We’re delighted to introduce the wonderful books gracing our list in the first half of 2021. Featuring an epic debut of the legacies of migration and the CONTENTS tangled bonds of family (Little Gods), a moving and witty graphic about the life of a real ten- New Titles year-old girl (Esther’s Notebooks 1) and an unset- tling psychological thriller about a woman with Pushkin Vertigo multiple personalities (The Eighth Girl), there is New Editions truly something here for every reader. Pushkin Collection From a heartstopping memoir spanning Liberia Recent Highlights and the United States (The Dragons, the Giant, the Women) to a beguiling mystery set in foggy 1990s Prague (The Ghost of Frederic Chopin), from a pacy Israeli crime novel about a serial killer targeting women without children (The Others) to a poignant animal fable by the greatest living Tamil author (The Story of a Goat), this is a list of the world’s best stories, to be read and read again. MY BROTHER KARIN SMIRNOFF Pushkin Press new titles

A publishing phenomenon from Sweden: a novel about new titles NEW uncovering family secrets, abuse, trauma and resilience Jana is returning to see her twin brother Bror, still living in the small family farmhouse in the TITLES rural north of Sweden. It’s decrepit and crum- bling, and Bror is determinedly drinking him- self to an early grave. They’re both damaged by horrific childhood experiences, buried deep in the past, but Jana cannot keep running. Alive with the brutality and beauty of the landscape, My Brother is a novel steeped in darkness and violence – about abuse, love, complicity, and coming to terms with the past. It’s the story of a homecoming without a home: a story of forgiveness.

‘The year’s best novel... Impossible to put down’ Expressen

Translated from the Swedish by Karin Smirnoff (born 1964) lives in Piteå, Anna Paterson Sweden. She worked as a journalist be- Cover design by Jo Walker fore quitting her job to buy a wood facto- ry. After a couple of years she longed to get back to writing and wrote her debut ISBN: 9781782275695 novel: My Brother. Price: £12.99 Published: February 2021 Extent: 224pp Format: Demy Trade PB new titles new THE GHOST OF FREDERIC CHOPIN THE PASSENGER ÉRIC FAYE ULRICH BOSCHWITZ

The third book in the Walter Presents Library: a bewitching The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of new titles Prague-set mystery Nazi , as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution

Prague, 1995: Vera Foltynova, a widow in Germany, November 1938: Otto Silbermann her late 50s, claims to receive visits from the receives a knock on his door and realises he ghost of great composer Frederic Chopin. must flee. A respected German-Jewish busi- What’s more, she declares that Chopin has nessman, he has managed to evade the esca- dictated dozens of compositions to her, to lating brutality of the Nazi regime. But now, allow the world to hear the sublime music as he and his wife plan to leave, all avenues he was unable to create in his own short life. are shut down and he is forced to abandon Many dismiss her story as a ridiculous hoax, his home amid the untrammelled violence of while others swear that the music has the Kristallnacht. same beauty and refinement as the work of With all the money he can gather stuffed the dead master. into a suitcase, Otto takes train after train Ludvik Slany, a secret police agent-turned-tel- across Germany, desperately seeking to cross evision journalist, is assigned to make a doc- the border, every moment terrified a fellow umentary debunking Vera’s claims. He arrives passenger will discover his Jewish identity. ‘A noir novel imbued with in Prague ready to uncover a scam, but the ‘A chronicle of An unbearably tense rediscovered classic, The mystery and elegance’ more he subtly tries to trick her into giving dehumanisation with the Passenger is an unparalleled depiction of the ActuaLitté herself away, the more he begins to think he pace of a thriller’ El País terrifying atmosphere of Nazi Germany. may be witnessing a genuine miracle...

Translated from the French by Éric Faye is a journalist and prize-winning Translated from the German by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was born into Sam Taylor author of over twenty books of fiction, Philip Boehm a German-Jewish family in Berlin in 1915. Cover design by Nathan Burton and travel writing. For his fiction Cover design by Anna Morrison He trained for a business career, but with he has been awarded the Deux-Margots the rise of the Nazis he and his mother Prize and the Grand Prix du roman from had to flee Germany. They went to Brit- ISBN: 9781782277224 ISBN: 9781782275381 the Académie Française. The Ghost of ain, where they were arrested in 1940 and Price: £9.99 Price: £14.99 Frederic Chopin is his eleventh novel. held in an internment camp; Boschwitz Published: May 2021 Published: April 2021 was then deported to Australia. He died Extent: 272pp Extent: 256pp when the ship returning him to Europe Format: B-format PB Format: B-format HB was destroyed by a German submarine. new titles new LITTLE GODS THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, MENG JIN THE WOMEN WAYÉTU MOORE

An epic, heartbreaking novel about the legacy of migration, with A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by new titles a tangled family mystery at its heart the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King

On the night of the Tiananmen Square mas- When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her sacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing father and grandmother throw her a big party hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she from America to China with her mother’s can think about is how much she misses her ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences mother, who is working and studying in fara- and contradictions that she inherited from way New York. Before they can be reunited, that night onwards. war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced As Liya seeks to untangle her family history, to flee their home on foot, along a dangerous we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and road, heading for the relative safety of their deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected remote family village. Here they will hide until love triangle whose repercussions reach up to a remarkable rescue by a rebel soldier who the present moment. smuggles them across the border. Ambitious, multifaceted yet intimate, Little Spanning this journey in Moore’s early child- Gods is a gripping story of migrations both hood, her years adjusting to life in the USA ‘Enthralling’ C Pam Zhang, ‘Immersive, exhilarating... as a black woman and an immigrant, and her Guardian literal and emotional and of the tragic impact an essential voice’ New of history on individual lives. eventual return to Liberia, The Dragons, the York Times Giant, the Women is an unforgettable story of the search for home amidst upheaval.

