The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor Artist and Lover Ian Collins and Olivia Stewart £25 | PHOTOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY HBK, 245 X 243 PORTRAIT APRIL 2018 9781910376-94-2 298pp | ILLUSTRATED Elusive, enigmatic and beautiful, Joan Leigh Fermor (1914–2003) was also one of the nest photographers of her time. Although hailed and hired by John Betjeman and Cyril Connolly from the 1930s, and a remarkable recorder of the London Blitz, she most excelled in pictures of unspoilt Greece taken between 1945 and 1960 as visual notes and with no thought of publication. e scale of her achievement was only discovered a er her death in 2003. What emerges in her wide-ranging work is an eye of immense subtlety and empathy, as well as an entire absence of ego. e artist’s ease is reciprocated in the faces of Cretan shepherds, Meteoran monastics and Macedonian bear tamers. Her vision is intimate in portraiture and architecture, panoramic in landscape and most rmly focused in an abiding love of Greece. e archive of 5,000 images now in the National Library of Scotland and partly introduced in this monograph reveals, at long last, a 20th-century photographer of signi cance. Ian Collins is an art writer and curator. His books include monographs on John Craxton, John McLean and Rose Hilton and his recent exhibitions have been staged at the British Museum and Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. Olivia Stewart was a close friend of Joan and Paddy Leigh Fermor. She is currently director of the BellRock Script Lab and literary executor for the Paddy Leigh Fermor Estate. ................ NEW African Exodus Migration and the Future of Europe Asfa-Wossen Asserate Introduction by David Goodhart Translated by Peter Lewis £14.99 | CURRENT AFFAIRS, INT. POLITICS PBK, TRADE MAY 2018 9781910376-90-4 160pp | CHARTS, MAPS By 2050, Africa’s population is projected to be growing by 42 million a year, accounting for over half the world’s population growth. Many of the continent’s economically strained nations are ill prepared. A ican Exodus argues that a failure among European nations to acknowledge this demographic shi will result in unemployment, instability and the entrenchment of poverty in Africa that will see levels of migration across the Mediterranean dramatically increase. Our view of the Migration Crisis of 2015 has been skewed by the con icts raging in the Middle East, but the long-term in ux of refugees and migrants from Africa presents European nations with a far more complex and long-term problem. is challenging book asks why our view of Africa a troubled continent, but rich in so many ways remains so distorted. How can we combat the corrupt, authoritarian regimes that stymie progress and development? Why are millions eeing to Europe, and how have our governments been complicit in the migration crisis? Asfa-Wossen Asserate is a bestselling author writing in German. He has been the recipient of two of the most distinguished literary prizes in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize and the Jacob Grimm Prize. Author of King of Kings: e Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. ................ NEW Bealport A Novel of a Town Jeffrey Lewis £14.99 | FICTION HBK, TRADE APRIL 2018 9781912208-00-5 220pp ‘Je rey Lewis [is] an a entive and welcoming storyteller with a ne Old New England sensibility’ David Milch, creator of Deadwood An old shoe factory in a coastal New England town is up for sale again. When a private equity mogul with a fondness for the factory’s shoes buys it, he sets in motion a story with profound implications for the way we live today. e people of Bealport depend on Norumbega. eir livelihoods, their self-respect and their interconnectedness are all at stake. e shadow of the factory’s fate looms over the people of the town. Idiosyncratic and humane, the cast is the kind that small communities under threat produce. Bealport is a portrait of a place, at once sympathetic, mordant, unsparing, comic, tragic and universal, and of a way of life that is passing. It is a novel of a town, and to no small degree of every town in America and beyond. Je rey Lewis has twice won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Literary Fiction as well as two Emmys and the Writers Guild Award for his work as a writer and producer of the critically acclaimed television series Hill Street Blues. Author of Meritocracy: A Love Story, Adam the King, e Conference of the Birds, eme Song for an Old Show, Berlin Cantata and e Inquisitor's Diary. ................ NEW Life is Good Alex Capus Translated by John Brownjohn £10 | FICTION IN TRANSLATION PBK, B-FORMAT FEBRUARY 2018 9781910376-92-8 220pp ‘ e author’s feat is to describe a rare phenomenon in literature: a person who is satis ed with what he has’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Max has been married to Tina for 25 years. She is the love of his life but now he must come to terms with the fact she is to spend weeks away on a work assignment away, for the rst time, from their home, their children and their life together. Her absence might only be temporary but leaves a huge gap. Le contemplating life at the li le bar of which he is the proprietor, Max turns to the regulars who hang out there. When the stu ed bull’s head that has hung above the bar for years goes missing, Max is forced to act. is latest novel by Alex Capus is a hymn to trust, friendship and love, and is told with his trademark humour. Alex Capus is a French-Swiss novelist who writes in German. He is one of Germany’s bestselling novelists. Capus lives in Olten, in northern Switzerland, with his wife and ve sons. Aside from his own writing, Capus has also translated in German three novels by John Fante and the American cult novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Author of Léon and Louise, Almost Like Spring, A Price to Pay and Sailing by Starlight. ................ NEW The Power of Parliament Frances D’Souza and Tessa Jowell Edited and with an introduction by Claire Foster-Gilbert £7.99 | POLITICS, GOVERNANCE PBK, A-FORMAT JUNE 2018 9781912208-07-4 120pp HAUS CURIOSITIES SERIES e Power of Parliament is an account of Tessa Jowell’s experience of entering politics and making e ective sense of her role. Here, with Frances D’Souza, she gives fascinating insights into the workings of Parliament, the successful development of policy into legislation and also her interior life: how she protected herself against the morally corrosive force of power- seeking, what inspired her and what troubled her. e result is a masterclass in how to be a good politician. e Power of Parliament not only o ers a case study of the life and work of a politician, but also a ends to deeper questions about what is morally and emotionally demanded of our political class exposed as they are to the corrosive e ects of having to seek and retain power and of the institution of Parliament itself, in the face of public hostility and indi erence. Tessa Jowell is an English Labour Party politician and was secretary of state for Culture, Media and Sport between 2001 and 2007. Frances D’Souza is a British scientist and Lord Temporal. Claire Foster-Gilbert is a member of the British Medical Association’s Medical Ethics Commi ee and the McDonald Centre for public theology and ethics, Oxford. Published with Westminster Abbey Institute ................ NEW The Power of Whitehall Peter Hennessy and David Normington Edited and with an introduction by Claire Foster-Gilbert £7.99 | POLITICS, GOVERNANCE PBK, A-FORMAT JUNE 2018 9781912208-05-0 120pp HAUS CURIOSITIES SERIES e Power of Whitehall provides rich and informative observations about the nature of the Civil Service, its values and e ectiveness, what threatens it and how it should continue to adapt to a changing world. David Normington and Peter Hennessy address themes such as the importance of politicians trusting civil servants and the di culties that arise when they don’t; the role of special advisers and the extent to which they are a threat to the minister– civil servant relationship; and the e ects of select commi ees and the media. Civil servants are now exposed to the public in unprecedented ways, with both negative as well as positive consequences. e Power of Whitehall is an accessible introduction to the life of the civil servant as well as the Civil Service itself. Peter Hennessy spent 20 years in journalism and was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Analysis. He is the author of numerous works on British history. David Normington served as the permanent secretary of the Department for Education and Skills and then of the Home O ce. Published with Westminster Abbey Institute ................ NEW These Islands A Letter to Britain Ali M. Ansari £7.99 | POLITICS PBK, A-FORMAT MARCH 2018 9781910376-98-0 130pp HAUS CURIOSITIES SERIES In this fascinating contribution to the Haus Curiosities series, Ansari considers the idea of Britain as a political entity. Invented to integrate con icting nationalisms in an ‘ever more perfect union’, it has succumbed to particular resurgent nationalisms in a curious reversal of fortune. e idea of Britain sits awkwardly in the margins of this discussion, which considers some nationalists as suppressed minorities in need of a ention, and others as bigoted throwbacks to a more divisive age. Arguing the case for ‘Great Britain’ from the perspective of the political mythology of the British state with an emphasis on culture, ideas and narrative constructions Ansari makes the claim that Britain’s strength lies in its ability to shape the popular imagination, both at home and abroad.