Promotion to writers' centres and via Faber Academy alumni • CATEGORY: Writing
Description Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work to quite intricate - and intimate - revelations about the ways in which they work. Charlotte's subjects are frank about the failures and successes, the struggles and triumphs of the writing life, and extremely generous in their revelations. A must-read for writers and readers.
'For writers, an indispensable resource; for readers, a pure pleasure.' - Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic, The Australian Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781760293345 'A rich and sympathetic resource which goes straight to the heart of creativity.' - Joan London, author The Golden Age, Format: Paperback - C format Gilgamesh Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 336 pages
Main Category: C Language 'These interviews have consistently provided me with the the best descriptions of a writer's craft I could hope to find. Sub Category: CBV Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides Invaluable.' - Sophie Cunningham, author Bird and Geography Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Marrickville, NSW 'Lets its readers eavesdrop on the best of conversations - erudite, interesting, always inspirational.' - Ashley Hay, author The Railwayman's Wife
'Interviews of grit and stamina - real talk between two adult writers about the hard yards of writing. There's never an issue Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Behind the Tape: Life on the police frontline Lance Burdett
New Zealand's top police crisis negotiator reveals the everyday drama of being a cop: the lives saved, the lives lost and the extreme pressure to perform under tough and confronting circumstances.
Sales points • An exciting non-fiction thriller for anyone who is fascinated by crime-fighting • It's very rare that we get to hear what it's really like to be in the police force, and Lance has many powerful stories to tell • Lance is great with the media, and is often called on to comment on high-profile terrorism or hostage cases • CATEGORY: Memoir
Description Lance Burdett was in the police force for 22 years, in a variety of high-level roles: head of negotiation team; running 111 centre; intelligence management; protection squad and emergency responders. He worked on some of NZ's most high profile cases such as the Jan Molenaar case where Lance was flown in to head the negotiation team, and the George Baker prison hostage negotiation with the man who murdered Liam Ashley.
His daily police life included frequent suicide interventions in high-profile locations, which were common call-outs for the negotiation team. Lance talks about the different negotiation styles and challenges involved.
He was involved in Australia/NZ anti-terrorism training, and played the role of terrorist over several days on site. His story shows how quickly you can become indoctrinated and 'hate' your 'enemies'. Lance also underwent FBI training in Washington where he found that NZ's negotiation skills held up well.
Behind the Tape tells what it's really like to be a cop: the fear, the excitement, the stress, the everyday drama, the skills developed, the lives saved, the lives lost. It's gritty, tough and confronting.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781877505607 Lance runs a company called WARN International, presenting to a variety of audiences in both the private and public Format: Paperback - C format sectors on managing challenging people and situations, on crisis intervention and on reducing personal stress. He has a Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 272 pages Master of Arts Degree, majoring in Terrorism, Safety and Security. With 22 years of policing experience at the highest
Main Category: B Biography/autobiography level, Lance worked in senior management positions with a primary focus on leading and developing units.
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A&U New Zealand APRIL 2016 Things That Matter: Stories of Life & Death from an Intensive Care Specialist Dr David Galler
An intensive care specialist reflects on life and death through his fascinating stories of working in emergency medicine.
Sales points • In the same vein as Atul Gawande's Complications and Being Mortal • People are eternally fascinated by medical/life/death issues • Highly promotable author • CATEGORY: Memoir
Description In this highly articulate, down-to-earth, generous and thoughtful book, Dr David Galler tells stories of life and death from his position as head of intensive care at a busy city hospital.
Weaving his own personal stories throughout - including the death of his parents - David frames a number of chapters around key organs such as the heart, brain, kidneys; talking about their physical nature as well as their importance emotionally and holistically. He discusses wider issues like difficult conversations with patients and the doctor patient relationship in general as well as broader topics like organ donation.
While Things That Matter isn't sentimental or mawkish, neither is it clinical. It's an intelligent read, and an eye-opener for those not in the medical world. David doesn't shy away from the political either, and covers topics like treating people not diseases; where medicine has gone wrong and how we might fix it; and when doing less can be more and doing things differently can be life saving for patients and hospitals alike.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781877505645 Format: Paperback - C format Dr David Galler is an Intensive Care specialist - he works both in Intensive Care and also outside of ICU as part of the Dimensions: 234x153mm emergency response team. He deals daily with critically ill and critically injured people; with organ support; with Extent: 264 pages resuscitation, ongoing support and palliative care. He works at Middlemore Hospital in South Auckland, and has just Main Category: B Biography/autobiography returned from a year's leave in Samoa, volunteering in the local hospital among other things. Sub Category: BM Memoirs Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
A&U New Zealand APRIL 2016 Inside: The autobiography Chris Judd
Intelligent, surprising, and head and shoulders above its competition - the autobiography of Chris Judd is the football book of the decade. A rare and intimate look inside the world of the elite sportsman.
Sales points • Christmas 2015's most successful sports book - sales in excess of 42,000 copies • Just like its author, this is an intelligent, surprising and candid look at the life of one of the most respected players in the game • He captained both the West Coast Eagles and Carlton - and took the Eagles to premiership victory in 2006 • Twice winner of the Brownlow Medal Judd has also been selected as an All Australian six times • CATEGORY: Autobiography
Description Few people know Australian Rules football better than Chris Judd. He's one of the game's out-and-out champions, having captained two of the greatest clubs in the league - the West Coast Eagles and Carlton - and taken the Eagles to premiership victory in 2006. He's won the Brownlow Medal twice, been a dual Leigh Matthews Trophy winner - awarded to the AFL's Most Valuable Player as voted by the players - and selected as an All Australian six times.
His autobiography is a unique journey into the game, describing with extraordinary candour what it's like to climb to the highest levels, to achieve the ultimate goal of your sport, and to experience the full measure of heartache and failure that inevitably accompanies more than a decade of playing at the elite level. Few sportsmen have shared such intimacy and insight into their world, and the result is a book that's worthy of Chris Judd the player - intelligent, surprising, and head and shoulders above the competition.
About the Author Chris Judd has been widely recognised as one of the greatest AFL footballers of the modern game. In a career that stretched from 2001 to 2015, Judd captained the West Coast Eagles to premiership victory in 2006, won the Brownlow Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Medal twice (in 2004 and 2010), was twice awarded the Leigh Matthews Trophy for the AFL Players' Association's Most ISBN: 9781760294106 Valuable Player, and was selected as an All Australian six times. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and two children. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 400 pages
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Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 The Man Who Saved Smithy: Fighter pilot, pioneer aviator, hero: the life of Sir Gordon Taylor MC, GC Rick Searle
The incredible true story of a largely unsung Australian aviation hero.
Sales points • On a trans-Tasman flight on the Southern Cross with one engine broken down, and the other fast running out of oil, Taylor climbed out over the wing to manually transfer oil from one engine to the other - again and again until they made land • He won the Geroge Cross (the civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross) for this act of bravery that also saved Kingsford Smith • Peter FitzSimons' book on Charles Kingsford Smith has sold over 55,000 copies • Perfect Father's Day gift for history buffs • CATEGORY: Biography
Description Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during the First World War, he was awarded the Military Cross and discovered a life-long passion for flight and air navigation. Returning to Australia after the war, he became a close friend of Charles Kingsford Smith; they went on to form an incredible flying partnership, setting records around the globe.
It was on a flight across the Tasman in Smithy's famous Southern Cross that Taylor earned the Empire's highest award for civilian bravery, the George Cross. With one engine out of action and another fast running out of oil, Taylor repeatedly climbed out of the cockpit to transfer oil to the stricken engine and keep the Southern Cross flying - all this while suspended over the sea in a howling slipstream.
After the deaths of his friends Charles Ulm and Kingsford Smith in separate accidents, Taylor became Australia's greatest surviving aviator, pioneering vital new trans-oceanic air routes during the Second World War and receiving a knighthood Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) in honour of his services to flight. The Man Who Saved Smithy is the enthralling account of his remarkable life and ISBN: 9781760294045 Format: Paperback - B format achievements. Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 400 pages
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Sub Category: HBJM Australasian & Pacific History Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Rick Searle has been a full-time freelance writer and film maker for almost forty years. He has worked in radio, television Author now living: The Gap, Queensland and film, and lectured in television writing at the Queensland University of Technology. Rick has had a lifelong interest in aviation, and a long-standing fascination with the life of Australian flyer and navigator Sir Gordon Taylor.
Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 Australia's Best Unknown Stories: and tales you thought you knew... Jim Haynes
From remote outback and cattle stations to coastal towns comes a collection of amazing, eccentric and funny Australian stories, yarns and furphies - most completely unknown along with some you thought you knew.
Sales points • Whenever Jim tells the 'unknowns' on his weekly radio slot, he is overwhelmed with interest from listeners • For example he reveals that the Ghan wasn't really named after the Afghan traders • Author is a strong media performer • Draws on the large store of tales told to him while living in the bush as a teacher • Author has run the Pat Glover Storytelling Awards at the Port Fairy Folk festival for almost 20 years • CATEGORY: Australiana
Description 'Not only are there many things we don't know, we should never be too sure about the things we are sure we do know.'
From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this collection of classic Australian stories.the unknown, the forgotten, the surprising.
Jim reminds us that things are not always as they seem, or as we've been told. Was the Ghan really named after the Afghan cameleers? Does that urn that represents that greatest of all sporting clashes between Australia and England really contain the ashes of a burnt cricket bail? And who really is the most important Australian who ever lived?
Jim introduces us to the forgotten nation builders, artists, poets and great unknown characters of Australian history and tells the funniest, the most amazing and the quirkiest stories that capture the heart and soul of the Australian spirit.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781760291075 Jim Haynes has travelled far and wide to meet and interview the people whose stories make up his books. Before Format: Paperback - B format becoming a professional entertainer, song writer and verse writer in 1988, Jim taught writing, literature, history and drama Dimensions: 198x128mm Extent: 384 pages in schools and universities from outback NSW to Britain and back again. He is the author of many Great Australian titles,
Main Category: D Literature including books on railways, aviation and horse racing. His is one of the country's most prolific and successful Australian Sub Category: DQ Anthologies (non-poetry) authors. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Best Australian Bush Stories, Best Australian Racing Stories, Best Australian Sea Stories, Best Australian Trucking Stories, Best Australian Yarns, Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids, Great Australian Book of Limericks Author now living: Kensington, NSW Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently Steve Silberman
The international bestselling history of autism. NeuroTribes up-ends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.
Sales points • Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2015 • New York Times bestseller • Author appearing at Melbourne Writers' Festival and major autism conference in Victoria in early September 2016 • He addressed the UN on World Autism Awareness Day, 1 April 2016 • Groundbreaking history of autism, includes disturbing accounts of mistreatment of autistic children up to recent times; explains rise in number of autistic children • For families, pyschiatrists, psychologists, teachers • 'A sweeping and penetrating history, presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity' - Oliver Sacks • 'Beautifully told' - New York Times • 'Epic and often shocking.' - Chicago Tribune • 'Brilliant and sparklingly humane.' - Guardian • CATEGORY: Current Affairs
Description Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2015
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'NeuroTribes is a sweeping and penetrating history, presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity... it will change how you think of autism.' - From the foreword by Oliver Sacks Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781760294366 Format: Paperback - B format What is autism: a devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive Dimensions: 198x128mm difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more - and the future of our society Extent: 592 pages depends on our understanding it. Main Category: JM Psychology
Sub Category: JM Psychology Illustrations: Following on from his ground breaking article 'The Geek Syndrome', Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret Previous Titles: history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for identifying it, and discovers why the Author now living: San Francisco, USA number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.
Going back to the earliest autism research and chronicling the brave and lonely journey of autistic people and their families through the decades, Silberman provides long-sought solutions to the autism puzzle, while mapping out a path Allen & Unwin APRIL 2016 More Moaning: The Enlightened One Returns Karl Pilkington
Join the million-copy bestselling television star as he embarks on a journey to enlightenment.