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa Meng Jin’s narrative prose has appeared Cover design by Anna Morrison Wayétu Moore is the founder of One in the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Moore Book and is a graduate of Howard Bare Life Review, Vogue, and is forthcom- University, Columbia University, and ing in Best American Short Stories 2020. A the University of Southern California. Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from She teaches at the City University of ISBN: 9781911590439 ISBN: 9781911590361 Hunter College, and received the David New York’s John Jay College and lives in Price: £12.99 Price: £16.99 TK Wong Fellowship at the University of Brooklyn. Published: February 2021 Published: March 2021 East Anglia. Jin was born in Shanghai and Extent: 288pp Extent: 272pp has lived in the UK and the US. Format: Demy Trade PB Format: Demy Hardback new titles new GROWN UPS ON LOVE AND TYRANNY: THE MARIE AUBERT LIFE AND POLITICS OF HANNAH ARENDT ANN HEBERLEIN A compact, funny, devastating novel about sibling rivalry and new titles modern motherhood, from one of Norway’s rising stars A timely biography tracking how Arendt’s life shaped her work

Ida is a forty-year-old architect, single and Hannah Arendt dedicated her life to thinking struggling with a feeling of panic as she real- through the most fundamental and difficult ises her chances of motherhood are rapidly of human problems: totalitarianism, exile, the falling away from her. She’s navigating Tinder nature of love and the moral problem of evil. and contemplating freezing her eggs – but But these were not only philosophical con- tries to put a pause on these worries as she cerns for Arendt – they were also personal. heads out to the seaside family cabin for her In this immersive new biography, Ann Heber- mother’s 65th birthday. That is, until some lein shows how Arendt’s groundbreaking work supposedly wonderful news from her sister was intimately formed by turbulence in both sets old tensions simmering, building to an the wider world and her own personal expe- almighty clash between Ida and her sister, her rience. Tracing Arendt’s flight from Hitler’s mother, and her entire family. Germany and then occupied , as well as Exhilarating, funny, and unexpectedly devas- the intensity of her friendships and loves, On tating, Grown Ups gets up close and personal Love and Tyranny develops a sharply detailed, ‘Sharp and intimate... with a dysfunctional modern family. complex portrait of Arendt as an involved wit- astonishingly good’ Borås ness to the crises of her time and an essential Tidning thinker for all time.

Translated from the Norwegian by Marie Aubert made her debut in 2016 Translated from the Swedish by Ann Heberlein is the bestselling author Rosie Hedger with the short story collection Can I Come Alice Menzies of more than a dozen books, including Cover design by Exil.no Home With You, which sold more than Cover design by Jo Walker the autobiographical I Don’t Want to Die, 10,000 copies in Norway. Grown Ups is her I Just Don’t Want to Live. In 2018, she first novel, and won the Young People’s debuted as a fiction with the novel ISBN: 9781782276531 ISBN: 9781782276098 Critics’ Prize (Norway’s equivalent to the Everything Is Going to Be All Right. He- Price: £12.99 Price: £18.99 Goncourt des lyceens) and was nominat- berlein has researched and taught at the Published: June 2021 Published: May 2021 ed for the Booksellers’ Prize. Rights have Department of Practical Philosophy at Extent: 160pp Extent: 288pp already been sold in ten other countries. Stockholm University and at the Faculty Format: Demy Trade PB Format: Demy Hardback of Theology, Lund University. new titles new ‘Smarsh andParton are a An inspiringexploration ofthelife andwork ofDolly Parton SARAH SMARSH WOMEN WHO LIVED HERSONGS DOLLY PARTON AND THE SHE COMEBY IT NATURAL: Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: perfect pairing’ Refinery29 pairing’ perfect B-format PB B-format 208pp January 2021 £9.99 9781911590514 economic inequality. Shelives inKansas. a frequent speaker andcommentator on and former writingprofessor, Smarsh is versity’s Kennedy SchoolofGovernment recent research fellow Uni- atHarvard finalist for theNational Book Award. A policy. Herfirst, was book, a Heartland socioeconomic class, politicsandpublic Sarah Smarsh isajournalistwhocovers and theenduring appealofthissingularstar. nant portrait ofParton’s cultural importance ing upinrural Kansas, Smarsh crafts areso- roots. Drawing onherown experience grow - against thebackdrop ofherworking-class Sarah Smarsh Dolly’s charts meteoric rise sharply insightfulIn thisaffectionate, book, So, happened? what many peopleasthepunch lineofaboobjoke. Yet notsolongago, Dolly was bestknown by seen. where women age ofacertain are rarely grace awards stages, arenas andtalk shows and well into herseventies shecontinues to she burns ondesksasblasphemous candles, Parton. Herimage isblazoned across T-shirts, The world can’t seemto get enoughofDolly Cover byEricaDorn design YorkerNew luminariesthatdirectly inspired thefilm Inspirations for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch by -essays AN EDITOR’S BURIAL: Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: YORKER AND OTHER MAGAZINES AND JOURNALISM FROM THE NEW B-format PB B-format 352pp TBC 2021 £10.99 9781782276647 ing in2021. Kingdom. The French Dispatchisforthcom- Fantastic MrFox, Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson’s filmsinclude Bottle age to theseexceptional reporters. fact into afictionandthecreation ofhishom Morrison withAnderson abouttransforming Includes anintroductory interview by Susan they invented modernmagazinejournalism. New Yorker founder Harold Ross. Together: portraits oftheireditors William Shawnand Sante, Joseph Ross; Mitchell, andLillian plus, A.J.Baldwin, Liebling, S.N. Luc Behrman, journalists including James MavisGallant, eyes andwords of14(mostly) expatriate A glimpseofpost-war France through the Isle ofDogs and Moonrise JOURNALS -

