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The Bricks That Built the Houses BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Kate Tempest 01/02/2016

Award-winning poet Kate Tempest’s astonishing debut novel elevates the ordinary to the EXTENT: 256 extraordinary in this multi-generational tale set in south London RIGHTS SOLD: Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are escaping the city with a suitcase Brazil: Casa de Palavra; full of stolen money. Taking us back in time, and into the heart of the capital, The Bricks That Built the Houses explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life France: Rivages; with a powerful moral and literary microscope, exposing the everyday stories that lie The Netherlands: Het behind the tired faces on the morning commute, and what happens when your best Spectrum uniboek intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions. Wise but never cynical, and driven by empathy and ethics, it introduces a thrilling new literary voice.

Kate Tempest grew up in south-east London, where she still lives. Her first poetry book, Brand New Ancients – a modern-day myth set in south London – won the Ted Hughes Prize in 2013, making her the first-ever recipient under 40. Her plays include GlassHouse, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted. She released an album, Balance, with Sound of Rum in 2011 and is currently working on a new album with producer Dan Carey, which will be released in 2014.

‘Powerful and merciful’ Ali Smith, Observer ‘Thrillingly good … so vivid it’s as if you had a state-of-the-art Blu-ray player stuffed into your brain, projecting image after image that sears itself into your consciousness’ Charles Isherwood, New York Times ‘Mesmerising … An everyday epic … Humanity is celebrated in all its terrible imperfections … a genuinely galvanising presence’ Guardian

‘Bleak, beautiful … Astonishing’ Sunday Times

‘A truly fresh and compelling voice’ Evening Standard

The Photographer’s Wife BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Suzanne Joinson 16/07/2015

British Mandate-era Jerusalem, 1920: Agnes is the young English wife of famous EXTENT: 320 Jerusalem photographer Khalil Raad, trained by the Armenian master photographer Garabed Krikorian. Inhabitants of glamorous mandate society, they mix with British RIGHTS SOLD: Colonials, exiled Armenians and Greek, Arab and Jewish officials at a time when Jerusalem was a relatively peaceful mix of nationalities. OPTION PUBLISHERS: Brazil: Intrensica The Photographer’s Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between both father and daughter and husband and wife, and betrayal by British officials during the inter-war Denmark: Turbulenz period. Agnes’s struggle as an artist – she is a photographer in her own right, but The Netherlands: House of © Simon Webb produces photographs under her husband’s name – and William’s psychological Books demons left as a residue from First World War come to a head during the riots in the France: Presses De La Cité city in April 1920. An uprising in which both Prue and Agnes, the Photographer’s Germany: Berlin Verlag Wife, find themselves very much caught in the middle. Italy: Elliot Japan: Nishimurashoten Jerusalem in 1920 is an evocative, atmospheric landscape and this is an intimate and Norway: Vigmostad & Bjorce heartbreaking story set against an historical backdrop which has profound resonance for world-stage events today. Serbia: Laguna Spain: Roca Suzanne Joinson works in the literature department of the British Council, and regularly travels widely across the Middle East, North Africa, China and Europe. In 2007 she won the New Writing Ventures Award for Creative Non-Fiction for Laila Ahmed. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and lives by the sea on the South Coast of England.

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We Are Pirates Bloomsbury USA Publication date: Daniel Handler 12/02/2015

A dark, rollicking, blisteringly entertaining human comedy, from the mega-bestselling Extent: 352 author AKA Lemony Snicket Rights Sold: Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer, and the owner of a large condo with a big view. But he'd like to be a rebel and a fortunehunter. Gwen is his daughter. She's fourteen. She's a student, a swimmer, and a best friend. But she'd like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.

Phil heads for the open road, attending a conference to seal a deal. Gwen heads for the open sea, stealing a boat to hunt for treasure. We Are Pirates is a novel about our desperate searches for happiness and freedom, about our wild journeys beyond the boundaries of our ordinary lives.

Also, it's about a teenage girl who pulls together a ragtag crew to commit mayhem in the San Francisco Bay, while her hapless father tries to get her home.

Daniel Handler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Why We Broke Up, Adverbs, The Basic Eight, and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour? and a sequence of children's novels collectively entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco.

Don’t Let Him Know Bloomsbury India Publication date: Sandip Roy 15/01/2015

A tender, powerful, and beautifully told story of displacement, For Here to Go marks the Extent: 240 arrival of a brave new voice in Indian literature Rights Sold: Amit, their son, is a successful computer engineer, a decent and caring boy. But after settling in San Francisco and marrying an American he struggles to straddle two cultures, feeling torn between his new life, and duty-bound to the one he left behind.

Told through a series of twelve interconnecting stories, spanning generations and moving between India and America, from Calcutta to San Fransico, For Here to Go is a novel about family and convention, the struggle between having what we want, and doing what we feel we should do, and the many sacrifices we make for those we love. Tender, powerful, and beautifully told, For Here to Go marks the arrival of a brave new voice in Indian literature.

Sandip Roy is the Culture Editor for the popular news portal Firstpost.com and blogs for the Huffington Post. He has been a long-time commentator on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio programme in the US and has a weekly radio postcard for Public Radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has contributed to various anthologies including Mobile Cultures, A Part Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America, Storywallah!, Contours of the Heart, Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India and The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India. He lives in Kolkata.

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Vernon Downs BLOOMSBURY READER PUBLICATION DATE: Jaime Clarke 15/4/2014

One fan’s obsession with the best-selling and controversial novelist, Bret Easton Ellis EXTENT: 171 Charlie Martens is desperate for stability in an otherwise peripatetic life. An explosion RIGHTS SOLD: that killed his parents when he was young robbed him of normalcy and he was shuttled from relative to relative, left alone to decipher the world he encountered in US: Roundabout order to cobble together an answer as to how he would live. Ever the outcast, Charlie recognizes in Olivia, an international student from London, the sense of otherness he feels and their relationship seems to promise salvation. But when Olivia abandons him, his desperate mind fixates on her favorite writer, Vernon Downs, who becomes an emblem for reunion with Olivia. Charlie’s quest takes him from Phoenix to New York City and when chance brings him into proximity to Vernon Downs, he quickly ingratiates himself into Downs’s world. Proximity invites certain temptations, though, and it isn’t long before Charlie moves dangerously from fandom to apprentice to outright possession.

Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the previous novel We’re So Famous and has edited various anthologies. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.

‘Moving and edgy in just the right way. Love (or lack of) and Family (or lack of) is at the heart of this wonderfully obsessive novel.’ – Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

The Inflatable Woman BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Rachael Ball 13/08/2015

Iris (or balletgirl_42 as she’s known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper EXTENT: 288 looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated by a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attempts of her RIGHTS SOLD: friends – Maud, Grandma Suggs, Larry the Monkey and a group of singing penguins – to comfort her, her fears begin to encircle her and all she has to cling on to is the attention of a lighthouse keeper called sailor_buoy_39.

An unconventional and magical tale of unrequited love, life, hope, comrades and delusion, The Inflatable Woman combines magic realism with the grit of everyday life, to create a poignant and surreal journey inside the human psyche.

Rachael Ball is a cartoonist and art teacher. She began her cartooning career doing regular strips for Manchester’s listing magazine City Life, and gravitated to work for Deadline, where she did monthly strips for four years. Her illustrations and cartoons have appeared in various publications including the Times Educational Supplement and the Radio Times. This is her first graphic novel. @rachaelcartoons

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Terms & Conditions BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Robert Glancy 13/02/2014

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen meets The Truman Show and The Pilgrimage of EXTENT: 272 Harold Fry in a debut novel about freedom and frustration, success and second chances, and the devils that live in the detail RIGHTS SOLD: Frank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank Germany: Droemer Knaur; believes he has lost more. He is missing memories – of those around him, of the Czech Republic: Host history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he Russia: Sindbad is a lawyer who specialises in small print**.

In the wake of the accident Frank begins to piece together his former life – and his former self. But the picture that emerges, of his marriage, his family and the career he has devoted years to, is not necessarily a pretty one. Could it be that the terms and conditions by which Frank has been living are not entirely in his favour***?

In the process of unravelling the knots into which his life has been tied, he learns that the devil really does live in the detail and that it’s never too late to rewrite your own destiny.

*apparently quite a serious one

**words that no one ever reads

***and perhaps never have been

Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved from Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge. He currently lives in New Zealand with his wife and children.

When Mr Dog Bites BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Brian Conaghan 16/01/2014

Hilariously touching and outrageously unforgettable: Mark Haddon’s Christopher Boone EXTENT: 320 meets Holden Caulfield on one *#@! of a journey... RIGHTS SOLD: ‘It’s the F-word – funny, foul-mouthed, fantastic!’ Charlie Higson Germany: Arche and Atrium; ‘I loved Dylan Mint. He made me laugh out loud and his tenacity had me rooting for Brazil: Rocco; him from the first page’ Stephen Kelman Denmark: Rosinante Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It

Number One: Have real sexual intercourse with a girl (preferably Michelle Malloy and definitely NOT on a train or any other mode of transport . . . if it’s possible at her house).

Number Two: Fight heaven and earth, tooth and nail, dungeons and dragons that people stop slagging my mate Amir because he smells like a big pot of curry. And, help him find a new best bud.

Number Three: Get dad back from the war before . . . you-know-what . . . happens.

Dylan Mint has Tourette’s. For Dylan, life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in – the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that escapes whenever he gets stressed. And, as a sixteen-year-old virgin and pupil at Drumhill Special School, getting stressed is something of an occupational hazard.

But then a routine visit to the hospital changes everything. Overhearing a hushed conversation between the doctor and his mother, Dylan discovers that he's going to die next March.

So he grants himself three parting wishes: three ‘Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It’.

It isn’t a long list, but it is ambitious, and he doesn't have much time. But as Dylan sets out to make his wishes come true, he discovers that nothing – and no-one – is quite as he had previously supposed.

Brian Conaghan was born in 1971. He was raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives and works as a teacher in Dublin. He is the author of The Boy Who Made It Rain and has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. He currently lives in Dublin with two beauties who hinder his writing: his wife Orla and daughter Rosie.

@BrianConaghan

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The Poets’ Wives BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: David Park 27/02/2014

From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women EXTENT: 304 most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandelstam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet. RIGHTS SOLD: Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet’s wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake – a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under Stalin’s terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her husband’s death as she seeks to fulfil his final wish.

Set across continents and centuries, and in very different circumstances, these three women confront the contradictions between art and life, contemplate their emotional and physical sacrifices for another’s creativity, and struggle with infidelities that involve not only the flesh, but ultimately poetry itself. They find themselves custodians of their husbands’ work, work that has been woven with love’s intimacies and which has shaped their own lives in the most unexpected of ways.

David Park has written eight previous books including The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner and, most recently, The Light of Amsterdam. He has won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster’s McCrea Literary Award, three times. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.