Sales points • Karl is one of the biggest stars on television. The first series of The Moaning of Life smashed all records for Sky • The first book from Karl in over 2 years - high demand is guaranteed • Karl is a huge book brand in his own right with over 1.2 million books sold. His latest, The Moaning of Life, sold over 172,000 copies, An Idiot Abroad has sold over 700,000 copies and held the No.1 spot for three months in 2011 and Further Adventures of an Idiot Abroad sold over 250,000 copies • The Moaning of Life has sold 12,000 copies across ANZ in all formats
Description After going on a journey of discovery in The Moaning of Life, the enlightened one - otherwise known as Karl Pilkington - finds himself back on the road. In his search for the answers to life's big questions, Karl turns his attention (reluctantly) to the juicy subjects of art, identity, the body, waste, time and how to live your life. In Tokyo, Karl has therapy to try and reduce the size of his head, he spends time in Chicago with a man pretending to be a dog, in New York he tries his hand at painting with his own vomit and travels to Mexico to perform an underwater inspection in raw sewage.
Will his travels around the world bring him any closer to the meaning of life? Find out in his hilarious new book.
About the Author Karl Pilkington is the bestselling author of seven books: The World of Karl Pilkington; Happyslapped by a Jellyfish; Karlology; An Idiot Abroad; The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad; The Moaning of Life and More Moaning. He was part of the Guinness World Record-breaking podcast The Ricky Gervais Show, which was downloaded over 300 million times and became an animation for HBO in the USA. He also starred in three series of Sky 1's global hit An Idiot Abroad and two series of The Moaning of Life.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781782117346 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 214x153mm Extent: 352 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 More Moaning 10 copy pack
Includes 10 copies of More Moaning plus a free reading copy.
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington Karl Pilkington, photographs by Freddie Claire
The official tie-in to the major new TV series and follow up to the massive bestseller An Idiot Abroad.
Sales points • Like Karl's previous books, this will also be a stand-alone humour title which explores adventures beyond those captured on screen, and Karl's inimitable musings on life • The official tie-in to the five tv series from the same production team and creatives behind all three series of An Idiot Abroad • An Idiot Abroad has sold over 700,000 copies and held the No.1 spot for three months in 2011. Further Adventures has sold over 250,000 copies so far for Canongate • Like Karl's previous books, this paperback is set to be a smash hit • 'The funniest man on the planet' Spectator • 'He's a moron. A completely round, empty-headed, part-chimp Manc' - Ricky Gervais
Description 'Why are we here? The only time I ever asked meself that was on a surprise holiday to Lanzarote.'
Left to his own devices, Karl Pilkington would be happy with his life just as it is. But now he's hit forty, everyone keeps asking him why he's so reluctant to marry his girlfriend and why he doesn't want to have kids. It's time for Karl to face up to the biggest question of the lot - what does it all mean? Karl thought he'd seen it all filming An Idiot Abroad, but now he's off around the globe to learn how other cultures deal with life's big issues. Find out how Karl copes as he . . .
- Has plastic surgery in LA
- Models for a Japanese life drawing class
- Helps deliver a baby in Bali
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782111542 Have his experiences changed him? Find out in this hilarious new book. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm About the Author Extent: 352 pages
Main Category: WH Humour Karl Pilkington is the author of six bestselling books: The World of Karl Pilkington; Happyslapped by a Jellyfish; Karlology; Sub Category: WH Humour An Idiot Abroad; The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad. He was part of the Guinness World Record-breaking podcast Illustrations: The Ricky Gervais Show, which was downloaded over 300 million times and became an animation for HBO in the USA. Previous Titles: Author now living: He also starred in three series of Sky 1's global hit An Idiot Abroad and most recently, The Moaning of Life.
Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad Karl Pilkington
The follow-up to the number 1 bestseller, now in paperback.
Sales points • Reissued to coincide with the publication of The Moaning of Life in paperback • An Idiot Abroad tv tie-ins have sold over 15,000 in ANZ • An Idiot Abroad on dvd has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide • Frank, funny and strangely inspiring, this is Karl's final word on travel • 'Stupidly funny.' Sunday Mirror • 'The funniest thing on TV, no question.' Daily Mail
Description Karl Pilkington is back! Safely home from his latest travels, Karl has decided it is time to share his hard-earned wisdom of the world.
Taking the Bucket List of '100 Things to Do Before You Die' as his starting point, Karl combines brilliant stories from his recent adventures to Alaska, Siberia and beyond with entertaining, highly-opinionated views on what other people aspire to do with their lives.
Why on earth would anybody want to run with the bulls in Pamplona? Go 'storm chasing' through Tornado Alley? Have lunch with the Queen? Or touch hands with the Pope?
The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad is a fitting finale to two years of eventful globe-trotting. Frank, funny and strangely inspiring, this is Karl's final word on travel.
About the Author Karl Pilkington is the author of four bestselling humour books: The World According to Karl Pilkington; Happyslapped by a
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) Jellyfish; Karlolgy; and the number one bestseller, An Idiot Abroad. The television series of the same name has dvd sales ISBN: 9780857867506 of more than 1 million copies. Karl is also part of the Guinness World Record-breaking podcast, The Ricky Gervais Show, Format: Paperback - B format which went to number 1 in 14 countries and has been downloaded over 300 million times. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 368 pages
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Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 An Idiot Abroad Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant
Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot. Join the orange-headed one as he travels the world and discovers its wonders.
Sales points • Reissued to coincide with the publication of The Moaning of Life in paperback • Stuffed with behind the scenes antics, photos and drawings • Karl Pilkington's previous books have also been huge bestsellers • 'The funniest man on the planet' Spectator • 'Not many idiots could make something this funny.' The Guardian • 'Move over, Michael Palin.' Empire
Description Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot.
Karl Pilkington isn't keen on travelling. Given the choice, he'll go on holiday to Devon or Wales or, at a push, eat English food on a package holiday in Majorca. Which isn't exactly Michael Palin, is it? So what happened when he was convinced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to go on an epic adventure to see the Seven Wonders of the World? Travel broadens the mind, right? You'd think so.
Find out in Karl Pilkington's hilarious travel diaries. 'He is a moron. A completely round, empty-headed, part-chimp Manc.' - Ricky Gervais - 'He'd have been happier in medieval times in a village where you didn't travel beyond the local community.' - Stephen Merchant
About the Author Karl Pilkington has led an extraordinary and curiously individual life. As a child growing up in Manchester, he regularly missed school to accompany his parents on caravanning holidays and left without collecting his exam results. Now Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) making up for lost time, Karl has written three bestselling books and recently embarked on a tour of the Seven Wonders ISBN: 9781847679277 of the modern world for a new Sky One television series. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 196x130mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: WH Humour Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel Jamie Catto
From the creative dynamo, workshop leader and founder member of Faithless comes a manifesto for embracing our dark side and a blueprint for boosting our creativity.
Sales points • Transform your demons into creative rocket fuel! • 'A polite warning: prolonged exposure to Catto could blow your mind' - Daily Telegraph
Description From infancy we are taught to edit ourselves, trimming out the darker, weirder, less acceptable parts in order to please others. But this addiction to approval is holding us back.
What if we begin to be ourselves, honestly and fully?
Insanely Gifted shows how to transform our thinking and turn our inner demons into allies. How to reframe disappointment (because not getting what we want can be as interesting and useful as getting what we want). Through techniques to become aware of our Inner Critic, and exercises such as Full Body Listening, Catto invites us to better know our deepest instincts and unlock our true power.
About the Author Jamie Catto runs personal development workshops worldwide. His teaching builds on his own experience of overcoming creative hurdles, and provides techniques that invite everyone to fulfil their potential. He was also founding member of dance mega-group Faithless and acclaimed global music and philosophy project 1 Giant Leap. The first 1 Giant Leap project was nominated for two Grammys, sold over 300,000 albums and won numerous awards globally. The greatest hits album from Faithless was the fastest selling dance album of all time.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781782118039 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 240 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers edited by Ted Kessler
A poignant collection of paternal experiences, with contributions from major names in the arts.
Sales points • Includes Leonard Cohen's son, Florence Welch on her dad et al ... • My Old Man started life as a blog in summer 2013 - www.myoldman.org - it garnered high profile press attention and now has a loyal following • Ted has been taking his My Old Man live show to festivals throughout the UK and will continue to tour around publication • Ted is a well-respected music journalist with a stellar contacts list. For personal reasons, this project is very close to his heart - he will be a real asset to the PR campaign
Description If you were asked to write about your father, what would you say? No two paternal relationships are the same. Every experience, every bond, is unique. And whether happy or sad, fond or fraught, the memories and stories we have about our dads stay with us for ever.
In this carefully curated collection, a dazzling list of contributors - including Florence Welch, Paul Weller, the sons and daughters of Ian Dury, Johnny Ball, Roy Castle, Leonard Cohen and many others - open up, some for the first time, about their paternal experiences. From the heart-rending to the tragic, from expressions of joyful love to a quick snapshot of a life, these beautifully written pieces are also deeply personal.
As universal as it is powerful, My Old Man offers a unique opportunity to reflect on our own relationships with our dads.
About the Author Ted Kessler was a staff writer and editor at NME throughout the 1990s and has been at Q since 2004, where he is currently the magazine's features editor. He has also written for the Observer, Guardian, New Statesman and many other
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) publications. Ted lives in London with his partner and their two children. www.myoldman.orgFollow @MyOlMan1 on ISBN: 9781782113980 Twitter Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 214x135mm Extent: 256 pages
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Canongate Trade APRIL 2016 Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It DBC Pierre
The Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little returns with a book about fiction.
Sales points • DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, won the Man Booker Prize in 2003 • This is an irreverent guide to writing fiction, debunking many myths and untruths along the way which works as a practical walk through the minefield of writing a novel • Will appeal to fans of Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing and On Writing by Stephen King
Description When DBC Pierre burst onto the scene in 2003, he arrived with no particular literary education. Finding he had something to say, he made the journey solo to that place where dreams and demons live, to try and turn feelings into words.
Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC Pierre reveals everything he learned the hard way.
About the Author When not travelling far and wide DBC Pierre divides his time between England and a mountainside in Ireland. Vernon God Little, his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, and was followed by Ludmila's Broken English and Lights Out in Wonderland. He is also the author of a collection of short fictions, Petit Mal, and a Hammer novella, Breakfast with the Borgias.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9780571283187 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 224 pages
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Faber Non Fiction APRIL 2016 Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality Kat Banyard
Pimps, pornographers, politicians: leading feminist Kat Banyard confronts them all in this passionate and provocative expose of the myths surrounding the global sex industry.
Sales points • Huge controversy and debate across the media, from radio and TV to national press and feminist magazines and blogs • The Equality Illusion received terrific reviews and this promises to be an even more successful mainstream publication • The perfect read for fans of Naomi Klein, Everyday Sexism and Laurie Penny
Description Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. How society should respond to the rise of the sex trade is shaping up to be one of the Twenty- First Century's big questions. Should it be legal to pay for sex? Isn't it a woman's choice whether she strips for money? Could online porn warping the attitudes of a generation of boys? An increasingly popular set of answers maintains that prostitution is just work, porn is fantasy, demand is inevitable; so fully legalise the sex trade and it can be made safe. Kat Banyard contends that these are profoundly dangerous myths. Sexual consent is not a commodity, objectification and abuse are inherent to prostitution, and the sex trade poses a grave threat to the struggle for women's equality.
Skilfully weaving together first-hand investigation, interviews and the latest research, Pimp State powerfully argues that sex trade myth-makers will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
About the Author Kat Banyard is the author of The Equality Illusion and founder of campaign group UK Feminista. In 2014 The Equality Illusion was used as a key text in the development of the play Blurred Lines, written by Nick Payne and directed by Carrie Cracknell, premiering at the National Theatre. In 2010 Kat was named in the Guardian as the most influential young feminist in the country and in 2011 she was selected as one of the Observer's 50 contemporary innovators, described as Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Game-changers whose vision is transforming the world around us. ISBN: 9780571278220 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 304 pages
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Faber Non Fiction APRIL 2016 Climbing Days Dan Richards
A thrilling travel book, following in the footsteps of a pioneering mountaineer, the author's great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley.
Sales points • A beautiful portrait of a trailblazing woman, up to now lost to history • It explores that eternal question: why do people climb mountains?
Description In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A. Richards, remained mysterious to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir, Climbing Days, leads him on a journey. Perhaps, in the mountains, he can meet them halfway?
Following in the pair's footholds, Dan begins to travel and climb across Europe, using Dorothy's book as a guide. Learning the ropes in Wales and Scotland, scrambling in the Lake District, scaling summits in Spain and Switzerland, he closes in on the serrate pinnacle of Ivor and Dorothy's climbing lives, the mighty Dent Blanche in the high Alps of Valais.
