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Fiction

FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE by Tash Aw HARVEST by Jim Crace MIMI by WITH MY BODY by Nikki Gemmell HUNTERS IN THE SNOW by Daisy Hildyard UNEXPLODED by Alison MacLeod IN GOD’S HOUSE by Ray Mouton THE WILDINGS by Nilanjana Roy THE BONE SEASON by Samantha Shannon NARCOPOLIS by Jeet Thayil

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FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE by Tash Aw

UK: 4th Estate Publication date: February 2013 Bound proofs available US: Spiegel & Grau Length: 150,000 words

In this stunning new novel, Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai.

Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come for seems never to have existed. Gary is a successful pop artist, but his fans and marketing machine disappear after a bar-room brawl. Yinghui has businesses that are going well but must make decisions about her life. And then there is Walter, the shadowy billionaire, ruthless and manipulative, ultimately alone in the world.

In Five Star Billionaire, Tash Aw charts the weave of their journeys in the new China, counterpointing their adventures with the old life they have left behind in Malaysia. The result is a brilliant examination of the migrations that are shaping the new city experiences all over the world, and their effect on myriad individual lives.

Tash Aw was born in Taipei to Malaysian-Chinese parents. He grew up in Malaysia before moving to England to attend university. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, was published in 2005 to international critical acclaim. The work was longlisted for the 2005 Man and 2007 International Impac Dublin Award, and won the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award as well as the 2005 Commonwealth Writers ‘Prize for Best First Novel (Asia Pacific region). His second novel, the bestselling Map of the Invisible World, set in post-Independence Malaysia and Indonesia, was published in 2009 and described by TIME Magazine as a novel of "immense intelligence and empathy."

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HARVEST by Jim Crace

UK: Picador Publication date: March 2013 Edited MS available US: Nan A. Talese Length: 73,000 words

'A writer of hallucinatory skill' - John Updike

From the Whitbread-winning, Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of Being Dead and Quarantine, comes the new novel by Jim Crace, Harvest.

At the year’s harvest, for the first time, something is deeply wrong. Two plumes of smoke where there shouldn’t be fire, and strangers on the village borders. A man with a chart, mapping the common land. The old ways under threat.

Over the course of seven days, with affection, loneliness, humour and heartbreak, Walter Thirsk tells the story of his village: the story of a scattering, of a migration both mythic and intensely real, of a way of life now lost.

Alive with his love of landscape and language, this intensely beautiful novel sees Jim Crace at the height of his powers

Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine, Being Dead, The Devil’s Larder, Six (titled Genesis in the US) and All That Follows. He has won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, Fiction Award and the GAP International Prize for Literature. His novels have been translated into 26 languages. Being Dead was shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Fiction Prize and won the prestigious US National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award for 2000. In 1997, Quarantine was named Whitbread Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in .

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MIMI by Lucy Ellmann

UK: Bloomsbury Publication date: February 2013 Bound proofs available Length: 85,000 words

It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. Harrison Hanafan, noted plastic surgeon, falls on his ass. So far, so good. 'Ya can't sit there all day, buddy, looking up people's skirts!' chides a weird gal in a coat like a duvet: Mimi. She then kindly conjures the miracle of a taxi. While recuperating with Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat, Harrison adds items to his life's work, a List of Melancholy Things (puppetry, shrimp-eating contests, Walmart...) But when he receives a dreaded invitation to address his old school he enlists the services of a coach, and Mimi reappears, with all her curves and chaos. She and Harrison fall emphatically in love. And, as their love-making reaches a whole new kind of climax, the sweet smell of revolution is in the air.

For fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ali Smith and Caitlin Moran, Mimi is a rampage; a story of love, music, New York and art, and a vibrant call-to-arms for women and men.

Lucy Ellmann has won the , been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

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WITH MY BODY by Nikki Gemmell

UK: 4th Estate Publication date: 2011 Finished copies available US: Harper Perennial Length: 79,000 words

‘The story of one woman’s sexual reawakening’ – Vogue

In 2003 Nikki Gemmell created a sensation when, writing under the tag ‘Anonymous’, her novel The Bride Stripped Bare became a literary phenomenon, with its raw and unflinching depiction of female sexuality.

Now, eight years later, Gemmell returns with another tour de force, With My Body.

Smothered by marriage and family, a woman feels life slipping through her fingers. She becomes preoccupied with thoughts of her early education in love at the hands of Tol, a man like no other she has known. Memories of the affair – Tol’s appetite for her pleasure and her trusting desire – consume her. But the mysterious end to their intimacy left her confused and unwilling to love again with all her heart. Discovering the woman she once was is an erotic journey back into the past and an exploration of reawakened passion.

