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

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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. Then Pea meets Claude, a man who seems to love the meadow Hollywood, Los Angeles, America. But his euphoria is not enough for his brother Ali, who as she does. Pea believes that she and Margot have found a friend, maybe even a new papa. belongs, heart and soul, to his mountain town. As they cross the Zagros by foot, to Istanbul, But why do the villagers view Claude with suspicion? to the Azores by freighter and finally as smuggled cargo aboard a plane, Saladin realises that his dream of a better future can only be fulfilled alone. The Walking is a haunting and PRICE: £12.99 PRICE: £12.99 Claire King has found success and acclaim with her prize-winning short stories. Having beautifully-written story of exodus; of those people torn between the lure of home and the FORMAT: Trade Paperback FORMAT: Hardback graduated from Cambridge she now lives and works in France. The Night Rainbow is her lure of hope. ISBN: 9781408814840 ISBN: 9781408824672 first novel. EBOOK: 9781408814956 EBOOK: 9781408832820 Laleh Khadivi was born in Iran in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 fled, finally settling in Canada and the United States. Khadivi received an MFA, a Creative TERRITORY: WE TERRITORY: WO Writing Fellow in Fiction and, in 2008, the Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2009 she published her TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Trident Media TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury first novel, The Age of Orphans. Laleh Khadivi lives in San Francisco.

4 ORIGINAL FICTION ORIGINAL FICTION 5 Mimi The Arch and the Butterfly Lucy Ellmann Mohammed Achaari

‘Ellmann’s writing is in a class of its own’ The Times Joint winter of the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction – the Arab Booker 2011 With its mix of art, music, egg-nog and badinage, this is a New York love story like no other – a vibrant call to arms, and Lucy Ellmann’s most tender and dazzling Set in the author’s home country of Morocco, outside the ancient city of Marrakech, this is book yet a moving novel of identity, extremism, culture and generational change. The narrator, Yousif, the son of a cross-cultural marriage, is caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect It’s Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So the changing world he lives in. One day he hears that his son Yasin, whom he believed to far, so good. ‘Ya can’t sit there all day, buddy, looking up people’s skirts!’ chides a weird gal be successfully pursuing an education at a prestigious college in Paris, has been killed in in a coat like a duvet: Mimi. She then kindly conjures the miracle of a taxi. While recuperating Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance. With his world already shattered, and finding with Schubert, Bette Davis and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his life’s work, a List himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Yousif questions everything, including his PRICE: £12.99 of Melancholy Things (puppetry, shrimp-eating contests, Walmart…). But when he receives own values and identity. FORMAT: Trade Paperback a dreaded invitation to address his old school he enlists the services of a coach, and Mimi PRICE: £7.99 ISBN: 9781408833568 reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love. And, Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short story writer, journalist, former FORMAT: Paperback EBOOK: 9781408833582 as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is Minister of Culture in Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. He has published ISBN: 9789992179055 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 in the air. a number of works of fiction and poetry, and has been translated into French, Spanish, PUB DATE: 14 March 2013 TERRITORY: WO Russian and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second novel. TERRITORY: WO Ex/Italy, Arabic TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Lucy Ellmann’s first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She has since TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BQFP c/o written Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango?, Dot in the Universe and Doctors Bloomsbury & Nurses. Born in the United States, she now lives in Scotland.

This Magnificent Desolation This Is Thomas O’Malley Where I Am A heart-breaking, staggering, soaring novel about war, music, loneliness and the Karen Campbell redemptive power of the imagination A heartbreaking, uplifting and unforgettable novel about loss and hope, and an Duncan’s whole world is the orphanage where he lives. Aged ten, he is sure that his mother unlikely friendship between a Scottish widow and a Somali asylum seeker is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a run-down bar through a haze of whisky and When the Scottish Refugee Council assigns Deborah Maxwell to act as Somali refugee Abdi regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns Hassan’s new mentor, the two are drawn into an awkward friendship. They must spend a year his living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. Thrown into this adult together, meeting once a month in different parts of Glasgow. As recently-widowed Deborah world of mysterious suffering, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio – from which tumble opens Abdi’s eyes to her beloved city and its people, he teaches her about the importance the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home – and dreams of one day of family – and of laying your ghosts to rest. All Abdi has brought with him is his four-year-old finding his father. daughter, Rebecca, who lives in a silence no one can reach. Until, one day, she starts talking. PRICE: £12.99 PRICE: £16.99 And they discover why she had stopped… FORMAT: Trade Paperback FORMAT: Hardback Thomas O’Malley is the author of the novel In the Province of Saints, selected as one of the ISBN: 9781408832714 ISBN: 9781408833803 best books of 2005 by Booklist and the New York Public Library. He earned his MFA at the Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing Masters, EBOOK: 9781408832721 EBOOK: 9781408833810 Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and teaches at Dartmouth College. Raised in Ireland and England, and author of The Twilight Time, After The Fire, Shadowplay and Proof of Life. A former PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 PUB DATE: 28 Feb 2013 O’Malley currently lives in the Boston area. police officer, she won the Best New Scottish Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, TERRITORY: COMM/EU, OM TERRITORY: WE Scotland. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Coombs TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Arts Entertainment Moylett Agency EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408834466 PRICE: £11.99

6 ORIGINAL FICTION ORIGINAL FICTION 7 Home Fires She Rises Elizabeth Day Kate Worsley

A stunning portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores loss, class Sarah Waters meets Carol Birch in a breathtaking, utterly original story of love, and the long road to redemption adventure and identity

Max Weston leaves home at twenty-one for his first army posting in Africa. He never comes 1740. Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has long been warned of the back. His parents Caroline and Andrew are devastated. As Caroline is borne away on a lure of the sea – after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work private ocean of grief their marriage begins to suffer. Then Andrew’s mother, Elsa, arrives, as a maid in the naval port of Harwich, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. ninety-eight and no longer able to look after herself. Caroline has never felt good enough for Rebecca, her haughty mistress, is unlike anyone Louise has encountered before. Meanwhile, the elegant, cuttingly courteous Elsa; now, suddenly, she has the upper hand. As Elsa lies in fifteen-year-old Luke has been press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. the spare room, her disintegrating mind throws up fragments of her own 1920s childhood – Aching for the girl he left behind, he must learn fast if he is to survive. Louise and Luke’s new under the shadow of her father, a soldier who came back from the Great War a different man. worlds are dangerous and exciting, and when they collide the consequences are astonishing. PRICE: £12.99 PRICE: £11.99 Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone which won a Betty Trask Award. She is Kate Worsley studied English at University College London and has written for the Guardian, FORMAT: Hardback FORMAT: Trade Paperback also an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on the Independent and the Sunday Telegraph. She graduated from an MA in Creative Writing ISBN: 9781408835890 ISBN: 9781408828670 Sunday, and who is now a feature writer for the Observer. She grew up in Northern Ireland (Novels) at City University in 2010 where she was mentored by Sarah Waters. She lives by EBOOK: 9781408835913 EBOOK: 9781408832844 and lives in London. the sea in Essex. PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WE TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Higham TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Marsh Agency Associates EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408835906 PRICE: £11.99

The City of Devi The Gamal Manil Suri Ciarán Collins

‘He combines, in a magician’s feat, the thrill of Bollywood with the pull of a thriller Skippy Dies meets The Butcher Boy in a wickedly funny and moving debut set … Manil Suri’s bravest and most passionate book’ Kiran Desai in an Irish village

Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai on the eve Meet Charlie. People think he’s crazy. People think he’s stupid. People think he’s innocent… of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has He’s the Gamal. Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinéad and James and the been missing for over a fortnight. Soon she is joined on her quest by Jaz – cocky, handsome, bad things that happened. But where is the beginning? Is it when Sinéad first spoke up for Muslim, gay and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of him at school? Or when Sinéad and James followed the music and found each other? Or, a dystopia rife with absurdity and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the that terrible night, when something unspeakable happened after closing time and someone supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking and multilayered, The City of Devi is a fearlessly chose to turn a blind eye? Charlie has promised Dr Quinn he’ll write 1,000 words a day, but provocative tale of three individuals balancing on the sharp edge of fate. it’s hard to know which words to write. And which secrets to tell… PRICE: £12.99 PRICE: £16.99 Manil Suri is the author of The Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva. He has been translated Ciarán Collins was born in County Cork in 1977. He teaches English and Irish in a school in FORMAT: Trade Paperback FORMAT: Hardback into twenty-seven languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner West Cork.The Gamal is his first novel. ISBN: 9781408827840 ISBN: 9781408833902 and WHSmith Awards, and has won the McKittrick Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover EBOOK: 9781408834107 EBOOK: 9781408833926 Award. He was born in Bombay and is a professor of mathematics at the University of PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 Maryland, Baltimore. TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408833919 EXPORT PUB DATE: 4 Feb 2013 PRICE: £12.99

8 ORIGINAL FICTION ORIGINAL FICTION 9 The Wall The Memory Theatre William Sutcliffe An Alec Blume Novel

An enthralling story drawn from a frightening political reality, The Wall is about the Conor Fitzgerald devastating effect of occupation and segregation on ordinary lives In the fourth book of Fitzgerald’s crime series, Commissioner Blume becomes lost Joshua is thirteen. He lives in the isolated town of Amarias. At the edge of the town is a high in a labyrinth of memory and extremist ideologies wall, guarded by soldiers. Joshua has been taught that The Wall is the only thing keeping him and his people safe. One day, Joshua stumbles across a tunnel which leads towards this Rome. Commissioner Alec Blume is called out on a freezing November night by Magistrate forbidden territory. He’s heard plenty of stories about the other side, but nothing has prepared Principe to look into the shooting of a young woman, possibly by neo-fascists. His inquiries him for what he finds... soon lead to Professor Pitagora who mixes a passion for the art of memory with an extremist PRICE: £11.99 ideology, and to a hospitalised ex-terrorist whose injuries have left her mind innocently FORMAT: Trade Paperback The Wall is a political fable in a setting which closely mirrors the West Bank. It is a novel about blank. As he goes deeper into the case, Blume becomes alienated from his colleague and, ISBN: 9781408828076 a boy, a settler child, discovering that his world may not be as it seems – that his people may especially, his partner Caterina. A work of classically plotted detective fiction, The Memory EBOOK: 9781408837894 be aggressors rather than victims – and that if he wants to honour his dead father, he must Theatre casts a cold eye on Italian politics and on the strange world of mnemonics. PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 PRICE: £12.99 stand up and forge his own sense of right and wrong. TERRITORY: WE FORMAT: Hardback Conor Fitzgerald is the author of four books in the Commissioner Blume series. A former TRANSLATION RIGHTS: United Agents ISBN: 9781408828090 William Sutcliffe was born in London in 1971. He is the author of five previous novels – the analyst of Italian politics for several foreign embassies based in Rome, he currently lives in EBOOK: 9781408833940 international bestseller Are You Experienced?, The Love Hexagon, New Boy, Bad Influence the German-speaking part of Italy. PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 and, most recently, Whatever Makes You Happy. His work has been translated into more TERRITORY: WE than twenty languages. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Lutyens & Rubinstein EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408834817 PRICE: £11.99

A History of the Sidney Chambers and The Present Illness Perils of the Night Louise Aronson James Runcie

Funny, honest and compassionate linked stories which provide a portrait of health ‘Inspector Morse would appear to have a rival’ Scotland on Sunday and illness like nothing we have read before The second in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series – six detective novels spanning An elderly Chinese immigrant must sacrifice his demented wife’s well-being to satisfy his thirty years of British history son’s authority. A psychiatrist who advocates for the underserved may herself be crazy. A gay doctor learns very different lessons about family from his life and his work, and a young 1955. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest and part-time detective, is veteran’s injuries become a metaphor for the rest of his life. back. Accompanied by his Labrador, Dickens, and the increasingly-exasperated PRICE: £12.99 Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called to investigate the unexpected fall of a FORMAT: Trade Paperback Set in the neighbourhoods, hospitals and nursing homes of San Francisco, A History of the Cambridge don from the roof of King’s College Chapel, a case of arson at a glamour ISBN: 9781408832127 Present Illness explores the role of stories in medicine, creates a world pulsating with life and photographer’s studio and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester’s finest spin bowler. PRICE: £14.99 EBOOK: 9781408832158 introduces a striking new literary voice. Alongside his sleuthing, Sidney has other problems. Can he decide between the glamorous FORMAT: Hardback PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 socialite Amanda Kendall and Hildegard Staunton, the beguiling German widow? To make ISBN: 9781408828106 TERRITORY: WE Louise Aronson has an MFA in fiction and an MD from Harvard Medical School. She has up his mind Sidney takes a trip abroad, only to find himself trapped in a web of international EBOOK: 9781408834114 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Wendy won numerous awards and three Pushcart nominations. She is an Associate Professor of espionage just as the Berlin Wall is going up. PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 Weil Agency Medicine at the University of California where she cares for older patients and directs the TERRITORY: WO EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: 22 Jan 2013 Pathways to Discovery Program, the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning film- TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury UCSF Medical Humanities. She lives in San Francisco. maker and the author of five novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow Of Death, the first of ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012. He lives in London and Edinburgh.

10 ORIGINAL FICTION ORIGINAL FICTION 11 Helium The Hired Man Jaspreet Singh Aminatta Forna

A haunting novel of one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian The stunning new novel from Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning and Orange nation: the massacre of the Sikh citizens enabled by the government after the Prize-shortlisted author Aminatta Forna assassination of Indira Gandhi Apart from his two hunting dogs, Duro Kolak lives alone. His small but comfortable hut is On November 1st 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, beyond the boundaries of Gost, a quiet Croatian town, and a short distance from the Pavic a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip with his mentor and chemistry house. The blue, crumbling house has lain empty for years after the departure of an old friend teacher, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the and current enemy, Kresimir, and Anka, Kresimir’s sister. When an English family moves in, professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight. Duro becomes invaluable to them by undertaking repairs to the house and helping them explore the quiet town. But as plaster on the front wall is pulled away to reveal a beautiful Years later the student, Raj, is compelled to find his professor’s widow, the beautiful Nelly. mosaic bird, the ancient passions and well-buried memories of Gost’s residents begin to As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, Nelly comes up against a nation surface. PRICE: £16.99 in denial, Raj faces the truth about his father’s role in the Sikh massacre and they both find PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback the path leads back to the train station. In Helium, Jaspreet Singh crafts an affecting and Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and Britain and also spent FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408829165 important story of a largely untouched moment in Indian memory. periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of ISBN: 9781408817667 EBOOK: 9781408833865 two novels, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced EBOOK: 9781408818770 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 Jaspreet Singh is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a former research scientist. His on the Water, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She has also written PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO story collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, won the 2004 Quebec First Book Prize. Chef, his short stories and essays as well as for radio and television and presented arts magazine and TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury first novel, received the Alberta Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for four awards including documentary programmes. Aminatta Forna lives in London. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838211 the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Born in India, he moved to Canada EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838242 PRICE: £11.99 in 1990. PRICE: £11.99

Constance Where Pigeons Don’t Fly Patrick McGrath Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

The acclaimed Costa-shortlisted author of Trauma and Asylum brings us a A critical look at the smothering impact of Saudi Arabia’s religious police and masterful novel of psychological suspense and marriage in 1960s New York Islamic extremists

The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan when she meets Where Pigeons Don’t Fly tells the story of Fahd, a young Saudi whose happy childhood Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior, at a literary party. A few weeks is disrupted by his father’s arrest for the attack on the Great Mosque of Makkah in 1979 later, he proposes marriage and Constance accepts, moving into his dark, book-filled and later death. After Fahd’s mother dies at the hands of his stepfather and a superstitious apartment. sheikh, his only remaining companions are Saeed, a childhood friend, and Tarfah, his latest lover. When Fahd and Tarfah are arrested in a Riyadh shopping mall café by the so-called But Constance is tortured by a bitter past. When her father makes a devastating revelation, Committee for Promotion of Virtue, Fahd decides to abandon his restrictive country and take Constance’s fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, refuge in the freer climate of England. PRICE: £12.99 threatens to collapse completely. Sidney can only watch and wait, doubting his own moral FORMAT: Trade Paperback strength. Constance’s consolation is the friendship of Sidney’s boy Howard, a strange, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has published several PRICE: £7.99 ISBN: 9781408821138 delicate child, not unlike Constance herself… novels and short story collections in Arabic, and his work has been translated into English, FORMAT: Paperback EBOOK: 9781408824283 Russian, Spanish and German. His writing is admired for its honest treatment of controversial ISBN: 9789992179161 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 Patrick McGrath is the author of seven previous novels including Asylum, Martha Peake, subjects, and he is celebrated as one of Saudi Arabia’s most talented emerging writers. He PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TERRITORY: WE Port Mungo and Trauma, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. He has also published Ghost was born in Riyadh in 1964. TERRITORY: WO, EX ARABIC TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM Town, a volume of novellas about New York. Spider was made into a film in 2002 by director TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BQFP c/o David Cronenberg. Patrick McGrath lives in London and New York. Bloomsbury

12 ORIGINAL FICTION ORIGINAL FICTION 13 My Notorious Life by Gloria Madame X Kerry Young Kate Manning A captivating new novel of love and redemption from the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao An electrifying rags-to-riches tale of scandal, family and the many faces of love, set in nineteenth-century New York Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life for ever. She and her younger sister flee their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. Based partly on a true story, this is the testament of Madame X: midwife, millionaire, and As the city convulses with political change, Gloria’s desperation and striking beauty lead her the most sensational woman in New York. Her tale begins in 1860, when she is a thirteen- to Sybil and Beryl, and a house of ill-repute where she meets Yang Pao, a Kingston racketeer year-old urchin called Axie Muldoon. She and her siblings are forced to beg for pennies on whose destiny becomes irresistibly bound with her own. Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social the street – until the day a Christian philanthropist arrives to save them. Separated from her justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening which she must family, Axie is taken in by a midwife who teaches her the craft she will live by – and later fight reconcile with the realities of her life and her love of Jamaica. for. As she makes her fortune tending to the women of New York, the man who would be the PRICE: £12.99 PRICE: £12.99 righteous instrument of her downfall circles ever closer… Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and a mother of mixed FORMAT: Trade Paperback FORMAT: Hardback Chinese-African heritage. She came to England in 1965. Kerry’s early life with her father, ISBN: 9781408822883 ISBN: 9781408835647 A former documentary television producer (and winner of two Emmy Awards), Kate Manning a businessman who operated within Kingston’s shadow economy, provided the inspiration EBOOK: 9781408822890 EBOOK: 9781408835661 has written for, among others, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. for Pao, her first novel, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and a PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 She is the author of Whitegirl, a novel. She lives with her family in New York City. Commonwealth Book Prize. She lives in Leicestershire. TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408835654 PRICE: £11.99

The Feast of Artemis Equilateral Anne Zouroudi Ken Kalfus

Hermes Diaktoros returns in the seventh gripping, sun-drenched instalment of ‘There are hip writers, there are technically innovative writers, and there are wise, The Mysteries of the Greek Detective moving, and profound writers. Kalfus is all of these at once’ David Foster Wallace