What emerges is a beautiful portrait of a trailblazing woman, up to now lost to history - but also a book about that eternal question: why do people climb mountains?
About the Author Dan Richards was born in Wales in 1982 and grew up in Bristol. He has studied at UEA and the Norwich Art School. He is the co-author of Holloway with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, first published in 2012 as a limited run of 277 books - Letterpress printed by Richard Lawrence in his Oxford workshop - followed by a general edition by Faber & Faber in 2013. He is also the author and editor of The Beechwood Airship Interviews.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571311927 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 400 pages
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Faber Non Fiction APRIL 2016 Food for All Seasons Oliver Rowe
From top chef Oliver Rowe comes the essential book on seasonal food and how to cook it.
Sales points • The perfect cookbook for fans of The Natural Cook, River Cottage or Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries • UK campaign to include cookery videos online, recipe cards and ads on cookery websites and social media
Description A story of seasonal food throughout the year, this is a touching and informative culinary journey exploring the way our lives and our food are intertwined. It's a book of recipes, but more than that it's a book about food, and a book about an extraordinary chef whose career spans nearly two decades.
Oliver Rowe has cooked at the highest level and in this book, he draws on his wealth of experience to bring seasonal food to life. Oliver trained at Moro and went on to open Konstam, and award winning restaurant in King's Cross. There he focused on local, seasonal food and starred in BBC2's The Urban Chef which tracked his efforts to uncover suppliers in and around London. This book will not only help you understand food better, it will make you want to engage with the food seasons in a new way.
About the Author Oliver Rowe first learned to cook in Tuscany and trained at the award-winning Moro. He was Head Chef at Maquis in Hammersmith and, after a short stint in Paris at Rose Bakery, went on to open his cafe, which he called Konstam after his grandmother, and then his restaurant at the Prince Albert pub, which he also called Konstam. He featured in BBC2's The Urban Chef, which focused on his search for local suppliers to provide high quality, seasonal produce for his restaurant. Since then he has worked in various kitchens at home and abroad including Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9780571235902 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 240 pages
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Faber Non Fiction APRIL 2016 Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance Robert Gildea
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Fighters in the Shadows tells the story of the French Resistance - as it was, rather than how some choose to remember it.
Sales points • Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and published to huge international acclaim • 'Read this fine book, and wonder anew where you might have fitted in the kaleidoscope of resistance, defiance, acquiescence and collaboration.' - Ben Macintyre, The Times • 'As authoritative an arbitrator of truth and falsehood as we are likely to get, and his depiction of the heroes and heroines of the resistance commands belief, and sometimes awe.' - Max Hastings, Sunday Times • 'What Gildea has done is to step back and look and the wider picture, thereby providing a context for the individual acts of courage, which he celebrates in moving detail.' - Caroline Moorhead, Guardian
Description The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Resistance francaise' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian and even German anti-Nazis. The defence against the Holocaust brought in Jewish resisters and Christian rescuers. It involved a civil war for the French Empire in Africa and the Near East. The movement itself was split between those on the far right and the far left, fighting for very different visions of the world.
Robert Gildea returns to the testimonies of the resisters themselves, asking who they were, what they believed in and what compelled them to take the terrible risks they did. He brings to the fore the women resisters, who history neglected. By looking again at the constructions and interplay of the myths surrounding the resistance, Gildea builds a vivid, gripping and entirely new account of one of the most compelling narratives of the Second World War.
About the Author Robert Gildea has spent a lifetime studying modern France. Among his major works are Children of the Revolution, Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) France Since 1945 and The Past in French History. His book, Marianne in Chains, won the Wolfson Prize for History in ISBN: 9780571280360 2002. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting and How to Make a Star Tom Clynes
The incredible true story of how a teenager became the youngest person ever to build a working nuclear fusion reactor.
Sales points • Taylor Wilson's TED talk has had almost 3 million views since it was posted in March 2012 • 'From the opening page, where we meet 16-year-old Taylor Wilson digging in an abandoned uranium mine, it is clear we are in remarkable company.' - Rob Kingston, Sunday Times Books of the Year • 'A compelling study of the thrills - and burdens - of being born with an alpha intellect.' - Financial Times • 'This book can be read with interest by a scientific dunce like me. ...Clynes's book is as much about 'extreme parenting' as it is about nuclear science.' - Charlotte Moore, Spectator
Description By the age of 11, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At 13, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate medical uses for radioactive isotopes. And at 14, Wilson became the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. How could someone so young achieve so much, and what can Wilson's story teach parents and teachers about how to support high-achieving children?
In The Boy Who Played with Fusion, science journalist Tom Clynes follows Taylor Wilson's extraordinary journey - from his Arkansas home where his parents encouraged his intellectual passions, to the present, when now-17-year-old Wilson is winning international science competitions with devices designed to prevent terrorists from shipping radioactive material into the US.
Brilliant, funny and inspiring, The Boy Who Played with Fusion will delight anyone who believes in the ability of gifted children to change the world.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) About the Author ISBN: 9780571298143 Format: Paperback - B format Tom Clynes is a contributing editor at Popular Science and regularly writes for National Geographic and Men's Journal. Dimensions: 198x129mm His work has also appeared in GQ, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Conservation Magazine, Bicycling and many Extent: 240 pages other publications. Main Category: B Biography/autobiography
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Original Rockers Richard King
A wonderful account that recalls the debauched glory days of the independent record shop.
Sales points • Richard King has nearly 20 years experience working in the independent music industry and is perfectly placed to examine its key characters • 'Following on from his 2012 book on British independent labels, How Soon Is Now, Richard King's Original Rockers takes a sidelong glance at the ecosystem of the independent record shop, combining memoir and elegiac music writing.' - Kitty Empire, Observer
Description Richard King's account of the several years he spent working in a Bristol independent record shop in the early 90s is destined to become a classic of music writing. We live in an age when the most beautiful of recording formats, vinyl, is back in vogue and thriving. In the early 90s, with the march of the cd and record company disinterest in the format, vinyl was looking like an anachronism. And with its demise came the gradual erosion of a once beautiful and unique landscape known as the independent record shop.
Richard King, author of How Soon is Now, blends memoir and elegiac music writing on the likes of Captain Beefheart, CAN and Julian Cope, to create a book that recalls the debauched glory days of the independent record shop. Chaotic, amateurish and extravagantly dysfunctional, this is a book full of rare personalities and rum stories. It is a book about landscape, place and the personal; the first piece of writing to treat the environment of the record shop as a natural resource with its own peculiar rhythms and anecdotal histories.
About the Author Richard King was born in Newport, Gwent. He has worked at the heart of the independent music industry for nearly twenty years. He is the co-editor of Loops, an occasional journal of long-form music writing published jointly by Faber and Domino Records. He has contributed to the Guardian, the Observer and many other publications. He lives with his family
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) in Powys. ISBN: 9780571311804 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Art of Baby Making: The Holistic Approach to Fertility Gerad Kite
From the author of Everything You Need You Have, this holistic approach to fertility is sure to become the 'go- to' title for couples seeking a natural approach to conception.
Sales points • 'With his unique technique, Gerad Kite can help fertility-challenged people conceive - and has more than 1,000 success stories to prove it.' Mail on Sunday • Gerad Kite, author of Everything You Need You Have, has used his renowned methods to help countless couples conceive • This book has already sold thousands in its self-published format, and is sure to become the 'go-to' title for couples seeking a natural approach to conception with proven results • A beautifully-produced book with a bold, upbeat feel •
Description 'With his unique technique, Gerad Kite can help fertility-challenged people conceive - and has more than 1,000 success stories to prove it.' Mail on Sunday
In The Art of Baby Making, Acupuncture Master and internationally renowned fertility expert Gerad Kite presents a practical guide to re-calibrating your system to create the right conditions for new life to take hold. Fertility rates in the West are at an all time low, with one in seven couples experiencing difficulties conceiving - but Kite believes infertility is not an intractable condition. His unique approach blends philosophy, psychotherapy and heartening common sense to provide a holistic route to conception that actually works.
This book - filled with testimonials from Gerad's many, diverse patients - will give inspiration and hope to those who are trying for a baby. It will help men and women unite their minds, their bodies and their spirits on their journey towards parenthood. Price: $21.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781780722788 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Gerad Kite is an Acupuncture Master (AcM) and psychotherapist with more than 25 years of clinical experience, and a Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages recognised leader in the field of infertility. In 1993 he started the first NHS acupuncture service at Kings College Hospital
Main Category: VS Self-help/personal Development and in 2005 he opened the Kite Clinic, in London, where he heads a team of practitioners performing over 10,000 Sub Category: VFX Advice On Parenting treatments a year. He is a senior teacher of Worsley Five-Element acupuncture and trains apprentices at his residential Illustrations: training centre in the South of France. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Short Books APRIL 2016 Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference William MacAskill
A radical reassessment of how we can most effectively help others by a rising star of philosophy and leading social entrepreneur.
Sales points • Video and website to support publication, plus massive ad campaign in the Guardian (UK), in print and online • MacAskill is the co-founder of two non-profit organisations which have raised over £200 million in donations • 'A data nerd after my own heart.' - Bill Gates • 'Beautifully written and extremely smart. Doing Good Better should be required reading for anyone interested in making the world better.' - Steven D. Levitt, author of Freakonomics • 'Effective altruism - efforts that actually help people rather than making you feel good or helping you show off - is one of the great new ideas of the 21st century. Doing Good Better is the definitive guide to this exciting new movement.' - Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature
Description Almost all of us want to make a difference. So we volunteer, donate to charity, recycle or try to cut down our carbon emissions. But rarely do we know how much of a difference we're really making.
In a remarkable re-examination of the evidence, Doing Good Better reveals why buying sweatshop-produced goods benefits the poor; why cosmetic surgeons can do more good than charity workers; and why giving to a relief fund is generally not the best way to help after a natural disaster. By examining the charities you give to, the volunteering you do, the goods you buy and the career you pursue, this fascinating and often surprising guide shows how through simple actions you can improve thousands of lives - including your own.
About the Author William MacAskill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and co-founder of non-profits Giving Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) What We Can and 80,000 Hours, which inspire people to use their time and money as effectively as possible to fight the ISBN: 9781783350513 Format: Paperback - B format world's most pressing problems. Between them they have raised over $12 million for the most cost-effective charities plus Dimensions: 198x129mm a further $380 million in lifetime pledges. He and his organisations have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Extent: 336 pages Street Journal, the Today programme, and on Fox News, NPR and TED. Main Category: HP Philosophy
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Guardian Books APRIL 2016 Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent Ryan Holiday
A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.
Sales points • More philosophy-based home truths from Ryan Holiday, a companion volume to The Obstacle is the Way (over 25,000 copies sold in the UK since 2014) • Think 48 Laws of Power for the new generation of digital natives, growth hackers and aspiring entrepreneurs • Ryan's reputation as a marketing guru is secure; he is the man behind Tim Ferris's The 4-Hour Work Week phenomenon (over 1.3 m copies sold) • His online reach is impressive: 44k Twitter followers; 5K Facebook friends and 44K subscribers to his monthly Reading Recommendations newsletter
Description As in The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday delivers practical and inspiring philosophy, this time exploring a powerful concept that runs back centuries, across borders and schools of thought: ego.
Ego is our biggest enemy. Early in our careers, it can prevent us from learning and developing our talents. When we taste success, ego can blind us to our own faults, alienate us from others and lead to our downfall. In failure, ego is devastating and makes recovery all the more difficult. It is only by identifying our ego, speaking to its desires, and systematically disarming it that we can create our best work.
Organised into bite-sized observations featuring characters and narratives that illustrate themes and life lessons designed to resonate, uplift and inspire, Ego is the Enemy shows how you can be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success and resilient in your failures. It is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are still our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture which tends to fan the flames of ego and encourage the cult of personality at all costs. Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781257012 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying, Growth Hacker Marketing and The Obstacle is the Way. His Dimensions: 175x129mm Extent: 256 pages books have been translated into seventeen languages and his writing has appeared everywhere from the Columbia
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Profile Trade APRIL 2016 Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising Ryan Holiday
Join Ryan Holiday's revolution and learn how the secret new art of growth hacking can help grow your business exponentially.