With My Body is exquisitely raw, emotional and bold, and deeply resonant of the classic French erotic writings of Colette, Nin and Duras – but with a modern and provocative twist.

Nikki Gemmell was born in Wollongong, Australia. She has written six novels: Shiver, Cleave, Lovesong, The Bride Stripped Bare, The Book of Rapture and With My Body, as well as Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart, an illustrated book celebrating modern womanhood, and Why You Are Australian: A Letter to my Children, an engaging look at the country of her birth. Her work has been internationally critically acclaimed and translated into many languages. In France she's been described as a female Jack Kerouac, in Australia as one of the most original and engaging authors of her generation and in the US as one of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time. Shiver, Cleave and The Bride Stripped Bare were bestsellers.

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HUNTERS IN THE SNOW by Daisy Hildyard

UK: Jonathan Cape Publication date: April 2013 Edited MS available Length: 80,000 words

After an historian’s death, his granddaughter returns to the Yorkshire farm where he once lived and discovers, amongst the papers in his desk, a final, unfinished work: his history of England.

Part story, part scholarship, the eccentric history links four journeys by four great men, separated by the centuries. The exiled King Edward IV lands in England and marches on London for one final attempt to win back the throne; Tsar Peter the Great, implausibly disguised as a carpenter, follows his own retinue around frozen London; the former slave Olaudah Equiano visits British coal-mines while conducting a promotional book-tour; and Herbert, Lord Kitchener mysteriously disappears at sea in 1916. The lives of famous men merge with the lives of men and women from ordinary families, including the historian’s own.

In Yorkshire, in the middle of winter, amidst the ruins of her grandmother’s farm, the young woman begins to discover more about her irascible, academic grandfather; her thwarted, feckless, hard-drinking grandmother, and their turbulent marriage. The novel is a biographical study, an ecological fable, art criticism and natural history, moving, inevitably, towards the present and the histories and the lies of the historians’ own lives.

Daisy Hildyard is from Yorkshire and lives in London where she is working on a PhD in seventeenth-century scientific literature. She has written for a number of publications including The Independent, Dazed and Confused and the Times Literary Supplement.

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UNEXPLODED by Alison MacLeod

UK: Hamish Hamilton Publication date: July 2013 Unedited MS available Length: 288pp

A novel of fine-tuned lyrical beauty and subtle emotional insight – about a family in the shadow of WWII

It's May 1940 and Brighton waits for the enemy to land on its beaches. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son Philip wait. In this singular year of tension and change, Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town. Philip is gripped by the rumour that Hitler will make Brighton's Royal Pavilion his English HQ, while Evelyn struggles to fall in with the war effort. Then she meets Otto Gottlieb, a German Jewish 'degenerate' painter, and life for all four grows as urgent as a trembler-fuse in one of the town's buried bombs . . .

Alison MacLeod was raised in Canada and has lived in England since 1987. She is the author of two novels, The Changeling and The Wave Theory of Angels, and of a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester and lives in Brighton.

Praise for Alison MacLeod's previous books:

'Alison MacLeod is a strikingly original voice. Her stories create intimate worlds and make the reader live in them with an intensity which is haunting, disturbing and above all beguiling' - Helen Dunmore

'Fragmentary evocations of desire and its mysteries, passing glimpses into minds and hearts: tender; pierced; translucent' – The Guardian

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IN GOD’S HOUSE by Ray Mouton

UK: Head of Zeus Publication date: August 2012 Finished copies available Length: 570pp

When promising young lawyer Renon Chattelrault agrees to defend the first Catholic priest to stand trial for child abuse, he knows it will be controversial. Most men would stand aside. But Chattelrault is not most men. With the evidence he has gathered during the defense of a man he abhors, he mounts a crusade to expose the vast conspiracy at the heart of the Catholic Church. A conspiracy which allows those who have abused children to continue committing those crimes. For twenty years, he lives and breathes a fight for justice that will cost him everything he has.

This book is more than a novel. It’s an event twelve years in the making. It’s a journey into the dark places of the mind. It’s a devastating testament to one of the most harrowing problems of our time. And it’s the story of one man’s crusade to bring justice to the victims of child abuse.

Ray Mouton was the defense lawyer on the first criminal case of child abuse by a Catholic priest. His actions ignited a scandal that still rages today.

