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“This is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the window of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto of the anticolonial revolution.”—Time

60th Anniversary Edition Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox With a Foreword by Homi K. Bhabha and a Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre

MARKETING With a new essay irst published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a mas- Fans of Fanon’s work include Ta-Nehisi terful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological Coates, Claudia Rankine, Cornel West, Viet Ftrauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, it found a new readership Thanh Nguyen, Desmond Cole, John Edgar in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the centering of narratives Wideman, Mitchell Jackson, among others interrogating race by Black writers. Bearing singular insight into the rage and Tie-in to 60th anniversary of the publication of frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in spurring historical Wretched of the Earth and of Frantz change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colo- Fanon’s death nial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touch- stone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Translated by Richard Philcox, and featuring now-classic critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha, as well as a new essay, this sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most Also Available: A Dying Colonialism famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti- Black Skin, White Masks (978-0-8021-5027-1 • USC • $16) (978-0-8021-4300-6 • Toward the African Revolution racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. USCO • $16) (978-0-8021-3090-7 • USC • $17) “The writing of Malcolm X or Eldridge Cleaver or Amiri Baraka or the FRANTZ FANON was born in Martinique in Black Panther leaders reveals how profoundly they have been 1925. He served in the French Army during World War II, and later studied medicine and psychiatry in moved by the thoughts of Frantz Fanon.” —BOSTON GLOBE France, where he published his first book, Black Skin, White Masks in 1952. He joined the Algerian “This century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism.” Nationalist Movement in the mid-1950s, and —ANGELA DAVIS published The Wretched of the Earth shortly before dying of leukemia in December 1961.

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A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning “premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation” (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones

Last Chance Texaco Chronicles of an American Troubadour Rickie Lee Jones

MARKETING Have you met Ms. Jones? Jones has won two Grammy awards and was ne weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer featured on the cover of Rolling Stone twice and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz-pop scene skyrock- in the frst two years of her career eted to fame overnight after a now-iconic performance on Saturday The publication coincides with the 40th O Night Live. The year was 1979, the song “Chuck E’s in Love,” and the singer, anniversary of her seminal album Pirates donning her trademark red beret, was the soon to be pronounced “Duchess of prepublication reading copies Coolsville” (Time), Rickie Lee Jones. virtual author tour Last Chance Texaco is the first ever no-holds-barred account of the life of national TV and radio coverage one of rock’s hardest working women, in her own words. With candor and national print and feature attention lyricism Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the journey of her exceptional life: from major review coverage her nomadic childhood as the granddaughter of vaudevillian performers to promotion at regional trade shows, including her father’s abandonment of the family and her years as a teenage runaway, her BEA and ALA beginnings at LA’s Troubadour club to her tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits, her battle with drugs, and her longevity as a woman in rock and roll. These are never-before-told stories of the girl in “the raspberry beret,” a songwriter who has inspired American culture for decades. “Rickie Lee Jones has been pushing down musical boundaries for over four decades with her hauntingly beautiful voice and fearless experimentation.” —NPR

RICKIE LEE JONES has released “One of the most intriguing, idiosyncratic vocalists of our time.” —USA Today seventeen record albums and received two Grammy Awards. She lives in New Orleans. © ASTOR MORGAN

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3 APRIL

Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell’s Demon heralds the triumphant return of Granta Best Young British Novelist Steven Hall

Maxwell’s Demon A Novel Steven Hall

MARKETING “Labyrinthine, mind-twisting, and deliciously diabolical, yet also unexpectedly warm- The Raw Shark Texts sold in over 30 territories hearted. Maxwell’s Demon is fantastic.”—Christopher Brookmyre, author of The Last Hack and was received with rapturous reviews, homas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, he’s stuck writing with comparisons to writers from Samuel short stories and audio scripts for other people’s characters. His wife, Imo- Beckett to Michael Crichton gen, is working on a remote island halfway around the world, and talking Hall was named one of Granta’s Best of T to her over the webcam isn’t the same. The bills are piling up, the dirty dishes Young British Novelists in 2013 and won the Borders Original Voices Fiction Award are stacking in the sink, and the whole world seems to be hurtling towards entropic collapse. Then he gets a voicemail from his father, who has been dead virtual author tour for seven years. major review coverage Thomas’s relationship with Stanley Quinn—a world-famous writer and prepublication buzz campaign erstwhile absent father—was always shaky, not least because Stanley always indieBound bookseller outreach campaign seemed to prefer his enigmatic assistant and protégé Andrew Black to his own Also available: son. Yet after Black published his first book, Cupid’s Engine, which went on to The Raw Shark Texts (978-1-84767-174-5 • $16 • US) sell over a million copies, he disappeared completely. Now strange things are happening to Thomas, and he can’t help but wonder if Black is tugging at the seams of his world behind the scenes. STEVEN HALL is the author of Absurdly brilliant, wildly entertaining, and utterly mind-bending, Max- The Raw Shark Texts, which won well’s Demon triumphantly excavates the ways we construct meaning in a the Somerset Maugham Award and world where chaotic collapse looms closer every day. was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was an PRAISE FOR THE RAW SHARK TEXTS international bestseller and has © JERRY BAUER © JERRY been translated into over thirty “Triumphant . . . Worthy of a hyperventilating James Joyce.” languages. In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta’s —Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books Best of Young British Novelists. Maxwell’s Demon is “Paced like a thriller, the book thinks like a French theorist and reads like a deluge.” his long-anticipated second novel. —San Francisco Chronicle

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4 MAY

A stunning new collection of essays from the award- winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water, Aminatta Forna explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves

The Window Seat Notes from a Life in Motion Aminatta Forna

MARKETING “These essays, ranging across continents and time, so broad in their themes and Forna won the Windham-Campbell Literature so deep in their perceptions, are essential reading, combining Aminatta Forna’s Prize and has been a judge for the great gifts as a storyteller and her razor-sharp analytical skills.” Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Samuel —Salman Rushdie Johnson Prize, the Caine Prize, and the minatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and she has International Man Booker won the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for her work. Now, she E-galleys available on NetGalley and returns with The Window Seat, an elegantly rendered, thought-provok- Edelweiss A ing collection of new and previously published essays. In this wide-ranging virtual author tour collection, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, major review coverage love, and how we coexist with and encroach on the non-human world. national radio interviews In “Obama and the Renaissance Generation,” she documents how, despite indieBound bookseller outreach campaign the narrative of Obama’s exceptionalism, his father, like her own, was one of a op-eds at publication generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home coun- tries anew after colonialism. In “The Last Vet,” time spent shadowing the only veterinarian in Sierra Leone, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown, becomes a meditation on what a society’s treatment of animals tells us about its principles. In “Crossroads,” she examines race in America from an African perspective, and in “Power Walking” she describes what it means to walk in the world in a Black woman’s body. The Window Seat is, in the words of acclaimed author Chinelo Okparanta, “a journey . . . These essays are altogether a sharp, elegant meditation” that con- firms Forna is a vital voice in international letters.

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5 Excerpt Each country has its paradigm of race and America’s size and cultural might mean the American paradigm has been widely exported, plus the specifc heinousness of the crime against Black people in America lends it an extra authority. It can be hard to explain to people in America that there exist other and diferent experiences of being black. My cultural interpreters back when I frst lived here twenty years ago tended to be peo- ple of colour from other lands who had lived longer in America than I had: West Indians, Black Britons, Africans. In South Africa I would be considered ‘Coloured,’ a designa- tion and an entire community created by government decree to sweep into one place the untidy evidence of racial mixing, South Africa’s version of the ‘one-drop rule.’ In West Africa, in fact in pretty much every other African country where I have ever travelled, those fair-skinned African Americans and I would be called ‘white.’ Filming a documentary in Mali where the brown-skinned Tuareg population is referred to as white, I NINA SUBIN © tried to explain this to one of my English colleagues, who only AMINATTA FORNA is also the author of the novels Happiness, continued to insist that this could not possibly be so. It was lef Ancestor Stones, The Memory of Love, and The Hired Man, as well as the to our Bambara fxer to tell him: ‘You are in Africa now.’ In his memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water. Forna’s books have been view Obama was a white man, though he had travelled and translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in Granta, knew this not to be the case in majority white countries. He the Guardian, the Observer, and Vogue. She is currently Director and stopped a passing waiter, ‘Obama,’ he asked, ‘black or white?’ Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics at Lannan Center for Poetics and And the waiter replied: ‘White.’ Social Practice at Georgetown University.