The olive harvest is drawing to a close in the town of Dendra, and when Hermes Diaktoros It is the turn of the twentieth century and a British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin arrives for the celebratory festival he expects an indulgent day of food and wine. But as and other progressive scientists of the age, arrives in Egypt to embark on the project of young men leap a blazing bonfire in feats of daring, one is badly burned. Did he fall, or was a lifetime: the excavation of a triangle in the desert, with sides hundreds of miles long, to he pushed? Then, as Hermes learns of a deep-running feud between two families, one of be filled with petrol and set alight. The purpose: to send out a signal to life on Mars (for their patriarchs dies. Determined to find out why, Hermes follows a bitter trail through the which he has evidence) that humans exist. But as work progresses, the huge task force of olive groves to reveal a motive for murder, and uncovers a dark deed brought to light by Egyptian workers is struck by disease and rebellion, and the success of Thayer’s project the sin of gluttony. looks increasingly uncertain. PRICE: £11.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback Anne Zouroudi was born in England and has lived in the Greek islands. She now lives in the Ken Kalfus is the author of two novels, The Commissariat of Enlightenment and A Disorder PRICE: £12.99 ISBN: 9781408837511 Derbyshire Peak District with her son. She is the author of six other Mysteries of the Greek Peculiar to the Country, which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. He also FORMAT: Trade Paperback EBOOK: 9781408837528 Detective including The Messenger of Athens, which was shortlisted for the ITV3 Crime published two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, a finalist ISBN: 9781408832936 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 Thriller Award for Breakthrough Authors and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His books have been translated into more than ten foreign EBOOK: 9781620400173 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM languages. He lives in Philadelphia. PUB DATE: 6 June 2013 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Christopher Little TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Fletcher & Company EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: 16 April 2013

14 ORIGINAL FICTION ORIGINAL FICTION 15 The Hanging Ballistics Lotte and Søren Hammer D. W. Wilson

The international bestseller from the new stars of Scandinavian crime A deeply compelling, stunningly written story of fathers and sons, friendship and ‘The best Danish crime fiction in years’ Lars Kepler betrayal, by the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award

On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. Fleeing the fallout of a failed relationship, Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily Alan West returns to his grandfather’s home in the Kootenay Valley. Cecil West, an old man disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the confronted by his own mortality, asks Alan to track down his son, Alan’s father, so that Cecil Murder Squad in Copenhagen are called in to investigate this horrific case – the men can make his peace with him. And so Alan begins his search for Jack West: a man who PRICE: £12.99 hanging in a geometric pattern; the scene so closely resembling a public execution. When skipped town before Alan could walk. His quest will lead him to Archer, an American soldier FORMAT: Trade Paperback the identities of the five victims and the disturbing link between them is leaked to the press, who long ago went AWOL across the border. The young man and the old soldier set off on ISBN: 9781408833766 the sinister motivation behind the killings quickly becomes apparent to the police. Up against a reckless journey. What they find will change their lives forever. EBOOK: 9781408833469 a building internet campaign and even members of his own team, Simonsen finds that he PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 PRICE: £12.99 must battle public opinion and vigilante groups in his mission to catch the killers. D.W. Wilson is the author of the collection Once You Break a Knuckle. He was born and TERRITORY: WE / EXCAN FORMAT: Trade Paperback raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. His stories have appeared TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown ISBN: 9781408816011 Lotte and Søren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte in literary magazines across Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and ‘The Dead Roads’ Group EBOOK: 9781408820018 worked as a nurse after finishing her training in 1977 and her brother Søren was a trained won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011. He lives in Cambridge. PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 teacher and a lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. The Hanging is TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN the first in a series of crime novels which are published in twenty countries. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Gyldendal Denmark

Correspondences Land of No Rain Anne Michaels Amjad Nasser

Renowned novelist and poet Anne Michaels and acclaimed artist Bernice ‘One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Nasser is an inspired poet and this Eisenstein have collaborated to create a rare and beautiful book work takes the precision and economy of his language into prose narrative for the first time. Gentle, sad, hopeful – a poet writing prose at his mature best. Watch Anne Michaels’ resonant and deeply moving book-length poem on one side, that ranges out for the English translation’ Guardian from the universal to the intimate, and Bernice Eisenstein’s profound and luminous portraits (accompanied by quotes from great writers and thinkers) on the other come together in a After twenty years in exile, a man returns to Hamiya, a fictional Arab country run by military PRICE: £25.00 uniquely designed accordion book whose physical format perfectly reflects the thematic commanders who treat power as a personal possession to be handed down from one FORMAT: Hardback interconnectedness of this creative collaboration, ‘just as a conversation becomes the third generation to the next. Forced abroad for taking part in a failed assassination attempt on the ISBN: 9781408836026 side of the page ... to name the moment one life becomes another’ (Anne Michaels). military ruler known as The Grandson, the man is interrogated by security police on his return PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 and later encounters family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first love. But most TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM Anne Michaels was born in Toronto in 1958. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: importantly he grapples with his own self, the person he left behind. Land of No Rain is a TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Wylie The Weight of Oranges, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas, complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return. PRICE: £7.99 Agency Miner’s Pond and Skin Divers. She is also the author of the novels Fugitive Pieces, which FORMAT: Paperback won both the Orange Prize and the Guardian Fiction Award and has now been published in Amjad Nasser, a Jordanian poet born in 1955, has written numerous volumes of poetry and ISBN: 9789992194584 over thirty countries, and The Winter Vault. several travel memoirs. He has worked for newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus and since 1987 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 he has lived in London, where he is managing editor and cultural editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi TERRITORY: WO, EX Arabic Bernice Eisenstein was born in 1949 in Toronto. Her illustrations have appeared in a variety daily newspaper. Land of No Rain is his first novel. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BQFP c/o of Canadian magazines and periodicals, including the Globe and Mail. Bloomsbury

16 ORIGINAL FICTION ORIGINAL FICTION 17 The Love-charm of Bombs Return of a King Restless Lives in the Second World War The Battle for Afghanistan Lara Feigel William Dalrymple

A powerful chronicle of wartime London as experienced by five writers – driving A towering history of the First Afghan War by bestselling historian William ambulances, fighting fires and falling passionately in love Dalrymple

At the height of the Blitz, Graham Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one ‘like a In 1841, the Afghan people called for jihad against the British occupying forces, and the love-charm’. For Greene – and for Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green, Rose Macaulay and Hilde country exploded into violent rebellion. In the greatest military humiliation ever suffered by Spiel – this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love the West in the East, an eighteen-thousand strong army of the most powerful military nation affairs. Volunteering as ambulance drivers and firefighters, these were the successors to the in the world was utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. soldier poets of the First World War and their story has never been told. Now Lara Feigel uses letters, diaries, fiction and war records to create a haunting chronicle that starts by following Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War, a disastrous PRICE: £25.00 the five writers through a single night of September 1940. entanglement which has important lessons for today. Using newly discovered sources to PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback bring to life unforgettable characters on all sides, this masterful retelling of Britain’s greatest FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408830444 Dr Lara Feigel is a Lecturer in English and the Medical Humanities at King’s College London. imperial disaster is an important parable of neo-colonial ambition and cultural collision for ISBN: 9781408818305 EBOOK: 9781408833483 She is the author of Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930–1945 and the editor (with our times. EBOOK: 9781408828434 PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 Alexandra Harris) of Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside and (with PUB DATE: 4 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE John Sutherland) of the New Selected Journals of Stephen Spender. She has also written William Dalrymple is the author of the prize-winning and bestselling books In Xanadu, City of TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, pieces for various publications, including the Guardian, Prospect and History Today. She lives Djinns, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Coleridge & White in West Hampstead, London. lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408822876 PRICE: £14.99

Newcomers’ Lives 50 Licks The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones Edited by Peter Unwin Bernard M. Corbett & Peter Fornatale

Foreword by Archbishop John Sentamu An illustrated, anecdotal history of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the 50th year– featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band How the culture and life of the British people have been transformed by the contribution of immigrants in recent history On July 12, 1962, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song made its debut at the Marquee Club in London. They were the Rolling Stones and, over half a century To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, later, they are still one of the biggest bands in the world, playing sell-out arena shows around CLR James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this the world and beloved by millions. 50 Licks commemorates their unparalleled achievement country have made on our national culture and character. This collection of obituaries from in rock music. Based on a series of never-before-published interviews with the band and the The Times of some the most important of these people gives the reader a unique view of people closest to them, and illustrated with photographs and artwork, 50 Licks will be the PRICE: £16.99 PRICE: £16.99 their contribution. book to own as the Stones tour the world in celebration of their 50th anniversary. FORMAT: Trade Paperback FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408833827 ISBN: 9781441159175 The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, contributes a fascinating introduction surveying Pete Fornatale was an award-winning broadcaster and rock icon and a fixture on the New EBOOK: 9781408833834 EBOOK: 9781408186220 our historical and cultural landscape. York radio scene for the past forty years. He lived in New York City until his death in 2012. PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 PUB DATE: 31 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: WO Peter Unwin has contributed many obituaries to The Times since his retirement from the Bernard M. Corbett is the radio voice of Harvard University football and Boston University TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Diplomatic Service. He has published several books, most notably Hearts, Minds & Interests: hockey. He is the author and co-author of fifteen books. He lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts, Britain’s Place in the World and The Narrow Sea, a history of the English Channel. and is a lifelong Rolling Stones fan.

18 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 19 Servants The Good Book A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain A Secular Bible Lucy Lethbridge A. C. Grayling

An original and fascinatingly intimate portrait of twentieth-century Britain told The highly regarded best-selling alternative to the Bible, now published in an through the eyes of those who served, which will change the way we look at elegant, smaller format hardback edition society A.C. Grayling, Britain’s most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible No aspect of the home has spoken quite so eloquently to the traditional English idea of that draws on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing about all the ordered life as the keeping of servants. The stories of below-stairs workers are an that it means to be human – from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy untold history, a barometer of the changing place of both men and women and the radical and kindness in everyday life. Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into changes in their everyday life over the last century. From the quintessential liveried servant for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non- of 1900 to the self-service of the 1970s, these are stories of aspirations, ideals, hopes religious alternative to the many people who do not follow one of the world’s great religions, PRICE: £20.00 and disappointments across the classes. Sweeping in its scope, extensively researched and in which Grayling collects, edits, rearranges and organises the collective secular wisdom of PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback brilliantly observed, Servants offers the most authoritative account yet of behind-the-scenes, the world now published in a smaller format edition. FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9780747590170 twentieth-century Britain. ISBN: 9781408837832 EBOOK: 9781408834077 A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, EBOOK: 9781408817544 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 Lucy Lethbridge has written for the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent on London, a regular contributor to the newspapers, a frequent and popular contributor to radio PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU, OM Sunday and the Times Literary Supplement. She has been the Literary Editor of the Tablet and TV, and the author of many books including The Meaning of Things and Liberty in the TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Peters, Fraser and the London correspondent for Art News in New York. Lucy is the author of Who Was Age of Terror TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury & Dunlop Ada Lovelace?, which won the 2002 Blue Peter Award for non-fiction. She lives in London. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408837825 PRICE: £12.99

Spectrums The God Argument Our Mindboggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity The Case Against Religion and For Humanism David Blatner A. C. Grayling

A new guide to the intricacies of the world around us A lucid presentation of the case against religion and for humanism

David Blatner explains the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent size, light, sound, heat, and time. He makes it possible to imagine both billions of years and years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great PRICE: £16.99 billionths of seconds; the distance to Jupiter and the size of a proton; or the freezing point of deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments FORMAT: Hardback PRICE: £16.99 Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atom bomb. With easy-to-read, engaging, and associated considerations offered in support of religious belief, and does so in full ISBN: 9781408837405 FORMAT: Hardback and insightful observations, illustrated by a wealth of photographs and diagrams, Blatner consciousness of the reasons people have for subscribing to religion, and the needs they EBOOK: 9781408837429 ISBN: 9781408828632 shows how you can ‘grok’ – understand intuitively – the spectrums we encounter every day. seek to satisfy by doing so. The God Argument is the definitive examination of the issues, and PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 EBOOK: 9781408832455 If you know how to look, the world is an extraordinary place. a statement of the humanist outlook that recommends itself as the ethics of the genuinely TERRITORY: WO PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 reflective person. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: WO David Blatner is the award-winning author of books including The Joy of Pi and The Flying EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408837412 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Book. More than 500,000 copies of his books are in print in twelve languages. He lives in A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, PRICE: £12.99 EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838594 Seattle with his wife and son. London, a regular contributor to the newspapers, a frequent and popular contributor to radio PRICE: £12.99 and TV, and the author of many books including The Good Book and Liberty in the Age of Terror.

20 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 21 How to Read a Graveyard Rice’s Church Primer Travels in the Company of the Dead Matthew Rice

Peter Stanford An idiosyncratic introduction to the architecture and interior styles of British churches A taboo-breaking exploration of what graveyards and memorials can tell our secular, scientific and sceptical age about our eternal fate Britain is full of churches. They have a lot to say about our history, our art and our ideas. But how do you read them? Through charming illustrations, Rice’s Church Primer covers the Death is the one certainty in life, yet, with the decline of religion in the West, we have become basic ‘grammar and vocabulary’ – the component parts and the overall style – of church collectively reluctant to talk about it. If we want to know how previous generations dealt with architecture and interiors, as well as giving examples of churches that show off everything death, graveyards tell us the history — if we are able to read them. from the imposing Norman style to the gilded detailing of the Baroque. Guided by Matthew Rice’s elegant and witty illustrations, you’ll see our most iconic, beautiful and occasionally From Neolithic mounds to internet memorials via municipal cemeteries, war graves and bizarre buildings in a completely fresh light. PRICE: £16.99 holocaust memorials, Roman catacombs and more, Stanford shows us how to read a PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback graveyard, what to look out for in our own, and how even the most initially unpromising Matthew Rice is an architectural enthusiast and the acclaimed writer and illustrator of Rice’s FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781441179777 exploration can enthral. Architectural Primer; you might also have seen his work in Country Life, on his own calendar ISBN: 9781408807521 EBOOK: 9781441132758 or on much of his wife Emma Bridgewater’s pottery. He lives in Oxfordshire and Norfolk. PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 PUB DATE: 28 Mar 2013 Peter Stanford is a writer, broadcaster and biographer, whose books include biographies TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: WE of Lord Longford, C Day-Lewis and the Devil, and the travelogue, The Extra Mile. A former TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt editor of the Catholic Herald, he writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and the Observer and has a regular column in the Tablet.

Forecast The Blue Guide to What Extreme Weather Can Teach Us About Economics Grey Living Mark Buchanan Lionel Blue

A groundbreaking book that uses physics to show how instability is inherent in Rabbi Lionel Blue is loved by millions of Radio Four listeners for his homely economic markets, from prize-nominated author Mark Buchanan wisdom and good humour, qualities in abundance in this guide

In this thoroughly researched and piercingly intelligent book, physicist Mark Buchanan Rabbi Lionel Blue addresses the growing grey brigade, for there are few counsellors to help shows how a simple feedback loop can lead to major consequences, the kind predictable them grow from late middle age into old age. This is an easily readable guide to the problems by mathematical models but hard for most people to anticipate. From his unique perspective, and paradoxes of old age which does not dodge the issues. With his characteristic humour Buchanan argues that our basic assumptions about economic markets – that they are for the and charm, Blue writes with extreme practicality of specialised forms of giving: giving up, PRICE: £12.99 most part stable, with occasional interruptions – are simply wrong. Markets really act more giving away and giving back. As Parkinson’s has now entered into his own life, this is also FORMAT: Paperback like weather: a brief heat wave can become a massive storm in a matter of a few days, or an account of his own journey into old age. This is Rabbi Blue at his most sympathetic and ISBN: 9781441133113 PRICE: £18.99 even hours. Forecast re-imagines the basics of the financial world, with consequences that very best. EBOOK: 9781441178459 FORMAT: Hardback affect everyone. PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 ISBN: 9781408827376 Rabbi Blue lives in North London. He appears frequently on the stage on college podiums TERRITORY: WE EBOOK: 9781408835401 Physicist Mark Buchanan is a former editor of Nature and New Scientist, and is the author and on the radio (occasionally on TV). He is a Fellow of Grey College, University of Durham TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Sheil Land PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 of numerous magazine and newspaper articles published internationally. He currently writes and an honorary Doctor Of Divinity. He is currently also honorary Vice Chairman of the Associates TERRITORY: WE monthly columns for the financial media outlet Bloomberg Views, as well as for Nature Physics. Movement for Reform Judaism. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Garamond He has written two prize-nominated non-fiction books, Ubiquity: The Science of History and Agency Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks. In 2009, he received the prestigious Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize for scientific writing about complexity science.

22 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 23 Cities Are Good for You The Letters of The Genius of the Metropolis John F. Kennedy Leo Hollis Edited by Martin W. Sandler

Fascinating, entertaining, radical and impassioned, Cities Are Good for You is a rallying Published for the fiftieth anniversary year of the assassination of JFK, these letters cry for twenty-first-century living (and replies), many published for the first time, present both the politician and the man

The twenty-first century will be the age of the city. Over 50% of the world’s population 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the untimely death of a man who led the United currently live in urban centres and this percentage is set to increase. From the slums of States for barely a thousand days, and yet is regarded as one of the great Presidents of all Mumbai to recycling centres in Stockholm, secret dinner parties in Paris to bus-rides in time. Drawn from more than two million letters on file at the Kennedy Presidential Library Bogotá, Leo Hollis blends research and anecdote to explore why cities can never be ‘rational’ and Museum, it presents readers with a portrait of both Kennedy the politician and Kennedy places; how we can walk in a crowd without bumping into people; how ants and slime mould the man, as well as the turbulent times he lived in. The beginnings of American involvement PRICE: £16.99 can make us rethink congestion; and, above all, how living in the city can make us fitter, in Vietnam, a touch-and-go Cold War relationship with the Soviet bloc and many other FORMAT: Hardback richer, smarter, greener, more creative – and perhaps even happier. international controversies are intertwined with Kennedy’s own hushed-up health problems, PRICE: £20.00 ISBN: 9781408826621 his renowned controversial personal life and his charismatic engagement with the world of FORMAT: Hardback EBOOK: 9781408826638 Leo Hollis is a writer and historian. He studied history at the University of East Anglia. He now presidential politics. ISBN: 9781408830451 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 works as an editor at Verso and is the critically acclaimed author of The Phoenix: St Paul’s EBOOK: 9781408839959 TERRITORY: WE Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London and The Stones of London: A History in Martin W. Sandler has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television and is the author PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Conville & Walsh Twelve Buildings. He lives in West Hampstead. of more than sixty books, two of which have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Sandler has TERRITORY: WO EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408826614 taught American History and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury PRICE: £12.99 and at Smith College, and lives in Massachusetts.