new titles new titles new ISLAND ESTHER’S NOTEBOOKS: TALES SIRI RANVA HJELM JACOBSEN FROM MY TEN-YEAR-OLD LIFE RIAD SATTOUF section

A lyrical, moving tale of love, loss and belonging, across three From the author of The Arab of the Future, the first book in a new titles generations of a Faroe Islands family new series following the life of a real girl growing up in Paris

Family brings the young woman back to the Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sat- Faroe Islands – the windswept, rocky northern touf has a chat with his friend’s daughter, Es- archipelago where she has never lived but ther. She tells him about her life, about school, which she has always called home. There her friends, her hopes, dreams and fears, and she finds her stories entwining with those of then he works it up into a comic strip. her ancestors as she searches for a way to This book consists of 52 of those strips, which connect with the culture and her kin. Is ‘home’ between them tell the story of a year in the just a place name, or something more? life of this sharp, spirited and hilarious child. Split across three generations of a Faroese The result is a moving, insightful and utterly family, rooted in the wild beauty of the addictive glimpse into the real lives of children islands and the author’s own history, this is growing up in today’s world. a bewitching tale of exile, homecoming, and what it means to belong.

‘An ode to the legends we ‘Riad Sattouf is one of the still need’ La Repubblica great creators of our time’ Alain de Botton

Translated from the Danish by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen was born in Translated from the French by Riad Sattouf is a bestselling cartoonist Caroline Waight 1980 into a Faroese-Danish family. She Sam Taylor and filmmaker who grew up in Syria and Cover design by Anna Morrison lives in Copenhagen and works as an Cover design by Riad Sattouf Libya and now lives in Paris. His The Arab author and critic. Island is her critically of the Future series has sold more than a acclaimed and internationally award-win- million copies in France alone and been ISBN: 9781782275800 ISBN: 9781782276173 ning debut novel, which has been trans- translated into sixteen languages. The Es- Price: £9.99 Price: £12.99 lated into five languages. ther’s Notebooks series has also sold near- Published: June 2021 Published: March 2021 ly 700,000 copies in France, been adapted Extent: 176pp Extent: 56pp for a popular animated TV series, and is Format: B-format PB Format: Paperback being translated into 8 languages.

15 new titles new THE LIMITS OF MY LANGUAGE: THE STORY OF A GOAT MEDITATIONS ON DEPRESSION PERUMAL MURUGAN EVA MEIJER section

A beautiful and moving study of depression, combining personal A funny, poignant, and surprising novel about a goat’s life in new titles experience and philosophical reflection rural India by the greatest living Tamil author

Much has been written about the treatment A farmer in India is watching the sun set of depression, but its wider meaning has over his village one quiet evening when a garnered less attention. Here Eva Meijer mysterious stranger, a giant man who seems draws deeply on her own experiences to offer more than human, appears on the horizon. He valuable insight into depression, framing offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the it in a brand new way. She explores how runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. depression can make us grow out of shape The farmer and his wife take care of the over time, like a twisted tree, how we can young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, sometimes remould ourselves in conversation and soon the little goat is bounding with joy with others, and how to move on from our and growing at a rate they think miraculous. darkest thoughts. But there is danger behind every corner: as The Limits of My Language is a poignant, stim- the seasons turn, poverty, drought and an ulating search for the things, great and small authoritarian government cast a long shadow – from philosophy and art to sitting quietly over Poonachi’s isolated village. Is this little ‘Truly noteworthy and with a cat – that make our lives worth living. ‘Written with breathtaking goat too humble a creature to survive in such poignant... profound’ and deceptive simplicity’ a hostile world? Avans New York Times

Translated from the Dutch by Eva Meijer is a prizewinning Dutch author, Translated from the Tamil by N. Perumal Murugan is an Indian author and Antoinette Fawcett artist, singer, songwriter and philosopher. Kalyan Raman professor of Tamil . He has writ- Cover design by Jo Walker Bird Cottage, her first novel to be trans- Cover design by Becca Fox ten six and four collections each of lated into English, was nominated for the short stories and . His best-known BNG and Libris prizes in the novel One Part Woman, highly contro- ISBN: 9781782275992 ISBN: 9781782275718 and is also available from Pushkin Press. versial in India, won the ILF Samanvay Price: £9.99 Price: £9.99 Eva Meijer was awarded the Halewijn Bhasha Samman, and Aniruddhan Published: January 2021 Published: April 2021 Prize in 2017 for all of the books she has Vasudevan’s English rendering won the Extent: 160pp Extent: 192pp written so far. Prize from India’s National Format: B-format PB Format: B-format PB Academy of Letters.

