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January – June 2013 2 Original Fiction 18 Original Non-Fiction 28 Memoir 36 Food 41 Sport 49 Religion 52 Lifestyle 55 Natural World 59 Paperback Fiction 75 Paperback Non-Fiction 90 Titles Previously Distributed 91 Social Media Contacts List 92 Index 94 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales OME open market edition, A format (dimensions 178 mm x 111 mm) PB B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm) TPB trade paperback, original titles only HB hardback export information Tenth of December The World George Saunders Was All ‘Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny with a prose style Before Them this fine’ Zadie Smith Matthew Reynolds Unsettling and hilarious, this is the new collection from undisputed master of the short story, George Saunders. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions, Jeff Original, exhilarating and surprisingly tender, this story of two people and the life faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx™ in some unusual drug trials they inhabit is a tour de force and a young boy discovers that sometimes the voices fade and all you are left with is a frozen hill on a cold day in December… Philip and Sue have moved to a small town for the circle of a year. Philip is a locum in a nearby GP surgery, and Sue works in an art gallery an hour’s commute away. On the surface, With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, their life together is unremarkable, but around them and within them is a kaleidoscope of Tenth of December sings with astonishing depth, charm and intensity, and re-affirms complex, intersecting worlds. As Philip struggles with his new patients – a child with ADHD PRICE: £12.99 Saunders as one of our greatest living storytellers. and an elderly woman who insists on experiencing her body’s slow decline – and Sue stakes FORMAT: Trade Paperback PRICE: £14.99 her career on a reckless impulse, they find themselves asking: how much do we really know ISBN: 9781408817964 FORMAT: Hardback At one point a geophysical engineer, MacArthur Fellowship-winner George Saunders is an about the place we live in, or ourselves? And, in the end, who can we rely on? EBOOK: 9781408833056 ISBN: 9781408837344 acclaimed writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children’s books. His work includes the PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 EBOOK: 9781408837351 story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award, Matthew Reynolds is the author of Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors, TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX CAN, OM PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 Pastoralia and In Persuasion Nation, one of only three finalists for The Story Prize in 2006. which was shortlisted for the Author’s Club First Novel Award and longlisted for the Desmond TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM He teaches Creative Writing at Syracuse University, New York, where he lives with his family. Elliott Prize. He has also written several books of literary criticism, including The Poetry of Coleridge & White TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Translation and The Realms of Verse. He lives in Oxford where he is a fellow of St Anne’s ICM New York/Curtis Brown UK College. Clay Little Known Melissa Harrison Facts A lyrical portrait of four people finding freedom and beauty in a city’s concrete Christine Sneed confines, by debut novelist Melissa Harrison ‘Sneed writes with the care of a fine stylist and the heart of a sympathetic reader’ Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city’s overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, Publishers Weekly seventy-eight, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the little park she so loves. She’s writing to her granddaughter, Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature – his exists in a different world – though she lives less than a mile away. girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives – long to experience the glow of his flame. For his grown-up children, Anna and Will, their father’s fame is a force they are both drawn to and Jozef works by day doing house clearances, by night at a takeaway. He can’t forget the farm repelled by, overshadowing every part of their lives. Little Known Facts is the compelling story he left behind in Poland, its woods and fields written on his heart. When he meets TC he finds of the fallout of fame and fortune for a family that can neither fully embrace nor ignore the a kindred spirit: both lonely and lost; both looking for something. superstar in their midst; a story of influence and affluence, of forging identity and happiness PRICE: £12.99 in a celebrity-obsessed age. FORMAT: Trade Paperback PRICE: £14.99 Melissa Harrison lives in South London and is a freelance writer and photographer whose ISBN: 9781408833452 FORMAT: Hardback clients include the Guardian. She was the winner of the John Muir Trust’s ‘Wild Writing’ Award Christine Sneed’s story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, won EBOOK: 9781408833469 ISBN: 9781408826027 in 2010 and Clay is her first novel. AWP’s 2009 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 EBOOK: 9781408833551 Book Prize, was named the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, and was chosen TERRITORY: WE PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 as the recipient of Ploughshares’s 2011 first-book prize. It was also long-listed for the Frank TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM TERRITORY: WO O’Connor International Short Story Award and named one of the seven best books of the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury year by Time Out Chicago. She lives in Evanston, Illinois. 2 ORIGINAL FICTION ORIGINAL FICTION 3 Restless: TV tie-in Dogstar Rising William Boyd Parker Bilal Now a major BBC 1 series (December 2012) starring Hayley Atwell and Charlotte The second Makana Mystery, by the acclaimed author of The Golden Scales Rampling It is the summer of 2001 and in Cairo’s crowded streets the unsolved murders of several It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As homeless boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred. Makana, who fled his native war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Sudan a decade ago, has been hired to investigate threats that have been made to a hapless Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her travel agent. But his case brings him into contact with Meera, a woman who knows what it emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully is like to lose everything and who needs his help. When Makana witnesses a brutal killing rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she he uncovers a web of intrigue, violence and old secrets, and attracts the attention of some must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can’t do it alone: she needs her very dangerous people. daughter’s help. Parker Bilal is the pen-name of Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Film tie-in artwork to come William Boyd is the author of eleven novels including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written seven critically acclaimed PRICE: £11.99 PRICE: £7.99 Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the literary novels which have been shortlisted for and awarded numerous prizes. His works FORMAT: Trade Paperback FORMAT: Paperback John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner include: In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier and The Drift Latitudes. He ISBN: 9781408827857 ISBN: 9781408835180 of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet lives in Barcelona. EBOOK: 9781408832837 EBOOK: 9781408807125 and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 PUB DATE: 6 Dec 2012 Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection; Ordinary Thunderstorms TERRITORY: WE TERRITORY: Comm/UK, EXCAN, OM and, most recently, the Sunday Times bestseller, Waiting for Sunrise. William Boyd lives in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown London and France. The Night Rainbow The Walking Claire King Laleh Khadivi A beautiful and beguiling debut novel about innocence and experience, grief and In the tumult of the Iranian Revolution, two brothers embark on a fast-paced compassion, and the dangers of an overactive imagination escape that that will take them half way around the world, and eventually, away from each other During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, in a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to Iran. 1979. The mullahs have come to power and two young Kurdish brothers are forced to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea’s father swear their loyalty to the new regime by taking part in a massacre. For Saladin, the younger, has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief, has retreated to a place the decision to flee the town of their birth and go west is exciting; this is the direction of where Pea cannot reach her.