Grove Press Atlantic Monthly Press Black Cat The Mysterious Press Spring/Summer 2014 COMING IN PAPERBACK IN MARCH 2014 NatIONAL BESTSELLER T HE B ILLIONAIRE AND T HE M ECHANIC How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing’s Greatest Race, the America’s Cup, Twice Updated and expanded to include the thrilling come-from-behind victory in the 2013 America’s Cup in San Francisco Down eight to one in the 34th America’s Cup, with their opponents Emirates Team New Zealand needing only one more win to grab the Cup, Oracle Team USA pulled off a comeback for the ages, shocking the world with eight straight wins. Julian Guthrie’s The Billionaire and the Mechanic, a bestseller in hardcover and published to widespread media attention, tells the incredible story of how a car mechanic and one of the world’s richest men, Larry Ellison, teamed up to win the world’s greatest race. With a lengthy new section, Guthrie now shows how they did it again. “Excellent.”—Wall Street Journal “A riveting account.”—Sailing Magaine “Splendid . a thriller of a tale.” —Kirkus Reviews “The Billionaire and the Mechanic opens with JULIAN GUTHRIE is an a thrilling scene as old as Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ award-winning journalist and as iconic as ones from Conrad, Melville, and staff writer at the San Hemingway and Sebastian Junger.” Francisco Chronicle. She —San Francisco Chronicle is the author of The Grace © CHRIS HARDY of Everyday Saints. “A wondrously detailed story, beautifully told.” www.julianguthriesf.com —Susan Casey, author of The Wave Twitter @JulianGuthrie © GILLES MARTIN-RAGET © GILLES MARTIN-RAGET COURTESY NORBERT BAJURIN The mechanic and the billionaire Racing in the 2010 America’s Cup Victory! ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS Hardcovers APRIL Commissario Guido Brunetti must question his own assumptions about culture, virtue, and class in order to solve a shocking case of rare book theft from a Venetian library By its Cover A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Donna Leon Marketing “Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as The Golden Egg debuted at #7 Donna Leon . One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” on the New York Times bestseller list —Washington Post major review coverage targeted outreach to mystery media onna Leon’s critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commis- sario Guido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with library marketing including mid-winter ALA and PLA Dthe beauty of its setting, the humanity of its characters, and its fearless- ness in exploring politics, morality, and contemporary Italian culture. In the prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways on Shelf Awareness, pages of Leon’s novels, the beloved conversations of the Brunetti family have Goodreads, Amazon Vine, and Earlyword frequently drawn on topics of art and literature, but books are at the heart of this twenty-third installment in a way they never have been before. ICH national advertising campaign R One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the ZU reading group guide available online AG director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of at groveatlantic.com LAG R several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the cul- online promotion (donnaleon.net) prit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem—the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn’t exist. ANN/DIOGENES VE M As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seem- ingly harmless theologian, who had spent three years at the library reading the Fathers of the Church, turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty. © REGINE MOSI DONNA LEON is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series. She has lived in Venice for thirty years. $26.00 (Canada: $28.50) All other rights: Diogenes Verlag hardcover (Zurich, tel.: +41 44-254-8511) 6 x 9, 288 pp. Carton quantity: 32 Mystery (FIC022000) Export: USCOxE 978-0-8021-2264-3 Residence: Venice, Italy eISBN: 978-0-8021-9250-9 U.S. and Canadian rights: Atlantic Monthly Press 2 APRIL From the bestselling novelist, a beautifully illustrated collection of original pieces on Venice’s famed gondolas, with an accompanying CD of barcarole songs Gondola Donna Leon Marketing f all the trademarks of Venice—and there are many, from the gilded Leon’s previous nonfiction books Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs—none is have sold well Omore ubiquitous than the gondola. In Gondola, the internationally acclaimed “American with the Venetian heart” (The Washington Post), Donna Also Available: Leon, tells the fascinating story of the famous boat. My Venice First used in medieval Venice as a deftly maneuverable getaway boat, the (978-0-8021-2036-6 • $26 • USCO) gondola evolved over the centuries into a floating pleasure palace, bedecked in Handel’s Bestiary (978-0-8021-1996-4 • $27.50 • USC) silk, that facilitated the romantic escapades of the Venetian elite. Sumptuary Brunetti’s Cookbook laws turned it black—a gleaming, elegant hue for a boat manned by robust (978-0-8021-1947-6 • $27 • USC) gondolieri in black-and-white-striped shirts and straw hats. A tourist favorite, the gondola has never ceased to be a part of authentic Venice. Each boat’s 280 pieces are carefully fashioned in a maestro’s work- shop—though Leon also recounts a tale of an American friend who attempted to make a gondola all on his own. The feat took five years and countless do- overs. But the gondola is a work of art well worth the labor. And once its arched prow pushes off from the dock, the single Venetian at its oar just might break out in a barcarole, the popular songs sung by gondolieri. The best of these songs are included on an accompanying CD specifically recorded for Gondola, including an exclusive track by Cecilia Bartoli, the world’s bestselling classical singer. $26.00 (Canada: $28.50) All other rights: Diogenes Verlag hardcover (Zurich, tel.: 411-245-8511) 5½ x 7, 80 pp. Carton quantity: 28 Music (MUS028000) Export: USCOxE 978-0-8021-2266-7 Residence: Venice, Italy eISBN: 978-0-8021-9252-3 U.S. and Canadian rights: Atlantic Monthly Press 3 APRIL On the 100th anniversary of World War I, award-winning English novelist Helen Dunmore publishes The Lie, her spellbinding tale of love, remembrance, and deception, set against the backdrop of the First World War The Lie Helen Dunmore Marketing Similar in setting and theme to her bestseller “Dunmore captures how a single moment can change the course of a life” The Siege, which sold over 120,000 copies —Gillian Flynn, Entertainment Weekly, on Ice Cream and was a finalist for the Whitbread Novel Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and a rom the award-winning author of The Siege, Helen Dunmore, comes The Costa Book Award Lie, a spellbinding tale of love, remembrance, and deception, set against the backdrop of World War I. prepublication reading copies available F Cornwall, 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the First World War and major review coverage returned to the small fishing town where he was born. Behind him are the literary blog outreach trenches and the most intense relationship of his life. As he works on the land, library marketing including struggling to make a living in the aftermath of war, he is drawn deeper and mid-winter ALA and PLA deeper into the traumas of the past and memories of his dearest friend and his reading group guide available online first love. As the drama unfolds, Daniel is haunted by the terrible, unforeseen at groveatlantic.com consequences of a lie. Set in France during the First World War and in postwar online promotion (helendunmore.com) Cornwall, this is a deeply moving and mesmerizing story of the “men who marched away.” Praise for Helen Dunmore “Dunmore’s carefully observed stories demonstrate her ear for language and her BES R eye for the telling moment.” —New York Times Book Review OLYN FO OLYN R A “When reading Dunmore, there is always the consolation of being with a fine C © mind.” —Houston Chronicle HELEN DUNMORE is the author of eleven books, including The Greatcoat, The Betrayal, a “Her writing is both elegant and revealing.” —Seattle Times New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Siege, a best “Dunmore’s rich writing [is] by turns muscular and poetic.”—Washington Post seller and finalist for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; and A Spell of Winter, winner of the Orange Prize. $24.00 U.S. rights: Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover All other rights: AP Watt 5½ x 8¼, 304 pp. Carton quantity: 28 Fiction/Literature (FIC019000) Export: USOxE 978-0-8021-2254-4 Residence: Bristol, England eISBN: 978-0-8021-9254-7 4 Backlist titles from Orange Prize Winner Helen Dunmore The Siege The Betrayal “Brilliant . an intimate “ An emotionally charged thriller, record of an extraordinary The Betrayal unfolds breathlessly human disaster.” and with great skill. —San Francisco Chronicle You don’t want to put it down. “Elegantly, starkly beautiful.” . Elegant yet devastating.” —New York Times Book Review —Seattle Times The Betrayal “An affecting, devastating work.” (978-0-8021-7088-0 • $14.95 • USOxE) —Entertainment Weekly “Electrifying.”—O Magazine The Siege (978-0-8021-3958-0 • $14.95 • USO) The Greatcoat Ice Cream “A perfect ghost story.” “A dark gem of a collection. —Independent [The] stories combine the heady “Haunting and pleasure of the physical world exquisitely crafted.” with the harsh human realities —Glamour of love and loss.”—Elle The Greatcoat Ice Cream (978-0-8021-2060-1 • $15 • USOxE) (978-0-8021-4053-1 • $12 • USO) A Spell of Winter With Your Crooked Heart “A Spell of Winter reads “Impossible to put down.” so much like Jane Eyre that —Washington Post one feels one ought to shout: “ Haunting .