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“Te Window Seat is gutsy, funny, risky, and wise, full of dazzling late-night insight, in-the-middle-of-everything epiphanies, moments of sheer honesty blooming into gut truths, in a clear-eyed voice that makes you listen in wonder.”—Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Booker Prize “Generous in spirit and breathtakingly intelligent, Te Window Seat reminds us why Forna is one of our best writers working today.”—Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King “From the Shetlands to Sierra Leone, from Teheran to Georgetown, Aminatta Forna has been everywhere, paid attention to everything and everyone. She contains multitudes, and her essays are populated with those multitudes, dense with unforgettable details and landscapes, amazing people and animals, astonishing histories. Te Window Seat is dazzling.”—Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project “A sharp, elegant meditation on childhood, adulthood, race, migration, and itinerancy. Astutely balancing illuminating research with intimate personal anecdotes, Forna expertly sufuses the book with her insights on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.”—Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees

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6 MAY

“Francisco Goldman, one of our most brilliant political writers, is also, miraculously, a Chekhov of the heart. This novel is wild, funny, and wrenching, as well as a profound act of retrieval and transformation.”—Rivka Galchen

Monkey Boy A Novel Francisco Goldman

MARKETING rancisco Goldman’s first novel since his widely acclaimed, nationally Goldman’s frst novel, The Long Night of bestselling Say Her Name (winner of the Prix Femina étranger), Monkey White Chickens was awarded the American Boy is a sweeping story about the impact of divided identity—whether Academy’s Sue Kaufman Prize for First F Jewish/Catholic, white/brown, native/expat—and one misfit’s quest to heal Fiction his damaged past and find love. His novels have been fnalists for several Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and prizes, including, twice, The Pen/Faulkner working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has Award; his novel, Say Her Name, won the recently returned to New York City in hopes of “going home again.” It’s been 2011 Prix Femina étranger five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love E-galleys available on NetGalley and again. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by the high school girl- Edelweiss friend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations, and his mother, virtual author tour Yolanda, around whom his story orbits like a dark star. Backdropping this five- major review coverage day trip to his childhood home is the specter of Frank’s recently deceased national radio campaign father, Bert, an immigrant from Ukraine, volcanically tempered, pathologi- promotion at regional trade shows cally abusive, yet also at times infuriatingly endearing; as well as the high prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways school bullies who gave him the moniker “monkey boy.” on Shelf Awareness and PW Told in an intimate, irresistibly funny, and passionate voice, this extraordi- indieBound bookseller outreach campaign nary portrait of growing up a “halfie” unearths the hidden cruelties in a reading group guide available online at predominantly white, working-class Boston suburb where Francisco came of groveatlantic.com age and explores the pressures of living betwixt and between worlds all his life. backlist eBook promotions A new masterpiece of autobiographical fiction from one of the most important American voices in the last forty years.

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7 Excerpt Mamita, I ask her, what was the name of that boardinghouse you and Dolores Ojito lived in? My mother’s gaze withdraws back in time, her rust-hued lashes quiveringly lowered. Our Lady Gih . . . gih . . . she stammers, Ay no, Frankie, no se. Ten she quietly pronounces as if under a spell: Our Lady’s Guild House. Tat’s it . . . Mamita, isn’t it true that you were distinguished professor of ma- rimba at Berklee? Ay, hijo, and laughter trills out of her, her sof body shaking in her wheelchair. As a son, I have countless failings, but I’ve always been good at making Mamita laugh. Back when she was a Guatemalan working girl in Boston, a bilin- gual secretary, in her twenties, boarding at Our Lady’s, what would she have thought if she could have glimpsed her future, a professor at Berklee, teaching Spanish, not marimba, to some of the world’s most gifed student musicians? Would it have seemed the fulfll- ment of a dream or did she dream of something else? Now, even mundane questions can seem to task her mind the way a perplexing riddle might, and her eyes food with anxiety. You don’t remember what your dream for the future was back then,

Mami? JHOANA MONTES © No, Frankie, she says frmly, I don’t . . . FRANCISCO GOLDMAN has published five novels and two . . . Ay, Mamita, how did a niña bien from the tropics like you ever books of nonfiction. His books have been published in sixteen languages. end up in a joint like this? He lives in Mexico City.

PRAISE FOR MONKEY BOY “From the painful intimate violence in a suburban New England home, to racial cruelty among high school teenagers, to the US government’s political and military interventionism in Latin America, Goldman’s sweeping gaze runs through multiple circuits of America’s violence, showing us how deeply connected they in fact are. With the exact balance of outrage and hope, Monkey Boy takes us on an eye-opening journey, full of tenderness and horror, through the ofen-ignored layers of this country’s history. A powerful, necessary book.”—Valeria Luiselli “Monkey Boy is written with tenderness and emotional precision. It tells what it means to be an American, to have an identity that is nourished by many sources, including ones that are mysterious and shrouded in secrecy. Goldman bridges the gap between imagination and memory with stunning lyricism and unsparing clarity.” —Colm Tóibín “Francisco Goldman is uncategorizable, as is this book which made me grow a second heart just to contain all its ferce tenderness. Goldman has been my literary hero from his frst entrancing Long Night of White Chickens to this latest take-no-prisoners Monkey Boy. He is a true original, that rarest of writers, the kind we cannot live without.” —Susan Choi

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8 JUNE

From a visionary, world-class writer, dubbed “China’s most controversial novelist” by the New Yorker, a rip-roaring story and biting portrayal of the rise and fall of two young communist revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them against their small Henan village, but whose communist fervor puts them on the right side of Chinese history

Hard Like Water A Novel Yan Lianke Translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas

MARKETING “Yan is one of those rare geniuses who finds in the peculiar absurdities of his own Yan Lianke was the subject of a major New culture the absurdities that infect all cultures.” —Washington Post Yorker profle by Jiayang Fan and has been eturning to his village invigorated by success in the army, Gao Aijun sees tipped as a likely winner for the Nobel Prize the beautiful Xia Hongmei walking barefoot alongside the railway track by NPR, the Washington Post, and the New in the warm afternoon sun and is instantly smitten. Hiding their rela- Republic R tionship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves into the struggle to bring Yan Lianke is a frequent invitee to major revolution to their backwater village. There Aijun digs a literal tunnel of love international festivals including the PEN World Voices Festival in NYC between their homes, where underneath the village their revolutionary and sexual fervor reaches a boiling point. While the unsuspecting villagers sleep, major review coverage they sing revolutionary songs and shout Maoist slogans to each other before making earth-moving love. But when their relationship is finally uncovered, the couple finds themselves dangerously at odds with the doctrinaire and self- disciplined ideals of party higher-ups. Will their great revolutionary energy save their skins, or will they too fall victim to the revolution? YAN LIANKE is the author of the memoir Three Upturning the ideals of socialist realism, Hard Like Water is an operatic Brothers and numerous novels and novellas, including and surprisingly moving human drama about power’s corrupting nature and The Day the Sun Died; The Explosion Chronicles; The the brute force of love and desire. Four Books; Lenin’s Kisses; Serve the People!; Dream of “Yan’s subject is China, but he has condensed the human forces driving today’s Ding Village; and The Years, Months, Days. Among global upheavals into a bracing, universal vision.”—New York Times Book Review many accolades, he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, he was twice a finalist for the Man Booker Also Available: International Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Three Brothers (978-0-8021-4808-7 • USCO • $26) Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian The Day the Sun Died Literary Prize, and the Prix Femina étranger. He has (978-0-8021-4773-8 • USCO • $16) received two of China’s most prestigious literary honors, Serve the People! the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award. (978-0-8021-7044-6 • USCO • $14)

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9 JUNE

Acclaimed literary author Chris Offutt now delivers a breakout novel—The Killing Hills, a literary crime novel set in the Kentucky hills in which an Army CID agent on leave ends up investigating a murder and setting the secretive holler clans on edge

The Killing Hills A Novel Chris Offutt

MARKETING literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt’s lat- Ofutt has been awarded the Guggenheim est novel, The Killing Hills, is a compelling, propulsive thriller in Foundation Fellowship in Fiction, the which a suspicious death exposes the loyalties and rivalries of a deep- Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, the A rooted and fiercely private community in the Kentucky backwoods. Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfction, Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, among other honors home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren’t getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first E-galleys available on NetGalley and murder case, and local politicians are pushing for city police or the FBI to take Edelweiss the case. Are they convinced she can’t handle it, or is there something else at virtual author tour work? She calls on Mick who, with his homicide investigation experience and major review coverage familiarity with the terrain, is well-suited to staying under the radar. As he indieBound bookseller outreach campaign delves into the investigation, he dodges his commanding officer’s increasingly backlist eBook promotions urgent calls while attempting to head off further murders. And he needs to . talk to his wife. The Killing Hills is a novel of betrayal—sexual, personal, within and between the clans that populate the hollers—and the way it so often shades CHRIS OFFUTT is also the into violence. Chris Offutt has delivered a dark, witty, and absolutely compel- author of novels Country Dark and ling novel of murder and honor, with an investigator-hero unlike any in The Good Brother, the short-story fiction. collections Kentucky Straight and “Everyone should be reading Chris Offutt.” —Garth Greenwell Out of the Woods, and three memoirs: The Same River Twice, No “Dark, but deeply humane. The love in this book is deep and powerful. And win- © SANDRA DYAS Heroes, and My Father, the some twinkles shine through the blackness throughout, thanks in no small part to Pornographer. He has written screenplays for Weeds, Offutt’s keen ear and eye.”—Smith Henderson, New York Times on Country Dark True Blood, and Treme. He lives in rural Lafayette County near Oxford, Mississippi.