Sales points • The inside story on how companies like Twitter, Spotify and Dropbox rapidly created something from nothing • Business advice from renowned strategist Ryan Holiday, the man behind Robert Greene, Tim Ferriss and American Apparel • Revealing advice from the world's leading growth hackers on making your brand a success • Ryan Holiday was in Australia in 2014 as a guest of Sydney's Vivid Festival • 'Ryan Holiday is part Machiavelli, part Ogilvy, and all results this whiz kid is the secret weapon you've never heard of. ' - Tim Ferriss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 'The 4-Hour Workweek'
Description Your new business went online yesterday and you've got a marketing budget of zero. How are you supposed to create a movement around your product? How can you get to your first thousand - or million - customers? Starting from zero, it feels impossible.
Enter the growth hacker. You may not have heard of growth hacking yet, but you've certainly used the billion dollar brands built by it: Hotmail, AirBnB, Facebook, Dropbox, amongst many others.
Growth hackers thrive on doing what traditional businessmen would consider impossible: creating something from nothing. They 'hack' their company's growth to create a narrative of sensational success, turning excited media, users and social media into a viral marketing force that will help their business grow exponentially.
Silicon Valley has realized that growth hacking - not television commercials and billboards - is the successful start-up's Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) secret weapon. Now growth hacker extraordinaire Ryan Holiday is ready to share his experience, teaching you how to ISBN: 9781781254363 Format: Paperback - B format harness the power of growth to propel you to success. Featuring insights from leading growth hackers, Growth Hacker Dimensions: 198x129mm Marketing is the essential guide to the revolutionary new approach to growing your business. Extent: 144 pages
Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt About the Author Sub Category: KJS Sales & Marketing Illustrations: Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. After apprenticing Previous Titles: under the renowned strategist and bestselling author Robert Greene, he went on to advise many bestselling authors and Author now living: multi-platinum musicians, and is now is a media strategist for people like Tucker Max, Tim Ferriss and Dov Charney. He is also the Director of Marketing at American Apparel, where his work in both growth hacking and advertising has become internationally renowned. His strategies are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube and Google. He currently lives in New Orleans. Profile Trade APRIL 2016 The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage Ryan Holiday
A modern guru who shows the way to turn problems into opportunities - in business and marketing, Ryan Holiday has done it all, seen it all, and now he's here to show you the way.
Sales points • With over 10,000 copies of The Obstacle is the Way sold in hardback for Profile, this paperback edition will build Ryan Holiday into a huge brand along the lines of his mentor, the million-copy selling Robert Greene • Ryan Holiday is a master marketeer and publicist, whose campaigns include mega-successful The 4-Hour Work Week and numerous other bestsellers • 'A book for the bedside of every future -and current - leader in the world.' - Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and Mastery • 'Ryan Holiday is part Machiavelli, part Ogilvy this whiz kid is the secret weapon you've never heard of.' - Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week • '[The book that's] turning the entrepreneurs and the moguls into hard-wired stoics' - The Times
Description We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a- lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, showing that what blocks our path actually opens one that is new and better.
If the competition threatens you, it's time to be fearless, to display your courage. An impossible deadline becomes a chance to show how dedicated you are. And as Ryan discovered as Director of Marketing for American Apparel, if your brand is generating controversy - it's also potentially generating publicity.
The Stoic philosophy - that what is in the way, is the way - can be applied to any problem: it's a formula invented more Price: $21.99 (NZ$27.99) than 2,000 years ago, whose effectiveness has been proven in battles and board rooms ever since. From Barack ISBN: 9781781251492 Format: Paperback Obama's ability to overcome obstacles in his election races, to the design of the iPhone, the stoic philosophy has helped Dimensions: 198x129mm its users become world-beaters. Extent: pages
Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt About the Author Sub Category: KJC Business Strategy Illustrations: Ryan Holiday is a media strategist for notorious clients like Tucker Max and Dov Charney, and worked on the publicity Previous Titles: campaign for Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Work Week. After dropping out of college at nineteen, he went on to advise Author now living: bestselling authors and multi-platinum musicians. He is the Director of Marketing at American Apparel and his strategies are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube and Google. His first book, Trust Me I'm Lying was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. He currently lives in New Orleans. Profile Trade APRIL 2016 The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny Ian Davidson
A clear and fast-paced account of how and why the French Revolution descended into the Terror.
Sales points • A vivid and comprehensive account of the French revolution that lays out events with great clarity and verve • Thoroughly researched, drawing extensively on French and international sources and historians
Description The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of France had just declared themselves a republic, toppling a rotten system of aristocratic privilege and altering the course of history forever.
The Revolution was led not by angry mobs, but by the best and brightest of France's growing bourgeoisie: young, educated, ambitious. Their aim was not to destroy, but to build a better state. In just three months they drew up a Declaration of the Rights of Man, which was to become the archetype of all subsequent Declarations worldwide, and they instituted a system of locally elected administration for France which still survives today. They were determined to create an entirely new system of government, based on rights, equality and the rule of law. In the first three years of the Revolution they went a long way toward doing so. Then came Robespierre, the Terror and unspeakable acts of barbarism.
In a clear, dispassionate and fast-moving narrative, Ian Davidson shows how and why the Revolutionaries, in just five years, spiralled from the best of the Enlightenment to tyranny and the Terror. The book reminds us that the Revolution was both an inspiration of the finest principles of a new democracy and an awful warning of what can happen when idealism goes wrong.
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Price: $54.99 (NZ$59.99) Ian Davidson worked for the Financial Times for many years, as Paris correspondent and as chief foreign affairs ISBN: 9781846685408 columnist. He studied English and Classics at Cambridge University, before being awarded the Frank Knox Memorial Format: Hard Cover Fellowship at Harvard and later becoming Visiting Fellow at the School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Dimensions: 234x153mm Hopkins University. He is author of Voltaire in Exile (2004) and Voltaire: A Life (Profile, 2010 - 9781846682322). Extent: 320 pages
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Profile Trade APRIL 2016 Dementia: What You Need to Know: Practical advice for families, professionals, and people living with dementia and Alzheimer's Disease around the world June Andrews
The international edition of a practical guide to dealing with dementia for anyone affected, by a world-leading expert.
Sales points • June Andrews is an internationally recognised leading expert in her field, very well-connected in the UK and elsewhere, and has been voted one of the 100 most influential clinicians in England • Thorough, practical, easy-to-follow advice, delivered in an upbeat and honest way • Dementia: The One Stop Guide, written by June Andrews (also Profile), has sold over 18,000 copies in the UK • Fully revised and updated for the international markets
Description Across the world, 44 million people live with dementia. Hundreds of millions of people are affected by the dementia of parents, partners, siblings or friends. And as much of the world struggles with an aging population, dementia is set to become ever more of a challenge for societies and individuals.
But most people who are diagnosed, or who are dealing with the diagnosis of a loved one, feel as though they are alone. This book fills the gap, providing practical information and support for living with, or caring for, Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
With clear and sensible information about recognising symptoms, getting help, managing financially, staying at home, treatment, being a carer and staying positive, this guide will help those with dementia and their families to make sure that they can stay well and happy as long as possible.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781781256701 June Andrews is the Director of the Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) in the School of Applied Social Format: Paperback - B format Science at the University of Stirling. She is a former nurse, NHS manager and senior civil servant. She has worked to Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages revolutionise dementia care in many countries, including Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Hong Kong; she has been Main Category: V Health/fitness an advisor to the Canadian Knowledge Translation Network, and judged an award for the European Foundations in Sub Category: V Health/fitness Dementia. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Profile Trade APRIL 2016 Getting (More of) What You Want: How the Secrets of Economics & Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything in Business & Life Margaret Neale and Thomas Z. Lys
Cutting-edge behavioural psychology to give you a competitive edge in any negotiation.
Sales points • The negotiation bible that uses twenty-first-century behavioural economics, this is Getting to Yes meets Influence • Not just another book on negotiation - a revolutionary new approach. It does for negotiation what Freakonomics did for economics - making it accessible and applicable • High-profile authors from the world's leading business schools
Description Most of us worry that we're not very good negotiators - too quick to concede or too abrupt in our approach. But negotiation is present in almost every social interaction - we cannot avoid it. Neale and Lys present a practical new approach that will help you master this crucial everyday skill in every situation.
Instead of focusing on reaching agreement at any cost, Neale and Lys reveal how to overcome our psychological biases and assess the hidden value in any negotiation. They explain how to know what a good deal is; when to negotiate and when to walk away; why keeping a straight face can prevent you from getting the best deal; when to make the first offer and when to wait; and why meeting in the middle can result in both sides being worse off.
Drawing on three decades of ground-breaking research into behavioural economics, psychology and strategic thinking, Getting (More of) What You Want will revolutionise the way you approach negotiation. Whether you're looking for a better deal on your new car, asking for a pay rise, selling your company or just deciding who does the washing up, this book will help you become a more successful, more efficient negotiator - and get more of exactly what you want.
About the Author Margaret Neale is an Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford University, where her research focuses Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) primarily on negotiation and team performance. She is the author of over seventy articles on the topics of bargaining and ISBN: 9781781253465 Format: Paperback - B format negotiation. She lives in Pescadero, California. Thomas Lys is Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting at the Kellogg School of Dimensions: 198x129mm Management at Northwestern University. He is an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and has served as a Extent: 320 pages consultant for General Electric and IBM, among other companies. Lys lives in Mettawa, Illinois. Main Category: VS Self-help/personal Development
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Profile Trade APRIL 2016 How to Watch a Movie David Thomson
An enlightening guide to all the magical workings of watching film from 'a giant in the world of film criticism' (The Times).
Sales points • 'The greatest living writer on the movies' John Banville, New Statesman • Thomson's most recent book was a Book of the Year for the Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Times, Guardian, Observer and Independent • David Thomson is the author of the seminal, must-read New Biographical Dictionary of Film, and How to Watch a Movie is just as essential a guide to the movies
Description From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience.
Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (now in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of the most trusted authorities on all things cinema. Now, he offers his most inventive exploration of the medium yet: guiding us through each element of the viewing experience, considering the significance of everything from what we see and hear on screen - actors, shots, cuts, dialogue, music - to the specifics of how, where, and with whom we do the viewing. With customary candour and wit, Thomson delivers keen analyses of a range of films from classics such as Psycho and Citizen Kane to contemporary fare such as 12 Years a Slave and All Is Lost, revealing how to more deeply appreciate both the artistry and manipulation of film, and how watching movies approaches something like watching life itself.
Discerning, funny and utterly unique, How to Watch a Movie is a welcome twist on the classic proverb: Give a movie fan a film, she'll be entertained for an hour or two; teach a movie fan to watch, her experience will be enriched forever.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781781250440 David Thomson, 'without doubt, the greatest living film historian' (LA Times), is the author of the seminal New Format: Paperback - B format Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in its sixth edition, Have You Seen ... ?, Nicole Kidman and The Big Screen. Born in Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages London, Thomson now lives in San Francisco.
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Profile Trade APRIL 2016 Man Up: Surviving Modern Masculinity Jack Urwin
What maleness should mean now, from the author of Vice's 'A Stiff Upper Lip is Killing British Men'.
Sales points • From Professor Green's TV programme about make suicide to the Southbank Centre's Being a Man festival, there's no hotter current topic in the media on masculinity - this is the first book to catch that wave • The men's equivalent of Natasha Walter's Living Dolls, Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman or Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth • From the 22-year old author of Vice's much-shared article A Stiff Upper Lip is Killing British Men (described as 'fabulous' by Irvine Welsh)
Description Jack Urwin's father died when he was 10. No one around him ever sat him down to talk him through his grief. In his later teens he suffered a breakdown.
Now 23 and a journalist whose recent Vice article 'A Stiff Upper Lip is Killing British Men' - described as 'fabulous' by Irvine Welsh - became a viral sensation, Urwin explores what it means to be a man now. He traces crises of masculinity from our grandfathers' inability to deal with the horrors of war, to the mob mentality of football terraces or Fight Club, and the disturbing rise of mental health problems among men today.
Smart, funny and friendly, but with a wisdom that belies the author's age, Man Up is the start of an essential conversation for men, exploring why we have perpetuated the myth of masculinity - and how we can challenge it, and change it.
About the Author Jack Urwin is a journalist and a frequent contributor to Vice magazine, among other publications, who writes on pop culture, mental health, and music. His piece for Vice on his father's death 'A Stiff Upper Lip is Killing British Men' was instantly shared tens of thousands of times around the world. This is Jack's first book. @JackMerlin
Price: $27.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781785780691 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 5000-1: The Leicester City Story: Hope and Disbelief in the Premier League's Greatest-Ever Season Rob Tanner
The essential book on Leicester City FC's incredible 2015-16 season, from the Leicester Mercury's chief football writer.