‘The Poets’ Wives is proof – if proof were still needed – that David Park is without equal as a stylist and a storyteller’ Glenn Patterson

From a Distance BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Raffaella Barker 08/05/2014

One of Britain’s favourite chroniclers of life and the rural dream returns with a EXTENT: 336 compelling story of a family divided by war. RIGHTS SOLD: In April 1946 Michael, a soldier, returns, to Southampton on a troop ship, brutalised by war and unable to face the life that awaits him. Impulsively, he boards a train to the western tip of Cornwall and in doing so, changes his destiny.

More than half a century later, Kit, an enigmatic stranger arrives in Norfolk to take up an unwanted inheritance – a decommissioned lighthouse. Content with his existence, Kit doesn’t wish to see anything the lighthouse’s beam illuminates. But the choice is out of his hands.

Mother of three Luisa is faltering in the flow of her life; as her children begin to fly the nest she feels suspended, without direction. But when Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the inevitability of Michael’s split-second decision at the Southampton docks.

Raffaella Barker, daughter of the poet George Barker, was born and brought up in the Norfolk countryside. She is the author of seven acclaimed novels: Come and Tell Me Some Lies, The Hook, Hens Dancing, Summertime, Green Grass, A Perfect Life and Poppyland. She has also written a novel for young adults, Phosphorescence. She is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, and teaches on the Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of East Anglia and the Guardian UEA Novel Writing Masterclass. www.raffaellabarker.co.uk

‘Raffaella Barker is the most romantic and generous writer. Her writing manages to be domestic and glamorous simultaneously, and this is her best book yet’ Louisa Young, bestselling author of My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

‘I love Raffaella Barker’s books’ Maggie O’Farrell

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Wake Up Happy Every Day BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Stephen May 13/03/2014

From the Costa-shortlisted author of Life! Death! Prizes!: an exhilarating modern fairy EXTENT: 368 tale of risk, reward and happy-ever-afters RIGHTS SOLD: Nicky has always known Russell was rich, but he has no idea how astronomically rich Russell is until his friend drops dead, on his 50th birthday, in his San Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness.

And now Nicky has come up with an uncharacteristically daring plan.

If Nicky were to become Russell and leave his old life lying dead on the bathroom floor, then he, his wife Sarah and their daughter Scarlett could start again. Only with better clothes, better hair, better stuff and a better future: everything that money can buy. Especially happiness.

But when the foundations of their glittering new existence start to crack, the impact of Nicky’s hasty decision begins to be felt by all those around him: by his daughter; by his own distant, confused father; by a young English woman who has come to America in search of her father, and by the mysterious Catherine, an ex-soldier who seems to take an unhealthy interest in Nicky’s movements...

Sharp, funny, warm and acutely observed, Wake Up Happy Every Day is a novel about dreams and delusions, family and friendship, and what happens if you do actually find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Stephen May's first novel,Tag, won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 2009 Welsh Book of the Year. His second, Life! Death! Prizes!, was published by Bloomsbury and was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’. Originally from Bedford, he now lives and works in west Yorkshire. www.sdmay.com / @RealStephenMay

The Hidden Light of Objects BQFP PUBLICATION DATE: Mai al Nakib 10/04/2014

A debut collection of short stories about adolescence, marriage and middle age from a EXTENT: 224 rising star of Middle Eastern literature RIGHTS SOLD: A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country’s growing hostility towards the West. A self-conscious Palestinian teenager is drawn into a botched suicide bombing by two belligerent classmates. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. A Kuwaiti woman returns to her family after being held captive in Iraq for a decade.

The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you may see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, yearnings for independence, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous stories carefully unveil the lives of ordinary people in the Middle East – and the power of ordinary objects to hold extraordinary memories.

Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University in the USA and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. The Hidden Light of Objects is her first collection of short stories. She lives in Kuwait, and is currently writing her first novel.

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Hollow Mountain BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Third Spike Sanguinetti Mystery 10/04/2014

Thomas Mogford EXTENT: 240

One of the most thrilling new voices in crime, Thomas Mogford, is back with a violent RIGHTS SOLD: and exciting adventure set in the dark heart of the Mediterranean

At the heart of Gibraltar lies the Rock. At the heart of the Rock lies darkness.

The late-morning sun beats down on the Rock of Gibraltar as bored tourists photograph the Barbary Apes. A child’s scream pierces the silence as she sees a monkey cradling a macabre trophy. A man’s severed arm.

In the narrow streets of the Old Town below, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti’s friend and colleague is critically injured in a mysterious hit-and-run. Spike must drop everything and return home to Gibraltar, where he is drawn into a case defending a ruthless salvage company hunting for treasure in the Straits.

As Spike battles to save his business, he realises that his investigations have triggered a terrifying sequence of events, and that everything he holds dear is under threat.

Thomas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for the European Parliament. His first novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series,Shadow of the Rock and Sign of the Cross, were published by Bloomsbury in 2012 and 2013 respectively, to great critical acclaim. He was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award for best new crime writer of 2013. He is married and lives with his family in London.

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Shadow of the Rock Sign of the Cross The first Spike Sanguinetti The second Spike Sanguinetti Mystery Mystery Thomas Mogford Thomas Mogford

The first in an exciting new crime series set in In the second of Thomas Mogford's exciting crime Gibraltar and Morocco, featuring lawyer Spike series Spike Sanguinetti investigates the underbelly Sanguinetti of Malta and all of its darkness and danger

A humid summer night in Gibraltar. Lawyer Spike A domestic dispute has escalated into a bloodbath. Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old friend, Solomon Hassan, waiting on his doorstep. When his uncle and aunt are found dead, Spike Sanguinetti must cross the Mediterranean to Malta Solomon is on the run. A Spanish girl has been for their funerals, leaving the courtroom behind. found with her throat cut on a beach in Tangiers But the more he learns about their violent deaths, BLOOMSBURY UK BLOOMSBURY UK and he is accused of her murder. He has managed the more he is troubled by one thing: what could to skip across the Straits but the Moroccan have prompted a mild-mannered art historian to EXTENT: 272 EXTENT: 240 authorities want him back. stab his wife before turning the knife upon himself?

RIGHTS SOLD: Spike travels to Tangiers to try to delay Solomon's RIGHTS SOLD: Reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Zahra, Spike extradition, and there meets a beautiful Bedouin embarks on a trail that leads from the island’s girl. Zahra is investigating the disappearance of squalid immigrant camps to the ornate palazzos her father, a trail which leads mysteriously back to of the legendary Knights of St John. In Malta, it Solomon. Questioning how well he really knows his seems, brutality, greed and danger lie nearer to the friend, Spike finds himself drawn into a dangerous surface than might first appear. game of secrets, corruption and murderous lies.

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Sidney Chambers BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: and The Problem of Evil 22/05/2014 James Runcie EXTENT: 352

Soon to be a major six-part series for ITV, Grantchester RIGHTS SOLD:

It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German bride Hildegard. But life in Grantchester rarely stays quiet for long.

Our favourite clerical detective soon attempts to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an ‘accidental’ drowning on a film shoot may not have been so accidental after all; and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a baby from a hospital in the run-up to Christmas, 1963.

In the meantime, Sidney wrestles with the problem of evil, attempts to fulfil the demands of Dickens, his faithful Labrador, and contemplates, as always, the nature of love.

James Runcie is the Head of Literature at the Southbank Centre, an award-winning film-maker and the author of six novels.Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, the first in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012. The second, Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night, was published in 2013. He lives in London and Edinburgh.

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‘We should welcome him to the ranks of classic detectives’ Daily Mail

Sidney Chambers Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death and The Perils of the Night James Runcie James Runcie

The first in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series The second in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series

Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty- 1955. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional and part-time detective, is back. Accompanied by clergyman and can go where the police cannot. his faithful Labrador, Dickens, and the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a from the roof of King's College Chapel, a case of arson Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a at a glamour photographer's studio and the poisoning of New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of Zafar Ali, Grantchester's finest spin bowler. a well-known jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery, the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Alongside his sleuthing, Sidney has other problems. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a Can he decide between his dear friend, the glamorous clergyman, means that you are never off duty... socialite Amanda Kendall and Hildegard Staunton, the beguiling German widow? To make up his mind Sidney takes a trip abroad, only to find himself trapped in a BLOOMSBURY UK BLOOMSBURY UK web of international espionage just as the Berlin Wall is going up. EXTENT: 368 EXTENT: 400

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Africa39 BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara 23/10/2014

Edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey EXTENT: 320

Discover the best new writing from Africa, by 39 writers under 40 – with an introduction RIGHTS SOLD: by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka

Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava.

Following the successful launch of Bogotá39, which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, including Daniel Alarcon, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize), Santiago Roncagliolo (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (short-listed for the IFFP), and Beirut39 which published Randa Jarrar, Rabee Jaber, Joumama Haddad, Abdellah Taia and Samar Yezbek, Africa39 will bring to worldwide attention the best work from Africa and its diasporas. Africa39 is a Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young African writers from south of the Sahara. It will be launched at © Daniela Silva the PH Book Festival in UNESCO's World Book Capital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in October 2014.

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is a freelance editor and critic, and was former deputy editor of Granta magazine.

Days of Ignorance BQFP Publication date: Laila Aljohani 3/7/2014

A Romeo and Juliet for our times - in the shadow of the Iraq War Extent: 200 Published in Arabic in 2007 as 'Jahilliya' this is its first English translation. Rights Sold: Is he dead? Medina, Saudi Arabia. A young man, Malek, has been brutally attacked for being of the ‘wrong’ race.

Malek’s lover, Leen, waits by his bedside and reflects on their relationship and her life as an unmarried, childless woman. All around her are voices of judgment and concern; in the twenty-first century it is still unforgivable, and dangerous, for a Saudi woman to enter into a relationship with a black man. In the distance US planes hover over Iraq, primed to embark on yet another senseless conflict.

Malek’s attacker was Leen’s brother.

Flinging wide a window onto the second holiest Islamic city – a city in which people observe daily prayers and preach equality and justice – Days of Ignorance is a novel about honour, hypocrisy, war and fear. And, glimmering beyond, beneath and behind it all, love.

Laila Aljohani is an award-winning Saudi Arabian writer of short stories and novels. She was born in the northern city of Tubuq, Saudi Arabia. She is the author of Always Love Will Remain (1995), which won second place at the Abha Prize for Culture, The Barren Paradise (1998), Days of Ignorance (2007) and 40 Fi Ma’ani Ina Akbar (2009). Days of Ignorance is the first of her novels to be translated into English.

Nancy Roberts is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature. Among her literary translations are Beirut ’75 by Ghada Samman, for which she won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award, Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasrallah, The Mirage by Naguib Mahfouz and The Man from Bashmour by Salwa Bakr, for which she received a commendation from the judges of the 2008 Saif Ghobash- Banipal

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Pig’s Foot Carlos Acosta Translated from Spanish by Frank Wynne

Ambitious in scope, yet intimate in tone, rippling with vitality and driven by passion, full of dark comedy, magical history and startling revelations, Pig’s Foot is a dazzling novel of revolution, family secrets, love and identity across four generations, evocative of Cuba’s tumultuous history.