17 new titles new A HOUSE AND ITS HEAD MORE WOMEN THAN MEN IVY COMPTON-BURNETT IVY COMPTON-BURNETT

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Acerbic, brutal and mordantly funny: an unsparing dissection of The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to new titles the patriarchal family, back in print for the first time in decades retain an iron grip on the hidden plots in her girls’ school

Duncan Edgeworth rules over his family Josephine Napier maintains order in her with steely authority in a country village of girls’ school through a benevolent exterior of idyllic beauty, rapacious gossip and motives self-sacrifice. But when a new male teacher of the purest malignity. A crowd of neigh- and a figure from her husband’s past upset bours watches on as Duncan’s scandalous her environment’s delicate equilibrium, the remarriage sparks the chaos that will engulf darker shades of her authority begin to show his family and set off a battle of wills in their and a ruthless struggle for power begins. tangled community. Tense and subversively witty, More Women Unfolding almost entirely in dialogue of Than Men is a masterful unveiling of the cov- vicious wit and layered implications, A House ert allegiances and fierce conflicts produced and its Head is a brutally funny demolition by a claustrophobic world. of Victorian patriarchal authority and the hypocrisy of English society. Republished after decades out of print, it confirms Ivy ‘Invigorating... cruel genius’ Compton-Burnett’s status as the twentieth ‘Her remorseless humor Maggie Nelson century’s greatest chronicler of the violent and savagery are a unique dysfunction of families. cocktail’ BOMB

Cover design by Jo Walker Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) was Cover design by Jo Walker Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) was one of twentieth-century England’s most one of twentieth-century England’s most admired . The seventh of thirteen admired writers. The seventh of thirteen children, she was raised in Richmond and children, she was raised in Richmond and Hove and studied Classics at Royal Hol- Hove and studied Classics at Royal Hol- ISBN: 9781911590392 ISBN: 9781911590415 loway College. Aside from a disavowed loway College. Aside from a disavowed Price: £9.99 Price: £9.99 early novel, Compton-Burnett published early novel, Compton-Burnett published Published: March 2021 Published: May 2021 eighteen highly acclaimed works of fiction eighteen highly acclaimed works of fiction Extent: 256pp Extent: 224pp in her lifetime, and was made a Dame in her lifetime, and was made a Dame Format: B-format PB Format: B-format PB shortly before her death. shortly before her death.

19 new titles new A LIFE IN THE MAKING FRANZ MICHAEL FELDER

The inspiring classic autobiography of a pioneering nineteenth- century autodidact and writer, in English for the first time

Over the 29 years of his short life, Franz Mi- chael Felder worked with furious productivity to better himself and the lives of those around him. From his humble origins in the Austrian village of Schoppernau, he went on to found workers’ cooperatives, a political party and At Vertigo we have made it our mission to bring readers the best crime even a public library in his own home, while fiction from around the world. Favouring top-notch storytelling, original also writing many literary works. plotting and characters that leap off the page above all else, we aim to cater to all tastes when it comes to mystery and suspense. A Life in the Making is both the culmination of this extraordinary career and a chronicle of To that end we have the electric psychoanalytic thriller The Eighth Girl by its development. It is a story of early hardship Maxine Mei-Fung Chung coming up, as well as The Others by Sarah Blau, and fortitude, of Felder’s relentless zeal for a wickedly funny Israeli police procedural about motherhood. Norwe- learning and his lifelong effort to reconcile his gian geopolitical thriller The Ice by John Kåre Raake sees a race for global own expanding horizons with the enforced dominance of the Arctic, but perhaps you like a more cosy mystery headed ‘Will always remain both as confines of the community he was born into. up by a podcaster seeking vigilante justice – in which case Girl, 11 by Amy a record and as a work of Unfolding in prose of limpid beauty, the book Suiter Clarke is the one to go for. art’ Arno Geiger is a monument to Felder’s enduring belief in Whether it is fiendish mysteries, compelling psychological thrillers or the possibility of a better world. quirky police procedurals – we hope there is something here for you.