Elizabeth’s Bedfellows Britten’s Century An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court The Centenary of Benjamin Britten’s Birth Anna Whitelock Edited by Mark Bostridge

The riveting inside story of the Elizabethan Court and the favoured women who Introduction by Nicholas Kenyon tended the Queen 2013 marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth. Here is an outstanding At the heart of Elizabeth I’s court lay her bedchamber, closely guarded by the women collection of essays to mark the event who helped her dress, washed her clothing, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Witnesses to the face beneath the make-up, and rumoured dalliances with, among others, With contributions from biographers, performers and music critics, Britten’s Century Robert Dudley, Elizabeth’s bedfellows were the guardians of truth about her health, chastity considers various aspects of Benjamin Britten’s life and work in his centenary year. Here is and fertility. For such was the political significance of the queen’s body: it represented the a wealth of subject matter: Britten’s operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to very state itself. This revealing history of the politics of intimacy uncovers the feminised world the revival of English song, his experience as a homosexual man living in largely homophobic PRICE: £20.00 of Elizabethan politics, the fragility of royal favour and the price of disloyalty. society, and his influence outside Britain, particularly in the USA and Italy. Contributors include PRICE: £16.99 FORMAT: Hardback Alan Bennett, Michael Berkeley, Mark Padmore, Blake Morrison, Janet Baker, Ian Bostridge, FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408808801 Anna Whitelock’s bestselling debut, Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen, was published to Susan Hill, Colin Matthews, Edward Gardner and Stephen Hough. ISBN: 9781441177902 EBOOK: 9781408833636 critical acclaim in 2009. She is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, EBOOK: 9781441151865 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 University of London. She regularly appears on television and radio and has written for the Mark Bostridge’s books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU, EX CAN, OM Guardian, BBC History, Sunday Telegraph and the New York Times. She lives in Cambridge. Award, the NCR Prize for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize, the bestselling Letters From TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Felicity Bryan a Lost Generation and Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend, winner of the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408836613 Elizabeth Longford Prize. PRICE: £12.99

24 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 25 The Attacking Ocean Modernity Britain The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels Opening the Box: 1957-1959 Brian Fagan David Kynaston

New York Times bestselling author Brian Fagan delivers a history of mankind’s The latest book in David Kynaston’s best-selling series bring us to the brink of relationship with the sea and the changing coastlines of the planet the ‘60s

The past fifteen thousand years – the entire span of human civilisation – have witnessed The late 1950s was an action-packed, often dramatic time in which the contours of modern dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Britain began to take shape. These were the ‘never had it so good’ years, when the Carry Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven On film series and the TV soap Emergency Ward 10 got going, and films like Room at the millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those Top and plays like A Taste of Honey brought the working class to the centre of the national humans who experienced them, partly because there were so few people on earth, and also frame; when the urban skyline began irrestistibly to go high-rise; when CND galvanised the

Image © Lesley Newhart because they were able to adjust readily to new coastlines. The Attacking Ocean details the progressive middle class; when ‘youth’ emerged as a cultural force; when the Notting Hill PRICE: £20.00 rising complexity of the relationship between humans and the sea, a complexity created not riots made race and immigration an inescapable reality; and when ‘meritocracy’ became the PRICE: £25.00 FORMAT: Hardback by the oceans, which have changed little, but by us. buzz word of the day. The consequences of this ‘modernity’ zeitgeist, David Kynaston argues, FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408836033 still affect us today. ISBN: 9780747588931 EBOOK: 9781408836040 Brian Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa EBOOK: 9781408839829 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 Barbara. He is the author of Beyond the Blue Horizon, Elixir, the Los Angeles Times bestseller David Kynaston is the author of eighteen books including Austerity Britain, 1945-51 and PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO Cro-Magnon, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming, and many other books, Family Britain 1951-57. He is currently a visiting professor at Kingston University. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury including Fish on Friday, The Long Summer, The Little Ice Age, Elixir and Beyond the Blue TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Horizon.

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond Michael Sims

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau sheds illuminating light on one of the most iconic figures in American history

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau – chronicling the ten years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond – tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled soul found a meaningful life in a tempestuous era. Who was this unsophisticated young man who became a protégé of Ralph Waldo Emerson, himself leading a cultural revolution in tiny Concord, Massachusetts? Why did PRICE: £16.99 Thoreau go to Walden? And how did he come to write his most famous work? In rich, FORMAT: Hardback evocative prose, Michael Sims brings to life the insecure, boyish Henry, long before he ISBN: 9781408830499 became the literary icon Thoreau. EBOOK: 9781408838235 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 Michael Sims is the author of the acclaimed The Story of Charlotte’s Web, Apollo’s Fire and TERRITORY: WE Adam’s Navel, and editor of Dracula’s Guest and The Dead Witness. He lives in western TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Stanford J. Pennsylvania. Greenburger

26 ORIGINAL NON-FICTION ORIGINAL NON-FICTION 27 MOB Rule A Slow Passion Lessons Learned by a Mother Of Boys Snails, My Garden and Me Hannah Evans Ruth Brooks

You may be outnumbered and at your wit’s end, but remember you’re part of a One woman’s investigation into the whys and wherefores of snails very special club ... welcome to the MOB! Ruth Brooks won the nation’s hearts – as well as the search for amateur scientists launched Hannah Evans has three small boys. In her world, farting is so much more interesting than by the programme Material World on BBC Radio 4 – with this question: Do snails have a phonics, and dam-building trumps damsels in distress any day. It’s a world of mud – and homing instinct? A Slow Passion is Ruth’s story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. just occasionally blood – sweat and tears. It is also a world of indescribable joy. MOB Rule is It’s a story that sees the grandmother-turned-scientist change from snail exterminator the funny, honest and eye-opening account of Hannah’s experiences as a Mother of Boys. to fascinated observer, marking snail shells with nail varnish, sneaking off on night-time Supplemented by recipes, quizzes, mnemonics and mysteries, it is the indispensable book missions to repatriate bucketloads of snails and exploring snails’ sex-lives (which are for anyone who has ever found themselves adrift on a sea of testosterone, wondering when unexpectedly romantic). With charming illustrations, A Slow Passion is a sweet, funny and PRICE: £12.99 the lifeboat is going to show up. surprising investigation into the hidden life of snails. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Trade Paperback FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408830123 Hannah Evans has previously explored the world of the MOB in a number of articles, most Ruth Brooks’s dormant interest in science only bloomed in her seventieth year. In 2010, she ISBN: 9781408826584 EBOOK: 9781408830130 notably in the Guardian. She lives with her husband and three boys in Devon. entered a talent search run by the BBC programme Material World, and was awarded the title EBOOK: 9781408826591 PUB DATE: 21 Jan 2013 BBC Amateur Scientist of the Year. She loves the countryside, walking by the sea and, most PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO of all, playing with her grandchildren. She lives in Devon. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

A Prince Among Stones Vow That Business with The Rolling Stones and Other Adventures A Memoir of Marriage and Other Affairs Prince Rupert Loewenstein Wendy Plump

A wry, fascinating memoir revealing the complex relationship between an A searing, confessional and extremely frank story which confronts the challenges aristocratic financier and ‘the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world’ of marriage, fidelity and commitment head-on

In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn’t understand why The Rolling Stones had no money. The man One morning in January 2005, Wendy Plump discovered her husband was having an affair he asked to help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance and, not only that; he had an eight-month-old daughter living within a mile of the family which re-invented the business of rock’n’roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, home. Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as ‘a combination Monogamy is one of the most important vows we make in our marriages. Yet it is a rare of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny’, usually enthralled but often bemused and spouse who does not face some level of temptation in their married life. In Vow Wendy PRICE: £20.00 exasperated. Plump tells of the pleasures affairs gave her as a younger woman and analyses the view of PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback betrayer and the betrayed, the patterns of adultery, the recovery, the lies, the alibis, and offers FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408808764 Coolly impartial, dryly humorous, this is a refreshingly different take on the rock’n’roll world a unique and timely insight into long-term relationships, fidelity and commitment. ISBN: 9781408827802 EBOOK: 9781408821220 from within its inner sanctum. EBOOK: 9781408837870 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 Wendy Plump has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for over twenty years. She has PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO Born in Palma, Majorca in 1933, Prince Rupert Loewenstein, of an offshoot of the Bavarian written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and won several New Jersey Press TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury royal house of Wittelsbach, studied medieval history at Magdalen College, Oxford before Association Awards. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, with her sons. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Dunow, EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408832790 joining the American stockbrokers Bache & Co. While a director of the merchant bank Carlson & Lerner PRICE: £12.99 Leopold Joseph & Sons, he was introduced to Mick Jagger in 1968 and managed The Rolling Stones’ finances until 2005.

28 MEMOIR MEMOIR 29 How The Beatles Rocked Let Me Tell You a Story the Kremlin A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution Renata Calverley

Leslie Woodhead The spellbinding true story of a little girl’s miraculous escape from the Nazis during the Second World War A fascinating examination of the enduring popularity of the Beatles in the former Soviet Union, including never-seen-before photographs Poland, 1939. Three-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the night and bundled into the basement. No one explains to her what war is. Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law – recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, broadcasts taped from June, 1942. Soldiers burst into their apartment carrying guns and the family is taken to the Western radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world but the USSR, where a vast nation Ghetto. Her mother and grandmother are forced to work at the factory until, one day, they of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the British Invasion. The music do not return. Five-years-old, Renata is left utterly alone until she is smuggled out under the PRICE: £12.99 of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a part in waking up an entire generation of Soviet skirt of her former nanny. Forced into hiding, twists of fate save her life, but it is stories that FORMAT: Paperback youth. Leaders there had suppressed most Western popular music since the days of jazz, become her salvation. A remarkable story of the horrors of war, Let Me Tell You a Story is a PRICE: £14.99 ISBN: 9781408158869 but the Beatles and the bands they inspired helped to batter down the walls of state culture. powerful memoir of growing up in traumatic times, and of the magical discovery of books. FORMAT: Hardback EBOOK: 9781408840436 How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin tells the unforgettable-and endearingly odd-story of the ISBN: 9781408834497 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 Russians who discovered that all you need is Beatles. Born in Poland, Renata Calverley moved to the UK aged nine. After gaining an Honours EBOOK: 9781408834510 TERRITORY: WO Degree in English Literature and American Studies from Nottingham University, a Post PUB DATE: 1 Apr 2013 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Leslie Woodhead made the first ever film with the Beatles, in 1962. His films have won Graduate Certificate in Education from the London University Institute of Education and a TERRITORY: WO many international awards. He is the author of two books, My Life as a Spy and A Box Full Diploma in Creative Writing, she taught English for thirty-five years. Renata Calverley lives in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury of Spirits. He lives in Cheshire. Oxford with her husband. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408834503 PRICE:: £11.99

Saul Bellow’s Heart Lost Cat A Son’s Memoir A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology Greg Bellow Caroline Paul

An affectionate, revealing portrait of a fiercely private man, a moving father–son For anyone who has ever wondered what their cat gets up to when they’re away relationship and a unique insight into one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers This is the perfect book for cat lovers and amateur detectives. The story began when Wendy and Caroline’s beloved cat Tibia disappeared. Understandably, they were sick with worry. Greg Bellow’s bond with his famous-writer father was grounded in a tenderness, social Weeks later, he waltzed back home and they were overjoyed. But they couldn’t help feeling optimism and light-hearted humour rarely attributed to a man more often remembered jealous too – where had he been? Had he become a swashbuckling feline adventurer? To for being quick to anger and schooled in rational argument. This intimate memoir gives find out, they resorted to psychics, pet-cams and GPS tracking. Writer Caroline Paul tells the voice both to the ‘Young Saul’ – the rebellious, irreverent and ambitious young writer, and story of their discoveries, alongside Wendy MacNaughton’s charming watercolour illustrations dedicated father – and to the ‘Old Saul’, the literary icon known to the wider world, whose and maps of Tibia’s movements. Warm and poignant, Lost Cat is a gem of a book. PRICE: £20.00 edges hardened as his social views turned pessimistic. The change taxed the relationship PRICE: £14.99 FORMAT: Hardback between Bellow and his son so sorely that Greg feared it might not survive. Caroline Paul is the acclaimed author of Fighting Fire, the story of her thirteen-year career as FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408835487 a firefighter in San Francisco, and the novel Paul’s East Wind, Rain. Wendy MacNaughton’s ISBN: 9781408835579 EBOOK: 9781408835500 Gregory Bellow was a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist for forty years and remains illustrations have appeared in national publications including the New York Times. They live EBOOK: 9781408835586 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 a member of the Core Faculty of The Sanville Institute. He lives in Redwood City, California. together in San Francisco. PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Inkwell TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408835494 EXPORT PUB DATE: 4 March 2013 PRICE: £12.99

30 MEMOIR MEMOIR 31 King’s Cross Kid The Valley A London Childhood Between the Wars A Century in the Life of a Mining Family Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud Richard Benson

This highly entertaining prequel to Rifleman is set to become one of the classic From the bestselling author of The Farm, the story of twentieth-century working- accounts of a London working-class childhood and youth class England told through four generations of a Yorkshire mining family

Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a fascinating life. King’s Cross Kid follows his The Dearne Valley lies at the heart of the South Yorkshire coalfield. In 1945 that coalfield London childhood from the age of five, when life is so hard that the Salvation Army arrange had sixty-seven pits; today only two survive. Following four generations of his mother’s for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year family, the Hollingworths, born between 1890 and 2000, Benson depicts a community later, the scallywag time of late childhood begins. Then, after years of being in street gangs characterised not by the stereotype of doughty, unassuming labourers and housewives, but and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with driven individuals relentless in the pursuit of their dreams. In its sweeping but deeply personal them a working-class apprenticeship in survival. Ending with his enlistment into the army history of the working classes, The Valley shows a century punctuated by social upheaval. It PRICE: £12.99 on the day of his eighteenth birthday, this prequel to the bestselling Rifleman will appeal to is a tribute to a community that has changed almost beyond recognition, but still resonates PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback the many readers who were charmed by Victor Gregg’s engaging, honest and warm voice. in our memories. FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408840504 ISBN: 9780747591849 EBOOK: 9781408840528 Victor Gregg was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937, serving first in the Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller The Farm, shortlisted for the EBOOK: 9781408834169 PUB DATE: 1 May 2013 Rifle Brigade in Palestine and the Battle of Alamein, and then in the Parachute Regiment at Guardian First Book Award 2005, a 2006 Richard &Judy Book Club choice and a BBC PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WE the Battle of Arnhem. He survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 1946 and Radio 4 Book of the Week. Richard Benson lives in London. TERRITORY: COMM/UK, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath now lives in Winchester. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Godwin Associates Rick Stroud is a writer and film director. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and The Phantom Army of Alamein and, with Victor Gregg, co-author of the acclaimed Rifleman.

Maggie & Me Harley Loco Damian Barr A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side A unique and darkly witty memoir: coming of age, coming out and somehow surviving Glasgow’s tough streets during Thatcher’s reign Rayya Elias

It’s 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows up the Grand Hotel in Brighton and a secret ‘She’s experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, prison, record deals explodes Damian Barr’s family in Glasgow. With a Catholic mum and Protestant dad, his and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the childhood was always split, but now Damian faces a terrifyingly abusive stepfather and a process, and may very well have had sex with your wife back in the eighties...’ creepily glamorous stepmother. The blonde bogeywoman on the BBC snatched his school Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love milk and now she’s after the Ravenscraig Steelworks where his dad works. Then the threat of AIDS adds fear to the confusion of falling in love with his best friend… Maggie & Me is When she was seven, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in Syria, settling an inspiring memoir about surviving the 1980s and becoming an individual in spite of – and in a suburb of Detroit. Bullied in school, she rebelled early and moved to New York City to maybe because of – the Iron Lady. become a musician at the height of the punk movement. Her uncommon talent for cutting hair kept her afloat in a world of adventure, creative inspiration and temptation. But as her PRICE: £12.99 PRICE: £14.99 Damian Barr has been a journalist for The Times for ten years, writes plays for BBC Radio 4 obsessive love affairs with women and men went wrong and her occasional drug use turned FORMAT: Trade Paperback FORMAT: Hardback and features for the Independent, Telegraph, Guardian and Granta. He is the author of Get It to addiction, she spiralled into the darkness of heroin and cocaine. Soon she found herself ISBN: 9781408837672 ISBN: 9781408838068 Together: A Guide to Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis, featured on Richard & Judy, and host living rough on the streets – between visits to jail. EBOOK: 9781408837689 EBOOK: 9781408838082 of the Shoreditch House Literary Salon. He lives in Brighton. PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 Rayya Elias was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1960 and moved to the United States in 1967. TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM She is a musician, hairdresser and film-maker, and she also sells real estate to make some TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Wylie TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Conville & Walsh extra scratch. Rayya Elias lives in New York City and Little York, New Jersey and has been EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838075 clean since 8 August, 1997. 1 April 2013 PRICE:: £11.99

32 MEMOIR MEMOIR 33 The Cooked Seed If It’s Not One Thing It’s Anchee Min Your Mother

The unforgettable sequel to her internationally bestselling memoir, Red Azalea, in Julia Sweeney which she leaves China for the promised land of America only to find herself even more lost, until she finds herself through motherhood, love and writing A memoir of motherhood and marriage that will make you laugh and cry – and then laugh again Fifteen years after the publication of the bestselling Red Azelea, Anchee Min returns to the

story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from her One day, comedian and writer Julia Sweeney took a flight to China to adopt Mulan – a Image © Michael Blum the shocking deprivations of her homeland to America, arriving without language, money or one-and-a-half-year-old girl every bit as feisty as the Disney character (whom she was not PRICE: £12.99 a clear path. named for). If It’s Not One Thing It’s Your Mother is the story of this quirky mother-daughter FORMAT: Trade Paperback pair who eventually became – in a hilariously unexpected way – a mother-daughter-father ISBN: 9781408830635 It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps trio, from their eventful journey home to the USA to the arrival of their smelly dog and The EBOOK: 99781408832219 herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses Conversation in which Mulan worked out how men do it with other men. Julia Sweeney turns PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 PRICE: £14.99 from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces. She also gives birth to a daughter who will her considerable talent for comic performance to the story of her own voyage to motherhood TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM FORMAT: Hardback save her and root her, finally, in the new country. An unforgettable journey between two and marriage, and the result is a classic of its kind. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: William Morris ISBN: 9781408838174 radically different cultures, this is an honest and incredible story of success in the face of Endeavour Entertainment EBOOK: 9781408838198 bitter hardship. Julia Sweeney was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1994. She has also PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 written and performed in several critically acclaimed one-woman shows, including God Said TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labour collective, Ha!, In the Family Way and Letting Go of God. She lives outside of Chicago, Illinois. If It’s Not TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein where a talent scout for Madame Mao’s Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as One Thing, It’s Your Mother is her first book. EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838181 a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir, Red Azalea Export PUB Date: 14 May 2013 was published in twenty-seven countries. She has since published six novels, including the PRICE: £12.99 Richard & Judy choice Empress Orchid and, most recently, Pearl of China.

The North (And Almost Everything In It) Paul Morley

A celebratory and beautiful mixture of memoir, social history and cultural observation, Paul Morley’s The North is a unique portrait of Northern England and almost everything within it

Since he was seven, Morley has always thought of himself as a northerner. What that meant, he wasn’t entirely sure, but, like millions of others, he knew it to be an absolute, indisputable truth. Decades later, Morley sets out to discover and re-imagine the north through stories of his own past, from his Dad spreading margarine on Weetabix to the Stockport airplane disaster, and those of the region, from Tristram Shandy to Bernard Manning, from PRICE: £20.00 Wordsworth’s musings on the Lakes to the construction of Blackpool tower. Beautiful and FORMAT: Hardback ambitious, The North is a masterful blend of memoir and social history that captures the ISBN: 9780747578161 people, places and poetry – and inspiring energy – of northern England. EBOOK: 9781408834008 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 Critic, broadcaster and music theorist Paul Morley grew up in Stockport, Cheshire. He is TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM the author of a number of influential books on music as well as an acclaimed memoir, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Godwin Nothing. Paul has written for numerous publications including the New Statesman, the Associates Sunday Telegraph, NME, the Observer and the Financial Times, and appears regularly on BBC2’s The Review Show.