Carlos Acosta was born in Havana in 1973. He has been a principal at the English National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, The American Ballet Theater and the Royal Ballet.

‘As his terrific first novel shows, he also has a genius for telling a story. In the most colourful South American tradition, the events are often violent and tragic, but the prose is vivid, fast-moving and often dazzling, and he has a cynical eye for the awful comedy of everything ... The pace leaves you breathless’ The Times RIGHTS SOLD: France: Editions KERO Helium Jaspreet Singh

A luminous, profound novel that wrestles with one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation. In this lyrical and haunting exploration of one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation, Jaspreet Singh has crafted an affecting and important story of memory, collective silences and personal trauma.

Born in India, Jaspreet Singh moved to Canada in 1990. He is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a former research scientist. His work was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asia Literature and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi and Farsi.

‘A compelling insight into the cruel and complex world of india’s recent internecine struggles ... A wonderfully well-woven tale that shines a light on fascinating and appalling events’ Michael Palin, Observer Books of the Year RIGHTS SOLD:

A Girl Like You Maureen Lindley

Following the life of half-American, half-Japanese Satomi Baker in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbour, A Girl Like You is a spectacular coming-of-age tale that sheds light on a dark moment in American history, and the difficulty of finding your home in the ruins of war.

Maureen Lindley was trained as a psychotherapist and also worked as a photographer, antique dealer and a dress designer before writing her first book,The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel. Maureen lives in the Wye valley on the Welsh borders with her husband.

‘An empathetic story, delicately told’ Kirkus RIGHTS SOLD: Poland: Proszynski

The Hired Man Aminatta Forna

A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna.

Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone and Britain and also spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of two novels, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water, and was recently appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. @aminattaforna

‘Unsettling and supremely masterful’ Independent

‘Arguably the best writer of fiction in this field’Evening Standard RIGHTS SOLD: The Netherlands: Nieuw Amsterdam; Spain: Santillana; Slovenia: Zala Publishing House

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Mimi Lucy Ellmann

By turns celebratory and scathing, romantic and dyspeptic, Mimi is a story of music, New York, sculpture, martinis, public speaking, quilt- stealing, eggnog and, most of all, love. A vibrant call-to-arms, this is Lucy Ellmann's most extraordinary book to date.

Born in Illinois, Lucy Ellmann was dragged to England as a teenager. Her first novel,Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. It was followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango? A Lament, Dot in the Universe and Doctors & Nurses.

‘It makes you long to chuck your job, gulp oysters and run naked through the surf. This is wonderful’ Sunday Times

‘Feels like Woody Allen reading Dr. Suess ... The writing is exquisite. I loved every minute’ Sunday Telegraph RIGHTS SOLD:

The Gamal Ciarán Collins

Skippy Dies meets The Butcher Boy, Ciarán Collins’ debut novel is a wickedly funny and heartbreaking modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Exhilarating and unforgettably poignant, this is a story like no other. This is the story of the Gamal.

Ciarán Collins was born in County Cork in 1977. He teaches English in a school in West Cork. The Gamal is his first novel.

‘Charlie is a sensitive oddball whose cheeky, strange, defiant and witty monologue is as disturbing’New York Times ‘Astonishing. Inventive. Playful. Unique. A novel to savour. Ciarán Collins is the real deal’ Colum McCann RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Berlin Verlag; France: Editions Joelle Losfeld

Gloria Kerry Young

Gloria is an enthralling and illuminating story of love and redemption, set against the turbulent backdrop of a Jamaica on the cusp of a new era.

Kerry Young, author of the Costa and Commonwealth Prize-shortlisted Pao, draws on her own mixed-heritage family history in Jamaica in this striking follow-up novel.

‘Uplifting ... A highly evocative portrait of a country in transition’ Mail on Sunday RIGHTS SOLD:

Wilderness Lance Weller

Epic, heartbreaking and poetic, Wilderness is the story of the origins of a nation. It is a tale of a horrific war and the great evil it ended, of the kindness of strangers and the unbreakable bonds of memory and love. Spanning nearly a century, this novel, on its deepest level, dwells on the identity of the American nation and its people.

Lance Weller has published short fiction in several literary journals. He won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

‘Epic ... A novel in which history’s sound and fury is drowned out at last by the silence of the wilderness’ – Financial Times RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Berlin Verlag; France: Editions Gallmeister; Italy: Keller Editore

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The Light of Amsterdam David Park

David Park is a truly extraordinary storyteller, who takes everyday stories and people and elevates them into something timeless and important. This extraordinary novel will excite reviewers and readers of literary fiction everywhere.

David Park has written seven books including Swallowing the Sun, The Big Snow, The Truth Commissioner and, most recently, The Light of Amsterdam. He was the winner of the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature and three-times winner of the University of Ulster’s McCrea Literary Award. He has twice been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year.

‘As Park's cast arrives in Amsterdam ... the momentum of the trip and Park's tumbling, lyrical prose keep you turning the pages’ Daily Mail RIGHTS SOLD:

Painter of Silence Georgina Harding

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction

An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original friendship. Painter of Silence captures the loss and the hope of a tragic time through the extraordinary vision of a mute outsider.

Georgina Harding is the author of two novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave and The Spy Game, a BBC Book at Bedtime; and two works of non-fiction: Tranquebar and In Another Europe. ‘It proves as smooth and serene as a slow incoming tide; the story washing over the pages until the reader is immersed in its depths. This is fiction of the most graceful kind’Independent RIGHTS SOLD: The Netherlands: Ambo Anthos; Turkey: Artemis/Alfa; Germany: Berlin Verlag; France: Denoel; Italy: Giulio Einaudi; Norway: Perleblekk Forlag; Romania: NEMIRA

A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar Suzanne Joinson

A stunning debut peopled by unforgettable characters, A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar is an extraordinary story of inheritance and the search for belonging in a fractured and globalised world, set in modern-day London and 1920’s Kashgar.

Suzanne Joinson works in the literature department of the British Council, and regularly travels widely across the Middle East, North Africa, China and Europe. In 2007 she won the New Writing Ventures Award for Creative Non-Fiction for Laila Ahmed. @suzyjoinson

‘A haunting, original and beautifully written tale’ Paul Torday, bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Berlin Verlag; Brazil: Editora Intrinsica Ltda; Italy: Elliot Edizioni; Denmark: Forlaget Turbulenz; Serbia: Laguna; France: Presses de la Cite; Spain: Roca; The Netherlands: The House of Books; Norway: Vigmostad and Bjorke; Japan: Nishimura Shoten

The Night Rainbow Claire King

The Night Rainbow is the story of Pea, the world she creates to win back her mother's love, and the stranger she trusts to save them both. Elegantly written, haunting and gripping, The Night Rainbow is a novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion and the dangers of an overactive imagination.

Claire King has found success and acclaim with her prize-winning short stories. Having graduated from Cambridge she now lives and works in France. The Night Rainbow is her first novel. @ckingwriter ‘Quirky, elegant and sweet: I loved it!’ Joanne Harris

‘Moving and gripping, elegant and spare ... a daring novel about a child faced with adult grief’ Maggie O’Farrell RIGHTS SOLD: The Netherlands: A W Bruna; Germany: Berlin Verlag; Italy: Piemme

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Life! Death! Prizes! Stephen May

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award.

Funny, bittersweet and unforgettable, Life! Death! Prizes! is a story of grief, resilience and brotherly love that sees nineteen-year-old Billy forced to be both mother and father to younger brother Oscar in the absence of their parents. But as Billy's obsession with his mother's missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that really matters...

Stephen May’s first novelTag was published by a small Welsh press and won the Reader’s Choice Award at the 2009 Welsh Book of the Year. @RealStephenMay

‘Stephen May's rites-of-passage novel is a painfully raw examination of the effects of loss and grief, and the confusion and difficulty of trying to be a male role model when you've never had a proper one yourself’ Daily Mail RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Berlin Verlag

One Thousand and One Nights Hanan al-Shaykh

Witty, poetic, erotic and brutal, One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by the young Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies, King Shahrayar believes all women are unfaithful and vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To survive, his newest wife Shahrazad spins a web of tales night after night, leaving the King in suspense when morning comes, thus prolonging her life for another day.

Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the contemporary Arab world’s most acclaimed writers. She is the author of the collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues and Only in London, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

'Comic, tender, mischievous ... A fearless, pioneering writer' Independent

'One of the finest writers of her generation'Financial Times RIGHTS SOLD: France: Actes Sud; Russia: Sindbad; Serbia: Vulkan Izdavastvo

Clay Melissa Harrison

A lyrical debut novel about innocence and experience, class and consumerism, Clay is an intimate and captivating portrait of life in the city, capturing the balance between young and old, between nature and development, between recklessness and caution. Clay is an utterly original and prize-worthy debut from a young, talented, British novelist.

Melissa Harrison is a freelance writer and photographer whose clients include the Guardian. She was the winner of the John Muir Trust’s ‘Wild Writing’ Award in 2010, and Clay is her debut novel. @M_Z_Harrison ‘Instantly beautiful in its calm and wise tone’ Robert MacFarlane

‘Fierce and tender’ Independent ‘The most powerful and original debut novel I’ve read for years’ AN Wilson RIGHTS SOLD:

Hinterland Caroline Brothers

Hinterland is an exquisite, unsettling novel about two child refugees in the aftermath of trauma; underage, homeless and invisible in a foreign land.

Caroline Brothers has a PhD in history from University College London currently lives in Paris where she writes for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. She has published a book, War and Photography, and also writes short stories. Hinterland is her first novel.

‘Presents us with the tragic reality behind the words “refugee” and “asylum-seeker” and brings home the terrible human consequences of war. Caroline Brothers' stark, unsentimental novel is one everyone should read’ Daily Mail RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Berlin Verlag; Italy: Newton & Compton

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Big Ray Michael Kimball

A short, potent novel of a son's complicated feelings in the aftermath of his obese father's death. Shot through with humour and insight that will resonate with anyone who has a complicated parental relationship, Big Ray is a staggering family story – all at once brutal and tender, unusual and unsettling.

Michael Kimball is the author of The Way the Family Got Away, How Much of Us There Was and Dear Everybody, and his novels have been translated into a dozen languages. His work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and in the Guardian, Vice, Bomb and New York Tyrant. ‘A surprisingly enthralling portrait of an abusive father who surrendered to self-loathing and a son’s struggle to forget him … This novel secures Kimball’s reputation as a literary innovator’ Time Out RIGHTS SOLD:

Ada’s Rules Alice Randall

Waterstone’s Book Club Pick

An irresistible story of losing weight, finding passion and falling back in love with the life you have. For anyone who has ever found themselves at a crossroads, with one hand in their pocket and the other in the cookie jar, Ada's Rules is a warm, funny and soulfully wise novel.