Sales points • The first book on Leicester City FC's incredible year in the Premier League • Written by a true insider - the Leicester Mercury's chief football writer, Rob Tanner • The biggest story in football for years with HUGE international appeal - 'LCFC' was the most popular tweet in the world during the recent Man City clash • Written in a thrilling as-it-happened digestible diary format
Description Leicester City - a team facing relegation a year ago, priced at 5000-1 to finish top at the start of this season - are currently Premier League leaders
From the Leicester Mercury's chief football writer Rob Tanner, and with unrivalled access to players, staff and fans, 5000 -1: The Leicester City Story is Tanner's diary of this astonishing season as it happened, recounting the growing sense of hope and disbelief as the Foxes close in on glory.
The story begins with the explosive end of Nigel Pearson's tenure as manager and the surprise appointment of Claudio Ranieri. From the loss of their talismanic midfielder Esteban Cambiasso to the 89th-minute winner against Norwich in February 2016, and the slaying of Tottenham and Manchester City with an unfancied team whose star man Riyad Mahrez cost less than Wayne Rooney earns in a month, it shouldn't have been possible.
With incredible insider access, Tanner's book tells the full tale of the Premier League's most remarkable story to date - the dream of anyone who has ever supported an underdog. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781785781513 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Rob Tanner is the Leicester Mercury's chief football writer and has been Leicester City FC correspondent for the past Extent: 240 pages seven seasons. He lives in Tamworth, Staffordshire. Main Category: WS Sport
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Icon APRIL 2016 The 50 Greatest Road Trips Sarah Woods
A personal view of the 50 finest journeys available on the planet.
Sales points • A road-trip veteran's personal top 50 including many well-known and many less known trails • Beautifully illustrated with maps and photos throughout • From an established travel writer and part of Icon's new 50 series
Description If you've ever dreamed of completing an epic car journey, The 50 Greatest Road Trips is for you. Packed full of the most exotic, exciting and iconic road trips across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa, it showcases the ultimate in car adventures.
Sarah Woods is a veteran of road-tripping, having driven the iconic 19,000-mile route from North America to South America's tip, completed several dusty voyages in the Australian outback and scaled towering Saharan sand dunes in a 4x4. Readers are sure to feel the urge to climb into an old Chevrolet, crank up the tunes on the stereo, flick the sunroof open and settle back for one heck of a ride on the open road...
About the Author Sarah Woods is the author of over a dozen travel books, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. She writes for national newspapers and travel magazines and appears regularly on TV and radio. She has been awarded the BGTW 'Travel Guide Writer of the Year'.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781785780967 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 Make Way for the Superhumans: How the science of bio enhancement is transforming our world, and how we need to deal with it Michael Bess
An in-depth survey of the evolving science of bio-enhancement: where we are now and how to deal with it.
Sales points • Timely and important tour d'horizon of the current state of human bio-enhancement • For anyone fascinated by TV's Black Mirror or the hit film Ex-Machina
Description Biomedical research is changing the both the format and the functions of human beings. Very soon the human race will be faced with a choice: do we join in with the enhancement or not? Make Way for the Superhumans looks at how far this technology has come and what aims and ambitions it has.
From robotic implants that restore sight to the blind, to performance enhancing drugs that build muscles, improve concentration, and maintain erections, bio-enhancement has already made massive advances. Humans have already developed the technology to transmit thoughts and actions brain-to-brain using only a computer interface.
By the time our grandchildren are born, they will be presented with the option to significantly alter and redesign their bodies. Make Way for the Superhumans is the only book that poses the questions that need answering now: suggesting real, practical ways of dealing with this technology before it reaches a point where it can no longer be controlled.
About the Author Michael Bess is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and cultural impacts of technological change. He is the author of three other books, one of which, The Light Green Society (University Chicago Press, 2003) won the George Perkins Marsh prize (2004) of the American Society for Environmental History and an Honorable Mention (2004) from the Pinkney Prize committee of the Society for French Historical Studies.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781785781018 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 320 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 Geoff Hurst's Greats: England's Hero Selects his Finest Ever Footballers Geoff Hurst
Sir Geoff Hurst, from his vantage point as a true national hero and international football ambassador - and still the only man ever to score a hat-trick in a World Cup Final - risks controversy as he narrows down football's finest to a select 50 in this brilliant book.
Sales points • England's most iconic footballer gives his definitive list of the greatest players in the history of the game • A must-read for football fans everywhere - and the likely start of many forthright debates
Description Sir Geoff Hurst, from his vantage point as a true national hero and international football ambassador; and still the only man ever to score a hat-trick in a World Cup Final; risks controversy as he narrows down football's finest to a select 50 in this brilliant new book.
From unerringly consistent shot-stoppers to explosively temperamental forwards, not to mention the odd libero, false nine and wing half, the list brings together the greats of every shape, size and position. Sir Geoff brings many first-hand tales of former teammates and rivals, along with tributes of those he's admired from the terraces. Each entry is accompanied by a photo of the player in their prime.
Is Franz Beckenbauer preferred to England's heroic Bobby Moore? Has Messi managed to edge ahead of his countryman Diego Maradona? Have Bale or Suarez done enough to make the cut? This absorbing book from one of the great icons of the game is a must-read for football fans everywhere - and the likely start of many forthright debates...
About the Author Sir Geoff Hurst MBE is the only man to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final - for England in their historic 4-2 victory over West Germany at Wembley in 1966.Having shown an early flair for cricket - playing a first-class match for Essex against Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) Lancashire in 1962 - Hurst opted for a career in football, and with West Ham United he scored 248 goals in 499 first team ISBN: 9781785780509 Format: Paperback - B format appearances. There he won the FA Cup in 1964 and the European Cup Winners' Cup 1965. He was selected by Alf Dimensions: 198x129mm Ramsey to lead England's attack between 1966 and 1972 - the longest run of any forward under Ramsey, scoring 24 Extent: 240 pages goals in that time. Main Category: WS Sport
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Icon APRIL 2016 David Gower's Half-Century: The 50 Greatest Cricketers of All Time David Gower
Ashes-winning former England cricket captain David Gower reveals his half-century of heroes, with anecdotes and insider knowledge from 40 years in the game.
Sales points • One of English cricket's most revered batsmen, and Sky Sports' primary commentator, reveals his greatest half- century of heroes • Guaranteed to provoke heated discussions amongst cricket fans everywhere - including with David's Sky Sports co- presenters
Description Former England captain and impeccably stylish batsman David Gower, himself inducted into cricket's Hall of Fame, here takes a leap of faith and names his 50 greatest players of all time.
Going back through the history of the game, he honours the finest run-getters, wicket-takers, glove men and captains he played with and against, as well as those he has been able to observe as a spectator or commentator, and legendary achievers from earlier eras. Full of first-hand recollections and anecdotes, this book is sure to delight - and occasionally infuriate - cricket enthusiasts everywhere.
Who was the best of the great West Indian quicks? Have England heroes like Boycott, Pietersen and Flintoff made the cut? Who has been the greatest Australian batsman, post-Bradman? All is revealed in this lively and contentious celebration of cricket's true greats.
About the Author David Gower made his mark on the game through the 15 years of his international career from the late 1970s onwards as an elegant and at times prolific left-handed batsman. His finest year came in 1985 when he captained England to victory in the Ashes and in the process set a new record for the most runs in a home Ashes series for an England captain. Sadly Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) not every series as captain reaped quite the same success and he is still waiting for the scars to heal after 'leading' ISBN: 9781785780479 England through two 5-0 defeats at the hands of the all-powerful West Indies teams of the mid-1980s. David's second Format: Paperback - B format career as a broadcaster with, in order, Channel 9, the BBC and Sky Sports has seen him establish himself as a calm and Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages measured judge of the game. It is with those qualities to the fore that he has turned his mind to picking his 50 all-time
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Icon APRIL 2016 Building Self-esteem: A Five-Point Plan For Valuing Yourself More David Bonham-Carter
Believe in yourself and feel better.
Sales points • New edition of one of the most popular Practical Guides • From an acclaimed and experienced life coach • The easy way to understand CBT, packed with techniques to help provide a happier life
Description Building Self-Esteem brings you easy-to-follow techniques for improving your self-image. It's packed with practices from CBT and related disciplines so you can achieve a realistic and positive view of yourself and live a happier and more successful life.By building positive self-esteem, you can create a virtuous circle: when you feel better you achieve more, and when you achieve more you feel better. A positive self-image can also help you to improve your relationships and to focus on what matters to you, whether that's dealing with feelings of inadequacy, to exploring your creativity, to improving physical fitness. Based on psychological assessments and practical journaling exercises, Building Self-Esteem enables you to uncover your needs, wants, preferences, dislikes and concerns, and to move away from whatever's holding you back.
About the Author David Bonham-Carter is an experienced life coach and self-help author, specializing in the application of psychological methods for achieving self-improvement, behavioural change and emotional wellbeing.
Price: $16.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781848319608 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 Granta 136: Followers Sigrid Rausing
Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.
Sales points • The theme of this edition of Granta is Followers - cults, faiths and ideologies - and what leads us to a particular belief • Brand new writing - everything in Granta's pages has never before been published in English • Introduces debut authors alongside first translations and the most established writers of our time
Description What leads us to accept a particular belief, credo or fact? What's the difference between conviction, groupthink and madness? And when should we start asking questions? This issue of Granta looks at cults, faiths and ideologies, and asks how they turn us into followers.
Miriam Toews on shunning, pacifism and her youth in a strict Mennonite community; Matilda Gustavsson on teenage Christian groups, faith healing and speaking in tongues; Lauren Baldwin on growing up with the Children of God; Andrea Stuart on the feminist porn industry; Shalom Auslander on Orthodox Judaism; and Roberto Saviano on hiding out from the Italian mafia - along with new writing from Tim Adams, Lauren Baldwin, Emma Cline, Sam Lipsyte, Gwendoline Riley, Aatish Taseer, Adam Thorpe and many more.
About the Author Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been translated into four different languages.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781905881970 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 210x145mm Extent: pages
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Granta APRIL 2016 Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World Greg Milner
A big-think book which tells the riveting story of GPS (Global Positioning System) and how it is affecting our brains, our technology, and our culture, in the tradition of James Gleick and Nicholas Carr.
Sales points • The first critical and cultural history of GPS, an astonishingly pervasive technology that influences almost every aspect of our lives • Reveals that the question 'Where are we?' is as philosophically complex as the question 'Who are we?' • A technologically rich book for readers interested in how technology is changing our world - and even changing us • Includes a history of navigation skills, from ancient Polynesian methods to cutting edge technology today • Explores GPS's roots in warfare, and features behind-closed-doors military research and development • Milner's book Perfecting Sound Forever was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award
Description Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all. Neither the internet nor the cloud would work without the Global Positioning System (GPS), a network of 30 satellites and their monitoring stations on Earth, which makes everything from the smartphone in your pocket to precision planting of crops, to the Mars rover possible.
Pinpoint tells the remarkable story of GPS, from its conceptual origins as a bomb guidance system and its classified status to its present ubiquity and one of the most important technologies in the world. It examines the different ways that humans understand physical space, from ancient Polynesian navigation, to Western navigational methods to the new frontiers revealed by GPS. A strange and unexpected legacy of satellite technology is its double-edged effect on our culture: while GPS has brought us breathtakingly accurate methods of timekeeping, navigation, and earthquake tracking, our overwhelming reliance on it is affecting our cognitive maps, leading to the increasingly common phenomenon 'Death by GPS', in which drivers blindly follow their devices into deserts, lakes, and impassable mountains.
Price: $32.99 (NZ$36.99) Deeply researched, inventive and with fascinating insights into the way we think about our place in the world, Pinpoint ISBN: 9781847087089 reveals the way the technologies we design to help us can end up shaping our lives. It is at once a grand history of Format: Paperback - C format science and a far-reaching book about contemporary culture. Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: About the Author Sub Category: Greg Milner is the author of Perfecting Sound Forever, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A former editor Illustrations: at Spin, his writing has also appeared in Slate, the Village Voice, Wired, Salon, New York, Blender, Rolling Stone, the Previous Titles: Author now living: Word, the Sunday Times, and the Journal of Technology in Human Services. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
Granta APRIL 2016 Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter Diana Athill
In this sequel to Costa Biography Award-winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties.