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10 AUGUST

A blistering new novel that follows a Filipino-American journalist’s return to a dictatorship-ruled Manila from a “cracklingly original” (Elle) and “singular” (New York Times Book Review) author, PEN/Faulkner award-winner Sabina Murray

The Human Zoo Sabina Murray

MARKETING “Murray is a big talent.” —Entertainment Weekly Valiant Gentlemen was a New York Times 100 ilipino-American Christina “Ting” Klein has just traveled from New Notable Books of 2016 and an Editors’ York to Manila, both to escape her imminent divorce and to begin Choice, a Washington Post Notable Fiction research for a biography of Timicheg, an indigenous Filipino brought to Book of 2016, and received rave reviews in F the NYTBR, Washington Post, Boston America at the start of twentieth century to be exhibited as part of a “human Globe, and Los Angeles Times, among zoo.” It has been a year since Ting’s last visit, and one year since Procopio others “Copo” Gumboc swept the elections in an upset and took power as president. virtual author tour Arriving unannounced at her aging aunt’s aristocratic home, Ting quickly falls major review coverage into upper-class Manila life—family gatherings at her cousin’s compound; promotion at regional trade shows, BEA, ALA spending time with her best friend Inchoy, a gay socialist professor of philoso- prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways phy; and a flirtation with her ex-boyfriend Chet, a wealthy businessman with on Shelf Awareness, PW, Goodreads, and questionable ties to the regime. All the while, family duty dictates that Ting Amazon Vine be responsible for Laird, a cousin’s fiancé, who has come from the States to indieBound bookseller outreach campaign rediscover his roots. reading group guide available online at As days pass, Ting witnesses modern Filipino society languishing under groveatlantic.com Gumboc’s terrifying reign. To make her way, she must balance the aristocratic backlist eBook promotions traditions of her extended family, seemingly at odds with both situation and . circumstance, as well temper her stance toward a regime her loved ones are SABINA MURRAY grew up in struggling to survive. Yet Ting cannot extricate herself from the increasingly Australia and the Philippines and is repressive regime, and soon finds herself personally confronted by the horrify- currently a member of the MFA faculty at the University of ing realities of Gumboc’s power. Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the At once a propulsive look at contemporary Filipino politics and the history

© AYSEGUL SAVAS © AYSEGUL author of Valiant Gentlemen; Tales of that has impacted the country, The Human Zoo is a thrilling and provocative the New World; A Carnivore’s Inquiry; Forgery; The story from one of our most celebrated and important writers of literary fiction. Caprices, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and Slow Burn.

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11 FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT CELEBRATES HIS CENTENARY IN 2021 | HIS TWO MOST ICONIC PLAYS AVAILABLE FROM GROVE PRESS

THE VISIT THE PHYSICISTS First performed in First performed in Zurich in 1956 and Zurich in 1962 and premiering on published in English Broadway in 1958, by Grove Press in The Visit is a 1964, The Physicists tragicomedy is a philosophical centering on the treatise in the form run-down town of of an old-fashioned Güllen, where murder mystery set residents boast at a Swiss sanatorium, that Goethe once exploring questions spent the night. of science, reason, Yet as they try to miracles, power, and reclaim some of sanity. With chilling (978-0-8021-4426-3 • $16 • USO) (978-0-8021-4427-0 • $14 • USO) the town’s fallen resonance to our glory, it becomes clear that the solution current moment, The Physicists interrogates will come at a high moral price. what happens when science is coopted by politics.

Born in 1921, Friedrich Dürrenmatt stands alongside Beckett, Ionesco, and Pinter as one of Europe’s foremost dramatic authors. Grove is honored to publish two of his most notable and most performed plays. The Visit was most recently adapted by Tony Kushner for the National Theatre in London in March 2020, and by Terrence McNally for the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway in 2015.

“Now, like an avalanche in “A philosopher-poet with far-of mountains, comes “It was once observed by one eye on the picture of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a Oscar Wilde that a writer the real, on artifice, and on detective-story writer with should be able to write the long preoccupations a genius for the theater, to anything . . . Mr. Dürrenmatt of philosophy and art give us a new theme, or meets Wilde’s requirement.” through the ages.” rather to remind us of an —ARTHUR MILLER ancient one: justice.” —SAUL BELLOW —GORE VIDAL ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS Hardcovers APRIL

The bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and work of “the king of the world’s booksellers” and the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread

The Bookseller of Florence The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance Ross King

MARKETING “King has made a career elucidating crucial episodes in the history of art and For readers of Stephen Greenblatt and Robert architecture.” —Time Hughes he Renaissance in Florence conjures the dazzling handiwork of the city’s Fully illustrated throughout skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to E-galleys available on NetGalley and Tfollow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence’s manuscript hunters, Edelweiss scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of virtual author tour history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imag- major review coverage ined a new and enlightened world. national media campaign including print and At the heart of this activity was a remarkable man: Vespasiano da Bisticci, radio interviews “the king of the world’s booksellers.” At a time when all books were made by prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways hand, over four decades Vespasiano produced and sold many hundreds of vol- on Shelf Awareness and PW umes from his bookshop, containing ancient wisdom by the likes of Plato, indieBound bookseller outreach campaign Aristotle, and Quintilian. His books were also works of art in their own right, copied by talented scribes and illuminated by the finest miniaturists. His cli- ents included a roll call of popes, kings, and princes across Europe who wished to burnish their reputations by founding magnificent libraries. Vespasiano reached the summit of his powers as Europe’s most prolific merchant of knowledge when a new invention appeared: the printed book. By 1480, the ROSS KING is the award- king of the world’s booksellers was swept away by this epic technological dis- winning and bestselling author of ruption, unable to compete with more cheaply produced books. Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the A chronicle of intellectual ferment set against the dramatic political and Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Mad Enchantment, Leonardo and the religious turmoil of the era, Ross King’s The Bookseller of Florence is also an

© MELANIE HARRIS Last Supper, and Machiavelli: Philosopher ode to books and bookmaking that charts the world-changing shift from of Power, among other books. He and his wife live in script to print through the life of an extraordinary man long lost to history— Woodstock, in Great Britain. one of the true titans of the Renaissance.

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14 APRIL

The fifteenth novel in Mike Lawson’s acclaimed series follows Joe DeMarco to rural Wyoming, scene of an armed standoff between a defiant cattle rancher and federal agents. But DeMarco doesn’t care about the standoff; this mission is personal for him

House Standoff A Joe DeMarco Thriller Mike Lawson

MARKETING hen someone close to him is shot dead at a roadside motel in rural House Standof takes Mike Lawson’s Wyoming, Joe DeMarco sets aside his responsibilities as the Speaker regular-guy protagonist Joe DeMarco out of the House’s fixer to make sure the authorities are doing every- of DC and his usual job as fxer for the W thing that can be done to catch the killer. He soon realizes that the rural area is slippery Speaker of the House, and throws dominated by Hiram Bunt, a wealthy rancher who is willing to take on the him into the wild west on a personal quest federal government at gunpoint and seems to have a number of politicians House Witness was a fnalist for the Edgar under his thumb. Award. House Reckoning, House Blood, But Bunt is not the only one in the way. DeMarco also learns that his House Divided, House Secrets, The Inside Ring, and Viking Bay were all fnalists for friend—a woman he was once in love with—had unearthed a number of the Barry Award for Best Thriller. House explosive secrets during her time in Wyoming, and that the deputy in charge Blood, House Odds, and House Witness all of the investigation may be ignoring several leads to preserve a secret of his own. won the Friends of Mystery Award Surrounded by people willing to kill to maintain the status quo, DeMarco E-galleys available on NetGalley and launches his own investigation into a growing list of intertwining suspects. Edelweiss And being DeMarco, he concludes that breaking the law to uncover the truth targeted outreach to mystery/thriller press is the best way to ensure that justice is done. library marketing House Standoff is gripping and genuinely unpredictable to the very end. mystery and thriller advertising campaign including Mystery Scene, CrimeReads, “Lawson [is] a reliably excellent writer . . . [his] plotting is ingenious and his and the Strand characters memorable.” —Seattle Times “Lawson is a natural storyteller. He can craft believable characters and conniv- MIKE LAWSON is a former ances that leave you breathless.” —Durango Telegraph senior civilian executive for the US Navy. He is the Edgar Award– nominated author of fourteen previous novels starring Joe DeMarco

© TARA GIMMER © TARA and three novels with his protagonist Kay Hamilton.