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THE WILDINGS by Nilanjana Roy

India: Aleph Publication date: August 2012 Finished copies available Length: 93,000 words

In the labyrinthine alleys and ruins of Nizamuddin, an old neighbourhood in Delhi, lives a small band of cats. Miao, the clan elder, a wise, grave Siamese; Katar, loved by his followers and feared by his enemies; Hulo, the great warrior tom; Beraal, the beautiful queen, swift and deadly when challenged; Southpaw, the kitten whose curiosity can always be counted on to get him into trouble… Unfettered and wild, these and the other members of the tribe, fear no one, go where they will, and do as they please. Until, one day, a terrified orange-coloured kitten with monsoon green eyes and remarkable powers, lands in their midst—the first in a series of extraordinary events that threatens to annihilate them and everything they hold dear.

In what is bound to be hailed as the most imaginative and accomplished debut by an Indian novelist in years, Nilanjana S Roy has given us a novel that will be enjoyed by adults and older children alike.

Nilanjana Roy spent most of her adult life writing about humans before realizing that animals were much more fun; The Wildings is her first novel. Her column on books and reading for the Business Standard has run for over 15 years; she also writes for the International Herald Tribune on gender. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Caravan, Civil Lines 6, Guernica, the New York Times’ India blog, Outlook and Biblio. Some of her stories for children have been published in Scholastic’s Spooky Stories, & Science Fiction Stories and BeWitched. She is the editor of A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Food Writing.

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THE BONE SEASON by Samantha Shannon

UK: Bloomsbury Publication date: September 2013 Unedited MS available Length: 128,000

‘The new J.K. Rowling’ – The Sunday Times

The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of London, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. She works for the Seven Seals, a notorious gang of clairvoyants, as an envoy between secret cells. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare type of clairvoyant, and in her world - the world of Scion - she commits high treason simply by breathing.

It is raining the day her life changes forever. On her way home from work, Paige is confronted by Scion police, who suspect her of clairvoyance. She escapes, killing both guards with her spirit. Later that night, she is captured and transported to Sheol I, once known as Oxford - a city that has been kept secret for two hundred years. There she meets Warden, a Rephaite, part of a race that look uncannily like humans but are somehow very different. He is the single most redoubtable thing she has ever laid eyes on - and he will become her keeper. But can she trust him, and will she ever escape?

Samantha Shannon is 21-years-old and currently studying for a degree at Oxford University. The Bone Season is her first book.

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NARCOPOLIS by Jeet Thayil

UK: Faber Publication date: February 2012 Finished copies available US: The Penguin Press Length: 81,000 words

‘Narcopolis is a blistering debut that can indeed stand proudly on the shelf next to Burroughs and De Quincey.” - The Guardian

‘In ambition, Narcopolis is reminiscent of Roberto Bolaño; but it is Denis Johnson’s Jesus’s Son – the best junkie book of the last quarter century – that is its closer kin. Thankfully, Thayil creates something original and vital from those blueprints. One yearns for the next hit.’ – Stuart Evers, The Telegraph

‘Beautifully written, inventive and clear-eyed, Narcopolis deserves to be read and acclaimed.’ - The TLS

Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my...

Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count.

Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, Narcopolis portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.

Jeet Thayil was born in 1959 in Kerala, India. He was educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay, cities where his father worked as an editor and writer. His four poetry collections include These Errors Are Correct and English, and he is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. As musician and songwriter, he is one half of the contemporary music project Sridhar/Thayil. Narcopolis is his first novel. He lives in Bombay.

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NIGHT DANCER by Chika Unigwe

UK: Jonathan Cape Publication date: February 2012 Unedited MS available Length: 80,000 words

Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone. She has been left everything. But she's also inherited her mother's bad name.

A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Why did she flee her family and bring her daughter to a new town when she was a baby? What was she escaping from?

Abandoned now, Mma has no knowledge of her father or her family - but she is desperate to find out.

Night Dancer is a powerful and moving novel about the relationship between mothers and daughters, about the bonds of family, about knowing when to fulfill your duty, and when you must be brave enough not to. Presenting a vista of Nigeria over the past half-century, it is a vibrant and heartfelt exploration of one woman's search for belonging.

Chika Unigwe was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now lives in Turnhout, Belgium, with her husband and four children. She is the author of fiction, poetry, articles and educational material. She won the 2003 BBC Short Story Competition for her story "Borrowed Smile", a Commonwealth Short Story Award for "Weathered Smiles" and a Flemish literary prize for "De Smaak van Sneeuw", her first short story written in Dutch. Her stories have been broadcast on BBC World Service, Radio Nigeria, and other Commonwealth Radio Stations, and published in Wasafiri, The Guardian, The Literary Review and Moving Worlds. Her first novel, De Feniks, was published in Dutch by Meulenhoff / Manteau in September 2005; it is the first book of fiction written by a Flemish author of African origin. Her second novel, On Black Sisters' Street, was published by Cape in 2009.