Sales points • A joyful and candid book, published in advance of Athill's 99th birthday in December • Over 25,000 copies sold on original publication in the UK • Somewhere Towards the End has sold over 75,000 copies in paperback • Wise, true and entertaining writing about the experience of getting old, and things that matter most in your final years of life • Athill is considered by many to be a writer's writer, and this book proves that she has lost none of her sharpness, perception, and intellectual generosity
Description What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill reflects on what it is like to be in her nineties, and on the moments in her life which have risen to the surface and sustain her in her later years.
She recalls in sparkling detail the exact layout of the garden of her childhood, a vast and beautiful park attached to a large house, and writes with humour, clarity and honesty about her experiences of the First and Second World Wars, and her trips to Europe as a young woman. In the remarkable title chapter, Athill describes her pregnancy at the age of forty-three, losing the baby and almost losing her life, and her gratitude on discovering that she had survived.
With vivid memories of the past mingled with candid, wise and often very funny reflections on the experience of being very old, Alive, Alive Oh! reminds us of the joy and richness to be found at every stage of life.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781783782727 Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and Format: Paperback - B format worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages memoir Stet, which is also published by Granta Books, as are five further volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Main Category: B Biography/autobiography Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That, and a Sub Category: BM Memoirs collection of letters, Instead of a Book. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards Illustrations: Previous Titles: the End, and was presented with an OBE. She lives in London. Author now living:
Granta Paperbacks APRIL 2016 The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World Oliver Morton
A climate-crisis book which offers a new - and controversial - solution: geoengineering, and which delivers a rich, deep history of climate change, and the science and politics that underpin it.
Sales points • Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2015 • The paperback outing of this unique book, which was widely and warmly reviewed • Presents the game-changing argument that the battle against global warming can only be won in the stratosphere • Explores familiar issues in startlingly original and imaginative ways to help us think differently about the world • Morton was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award for his book Mapping Mars
Description The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possible insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system. A stratospheric veil against the sun; the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton; a fleet of unmanned ships seeding clouds: these are the radical technologies of climate geoengineering. It is chilling to think of such power, and such scope for misadventure or malice, in humans hands. And yet we are now at the point where we have no choice but to take them very seriously indeed.
The Planet Remade explores the science, history and politics behind these strategies. It looks at who might want to see geoengineering put to use - and why others would be dead set against it. In the last two centuries, changes to the planet - to the clouds and soils, to the winds and the seas, to the great cycles of nitrogen and carbon - have been far more profound than most of us realize. Appreciating the scale of that change compels us to rethink not just our responses to global warming, but our relationship to nature. With sensitivity, insight and expert science, Oliver Morton unpicks the moral implications of climate change, our fear that people have become a force of nature, and what it might mean to try and use that force for good. The Planet Remade is about imagining a world where people take care instead of taking Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) control. ISBN: 9781783780983 Format: Paperback - B format About the Author Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 448 pages Oliver Morton is Briefings Editor of the Economist, having formerly been Chief News Editor of Nature and Editor of Wired
Main Category: PDZ Popular Science UK. He is the author of Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World and Eating the Sun: How Light Sub Category: RN The Environment Powers the Planet. He has written for many publications, including Nature, the Independent, National Geographic, the Illustrations: New Yorker, Newsweek, Prospect, and Wired. Asteroid 10716 Olivermorton is named for him. Previous Titles: Author now living:
Portobello Pbs APRIL 2016 Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace Matthew Green
A gripping and groundbreaking book that tells the inside story of how the men and women we dispatch to fight our battles adapt to life outside the combat zone.
Sales points • Paperback edition of a book that was referred to in parliament and made waves in the military and medical professions • Green was embedded with the US marines during the invasion of Iraq, spent several years reporting on events in Afghanistan, and has devoted the last year to interviewing veterans of both conflicts • Author is an eloquent spokesman and an energetic campaigner on this issue
Description Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans' journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return.
Through wide-ranging interviews with former combatants -- including a Royal Marine sniper and a former operator in the SAS - as well as serving personnel and their families, physicians, therapists, and psychiatrists, Aftershock looks beyond the headline-grabbing statistics and the labels of post-traumatic stress disorder to get to the heart of today's post-conflict experience. Green asks what lessons have been learned from past wars, and explores the range of help currently available, from traditional talking cures to cutting-edge scientific therapies. As today's battle-scarred troops begin to lay their weapons down, Aftershock is a hard-hitting account of the hidden cost of conflict. And its message is one that has profound implications, not just for the military, but for anyone with an interest in how we experience trauma and survive.
About the Author For the past fourteen years, Matthew Green has worked as a correspondent for Reuters and the Financial Times, Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) reporting from over thirty countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. His first book, The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for ISBN: 9781846273315 Joseph Kony, won a Jerwood Award and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. His writing has also appeared in the Format: Paperback - B format Economist, The Times and Esquire. www.matthewgreenjournalism.com Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 336 pages
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Granta Paperbacks APRIL 2016 The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis Yannis Palaiologos
Fully updated with a new 8,000-word epilogue to incorporate the events of 2015; a riveting insider's account of the social, cultural and political forces behind Greece's recent financial crisis and its aftermath.
Sales points • A new, updated edition which reflects on the challenges faced by Greece since the events of 2015 • Tells the story of the financial crash through the personal perspectives of politicians, financiers and ordinary Greek people • Yannis Palaiologos combines the piercing erudition of an objective observer with expertise in the fields of economics and politics, and the narrative immersion of a native Greek • Palaiologos is a respected writer and journalist who speaks perfect English • Compelling storytelling brings Greece vividly to life and this book does for Greece what Tobias Jones's The Dark Heart of Italy did for that country
Description Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe have watched with morbid fascination as the country has repeatedly flirted with political and financial chaos, as one failed rescue programme has followed another, as extremism spread and its official creditors bickered about the causes of its inability to recover.
How did a prosperous, seemingly advanced economy in the heart of Europe collapse so precipitously? And why has it proved so hard for it to stand on its feet again? These are the central questions running through The 13th Labour of Hercules. Through a series of compelling stories - from a cancer sufferer depending on charitable health care, to the Financial Minister charged with clearing up tax evasion, to the union bosses fighting mass unemployment and the workings of a prejudiced, corrupt government - it brings to life the social, cultural and political forces that left Greece defenceless when the global economic hurricane came, and the vicious interplay between economic depression, institutional failure and social breakdown since the country's Great Crisis began. Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781846276248 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Yannis Palaiologos is a features reporter for Kathimerini newspaper in Athens, Greece. He grew up and went to school in Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages Athens, and studied PPE and post-graduate philosophy at New College, Oxford.
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Granta Paperbacks APRIL 2016 Vernon God Little DBC Pierre
Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat.
Sales points • Winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize • 'A showpiece of superb comic writing Out of the detritus of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic art.' - Sunday Telegraph • 'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first novel would come free with every television set Not since reading A Confederacy of Dunces have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice this novel reads like a modern day fairy tale.'- Mail on Sunday • 'This book ,with its dangerously comic look at a schoolyard massacre, appears primed for cult antihero status Vernon is a marvellous creation.'- Sydney Morning Herald • 'A frenetic yet unexpectedly moving first novel Vernon God Little is raucous and brooding, coarse and lyric, corrosive and sentimental.' - The New Yorker
Description Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble. And it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. News of the tragedy serves as open invitation to the media and soon the quirky backwater of Martirio is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks all too keen to lay the blame for the killings at Vernon's feet. Eulalio Ledesma, in particular, sniffs out his opportunity to make good at Vernon's expense and soon Vernon finds himself drawn into a series of increasingly bizarre (to say nothing of life-threatening) circumstances. Eventually, with the LSD safely deposited and diluted in the ginseng, he succumbs to the workings of Fate and takes off for Mexico and a date - or so he hopes - with the divine Taylor
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003
About the Author Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) DBC Pierre was born in Reynella, South Australia. He was raised in Mexico between the ages of seven and twenty-three, ISBN: 9780571215164 although he has also travelled extensively. DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Format: Paperback - B format County Leitrim, Ireland. Vernon God Little, his first novel, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the Dimensions: 198x126mm Extent: 288 pages Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Man Booker Prize. He is the author of Ludmila's Broken English (2006) Main Category: F Fiction and Lights Out in Wonderland. Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Ludmila's Broken English DBC Pierre
The outrageously funny new novel from the Booker-winning author of Vernon God Little.
Sales points • Reissued to coincide with the publication of DBC Pierre's new collection of writings, Petit Mal • The wild and raucous follow up to his amazing 2003 Booker Prize-winning debut • 'Pierre has pulled off that most difficult of feats, an assured second novel what makes this book so hugely enjoyable are the pace and sophistication of Pierre's writing and his gallery of memorable caricatures sustained by [his] wit and stylistic virtuosity. His prose slithers and slides like a cunning snake [a] weird and wonderfully outrageous novel.' - Andrew Riemer, Sydney Morning Herald • 'Pierre's gift for comic ventriloquism is a dazzling as ever.' - Evening Standard • 'Expect the baroque. Expect slapstick and speed, funny and obscene, and a near-gorgeous overwrite out of which come occasional moments of shocking loss and beauty.' - Ali Smith, Sunday Telegraph •
Description DBC Pierre's second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila's journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's piss.
Thousands of miles to the West, the Heath twins are separated after 33 years conjoined at the abdomen. Released for the first time from an institution rumoured to have been founded for an illegitimate child of Charles II, they are suddenly plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy with the chatter of freedom, democracy, self- empowerment and sex.
A wild and raucous picaresque dripping with flavours of British bacon and nasty Russian vodka, Ludmila's Broken English
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) is a tale of tango-ing twins on a journey into the unknown. A ride so outrageously improbable it just may happen, DBC ISBN: 9780571230952 Pierre's second novel confirms his place in the ranks of today's most original storytellers. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 195x130mm About the Author Extent: 336 pages Main Category: F Fiction DBC Pierre was born in Reynella, South Australia. He was raised in Mexico between the ages of seven and twenty-three, Sub Category: FC Literary Fiction although he has also travelled extensively. DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Illustrations: County Leitrim, Ireland. Vernon God Little, his first novel, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the Previous Titles: Author now living: Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Man Booker Prize. He is the author of Ludmila's Broken English (2006) and the forthcoming novel Lights Out in Wonderland (Sept 2010).
Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 Lights Out in Wonderland DBC Pierre
The spectacular third novel from DBC Pierre, one of the great storytellers of his generation.
Sales points • Reissued to coincide with the publication of DBC Pierre's new collection of writings, Petit Mal • Lights Out In Wonderland sold over 8,000 copies in trade paperback across ANZ • Vernon God Little won the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and went on to sell almost 63,000 across ANZ • DBC has a huge readership, share the love! • 'DBC Pierre's first book, Vernon God Little, was brilliant. Lights Out is even better irresistible.' - Time Out • 'If any novelist can collate the killing irony of what is happening around us it is DBC Pierre.' - Guardian
Description Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is looking to end it all with one last journey of excess. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, Lights Out In Wonderland documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel's adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes.
An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on the march towards mindless banality, DBC Pierre's third novel is an unexpectedly joyful expression of the human spirit.
About the Author DBC Pierre lives in County Leitrim, Ireland. Vernon God Little, his debut novel, won the MAN Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. Ludmila's Broken English, his second, was published in 2006.
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The Truth Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton
Florian Zeller's The Truth, in the English translation by Christopher Hampton, premiered at The Chocolate Factory, London, in association with Theatre Royal Bath.
Sales points • Florian Zeller, a French novelist and playwright, won the prestigious Prix Interallié in 2004 for his novel Fascination of Evil and has won several Moliere Awards for his plays • Christopher Hampton is one Britain's most celebrated playwrights. He has previously worked with Zeller on The Father and The Mother and their previous collaborations have been a highly successful • Florian Zeller's star is very much rising in the UK and there is a huge buzz around The Truth
Description Two couples. Friendship, suspicion, deceit. And the truth. Florian Zeller's The Truth, in the English translation by Christopher Hampton, premiered at The Chocolate Factory, London, in association with Theatre Royal Bath. It follows the phenomenal success of The Father (Theatre Royal Bath, Tricycle, London and West End) and The Mother (Theatre Royal Bath, Tricycle, London), both by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton.