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“Excellent . . . The author’s felicitous style will keep readers smiling throughout. Lawson remains at the top of his game.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

PRAISE FOR MIKE LAWSON “Joe DeMarco, ‘fxer’ for Speaker of the House John House Privilege Fitzpatrick Mahoney, is shrewd, tough, discreet, and A Joe DeMarco Thriller resourceful . . . Lawson creates multifaceted characters . . . [and] the pacing is relentless.”—Booklist Mike Lawson “Lawson writes a mean thriller and has a sense of ifteen-year-old Cassie Russell, the only daughter of a humor that hurts.”—Independent (UK) mega-rich Boston couple, is the sole survivor of a “Lawson has a true insider’s insight about real-world F plane crash that killed her parents. She’s also the god- spinelessness, venality, and corruption that have taken the daughter of the newly elected Speaker of the House, John place of moral courage and true leadership on Capitol Hill . Mahoney, and Mahoney becomes her legal guardian. Nor- . . a fne ear for dialogue . . . [and] a good eye for irony.” mally, Mahoney would send his kind-hearted wife to deal —Washington Times with his new ward, but she’s unavailable so he dispatches his fixer, Joe DeMarco, to make sure the girl’s okay. “Mike Lawson . . . should be a fxture on the bestseller What should have been a simple assignment soon lists, if not a household name . . . Lawson has a deceptively unleashes murderous plots involving a devious, deadly law- smooth, low-key style that is perfect for the stories he yer and a Boston mob boss and his Irish thugs. DeMarco tells . . . [he] is the only writer I know who comes close ends up chasing the scheming lawyer halfway around the to matching the stories of the great Ross Tomas, the world to save Cassie and ensure that justice is done. And fnest thriller writer to ever roll a blank page into an being DeMarco, the legal niceties are mostly ignored. Underwood.”—Strand Magazine “House Privilege is worthy of as many stars as the stargivers “[Lawson’s] consistent excellence needs to be more are giving this year . . . Lawson is a natural storyteller. He can universally acknowledged.”—Deadly Pleasures craft believable characters and connivances that leave you breathless. House Privilege is a lesson in writing believable prose. Lawson makes it look easy, and that’s what fiction writ- ers all hope they’re doing or aspire to do.” —Durango Telegraph

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From the bestselling author of The Unknowns and Washington’s Immortals, an important new chronicle of the American Revolution focused on the immense contributions of the men from Marblehead, Massachusetts

The Indispensables Marblehead’s Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware Patrick K. O’Donnell

MARKETING n the stormy night of August 29th, 1776, the Continental Army faced virtual author tour annihilation. After losing the Battle of Brooklyn, the British had 20-city radio satellite tour OWashington’s army trapped against the East River. The fate of the major review coverage Revolution rested heavily on the shoulders of the soldier-mariners from Mar- blehead, Massachusetts. Serving side-by-side in the country’s first uniquely backlist eBook promotions diverse unit, they pulled off an “American Dunkirk” and saved the army.

Also Available: In the annals of the American Revolution, no group played a more conse- The Unknowns quential role than the men of Marblehead; at the right time in the right place, (978-0-8021-4717-2 • USCO • $17) they repeatedly altered the course of events. As bestselling historian Patrick K. Washington’s Immortals O’Donnell dramatically recounts, the Marblehead Regiment, led by John (978-0-8021-2636-8 • Glover, was truly indispensable. Beginning nearly a decade before the war USCO • $18) started, The Indispensables also reveals how Marbleheaders such as Elbridge Gerry and Josiah Lee spearheaded the break with Britain and helped shape the nascent United States by playing a crucial role governing, building alliances, PATRICK K. O’DONNELL is seizing British ships, and forging critical supply lines that established the ori- a critically acclaimed military historian and an expert on elite gins of the US Navy. units. He is the author of eleven Marbleheaders battled at Lexington and on Bunker Hill and formed the books, including The Unknowns, elite Guard that protected George Washington, a precursor to today’s Secret Washington’s Immortals, We Were One, Service. Then, at the most crucial time in the war, the regiment conveyed © THEO COULOMBE and Dog Company. He served as a 2,400 of Washington’s men across the ice-filled Delaware River on Christmas combat historian in a Marine rife platoon during the night 1776, delivering the momentum-shifting surprise attack on Trenton. Battle of Fallujah and speaks often on espionage, This uniquely diverse group of white, Black, and Native American soldiers special operations, and counterinsurgency. He has provided historical consulting for DreamWorks’s set an inclusive standard the US Army would not reach again for over 170 award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers and for years. Compelling and original, The Indispensables is a vital addition to the lit- other documentaries. erature of the American Revolution.

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17 JUNE

In this soaring third installment in internationally bestselling author Henry Porter’s “timely and terrific” (Mick Herron) Firefly series, former MI6 agent Paul Samson must dodge several attempts on his own life in order to expose a shadowy and dangerous enemy of western democracy

The Old Enemy A Novel Henry Porter

MARKETING aul Samson is working for a private security company in London tailing Porter is frequently described as the heir to a mysterious and gifted young employee of a powerful environmental John le Carré and is a massive bestseller in PNGO when he is almost killed by a thuggish assassin. Simultaneously, the UK legendary spy Robert Harland is murdered in Estonia and billionaire philan- The Old Enemy is the hotly anticipated sequel thropist Denis Hisami is poisoned with a neurotoxin while testifying before to White Hot Silence, and it once again Congress. A second attempt on Samson’s life sends him on the run to Estonia features the charismatic Paul Samson to figure out who is trying to kill him, and why. E-galleys available on NetGalley and Soon it becomes clear that Hisami and Harland were running an investiga- Edelweiss tion into a spectral former Stasi agent and her sprawling network of assets targeted outreach to mystery/thriller press across industry and government in the US and the UK when they were library marketing attacked. Samson and Hisami’s wife Anastasia must tap into their research and mystery and thriller advertising campaign expose the spymaster before any more people are killed or agencies compro- including Mystery Scene, CrimeReads, and mised. the Strand An astonishing and timely thriller examining the penetration of Russian backlist eBook promotions assets into all levels of western life, The Old Enemy is a complex, breathtaking Also Available: race against time from “one of our most accomplished thriller writers” (Finan- White Hot Silence cial Times). (978-0-8021-5730-0 • $16 • USCOxE) “British espionage fiction is the best in the world, and Porter is part of the reason Firefy why.” —Lee Child (978-0-8021-4769-1 • $16 • USCOxE) “Henry Porter is one of our most accomplished thriller writers. As a Fleet Street veteran with an eye for news, he mixes current affairs with precisely engineered HENRY PORTER has written eight internationally storytelling and complex, rounded characters.” —Financial Times bestselling thrillers, including Brandenburg Gate, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and The Bell Ringers, which was also nominated for the award.

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18 JUNE

The director of the fellows program at the Brennan Center for Justice offers a bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America

When the Stars Begin to Fall Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America Theodore R. Johnson © BRENNAN CENTER

MARKETING acism is an existential threat to America,” Theodore Johnson declares at Johnson has recently written major feature the start of his profound and exhilarating book; furthermore, it’s a refu- articles for the New York Times Magazine tation of the American Promise enshrined in our Constitution—that all and the National Review R men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism has continued to cor- E-galleys available on NetGalley and Edelweiss rode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Johnson argues, while the United tie-in with author lecture schedule States will remain as a geopolitical entity, the promise that made America national TV and radio coverage unique on earth will have died. major review coverage When the Stars Begin to Fall makes a compelling, ambitious case for a promotion at regional trade shows, including pathway to the national solidarity necessary to overcome racism. Weaving BEA and ALA memories of his own family’s experiences with strands of history into his ele- op-eds at publication gant narrative, Johnson posits that a blueprint for national solidarity can be found in the exceptional citizenship long practiced in Black America, aug- mented by the kind of solidarity found among members of the military or in communities recovering from a natural disaster. Understanding that racism is DR. THEODORE R. JOHNSON directs the a structural crime of the state, he argues that overcoming it requires us to rec- fellows program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School where he undertakes research on ognize that a color-conscious society—not a color-blind one—is the true race, politics, and American identity. Prior to joining fulfillment of the American Promise. the Brennan Center, he was a Commander in the Alive to the power of writers from James Baldwin to Isabel Wilkerson to United States Navy and served for twenty years in a Jon Meacham, When the Stars Begin to Fall is an urgent call to undertake the variety of positions, including as a White House Fellow process of overcoming what has long seemed intractable. in the frst Obama administration and as speechwriter “With an inspiring mix of passion and patriotism, Ted Johnson offers us a way for- to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His work on race relations has appeared in prominent national ward. He blends stories of an all-American family with wide reading in philosophy, publications across the political spectrum, including religion, history, politics, and sociology to develop a vitally important concept of the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic, Washington Post, what true national solidarity could look like. When the Stars Begin to Fall is scrip- Wall Street Journal, and National Review. ture for a second great awakening.” —Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America

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19 JULY

New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond introduces a tough and spirited new protagonist, FBI Agent Lina Connerly, in this exhilarating race to save Silicon Valley teens from their own parents’ ambition and greed