Translated from the German by Franz Michael Felder (1839–1869) was David Henry Wilson born to a farming family in Schoppernau, Cover design by Jo Walker . Over the course of his short life, he created a towering legacy as a writer Harriet Wade and social reformer. He began to write his ISBN: 9781782276852 Editor, Pushkin Vertigo masterpiece, A Life in the Making, shortly Price: £12.99 after the death of his beloved wife Nanni, Published: January 2021 and Felder himself died only months after Extent: 320pp finishing it. Format: B-format PB pushkin vertigo THE EIGHTH GIRL THE OTHERS MAXINE MEI-FUNG CHUNG SARAH BLAU

An unsettling, seductive psychological thriller, about a young The timely and controversial Israeli bestseller about four women woman with multiple personalities and their fatal promise not to have children

One woman, many personas. But which one They would rather die than become mothers is telling the truth? vertigo pushkin A serial killer is on the loose in Tel Aviv. Each Alexa Wú is a brilliant yet darkly self-aware victim is found tied to a chair with a baby young woman whose chaotic life is manipulat- doll glued to their hands, the word ‘mother’ ed and controlled by a series of alternate per- carved into their forehead like a mark of Cain. sonalities. Only three people know about their Stowed away between the wax figurines of existence: her shrink Daniel; her stepmother the Bible museum where she works, Sheila Anna; and her enigmatic best friend Ella. Heller already knows the connection between When Ella gets a job at a high-end gen- the first two murder victims. She senses it tleman’s club, she is gradually drawn into must be something to do with a pact they London’s cruel underbelly. With lives at stake, all made, many years earlier. An agreement Alexa follows her friend on a daring rescue to defy social expectations, and never have mission. Threatened and vulnerable, she will children. discover whether her multiple personalities ‘Relentless tension until the ‘A dark and funny page- What Sheila doesn’t know is who could be are her greatest asset, or her most dangerous shock of the final reveal’ turner’ Ayelet Gundar- committing these gruesome acts of ritualistic obstacle. Harriet Tyce Goshen violence, and whether she herself might be the next target.

Cover design by Jo Walker Maxine Mei-Fung Chung is a psychoan- Translated from the Hebrew by Sarah Blau is an author and playwright, alytic psychotherapist, clinical super- Daniella Zamir recipient of the 2015 Prime Minister’s visor and training psychotherapist. She Cover design by Mark Swan Prize for Hebrew Literature, and the 2017 lectures on trauma, gender and sexuality, Bar-Ilan University Alumni Achievement clinical dissociation and attachment the- Award in recognition of her contribution ISBN: 9781782276944 ISBN: 9781782276494 ory at the Bowlby Centre. The Eighth Girl to enriching culture in Israel and her Price: £12.99 Price: £12.99 has been optioned by Jason Bateman and activity in the fields of literature and Published: March 2021 Published: April 2021 Michael Costigan (Aggregate) for Netflix. communication. She currently lives in Tel Extent: 480pp Extent: 240pp Aviv and this is her fourth novel. Format: Demy Trade PB Format: Demy Trade PB pushkin vertigo A MAN NAMED DOLL GIRL, 11 JONATHAN AMES AMY SUITER CLARKE

An offbeat, blackly comic thriller from the author of You Were Full of adrenaline-inducing twists and emotional nuance, Girl, 11 Never Really Here is a heartstopping suspense novel

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally The countdown has begun... inexpert, private detective living just below vertigo pushkin True-crime podcaster Elle Castillo has been the glass houses of Mulholland Drive. obsessed with The Countdown Killer for A veteran of both the Navy and LAPD, Doll decades. Twenty years ago, he established now works through the night at a local Thai a gruesome pattern of taking and murder- spa that offers its clients a number of special ing three girls over seven days, each a year services. Armed with his sixteen-inch steel younger than the last. No one’s ever known telescope baton, biting dry humour, and just a why he followed this pattern, or why they bit of a hero complex, the ex-cop sets out to stopped abruptly after the eleventh victim. protect the mostly undocumented immigrant Most believe him to be dead. Elle knows he is women who work there from clients who not and is hellbent on serving historic justice. won’t take “no” for an answer. When the kidnappings start up once again, Doll gets by just fine following his two basic Elle must confront her responsibility in forcing rules: bark loudly and act first. But when the killer out of hiding. She needs to stop the things get out-of-hand with one particularly deadly countdown and convince both the au- violent patron, even he finds himself wildly thorities and her podcast audience, before the out of his depth. Countdown Killer can claim his next victim.

Novelist, essayist, creator of the beloved Amy Suiter Clarke is a writer and com- TV series Bored to Death and Blunt Talk, munications specialist. Originally from a Jonathan Ames is celebrated not only for small town in Minnesota, she completed Cover design by Mark Swan his comic sensibilities and devotion to the an undergraduate in theater in the Twin absurd but for his lurid attraction to inner Cities. She currently works for a universi- ISBN: 9781782276999 ISBN: 9781782276890 demons. He is the author of nine books ty library in Melbourne, Australia. Girl,11 Price: £8.99 Price: £12.99 including Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man and is her debut novel and will be published Published: April 2021 Published: June 2021 You Were Never Really Here, all published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the USA, Extent: 224pp Extent: 304pp by Pushkin Press. Text Publishing in Australia, and other Format: B-format PB Format: Demy Trade PB publishers all over the world in 2021. pushkin vertigo THE ICE JOHN KÅRE RAAKE

A nailbiting, claustrophobic and highly topical thriller, set at the North Pole, from Norway’s most successful screenwriter NEW Anna Aune is on a scientific expedition to the North Pole, measuring the effects of climate change. One day, the pitch black of the polar EDITIONS night is lit up by a flare, coming from a Chi- nese research station. Anna and her colleague are the only ones close enough to respond – but is it a cry for help or a warning sign? At the Chinese base, a vision from a night- mare awaits them. All the researchers are dead, their mutilated bodies frozen solid. It’s clear they were murdered. Then, suddenly a fierce Arctic storm blows in, trapping Anna at Ice Dragon, with a killer somewhere in the dark. ‘Close to a perfect thriller’ As rages, Anna finds herself VG caught in the middle of a savage international struggle for the Arctic’s resources. But can one woman find her way out alive?