Alice Randall is the author of New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, and Rebel Yell. She is also an award-winning songwriter, and the first black woman in history to write a number one country song. She recently lost over fifty pounds following her own rules.

‘A beguiling tale’ Grazia RIGHTS SOLD:

Homer: The Odyssey Seymour Chwast

The Odyssey, one of the earliest works of European literature, tells of the long and painful return of Odysseus from the Trojan War to his homeland of Ithaka, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachos. In this vibrant new translation, in a very readable prose format, Martin Hammond complements his acclaimed translation of the Iliad to capture as closely as possible both the simplicity and the intensity of Homer’s epic.

Seymour Chwast is a graduate of the Cooper Union, where he studied illustration and graphic design. He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, and received the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Medal in 1985, was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of fame and has an honorary Ph.D in Fine Art from the Parsons School of Design. Chwast has illustrated more than thirty books for children and has created two previous graphic adaptations of classic works: Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. RIGHTS SOLD:

Canterbury Tales Dante’s Divine Comedy Seymour Chwast Seymour Chwast

The twenty-four tales, which range from high Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design romance set in ancient Greece to low comedy in world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations contemporary England, are adapted into graphic of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. novel form by Seymour Chwast – a pitch-perfect Now he turns to Homer’s Odyssey, one of the best- transposition of Chaucer's pointed satire. Chwast's known stories in history. The tale is one that begs illustrations relate tales of trust and treachery, of for visual interpretation, filled with mythic characters piety and bawdiness, in an engaging style that will we all know well: the Cyclops, the Lotus-Eaters, the appeal to those who have enjoyed The Canterbury cannibal Laestrygonians, the Sirens, the monster Tales for years, and those for whom this is a first, Scylla (beside the whirlpool Charybdis), Poseidon, delectable introduction. Athena, and Zeus.... Featuring a bold black, white, and blue interior design throughout, imbued RIGHTS SOLD: with his own sly humor, The Odyssey brings us a dazzling new vision of one of the epic journeys. RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Knesebeck; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; Turkey: Kronos

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Monet and the Water Lilies BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: 10/2015 Ross King EXTENT: 320 We have all seen—live, in photographs, on postcards—some of Claude Monet’s legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world, and are among RIGHTS SOLD: the most admired paintings of our time. Yet nobody knows the extraordinarily dramatic story behind their creation. Telling that story is the brilliant historian, Ross King’s, new Option Publishers: project—and in the process, he presents a compelling and original portrait of perhaps Brazil: Record; the most beloved artist in history. Canada: Doubleday; As World War I exploded within hearing distance of his house at Giverny, Monet was Germany: Random House; facing his own personal crucible. In 1911, his adored wife, Alice, had died, plunging Holland: Bezige Bij; him into deep mourning at age 71. A year later he began going blind. Then, his eldest Italy: Rizzoli; son, Jean, fell ill and died of syphilis, and his other son was sent to the front to fight Korea: Semicolon; for France. Within months, a violent storm destroyed much of the garden that had Hungary: Park; been his inspiration for some 20 years. At the same time, his reputation was under Israel: Kinneret attack, as a new generation of artists, led by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, were dazzling the art world and expressing disgust with Impressionism. Against all this, fighting his own self doubt, depression, and age, Monet found the wherewithal to construct a massive new studio, 70 feet long and 50 feet high, to accommodate the gigantic canvases that would, he hoped, revive him.

Using letters, memoirs, and other sources not employed by other biographers, and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist’s life, Ross King reveals a more complex, more human, more intimate Claude Monet than has ever been portrayed, and firmly places his water lily project among the greatest achievements in the history of art.

RIGHTS SOLD: Leonardo and the Last Supper Brazil: Record; Canada: Doubleday; Ross King Germany: Random House; Holland: Bezige Bij; The Last Supper is an image familiar to everyone, the story of its execution is not. In Italy: Rizzoli; the bestselling author of and Leonardo and the Last Supper, Brunelleschi's Dome Korea: Semicolon; Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling tells that compelling, behind-the-scenes story. Hungary: Park; Milan, 1496 and forty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci has a reputation for taking on Israel: Kinneret commissions and failing to complete them. He is in a state of professional uncertainty and financial difficulty. For eighteen months he has been painting murals in both the Sforza Castle in Milan and the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The latter project will become the Last Supper, a complex mural that took a full three years to complete on a surface fifteen feet high by twenty feet wide. Not only had he never attempted a painting of such size, but he had no experience whatsoever in painting in the physically demanding medium of fresco.

For more than five centuries theLast Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark has called it ‘the keystone of European art’, and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. Even today, according to Clark, we regard the painting as ‘more a work of nature than a work of man’. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic ‘miracle’, which was created against the backdrop of momentous events both in Milan and in the life of Leonardo himself.

In Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King tells the complete story of this creation of this mural: the adversities suffered by the artist during its execution; the experimental techniques he employed; the models for Christ and the Apostles that he used; and the numerous personalities involved – everyone from the Leonardo’s young assistants to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who commissioned the work. Ross King’s book is both a record of Leonardo da Vinci’s last five years in Milan and a ‘biography’ of one of the most famous works of art ever painted.

Ross King is the highly praised author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. ‘The story of Leonardo's creation of the work has now found an ideal chronicler in Ross King ... King has the gift of clear, unpretentious exposition, and an instinctive narrative flair’Guardian

‘Extraordinary’ Sunday Times Must Reads

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The Impulse Society BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: Life in an Age of Instant Gratification 02/09/2014

Paul Roberts EXTENT: 320

An era-defining book about how our technologically driven economy has pushed our RIGHTS SOLD: “culture of narcissism” into hyper-drive over the last three decades—and what we can Korea: Minumsa still do about it.

The Impulse Society is an ambitious, audacious work that gathers together a series of familiar, but seemingly disparate stories into a single master narrative for our troubled times. Central here: how our entire socioeconomic system has become one giant engine devoted to the selfish, short-term impulses of individuals, CEOs and politicians—while ignoring the pressing, long-term needs of society. Combining illuminating analysis with colorful, telling anecdote, Paul Roberts lays out the history and geography of this new social order and charts a clear pathway toward a different and brighter future.

Drawing on the fields of economics, psychology, history and political philosophy, Roberts shows how we have become so obsessed with “maximizing returns” that we embrace virtually any means—any technology, personal tactic, or corporate strategy— that can deliver, regardless of consequences. Corporate executives maximize returns without regard for social impacts. Political leaders score quick points while destroying common ground. Consumers retreat into personalized worlds that render collective action all but impossible. The results: financial volatility, failing health systems, environmental degradation, political paralysis, and a deep and growing society-wide disaffection.

The Impulse Society gives us an indispensable new lens through which to view a world often seen only in fragments. It is a wake up call that may be loud enough, and smart enough, to inspire action.

Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil and The End of Food. As a journalist, he has written for The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian, and his work has appeared in Slate, The New Republic, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. Roberts also appears regularly on TV and radio. He lives in Washington State, USA.

Farmageddon BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The True Cost of Cheap Meat 30/01/2014

Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott EXTENT: 448

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has RIGHTS SOLD: Japan: Nikkei become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food BP chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.

* Our health is under threat: half of all antibiotics used worldwide are given to industrially farmed animals, contributing to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

* Wildlife is being systematically destroyed: bees are now trucked across the States (and even airfreighted from Australia) to pollinate the fruit trees in the vast orchards of California, where a chemical assault has decimated the wild insect population

* Epidemic waste underpins the mega-farming model: while food prices rocket, surplus food is thrown away

Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world – from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future.

Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming.

Isabel Oakeshott is Political Editor at the Sunday Times and commentator on BBC One’s Sunday Politics show.

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The Emperor Far Away BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Travels at the Edge of China 14/08/2014

David Eimer EXTENT: 336

A revelatory and groundbreaking insight into the divisions within modern-day China, RIGHTS SOLD: The Emperor Far Away exposes the dark side of the world's new superpower Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China’s borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage ‘the mountains are high and the Emperor far away’, meaning Beijing’s grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate. Travelling through China’s most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.

David Eimer is the Beijing correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, while also writing for the Daily Telegraph, and has been living in China for the past five years. He has written pieces for a number of publications, including Time Out, the Independent and The Times, and has also written guidebooks about Beijing, Shanghai and China for Lonely Planet. He continues to live in and report from Beijing.

In Manchuria BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: Journeys Across China’s Northeast Frontier 07/04/2015

Michael Meyer EXTENT: 352

A vivid and insightful portrait of China today, as featured on NPR’s This American Life, RIGHTS SOLD: by the acclaimed author of The Last Days of Old Beijing.

In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer’s In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China’s northeast territory—its breadbasket and industrial engine. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife’s family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing—here in the form of a privately-held rice company that has built new roads, opened a popular resort, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.

Amplifying the story of family and of Wasteland, Meyer takes us on a journey across Manchuria’s past, a history that explains much about contemporary China—from the fall of the last emperor to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, to Japanese occupation and Communist victory. Through vivid local characters, Meyer illuminates the remnants of the imperial Willow Palisade, Russian and Japanese colonial cities and railways, and the POW camp into which a young American sergeant parachuted in order to release survivors of the Bataan Death March. As with his previous book, The Last Days of Old Beijing, Michael Meyer has produced a rich and original account of contemporary China and its people.

Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. The winner of a Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing, Meyer has also won a Whiting Writers Award for nonfiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Slate, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He lives in Pittsburgh.

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The Darjeeling Quartet BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: Jeff Koehler 12/05/2015

The past, present, and future of India's most exclusive brew EXTENT: 288 Darjeeling’s tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, RIGHTS SOLD: the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, the linear rows of brilliant green, waist-high shrubs that coat the steep slopes and valleys around this Victorian “hill town” produce only a fraction of the world’s tea, and less than 1 percent of India’s total. Yet the tea from that limited crop, with its characteristic bright, amber-coloured brew and muscatel flavours—delicate and flowery, hinting of apricots and peaches—is generally considered the best in the world.

This is the story of how Darjeeling tea began, jump-started the largest tea industry on the globe under Imperial British rule, and came to produce the highest-quality tea leaves anywhere in the world, beginning with one of the most audacious acts of corporate theft in history.

It is also the story of how the industry spiralled into decline by the end of the twentieth century, and a front-line fight against the devastating effects of climate change and decades of harming farming practices, a fight that is being fought in some tea gardens—and, astonishingly, won—using radical methods.