The Wonder Test A Novel Michelle Richmond

MARKETING ina is on leave from her job in New York at the FBI in order to clean out E-galleys available on NetGalley and her father’s home in Silicon Valley. As though letting go of her father isn’t Edelweiss Lhard enough, Lina has also recently lost her husband in a freak traffic acci- virtual author tour dent. Still reeling, she and her teenage son Rory must make their way through national media campaign including print and this strange new town and the high school around which it all seems to revolve. radio interviews Rory soon starts coming home with reports of the upcoming “Wonder Test,” a targeted outreach to women’s magazines general aptitude assessment that appears increasingly inane, and Lina is promotion at regional trade shows including shaken out of her grief by a sense that something is amiss in Hillsborough. BEA When she discovers that a student disappeared last year and was found library marketing weeks later walking on a beach, shaved and traumatized, Lina can’t help but be prepublication buzz campaign sucked into an impromptu investigation. Another kidnapping hits closer to indieBound bookseller outreach campaign home and reveals a sinister link between the Wonder Test and the rampant reading group guide available online at wealth of Silicon Valley’s elite. groveatlantic.com A searing view of a culture that puts the wellbeing of children at risk for author available for book club chats advancement and prestige, and a captivating story of the lengths a mother will MICHELLE RICHMOND go for her son. is the New York Times bestselling “GRADE: A.” —Washington Post, on The Year of Fog author of seven novels and story collections, including “Intelligent, emotionally convincing . . . Michelle Richmond never strikes a false The Marriage Pact, Golden State, note in No One You Know.” —Boston Globe, on No One You Know The Year of Fog, and Hum. She

© NICK ELLIOTT “A fun, can’t-stop-eating-the-potato-chips kind of premise.” received the Truman Capote Prize for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Short —New York Times, on The Marriage Pact Story. Her books have been published in thirty “Beautifully written.” —Seattle Times, on No One You Know languages. She lives with her husband and son in Northern California. “Gripping.” —People, on The Year of Fog

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20 JULY

A marine biologist vividly brings alive the extraordinary ecosystem of the deep ocean—a realm about which we know less than we do about the Moon—and shows how protecting rather than exploiting it will benefit mankind

The Brilliant Abyss Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It Helen Scales

MARKETING he oceans have always shaped human lives,” writes marine biologist Helen Scales is a marine biologist, broadcaster, Scales in her vibrant new book The Brilliant Abyss, but the surface and the teacher, and author of two well-reviewed Tvery edges have so far mattered the most. “However, one way or another, books on the ocean and its creatures the future ocean is the deep ocean.” Illustrated with a full-color insert and A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway. Revolutionary studies in topographical map of the ocean foor the deep are rewriting the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is E-galleys available on NetGalley and possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amaz- Edelweiss ing part of our planet, with a topography even more varied and extreme than tie-in with author lecture schedule its Earth-bound counterpart. Teeming with unsuspected life, an extraordinary major review coverage interconnected ecosystem deep below the waves has a huge effect on our daily NPR and talk radio campaign lives, with the potential for much more—good or bad depending on how it is op-eds at publication exploited. Currently the fantastic creatures that live in the deep—many of HELEN SCALES, PhD, is a them incandescent in a world without light—and its formations capture and marine biologist, writer, and public trap vast quantities of carbon that would otherwise poison our atmosphere; broadcaster. She is the author of and novel bacteria as yet undiscovered hold the promise of potent new medi- Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and cines. Yet the deep also holds huge mineral riches lusted after by many nations Curious Afterlife of Seashells and Eye and corporations; mining them could ultimately devastate the planet, com- of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to

© RIA MISHAAL pounded by the deepening impacts of ubiquitous pollutants and rampant Life, the Ocean, and Everything. She has written for National Geographic, the Guardian, New overfishing. Scientist, BBC Wildlife magazine, and BBC Focus, among Eloquently and passionately, Helen Scales brings to life the majesty and others, and also presents the Earth Unscrewed podcast. mystery of an alien realm that nonetheless sustains us, while urgently making She teaches marine biology and science writing at clear the price we could pay if it is further disrupted. The Brilliant Abyss is at Cambridge University and advises the marine once a revelation and a clarion call to preserve this vast unseen world. conservation charity Sea Changers. She divides her time between Cambridge, England, and the French coast of Finistère.

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21 AUGUST

A brilliant work of historical true crime charting a pivotal event in the nineteenth century, the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin, that gripped the world and forever altered the course of Irish history

The Irish Assassins Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England Julie Kavanagh

MARKETING ne sunlit evening, May 6, l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were From renowned journalist, former New Yorker (London) editor, and Costa Biography Oambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Award fnalist Julie Kavangah Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish E-galleys available on NetGalley and independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republi- Edelweiss cans armed with specially made surgeon’s blades. They ended what should major review coverage have been a turning point in Anglo-Irish relations. A new spirit of goodwill NPR and talk radio campaign had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell, with both men forging in secret a pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland—with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protégé, to play an instrumental role in helping to do so. The impact of the Phoenix Park murders was so cataclysmic that it destroyed the pact, almost brought down the government, and set in motion repercussions that would last long into the twentieth century. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell’s JULIE KAVANAGH is the author downfall; to Queen Victoria’s prurient obsession with the assassinations; and of Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton; Nureyev: The Life, which was the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, also known as shortlisted for a Costa Book Award, the “Irish Sherlock Holmes,” culminating in the eventual betrayal and clan- the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld destine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high

© ARTHUR ELGORT © ARTHUR Award, and was longlisted for the seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that Samuel Johnson Prize; and The Girl Who Loved shaped Irish politics and engulfed an Empire. This is an unputdownable book Camellias. Kavanagh has held positions as the London from one of our most “compulsively readable” (Guardian) writers. editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. She divides her time between London, North Wales, and Puglia.

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22 AUGUST

The latest thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham traces a terrifying series of murders in an acute psychiatric ward

Rabbit Hole A Novel Mark Billingham © STEVE BEST

MARKETING lice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. E-galleys available on NetGalley and Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Edelweiss A Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self- targeted outreach to mystery/thriller press medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a library marketing long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she mystery and thriller advertising campaign doesn’t really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in including Mystery Scene, CrimeReads, and the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. the Strand So when one of her fellow patients is murdered, Alice feels personally com- backlist eBook promotions pelled to launch an investigation from within the ward. Soon, she becomes convinced that she has identified the killer and that she can catch them. Ignored by the police, she must gather proof on her own, relying on the few contacts she has on the outside that still take her calls. But when her prime suspect becomes the second victim, Alice’s life begins to unravel as she realises that she cannot trust anyone in the ward, least of all herself. Having lost her conviction and with her investigative confidence shattered, she comes danger- ously close to a psychological point of no return. Mark Billingham spins a mind-bending, heart-stopping, and tightly sus- penseful yarn. MARK BILLINGHAM has twice won the “Billingham stands at the forefront of British crime authors.” —Publishers Weekly Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and has also won the Sherlock Award for Best “Britain now has its own forensic crime maestro.” —Guardian Detective Novel Created by a British Author. His books, which include the critically acclaimed Tom “A real contender for the title of nation’s top crime writer.” —Daily Mirror Thorne series, have been translated into twenty-five languages and have sold over six million copies. He lives in London.

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“Superb . . . Billingham adds tantalizing red herrings throughout. The book’s masterly ending features a heart-stopping chase . . . Established fans and newcomers alike will be thrilled.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

PRAISE FOR MARK BILLINGHAM “Cry Baby is the perfect prequel to send us back to Cry Baby revel in Tom Torne’s twenty years. As if we needed A Tom Thorne Novel reminding how good Mark Billingham is.” —Val McDermid Mark Billingham “Tom Torne is one of the most credible and engaging heroes in contemporary crime fction. Mark Billingham is a master of psychology, plotting, and the “The tense, double-edged ending shows [Billingham] has contemporary scene-making the Torne novels the become one of Britain’s best crime writers.” —Times (UK) complete package. Twenty years in and better n the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground than ever.”—Ian Rankin into the adjoining woods, but only one comes out. As “Morse, Rebus, and now Torne. Te next superstar ILondon prepares to host the European Soccer Champi- detective is already with us—don’t miss him.” onships, DS Tom Thorne fights to keep on top of this —Lee Child baffling investigation while also dealing with the ugly fall- out of his broken marriage. “Billingham is a world-class writer and Tom Torne is A prequel to Billingham’s acclaimed debut Sleepyhead— a wonderful creation. Rush to read these books.” which the Times voted “one of the 100 books that had —Karin Slaughter shaped the decade”—this compelling novel highlights the “With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better case that shaped the career of one of British crime fiction’s and better. Tese are stories and characters you don’t most iconic characters. want to leave.”—Michael Connelly “How much tighter can Billingham turn the screws before his “Mark Billingham has brought a rare and welcome blend climactic twist? . . . Expertly grueling.” —Kirkus Reviews of humanity, dimension, and excitement to the genre.” —George Pelecanos “Written with Billingham’s characteristic flair and drive, with a protagonist who stalks every page.” —Daily Mail

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A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso, and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson

Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson

MARKETING “Open Water is tender poetry, a love song to Black art and thought, an exploration of intimacy and vulnerability between two young artists learning to be soft with each Nelson’s short story “Pray” was fnalist for the other in a world that hardens against Black people.” BBC Short Story Award and was broadcast on air narrated by Ben Bailey-Smith —Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing Nelson’s work is forthcoming in The White n a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, Review both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both prepublication reading copies I are now artists—he a photographer, she a dancer—and both are trying to E-galleys available on NetGalley and make their mark in a world that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, Edelweiss tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can major review coverage still be torn apart by fear and violence, and over the course of a year they find debut fction features and profles their relationship tested by forces beyond their control. national media campaign including print and Narrated with deep intimacy, Open Water is at once an achingly beautiful love radio interviews story and a potent insight into race and masculinity that asks what it means to be prepublication buzz campaign a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body; to be vulnerable when you indieBound bookseller outreach campaign are only respected for strength; to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gor- geous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson gives one of the most sensitive reading group guide available online at groveatlantic.com portraits of romantic love in all its feverish waves and comforting beauty. This is one of the most essential debut novels of recent years, heralding the CALEB AZUMAH arrival of a stellar and prodigious young talent. NELSON is a British-Ghanaian “Open Water is about defiance, mourning, art, and music. It is about clinging to love writer and photographer living in in a world heavy with injustice and violence.” South East London. His writing has been published in Litro and he —Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You was recently shortlisted for the “Like the title suggests, Open Water pulls you in with one great swell, and it holds you © STUART RUEL © STUART BBC Short Story Award and the there closely. A beautiful and powerful novel.” Palm Photo Prize and won the People’s Choice prize. —Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie Open Water is his first novel.

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26 MAY

The first graphic novel from international bestselling crime novelist Val McDermid, Resistance is the story of a mysterious illness that sweeps through a British music festival and beyond, and the journalist who must rush to find the source of the outbreak before it becomes a full-blown pandemic.

Resistance A Graphic Novel Written by Val McDermid Illustrated by Kathryn Briggs

MARKETING he first graphic novel from Britain’s “Queen of Crime” (Scotsman) and Originally written as a radio drama that aired gorgeously illustrated by up-and-comer Kathryn Briggs, Resistance is a on BBC 4, this is McDermid’s frst graphic T chilling but incredibly moving and inspiring story of individuals pressed novel. to rise above their station, first to nail down the truth of a looming pandemic, McDermid’s books have sold more than 16 and later to try to fight it. million copies worldwide. Journalist Zoe Meadows has taken a break from hard-hitting investigative national media campaign including print and reporting to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself radio interviews doing celebrity Q&As at an outdoor music festival near the Scottish border. She and her friends, who run a food truck, head north, along with 150,000 festival-goers for a weekend of music and camping. Then, some of the food truck’s customers begin to fall ill, and many point to food poisoning. But when the festival ends and the attendees scatter across VAL MCDERMID’s bestselling England, more people begin to get sick and die. What’s worse, it is spreading novels have won the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award, and fast and baffles doctors, resisting all efforts to contain or cure it. With time the Crime Writers’ Association’s running out, Zoe is compelled to fight for the truth, even as she loses that Gold Dagger and Cartier Diamond which she holds most dear. Dagger Award for outstanding “Fascinating . . . Val McDermid is one of the most skilled of crime writers and she © ALAN MCCREDIE achievement. She is also a multiple has gone a step beyond killing by writing with crisp authority on the facts that lie finalist for the Edgar Award, including for the Fact behind gruesome events.” —Washington Times, on Forensics Crime nominee Forensics. “McDermid continues to dazzle us with the range and depth of her creative imagi- KATHRYN BRIGGS is an internationally nation.” —New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky recognized, award-winning graphic novelist and arts educator. Her collection of short comics “Magpie” was awarded Runner Up for Graphic Novel of the Year. She is currently a teaching artist for Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia.

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27 JULY

A “luminous, poetic” debut about a young woman's experience of love, abuse, and sex in an era of pornification, “Thora Hjörleifsdóttir has created a whole new landscape for storytelling” (John Freeman)

Magma A Novel Thora Hjörleifsdóttir

MARKETING “Hjörleifsdóttir’s narrator pulls us into the tale of her near undoing and her strug- An instant bestseller in Iceland gle to find her own value. It is the masterful writer who can shock us and make it ring so true.” —Lily King Hjörleifsdóttir recently spoke at an event with the First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid wenty-year-old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is E-galleys available on NetGalley and quickly smitten with the intelligent, beautiful young man from school Edelweiss T who quotes Derrida and reads Latin and cooks balanced vegetarian meals. major review coverage Before she even realizes, she’s moved in with him, living in his cramped apart- targeted outreach to women’s magazines and ment, surrounded by sour towels and flat Diet Cokes. As the newfound media intimacy of sharing a shower and a bed fuels her desire to please her partner, reading group guide available online at his acts of nearly imperceptible abuse continue to mount undetected. Lilja groveatlantic.com desperately tries to be the perfect lover, attempting to meet his every need. But in order to do so, she gradually lets go of her boundaries and starts to lose her sense of self. With astounding clarity and restraint, Hjörleifsdóttir sheds light on the THORA HJÖRLEIFSDÓTTIR commonplace undercurrents of violence that so often go undetected in has published three poetry romantic relationships. She deftly illustrates the failings of psychiatric systems collections with her poetry in recognizing symptoms of cruelty, and in powerful, poetic prose depicts the collective, Imposter Poets. She lives unspooling of a tender-hearted woman desperate to love well. in Reykjavík. Magma is her first “Magma is a luminous and poetic novel unlike any I have ever read. How to novel.

© SAGA SIG describe the slow escalation by which possession becomes control, and power abuse? Thora Hjörleifsdóttir shows how, and the effects are shocking and beauti- MEG MATICH earned her MFA from Columbia ful.” —John Freeman University’s Creative Writing Program. She’s received support for her literary translation work from DAAD, “A novel that speaks directly to its present age . . . An incredibly compelling book.” the Icelandic Literature Centre, PEN, and the —Iceland National Radio Fulbright Commission.

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28 AUGUST

Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Jaime Cortez’s debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation in the West

Gordo Stories Jaime Cortez

MARKETING “What a voice, what a charming, idiosyncratic voice! Cortez tells the untold sto- E-galleys available on NetGalley and ries of California. Set what you know aside, lay your expectations on the couch Edelweiss next to you, put your feet up, pick up this book, and journey into a land as real virtual author tour and complex as the state itself.” —Rabih Alameddine major review coverage is first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez’s Gordo is set in a migrant debut fction features and profles worker community near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young national media campaign including print and H boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler’s mask as he is radio interviews forced to fight other boys and grow into his father’s expectations of manhood. As promotion at regional trade shows, including he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching BEA and ALA divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways Fat Cookie, high schooler and resident artist, uses tiny library pencils to draw on Shelf Awareness, PW, Goodreads, and murals of flowers along the camp’s blank walls, the words CHICANO POWER Amazon Vine boldly lettered across. Los Tigres, the perfect twins of Gyrich Farms, are cham- indieBound bookseller outreach campaign pion drinkers until one of them is rushed to the emergency room, bloody and slumped in an upholstered chair, still tied to the back of a pick-up truck. These scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious matters—who belongs to America and how are they treated? Written with balance and poise, Cortez braids together elegantly tragicomic and inviting stories about life on a California camp, in essence redefining what all-American means. “What if David Sedaris and Richard Rodriguez were the same person? What if it JAIME CORTEZ is a graphic novelist, visual artist, was possible to tell stories about farmworkers and Latinx rural people with hilar- writer, teacher, and occasional performer. Cortez has ity, queerness, tenderness, and poetic precision? What if Jaime Cortez existed historically used art and humor to explore sexuality, and had a book coming out and you were lucky enough to read it in a few social justice, HIV/AIDS, and Chicano identity. months' time?” —Rebecca Solnit

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“Hold on to your hats. The Wolfe family saga “Six personalities are locked inside Carolyn Grand. continues in Blake’s newest Border Noir . . . An Each gets a chance to reveal itself in turn, in action-packed story of family loyalties with some narratives of startling intimacy that make it surprisingly sentimental undertones.” difficult for the reader to disengage.”—Booklist —Kirkus Reviews