34 MEMOIR MEMOIR 35 The Breakfast Bible Atul’s Curries of the World Seb Emina and Malcolm Eggs Atul Kochhar

Everything you ever wanted to know about breakfast A book of world curries from one of the world’s greatest exponents of the art, award-winning, Michelin-starred chef, Atul Kochhar When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books. A crack team of eggsperts have come up with recipes ranging from the iconic full English to A book for spice lovers of all cuisines. Atul explores curries of the world, looking to his native more exotic fare such as omelette Arnold Bennett and pães de queijo from South America. India, of course, but also to Asia and Africa, to the Americas, Europe and even the UK. Curry Interspersed with these are notes on hot topics such as the top songs to boil an egg to, remains one of the world’s most popular dishes and Atul’s collection of mouth-watering forgotten breakfast cereals of the 1980s and the analysis of Freud’s famous ‘breakfast dishes does more than enough to convince us why. Over 100 recipes show curry in all dream’. With its beguiling mix of recipes, advice, illustrations and miscellany, The Breakfast its fantastic forms. Inspiring, intoxicating spiced dishes that cover meat, fish and vegetable Bible is, unquestionably, the most important book of the day. curries from all corners of the globe: this promises to be a book you will cook from again PRICE: £25.00 and again. FORMAT: Hardback Seb Emina is the creator and editor of the London Review of Breakfasts blog, where he ISBN: 9781906650797 PRICE: £20.00 writes under the nom de plume of Malcolm Eggs. His writing has appeared in newspapers Atul Kochhar is one of the world’s leading Indian chefs and food writers, with a vast knowledge PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 FORMAT: Hardback and books internationally. He lives in London. and passion for curry. The face of Indian cooking on British television, he has appeared on TERRITORY: WO ISBN: 9781408804810 shows such as Saturday Kitchen and The Great British Menu. His Michelin-starred restaurant, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EBOOK: 9781408839904 Benares, is one of London’s flagship destinations to eat out. PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Chicken & Eggs The Farm Shop Cookbook River Cottage Handbook No.11 Christine McFadden

Mark Diacono A paperback edition of The Farm Shop Cookbook: the first book to recognise the most influential food revolution in Britain since the supermarket A comprehensive guide to keeping chickens, plus thirty cracking recipes As farm shops continue to emerge all over Britain at an ever-increasing rate, Christine Chickens come in all shapes and sizes – some lay eggs, others just strut about looking McFadden’s timely book reflects the celebration of all things British. In a simple A-Z format decorative. Mark Diacono begins with the basics, explaining how to choose, look after Christine provides recipes, cook’s notes, tips and much more for all and everything that might and breed chickens. He shows how you can work out what kind of eggs you have (are be found in a fully stocked farm shop in the rural heart of any one of Britain’s counties. Fruit, they destined for the eggcup, or will they hatch into chicks?), as well as how to go about dairy produce, vegetables, herbs, meat, poultry, game, offal as well as wild foraged food are getting the birds on the table, offering delicious recipes that go far beyond the roast. With an all given pages of wholesome and delicious recipes in a book whose time has truly come. introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this is an essential guide for anyone who can’t PRICE: £14.99 stop thinking about chicks. Christine McFadden is an award-winning and highly respected food writer, whose books FORMAT: Paperback PRICE: £14.99 Pepper (Absolute Press) and Cooks’ Tools earned her glowing reviews and front-of-store ISBN: 9781906650810 FORMAT: Hardback A smallholder and writer, Mark Diacono is known for his commitment to sustainable, ethically sales. She is the author of fourteen other books in total, is a leading member of The Slow PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 ISBN: 9781408817919 produced food. He also champions climate-change growing, an approach to producing food Food Movement and past committee member of The Guild of Food Writers. TERRITORY: WO PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 that takes sustainable advantage of the new weather conditions; Otter Farm, his smallholding TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: WO in East Devon, is home to the UK’s first olive grove. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

36 food Absolute Pfoodress 37 The Little Book of Sweet Things from the Aga Biscuit Tips Hannah Miles Jane Middleton Hannah Miles introduces you to the wonderful world of cakes, biscuits, puddings and desserts, created on the cooker that produces them best The Little Books of Tips series is a collection of books, each containing 50 tips, delivering wisdom and advice on a whole range of popular subjects covering UK MasterChef finalist Hannah Miles reached ‘the final three’ in the 2007 series of food, gardening, craft, sports and hobbies. Over quarter of a million copies sold MasterChef and there’s been no stopping her since. This will be Hannah’s 12th cookery across the series book, but her first dedicated to creating puddings and desserts and biscuits and cakes on PRICE: £3.50 her beloved Aga. Sumptuous classics for this classic cooker include treats such as jam roly FORMAT: Paperback With tips on creating classic favourites such as Viennese whirls through to advice on cookies, poly, custard tarts, flapjacks and muffins while exciting and more exotic delectations such as ISBN: 9781906650902 macaroons and savoury bites too. All combine to create the perfect gift for sweet-toothed Churros with Toffee Cream Filling, Maple Pretzels and Cardamom Rice Pudding make this PRICE: £18.99 PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 friends. compact but decadent book an irresistible buy for all sweet-toothed Aga owners. FORMAT: Hardback TERRITORY: WO ISBN: 9781906650834 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Jane Middleton is one of the UK’s finest food editors who has turned a love of working with In 2007 Hannah’s success on MasterChef was a launchpad into a successful food career. PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 recipes from some of the best known food writers in the country into a love of writing recipes, She has a monthly column in Country & Town House and has had recipes featured in TERRITORY: WO launching her own bespoke bakery business a year ago and specialising in creating beautiful numerous magazines, including BBC Good Food, Delicious, Hello!, New York Daily News TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury biscuits, macaroons and hand-held treats. and the Sunday Express. She has appeared on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and exhibited at the BBC Good Food Show.

The Little Book of Seafood Tips The Little Book of Toast Tips The Little Book of Cleaning Tips Andrew Langley Andrew Langley William Fortt This little tome includes lots of tips on getting the most from With tips on all manner of toasted treats, from grilled Including plenty of tips on household cleaning, for all sorts the vast range of wonderful seafood now available to cooks. sandwiches to perfect toast toppings: everything that of domestic mess and disorder, this little book will help Ice Cream There are tips on preparing and cooking fish and shellfish is wonderful from the world of grilling. A selection of you find shine and perfection in your lives once more. and finding the best ways to enjoy eating it whether you love tips for terrific treats, snacks and meals. From natural solutions to tackling the most stubborn Ben Vear oysters or lust after lobster. of stains to keeping clutter at bay, this small volume is Andrew Langley is a knowledgeable food and drink packed with useful advice. A benchmark book of ice cream recipes, from the fourth generation of one of Andrew Langley is a knowledgeable food and drink writer and writer and the author of many Little Books of Tips. England’s most famous ice cream making families, Winstones the author of many Little Books of Tips. He has written books He has written books on all manner of food and William Fortt is an author of over 30 years, with many on all manner of food and drink subjects and is the editor of drink subjects and is the editor of the highly regarded books to his name including several Little Books of Tips. This wonderful new book from fourth generation ice cream maker Ben Vear features more the highly regarded anthology of the writings of the legendary anthology of the writings of the legendary Victorian He has a keen interest in the environment and keeping than 100 recipes, from simple, delicious ice creams such as strawberry and butterscotch Victorian chef Alexis Soyer. chef Alexis Soyer. it tidy chip to a fantastic array of other iced treats such as sorbets, smoothies, granitas, gelatos, frozen yoghurts, milkshakes and some fun molecular experiments to boot. Winstones is one of the UK’s longest-running and most respected family ice cream producers, founded by Ben’s great grandfather Albert in 1925 in the heart of the Cotswolds. All of the ice cream recipes in this book remain true to Albert Winstone’s original base recipe but have been updated by Ben. PRICE: £18.99 FORMAT: Hardback Twenty-three-year-old Ben Vear is an award winning ice cream maker at his historic family ISBN: 9781906650858 PRICE: £3.50 PRICE: £3.50 PRICE: £3.50 business Winstones Ice Cream. Recently shortlisted as Young British Foodie of the Year PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback (2012), Ben is the founder of the Campaign for Real Ice Cream and the Pop-up Pudding TERRITORY: WO ISBN: 9781906650919 ISBN: 9781906650926 ISBN: 9781906650933 Parlour. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

38 foodAbsolute Press ABSOLUTE PRESSfood 39 The Square, The Cookbook: The Great Tamasha Volume 2 (Sweet) Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India Philip Howard James Astill

Philip Howard’s dedication to perfection informs every page of this monumental The story of modern India told through the glitzy, scandalous and transformative work of gastronomic creativity and technical expertise world of cricket

The second volume of the extraordinary work from two-Michelin-star chef, Philip Howard. Cricket is a unique national passion that’s at the heart of modern India. The explosive growth PRICE: £30.00 The Square: The Cookbook (Sweet) gives precise instructions on how to create food of top of the sport in the country is a remarkable tale that has transfixed the nation. As a business, FORMAT: Hardback Michelin standard. Meticulous, detailed and fiercely intelligent, this is a book that will set the it represents everything that is most dynamic and entrepreneurial about the country’s ISBN: 9781906650827 benchmark for books of the highest culinary ambition. Featuring brilliant dishes such as his economic boom. As an unholy congregation of the rich and powerful, it reveals the corrupt, PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 signature Brillat Savarin Cheesecake with Passion Fruit and Lime, the book features a full back-scratching and nepotistic way in which India is run. TERRITORY: WO repertoire of sweet recipes, each accompanied by the beautiful photography of Jean Cazals. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury A must-have book for all chefs, but a great book for keen amateurs and serious foodies alike. Examining the great optimism, industry and vulgar consumerism of India’s emerging middle- PRICE: £18.99 class – via rapid economic growth, outlandish corruption and crony capitalism – and FORMAT: Hardback Philip Howard has been chef and co-owner of The Square since its opening in 1991. reappraising contemporary Indian nationality, this is a truly original book. ISBN: 9781408156926 Whilst the style of his cooking has evolved, receiving many awards and accolades, the EBOOK: 9781408192207 fundamental backbone of his dishes is unchanged. Impeccable seasonal ingredients are James Astill spent four years in New Delhi as South Asia Bureau Chief for the Economist. PUB DATE: 28 Feb 2013 accurately cooked and brought together in a harmonious, elegant, yet satisfying manner. He He is now their Political Editor. He has won four major journalism awards including America’s TERRITORY: WO has held two Michelin stars since 1998 and is the author of The Square: Volume 1 (Savoury). Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defence. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Hell-Bent Obsession, Pain and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Bikram Yoga Benjamin Lorr

A remarkable investigation into the world of Bikram Yoga, by turns shocking, hilarious and enlightening

Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found Bikram yoga reinventing his life. He was content to slim down and tone up until a run-in with a competitive yoga champion convinced him to take his practice to the next level. So begins a journey into the strange, amazing world of competitive yoga. Populated by athletic prodigies, wide-eyed celebrities, medical miracles and predatory hucksters, Hell-Bent follows Lorr as he grapples with his new obsession: researching the health claims and history, humanising its PRICE: £12.99 maniacal guru, and eventually competing for glory at the national championship. FORMAT: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781408836392 Benjamin Lorr graduated from Columbia University with a degree in creative writing. He lives EBOOK: 9781408836408 in New York and is currently writing his second book. PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein EARLY EXPORT PUB DATE: 8 Nov 2012

40 foodAbsolute Press SPORTS 41 Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy Tour de France 100 A Journey to the Heart of Cricket’s Underworld A Visual History of Cycling’s Greatest Challenge Ed Hawkins Richard Moore

An astounding and unprecedented exposé of the corruption and match-fixing A stunning visual history of the Tour de France published as the one hundredth running rife throughout cricket race gets underway in 2013

Over several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India’s bookmakers and the International First staged in 1903, the Tour de France lasts three weeks every July and takes its c.200 Cricket Council anti-corruption officers who are trying to shut them down. He travelled to competitors through over 3600km of varied terrain, including testing mountain stages. The the country as he endeavoured to understand how the world’s largest unregulated gambling race is broken into one-day ‘stages’, with the overall leader wearing the fabled yellow jersey. PRICE: £30.00 market operates. Bookies, fixers and gamblers showed him the tricks of their trade. He lived FORMAT: Hardback and worked with a bookmaker for a spell and will now never watch a match in the same way Tour de France 100 celebrates 110 years of the Tour and publishes in the run up to the ISBN: 9781408170960 again. With a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and players – 100th race. It captures key visual moments in its history, including heroes of the race, EBOOK: 9781408186831 PRICE: £18.99 and corruption, intimidation, even murder – this is surely the most important cricket book great rivalries, moments of high drama, accidents and scandals, all accompanied by Richard PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 FORMAT: Hardback ever written. Moore’s authoritative text that illuminates and expands upon the superb imagery. The final TERRITORY: WO ISBN: 9781408169957 chapter celebrates Bradley Wiggins’ triumph in 2012 as the first British man to win the tour TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EBOOK: 9781408165973 Ed Hawkins is an award-winning sports journalist. He has twice been named the Sports and bring home the yellow jersey. PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 Journalists Association’s Sports Betting Writer of the Year and was a nominee for Best New TERRITORY: WO Writer at the 2012 British Sports Book Awards. Richard Moore is a journalist, author, and former racing cyclist, competing in the 1998 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Commonwealth Games. His first book, In Search of Robert Millar, won the Best Biography EXPORT TPB ISBN: 9781408838525 award at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. His latest book, The Dirtiest Race in History: PRICE: £12.99 Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Olympic 100m Final, is also published by Bloomsbury.

The Little Wonder The Great British Mountain 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack Bike Trail Guide Robert Winder Clive Forth

The remarkable true story of the world’s most famous sports book, published to Clive Forth provides detailed information on the best mountain bike trails across coincide with the Almanack’s 150th anniversary the British Isles as thoroughly tested by himself

In 1864 the English cricketer John Wisden, known as ‘The Little Wonder’, first published his The Great British Mountain Book Trail Guide provides detailed information on the best trails eponymous book. That first edition is now a rare artwork worth around £10,000, and the across the British Isles. Written and tested by author Clive Forth, this is a practical guide by Almanack has been published continuously ever since. an experienced mountain biker. With Clive’s knowledge of the sport and of trail centres he is able to give a considered evaluation of each trail, the grading, the facilities, and how it rates Wisden’s history gives us the entire social pageant of English, and world, cricket. Winder in terms of scenery and exhilaration. Portable and well-presented with inspiring images and depicts the game’s most charismatic characters, its high points, flops and political storms. He maps, this is an essential resource for all mountain bikers. PRICE: £16.99 PRICE: £25.00 traces cricket’s journey – at the heart of national life for so long – through Britain’s imperial FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Hardback domain, revealing the game’s impact on schools and culture at large, its class twists and its Clive Forth is a leading mountain bike racer and trainer and the author of The Mountain ISBN: 9781408179444 ISBN: 9781408136263 relationship with English identity. Bike Skills Manual. He competed in the first UK mountain bike series, took part in the World PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 EBOOK: 9781408165973 Championships and is currently involved in coaching and training novice and professional TERRITORY: WO PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 Robert Winder was Literary Editor of the Independent and Deputy Editor of Granta. He has mountain bikers. He is the founder of MTBSkills: the Clive Forth Mountain Bike Academy. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: WO written several books including Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey and Bloody TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. He is a team member of the Gaieties Cricket Club, whose chairman was the late Harold Pinter.

42 SPORTS SPORTS 43 Foinavon You Are The Ref David Owen Keith Hackett & Paul Trevillion

The Story of the Grand National’s Biggest Upset A Guide to Good Refereeing

The extraordinary story of a 100-1 outsider’s triumph in the most dramatic horse Illustrated by You Are the Ref artist Paul Trevillion, this football refereeing guide PRICE: £12.99 race of all time will improve your understanding of the game FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408158869 It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Liverpool’s Aintree racecourse, a Perfect for all referees, trainee referees and anyone looking to increase their knowledge of EBOOK: 9781408181713 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos exceptional even by the Grand the beautiful game, You Are the Ref: A Guide to Good Refereeing is packed with information PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 National’s standards and won the world’s toughest steeplechase. Foinavon, the dogged on every aspect of the game for football referees and assistants, all brought to life with TERRITORY: WO victor, and Susie, the white nanny goat who accompanied him everywhere, became instant illustrator Paul Trevillion’s legendary images and renowned ex-referee Keith Hackett’s incisive TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury celebrities. Foinavon’s victory has become part of British sporting folklore. Here, for the first text. Fully comprehensive and immensely entertaining, You Are the Ref will help you stay one time, Owen tells the real story and shows why the Grand National holds tens of millions of step ahead of the game. PRICE: £18.99 people spellbound, year after year, for ten minutes on a Saturday afternoon in early spring. FORMAT: Hardback Paul Trevillion is a renowned sports artist – famous for the legendary comic strip character ISBN: 9781408154755 David Owen is a former sports editor of the Financial Times, and has covered scores of major Roy of the Rovers and his classic ‘You are the Ref’ column in the Observer. EBOOK: 9781408192214 sports events around the world for the FT and other publications in a career spanning three PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 decades. This is his first non-fiction book. Keith Hackett is General Manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) TERRITORY: WO – the referee’s governing body and is the Referee Ambassador for the FA, Premier League TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury and UEFA.