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Non-fiction

WALKING HOME by Simon Armitage GHOSTS BY DAYLIGHT by Janine di Giovanni THE BOXER AND THE GOALKEEPER by Andy Martin AROUND INDIA IN 80 TRAINS by Monisha Rajesh A FREE MAN by Aman Sethi BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN by Tracey Thorn

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WALKING HOME: A POET’S JOURNEY by Simon Armitage

UK: Faber Publication date: July 2012 Finished copies available US: W.W. Norton Length: 74,000 words

Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England

The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, using his famous flair for storytelling to seduce friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lakes District in search of inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with enthusiasm and scepticism in equal parts as well as a wry humour all his own, has taken on Britain’s version of our Appalachian Trail … the Pennine Way. Walking “the backbone of England” by day (accompanied in turn by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars) each night he gives a poetry reading to a group of eager, or at least present, locals. Armitage reflects on the inextricable link between freedom and fear as well as the poet’s place in our bustling world. In Armitage’s own words “to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and submit to its logic, and to take up a challenge against the self.”

Simon Armitage is an award-winning poet who has published ten volumes of poetry and translations of both The Death of King Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He lives in Yorkshire, England.

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THE GREATEST CONSOLATION: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF SUICIDE by Katherine Frank

UK: Bodley Head Publication date: 2016 20 page proposal available

In this powerful and moving proposal, Katherine Frank explains how her book will explore not just the many faces of suicide and the ‘consolation’ of control and self-determination that it entails, but also the meaning and experience of self-inflicted death for those who choose it. Philosophers, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, historians, biographers, novelists and poets have all written on suicide. But with a few notable exceptions like Sylvia Plath, people who end their lives do so with little if any explanation. Frank will write about suicide as far as possible from the perspective of the person who commits suicide, and also of those close to them – family, friends, and professionals.

Katherine Frank was born and educated in the United States but now lives in England. She is the author of four acclaimed biographies, of Lucie Duff Gordon, Emily Brontë, Mary Kingsley and Indira Gandhi. She has taught at universities in West Africa and the Middle East as well as Britain. During six years of researching and writing Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi she spent extended periods in India. For Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and Daniel Defoe, she travelled to Sri Lanka and researched Knox's long captivity in 17th century Ceylon.

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GHOSTS BY DAYLIGHT by Janine di Giovanni

UK: Bloomsbury Publication date: July 2011 Finished copies available US: Knopf Length: 75,000 words

‘Di Giovanni writes with sadness, love and generosity about endings: about losing friends, colleagues, her father, her brother and her marriage … she turns the harsh facts of a life full of extremity and chaos into a story of defiant elegance’— The Telegraph

Janine and Bruno first fell in love as young reporters in the besieged city of Sarajevo. Years later – after endless phone calls, much of what the French call malentendu, secret trysts in foreign cities, numerous break-ups, three miscarriages, countless stories of rebel armies and a dozen wars that had passed between them – they arrive in Paris one rainy January to begin a new life together.

The remnants of their separate lives, now left behind, are tentatively unpacked into their shared apartment on the Right Bank. But having met in another lifetime – in another world, ordinary, civilian life doesn’t come easily. War has become part of them: it had brought them together, and, though both are damaged by it, neither can quite leave it behind. And the difficult journey that follows, through their mix of joy and terror at becoming parents, Bruno’s battle with post-traumatic stress and addiction, and Janine’s determination to make France her home, leads to an understanding of the fact that people who deeply love each other cannot always live together.

A searing, profoundly moving love letter, beautifully written, Ghosts by Daylight is a powerfully raw portrait of marriage and motherhood in the aftermath of war.

Janine di Giovanni has reported nearly every violent conflict since the late 1980s, and has made her trademark the depiction of the human face of war. She has won four major awards - two Amnesty International Prizes; Britain's Foreign Correspondent of the Year; and the National Magazine Award in America. In 2000, she was one of three Westerners inside Chechnya when Grozny fell, and she has been called "the finest foreign correspondent of our generation." Her focus is always on human rights and the civilian cost of war.

She has written four books, the last Madness Visible was optioned by Julia Roberts, along with her life rights. She lives in Paris.