The Bones of Wolfe All of Us A Border Noir A Novel of Suspense James Carlos Blake A. F. Carter

udy and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscel- ll of Us is a riveting thriller with six compelling pro- laneous business—some legitimate and some less tagonists–who share a single body. Though legally R so—for their family when they stumble upon a stash A she is Carolyn Grand, in practice she is Martha, of pornographic films. When Aunt Catalina, the family Victoria, Serena, Kirk, Eleni, and Tina. matriarch aged 115, recognizes a resemblance to her long- Their small world is intensely competitive as they jockey lost sister in one of the young performers, she tasks the for control of their single body. They want only to survive, boys with tracking the girl down. to be left to the marginal life they’ve managed to assemble. Soon, Rudy and Frank find themselves moving towards But even that modest goal is shattered when Hank Grand, the upper echelons of the Sinaloa drug cartel, where the the father who destroyed Carolyn’s childhood, is released mysterious woman has become a favorite of the head narco. from prison. Ever daring and innovative, and assisted by the family's Unending suspense, a constantly evolving plot, a truly ready resources, the Wolfe brothers must run the highest unique cast of characters. All of Us will not easily be forgotten. risks in order to achieve the mission assigned them by the Grande Dame. “Carter ably handles the different narrative voices, as well as “In the vein of a Thomas Perry caper novel, with plenty of presenting a mentally ill lead without fetishizing the illness. blood. As such, it is never less than thoroughly entertaining.” Readers will hope to see more from Carter.” —Booklist —Publishers Weekly also available as a HighBridge audiobook “All of Us is a compellingly written account of several fiercely Also Available: warring personalities . . . all of them in the same body. Taut. The Ways of Wolfe The House of Wolfe (978-0-8021-2871-3 • $16 • USCO) (978-0-8021-2474-6 • $14 • USCO) Unusual. Wholly absorbing. The most intriguing and deftly imagined mystery I have read in years.” JAMES CARLOS BLAKE is the author of thirteen previous novels, —Thomas H. Cook, Edgar-winning author of The Chatham including The Ways of Wolfe; The House of Wolfe; The Rules of Wolfe; School Affair and Sandrine's Case which was shortlisted for the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award and A. F. Carter is the pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling named one of Booklist's Best 101 Crime Novels of the Past Decade; and author of over twenty books Country of the Bad Wolfes. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and a recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for In the also available as a HighBridge audiobook Rogue Blood. He was born in Mexico, raised in Texas, and has recently resumed residence in southern Arizona. A. F. CARTER lives and works in New York City.

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“An original and electric narrative . . . Sparse yet “[An] outstanding series . . . In word, deed, surreal.”—Time, “Best Books of the Month” and spirit, Mr. Meyer’s humane and engaging characters are indeed among ‘the best of the best.’” —Wall Street Journal

Braised Pork The Last Hunt A Novel A Benny Griessel Novel An Yu Deon Meyer Translated from the Afrikaans by K. L. Seegers

“Produces its own kind of mind trip . . . Written with a shim- “A geopolitically complex, richly populated, and textured mering lightness.” —Wall Street Journal book . . . Terrific.” —Air Mail ne autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bath- n Deon Meyer’s latest thriller, a cold case dossier leads room of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her Captain Benny Griessel and fellow Hawks officer O husband dead, motionless in their half-full bath- IVaughn Cupido into an investigation of the disappear- tub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia ance and possible murder of an ex-cop on the world’s most discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an luxurious train line. Yet as more evidence emerges—and image that swims into Jia Jia’s mind and won’t leave. As she two crucial witnesses remain missing—the case is starting resolves to uncover the secrets of the pencil sketch, launch- to look more and more like a cover-up. Meanwhile, in Bor- ing on an odyssey from contemporary Beijing, to the high deaux, France, Daniel Darret, a former South African plains of Tibet, and finally to the shadowy, watery other- revolutionary, is trying to create a new, quieter life for him- world she both yearns and fears to go, Jia Jia must confront self, but when someone from his past reappears, he is forced the unspoken tensions in both her marriage and her family, to make an impossible choice. With rapid-fire plotting, and finally chart a path towards a new happiness. Atmo- memorable characters, and incisive political commentary, spheric, cinematic, and empowered, Braised Pork is the The Last Hunt is a brave and powerful story. beguiling debut of an outstanding new voice. “Weaving two apparently independent stories together, keep- “A haunting, coolly written novel . . . Intensely atmospheric.” ing the tension ramping in both, and bringing them to a —Los Angeles Review of Books simultaneous climax, is a challenging undertaking. Meyer pulls it off seemingly effortlessly. He’s that good.” “Yu’s prose is crisp and never tedious, with bursts of startling —New York Journal of Books imagery amid the otherwise restrained style.” Also Available: —New York Times Book Review The Woman in the Blue Cloak (978-0-8021-4893-3 • USCOxE • $15) An Indies Introduce Title also available as a HighBridge audiobook also available as a Recorded Books audiobook DEON MEYER is the internationally acclaimed, prizewinning AN YU was born and raised in Beijing, and left at the age of eighteen author of twelve thrillers, including Te Woman in the Blue Cloak, Fever, to study in New York at NYU. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Icarus, Cobra, Seven Days, and the Barry Award-winning Tirteen Hours. Writing, she writes her fiction in English. She lives in Beijing. Braised His books have been published in twenty-seven languages. He lives in Pork is her first novel. Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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“Reading Ryan’s writing will charge and recharge “To read Harvey is to grow spoiled on gorgeous the mind. This is the first collection of phrases; she’s an author you want to encounter nonfiction from Ryan, a national treasure . . . with pencil in hand.” [and] a wonderful entry point to her work.” —Katy Waldman, New Yorker —San Francisco Chronicle

Synthesizing Gravity The Shapeless Unease Selected Prose A Year of Not Sleeping Kay Ryan Samantha Harvey

“A jewel. Beautifully articulated.”—Patti Smith (from Instagram) “Both cools and warms, lofts and lulls, settling gradually on its inhabitant with an ethereal solidity.” “A delight . . . delivered by a writer with a full command of the —New York Times Book Review English sentence and an electric talent for metaphor.” —New York Times he Shapeless Unease is Harvey’s darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive “Prismatic . . . Would that more American poets devoted that interior monologue of a year without one of the most sort of attention to the word.” —Matthew Zapruder, Alta T basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated he first-ever collection of essays by one of our most dis- with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful tinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize winner exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and T and former Poet Laureate of the United States Kay Ryan, the will to survive, from “this generation’s Virginia Woolf” Synthesizing Gravity gathers a thirty-year selection of Ryan’s (Te l e g ra p h). probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of “Eye-opening . . . So exquisitely written it’s a challenge to art. Edited and with an introduction by Christian Wiman, review, as there is an impulse to quote nearly every precise, this generous collection of Ryan’s distinctive thinking gives stylized line.” —Newsday us a surprising look into the mind of an American master. “[A] profound, earthshaking memoir . . . Here is a talented “Brilliant . . . an inviting portal into the mind of one of Ameri- writer plumbing her personal experience as deeply as she ca’s greatest living writers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) can. The results are staggeringly beautiful.” —Shelf Awareness “Damn fine prose . . . [Ryan is] a kind of wisecracking philoso- pher, a truly original thinker, a quantum physicist of space.” An Amazon Best Book of the Month —John Freeman, Literary Hub also available as a Recorded Books audiobook

“You will come away from Synthesizing Gravity . . . with a SAMANTHA HARVEY is the author of three novels, Dear deeper appreciation of poetry’s worth.” —Shelf Awareness Thief, All Is Song, and The Wilderness, which won the Betty Trask Prize. Her books have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, KAY RYAN is a lifetime Californian whose honors include the the Guardian First Book Award, and the James Tait Black Prize, as well Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal awarded by as longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize. President Obama. She served two terms as US Poet Laureate and is a She lives in Bath, UK, and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa former MacArthur Fellow. University.

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“Written with that depth of thought about crime “Vivid, beautifully written and truly worthy of the and humanity that characterizes the best of Leon’s description of epic.”—Afrobella work.”—Independent

Beastly Things Book of the Little Axe A Commissario Guido A Novel Brunetti Mystery Lauren Francis-Sharma Donna Leon

“[Brunetti] takes his pleasures where he can . . . but after this “An epic story that follows a family across generations and case, the city he loves will never be quite the same for him.” places, from Trinidad at the turn of the 19th century, during a —New York Times Book Review time of shifting colonial powers, to the American West in the hen the body of a man is found in a canal, dam- 1830s.” —Kojo Nnamdi, host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show aged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing n lush, evocative prose, acclaimed author Lauren Fran- W only one shoe, Commissario Guido Brunetti has cis-Sharma returns with her second novel, Book of the little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person ILittle Axe, “a compelling saga of family bonds, ambitions, report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. With Inspec- and desires” (Booklist, starred review). In 1796 Trinidad, tor Vianello, Brunetti canvasses shoe stores and winds up young Rosa Rendón works the family farm she expects to on the mainland in Mestre, outside his usual sphere, where inherit from her father. But when the country falls to Brit- they learn that the man had a kindly way with animals. ish rule, its free Black population finds its very freedom Meanwhile, animal rights and meat consumption are may be taken. quickly becoming preoccupying issues at the Venice Ques- Many years later, in 1830, Rosa is living among the tura, as well as in Brunetti’s home. With the help of Crow Nation in Montana with her husband, a Crow chief. Signorina Elettra, Brunetti and Vianello are able to identify Her son Victor is of the age where he must find his place as the man and understand why someone wanted him dead. a man in the community, and he struggles to understand Subtle and engrossing, Leon’s Beastly Things is immensely why he cannot find his path. So Rosa must take him to enjoyable, intriguing, and ultimately moving. where his story began and, in turn, begin to understand her “Doesn’t disappoint. All her trademark strengths shine in this own journey. swiftly paced, sophisticated tale of greed versus ethics.” “Francis-Sharma’s prose shines in this epic and propulsive his- —Seattle Times torical novel that is set in Trinidad and the American West, “Scintillating.” —Christian Science Monitor and follows the life of Rosa Rendón, who is talented, bright, also available as a Blackstone audiobook and fierce.” —The Millions reading group guide available online at groveatlantic.com DONNA LEON is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. LAUREN FRANCIS-SHARMA is also the author of the critically The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among acclaimed novel ’Til the Well Runs Dry. She resides near Washington, other awards, Donna Leon lived in Venice for many years and now DC, with her husband and two children and is the assistant director of divides her time between Venice and Switzerland. the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