Wisden Cricketers’ Golf Stories Almanack 2013 Gerald Batchelor

Edited by Lawrence Booth A reproduction of the 1914 original, Golf Stories is a collection of original short stories, jokes, anecdotes, dialogues and parodies The 150th-anniversary edition of the world’s most famous sports book, published every year since 1864 ‘Few have attempted to give any record of the subtle humour which belongs to all sports of Scottish origin, and to Golf in particular.’ So said the original blurb when first published A perennial bestseller loved by cricket fans and bibliophiles around the world and published in 1914, and though a large number of titles have since appeared, mining the inherent wit, every single year since its first edition in 1864, Wisden celebrates its 150th anniversary intemperance and pratfalls of golf, it is enlightening to return to Gerald Batchelor’s original. with the 2013 edition. As ever, it contains coverage of every first-class game in every Golf Stories is a collection of original short stories, jokes, anecdotes, sketches, dialogues and cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with some of parodies, all illustrated with suitably baggy-trousered line drawings by E. W. Mitchell. The the finest sports writing of the year. Together with Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the book is an essential addition to the library of any golfer. Year awards, and the brilliant obituaries, Wisden’s trenchant opinion, compelling features and PRICE: £50.00 comprehensive records, make it a ‘must-have’ for every cricket fan. Gerald Batchelor was the author of a number of golfing stories, republished in many PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: Hardback subsequent collections, unknowingly spawning a genre. FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408175651 This is Lawrence Booth’s second year as Editor of Wisden, although he contributed for many ISBN: 9781408182611 PUB DATE: 11 April 2013 years. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed EBOOK: 9781408182635 TERRITORY: WO cricket books. He is one of the most respected and well liked authorities in the modern game. PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: WO THE SHORTER WISDEN 2013 EBOOK SOFT COVER EDITION LARGE FORMAT HARDBACK TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781408192269 ISBN: 9781408175637 ISBN: 9781408175644 PRICE: £12.99 PRICE: £50.00 PRICE: £60.00

44 SPORTS SPORTS 45 Don’ts for Cricketers The Year Klunk

From the publishers of Don’ts for Husbands and Don’ts for Wives a brand-new old When the Mountain Bike Began collection of advice for cricketers Charlie Kelly Don’ts for Husbands and Don’ts for Wives were republished by A&C Black in 2007 and have sold more than one million copies to date. Don’ts for Cricketers was originally printed in 1906 Written by the man who started it all, an unprecedented insight into the beginning and contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining, timeless and amusing advice for cricketers of the mountain bike craze, with a bit of the seventies thrown in for good measure of all abilities. The advice – ranging from technique and equipment to etiquette on the field – provides an engaging snapshot of life in early twentieth-century Britain. Charlie Kelly was the first man to build and ride a mountain bike, in Marin County, California 1974. He went on to organise the Repack downhill races for ten years, making mountain biking the most exciting cycling craze, first of the Bay area, then of California and finally the world. Through all the fuss, Charlie’s ironic Irish-American scepticism kept him honest, and he continues to be the most entertaining and down-to-earth commentator on the PRICE: £30.00 extraodinary business of riding bikes off-road. Beginning in flower power San Francisco, the FORMAT: Hardback story retains the power of that once-in-a-generation period of change. ISBN: 9781408190005 PRICE: £3.50 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 FORMAT: Hardback Charlie Kelly is known throughout the world as the godfather of mountain biking. While he has TERRITORY: WO ISBN: 9781408192221 collaborated before, this is the first book he has written about how it all started. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury EBOOK: 9781408192238 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

The Authors XI Maglia Rosa A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon 2nd edition

An insightful examination of modern cricket by a historic team made up of Triumph and Tragedy at the Giro D’Italia cricket-obsessed writers PRICE: £16.99 Herbie Sykes FORMAT: Hardback The Authors Cricket Club last played in 1912, and include among their alumni such greats ISBN: 9781408840450 as PG Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and JM Barrie. A hundred years on from their last ‘A sumptious history of the race, accompanied by marvellously evocative EBOOK: 9781408840467 match, a team of modern-day authors has been assembled to continue the tradition in a photographs’ Guardian PUB DATE: 6 June 2013 nationwide tour in search of the perfect day’s cricket. TERRITORY: WO Maglia Rosa: Triumph and Tragedy at the Giro d’Italia is the definitive history of the Giro TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Over the course of a summer they played over a dozen matches in some of England’s most d’Italia, written by Turin resident and regular Rouleur contributor Herbie Sykes. Sykes takes spectacular and historic grounds. In the book, each player contributes a chapter about one of the reader on an inspiring, magical journey. In so doing he evokes 100 years of the race PRICE: £25.00 their fixtures, using a match report as a starting point for an essay on cricket and its appeal. for the maglia rosa, the mythical pink jersey of the race leader. This second edition includes FORMAT: Paperback The Authors XI is a thoughtful and engaging look at both the history of cricket and the state updates throughout from Sykes, including new photographs and perspectives on the 2012 ISBN: 9781408190012 of the game today. Giro. PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO The Authors Cricket Club has been revived by Charlie Campbell and Nicholas Hogg. The Herbie Sykes is a cycling historian and the author of Coppi: Inside the Legend of the TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury new-look side includes brothers Tom and James Holland, William Fiennes and Alex Preston, Campionissimo on the great cyclist Fausto Coppi, also published by Rouleur Books. Sykes professional-cricketer-turned-author Ed Smith, historians Matthew Parker and Thomas Penn lives in Turin and is a regular contributor to both Rouleur and Procycling magazines. and Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens. Planning has begun for 2013 and beyond.

46 SPORTS SPORTS 47 Mechanic Why Rousseau was Wrong Keeping the Pros on the Road Christianity and the Secular Soul Rohan Dubash & Guy Andrews Frances Ward

A captivating portrayal of the life of the professional bike mechanic Why secular humanism leads to guilt, political correctness and fear of giving offence – and how the Church can help A behind the scenes look at how far professional road bike mechanics have to go to keep their riders fast and, more importantly, safe. Also included are tricks of the trade and set-up Post-Olympic Britain looks a very different country from the post-riot Britain of 2011. guides, with secrets and techniques from the professionals and interviews with leading However, despite the successes of 2012, Frances Ward argues that underlying tensions mechanics and riders. The authors followed several key mechanics over a number of years remain in our society because we have forgotten how to nurture belonging and trust. Tracing and have amassed a collection of wonderful images and experiences of life on the road. the impact of key Enlightenment philosophers on our increasingly secular society, Ward PRICE: £30.00 Includes: what to expect during a day at the Tour de France; what the best mechanics use to outlines an alternative model of citizenship based on character and virtue, rather than ‘identity.’ FORMAT: Hardback keep going; helpful hints from those in the know. Using extracts from Alexander McCall Smith’s Isabel Dalhousie series as a counterpoint, she ISBN: 9781408189894 shows how the church can help to shape national corporate life by strengthening bonds of PRICE: £14.99 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 Rohan Dubash is a technical writer and specialist bike consultant. Guy Andrews is the founder hospitality, friendship and trust. FORMAT: Paperback TERRITORY: WO of Rouleur magazine and an experienced author, photographer and former bike mechanic. ISBN: 9781441115539 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Frances Ward is Dean of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich and is an inter-faith specialist. She was EBOOK: 9781441153036 formerly a Canon of Bradford Cathedral. PUB DATE: 31 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Spiritual Letters Sister Wendy Beckett

A series of letters to young religious on the spiritual life, always laced with sound common sense and good humour

Apart from her celebrity status as the ‘art nun’ through her television programmes, Sister Wendy has always been passing on sound simple advice to others on the spiritual life and the life of prayer. Here for the first time are collected some of the finest of her letters. This little book is a treasure trove of wisdom and wise counsel.

Sister Wendy became a nun at the age of 16, went on to live for nearly 20 years as a hermit, and then was exposed to the world in a successful television career as the ‘art nun’. She continues to live a cloistered life, devoted to prayer. PRICE: £12.99 FORMAT: Hardback ISBN: 9781408188439 EBOOK: 9781408188415 PUB DATE: 28 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WO EX-USA/CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

48 SPORTS religion 49 You Are The Messiah The New Asceticism and I Should Know Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God Why Leadership is a Myth (and Probably a Heresy) Sarah Coakley

Justin Lewis-Anthony Sarah Coakley cuts creatively across established ecclesiastical battle lines in a new, serious reflection on ascetical theology tout court Is ‘Leadership’ a useful sociological tool for the Church’s ministry and mission, or a dangerous threat, akin to a heresy? In this original thesis on the nature of desire, Sarah Coakley draws both liberal and conservative camps into a new and serious reflection. Each chapter concentrates on a contentious issue PRICE: £12.99 Every human endeavour needs leadership. The Church believes itself to be no exception. in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the FORMAT: Paperback However, advocates of ‘leadership’ have been unable to give a universally accepted definition priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism. The New Asceticism shows how ISBN: 9781441186188 of the term. desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, forging a new ascetical EBOOK: 9781441122469 vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention. PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 Justin Lewis-Anthony explores how our understanding of both secular and religious TERRITORY: WO leadership has been fatally compromised by the influence of ‘mythic’ leadership models. Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and was PRICE: £14.99 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Exploring the role that Hollywood film has played in creating ideas of the perfect leader, he previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. She was an assistant FORMAT: Paperback shows how, though we talk about Jesus Christ, we expect John Wayne. This book shows curate at Littlemore, Oxford, for 7 years after her ordination in 2000 and is currently an ISBN: 9781441103222 how leadership is, at best, a contested concept and, at worst, a dangerous heresy. honorary canon of Ely Cathedral. EBOOK: 9781441162243 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 Justin Lewis-Anthony is Rector of St Stephen’s Church, Canterbury and Associate Lecturer TERRITORY: WO at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of the bestselling If You Meet George TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Herbert on the Road, Kill Him.

Saint Augustine of Hippo An Intellectual Biography Miles Hollingworth

An outstanding new examination of St. Augustine’s philosophy and of its bearing upon the roots of Western civilization

Augustine was one of the West’s first public philosophers. Intelectually brilliant and a gifted writer, he is known as one of the great figures of late Christian antiquity. This biography is written at once for scholars and students but also for the huge number of intelligent lay readers for whom Augustine is a towering figure in the history of Western civilisation.

Miles Hollingworth is Research Fellow in the History of Ideas at St. John’s College, Durham. PRICE: £20.00 His writing on Augustine has won awards from the Society of Authors (2009 Elizabeth FORMAT: Hardback Longford Grant for Historical Biography) and the Royal Society of Literature (2009 Jerwood ISBN: 9781441173720 Award for Non-Fiction). EBOOK: 9781441152282 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO EX-USA/CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

50 religion religion 51 Good Small Business Pregnancy Yoga Guide 2013, 7th Edition Samantha Magee

How to Start and Grow Your Own Business Pregnancy Yoga focuses on the best postures from the first stages of pregnancy through to birth and into motherhood Fully updated for this 6th annual edition, the Good Small Business Guide 2013 is packed with essential advice for small business owners or budding entrepreneurs. Offering help on Pregnancy Yoga offers clear guidance to prepare your body and mind for your new arrival, all aspects of starting, running and growing a small business, including: planning, setting up taking you step by step through the best yoga postures during pregnancy and into early or acquiring a business, getting to grips with figures, marketing, selling online, and managing motherhood. yourself and others. Yoga during pregnancy can be a valuable tool, not only as a form of exercise but as a way of PRICE: £16.99 Containing over 140 easy-to-read articles, brand-new viewpoints from people who’ve been learning acceptance of change, and maintaining a positive mental outlook as well as a strong FORMAT: Paperback there and done it (and lived to tell the tale) and an extensive information directory, this fully and supple body. It can also minimise common pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness ISBN: 9781408182246 updated guide offers help on all aspects of starting and growing a small business. and constipation, ease labour and delivery, and help restore your body after childbirth. PUB DATE: 28 Mar 2013 PRICE: £19.99 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN FORMAT: Paperback Samantha Magee has been practicing yoga for over 10 years. She is an experienced Bikram TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Elwin Street LTD ISBN: 9781408159590 teacher, having trained under Bikram Choudhury, as well as completing Vinyasa yoga teacher EBOOK: 9781408178843 training with Max Strom. PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO She is a contributor to Surfgirl and Yoga Magazine, teaches in studios throughout London TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury and conducts corporate seminars on stress relief and yoga for the office and lifestyle.

How to Wear White Sweet Knits A Pocketbook for the Bride-to-Be 30 Cute Designs for Kids Francesca Beauman Catherine Graham-Evans

An intelligent, funny and eclectic guide for the twenty-first-century bride, from the Some children like to slay dragons, others prefer sipping tea with princesses, but any child will author of How to Crack an Egg with One Hand find something to wear, play with and love within the creative patterns featured in Sweet Knits. From flower-shaped tea cups to cute summer dresses, cosy jumpers to fun decorations, Within these pages you will find everything you need to know (and a few things you don’t) these projects are full of personality. in order to take the daring leap that is a modern marriage: from the frivolous to the deeply serious, from the cultural to the historical, from the physics of falling in love and the marriage Garments come in kids’ sizes from newborn to ten years, and there are even some patterns customs of the Na people of south-west China to celebrity wedding dress designers and tax for grown-ups, too! With suggestions on how to adapt and personalise each design for credits. True, you may not ever need to know the names of all of Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands unique results, Sweet Knits contains cosy hand-made treasures that grow with your child PRICE: £14.99 or how to plan a wedding in the Antarctic, but isn’t it fabulous that you do? and stir young imaginations. FORMAT: Paperback PRICE: £12.99 ISBN: 9781408171943 FORMAT: Hardback Francesca Beauman is a historian, journalist and television presenter. She is the author of Catherine Graham-Evans has always designed and made her own knits. She studied fine PUB DATE: 31 Mar 2013 ISBN: 9781408826607 The Pineapple, The Woman’s Book, Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: A History of the Lonely Hearts art at university, before becoming a primary school teacher. In 2008, Catherine began TERRITORY: WO PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 Ad and How to Crack an Egg with One Hand: A Pocketbook for the New Mother. She lives designing, knitting and selling handknit and crochet items for children. In 2010, she gave up TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: COMM/EU, OM in London and Los Angeles and is married with two young children. teaching, and now creates patterns for books and yarn companies, as well as handknitted TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Conville & Walsh items for sale.

52 lifestyle lifestyle 53 The Ukulele Handbook The Pocket Book of Weather Gavin Pretor-Pinney and Tom Hodgkinson Entertaining and Remarkable Facts About our Weather

The definitive guide to the uke – its legends and history, plus a fantastic songbook Michael Bright

The ukulele has undergone a massive resurgence in recent years. You can now hear the Featuring over 3,000 essential facts and figures, this entertaining and informative guide to uke all over the place, from trendster indie rock to YouTube megahits. All around the country the world’s weather explains how the weather shapes our planet and affects all our lives. PRICE: £14.99 people are picking up a ukulele and starting to strum, at home, in classes, and down the From sandstorms to monsoons, avalanches to solar storms, rainbows to tornadoes, this FORMAT: Trade Paperback pub. Gavin Pretor-Pinney and Tom Hodgkinson have produced the ultimate uke handbook: concise but comprehensive book explores the whats, whys, wheres, hows and whens. How ISBN: 9781408836293 an illustrated guide to its history crossed with a how-to guide and songbook. With lovely do clouds form? What makes the wind blow? Why are deserts so dry and rainforests so wet? PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 production values, a light touch and an irresistible instrument at centre stage, this is a must- Uncovering the amazing truth behind our weather and exploring the intriguing mysteries of TERRITORY: WE have for all aspiring George Formbys. weather phenomena, this is a fascinating compendium of useful and entertaining information. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Cat Ledger Agency Tom Hodgkinson and Gavin Pretor-Pinney founded the Idler magazine in 1993. Tom edits Michael Bright is an executive producer with the BBC’s Natural History Unit. He is based in the magazine and is the author of How to Be Idle; he now runs the Idler Academy bookshop, Bristol, England, but treks around the world gathering material for the BBC’s groundbreaking PRICE: £10.00 café and school. Gavin is the author of the bestselling book The Cloudspotter’s Guide and television documentaries. Michael is the author of scores of books about the natural world, FORMAT: Hardback founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. They were in a band together at school. from The Private Life of Sharks to 1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die. ISBN: 9781408181553 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Elwin Street LTD

Final Voyage The World’s Worst Maritime Disasters Jonathan Eyers

The dramatic true stories of forgotten maritime tragedies

Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn’t even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three centuries. Many of these disasters have been almost forgotten, including the loss of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest maritime disaster in history, in which 10,000 people perished. These are stories of people – whether they lived or died – as well as the ships themselves. They tell of tragedy, war, heroism and cowardice, greed and sacrifice. Only for the lucky few were they also stories of rescue and survival. PRICE: £8.99 Jonathan Eyers is the author of Don’t Shoot the Albatross: Nautical Myths and Superstitions FORMAT: Paperback and How to Snog a Hagfish: Disgusting Things in the Sea. He is an Assistant Editor for Adlard ISBN: 9781408158944 Coles Nautical. EBOOK: 9781408158937 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

54 lifestyle natural world 55 The Thames, 2nd Edition RSPB Handbook of A Photographic Journey from Source to Sea the Seashore Derek Pratt Maya Plass

A stunning and comprehensive showcase of the Thames we know – and the A brand new RSPB guide to help you become a confident and learned explorer Thames we don’t of the seashore

PRICE: £20.00 Emerging as a small stream in idyllic countryside and growing to become the country’s largest If the tantalising glimpses you catch of the diverse and alien wildlife found in the semi-aquatic FORMAT: Hardback river, the Thames passes through some of the world’s most iconic urban environments. This environment between the tides leaves you curious to learn more, the RSPB Handbook of the ISBN: 9781408186930 beautiful book celebrates the entire river from source to sea, and with wonderful photography Seashore is for you. It will teach you to easily identify the species you discover and features EBOOK: 9781408170137 and quirky text follows it on a voyage through Britain’s history, as it joins landmarks of the helpful sections on how to read tide tables, where to look, climate change concerns, and who PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 past with the urban landscape of today. Updated for its second edition with new text and to call should you come across something unexpected on your next beach visit. Packed with TERRITORY: WO photography throughout, this is a loving tribute to an iconic river. 200+ species accounts this new guide is written throughout in engaging text, accessible to TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury anyone who loves to visit the seashore. Derek Pratt is a professional photographer and specialist writer on inland waterways. He PRICE: £9.99 regularly writes and photographs for Britain’s leading waterways magazine Waterways World Maya Plass is an experienced marine ecologist committed to sharing her love and knowledge FORMAT: Paperback and he is the author of several books and articles on the subject, including the bestselling of our aquatic world. Maya has developed projects in the UK and abroad to encourage ISBN: 9781408178362 Waterways Past and Present, London’s Waterways and Urban Waterways, all published by communities to protect our seas and oceans, and her passion for the sea has led her to PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 Adlard Coles Nautical. engage with wider audiences through television presenting and now through her first book. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Looking for the Goshawk Exploring the Thames In Search of the Fugitive Raptor Wilderness Conor Mark Jameson A Guide to the Natural Thames

A gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird Richard Mayon-White and Wendy Yorke

Looking for the Goshawk traces Conor Jameson’s travels in search of the Goshawk, a A beautiful guide to the natural Thames – plants and wildlife, stunning views and magnificent yet rarely seen raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal wonderful walks experience, investigation, and the unearthing of information from research, exploration and conversations. There is a hidden side to the Thames – wild and natural, with stunning scenery and a wealth of activities. This guidebook features over 150 of the best places to explore the real The journey takes Conor from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case, through Thames wilderness, with information on the history and character of each stretch of the river, travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain, to Berlin - where he finds the bird at which plants and wildlife to watch out for, activities you can do, how to get there and nearby PRICE: £14.99 ease in the city. moorings, cycle paths and car parks. Each section features a circular walk, tying together FORMAT: Paperback PRICE: £16.99 several of the sites and accompanied by an enchanting hand-drawn map. ISBN: 9781408181126 FORMAT: Hardback Why, he wants to know, is the bird so rarely seen in Britain? EBOOK: 9781408181140 ISBN: 9781408164877 Richard Mayon-White is a river warden coordinator for the River Thames Society, and has PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 EBOOK: 9781408187029 Conor Mark Jameson works for the RSPB and has contributed to numerous wildlife loved the river for 50 years, exploring it on foot and afloat from source to sea. Wendy Yorke TERRITORY: WO PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 magazines including the RSPB’s Birds magazine and BBC Wildlife. In 2010 he won the BBC is the Projects Manager for the Thames Rivers Trust and has been involved in community TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: WO Wildlife Nature Writer of the Year award with his article, Phantom, about an encounter with engagement and river restoration in the UK and Australia. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury a goshawk in Berlin. His first book, Silent Spring Revisited was published by Bloomsbury in spring 2012.