Jeff Koehler is an American writer, traveller, and cook. He has written many books and articles on food and culture including his most recent book Morocco: A Culinary Journey with Recipes from the Spice-Scented Markets of Marrakech to the Date-Filled Oasis of Zagora. He has also been a photographer for multiple cookbooks such as Rice, Pasta, Couscous: The Heart of the Mediterranean Kitchen, La Paella: Deliciously Authentic Recipes from Spain’s Mediterranean Coast, and Spain: Recipes and Traditions from the Verdant Hills of the Basque Country to the Coastal Waters of Andalucia, named a New York Times Notable Book of 2013. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Varanasi BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Piers Moore Ede 12/02/2015

From the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Honey and Dust: a captivating memoir of EXTENT: 320 a year spent in the holy city of Varanasi RIGHTS SOLD: ‘Perhaps for all of us there is a country, and within that a single place, in which some essential element of the world is illuminated for the first time …

I had come to Varanasi to understand, if I could, this most ancient of cities; to breathe in the pungent smells of its labyrinthine streets. I wanted to see kites flying on the flat roofs, and buffalos submerged in the muddy river. I hoped for conversations at paan stalls that might illuminate the threads that pass – as if from a weaver’s loom – through the interconnected pieces of this Hindu Jerusalem. I yearned for the coolness of its temple stone beneath my feet, the tones of a conch shell blown at dawn.’ Piers Moore Ede first fell in love with Varanasi when he passed through it on his way to Nepal in search of wild honey hunters. In the decade that followed it continued to exert its pull on him, and so he returned to live there, to ‘press his ear to its heartbeat’ and to discover what it is that makes the spiritual capital of India so unique.

In this intoxicating ‘city of 10,000 widows’, where funeral pyres smoulder beside the river in which thousands of pilgrims bathe, and holiness and corruption walk side by side, Piers encounters sweet-makers and sadhus, mischievous boatmen and weary bureaucrats, silk weavers and musicians, and discovers a remarkable interplay between death and life, light and dark.

For the many fans of the travel writing of William Dalrymple, Colin Thubron and Rory Stewart. An intimate and beguiling portrait of a kaleidoscopic city caught in the crucible of change. For anyone who has ever been or ever dreamed of going to India and is fascinated by this vibrant, contradictory country.

Piers Moore Ede has worked as a farmer, boat driver, surfing instructor, poetry teacher and baker. He has travelled widely, and contributed to many literary, travel and environmental publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, Ecologist, Traveller and Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Honey and Dust, winner of a D. H. Lawrence Prize for Travel Writing, and All Kinds of Magic. He lives in Somerset. http://piersmooreede.blogspot.co.uk/

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Mecca: The Sacred City Bloomsbury UK Publication date: 25/9/2014 by Ziauddin Sardar Extent: 448 A groundbreaking, accessible and passionate journey to the spiritual home of Islam, from its religious roots and through the layers of its fascinating history to the place and Rights Sold: symbol it is today

Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray and the site of pilgrimage which annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet Mecca’s importance goes beyond religion. What happens in Mecca and how Muslims think about the political and cultural history of Mecca has had and continues to have a profound influence on world events to this day.

In this captivating book, Ziauddin Sardar unravels the significance of Mecca. Tracing its history, from its origins as a ‘barren valley’ in the desert to its evolution as a trading town and sudden emergence as the religious centre of a world empire, Sardar examines the religious struggles and rebellions in Mecca that have powerfully shaped Muslim culture. Interweaving stories of his own pilgrimages to Mecca with those of others, Sardar offers a unique insight into not just the spiritual aspects of Mecca – the passion, ecstasy and longing it evokes – but also the tension between heritage and modernity that has characterised its history. He unpeels the physical, social and cultural dimensions that have helped transform the city and also, though accounts of such Orientalist travellers as Richard Burton and Charles Doughty, the strange fascination that Mecca has long inspired in the Western imagination. And, ultimately, he explores what this tension could mean for Mecca’s future.

An illuminative, lyrical and witty blend of history, reportage and memoir, this astounding book reflects all that is profound and enlightening, curious and amusing about Mecca and takes us behind the closed doors to one of the most important places in the world today.

Ziauddin Sardar was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hackney. A writer, broadcaster and cultural critic, he is one of the world’s foremost Muslim intellectuals and author of more than forty-five books on Islam, science and contemporary culture. He has been listed by Prospect magazine as one of Britain’s top 100 intellectuals. Currently he is Visiting Professor of Postcolonial Studies at City University, editor of Futures, a monthly journal on policy, planning and futures studies, a columnist for the New Statesman and a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

‘One of the best-known Muslim public intellectuals in the world today ... A pioneering writer on Islam’ Guardian on Muhammad: All that Matters

Unspeakable Things BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Sex, Lies and Revolution 03/07/2014

Laurie Penny EXTENT: 288

Smart, clear-eyed and irreverent, Unspeakable Things is a fresh look at gender and RIGHTS SOLD: power in the twenty-first century which asks difficult questions about dissent and desire, money and masculinity, sexual violence, menial work, mental health, queer politics and the Internet.

Journalist and activist Laurie Penny draws on a broad history of feminist thought and her own experience in radical subcultures in Britain and America to debate cultural phenomena from economic justice and the Occupy movement. Through eating disorders and social control, to online dating and freedom of speech. A new sexual revolution is starting – and it’s up to us to fight for the future.

Laurie Penny is a writer and journalist. She writes for Vice, the Guardian and many other publications, is a columnist and Contributing Editor at the New Statesman magazine and Editor-at-Large at cult New York literary project The New Inquiry. At the age of twenty-three she was the youngest person to be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for her blog 'Penny Red' which was a word-of-mouth hit. © Jon Cartwright She has reported on radical politics and feminism from around the world, working with activists from the Occupy movement and the European youth uprisings. She was born in 1986 and lives in London.

@PennyRed

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A Level Field BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Improving Health in an Unequal World 23/04/2015

by Michael Marmot EXTENT: 320

The greatest killer in the world is not one of the major diseases such as malaria, nor RIGHTS SOLD: even is it poverty viewed in isolation. The greatest killer is social injustice and the attendant health inequalities, both those between nations and those within nations. In Afghanistan, for instance, 1 in 10 women will die of causes relating to childbirth; by contrast in Ireland only 0.00002% of women will die of childbirth complications. In Somalia men live on average 28 years fewer than their British counterparts; but within Britain men living in the Glasgow suburb of Calton will also on average die 28 years sooner than their counterparts living in Lenzie, a richer quarter in the same city.

On the face of it, there is nothing surprising here: poverty leads to materially worse health outcomes. But, so Sir Michael Marmot argues, the picture is more complicated than that. Where you stand in the socio-economic scale has a direct bearing on health: © Charles Gervais, Both Hemispheres Photography individuals on median income have worse outcomes than those further up the income scale; those with PhDs have better outcomes than those only with Masters degrees. But this is not simply a matter of relative incomes: national income in Russia is five times higher than in India but Russian men have higher mortality than do Indian men. In turn, India is richer than Bangladesh but Bangladesh has better health.

Unravelling what is going on, and offering a manifesto for tackling it, is the subject of Michael Marmot’s new book. In it he argues that health is not solely a matter of access to healthcare, but is about education, employment and working conditions, sustainable environments, minimum incomes for healthy living – that governments have a duty in formulating policy to consider social benefit and impact as well as economics. In an age of austerity, when governments around the world are confronting limited resources and rising social spending, Michael Marmot’s book offers a new way of looking at how we live.

Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL, a leading intellectual both in the UK and globally. His previous books include Status Syndrome (Bloomsbury, 2004). He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, whose commissioners included former heads of state, academics, leaders of civil society and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. His recommendations have been adopted by the World Health Assembly and taken up by many countries. The British Government appointed him to conduct a review of social determinants and health inequalities. The Marmot Review and its recommendations are now being implemented in three-quarters of local authorities in England. WHO Euro published his Review of Social Determinants and the Health Divide in Europe in October this year. He was President of the BMA 2010-11.

Doped Up BLOOMSBURY PRESS PUBLICATION DATE: Sam Quinones 10/02/2015

An explosive and shocking account of American addicts and black tar heroin in the EXTENT: 320 heartland RIGHTS SOLD: Doped Up tells an urgent, shocking, very human story. Sam Quinones chronicles in fascinating detail how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico with no history of heroin use created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin—the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin—to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before—from Charlotte, NC and Huntington, WVA, to Salt Lake City and Portland, OR—were overrun with it. Local police and residents were stunned. How could heroin, long considered a drug found only in the dense, urban environments along the East Coast, and trafficked into the United States by enormous Colombian drug cartels, be so incredibly ubiquitous in the American heartland? Who was bringing it here, and perhaps more importantly, why were so many townspeople suddenly eager for the comparatively cheap high it offered?

With penetrating insight and a dramatic narrative flair,Doped Up is a scathing and incendiary account of drug culture and addiction spreading to every part of the American landscape.

Sam Quinones is a journalist, author and storyteller whose two acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction about Mexico and Mexican immigration made him, according to the SF Chronicle Book Review, "the most original writer on Mexico and the border."

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Gallipoli BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Ill-fated 1915 campaign in Soldiers’ Words 12/03/2015 and Pictures EXTENT: 320 by Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers RIGHTS SOLD: April 2015 marks the hundredth anniversary of one of the most famous and one of the most ill-fated campaigns of the Great War, when British, French, Australian and New Zealand Forces invaded the Turkish peninsula at Gallipoli in an audacious but ultimately doomed attempt to knock Germany’s ally Turkey out of the Great War.

When Allied forces stormed ashore on the beaches of Gallipoli, it was believed that Turkish troops would put up relatively ineffectual resistance and soon melt away. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The Turks were experienced soldiers; many had taken part in the Balkan Wars just two years earlier. These men were in no mood to give ground to an enemy who invaded their homeland. The landings were a disaster, with only narrow bridgeheads taken.

The fighting raged for nine months as the Allied troops attempted time and again to break out, and the losses on both sides were immense. Supply lines were stretched to breaking point, and the lack of water and insanitary conditions allowed disease to spread like wildfire amongst the troops who continued to man the line even though stricken with dysentery. Only in January 1916 were the Allied troops evacuated in what were, ironically, the best laid plans of the entire campaign.

Drawing on previously unpublished written material, including new and detailed eyewitness descriptions of the Anzac landings, and illustrated with never-before-seen images of the conflict taken by the soldiers on both sides themselves – often on tiny Vest Pocket Kodak cameras – this unique book reveals the bitter, tragic experience of Galipolli as never before.

Richard van Emden has interviewed more than 270 veterans of the Great War and has written fifteen books on the subject includingThe Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy, both of which were top ten bestsellers. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser, Veterans, Britain’s Last Tommies, the award-winning Roses of No Man’s Land, Britain’s Boy Soldiers, A Poem for Harry, War Horse: The Real Story and most recently, Teenage Tommies with Fergal Keane. His most recent book is the picture-led Tommy’s War: The Western Front in Soldiers Words and Pictures. He lives in London.

Tommy’s War BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Western Front in Soldiers’ Words and 05/06/2014 Photographs EXTENT: 384 Richard van Emden RIGHTS SOLD: Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally.

Now for the first time, one of Britain’s leading military historians, Richard van Emden tells the story of the Great War exclusively through the words and images of soldiers on the ground.