Translated from the Norwegian by John Kåre Raake is Norway’s most Adam King successful screenwriter. His films The Cover design by Tom Sanderson Wave, The Quake and Ragnarok have been sold to 120 countries and sold millions of movie tickets. The Ice is his debut novel, ISBN: 9781782276920 and is the first thriller in a series starring Price: £9.99 Anna Aune. It is being translated into 7 Published: January 2021 languages and is in development for a Extent: 400pp television series. Format: B-format PB new editions THREE-FIFTHS MAZEL TOV JOHN VERCHER J.S. MARGOT

A powerful hardboiled noir of violence and obsession, set against A heartwarming, funny and provocative memoir of a woman’s a backdrop of simmering racial tension decades-long friendship with an Orthodox Jewish family new editions new Pittsburgh, 1995. Twenty-two-year-old Bobby When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took Saraceno is a biracial man, passing for white. a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it Bobby has hidden his identity from everyone, would open up an entire world. even his best friend and fellow comic-book In the family’s Orthodox Jewish household she geek, Aaron, who has just returned from pris- would encounter endless rules - ‘never come on a newly radicalized white supremacist. on a Friday, never shake hands with a man’ - During the night of their reunion, Bobby and quirks she had not seen before: tiny tubes witnesses Aaron mercilessly assault a young on the doorposts, separate fridges for meat black man with a brick. In the wake of this and dairy products. Her initial response was horrifying act of violence, Bobby must conceal puzzlement and occasionally anger, but as she his unwitting involvement in the crime from taught the children and fiercely debated with the police, as well as battle with his own the family, she also began to learn from them. personal demons. A harrowing story about Full of funny misunderstandings and unexpect- racism and brutality that is more urgent now ed connections, Mazel Tov is a heartwarming, ‘Short, lucid and harrowing’ than ever. ‘A gentle chronicle Observer, Thrillers of the of empathy and provocative and disarmingly honest memoir Month understanding’ Guardian of clashing cultures and unusual friendships - and of how, where adults build walls, some- times only children can dissolve them.

Cover design by Aaron Munday John Vercher is a writer currently living Translated from the Dutch by Jane J.S. Margot (b. 1967) is a journalist and in the Philadelphia area with his wife and Hedley-Prôle freelance writer based in Antwerp. An two sons. He holds a Bachelor’s in English Cover design by Anna Morrison award-winning contributor to leading from the University of Pittsburgh and an national newspapers De Standaard and MFA in Creative Writing from the Moun- De Morgen, she has also written five ISBN: 9781782276876 ISBN: 9781782275282 tainview Master of Fine Arts program. novels and lectures regularly in both the Price: £8.99 Price: £9.99 You can find him on his website www. Netherlands and . Mazel Tov has Published: May 2021 Published: January 2021 johnvercherauthor.com and on Twitter at been translated into German, French and Extent: 248pp Extent: 320pp @jverch75. Polish and won the Best Book Award in Format: B-format PB Format: B-format PB . new editions THE INLAND SEA new in paperback THOSE WHO FORGET: new in paperback MADELEINE WATTS ONE FAMILY’S STORY; A MEMOIR, A HISTORY, A WARNING GÉRALDINE SCHWARZ A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world A woman delves into her family’s complicity with the Nazis new editions new As she faces the open wilderness of adult- Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize hood, our young narrator finds that the world During the war, Géraldine Schwarz’s grand- around her is coming undone. She works parents were neither heroes nor villains part-time as an emergency dispatch operator, – they just followed the current. Afterwards tracking the fires and floods that rage across they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the Australia during an increasingly unstable year. wreckage of the Third Reich. Drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, she finds herself wandering Sydney’s streets late But decades later, delving through the base- at night as she navigates a troubled affair ment of their apartment building, Géraldine with an ex-lover. Reckless and adrift, she discovers that her grandfather Karl profited begins to contemplate leaving. from the forced ‘Aryanisation’ of Jewish businesses – and so she is compelled to Written with down-to-earth lucidity and investigate her ancestors’ past. Combining ethereal breeziness, The Inland Sea builds to generations of family stories with the history a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and ‘A masterful debut that ‘An utterly original memoir of Europe’s post-war reckoning, Géraldine personal crisis. This is an unforgettable debut asks: how did Germans transform their collec- demands to be read’ about coming of age in a dying world. for our times... deeply Telegraph affecting’ Philippe Sands tive guilt into democratic responsibility? And, with populism on the rise, how can we ensure we learn from history?

Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Translated from the French by Géraldine Schwarz is a German-French Australia and has lived in New York since Laura Marris journalist, author and documentary film- 2013. She has an MFA in creative writing Cover design by Jo Walker maker based in Berlin. Those Who Forget, from Columbia University, and her fiction an account of her family’s complicity has been published in The White Review with fascism, is her first book. It has been ISBN: 9781911590255 ISBN: 9781782275374 and The Lifted Brow. Her non-fiction has translated into eight languages and won Price: £8.99 Price: £9.99 appeared in The Believer and the Los the European Book Prize 2018, the Win- Published: March 2021 Published: April 2021 Angeles Review of Books. The Inland Sea is fried Preis and the Nord-Sud Prize. Extent: 256pp Extent: 320pp her first novel. Format: B-format PB Format: B-format PB new editions MACHINE new in paperback THE OTHER’S GOLD new in paperback SUSAN STEINBERG ELIZABETH AMES

A jagged, propulsive story of guilt and youth spinning off its axis The addictive, devastating and nostalgic debut novel about the in the wake of a drowning many ups and downs of lifelong friendship new editions new A local girl drowns one night in summer on Some mistakes change everything. the shore. As a seething guilt settles over the When Lainey, Margaret, Ji Sun and Alice find teenagers of this fractured town, another girl themselves sharing a dorm in their freshman narrates the experience of their hard-party- year at college, it feels like fate. They are ing, fiercely divided collective. Her parents’ young, transcendent, in love. marriage violently collapsing, her brother spiralling into increasing destructiveness, she As their lives become braided together, both sinks further back into the events leading up at college and into adulthood as young moth- to this tragedy and the deeper fault-lines in ers, their friendships are forced to endure the community. dangerous threats – from the dark forests of their childhood, from each other, and from Daringly experimental, Machine is a bold in- themselves. For each of them will make a terrogation of gender, class and privilege, and terrible mistake. the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. A thrilling first novel from a unique A compulsive page-turner of a novel, The ‘Raw, undeniable power... A talent, this is suspenseful, audacious, riveting ‘A gorgeous book, Other’s Gold is a bittersweet ode to lifelong brilliant read’ Daisy Johnson literary fiction. compulsively readable’ friendship, and to what it means to forgive Jesmyn Ward another – even when you can’t forgive yourself.

Cover design by Anna Morrison Susan Steinberg is the author of Specta- Cover design by Anna Morrison Elizabeth Ames is a graduate of the Uni- cle, Hydroplane, and The End of Free Love. versity of Michigan MFA program, where She is the recipient of a United States she won the Hopwood Award. Her short Artists Fellowship, a National Magazine stories have appeared in Ninth Letter and Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches Third Coast. She currently lives in a Har- ISBN: 9781911590293 ISBN: 9781911590347 at the University of San Francisco. vard dormitory with her husband, toddler, Price: £8.99 Price: £8.99 and a few hundred undergraduates. This Published: TBC 2021 Published: May 2021 is her first novel. Extent: 160pp Extent: 368pp Format: B-format PB Format: B-format PB new editions THE COLLECTED new in paperback NOVELLAS OF STEFAN ZWEIG

Five of Stefan Zweig’s most powerful novellas, containing some of his most famous and best-loved work

A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers’ reunion, a meaning- less infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales – medi- tations on the fragility of love, the limits of PUSHKIN obsession, the combustibility of secrets and betrayal. COLLECTION To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection, the power of his writing – which, with its unabashed intensity and narra- tive drive, made him one of the bestselling and most acclaimed authors in the world – is clear and irresistible. Each of these stories is a bolt of experience, unforgettable and unique. ‘Breathtaking’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

Translated from the German by Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna Anthea Bell and Alexander Starritt and studied in Berlin and Vienna before Cover design by Nathan Burton making his name as a writer. His passion- ate, dramatic short stories and gripping biographies of major historical and ISBN: 9781782277071 literary figures, including Beware of Pity Price: £12.99 and The World of Yesterday, made him one Published: May 2021 of the most popular writers in the world in Extent: 384pp the 1920s and 30s. Format: B-format PB