56 natural world natural world 57 Ghosts of Gone Birds Ada’s Rules Edited By Ceri Levy Alice Randall

The book of the show – Art does extinct birds ‘A wonderful, warm and funny novel. Truly inspiring’ Katie Fforde

The original brief – given to 120 artists – was to produce a piece of work based loosely Ada Howard, the preacher’s wife, has a whole lot of people to take care of. It’s no wonder she on one or more extinct birds, with proceeds from sales going to BirdLife International. can’t find time to take care of herself. And her husband’s been so busy lately she’s suspicious The results exceeded the curator’s wildest dreams – the initial exhibition in London was a some other woman may be taking care of him… Then an invitation to her college reunion sensation, with the people involved representing a who’s who of British art – Sir Peter Blake, arrives, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. Ada starts laying down some rules to Ben Newman, Ralph Steadman, Billy Childlish – and renowned bird artists such as Bruce lose the hundred or so pounds gained since her college days, and so begins an unforgettable Pearson and Carry Akroyd. This book features art from the event along with text by the artists journey on the way to less weight and more love… themselves. It is glossy, colourful and rich - a fitting testament to the exhibition and to the PRICE: £19.99 birds whose demise inspired it. Alice Randall was born in Detroit, grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Harvard. FORMAT: Paperback She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the ISBN: 9781408187463 Cari Levy is a film-maker who started out making videos before moving into the world Queen of Spades, and Rebel Yell. Like Ada, she’s done battle with her weight. And, like Ada, PRICE: £7.99 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 of documentaries. His works include Bananaz, a film about the inner machinations of the she’s a proud member of the Links, Incorporated. FORMAT: Paperback TERRITORY: WO group Gorillaz, and the forthcoming The Bird Effect. He was pivotal in the creation of Ralph ISBN: 9781408830949 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Steadman’s Extinct Boids and provided the commentary for this extraordinary work. EBOOK: 9781408833070 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WE EX-USA/CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

RSPB The Great Jack Holmes and His Friend British Wildlife Hunt Edmund White

Anne Harrap ‘This comedy of sexual manners may be White’s finest novel’Sunday Times

A ‘Nature detective’ book with a difference Jack Holmes is in love. Sadly for him, his feelings are not returned, at least not in the way he would like them to be. It doesn’t look as if there will ever be anyone else he falls for: the A first sighting of an unexpected bird or an elusive mammal is a real thrill and can encourage other men he takes to bed never stay for long. a lifetime’s interest in nature. This new RSPB book is perfect for anyone who enjoys a walk in the woods or a coastal stroll. It isn’t a site guide directing you to the same old places; instead Jack will introduce his friend Will to the woman he will marry, and against the charged The Great British Wildlife Hunt encourages you to actively find species everywhere you go, backdrop of sixties New York – literary and intense, before gay liberation – the lives of Jack by learning to recognise landscape features, habitats and niches, and spot other signs that a and Will intertwine, and as their loves come and go, they will always be, at the very least, species is nearby. Each species has a score to inspire friendly competition on your days out. friends.

PRICE: £9.99 Anne Harrap studied biology and has an MSc in Environmental Science and Conservation Edmund White is the author of A Boy’s Own Story, My Lives, The Flaneur, Hotel de Dream PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback Resource Management. She runs her own garden design business and currently combines and, most recently, the memoir City Boy. He is an officer of French Order of Arts and Letters FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408180372 this with environmental education, creating school gardens and wildlife areas. She is and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in New York City and teaches ISBN: 9781408830277 EBOOK: 9781408186749 co-author of Wildflowers in the Garden as well as the bestselling Orchids of Britain and at Princeton University. EBOOK: 9781408824610 PUB DATE: 20 Jun 2013 Ireland: A Field and Site Guide. PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White

58 natural world PAPERBACK FICTION 59 Hinterland One Thousand and Caroline Brothers One Nights

‘Heart-wrenching ... a novel everyone should read’ Daily Mail Hanan Al-Shaykh

Two young boys cross a river in the middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their ‘Magical ... bursting with jinnis and mischief’ Donna Tartt, The Times lives depend on this journey. With nothing but the clothes on their back, Aryan and his little brother Kabir travel by truck, boat, train, bus and on foot across a Europe they desperately One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad under hope will offer them a future they can no longer wait for in Afghanistan. Kabul-Tehran- sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife’s orgies, Istanbul-Athens-Rome-Paris-London – this is the route they cling to, the mantra they repeat King Shahrayar vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To survive in their prayers, and the only option they can see before them. Shahrazad spins a web of tales each night, leaving the King in suspense when morning comes, prolonging her life for another day. Hinterland is the story of two ordinary brothers whose courageous gamble for a better life brings home the devastating human consequences of war. Retold by Hanan al-Shaykh, these mesmerising stories tell of the real and the supernatural, PRICE: £7.99 love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University College uncertainties of fate. FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830352 London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin America. She ISBN: 9781408827765 EBOOK: 9781408818749 currently lives in Paris where she writes for the International Herald Tribune and the New Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the contemporary Arab world’s most acclaimed writers. She is EBOOK: 9781408826713 PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 York Times. She has published a book, War and Photography, and also writes short stories. the author of a memoir The Locust and the Bird, and her novels include The Story of Zahra, PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WO Hinterland is her first novel. Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues and Only in London, shortlisted for the Independent TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in central London. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown

In Darkness The Golden Scales Nick Lake A Makana Mystery

‘Gripping, moving and uplifting ... stunningly original and hard-hitting’ Parker Bilal William Sutcliffe ‘Parker Bilal whisks the reader straight to the dark heart of Cairo’ Economist Trapped beneath the rubble of the Haitian earthquake of 2010, a teenage boy is terrified and alone. A child of the slums, Shorty has been drawn into the world of the gangsters who Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile rule his broken city, a world that turns dreams into dust and boys into killers. But Shorty has houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call a secret: a flame of revenge that fires his resolve to find the twin sister, stolen from him five from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering years ago. In darkness the line between the present and the past begins to blur and, as world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has Shorty fights for life, his struggle becomes part of a two-hundred-year-old story - a story vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the business man’s private of courage and betrayal, freedom and of hope. For Shorty may not be quite as alone as he empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters believes... and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter, as his search stirs up painful PRICE: £7.99 memories, leading him back into the sights of an old and dangerous enemy… PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback Nick Lake is the Editorial Director for fiction for HarperCollins Children’s Books and is the FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830345 author of The Secret Ministry of Frost and Blood Ninja. In Darkness, set in Haiti, is Nick’s Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven critically ISBN: 9781408830369 EBOOK: 9781408824191 first book for adults and older teen readers. He first discovered Haitian culture as part of his acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Born in London, he has lived at EBOOK: 9781408824900 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 Master’s Degree in Linguistics and has since been fascinated by it. Nick lives near Oxford. various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona. PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath

60 PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK FICTION 61 The Prisoner of Paradise Waiting for Sunrise Romesh Gunesekera William Boyd

‘A terrific read: pacey, political, moral, atmospheric and yes, definitely romantic’ ‘A truly gripping, hugely atmospheric spy thriller’ Daily Mirror Independent Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle at their grand appointment with eminent psychiatrist, Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is plantation house. Under the surface of this beautiful island paradise, poised between India anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman and Africa, there is unease, and Lucy cannot help but feel discomfited by the restrictions enters. Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense she sees around her, and by the strangely attractive Don Lambodar, a young translator from beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. Their subsequent affair is both passionate and particularly Ceylon. It is 1825: the age of slavery is coming to its messy end, and word is lapping against destructive. Moving from Vienna to London’s West End, from the battlefields of France to the shores of the island of a charismatic new Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty. hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the For Lucy, for Don, for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is coming… human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force. PRICE: £7.99 Romesh Gunesekera is the author of four novels: Reef, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback the Guardian Fiction Prize, The Sandglass, winner of the BBC Asia Award, Heaven’s Edge, William Boyd is the author of ten novels, including An Ice-Cream War, shortlisted for the FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830376 shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, and The Match. He has also written two short Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel ISBN: 9781408830390 EBOOK: 9781408825679 story collections: Monkfish Moon and O Colleccionador de Especiarias. He grew up in Sri 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, a Richard & Judy selection and EBOOK: 9781408828458 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 Lanka and the Philippines and now lives in London. a soon-to-be BBC drama; and, most recently, the bestselling Ordinary Thunderstorms. He PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM lives in London and France. TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown OME: 9781408835272 PRICE: £5.99 EXPORT PUB DATE: 1 Jan 2013

This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing Homesick That Happens To Someone Roshi Fernando Like You ‘A debut that can sit alongside White Teeth and Small Island . . . powerful and revelatory’ Sunday Times Jon McGregor It is New Year’s Eve, 1982, and the whole gang is at Victor and Nandini’s house. The ‘Sharp, dark and hugely entertaining’ Observer Godfather is on repeat upstairs. Baila music is blaring from the record player in the lounge. Poppadoms are frying in the kitchen. And Preethi, tipsy on youth and friendship and covert A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes cigarettes out the window, just wants to belong. But what does that mean, to belong? From through a young woman’s windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren’t the sort of that New Year’s party to a family funeral, via ghetto blasters and growing pains, through 7/7 things you imagine happening to someone like you. But sometimes they do. Set in the flat and the world according to Charlie Chaplin, life in all of its complexity happens to Preethi, Nil, and threatened fenland landscape, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond Lolly, Rohan, and their tightly knotted Sri Lankan families in south London. the horizon, these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things PRICE: £7.99 buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, Roshi Fernando was born in London of Sri Lankan parents. She won the 2009 Impress PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won. Prize for New Writers, was shortlisted for the 2011 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Award, FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830383 was given a special commendation by the judges of the Manchester Fiction Prize and was ISBN: 9781408830406 EBOOK: 9781408811290 Jon McGregor is the author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to longlisted for the Bridport prize and the Fish prize. Roshi Fernando lives in Gloucestershire. EBOOK: 9781408826430 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 Begin and Even the Dogs. He is the winner of the Betty Trask Prize, the Somerset Maugham PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WE Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has been twice longlisted for TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Wylie the Man Booker Prize. He was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM Heath lives in Nottingham.

62 PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK FICTION 63 No Time Like the We All Fall Down Present Michael Harvey Nadine Gordimer ‘Michael Harvey has put his own unique touch on the crime novel’ Michael Connelly ‘A book of great thematic richness and quiet brilliance’ Sunday Times A light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, releasing a deadly pathogen. Within hours, a homeless man, a cop, and then dozens more start to die. Hospitals become morgues. ‘L’ trains become No Time Like the Present brings the reader into the lives of Steven rolling hearses. Reed and Jabulile Gumede, a ‘mixed’ couple, both of whom have been combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid. Once clandestine Chicago is on the verge of chaos before the mayor finally acts, quarantining entire sections lovers under racist law forbidding sexual relations between white and black, of the city. Meanwhile, cop-turned-PI Michael Kelly hunts for the people responsible. The they are now in the new South Africa. The place and time where freedom – search takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago’s west-side gangs and the even the ‘better life for all’ that was fought for and promised – is being created more terrifying world of black biology – an elite field operating covertly at the nation’s top but also challenged by political and racial tensions, while the hangover of labs, where scientists play God and will do anything necessary to keep their secrets safe. PRICE: £7.99 moral ambiguities and the vast and growing gap between affluence and FORMAT: Paperback mass poverty, continue to haunt the present. No freedom from personal Michael Harvey is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor and The Third Rail, ISBN: 9781408830413 involvement in these or in the personal intimacy of love. The subject is and is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won numerous awards EBOOK: 9781408811443 contemporary, but Gordimer’s treatment is timeless. including multiple Emmy Awards, two Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 PRICE: £8.99 nomination. He lives in Chicago. TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM FORMAT: Paperback Nadine Gordimer’s many novels include The Conservationist, joint winner of TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein ISBN: 9781408831267 the Booker Prize, Get A Life, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, My Son’s EBOOK: 9781408831762 Story and The Pickup. In 2010 her nonfiction writings were collected in PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 Telling Times and a substantial selection of her stories was published in TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-SA/CAN, OM Life Times. Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt 1991. She lives in South Africa. Ignorance Michèle Roberts

‘A gripping story of fear, arrests and personal tragedy’ Independent

Jeanne and Marie-Angèle grow up in the Catholic village of Ste Madeleine. Marie-Angèle is the daughter of the grocer, inflated with ideas of her rightful place in society; Jeanne’s mother washes clothes for a living and used to be a Jew. When war arrives, the village must play its part in a game for which no one knows the rules – not the dubious hero who embroils Marie-Angele in the black market, nor the artist living alone with his red canvases. In these uncertain times, the enemy may be hiding in your garden shed and the truth can be buried under a pyramid of recriminations. Ignorance brings to life a people at war in a way that is at once lyrical and shocking. PRICE: £7.99 PRICE: £7.99 PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass PRICE: £7.99 ISBN: 9781408836002 ISBN: 9781408836330 ISBN: 9781408840481 and Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for FORMAT: Paperback EBOOK: 9781408836019 EBOOK: 9781408836347 EBOOK: 9781408840498 the Booker Prize. Her memoir Paper Houses was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Half- ISBN: 9781408831151 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 English and half-French, Michèle Roberts lives in London. EBOOK: 9781408818824 TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Aitken Alexander Associates

64 PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK FICTION 65 A Lady Cyclist’s Life! Death! Prizes! Guide to Kashgar Stephen May

Webb Suzanne Joinson ‘Stephen May’s voice is original, funny and poignant’ Marie Claire

‘A sprightly, engaging and lovingly written book’ Guardian Billy’s mother is dead. He knows – because he reads about it in magazines – that people

Image © Simon die every day in ways that are more random and tragic than hers, but for nineteen-year-old PRICE: £7.99 1923: Evangeline English, lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie and their zealous leader Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother’s death in a bungled street robbery is the most FORMAT: Paperback Millicent at the ancient city of Kashgar to establish a mission. As they encounter resistance random and tragic thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy is both mother ISBN: 9781408830918 and calamity, Eva commences work on her Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar… In present- and father to Oscar, despite what his aunt, the social services and Oscar’s own prodigal EBOOK: 9781408830260 day London, Frieda opens her door to find a man sleeping on the landing. Tayeb, a Yemeni father all think is best. The boys’ new world is built out of chaos and fierce love, but as Billy’s PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 refugee, has arrived in Frieda’s life just as she learns that she is next-of-kin to a stranger, a obsession with his mother’s missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that TERRITORY: WO woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises. The two wanderers embark on a really matters… TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury journey that is as great, and as unexpected, as Eva’s. OME: 9781408837146 Stephen May’s first novel Tag was published by a small Welsh press and won the Reader’s PRICE: £7.99 PRICE: £5.99 Suzanne Joinson works for the British Council and regularly travels widely across the Middle Choice at the Welsh Book of the Year 2009. Stephen May also writes for television and FORMAT: Paperback East, North Africa, China and Europe. In 2007 she won the New Writing Ventures Award theatre. He now lives and works in West Yorkshire. ISBN: 9781408831199 for Creative Non-Fiction for ‘Laila Ahmed’. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing EBOOK: 9781408819142 at Goldsmiths, University of London, and lives by the sea on the South Coast of England. PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Diving Belles The Light of Amsterdam Lucy Wood David Park

‘She has an instinct for the inner meanings of myths that echoes the great Angela ‘Destined to become an international bestseller ... An astute observation of Carter. Superb’ The Times humanity, with echoes of Brian Moore and Richard Ford’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Along Cornwall’s ancient coast, sometimes, the flotsam and jetsam of the past can become caught in the cross-currents of the present and a certain kind of magic floats to the surface… It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Houses creak, fill with make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a university art teacher, goes on a pilgrimage to the water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants. And, on a windy beach, a small boy and city of his youth with troubled teenage son Jack; middle-aged couple Marion and Richard his grandmother keep despair at bay with an old white door. In these stories, hopes, regrets take a break from running their garden centre to celebrate Marion’s birthday; and Karen, a and memories are entangled with catfish, wreckers’ lamps and baying hounds as Cornish single mother struggling to make ends meet, joins her daughter’s hen party. As these people folklore slips into everyday life. brush against each other in the squares, museums and parks of Amsterdam, their lives are transfigured as they encounter the complexities of love in a city that challenges what has Lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Exeter University. She grew up in gone before. Tender and humane, and elevating the ordinary to something timeless and PRICE: £7.99 PRICE: £7.99 Cornwall. Diving Belles is her first work. She lives in Devon. important, The Light of Amsterdam is a novel of compassion and rare dignity. FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831540 ISBN: 9781408830437 David Park has written seven books, most recently the acclaimed The Truth Commissioner, EBOOK: 9781408824924 EBOOK: 9781408816868 winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. He has also won the Authors’ Club PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the American Ireland Fund TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM Literary Award and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year award, twice. The Light TRANSLATION RIGHTS: TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown of Amsterdam was chosen for Fiction Uncovered 2012. He lives in County Down, Northern Bloomsbury Ireland with his wife and two children.

66 PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK FICTION 67 The Namesake Once You Break a Knuckle An Alec Blume Novel D. W. Wilson

Conor Fitzgerald ‘Spiky, gritty short stories ... his writing has a terrific, understated force’ The Times ‘Meticulously researched. The Namesake is not a light read, but it is never boring or difficult’The Times In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy’s death. A When magistrate Matteo Arconti’s namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead heartbroken young man chooses not to warn his best friend about an approaching car. And outside the courthouse in Piazzo Clodio, it’s a clear warning to the authorities in Rome – a sons challenge fathers and break taboos… message of defiance and intimidation. Commissioner Alec Blume knows it’s a reference to his other case – that of a mafia boss operating at a frustratingly untouchable distance Crackling with tension and propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, D. W. Wilson’s stories are an in Germany. Handing control of the investigation to now live-in and not-so-secret partner intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline and vulnerability, doggedness and dignity. Once You Break Caterina Mattiola, Blume takes a back seat. But while Caterina questions the Milanese widow, a Knuckle explores the courage it takes just to make it through another day. PRICE: £7.99 Blume has an underhand idea of his own to lure the arrogant mafioso out of his hiding FORMAT: Paperback place… D. W. Wilson was born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. PRICE: £7.99 ISBN: 9781408831564 His stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada, Ireland and the United FORMAT: Paperback EBOOK: 9781408828083 Conor Fitzgerald is the author of The Dogs of Rome and The Fatal Touch. He has lived in Kingdom, and ‘The Dead Roads’ won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011. He ISBN: 9781408831311 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 Ireland, the UK, the United States and Italy and has worked as an arts editor and founded lives in London. EBOOK: 9781408830291 TERRITORY: WE a successful translation company. He is married with two children and lives in Rome. The PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: United Agents Namesake is the third in his series of Italian crime novels. TERRITORY: WE EX-CAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown

The Forrests The Uninvited Emily Perkins Liz Jensen

‘Perkins is an extraordinary writer ... a novel to be savoured’ Sunday Times ‘This audacious novel is utterly gripping’ Daily Mail

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering A seven-year-old murders her grandmother with a nail-gun to the neck. It is not an isolated moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New incident. Across the world, children are killing their families. York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early As chilling murders by children grip the country, Hesketh Lock, an anthropologist who suffers marriage and motherhood, Dorothy is swept along by time. In a narrative that shifts and from Asperger’s Syndrome has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests sings with colour and memory and timber industry. Nothing obvious connects the two cases, but as acts of child violence sweep speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing and loneliness, about heat, youth, and how the globe, Hesketh is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on life can change if ‘you’re lucky enough to be around for it’. which he has staked his life, his career and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.