In Tommy’s War, he gathers some of the very best first-hand material written about the War, some of it published at the time and forgotten, some of it previously unpublished, but all of it wonderfully descriptive and immediate, and often wickedly funny. Tommy humour, frequently very dark, played a vital part in men’s mental survival, particularly in times of great stress. Illustrating these eyewitness accounts with soldiers’ own photographs taken on privately owned cameras, often tiny Vest Pocket Kodaks – the smart phones of their day – van Emden has created an entirely new and fresh history of the Great War, giving us a glimpse of ‘Tommy Atkins’ as he has never been seen before.

23 Kidnap in Crete BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The True Story of the Abduction of General Kreipe 07/05/2015 and Its Consequences EXTENT: 320 Rick Stroud RIGHTS SOLD: The extraordinary story of the kidnapping of a Nazi general in World War Two by Patrick Leigh Fermor and the SOE, and its consequences for the inhabitants of Crete.

This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944 and how, for thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountains as they headed for the coast and a rendezvous with a Royal Navy launch waiting to spirit the general to Cairo.

Rick Stroud, whose Phantom Army of Alamein won plaudits for its meticulous research and its lightness of touch in the telling, brings these same gifts to bear on this new project. From the adrenalin rush of the kidnapping, to the help provided by the partisans in the mountains, he explains the overall context of Crete's role in World War Two, Churchill’s determination to restore the Royal family and keep the Communists out of Greece, and reveals the devastating consequences of this mission for the Cretan people.

There have been other accounts – notably Ill Met By Moonlight by William Stanley Moss (Leigh Fermor's second in command), which was later made into a Powell and Pressburger film, starring Dirk Bogarde – butKidnap in Crete is the first book to draw on all the sources, notably those in Crete as well as Leigh Fermor’s SOE reports, and the letters and private papers of SOE’s operatives in London and Edinburgh.

Rick Stroud is a writer and television director who has directed such actors as Pierce Brosnan, John Hurt, Ian Holme, David Suchet, Celia Imrie and Joanna Lumley. Earlier in his career he was the associate producer of Brideshead Revisited. He has won an Emmy and been nominated for a BAFTA. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel, and with Victor Gregg has written Rifleman and King’s Cross Kid. He is currently working on a book about the kidnapping by the SOE of General Kreipe from his headquarters on Nazi occupied Crete. He lives in London.

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Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America Owen Matthews

An untold chapter of America's past, a fascinating insight into a centuries-old love story, Glorious Misadventures is an expansive history of Russian colonisation from Guardian Award-shortlisted author Owen Matthews. From the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia’s most eccentric Empire-builders.

‘A thrilling story of swashbuckling adventure and flamboyant derring-do’ Simon Sebag Montefiore RIGHTS SOLD:

On The Trail of Genghis Khan: an Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads Tim Cope

Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads still lead today, Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn’t been successfully completed since those times: to travel on horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Crimea and the Ukraine to the Danube River in Hungary.

‘It is the ultimate boy’s own adventure’ Sunday Times RIGHTS SOLD: Poland: Jagiellonian University Press; Germany: Piper/Malik

The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy Larry J. Sabato

An original and illuminating narrative revealing John F. Kennedy’s lasting influence on America, by the acclaimed political analyst Larry J. Sabato. Among the hundreds of books devoted to JFK, The Kennedy Half-Century stands apart for its rich insight and original perspective. Anyone who reads it will appreciate in new ways the profound impact JFK’s short presidency has had on our national psyche. RIGHTS SOLD:

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership Andro Linklater

The seventeenth-century English surveyor William Petty was the first man to recognise the connection between private property and free- market capitalism; the American radical Wolf Ladejinsky redistributed land in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea after the Second World War to make possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies. Through the eyes of these remarkable individuals and many more, including Chinese emperors and German peasants, Andro Linklater here presents the evolution of land ownership to offer a radically new view of mankind’s place on the planet.

‘A beautifully measured and extremely important book’ Sunday Telegraph RIGHTS SOLD:

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The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal Robert Sackville-West

The Disinherited reveals the secrets and lies at the heart of an English dynasty, unravelling the parallel lives of Henry’s four illegitimate siblings: in particular his older sister, Victoria, who on becoming Lady Sackville and mistress of Knole, by marriage, consigned her brothers and sisters to lives of poverty and disappointment. RIGHTS SOLD:

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend Glenn Frankel

Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America. RIGHTS SOLD:

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan William Dalrymple

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013

Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides, and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict by bestselling and prize-winning historian William Dalrymple.

William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He has won multiple awards including the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, and has three times been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

‘He is a master story teller’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times RIGHTS SOLD: Italy: Adelphi; France: Buchet-Chastel; Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie; China: Social Sciences Academic Press; Marathilang: Metita Publishing House

Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

The gripping story of the military coup against Salvador Allende, President of Chile – what was at stake and what his legacy means for the world today.

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera teaches international law and international affairs at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is the author of What if Latin America Ruled the World?: How the South Will Lead the North into the 22nd Century. ‘The author deftly follows two strands – political developments in Chile itself and the global context that rendered a seemingly mild version of Latin American socialism so unpalatable for US government and business interests’ John Kampfner, Observer RIGHTS SOLD:

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The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism A.C.Grayling

The controversial and thought-provoking new book by the author of The Good Book, is the first book to deal with all the arguments against religion and, equally important, to put forward an alternative – humanism.

The God Argument is the clearest statement yet of the case for Humanism as an ethical world view that respects other people's beliefs and their right to self-expression.

A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN News.

‘Undeniably thought-provoking’ Sunday Times RIGHTS SOLD: Denmark: Loxodonta

How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin Lesley Woodhead

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law – recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in the night. This was the USSR, where a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the British Invasion.How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin is a fascinating examination of the enduring popularity of the Beatles in the former Soviet Union by a writer who was there from the beginning, including never before seen photographs.

Leslie Woodhead’s documentary films have won many international awards, including recognition by the Emmy and Peabodys in America, and by BAFTA, and the Royal Television Society in the UK. He is the author of two books, My Life as a Spy and A Box Full of Spirits. ‘A fascinating lost chapter in their history’ Philip Norman RIGHTS SOLD: China: Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing

Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War Richard van Emden

The first book to concentrate on what actually happened when enemies met face to face as human beings in the First World War, whether on the battlefield, as prisoners of war, or as relatives of the fallen after the fighting was over.

Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written fourteen books on the subject including Boy Soldiers of the Great War and The Last Fighting Tommy. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including the award-winning Roses of No Man’s Land.

‘Richar van Emden’s tour-de-force of research cast a fascinating new light on the human face of the Great War’ The Times RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Hoffmann und Campe

Furies: War in Europe 1450-1700 Lauro Matines

Rich, intriguing history from a leading scholar of early modern Europe, bringing alive the wars and armies that shaped the continent’s path out of the Dark Ages to modernity. Furies puts us on the front lines of battle, and on the streets of cities under siege, to reveal what Europe’s wars meant to the men and women who endured them.

Lauro Martines is one of the worlds foremost historian’s of the Italian Renaissance and early modern Europe. He is the author of nine books, most recently the critically acclaimed titles Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence and April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici. RIGHTS SOLD: Spain: Critica

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What? Mark Kurlansky

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a playful, provocative, brilliantly illuminating little book that takes a very big look at life's big questions. What? supplies endless fodder for thoughtful conversation but also endless opportunity to ponder and be challenged by and entertained by these questions in refreshingly original ways.

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, and The Eastern Stars, among many other books. RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Hoffmann und Campe; Turkey: Butik; Russia: Exmo; Korea: Random House

El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels Ioan Grillo

The gripping account of the out-of-control drug wars that have brought chaos to Mexico. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan Grillo traces the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal empires. El Narco is required reading for anyone concerned about one of the most important news stories of the decade.

Educated in England at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Ioan Grillo has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines and TV stations in the US and UK. He reports for Time Magazine as well as producing presentations for stations including PBS, ABC and Channel 4.

‘Heartbreaking ... El Narco is a fine work of journalism’Irish Times RIGHTS SOLD: Italy: De Agostini; Sweden: Modernista; Poland: Remi; Spain: Urano; France: Meta; Japan: Gendaikika Kusitsu

MOB Rule: Lessons Learned by a Mother Of Boys Hannah Evans

MOB Rule is the funny, honest and eye-opening account of Hannah's experiences as a Mother of Boys. Supplemented by recipes, quizzes, mnemonics and mysteries, it is the indispensible book for anyone who finds themselves adrift on a sea of testosterone, wondering when the lifeboat is going to show up.

‘Gives an insight into the challenges, dramas and fun of raising boys ... had me in stitches. If you’re a mum of boys, you’ll love it’ Mother & Baby

Hannah Evans has previously explored the world of the MOB in a number of articles, most noticeably in the Guardian. She lives with her husband and three boys in Devon. RIGHTS SOLD: Russia: Sindbad

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Don’t Even Think About It BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate 19/08/2014 Change EXTENT: 288 George Marshall RIGHTS SOLD: A witty, insightful, and original take on one of the most urgent questions of our time: For those of us who believe climate change is real, why do we so easily ignore it?

What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? In this groundbreaking and engaging look at one of the most important issues facing us today, George Marshall, world renowned for his work on the psychology of climate change denial, shows that even when we accept that climate change is a dire problem, our human brains are wired to ignore it—and argues that we can overcome this.

With engaging stories and drawing on years of his own research, Marshall confirms that humans are wired to respond strongest to threats that are visible, immediate, have historical precedent, have direct personal impact, and are caused by an “enemy.” Climate change is none of these—it’s invisible, unprecedented, drawn out, impacts us indirectly, and is caused by us. Taking the reader deep into our evolutionary origins, Marshall argues that once we understand what excites, threatens, and motivates us, we can rethink and reimagine climate change. In the end, his book is both about climate change and about the qualities that make us human: our limitations, our strengths, and how we can grow as we deal with the greatest challenge we have ever faced.

George Marshall is director of the Climate Outreach and Information Network and has two decades’ experience in research and campaigning for environmental organizations. He’s worked for Greenpeace and the Rainforest Foundation, and is a policy consultant to the German and Papua New Guinean governments. He lives in Wales. His website is http://climatedenial.org/.

A New History of Life BLOOMSBURY PRESS PUBLICATION DATE: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins 15/01/2015 and Evolution of Life on Earth EXTENT: 352 Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink RIGHTS SOLD: Revolutionary scientists Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward unravel the true story of life on Germany: DVA; Earth, from our beginnings on Mars to our eventual extinction Korea: Kachi; Japan: Kawade Shobo Shinsha An estimated 4.6 billion years ago, the Earth and Moon were formed in a violent impact. On this, many agree, and even more that a long time after that, life began. However, few know that the first life on the Earth may not have emerged on this planet, but could, in fact, have begun on Mars, brought here by meteorites.

In this revolutionary book, leading scientists Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink rewrite the principal account of the history of life on Earth. They show not only how the rise of animals was delayed for billions of years, but also what first forced fish out of the sea and onto the land. Finally, charting the course of our own evolution, they explore whether this generation will see the end of the human species. A New History of Life proves not only that much of what we think we know should be unlearned, but also that the true history of life on Earth is much more surprising and wonderful than we could ever have imagined.

Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, and has appeared in numerous television documentaries and his eight-hour series, Animal Armageddon, was televised in 2009. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling Rare Earth and On Methuselah’s Trail, which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Joe Kirschvink received his PhD from Princeton University and is the Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He originated the ‘Snowball Earth’ concept to explain weird features of Earth’s oldest glaciations, discovered the tiny magnets that animals use for navigation, and has recognised several major shifts in Earth’s spin axis that have driven biological evolution.

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The Cuckoo BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Cheating by Nature 12/03/2015

Nick Davies EXTENT: 288

The arms race between the wily cuckoo and ever more crafty host birds revealed by a RIGHTS SOLD: man who has dedicated his working life to one of nature’s great mysteries – how does the cuckoo get away with it?

Cuckoos have long played an important part in human culture. The familiar call of the male common cuckoo, ‘cuck-oo’, has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa into Eurasia many thousands of years ago. However, as a naturalist and scientist, for Nick Davies the call has a different message; an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle. The cuckoo is Nature’s most famous cheat, laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cuckoos rather than their own offspring. How does the cuckoo get away with this?

Using shrewd detective skills built up over 40 years’ experience of watching these secretive birds, Nick Davies reveals some of the astonishing and beautiful adaptations that have taken place in the cuckoo’s battle to go on outwitting their host. While the hosts are developing better defences, the cuckoo is constantly coming up with novel forms of trickery, and Nick Davies is our guide to unravelling how and why these changes are taking place.

Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His cuckoo research has been presented on BBC 4 Radio, and as a BBC film, produced by Mike Birkhead and narrated by David Attenborough. His previous books include Cuckoos, Cowbirds and other Cheats (2000) that won Best Book of the Year from the British Trust for Ornithology and British Birds Magazine. He lives in Cambridge.

The Red Canary BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Story of the First Genetically Engineered 30/01/2014 Animal EXTENT: 288 Tim Birkhead RIGHTS SOLD: The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Though his experiments failed, they paved the way for others to succeed when it was recognised that the canary needed to be both a product of nature and nurture. This highly original narrative, of huge contemporary relevance, reveals how the obsession with turning the wild canary from green to red heralded the exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation.

Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. He has written for the Independent, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife. Among his other books are Promiscuity, Great Auk Islands, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds which won the McColvin medal, and most recently, Bird Sense. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.

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Beasts BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: What Animals Can Teach us About Human Nature 13/03/2014

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson EXTENT: 224

Bestselling author Jeffrey Masson shows us what the animals at the top of the food RIGHTS SOLD: chain – orca whales, big cats, etc. – can teach us about the origins of good and evil in Czech Republic: Baronet ourselves

There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the twentieth century alone, one of these animals killed 200 million members of its own species, the other has killed none. Jeffrey Masson's fascinating new book begins here: There is something different about us.

In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the “wild” is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behaviour to animals, to “beasts” (“he behaved no better than a beast”), and claim the high ground for our species. We are least human, we think, when we succumb to our primitive, animal ancestry. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Animals, at least predators, kill to survive, but there is nothing in the annals of animal aggression remotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. We lack what all other animals have: a check on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. It is here, Masson says, that animals have something to teach us about our own history. In Beasts, he strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, an ex-psychoanalyst and former director of the Freud Archives, is the author of numerous bestselling books on animal emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep. He lives in New Zealand with his family. Visit his website at www.jeffreymasson.com.

A Rose for Morville BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Katherine Swift 26/03/2015

The rose is a garden favourite and, more than any other flower, permeates literature, EXTENT: 288 art and religion. In A Rose for Morville, Katherine Swift weaves yet another thread into this complex web of symbolism. Taking as a starting point the five indigenous RIGHTS SOLD: wild English roses, Swift sets out to discover how each species has been shaped by climate, geology and environment.

The book takes place over the course of a year, in which Katherine makes a series of journeys, biographical and geographical, to find each rose in its native habitat, each time returning to the garden at Morville and finding it changed both by the seasons and by what has been learned on the journey. Woven into this narrative is the history of the rose in England – in literature, art, music and folk lore – and the history of a French thirteenth century book, the Roman de la Rose – a story of love, lust and possession which serves as a metaphor for our relationship with the natural world.

A Rose for Morville is a book about roses, love and longing, about a garden, and about the environmental crisis which faces the twenty-first century. It is a love letter to the husband from whom she separated in 2002, and to the landscapes and wild roses of her adopted county of Shropshire. It is about mothers and daughters, medieval poetry and the varieties of love.

Katherine Swift lives at The Dower House, Morville Hall in Shropshire. She worked as a rare book librarian in Oxford and Dublin before becoming a full-time gardener and writer in 1988. She was for four years gardening columnist of The Times, and has written widely in the gardening press, including an acclaimed series on the gardens and landscapes of Orkney for Hortus. She is the author of The Morville Hours, a Sunday Times bestseller.

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Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes The Mind Seth R. Horowitz

Starting with the basics of the biology, neuroscientist and musician Seth Horowitz explains how sound affects us, and in turn, how we've learned to manipulate sound: into music, commercial jingles, car horns, and modern inventions like cochlear implants, ultrasound scans, and the mosquito ringtone.

Seth S. Horowitz, Ph.D. is an assistant research professor in the departments of neuroscience and psychology at Brown University. He is the co-founder of NeuroPop, the first sound design and consulting firm to use neurosensory and psychophysical algorithms in music, sound design, and sonic branding. RIGHTS SOLD: Hungary: HVG

Storms of my Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity James Hansen

Dr James Hansen, the world's leading scientist on climate issues, speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: the planet is hurtling to a climatic point of no return. Hansen – whose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned US Congress about global warming – is the single most credible voice on the subject worldwide.

Perhaps best known for bringing global warming to the world’s attention in the 1980s when he first testified before Congress, Dr. James Hansen is considered the world’s leading climatologist. The head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, he served as Al Gore’s science advisor for An Inconvenient Truth. This is his first book. ‘Few people know more about climate change than James Hansen ... This unnerving and fluently written book is the definitive one to read’ BBC Wildlife RIGHTS SOLD: Japan: Nikkei BP; Brazil: Editora Senac; Italy: Ambiente; China: Posts & Telecomunications Press; Malasia: PTS Publications

The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy Paul Gilding

A major new analysis and action plan to deal with two linked challenges to human ingenuity and human survival – the crisis of climate change and the world economic crash.

Paul Gilding is an advocate for sustainability and climate change who has dedicated his life to campaigning for a balanced use of Earth’s limited resources. His thirty-five years of experience include a stint as the global head of Greenpeace, consultancies with both global corporations and community-based NGO, and more. RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil: Apicuri; The Netherlands: Mauritsgroen; Turkey: Butik; Korean: Dourei; Germany: Verlag Herder

The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It Fred Guterl

We find ourselves in a trap: Technology got us into this mess, and it's also the only thing that can help us survive it. Guterl's riveting book is a grand and necessary thought experiment, not merely a scary story, but a fresh perspective on the world we're remaking, and a route to safe harbour.

Fred Guterl is an award-winning journalist and executive editor of Scientific American. He worked for ten years at Newsweek, most recently as deputy editor, covering the most important trends in science, technology, and international affairs. RIGHTS SOLD: Japan: Kawade Shobo Shinsha

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Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution David Rothenberg

Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of 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 animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty - and why nature is, indeed, beautiful.

David Rothenberg is Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of books including Thousand Mile Song and Why Birds Sing. ‘A cornucopia of cognitive delights, exploring everything that's a treat for the eyes, from the colours of dinosaurs to whether it's a good idea to teach elephants to paint’ Irish Times RIGHTS SOLD: Korea: Kungree Press Co.

The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels Brian Fagan

Changes in sea level are historically cumulative and gradual, but since 1860, the world has warmed significantly and the ocean’s climb has accelerated again. From the Great Flood to Hurricane Sandy, The Attacking Ocean explores the changing complexity of the relationship between humans and the sea at their doorsteps, and shows how vulnerable our modern society is.

Brian Fagan the author of Beyond the Blue Horizon, Elixir, the Los Angeles Times bestseller Cro-Magnon, and the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming, and many other books, including Fish on Friday, The Long Summer, and The Little Ice Age. He has decades of experience at sea and is the author of several other titles for sailors.

‘Fascinating, if occasionally unnerving’ Booklist RIGHTS SOLD: Korea: Mizibooks

Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Old Story of How and Why We Survived Chip Walter

Over the past 180 years scientists have discovered evidence that at least twenty-seven species of humans evolved on planet Earth. What enabled us to survive when all the others were shown the evolutionary door?

Chip Walter tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature’s capricious ways we stand here today, the planet’s most dominant species.

Chip Walter is the founder of the popular website AllThingsHuman.net, a former CNN bureau chief, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. He is author of three books, most recentlyThumbs, Toes, and Tears, and his writing has been published in eight languages. RIGHTS SOLD: Spain: Ariel (Planeta Group); Korea: Ermamama; Japan: Seidosha

Spectrums: Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity David Blatner

David Blatner puts the ‘inconceivable’ items of our universe onto six spectrums – numbers, size, light, sound, heat and time – that put them into a human perspective. Full of facts, illustrations and anecdotes, Spectrums proves that we really can make sense of our extraordinary universe.

David Blatner is internationally known for his popular science books The Joy of Pi, The Flying Book and, most recently, Spectrums, as well as for his award-winning books for graphic designers. More than half a million copies of his books are in print in fourteen languages. RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Berlin Verlag; Japan: Kinokuniya Co. Ltd.; Poland: Foskal

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Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird Tim Birkhead

No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime of study has allowed Tim Birkhead to create a hugely engaging book about birds, their senses and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories and cutting-edge science.

‘Chirpy and fascinating study about the mysteries of bird behaviour’ – Sunday Times ‘Must Reads' RIGHTS SOLD: The Netherlands: Bezige Bij; France: Buchet-Chastel; Spain: Destino; Poland: Galaktyka; Japan: Kawade Shobo Shinsha; Taiwan: OWL Publishing Ltd; China: The Commercial Press; Korea: XO Books

The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology Tim Birkhead

Conceived for a general audience and illustrated throughout with more than 100 exquisitely beautiful illustrations, many of them rarely, if ever, seen before, The Wisdom of Birds is a book full of stories, knowledge and unexpected revelations for birdwatchers and armchair ornithologists everywhere.

‘You would have to be bird-brained not to fall for this history of twitchers and naturalists ... Magnificent’ –Sunday Telegraph RIGHTS SOLD: The Netherlands: Bezige Bij; Korea: Forest of Imagination; Finland: Readme.fi; Canada: Greystone/Douglas & McIntyre

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A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: My Grandfather’s SS Past, My Jewish Family, A 09/04/2015 Search for the Truth EXTENT: 320 Rita Gabis RIGHTS SOLD: A book of secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery

Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her Lithuanian Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one version of his past; prior to immigration he had been a resistance fighter against the Russians, whose brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before Hitler’s army swept in.