About the Author Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother? at the age of eighteen. Since then, his plays have included The Philanthropist, Savages, Tales from Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, White Chameleon and The Talking Cure. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Moliere, von Horvath, Chekhov and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3). Florian Zeller (b. 1979) is a French novelist and playwright. His works include The Fascination of Evil (Prix Interallie 2004), Artifical Snow, Lovers or Something Like it and Julien Parme. His plays include The Father and The Mother.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571327447 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x127mm Extent: 96 pages
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Faber Plays APRIL 2016 Welcome Home, Captain Fox! Anthony Weigh
A sparkling comedy of identity, lost and found, based on Jean Anouilh's hit 1937 play, Le Voyageur sans bagage, Anthony Weigh's Welcome Home, Captain Fox! premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2016
Sales points • Welcome Home, Captain Fox! premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2016
Description It's the legendary hot summer of 1959 and while the Cold War rages and America tunes into I Love Lucy, Captain Jack Fox - believed missing in action in the fields of France fifteen years before - is about to be reunited with his family in the Hamptons.
But is this really Jack Fox? And if it isn't, who is this man? And why are there twenty-two other families so intent on claiming him as their own?
A sparkling comedy of identity, lost and found, based on Jean Anouilh's hit 1937 play, Le Voyageur sans bagage, Anthony Weigh's Welcome Home, Captain Fox! premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2016
About the Author Anthony Weigh's plays include The Middle Man (Bush, 66 Books, October 2011); The Flooded Grave (Bush, 2009 and Latitude Festival, 2011); (I'm in) Brooklyn, (not Dagenham Parkway) (Arcola/Miniaturists 2010); Like a Fishbone (Bush, Sydney Theatre Company, 2010); 2000 Feet Away (Bush, Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, Steep Theatre, Chicago). Adaptations include The Silence of the Sea (Donmar/Trafalgar Studios, 2013) and Yerma (Hull Tuck/Gate, 2011).
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571331413 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x127mm Extent: 144 pages
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Faber Plays APRIL 2016 The Maids Jean Genet, translated by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton
A contemporary adaptation of Jean Genet's masterpiece by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton.
Sales points • Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton's adaptation of The Maids was staged by Sydney Theatre Company as part of their 2013 programme, and starred Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert
Description In a luxurious bedroom, two maids fantasize about killing their employer, playing out dangerous and sadistic scenarios as they plan her violent death. An intense psychological thriller, The Maids offers a vicious analysis of the class system and a provocative exploration of sexuality.
Jean Genet's masterpiece The Maids has not been seen in the West End for twenty years. This contemporary adaptation by Benedict Andrews and Andrew Upton received its UK premiere at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in February 2016.
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Faber Plays APRIL 2016 Don Quixote: Based on the Novel James Fenton and Miguel de Cervantes
Cervantes' comic novel is widely regarded as one of the foundation stones of modern fiction. It is newly adapted for the stage by James Fenton to mark the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' death.
Sales points • A new stage adaptation of a classic novel that is still popular with readers. The 400th anniversary of Cervantes' death this year will mean that there is more focus on the novel than normal • James Fenton is an award-winning poet, journalist and dramatist. He has previously been awarded the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and, most recently, the PEN Pinter Prize
Description After a lifetime of reading books on chivalry, Don Quixote decides to embark on a quest of his own. Taking up a lance and sword, he sets out to become a wandering knight, defending the helpless and vanquishing the wicked. Hopelessly unprepared and increasingly losing his grip on reality, he travels across Spain accompanied by his faithful and equally ill- suited squire, each calamitous adventure widening the gap between reality and the romantic ideal of Quixote's books.
Cervantes' comic novel is widely regarded as one of the foundation stones of modern fiction. James Fenton's stage adaptation of Don Quixote marks the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' death. It premiered at the Swan Theatre, Stratford- upon-Avon, with the Royal Shakespeare Company in March 2016.
This playtext contains song lyrics by James Fenton. The music was composed by Grant Olding.
About the Author James Fenton was born in Lincoln in 1949 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99. His poetry collections include Children in Exile and Out of Danger, for which he was awarded the Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) Whitbread Prize. He wrote libretti for Haroun and the Sea of Stories (New York City Opera) and Tsunami Song Cycle ISBN: 9780571331581 (BBC Symphony Orchestra), and his theatre includes Pictures from an Exhibition (Young Vic), and Tamar's Revenge and Format: Paperback - B format The Orphan of Zhao (both for the Royal Shakespeare Company). In 2007 James Fenton was awarded the Queen's Gold Dimensions: 197x126mm Extent: 112 pages Medal for Poetry. He is editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems. Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 was published by
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Faber Plays APRIL 2016 Widening Income Inequality Frederick Seidel
Cutting and brilliant new poetry from master controversionalist Frederick Seidel.
Sales points • One of the greatest and most controversial poets writing today, this collection is sure to provoke a storm in the poetry world
Description Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'great poet of innocence,' and 'an example of the dangerous Male of the Species', his sly, witty and wide-eyed poems seem earnest one moment and flippant the next, and will see him rotating his caustic fire from high- society cocktail parties to street-level poverty, genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. He's never more than a turn- line from humour, and it is often when he is at his funniest that he is also at his most shocking. The Independent said of his last collection: 'There is no contemporary poet writing in English as witty, as shrewd, as touching and as debonair as Frederick Seidel. That's a lot of praise, but he surely merits it.'
Widening Income Inequality, Seidel's new collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance. Rarely has poetry been this dapper, or this dire, or this true.
About the Author Frederick Seidel was born in St Louis and lives in New York City. His previous books of poems include Final Solutions, Sunrise, These Days, Poems 1959-1979, My Tokyo, Going Fast, The Cosmos Poems, Life on Earth, Area Code 212, The Cosmos Trilogy and Selected Poems. His most recent collection was Nice Weather (2013). He received the PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry in 2002.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571330706 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 223x143mm Extent: 128 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry APRIL 2016 The Poems of Basil Bunting Basil Bunting
An important work of literary scholarship which highlights, for the first time, the achievement of a neglected modernist master.
Sales points • As the hub of modernist poetry, Faber is the perfect home for Bunting • A long awaited work for modernist poetry readers and scholars, Basil Bunting: The Poems is ripe for the educational and academic market
Description Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Bunting's often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect.
About the Author Basil Bunting was born in Northumberland in 1900. He was imprisoned for six months during the First World War as a conscientious objector and, after a wandering existence in Europe, in 1923 met Ezra Pound, who published his early poetry in Active Anthology (1933). It wasn't until 1964 that he received widespread attention in Britain, with the publication of The Spoils, First Book of Odes and Loquitur. The publication of his most famous work, Briggflats (1966), led to an Arts Council Bursary and a Northern Arts Poetry Fellowship at the universities of Durham and Newcastle. He died in 1985.
Price: $69.99 (NZ$79.99) ISBN: 9780571235001 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: DC Poetry Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Faber Poetry APRIL 2016 New Selected Poems Derek Mahon
An essential volume from an award-winning and critically acclaimed Irish poet.
Sales points • 'There is a copiousness and excitement about these poems that is to be found only in work of the highest order.' - Seamus Heaney
Description New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist. Demonstrating the wide range of Derek Mahon's verse, from the early lyricism to a more expansive middle period ('New York Time', 'Decadence') and the flowering of his late style, it includes recent, uncollected work and culminates in the generous, far- reaching reverie 'Dreams of a Summer Night'.
About the Author Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941 and now lives in Kinsale, County Cork. He has received numerous awards including the Irish Academy of Letters Award, the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Recent titles from The Gallery Press include Selected Prose, Echo's Grove (translations), Theatre and New Collected Poems.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9780571331567 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 128 pages
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Faber Poetry APRIL 2016 Without the Moon Cathi Unsworth
Acclaimed crime writer Cathi Unsworth brings wartime London to life, as magic and murder swirl together to create a spine-chilling mystery.
Sales points • Cathi is promotable and well-connected, with an established readership: Weirdo sold over 10,000 copies in the UK and was shortlisted for the 2014 Theakston's Crime Writing Prize • For fans of Philip Kerr, Alan Furst and Val McDermid - mixes gore and intrigue with a pitch-perfect period atmosphere
Description Hush, hush, hush
Here comes the Bogeyman ...
London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs and cafes, soldiers mix with petty crooks, stage magicians with lonely wives, scandal-hungry reporters with good-time girls - and DCI Edward Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone.
Out on the streets, something nastier is stirring: London's prostitutes are being murdered, their bodies left mutilated to taunt the police. And in the shadows Greenaway's old adversaries in organised crime are active again, lured in by rich pickings on the black market. As he follows a bloody trail through backstreets and boudoirs, Greenaway must use all his skill - and everything he knows about the city's underworld - to stop the slaughter.
About the Author Cathi Unsworth began a career in journalism at nineteen on the music weekly Sounds, and has since worked for many music, arts, film and alternative lifestyle journals. She is the author of four other novels, Weirdo, The Not Knowing, The Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) Singer and Bad Penny Blues, and the editor of the award-winning crime compendium London Noir, all published by ISBN: 9781846689871 Serpent's Tail. She lives in London. Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Serpents Tail APRIL 2016 The Movie Doctors Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo
The first book by the UK's favourite film experts whose BBC Radio 5 Live film review show is downloaded by 2 million people every month.
Sales points • Simon and Mark have a loyal and ever-increasing audience in the UK. Their weekly Wittertainment movie review show on Radio 5 Live gets 2 million downloads a month. Simon's Radio 2 Drivetime programme attracts six million listeners five days a week • Their first book together incorporates the best of their humour with the best of their audience's interests • Wittertainment fans span generations and this highly illustrated, full colour hardback will be the perfect gift book
Description For over a decade, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode have been sharing their film expertise with each other (and occasionally the odd listener) on the airwaves. Now they bring their unique blend of deep movie knowledge and medical ignorance to their new guise as the Movie Doctors, ready to offer improbable cinematic cures for the dilemmas of modern life.
Need an alternative to counting sheep? Try The Piano. Tinnitus driving you up the wall? Interstellar can help. Stressed and anxious? The Big Lebowski is what you need. Mayo and Kermode also take their scalpel to 'sick' movies, dissecting the perils of excessive length, the ill effects of glowing praise and warning how cosmetic surgery can change the face of a film. Celluloid or humanoid, the Movie Doctors are here to help...
About the Author Simon Mayo is one of Britain's best-loved radio presenters. He has worked on BBC radio since 1982 and is the presenter of Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, which features the regular Radio 2 Book Club. He is also the co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. He is the author of three successful children's books, Itch, Itch Rocks and Itchcraft, as well as a number of books based on his radio series. Mark Kermode is the UK's most trusted film critic. He Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) writes for the Observer, and is the resident film reviewer of BBC Radio 5 Live's Sony award-winning Kermode and Mayo's ISBN: 9781782116646 Film Review. He has written several books on cinema including It's Only a Movie, The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex Format: Paperback - B format and Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics. He plays double-bass in The Dodge Brothers. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 Toast on Toast: Cautionary tales and candid advice Steven Toast
BAFTA-winning writing duo Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews bring you Steven Toast's memoir-cum-acting guide, packed with fresh new material.
Sales points • Series 1 & 2 of Toast of London screened on SBS TV in 2015 • Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews make for a comedy royalty duo. Together they co-write Toast of London, the word of mouth Channel 4 hit. Matt Berry is a familiar face from The IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh and Marenghi's Darkplace, amongst other comedy classics. Arthur Mathews has contributed to a number of popular television comedies, including the seminal Father Ted • Toast of London received 6 nominations for the 2014 British Comedy Awards. It won the prestigious Best New Comedy award • Matt Berry won the BAFTA Award for Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, 2015 • Will appeal to Matt Berry fans (he has 165,000 followers on Twitter), Toast of London viewers as well as readers of comedy spin-off books such as Ayoade on Ayoade
Description Toast on Toast is the must-have book for all budding actors - and non-actors too. In this part memoir, part 'how to act' manual, Steven Toast draws on his vast and varied experiences, providing the reader with an invaluable insight into his journey from school plays to RADA, and from 'It's a Right Royal Knockout' to the Colony Club. Along the way, he reveals the secrets of his success. He discloses how to brush up on and expand your technical and vocal skills, how to nail a professional voiceover, and how to deal with difficult work experience staff in a recording studio. He also reveals the dangers of typecasting, describes the often ruthless struggle for 'top billing', and shares many awesome nuggets of advice.