PRICE: £7.99 Emily Perkins is the author of Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories which won the Liz Jensen is the bestselling author of seven acclaimed novels. She has been nominated PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the three times for the Orange Prize for Fiction, was chosen by the Richard and Judy Book Club FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831496 novels Leave Before You Go, The New Girl and, most recently, Novel About My Wife, winner for The Rapture and her work has been published in more than twenty countries. She lives ISBN: 9781408817735 EBOOK: 9781408830017 of the Believer Award. Emily Perkins lives in New Zealand. in Wimbledon, London. EBOOK: 9781408830062 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE EX-CAN TERRITORY: Comm/UK EX CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Aitken Alexander Associates

68 PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK FICTION 69 Truth Like the Sun I Am An Executioner Jim Lynch Love Stories

‘A brilliantly disturbing dissection of political morality’ Daily Mail Rajesh Parameswaran

It’s the architectural boom of 1962 in Seattle, a city full of promise. ‘Riotously funny and savagely memorable book’ Irish Times

Audacious young promoter Roger Morgan wants to pull off the ultimate coup de théâtre: A Bengal tiger wakes up one morning realising he is ravenously in love. A pompous railway the World Fair and usher in a new age. Socialising with the likes of Elvis Presley and Lyndon supervisor in a small Indian village bites off more than he can chew when a peculiar new clerk Johnson, Roger dazzles everyone he meets. arrives on his doorstep. In another place and in another time, a secret agent who spends her days watching the front door of an unknown quarry discovers something she isn’t meant Forty years later, at the age of seventy, Roger makes a surprise bid for mayor. Keen journalist to. And a small and famous country’s only executioner claims his conscience is as clean as and newcomer Helen Gulanos follows his campaign trail, resolving to uncover the real his heavy, washed stones. In these stories, reality loops in Borgesian twists and dazzles with Roger behind the handshakes and glossy receptions. Even Seattle’s golden boy must have cinematic exuberance; frayed photographs take on a life of their own while elephants wish something to hide… only to die with dignity. PRICE: £7.99 PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback Jim Lynch is the author of three novels, The Highest Tide, Border Songs and Truth Like Rajesh Parameswaran’s short stories have appeared in Granta and McSweeney’s among ISBN: 9781408831144 ISBN: 9781408830338 The Sun. Before becoming a full-time novelist Lynch wrote for newspapers throughout the others. ‘The Strange Career of Doctor Raju Gopalarajan’ was one of three stories for which EBOOK: 9781408821176 EBOOK: 9781408830321 Northwest and beyond, winning the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, the George McSweeney’s won the National Magazine Award, and it was included in Best American PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 Polk Award and other national honors. He now lives in Olympia, Washington with his wife Magazine Writing 2007. He lives in New York. TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TERRITORY: Comm/UK EXCAN, OM and daughter. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Inkwell

The Trapeze Artist John Saturnall’s Feast Will Davis Lawrence Norfolk

‘His best book yet’ Evening Standard Glorious … not just a novel set in some point in history, nor even just a novel in which the characters face epochal events, but a novel about how histories infect The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a work of stories’ The Times startling dexterity and vision – a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family and his grief. In the remote village of Buckland, a mob chants of witchcraft. John Sandall and his mother It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with are running for their lives. Taking refuge among the trees of Buccla’s Wood, John’s mother those you love, of the sweat, passions and tempers of circus life, and above all, the joyous opens her book and begins to tell her son of an ancient Feast kept in secret down the longing to break free, and to swing higher and higher… generations. Its exquisite dishes will be John’s legacy.

Will Davis is the author of two novels, My Side of the Story, which won the Betty Trask Prize From the award-winning and bestselling author of Lemprière’s Dictionary, John Saturnall’s

2007, and Dream Machine. He has trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse Feast charts one man’s life through kitchens and bedchambers, battlefields and ancient © Jonathan Ring PRICE: £7.99 (rope), tissu (silks) and static trapeze. He lives in north London. magical woods. A rich, complex and mesmerising story of seventeenth century life, love PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback and war. FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831625 ISBN: 9781408831168 EBOOK: 9781408825198 Lawrence Norfolk is the bestselling author of three literary historical novels which have been EBOOK: 9781408833292 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 translated into thirty-four languages. He is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO been shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Award, among TERRITORY: COMM/UK, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury others. Lawrence Norfolk lives in London with his wife and two children. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Blake Friedman Agency

70 PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK FICTION 71 Sidney Chambers and The Abdication Shadow of Death Juliet Nicolson

James Runcie ‘Brings a turbulent period to vivid life … the cast grips throughout’ Mail on Sunday ‘The coziest of cozy murder mysteries ... consistently charming’ New York Times Book Review England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. When Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchesterl, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an nineteen-year-old May Thomas arrives in Liverpool, her first job as secretary and chauffeuse unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot. to Sir Philip Blunt introduces her to the upper echelons of British society – and to Julian, a young man of conscience whom, despite all barriers of class, she cannot help but fall for. But Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect hidden truths, unspoken sympathies and covert complicities are everywhere, and the threat suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year’s Eve dinner of another world war becomes increasingly inevitable… party, the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery, the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like Juliet Nicolson is the author of The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911 and The PRICE: £7.99 PRICE: £7.99 being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty… Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War. She has two daughters FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback and lives with her husband in Sussex. ISBN: 9781408830932 ISBN: 9781408831403 James Runcie is Head of Literature at The Southbank Centre, an award-winning film-maker, EBOOK: 9781408828069 EBOOK: 9781408828465 and the author of five novels. He lives in London and Edinburgh. PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Ed Victor TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

Zoo Time Canada Howard Jacobson Richard Ford

The blistering new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the ‘One of the first great novels of the 21st century’ John Banville, Guardian Man Booker Prize 2010 In 1956, Dell Parsons’ family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly families did after the war. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell’s parents decided

Image © Jenny Jacobson strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. to rob the bank. In the days following their arrest, Dell is saved before the authorities think

PRICE: £7.99 Their provocative presence fills Guy’s head with stories so wild he can’t concentrate to write to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown: a hotel in a deserted Wilson FORMAT: Paperback them. Not that anyone reads anymore, anyway. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But in this new ISBN: 9781408831748 fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, world of secrets and upheaval, Dell is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of

EBOOK: 9781408829141 however, is writing her own novel. Guy dreads the consequences… the border. Image © Laura PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 PRICE: £8.99 TERRITORY: WE An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published seven novels and FORMAT: Paperback TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Curtis Brown brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and three collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, A Multitude of ISBN: 9781408831007 OME: 9781408837443 Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. His novels include The Sins and, most recently, The Lay of the Land. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer EBOOK: 9781408828410 PRICE: £5.99 Mighty Walzer, Kalooki Nights, The Act of Love and The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 EXPORT PUB DATE: 16 May 2013 lives in London. prizes. He lives in Maine. TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White OME: 9781408836521 PRICE: £5.99

72 PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK FICTION 73 The Bull of Mithros Survival of the Beautiful Anne Zouroudi Art, Science, and Evolution

‘Greece has never appeared more beautiful or damaged, and secrets lurk behind David Rothenberg every ruin’ Daily Mirror ‘An exhilarating and thought provoking trip’ Sunday Telegraph Drawn to the sun-drenched island of Mithros by the myth of its fabled bull, the arrival of investigator Hermes Diaktoros coincides with a violent and troubling death. The death has ‘The peacock’s tail,’ said Charles Darwin, ‘makes me sick.’ That’s because the theory of echoes in Mithros’s past, in a brutal unsolved crime from years ago which, it seems, is neither evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual forgotten, nor forgiven. Hermes sets out to solve a complex puzzle where shadowy secrets selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetics than with and unspoken loyalties are intertwined. And before long it’s clear that the fate of the mythical the practical. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of bull may be the least of the island’s mysteries... beauty art and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin’s observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why Anne Zouroudi was born in England and has lived in the Greek islands. Her attachment to animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty – and why nature is, indeed, PRICE: £7.99 Greece remains strong, and the country is the inspiration for much of her writing. She now beautiful. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback lives in the Derbyshire Peak District with her son. FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831489 David Rothenberg is Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of ISBN: 9781408830567 EBOOK: 9781408819395 Technology and the author of books including Thousand Mile Song and Why Birds Sing. His EBOOK: 9781408828885 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 articles have appeared in Parabola, The Nation, Wired, Dwell, and Sierra. PUB DATE: 3 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Christopher TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Little

Wilderness War Against the Taliban Lance Weller Why It All Went Wrong in Afghanistan

‘A remarkable debut, deeply affecting and heartfelt’ Gil Adamson Sandy Gall

Thirty years after the Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman ‘Sandy Gall may be one of the last heroes of his profession’ The Times embarks on one final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. As he journeys through the foothills, he endures violence at the hands of thugs who are after his beloved Afghanistan’s strategically significant lands have long been fought over by foreign invaders. dog, and is haunted by memories of the Civil War. But good people have touched his life Today, as yet another generation risks life and limb in this inhospitable territory, an ever-rising too – the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants; an escaped slave who nursed him death toll puts back under the spotlight the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being back to life. Through it all, Abel holds on to his humanity, finding weigh stations of kindness run, and demands answers. Drawing on interviews with Afghan politicians, businessmen along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path. and ordinary people, British, American and European diplomats and soldiers, Sandy Gall addresses the challenges – political, religious, and military – that face those now fighting on PRICE: £7.99 Lance Weller has published short fiction in several literary journals. He won Glimmer Train’s the most dangerous frontier in the world. FORMAT: Paperback Short Story Award for New Writers and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Washington PRICE: £8.99 ISBN: 9781408831724 native, he has hiked and camped extensively in the landscape he describes. He lives in Gig Sandy Gall started his career with Reuters in 1953 but is best known as the former face of FORMAT: Paperback EBOOK: 9781620400616 Harbor, WA, with his wife and several dogs. the ITN’s News at Ten. He has reported from many of the world’s hot spots, and has reported ISBN: 9781408822340 PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 from Afghanistan since 1982. Sandy Gall has produced documentaries, written several EBOOK: 9781408824290 TERRITORY: WO books and founded a charity, Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal, which treats disabled Afghans. PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Dinah Wiener LTD

74 PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 75 Bird Sense What Matters in What It’s Like to Be a Bird Jane Austen? Tim Birkhead Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

‘An absolutely absorbing book. On almost every page there is an astonishing John Mullan observation or revelation’ Daily Telegraph ‘Highly entertaining ... reveals a quite unexpected aspect to the novelist and her What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding books’ Daily Mail through the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings and improvises? In this fascinating book, Tim Birkhead draws on his In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate and wealth of knowledge gained from a lifetime of study birds to answer these questions and understand Jane Austen’s world by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her many more, and explains how birds interpret the world and shows how their behaviour is fiction. In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by the novels, shaped by their senses. Mullan explores the rituals and conventions of Austen’s world in order to reveal her technical PRICE: £8.99 virtuosity and sheer daring as a novelist. Inspired by an enthusiastic reader’s curiosity, based PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal Society on a lifetime’s study and written with flair, What Matters in Jane Austen? will appeal to all FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830543 of London. Among his other books are The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds, The Red those who love and enjoy Jane Austen’s work and who would like to know it better. ISBN: 9781408831694 EBOOK: 9781408828717 Canary, which won the Consul Cremer Prize, and The Wisdom of Birds. He lives in Sheffield. EBOOK: 9781408828731 PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 John Mullan is a professor in the English department at UCL. He writes the Guardian’s weekly PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 TERRITORY: WO ‘Book Club’ column and frequently appears on BBC2’s Review Show. A judge of the ‘Best TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury of the Booker Prize’ in 2008 and of the Man Booker Prize itself in 2009, he has lectured TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP Watt widely on Jane Austen in the UK and the US. He lives in London.

Deception El Narco Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels Edward Lucas Ioan Grillo

‘Anyone who enjoys le Carré will love this ... gripping stuff’ Spectator ‘[A] superb ... report from the front lines of narco-violence’ Independent

From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the ‘Ace of Spies’, by Lenin’s Bolsheviks in 1925, to the As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade in Mexico, the body count – deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters 55,000 dead in six years – and the sheer horror beggar the imagination. Veteran Mexico have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of correspondent Ioan Grillo tells the story of the ultraviolent criminal organisations that have Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. El Narco is a piercing portrait of a drug and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs and disasters of trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers and a diagnosis of what drives the cartels Western intelligence in the Cold War, providing the background to the new world of industrial and what gives them such power, tracing the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their and political espionage. Once the threat from Moscow was international communism; now it present eminence as rulers of criminal empires. PRICE: £8.99 comes from the siloviki, Russia’s ruthless ‘men of power’. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback Ioan Grillo has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines and TV stations FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831038 Edward Lucas is a senior editor at the Economist. He has been covering eastern Europe in the US and UK. Educated in Britain, he reports for Time magazine and regularly appears ISBN: 9781408822432 EBOOK: 9781408830185 since 1986, with postings in Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Vienna and the Baltic states. He is on radio and TV, commenting on Mexican crime and other issues. EBOOK: 9781408824559 PUB DATE: 17 Jan 2013 the author of The New Cold War (2008), which has been published in more than fifteen PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE, RUSSIAN languages. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Coleridge & White

76 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 77 Good in a Crisis The Death of a Child A Memoir Edited By Peter Stanford

Margaret Overton ’A painful but necessary book’ The Catholic Herald

‘Hilarious ... This memoir is wonderful on friendship and motherhood and brutally Parents and siblings tell their stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have honest about the rest’ Psychologies coped with bereavement and grief.

During the four years of physician Margaret Overton’s acrimonious divorce, she dated widely Their experiences cover the earliest losses - actress and author Carol Drinkwater’s and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her soulmate and live happily ever after. miscarriages, Irish writer Catherine Dunne’s still-birth, and the death of Sarah Brown’s But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly daughter Jennifer at ten days old - right up to campaigner Augusto Odone losing his severely awkward moment on a date with one of many Mr Wrongs. Overton, an anaesthetist, realised disabled son, Lorenzo, the day after his 30th birthday, or novelist Wendy Perriam coping she had been so busy looking after the needs of others that she had forgotten to look with her daughter Pauline’s death at 43. The celebrated psychotherapist Dorothy Rowe after herself. So she set out on a course to take control of her future and finally become contributes an afterword on surviving the loss of a child. PRICE: £7.99 independent of men. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830550 Margaret Overton is an anesthesiologist with an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Peter Stanford is a writer, broadcaster and biographer, whose books include biographies ISBN: 9781408192085 EBOOK: 9781408824368 Institute of Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and of Lord Longford, C Day-Lewis and the Devil, and the travelogue, The Extra Mile. A former EBOOK: 9781441136183 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Chicago, and Good in a Crisis is her first book. editor of the Catholic Herald, he writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday PUB DATE: 28 Feb 2013 TERRITORY: WE and the Observer and has a regular column in the Tablet. TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AP WATT

The Dreyfus Affair Make Love Like The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in a Prairie Vole French History Six Steps to Passionate, Plentiful and Monogamous Sex Piers Paul Read Andrew G. Marshall ‘A masterly and eminently balanced account of the Affair’ Spectator ‘A manual for those who want to have “good sex” in a long-term relationship’ In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a rising star in the French artillery, was on slender evidence Guardian sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island for treason. His wrongful conviction stunned the world and unleashed violent hatreds and anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste Prairie voles have it made. They mate for life, spend hours cuddling and can make love of what was to play out in the long, bloody twentieth century to come. It is a story rife with for two-day marathons! Thanks to new scientific research on them, we are beginning to heroes and villains, courage and cowardice, dissimulation and deceit. Today, amid charged understand the biochemical pathways of love shared by all species, and the key to a more debates over national and religious identity across the globe, it throws into sharp relief the fulfilling sex life. Marital Therapist Andrew G. Marshall combines this research with twenty- PRICE: £9.99 conflicts of the present. five years professional experience of helping couples rejuvenate their love lives. This book PRICE: £7.99 FORMAT: Paperback contains a programme that will transform routine into passionate sex but also leads to the FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830574 Piers Paul Read is an acclaimed, multiple prize winning novelist, historian and biographer. His kind of lovemaking that will bind you and your partner together as a couple. ISBN: 9781408830529 EBOOK: 9781408829035 non-fiction book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, was adapted into the 1993 film EBOOK: 9781408825129 PUB DATE: 14 Feb 2013 Alive. He lives in west London. Andrew G. Marshall is the author of a series of practical relationship manuals. His books have PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: WE been translated into over fifteen different languages. He writes for the Mail on Sunday, The TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Aitken Times, the Guardian and Psychologies magazine. He lives in West Sussex. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Sayle Alexander Agency

78 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 79 Antarctica The Winner Effect An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent How Power Affects Your Brain Gabrielle Walker Ian Robertson

‘We are all anxious Antarctic watchers now, and Walker’s book is the essential ‘Compelling stories combine with cutting-edge science to show why coming first primer’ Guardian is not the same as being a real winner– engrossing’ Oliver James

Antarctica weaves all the significant threads of the Antarctic story – from exploration and The ‘winner effect’ is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights survival, through astronomy and the science of ice cores, to what it feels like to be there and against weak opponents is much more likely to win later bouts against stronger contenders. why it draws so many different kinds of people back there again and again – into an intricate As Ian Robertson reveals, it applies to humans, too. Success changes the chemistry of the tapestry. It is only when the weave is complete that the underlying truths of the continent brain, making you more focused, smarter, more confident and more aggressive. But the emerge. Antarctica may be the most alien place on Earth – truly like walking on another downside is that winning can become physically addictive. By understanding what the mental planet – and yet, in its silence, its agelessness and its mysteries lie the secrets of our past, and physical changes are that take place in the brain of a ‘winner’, how they happen, and PRICE: £8.99 and of our future. why they affect some people more than others, Robertson explains what makes a winner – PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback or a loser – and how we can understand better the behaviour of our business colleagues, FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408830598 Gabrielle Walker has a PhD in chemistry from Cambridge University and has taught at both employees, family and friends. ISBN: 9781408831656 EBOOK: 9781408824634 Cambridge and Princeton universities. She is a consultant to the New Scientist, and writes EBOOK: 9781408828724 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 for many publications. In 2009 she presented BBC Radio 4’s Planet Earth Under Threat and Ian Robertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. He has published over PUB DATE: 7 Mar 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM in 2011, Thin Air, a series about the Earth’s atmosphere. She lives in north west London. 250 scientific articles in leading journals and is the author of Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Inkwell Brain’s Untapped Potential. He is a regular keynote speaker at conferences on brain function TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Felicity Bryan throughout the world. He lives in Dublin.

Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace River Cottage Every Day The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Kate Summerscale ‘For anyone wanting to feed the family really well ... this is great’ The Times

‘Simply superb’ Guardian Putting food on the table for families quickly and economically doesn’t mean you have to compromise on quality. This book shows how Hugh’s approach to food can be adapted When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in to suit any growing, working family, or busy singles and couples for that matter. As Hugh 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was ‘fascinating’, she told her diary, before chastising says: ‘I have honed the River Cottage approach to food over a decade now, and I believe herself for being so susceptible to a man’s charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and passionately that it is relevant to everybody, every day. I intend to tempt and charm you she was to find it hard to shake… towards a better life with food – with a set of simply irresistible recipes that just happen to be seasonal and ethical.’ In a compelling story of romance, fidelity, fantasy and the bounds of privacy, Kate PRICE: £14.99 Summerscale brings vividly to life a frustrated Victorian wife’s longing for passion and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel FORMAT: Trade Paperback PRICE: £7.99 learning, companionship and love, in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected ISBN: 9781408804339 FORMAT: Paperback female sexuality. multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy, the Andre Simon Food Book of the Year, EBOOK: 9781408815557 ISBN: 9781408831243 the Michael Smith Award and, in the US, the James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Hugh lives PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 EBOOK: 9781408812532 Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay and The in Devon. TERRITORY: WO PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson prize. She has judged various TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in north west London with her son. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Rogers, Coleridge & White

80 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 81 Forgotten Fatherland Cairo The Search for Elizabeth Nietzsche My City, Our Revolution Ben Macintyre Ahdaf Soueif

‘Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric’ New York Times ‘Bursts of lyricism, poetry and love illuminate the factual account and political commentary, and it works beautifully’ Independent In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a ‘racially pure’ colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century Ahdaf Soueif – novelist, commentator, activist – navigates her history of Cairo and her later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains journey through the Revolution that’s redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating from private history and public record Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both the survivors, while also tracing the colourful history of Elisabeth’s return to Europe, where intimately hers and publicly Egyptian. she inspired the mythical cult of her brother’s philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler. Brilliantly researched and mordantly funny, this is an illuminating portrait of a forgotten Ahdaf Soueif was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 PRICE: £7.99 PRICE: £8.99 people and of a woman whose deep influence on the twentieth century can only now be erupted on 25 January, she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir Square home for FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback fully understood. 18 days. She reported for the world’s media and did – like everyone else – whatever she ISBN: 9781408830505 ISBN: 9781408838150 could. EBOOK: 9781408835548 EBOOK: 9781408838167 Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 PUB DATE: 14 Mar 2013 newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of eight Ahdaf Soueif is the author of five books including the bestselling novel The Map of Love TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM previous books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Mezzaterra: Notes from the Common Ground, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Ed Victor Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, and the no. 1 bestseller Operation a collection of essays positioned at the intersection of culture and politics. She is the founder Mincemeat and Double Cross. He lives in London with his wife and three children. of the Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, and writes regularly for the Guardian in the UK and al-Shorouk in Egypt.