pushkin collection pushkin 36 section Cover byClare design Skeats collection onwritersandwriting From oneofBritain’s astunningnew mostacclaimed essayists, ORWELL GEORGE ON WRITERS AND WRITING INSIDE THE WHALE: Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: Flapped Paperback 256pp January 2021 £12 9781782276753 an’ intheEnglish language. firmly- established the adjective ‘Orwelli and essays, oftotalitarianism and fascism His powerful explorations, inbothnovels against fascism intheSpanishCivilWar. in near-destitution inParis andfought ficer inMyanmar (formerly Burma),lived asanImperialPolicecritic. Heserved Of- was anovelist, essayist, journalistand Blair, bornEricArthur George Orwell, engagement withwriters andliterature. experiences, theseessays celebrate Orwell’s vitality oflife.Offering thrilling reading a stirring evocation ofhumanismandthe pamphlet onShakespeare by Tolstoy provokes .of nineteenth-century Aminor Dickens unfolds into apoignantportrait a timeoftotal war. Adiscussion ofCharles belly ofJonah’s whale, animagined refuge in The novels leadhiminsidethe Miller ofHenry literature onhisown exhilarating terms. dusty classics andlesser-known works of the literary canon, George encounters Orwell of ourideological aspirations. Delvinginto our socialfailings, andtheennobling limits as avital record ofourpolitical hypocrisies, four essays inthiscollection treat literature Unfailingly elegantandendlessly relevant, the Cover byClare design Skeats greatest socialchronicler collectionA new thatcelebrates Orwell’s statusasEngland’s ORWELL GEORGE NOTES ONANATION ENGLAND YOUR ENGLAND: Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: Flapped Paperback 224pp January 2021 £12 9781782277187 an’ intheEnglish language. firmly- established the adjective ‘Orwelli and essays, oftotalitarianism and fascism His powerful explorations, inbothnovels against fascism intheSpanishCivilWar. in near-destitution inParis andfought ficer inMyanmar (formerly Burma),lived asanImperialPolicecritic. Heserved Of- was anovelist, essayist, journalistand Blair, bornEricArthur George Orwell, has found itselfin. England could aspire to it beas thestate that ture. Together, they say asmuch aboutwhat to thefascinating peculiarities ofEnglishcul the essays inthiscollection are atestament LionandtheUnicorn’, English socialism,‘The withOrwell’sCulminating masterpiece on a grim account oflifeinsideaworkhouse. of murder reportage intheBritish tabloids to colonial rule inBurma,andfrom awittystudy a coal mineto achastening experience of society. They range from anexpedition down his masterful analysis ofacrumbling English Orwell’s sketches short ofEnglishlifewith This new collection brings together four of -

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pushkin collection pushkin 38 section ‘The onlywritingIhave ever‘The Cover byClare design Skeats focused oncomplex ofrelationships portrayals between women selectionofKatherineA beguilingnew Mansfield’s fineststories, KATHERINE MANSFIELD ESSENTIAL STORIES STRANGE BLISS: Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: Woolf been jealous of’ Virginia been jealousof’ Flapped Paperback 224pp May 2021 £12 9781782277125 years lateraged 34. tuberculosis in 1919,Mansfielddied four avant-garde magazines. Diagnosed with 1911, andshewent onto publishwidely in stories, InaGermanPension, appeared in Continental Europe. Herfirst of collection ly settledthere, spendingtime in often forShe left Englandat19andeventual- born andraised incolonial NewZealand. Katherine Mansfield(1888-1923) was precision.feeling withunmatched these stories capture fleetingmovements of shared experiences offrustration andrelease, plex expressions ofdesire andconnection to of relationships between women. From com- of Mansfield’s work exploring different facets This new collection together gathers thebest disruption, insightandstrange beauty. calm surfaces are punctured by momentsof subtly between thecomic andthetragic, as story.pioneers oftheshort Herstyleshifts Katherine Mansfield was oneofthetrue ‘Pushkin transformed every Cover byClare design Skeats Anthony Briggs Translated from the Russian by bytheacclaimed Anthony Briggs collectionA dazzlingnew ofPushkin’s finestfiction,indefinitive ALEXANDER PUSHKIN ESSENTIAL STORIES THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER: Format: Extent: Published: Price: ISBN: form ofRussian literature he touched’ Guardian he touched’ Flapped Paperback 256pp February 2021 £12 9781782276388 29th—with hisbrother-in-law. having beenwounded inaduel—Pushkin’s ever to have lived. Hediedaged just37, the greatest writers, inany language, His work has secured hisplace asoneof Ruslan and Lyudmila—made himfamous. andin1820hisfirstfifteen, longpoem— published hisfirst poemwhenhe was Alexander Pushkinwas bornin1799.He cards, withbizarre results. an elderly woman’s secret for success at Queen ofSpades’amanobsessively pursues icant during abrutal uprising, whilein‘The mysterious encounter proves fatally signif during thereign ofCatherine theGreat, a masterful novella oflove andrebellion set every turn:in These are stores upendexpectations at that tions. in Anthony Briggs’s finely nuanced transla- stunning freshness andclarity, more thanever development ofRussian prose, they retain influential ever written. to the Foundational stories are someofthegreatest andmost As complex asthey are gripping, Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter, Pushkin’s -

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The lyrical first novel of youth and love by modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf RECENT Two old friends meet nightly in Paris, trading conversational barbs and dancing around sub- merged feelings. Throughout the ten years of HIGHLIGHTS their separation, thoughts of Claire lingered persistently in Kolya’s mind. As the imagined romance finally becomes real, Kolya is thrown into recollections of formative moments from his youth in , from his solitary early years through military school and service in the White Army in the Civil War, all leading to this union with Claire. The first novel by the celebrated Russian master Gaito Gazdanov, An Evening with Claire is a lyrical, finely crafted portrait of a lost ‘The Gazdanov revival... is innocence and a vanished era. nothing short of a literary event’ TLS

Translated from the Russian by Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971) joined the Bryan Karetnyk White Army aged just sixteen and fought Cover design by Clare Skeats in the Russian Civil War. Exiled in Paris from the 1920s onwards, he eventual- ly became a nocturnal taxi-driver and ISBN: 9781782276050 quickly gained prominence on the literary Price: £12 scene, earning the admiration of Maxim Published: June 2021 Gorky, among others. The Spectre of Extent: 256pp Alexander Wolf was published by Pushkin Format: Flapped Paperback Press to great acclaim in 2013.

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