The end result is a book that will inspire and educate anyone who wants to tread the floorboards. It will also inform (and entertain) anybody who simply wants to discover what a jobbing actor's life is actually like. Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781782117513 About the Author Format: Paperback - B format Matt Berry is a writer, actor, comedian and musician. He co-writes and stars as Steven Toast in Channel 4's cult comedy Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages show Toast of London. He played Douglas Reynholm, the bombastic and sexist boss in The IT Crowd, and Beef in Vic
Main Category: WH Humour Reeves and Bob Mortimer's House of Fools. He is also known for his appearances in The Mighty Boosh and Garth Sub Category: WH Humour Marenghi's Darkplace. Berry wrote, starred, and composed all the music in the comedy show Snuff Box on BBC Three Illustrations: with Rich Fulcher. He also co-wrote and performed in a parody rock opera, AD/BC: A Rock Opera, with Richard Ayoade, Previous Titles: Author now living: which also stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. Arthur Mathews is an Irish comedy writer and actor, who is best known for Father Ted, which he co-wrote with Graham Linehan. He has also contributed to The Fast Show, Harry Enfield and Chums, Brass Eye and he has co-written Toast of London with Matt Berry.
Canongate Pbs APRIL 2016 The Bend for Home Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy's extraordinary memoir of growing up in rural Ireland.
Sales points • Full of warmth and humour, this is a beautiful memoir of childhood from one of Ireland's greatest writers • Now with a beautiful new cover treatment, back in print
Description One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother. Out of the blue she hands him the forgotten diary he had kept as a fifteen-year-old. He is amazed to find the makings of the writer he has become, as well as taken aback at the changes his memory has wrought.
The silhouettes who have haunted his past come back to inhabit his pages: his father, a kind policeman who plays cards and drinks stout with his cronies; his mother, whose stories young Dermot has heard so often that he believes they are his own; or Aunt Maisie, whose early disappointment in love has left her both dreamy and cynical.
Funny, direct and moving, The Bend For Home is a family portrait like no other, and a hugely engaging account of a childhood in small-town Ireland.
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Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9780571281886 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Faber Paperback APRIL 2016 The 1966 World Cup Final: Minute by Minute Jonathan Mayo
3pm, 30th July 1966. The biggest game in football is about to begin. And a tumultuous, changing world is watching.
Sales points • 30th July 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of England's only World Cup triumph • The Minute by Minute version is set to be the definitive retelling • Accompanies a BBC Radio 2 show, written and produced by Jonathan Mayo, to be broadcast live on the anniversary. • This book tells the story of that dramatic Final in Jonathan Mayo's intense, immersive Minute by Minute style, and covers not just the action on the pitch, but the wider socio-political picture • Mayo's Minute by Minute books have quickly established themselves as a serious series. The previous titles have recorded over 15K sales on Bookscan, with each title selling better than the last
Description As Alf Ramsay’s England side takes to the pitch, almost 97,000 people are crammed into the stadium under Wembley's famous twin towers, with 32 million watching on televisions around the country. This is the Minute by Minute story of that famous day.
It will be a dramatic 120 minutes of football. At the end of normal time, with scores level at 2-2, a shot from Geoff Hurst will bounce just over the line...or not. Linesman Tofiq Bahramov will award the goal. In the dying seconds, with fans already celebrating on the pitch, Hurst will score his third - bagging the only ever World Cup Final hat-trick - to seal the win.
But the drama isn't only on the pitch. In 1966 we are at the heart of the swinging sixties, with Dylan going electric and the Beatles psychedelic; but there are rising tensions in the Cold War and continued escalations of the conflict in Vietnam.
As 22 men battle for the biggest prize in football, the world at large is changing rapidly around them. Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781780722801 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Jonathan Mayo joined the BBC in 1987, first working in radio and then television, where he won awards for his Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: pages documentaries. He is the author of four other books from the Minute by Minute series: The Assassination of JFK, D-Day,
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Faber Short Books APRIL 2016 Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero Nicholas Whittaker
A very special 20th anniversary edition of the acclaimed cult trainspotting classic - now in paperback.
Sales points • Re-released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the much-loved trainspotting cult classic • Perfect gift for anyone with an interest in design, the geography of Britain or, indeed, trains • Ideal title for bookshop in or near to stations
Description Nicholas Whittaker's much-loved classic recollects the long sunny days of his childhood when, notepad in hand, jam sandwiches in the duffel bag, he happily spent his time jotting down train numbers during the Indian summer of steam and the heyday of diesel.
Whittaker returns to his roots in this updated edition, casting a sceptical eye over recent developments, catching up with old acquaintances and considering the toll that half a century of ridicule and a couple of decades of privatisation have wrought upon his beloved pastime.
As Andrew Martin notes in his Foreword, this is 'one of the best books ever written about rail enthusiasm'. Equally it is a poetically written memoir of growing up in a more innocent age, a hymn to British eccentricity and to the virtues of observing the world around you: 'Spotters - of trains, planes, buses or birds - are a last redoubt for something rapidly vanishing from our lives: looking outward, seeing, observing. People notice things less and less these days, while watching things more and more.'
Praise for the first edition:
'An elegy: for the steam trains already vanishing when Whittaker's hobby began in 1964; for the short-lived diesel age which followed; for an era of near innocence.' - Times Literary Supplement
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781785781056 'Whittaker writes with humour and considerable evocative power ... For anyone who will admit to having a childhood brush Format: Paperback - B format with this now derided hobby, Platform Souls brings it all rushing back.' - Independent Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
Main Category: HB History About the Author Sub Category: HB History Nicholas Whittaker is the author of well-received histories of confectionery (Sweet Talk) and toys (Toys Were Us), as well Illustrations: as an account of life in the offices of Fiesta and Razzle magazines in the 1980s (Blue Period). He has written for the Previous Titles: Author now living: Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail and the Sunday Times. He lives in London.
Icon APRIL 2016 The Sceptical Gardener: The Thinking Person's Guide to Good Gardening Ken Thompson
Published in association with the Telegraph, an enjoyable book on gardening the cleverer way.
Sales points • The gardening equivalent of Simon Barnes' How to be a Bad Birdwatcher • The perfect Father's Day gift
Description Ken Thompson is a biologist but has been writing about gardening for over fifteen years, and has been a gardener for longer than he would care to remember.
In this collection of articles originally written for the Daily Telegraph he sets out to examine some of gardening's most intriguing questions, and even manages to track down answers to a few of them. Why is that we seem to care more for common rather than rare animals? How can a gardener improve the flavour of their vegetables? And what do bees do that improves strawberries?
From the difference between British and Spanish bluebells, why Matucana and High Scent sea peas are far superior to the Valerie Harrod variety, and the easy way to sex an earwig, Thompson provides an expert's miscellany of gardening knowledge, aimed at making you not necessarily a better gardener - but quite probably a far more thoughtful one.
About the Author Ken Thompson was for twenty years a lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He writes regularly on gardening for the Daily Telegraph. His previous book, Where Do Camels Belong? (Profile, 2014), was described as 'lively and punchy' by the Sunday Times.
Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781785780387 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages
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Icon APRIL 2016 Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution Tony Brenton, contributions by Donald Crawford, Sean McMeekin, Dominic Lieven and Orlando Figes
The essential analysis of the events leading up to October 1917 and beyond, by the world's foremost experts of Russian history.
Sales points • Featuring brand new work by the most influential and bestselling Russianists in the world - including Orlando Figes, Richard Pipes and Dominic Lieven • A unique and comprehensive new view of the Revolution that will become the go-to guide as we approach the centenary in 2017 • The author's afterword to the volume, drawing parallels between the Revolution and the current situation in Ukraine, provides a major talking point
Description Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was 'historically inevitable'. In Russia in 1917, it seemed that Marx's theory was being born out in reality. But was the Russian Revolution really inevitable? This collection of fourteen contributions from the world's leading Russian scholars attempts to answer the question by looking back at the key turning points of the revolution. From the Russo- Japanese conflict of 1904-5 through to the appropriation of church property in 1922, and focusing especially on the incredible chain of events in 1917 leading to the October Revolution itself, Historically Inevitable? is a forensic account of Russia's road to revolution.
Each contribution gives not only a fast-paced, incisive narrative account of an individual aspect of Revolution but also, for the first time, an intriguing counter-factual analysis of what might have gone differently. Featuring Richard Pipes on the Kornilov affair, Orlando Figes on the October Revolution, Dominic Lieven on foreign intervention and Martin Sixsmith on the attempted assassination of Lenin in 1918, Historically Inevitable? explains how each of these moments, more through blind luck than any historical inevitability, led to the creation of the world's first communist state. Tony Brenton's afterword to the volume draws parallels between the Revolution and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and places Price: $59.99 (NZ$69.99) the events of 1917 in the context of more recent events in Russia and the Crimea. ISBN: 9781781250211 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Featuring contributions from: Donald Crawford - Sean McMeekin - Dominic Lieven - Orlando Figes - Richard Sakwa - Extent: 400 pages Douglas Smith - Martin Sixsmith - Simon Dixon - Boris Kolonitsky - Richard Pipes - Edvard Radzinsky - Catriona Kelly - Main Category: HB History Erik Landis - Evan Mawdsley. Sub Category: HB History Illustrations: Previous Titles: About the Author Author now living: Tony Brenton was a British diplomat from 1975 to 2009, completing his career as Charge d'Affaires in Washington, and then Ambassador in Moscow. He is now a Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, writing a book on the Russia of Peter the Great, and is a regular commentator on contemporary Russian issues. Profile Trade APRIL 2016 Something Will Turn Up: Britain's economy, past, present and future David Smith
Britain's 'foremost economic journalist' (Sunday Times) paints a lively, accessible portrait of the country's economic fortunes since 1945.
Sales points • David Smith is an award-winning journalist whose previous books for Profile, including Free Lunch and The Dragon and the Elephant, have sold over 50,000 copies in the UK • Human and accessible approach to economics: tells the story of Britain through the missteps, mishaps and slip-ups - as well as the successes - made by the people at the top • Combines readability with sharp analysis, an engaging and illuminating read for anyone wondering how Britain got to where it is with the economy, and where the it might be going
Description As the prevailing winds of the global economy have changed, so Britain has been buffeted from boom to bust and back again. But how much is our country's economic landscape shaped by the huge forces of international capital - and the hope that 'something will turn up' - and how much by the individual men and women at the heart of our economic policy?
David Smith forged his career as Britain's leading economic journalist during the country's traumatic transition from the 'workshop of the world' in the Midlands where he grew up, to an economy built on the sometimes shaky foundations of services and the City. Something Will Turn Up is his account of the chancellors, prime ministers, Bank of England governors and senior officials he has encountered and interviewed over the last five decades, and their impact on the realities of modern British life since the war. Smith leads us through the mire of government policy and long-term trends with wit and clarity to paint a vivid, personal picture of how we got to now - and where we might go from here.
About the Author David Smith is Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and the author of a number of books including The Dragon and the Elephant and classic guide to economics Free Lunch, both published by Profile. Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781253236 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages
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Profile Trade APRIL 2016 The Sex Lives of English Women: Intimate Interviews and Unexpected Answers Wendy Jones
An honest and inspiring exploration of female desire, this book will change the way we think and talk about sex.
Sales points • An epic project showing us who women are through their desires and sexual history • A book not just for women, but for anyone who's ever loved one
Description 'English women have a reputation for being reserved and uptight; actually behind closed doors we're outrageous.'
In the 700 years that books have been published in England, there has not been one that invites women to talk about what they want from sex. Wendy Jones thought it was about time someone had the courtesy to ask.
So she went out with a tape recorder and spoke to twenty-five women from all walks of life: a wealthy suburban housewife, a former prostitute, a feminist into BDSM, a covered Muslim, a transsexual, a woman in her nineties who remembers the sexual freedom of wartime, a gynaecologist. They talk about their lives, families, partners, bodies and sexual histories, about what they have learnt, how they have been hurt, what they enjoy and what they long for.
The interviews are frank, engaging and sometimes suprising. Each woman is unique but together, perhaps, they speak for a majority. For the first time since Nancy Friday, women are talking about what they want. And it's time we listened.
About the Author Wendy Jones is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and has a PhD from Goldsmiths in creative writing. She has published two novels and is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, a biography of Grayson Perry. She lives in London. Price: $24.99 (NZ$27.99) ISBN: 9781781254615 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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