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Now in a new edition with a new chapter chronicling Bob Dylan’s life over the last decade, Down the Highway has been and will remain the most comprehensive Dylan biography available around the world DOWN THE HIGHWAY THE LIFE OF BOB DYLAN HOWARD SOUNES

MARKETING “Sounes [has] produced [a] fascinating and finely written account of Dylan’s life Rights sold in more than a dozen countries and times, while managing at the same time to provide interesting evaluations of his music and cultural contribution.” —New Republic The new edition will be released in time for th Bob Dylan’s 80 birthday ob Dylan is one of the most iconic figures in modern music, and for two The George Kaiser Family Foundation and the decades, Howard Sounes’ Down the Highway has been the definitive University of Tulsa have partnered to open biography of an American icon. Drawing on 250 interviews with the Bob Dylan Center in 2021, which will B Dylan's intimates, Sounes’ prodigious research has resulted in new insights on feature more than 100,000 items spanning Dylan’s career every aspect of Dylan’s life. He gives inside accounts of the tours, the creation of every album and the most celebrated songs, Dylan’s labyrinthine love life, and more—directly from interviews with family, friends, producers, concert promoters, and fellow musicians. HOWARD SOUNES was As Dylan approaches his eightieth year, Howard Sounes will once again born in England in 1965. He bring up to date, following the last decade of Dylan’s life has worked as a newspaper Down the Highway journalist in Britain and abroad. and career. With more than 140,000 copies sold and written with a sincere He is also the author of 27: A appreciation of Dylan’s music and influence, Down the Highway is an essential History of the 27 Club through the book for the millions of people who have enjoyed Dylan’s music over the years. © JERRY BAUER © JERRY Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy “Wonderfully surprising.” —New York Review of Books Winehouse, The Life of Lou Reed: Notes from the Velvet Underground, Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul “Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan's] life, but never has it been done so McCartney, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of well, and so captivatingly.” —Boston Globe a Crazy Life, a history of modern men’s professional golf, and Fred & Rose, the best-selling book about the lives and crimes of mass murderers Fred and Rosemary West. He lives in London.

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“Harrison is truly one of those writers whose books are hard to put down.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

SUNDOG JIM HARRISON

MARKETING Jim Harrison was a widely beloved icon of “Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years.” American letters, and Sundog’s reissue will —Dwight Garner, New York Times bring us one book closer to completing his backlist fction ew York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was one also available as a Blackstone audiobook of America’s beloved writers, a brilliantly economic stylist with a N salty wisdom, adored by both readers and critics. Now comes the JIM HARRISON (1937- reissue of his classic novel, Sundog, a powerful story of the life and loves of 2016) was the author of Robert Corvus Strang, who worked on giant dam projects around the world thirty-nine other works of poetry, until he was crippled in a fall down a three-hundred-foot dam. nonfiction, and fiction, As he tries to regain use of his legs, Strang—with the violently heightened including Legends of the Fall, The sensibilities of a man who has gone to the limits and back—recounts his mon- Road Home, Returning to Earth, © WYATT MCSPADDEN © WYATT and The English Major. A umental life, including his several marriages and children, and dozens of member of the American Academy of Arts and lovers. Letters and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, “A feisty, passionate novel” (Newsday), Sundog confirms Jim Harrison as a he had work published in twenty-seven languages. writer whose “storytelling instincts are nearly flawless” (New York Times).

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39 JULY JULY APRIL “Profoundly heartening . . . With all they are “Bowden’s writing is a reminder that, in all the facing today, Americans need Dickson’s complexity of an age of upheaval, there is still reminder of this momentous accomplishment.” good, and there is still evil, and the most —New York Times Book Review interesting parts of humanity lie in the gulfs of gray in between.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941 The Case of the Vanishing Blonde The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful And Other True Crime Stories Army Before Pearl Harbor Mark Bowden Paul Dickson

aul Dickson’s The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941 ark Bowden has written about crime throughout his tells the extraordinary story of the transformation of long and illustrious career, and was recognized in PAmerica’s military from a disparate collection of M2010 with a lifetime achievement award by the camps of fewer than 200,000 people into a well-trained International Thriller Writers organization. The Case of the and spirited army ten times its prior size in the two years Vanishing Blonde collects six of his most riveting stories— before Pearl Harbor. From enormous mock battles in Ten- accounts spanning four decades of searing characters and nessee, Louisiana, and the Carolinas, following troops into unsettling tales to illustrate all manner of crimes and the ways battle on the Western and Eastern fronts, Dickson narrates technology has progressively altered criminal investigation. America’s urgent mobilization against a backdrop of politi- These stories are the work of a masterful narrative journal- cal and cultural isolationist resistance and racial tension at ist at work—gripping true crime from a writer the Washington home, and presents for the first time this untold story of Post calls “an old pro.” America’s involvement in World War II. “Engrossing . . . New readers will want to seek out Bowden’s “The best history is character-driven, and in this Mr. Dickson book-length nonfiction after devouring this.” excels. He follows the fortunes of emerging Army stars such —Publishers Weekly (starred review) as Bradley, George S. Patton, Mark Clark and Eisenhower “Uncomfortably thrilling—as good crime writing should be . . . himself with verve and compassion . . . An indispensable This true crime master expands the limits of the genre.” account.” —Wall Street Journal —Library Journal (starred review) “A must-read book that explores a vital pre-war effort ignored “Bowden writes with journalistic efficiency and a matter-of- by many Roosevelt-era historians . . . Deep research and fact admiration of the investigative work—from the ingenious gripping writing.” —Washington Times to the tedious.” —Booklist “Richly detailed . . . One of the best treatments to date of also available as an Audible audiobook America’s rapid transition from the Depression to the wartime Also Available: power it became.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Black Hawk Down The Last Stone (978-0-8021- 4473-7 • $17 • W) also available as a Tantor audiobook (978-0-8021- 4891-9 • $17 • W) PAUL DICKSON is the author of more than sixty nonfiction books, MARK BOWDEN is the author of thirteen books, including the including Sputnik: The Shock of the Century and The Bonus Army: An #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down. He reported at the American Epic (with Thomas B. Allen), and books on electronic warfare Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for the Atlantic and war slang. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland. and other magazines.

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“LeFavour’s first novel is a tart comedy of manners “The Lost Pianos of Siberia, Sophy Roberts’s that distills the wandering spirit of summer.” melodious first book, reveals a story inextricably —Chloe Schama, Vogue linked to the drama of Russia itself . . . These pages sing like a symphony.”—Wall Street Journal

Private Means The Lost Pianos A Novel of Siberia Cree LeFavour Sophy Roberts

“[A] lifelike, charming, and witty portrayal of mostly well-man- “An extraordinary encounter with a wildly fascinating and nered marriage doldrums.” —Booklist astonishingly ill-known region . . . This is a wonderful book.” —Sunday Times (UK) iberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colo- deliciously compulsive first novel from the New nies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to York Times Editors’ Choice author of Lights On, Rats tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos. Out, Cree LeFavour’s Private Means captures the S A They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian cul- very essence of summer in a sharply observed, moving med- ture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the itation on marriage, money, and loss. Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. LeFavour matches keen observations on human behav- The Lost Pianos of Siberia is largely a story of music in ior with wry prose and a sexy, page-turning plot. At once Siberia, following Roberts on a three-year adventure dark, funny, sad, and suspenseful, this debut novel is a rare through a desolate land, inhabited by wild tigers and deeply find: a literary indulgence with depth and intelligence. shaped by its dark history, in search of a piano. “[An] empathetic and detailed portrait of a marriage.” “By page 100, I’d settled in, sipping vodka as I read happily —Kirkus Reviews on about piano lore, foul-weather adventures, gossipy history, “LeFavour, author of the memoir Lights On, Rats Out, is an a cast mainly of hospitable locals, and ultimately, as in the award-winning cookbook writer, but don’t expect a foodie best travel books, glad for the fine company of the author.” novel. Fans of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trou- —Minneapolis Star Tribune ble or Ann Beattie’s short stories will enjoy this wry, “[A] luminous travelogue . . . The book is an eccentric mean- sophisticated, and intelligent rendering of modern, privileged der, but Roberts’s mix of colorful history, rich reportage, and city life.” —Library Journal (starred review) lyrical prose . . . makes for a beguiling narrative.” —Publishers Weekly also available from Penguin Random House Audio also available from Dreamscape Audio

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