Luck We’ll Get ’Em in Sequins What It Means and Why It Matters Manliness, Yorkshire Cricket and the Century that Changed Everything Ed Smith Max Davidson ‘Fascinating, funny and honest’ Sunday Times ‘Ingenious … a splendid book’ Daily Mail For Ed Smith, as an aspiring cricketer, luck was for other people. Like his childhood hero, Geoff Boycott, the young Ed believed that the successful sportsman made his own luck by It is one of the oldest clichés in sports writing to say that sport mirrors life. And yet, in an application of will power and the elimination of error. But when a freak accident at Lord’s this instance, the world of Yorkshire cricket has so faithfully mirrored the outside world that prematurely ended his cricketing career, it changed everything, prompting him to look at his the cliché is unavoidable. Yorkshire, soberest of counties, has given us some remarkable own life through the prism of luck. Tracing the history of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, characters over the years – Len Hutton, Geoffrey Boycott, and Fred Trueman to name just a from the ancient Greeks to the present day – in religion, in banking, in politics – he argues few. Through portraits of these and other Yorkshire players, and the values that they shared that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent now as it ever has been. with their contemporaries, this wonderfully original book maps the contours of a sexual PRICE: £9.99 revolution whose tremors are still being felt today. FORMAT: Paperback PRICE: £8.99 Author and journalist Ed Smith is a former international cricketer who has represented ISBN: 9781408158753 FORMAT: Paperback England, Cambridge University, Kent and Middlesex. His previous books include Playing Hard Max Davidson is a journalist for national newspapers and has published several books EBOOK: 9781408171141 ISBN: 9781408830604 Ball, On and Off the Field and the acclaimed What Sport Tells Us About Life. He is a features including It’s Not the Winning That Counts: Inspiring Moments of Sporting Chivalry and Fields PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 EBOOK: 9781408817681 writer for The Times, a columnist for GQ, writes for the Spectator and appears regularly on of Courage. TERRITORY: WO PUB DATE: 11 Apr 2013 television and the Today programme. Ed Smith lives in London. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

82 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 83 Tracks My Life as a Wife Robyn Davidson Love, Liquor and What to do About Other Women

A new edition of the international bestseller, with a new postscript and colour Elisabeth Luard picture section ‘Wonderfully wise and moving’ Scotsman ‘I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.’ So begins Robyn Davidson’s perilous A British diplomat’s daughter, the reluctant debutante Elisabeth fell for the ‘King of Satire’ journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and Nicholas Luard while working as an office typist at Private Eye. At just twenty-one years old, a dog for company. Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous she married him. men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia’s Tracing the fascinating years they spent together in London, Spain, France, the Hebrides and landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings Wales with their four children, one of whom died tragically from AIDS, Luard’s bitter sweet of her former identity. Tracks is the compelling, candid story of her odyssey of discovery and memoir chronicles the detrimental effects of an alcoholic philanderer husband appeased by PRICE: £8.99 transformation. the healing power of children and the comfort of the kitchen table. PRICE: £9.99 FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408834862 Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland. She went to Sydney in the Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning author and illustrator. Her books include European ISBN: 9781408831250 EBOOK: 9781408834879 late sixties, then returned to study in Brisbane before going to Alice Springs where the events Peasant Cookery, Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment and A Cook’s Year in EBOOK: 9781408836552 PUB DATE: 11 April 2013 of this book began. Since then she has travelled extensively, has lived in London, New York a Welsh Farmhouse. An experienced broadcaster, Elisabeth is also a contributing editor to PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 TERRITORY: WE, GERMAN and India. In the early 1990s she migrated with and wrote about nomads in north west India. Waitrose Food Illustrated, a columnist for the Oldie and a regular contributor to various TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Godwin She is now based in Melbourne, but spends several months a year in the Indian Himalayas. newspapers and magazines, including the Daily Mail and the Scotsman. She lives in west TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein Wales.

Praise for Experiment Eleven Elisabeth Luard Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis ‘Gives us the crucial keys to our humanity’ Peter Pringle Mail on Sunday

‘A riveting and heartbreaking book’ New Scientist ‘One of the most powerful accounts In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young American PhD student working in professor Selman you will ever read of a mother’s Waksman’s lab, was searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at love for her child’ home. On his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz Daily Mail discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, at that time the leading killer among the world’s infectious diseases. As director of Schatz’s research, Waksman took credit for the discovery, belittled Schatz’s work, and secretly enriched himself with royalties ‘Unspeakably moving ... she deserves a PRICE: £9.99 PRICE: £9.99 PRICE: £8.99 from the streptomycin patent filed by Merck, the pharmaceutical company. For the first time, medal’ The Times FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback acclaimed author and journalist Peter Pringle unravels the intrigue behind one of the most ISBN: 9781408831427 ISBN: 9781408831076 ISBN: 9781408831069 important discoveries in the history of medicine. EBOOK: 9781408840177 EBOOK: 9781408840122 EBOOK: 9781408826065 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 PUB DATE: 25 Apr 2013 Peter Pringle is a veteran British foreign correspondent and the author of several non-fiction TERRITORY: WE TERRITORY: WE TERRITORY: WE books, including the bestselling Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They? and the New York Times TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Abner Stein TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Inkwell notable, Food, Inc. He has been on staff at The Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent and written for the New York Times and the Washington Post. He lives in New York City.

84 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 85 Darwin’s Ghosts The Man Within My Head In Search of the First Evolutionists Grahame Greene, My Father and Me Rebecca Stott Pico Iyer

‘Extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A personal and passionate book ... Captivating and intelligent’ Observer

Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that Ever since he first read Graham Greene’s work as a young traveller, Pico Iyer has been deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was fascinated by the writer’s restlessness and interest in questions of faith and belonging. From different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn’t his. Yet when he tried to trace Cuba to Vietnam – to Berkhamsted – Pico Iyer has found reminders of Greene’s life, fallen his intellectual forebears, he found that history had already forgotten them… Rediscovering into scenes that might have been written by Greene, written stories that recall Greene. Yet Aristotle on the shores of Lesbos and Leonardo da Vinci fossil hunting in the Tuscan hills, this as Iyer traces this obsession, another phantom image begins to emerge, one that he had is a masterful retelling of the collective daring of a few like-minded men, whose early theories long banished: that of his father, who comes to seem a deeper, more mysterious presence flew in the face of prevailing political and religious orthodoxies and laid the foundations for under his skin. PRICE: £8.99 Darwin’s revolutionary idea. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback Pico Iyer is the author of seven works of non-fiction and two novels. A writer for Time since FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831014 Rebecca Stott is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East 1982, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the TLS, the New York Review ISBN: 9781408831557 EBOOK: 9781408826997 Anglia and an Affiliated Scholar at the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science of Books, Granta, the Financial Times, and many other magazines and newspapers on both EBOOK: 9781408829028 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 at Cambridge University. She is the author of eleven books including three non-fiction books sides of the Atlantic. He lives in California and Japan. PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: COMM/EU EX-CAN, OM and two novels, most recently the bestselling Ghostwalk, shortlisted for the Jelf First Novel TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Faith Evans Award and the Society of Authors First Book Award. She appears regularly on TV and radio. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Janklow & Associates Rebecca Stott lives in Cambridge. Nesbit

Hedge Britannia Why Spencer Perceval A Curious History of a British Obsession Had to Die Hugh Barker The Assassination of a British Prime Minister

‘It had me craving a pair of telescopic topiary loppers even though I don’t own a Andro Linklater hedge’ Daily Mail ‘A beautifully written portrait of an overlooked prime minister and a fascinating Hedge enthusiast Hugh Barker journeyed across Britain to explore its remarkable variety account’ Antony Beevor of gardens and hedgerows. He discovers how hedges are among our most ancient monuments, meets hedge laying champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close which some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Hugh explains how the garden hedge range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant, John became associated with paradise, why the British army planted a barrier hedge hundreds of Bellingham, made no effort to escape. A week later, before his motives could be examined, miles long in India, and how the notorious enclosures during the Industrial Revolution turned he was tried and hanged. Here, for the first time, Andro Linklater looks past the conventional PRICE: £8.99 the country upside-down. Informative, revealing and anecdotal, it’s a sweeping history of image of Bellingham as a ‘deranged businessman’ and portrays him as an individual driven PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback Britain as you’ve never seen it before. by personal anxieties and by the raw emotions that convulsed his home town of Liverpool. FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408831120 But as the evidence accumulates, a wider, darker picture emerges – John Bellingham was ISBN: 9781408831717 EBOOK: 9781408825075 Hugh Barker has been a bookseller, musician, fruit picker, barman, publisher and writer, not alone in hating the prime minister. EBOOK: 9780802712417 PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 amongst other things. He currently lives in North London with his wife, daughter and several PUB DATE: 9 May 2013 TERRITORY: WE cats, surrounded by a small hedge that he can call his own. Andro Linklater is the author of Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Conville & the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy as well as The Code of Love and TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury Walsh several other books. He lives in England.

86 PAPERBACK NON-FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 87 The Juice The Phantom Army Vinous Veritas of Alamein Jay McInerney How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel ‘Even if you’re teetotal, it’s intoxicating’ Metro Rick Stroud Jay McInerney has written unique, witty, vinous essays for over a decade. Here, with his trademark flair and expertise, McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came varieties of wine, creating a collage of the people and places that produce it all over the together to form the Camouflage Unit. They were so successful that in August 1942 world, from historic past to the often confusing present. Stretching from France and South Montgomery ordered them to hide the preparations for the Battle of Alamein. In six weeks Africa to Australia and New Zealand, McInerney’s tour is a comprehensive and thirst-inducing two entire divisions were conjured from the sand, while real units, stores and men vanished expedition that explores viticulture, investigates great champagne and delves into a vast array into thin air. Then, right in front of the German’s eyes they made 600 tanks disappear and of styles, capturing the passion that so many people feel for the world of wine. reappear fifty miles away disguised as lorries. Rommel had been bamboozled by an army made of nothing but string and straw and bits of wood. PRICE: £8.99 PRICE: £8.99 Jay McInerney writes a wine column for the Wall Street Journal and is a regular contributor FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback to the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review and Corriere della Sera. He has written Rick Stroud is a film and television director, whose credits include Brideshead Revisited ISBN: 9781408831281 ISBN: 9781408833285 seven novels, including Bright Lights, Big City, and two non-fiction books on wine, including (associate producer) and Monarch of the Glen (lead director). He lives on a houseboat in EBOOK: 9781408834282 EBOOK: 9781408833278 the acclaimed A Hedonist in the Cellar. He lives in New York. Chelsea, London. PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 PUB DATE: 23 May 2013 TERRITORY: WO TERRITORY: COMM/UK EX-CAN, OM TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM

The Dirtiest Race in History Sit Down and Cheer Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final A History of Sport on TV Richard Moore Martin Kelner

‘Magnificent ... the breadth and detail is astonishing’The Times A fascinating history of sport on TV, Sit Down and Cheer delves into the relationship between money and sport The men’s 100m final at the 1988 Olympics has been described as the dirtiest race ever – but also the greatest. Aside from Johnson’s blistering time, the race is infamous for its Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. They are indivisible, like an old athletes’ positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and couple sitting in a teashop finishing each other’s sentences, and there is little doubt which is Lewis, and the repercussions still felt a quarter of a century on. Using witness interviews – the dominant partner. In Sit Down and Cheer Martin Kelner traces the development of this with Johnson, Lewis and Calvin Smith among others – Moore reconstructs the build-up to relationship from its humble origins at the 1960 Olympics, by way of the first-ever Match of the race, the race itself, and the fall-out when news of Johnson’s positive test broke and he the Day in 1964, through to the financial impact of Sky, right up to the high-tech gadgetry was forced into hiding. It also puts the race in a historical context, examining its continuing of our present-day viewing. Insightful and very funny, this is an entertaining exploration of PRICE: £8.99 relevance on the sport today, where every new record elicits scepticism. two major national pastimes. PRICE: £8.99 FORMAT: Paperback FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781408158760 Richard Moore is a journalist, author, and former racing cyclist. He is a regular contributor Martin Kelner has written a weekly column about sport on TV for the last 12 years, most ISBN: 9781408158746 EBOOK: 9781408171110 to the Guardian, skysports.com, the Scotsman and Procycling magazine. His first book, a recently the popular Screen Break spot for the Guardian. He lives in Wakefield. EBOOK: 9781408171073 PUB DATE: 6 May 2013 biography of the cyclist Robert Millar: In Search of Robert Millar won the Best Biography PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013 TERRITORY: WO award at the 2008 British Sports Book Awards. This is his fifth book. TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury

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Jonathan Phillips Houndmills, Basingstoke, Oxfordshire & Hampshire Bloomsbury Publishing VISHRUT Building Glorieta de Quevedo 9, 7ºC Penguin International Sales Hants RG21 6XS David Simm 175 Fifth Avenue Building no3, DDA Complex 28015 Madrid, Spain 80 Strand, 7th Floor Home: Tel: +44 (0)1256 302 692 Mobile: +44 (0)7714 849 550 New York, NY 10010 Ground Floor, Pocket C 6&7 Tel: 00 34 91 593 1306 London WC2R 0RL Fax: +44 (0)1256 812 521 [email protected] USA Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India Fax: 00 34 91 593 4711 Tel: 00 44 20 7010 3000 Export: Tel: +44 (0)1256 329 242 Tel: +1 646 438 6060 Tel: 00 91 11 040574957 [email protected] Fax: 00 44 20 7010 6697 Fax: +44 (0)1256 842 084 City of London, Northern [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] & Eastern Home Counties ITALY Robin Birch AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Penguin Italia srl THE MIDDLE EAST (Excluding UAE & North Africa) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Mobile: +44 (0)7775 891 729 Bloomsbury Publishing Pty Ltd GERMANY & AUSTRIA Via Vittorio Emanuele 45/a Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing 50 Bedford Square [email protected] Level 14 Penguin Books Deutschland GmbH 20094 Corsico Qatar Foundation London WC1B 3DP 309 Kent St Edith Strommen (Managing Director) Milano, ITALY Villa 3, Education City Tel: +44(0)20 7631 5600 Central London Sydney NSW 2000 Jutta Bogenschuetz (Customer Service Manager) Tel: 00 39 02 44 07 371 PO Box 5825 Fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5800 & Southern Home Counties Australia Justinianstrasse 4, D - 60322 Frankfurt/Main Fax: 00 39 02 4510 9413 Doha, Qatar www.bloomsbury.com David Foy Tel: +612 9994 8969 Tel: 0049 - 69-628081 [email protected] Tel: +974 44542431 Mobile: +44 (0)7824 435 717 Email: [email protected] Fax: 0049-69- 629293 [email protected] Sales [email protected] Website: www.bloomsburyanz.com [email protected] SCANDINAVIA & SWITZERLAND Holly Fordham Tamsin Pagella UAE (Sales Assistant) Midlands & Eastern Counties CANADA HOLLAND, BELGIUM & LUXEMBOURG Penguin International Sales Nusrat Ibrahim Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 5904 Max Bridgewater Penguin Group (Canada) Feico Deutekom 80 Strand, 7th Floor Penguin Group (Arabia) [email protected] Mobile: +44 (0)1858 555 682 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700 Penguin Benelux London, WC2R 0RL 306 Arjaan Tower [email protected] Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3 P.O. Box 3507 Tel: 00 44 20 7010 3000 Dubai Media City Marketing Canada 1001 AH Amsterdam Fax: 00 44 20 7010 6697 PO Box 500598 Eleanor Weil North England, North Wales, Phone: +416 925 2249 The Netherlands [email protected] Dubai, UAE (Marketing Assistant) Scotland and North East England Fax: +416 925 0068 Tel: 00 31 20 625 95 66 Tel: 00 97 15 66442768 Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 5827 Terry Lee Email: [email protected] Fax: 00 31 20 625 86 76 SE EUROPE , MALTA, GIBRALTAR, SLOVENIA, [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: +44 (0)7802 617 672 [email protected] HUNGARY, CZECH REPUBLIC & [email protected] SOUTH AFRICA CROATIA PAKISTAN AND SRI LANKA Publicity Jonathan Ball Publishers FRANCE Olivia Hough Please contact: Jess Thomas Ireland 10 – 14 Watkins Street PENGUIN GROUP Penguin International Sales (Publicity Assistant) Louise Dobbin Denver Ext 4 Penguin Group 80 Strand, 7th Floor Bloomsbury International Sales Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 5728 RepForce Ireland Johannesburg, 2094 Herengracht 418 II London, WC2R 0RL Tel: 00 44 20 7631 5919 [email protected] Tel: (+353 1) 634 9927 South Africa 1017 BZ Amsterdam Tel: 00 44 20 7010 3000 [email protected] Tel: +27 11 601 8000 THE NETHERLANDS Fax: 00 44 20 7010 6697 Rights Fax: +27 11 622 3553 or 622 7610 Tel: 00 33 148 74 02 23 [email protected] Jenna Eyers BLOOMSBURY Email: [email protected] Fax: 00 33 149 70 03 28 (Senior Rights Assistant) INTERNATIONAL SALES [email protected] ASIA Tel: +44 (0)20 7631 5871 50 Bedford Square SINGAPORE & MALAYSIA Eleanor Spall [email protected] London WC1B 3DP Penguin Books Singapore Jean-Luc Morel, Key account manager Penguin International Sales UK c/o Pearson Education South Asia Pte Ltd 83, Rue de Dunkerque 80 Strand, 7th Floor 23/25 First Lok Yang Road, Jurong 75009 Paris London WC2R 0RL Clare Pidsley Singapore 629733 France Tel: 00 44 20 7010 3000 (International Sales Assistant) Tel: +65 6319 9331 Tel: + 33 (0)1 48 74 02 23 Fax: 00 44 20 7010 6697 Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 5919 Fax: +65 6246 2063 Fax: + 33 (0) 1 49 70 03 28 [email protected] [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: Jean-Luc.Morel@ uk.penguingroup.com LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN Jo Slack Penguin Books Malaysia Erik Riesenberg (International Sales Assistant) c/o Pearson Malaysia Sdn Bhd CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE International Sales Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 5924 Lot 2 Jalan 215, Off Jalan Templer (Excluding Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Penguin Group USA [email protected] 46050 Petaling Jaya Republic, Croatia) 345 Hudson Street Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Grazyna Soszynska New York Tel: +60 3 7782 0466 Penguin Poland NY 10014, USA Fax: +60 3 7784 1739 Ul Topazowa 31 Tel: +1 212 414 2188 Email: [email protected] 62-081 Poznan – Baranowo Fax: +1 212 414 3354 Poland Email: [email protected] Tel: 00 48 61 8141514 Fax: 00 48 61 8141514 grazyna.soszynska@ uk.penguingroup.com

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