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THE BOXER AND THE GOALKEEPER by Andy Martin

UK: Simon & Schuster Publication date: May 2012 Finished copies available Length: 87,000 words

Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: 'Hell is other people'. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War, and quickly became friends, comrades, and mutual admirers. But the intellectual honeymoon was short-lived. In 1943, with Nazis patrolling the streets, Sartre and Camus sat in a café on the boulevard Saint-Germain with Simone de Beauvoir and began a discussion about life and love and literature that would pull them all together and finally tear them apart. They ended up on opposite sides in a war of words over just about everything: women, philosophy, politics. Their fraught, fractured friendship culminated in a bitter and very public feud that was described as 'the end of a love-affair' but which never really finished.

Sartre was a boxer and a drug-addict; Camus was a goalkeeper who subscribed to a degree- zero approach to style and ecstasy. Sartre, obsessed with his own ugliness, took up the challenge of accumulating women; Camus, part-Bogart, part-Samurai, was also a self- confessed Don Juan who aspired to chastity. Sartre and Camus play out an epic struggle between the symbolic and the savage. But what if the friction between these two unique individuals is also the source of our own inevitable conflicts?

The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre vs Camus reconstructs the intense and antagonistic relationship that was (in Sartre's terms) 'doomed to failure'. Weaving together the lives and ideas and writings of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, Andy Martin relives the existential drama that still binds them inseparably together and remixes a philosophical dialogue that speaks to us now.

Andy Martin teaches French at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York, 2009-10. Previous books include The Knowledge of Ignorance, Walking on Water, Waiting for Bardot and Beware Invisible Cows.

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AROUND INDIA IN 80 TRAINS by Monisha Rajesh

UK: Nicholas Brealey Publication date: November 2012 Edited MS available Length: 96,500 words

"A wonderfully wry and witty debut. Crackles and sparks with life like an exploding box of Diwali fireworks." – William Dalrymple

Four months. Eighty trains. One flimsy rail pass.

In 1991 Monisha’s family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. But fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads, paying bribes, and the creepy colonel across the road, they returned to England with a bitter taste in the mouth.

Twenty years later, Monisha decides to return to India to allow the country to tell its own tale. She turns to a map of the Indian Railways and takes a page out of Jules Verne’s classic tale, embarking on an adventure around India in 80 trains, covering 40,000km the circumference of the Earth.

Indian trains carry over twenty million passengers every day, ploughing through cities, crawling past villages, climbing up mountains and skimming along coasts. Monisha hopes that 80 train journeys up, down and across India will lift the veil on a country that has become a stranger to her.

Featuring luxury trains, toy trains, Mumbai’s infamous commuter trains, and even a hospital on wheels, Indian Railways has more than a few stories to tell, not to mention a colourful cast of characters. And with a self-confessed militant devout atheist in tow, her personal journey around a country built on religion isn’t quite what she bargained for...

Monisha Rajesh is a London-based journalist writing for The Week. She has also written for TIME magazine, the Huffington Post and the Guardian. She was born in the UK to Indian parents. Around India in 80 Trains is her first book.

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A FREE MAN by Aman Sethi

UK: Jonathan Cape Publication date: October 2012 Finished copies available US: W.W. Norton (2012) Length: 80,000 words

‘Funny and disturbing.’ – Arundhati Roy

‘A stunning achievement.’ – Rana Dasgupta

A tour de force of narrative reportage

Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets.

In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf’s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free.

Aman Sethi was born in Bombay in 1983. He studied chemistry in Delhi, and journalism in Chennai and New York. He is currently the Chhattisgarh correspondent for The Hindu. A Free Man is his first book.

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BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN by Tracey Thorn

UK: Virago Publication date: February 2013 Edited MS available Length: 85,000 words

‘The Alan Bennett of pop memoirists. I loved her book so much I wanted to form a band, too. Preferably with Thorn.’ – Caitlin Moran

Tracey Thorn was one half of the band, Everything but the Girl but her story spans over 30 years in the music industry.

As in her song lyrics, her writing is honest, moving, perceptive and funny, and it offers a vivid and appealing portrait of her personal and artistic journey through the 1980s and 1990s, with the Marine Girls, Everything but the Girl and as a solo artist.

Tracey was just 16 when she bought her first electric guitar and formed a band. Bedsit Disco Queen tells the story of the highs and lows of a pop career, one that is still ongoing. Her latest album was released in 2010 to great critical acclaim.

This book will appeal to both those readers who love Everything But The Girl but also to those who want to find out just how a band evolves over 18 years, and why/how songs are written. It’s the story of how a strong female survives in the music industry

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