But it took only one simple question to add a horrifying dimension to her family story. From 1941 to 1943, her Catholic grandfather had been Chief of Security Police under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near the killing field of Poligon, © Rina Castelnuovo where 8,000 Jews were murdered over three days in the fall of 1941. In 1942, the local Polish population was hunted down. When Gabis learned that her grandfather was a Nazi collaborator, she felt compelled to search for a paper trail, to find out the complicated truth of who he was and what he had done. The silence in Gabis' family mirrors the silence in Lithuania itself—a young democracy that has struggled to fully acknowledge its collaboration with the Germans that resulted in the deaths of 95 percent of the Jewish population.

A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet is a quest that includes interviews in four countries, original research translated for the first time into English, and her process of discovery as she returns again and again to the country of his birth to learn all she can about the man she thought she knew.

The lives lost in Svencionys can’t be saved, but this book honours some of those who perished with a name, a face, and a story.

Rita Gabis is an award-winning poet and prose writer. Her grants and fellowships include a New York Foundation for the Arts award for creative nonfiction, the Curtis Harnack residency at Yaddo, and a Writer's Residency at the Fine Arts Worksop in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She is the author of the poetry collection The Wild Field. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Harvard Review and Columbia Magazine. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City.

The Life of Lucian Freud BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: William Feaver 06/10/2016

A complete and unique biography of the artist Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund, EXTENT: 320 documented by his close friend William Feaver RIGHTS SOLD: Hailed as the ‘best living realist painter’ in his life time, Freud’s work was exhibited by Peggy Guggenheim at the age of just sixteen, is in museum collections all over the Poland: Albatros; world and fetches huge prices at auction. The Netherlands: Atlas-Contact

Born in Berlin in 1922 to Jewish parents, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian’s family moved to England in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. Enrolling in the Central School of Art, he spent most of his time avoiding academic instruction and funded both his studies and misadventures in London’s Soho with gold he stole from his father’s stash.

Freud knew Picasso, the Woolfs, Stephen Spender, George Orwell, Henry Moore, spent a sojourn on Goldeneye with Ian Fleming and was a great friend and gambling partner of Francis Bacon. His love life was eventful and he fathered fourteen known children. The subjects of his portraits include David Hockney, Jerry Hall, Kate Moss and the Queen.

Drawing on a huge volume of tapes and notes of innumerable conversations, plus the memories of close friends now dead, The Life of Lucian Freud will be the definitive, inspiring and indispensable biography of a life like no other.

William Feaver, former art critic at the Observer, was a long-time friend of Freud’s and curated exhibitions of his work at the Tate and Museo Correr in Venice. He had unprecedented access to Freud, from the start of their friendship in the 1970s.

35 Genius at Play Bloomsbury USA John Horton Conway and His Curious Mathematic Publication date: 14.04.2015 Mind Extent: 352 pages Siobhan Roberts Rights Sold:

Inside the eccentric world of John Horton Conway, gifted polymath and inventor of the Game of Life.

John Horton Conway, born in Liverpool in 1937, found fame as a gifted mathematics professor at Cambridge before moving to Princeton University in 1987. He has made myriad contributions to game theory, knot theory, number theory, coding theory, group theory, and his first love, geometry. A Fellow of the Royal Society, Conway received the Polya Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1987 and the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics in 1998.

Something of a “mathemagician,” Conway is able to recite pi by memory to more than 1100 digits, and is known to use cards, dice, ropes, pennies, coat hangers, sometimes a Slinky, as props to explain mathematics. He even invented an idiosyncratic algorithm for turning, or reading, double-sided loose-leaf pages! His Game of Life was one of the first cellular automata, played on a grid like tick-tack- toe where cells proliferate or die. The game took off in the 1970s among graduate students in math, physics, and computer science, and remains popular.

Genius at Play is a tour de force that introduces Conway to the general public, while providing an unprecedented glimpse into his creative mind and his prodigious grasp of mathematics.

Siobhan Roberts is the author of King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter and the Magic of Geometry, which won the Mathematical Association of America’s 2009 Euler Prize for expanding the public’s view of mathematics, and garnered praise from James Gleick, Freeman Dyson, and Marin Gardner. Her profile of Donald Coxeter in Toronto Life won a National Magazine Award.

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life Methuen Drama Publication date: 13/02/2014 Professor Stephen Parker Extent: 704 Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a major literary biography of one of the iconic cultural figures of the twentieth century, whose achievements are viewed alongside Picasso's Rights sold: and Wagner's. Offering a fresh reassessment of the man and the artist, this is the first significant biography of Brecht to present a balanced account of his life.

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century’s most controversial cultural icons.

Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht’s medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht’s life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile, up to the Berliner Ensemble’s dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry.

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern culture.

‘A magisterial biography of Brecht ... Parker’s choice to present new material very much through the prism of the artist is compelling ... Fascinating reading.’ Independent ‘Stephen Parker's doorstop biography chronicles, in painstaking detail, every in and out of Brecht's life ... we should be grateful to him for reminding us how important, love him or loathe him, Brecht was – and still is.’ The Sunday Times ‘This is an immensely important new biography of one of the most controversial and inspiring figures of European modernism. Parker has a profound knowledge of the archival record and brings his subject alive with a wealth of fascinating detail, rising above the old ideologically blinkered debates. Brecht emerges as a flawed and troubled man, but equally as a literary artist and cultural commentator of extraordinary breadth, with as much to say to us global citizens of the twenty-first century as he had to his own contemporaries.’ Tom Kuhn, Fellow of St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford

Stephen Parker is Henry Simon Professor of German at the University of Manchester and was Leverhulme Research Fellow (2009-12). His publications include Sinn und Form: The Anatomy of a Literary Journal, The Modern Restoration: Re-thinking German Literature 1930-1960 (both co-authored), Peter Huchel: A Literary Life in 20th-Century Germany and contributed to Brecht on Art and Politics.

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Beloved Strangers A Memoir Maria Chaudhuri

A bright and brilliant new voice from Bangladesh

From Dhaka to New York, this is a candid and moving account of growing up and growing away, a meditation on why people leave their homes and why they sometimes find it difficult to return.

Maria Chaudhuri was born and raised in Bangladesh. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Vermont. Her essays, features and short stories have been published in various collections, journals and literary magazines. She lives in Hong Kong. RIGHTS SOLD:

Pope Francis: Untying the Knots Paul Vallely

For Pope Francis – Untying the Knots, Paul Vallely travelled to Argentina and Rome to meet Bergoglio’s intimates over the last four decades. His book charts a remarkable journey. It reveals what changed the man who was to become Pope Francis – from a reactionary into the revolutionary who is unnerving Rome’s clerical careerists with the extent of his behind-the-scenes changes. In this perceptive portrait Paul Vallely offers both new evidence and penetrating insights into the kind of pope Francis could become. RIGHTS SOLD: France: Larousse; Poland: Wydawnictwo; Korea: Daejeon Catholic University Press

Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality Jonathan Aitken

From his unique vantage point as close family friend and Member of Parliament throughout Thatcher’s years in power, Aitken brings new light to many crucial episodes of Thatcherism. They include her ousting of Ted Heath, her battles with her Cabinet, the Falklands War, the Miners’ Strike, her relationships with world leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and the build up to the Shakespearian coup inside the Conservative Party which brought about her downfall. RIGHTS SOLD: China: Beijing Alpha/Books.Co., Inc

Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory Patrick Wilcken

The first comprehensive biography of ‘the father of modern anthropology'. Drawing on interviews with Lévi-Strauss himself, research in his archives now held at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and conversations with contemporary anthropologists, Wilcken explores and explains his ideas, revealing the man behind them.

Patrick Wilcken grew up in Sydney and studied at Goldsmiths College and the Institute of Latin American Studies in London. He has contributed Brazil-related reviews and features to the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. RIGHTS SOLD: Taiwan: Acropolis; The Netherlands: Atlas-Contact; China: Beijing Guangban New Century Culture and Media; Korea: Everrich Holdings; Italy: Gruppo Saggiatore; Brazil: Objetiva

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Cairo: My City, Our Revolution Ahdaf Soueif

Ahdaf Soueif - novelist, commentator, activist - navigates her history of Cairo and her journey through the Revolution that's redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history and public record, Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both intimately hers and publicly Egyptian.

Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo. She is the author of Aisha, Sandpiper, In the Eye of the Sun and the bestselling novel The Map of Love which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. Ahdaf Soueif is also a journalist and her work is syndicated throughout the world.

‘Bursts of lyricism, poetry and love illuminate the factual account and political commentary, and it works beautifully ... The immediacy is palpable. Read this book’ Independent RIGHTS SOLD: Sweden: Alhambra Forlag AB; Italy: Donzelli Editore; Greece: Metaixmio

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life Gerald Martin

The first comprehensive biography of the author ofOne Hundred Years Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera - the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years.

This biography is not only based on Martin's unique experience of García Márquez over the last two decades but also on a wealth of sources, which it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for any other biographer to replicate.

Gerald Martin is Andrew Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh and president of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. Publications include Journeys Through the Labyrinth, critical editions of Miguel Angel Asturias’s Hombres de maíz and El Señor Presidente. RIGHTS SOLD: Israel: Am Oved; Lebanon: Arab Scientific Publishers; Poland: Bertelsmann Media; Portugal: Dom Quixote; Brazil: Ediouro; Romania: Editura Litera International; Czech Republic: Euromedia; France: Grasset; Japan: Iwanami Shoten; Turkey: Kultur Yayinlari Is Turk; Taiwan: Linking; Hungary: Magveto; The Netherlands: Meulenhoff; Greece: Mikri Arktos Publishing House; Italy: Mondadori; Spain: Random House Mondadori; Croatia: Sandorf; China: China Citic Press; Russia: Slovo; Slovak Republic: TIMY Partners; Bulgaria: Uniscorp

Island Summers: Memories of a Norwegian Childhood Tilly Culme-Seymour

An enchanting true story of three generations of women and Småhølmene, the tiny Norwegian island that became part of their lives. Glittering and bittersweet, this is the captivating story of women who made an island their own: a land of childhood adventures, of magical summers, and of the author’s first romance.

Tilly Culme-Seymour studied English at Trinity College, Dublin. She is now based in London, where she writes on food and travel. This is her first book.

‘Perfectly evokes the calm and content that comes with a modest, self-sufficient way of life … charming’Daily Telegraph RIGHTS SOLD:

Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood Renata Calverley

The spellbinding true story of a little girl's miraculous escape from the Nazis during the Second World War, Let Me Tell You a Story is a powerful and moving memoir of growing up in extraordinary times, and of the magical discovery of books.

Renata Calverley was born in Poland in 1937. She has an Honours Degree in English Literature and American Studies from Nottingham University, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the London University Institute of Education and a Diploma in Creative Writing.

‘It is impossible not to be moved by the plight of this child … A worthy addition to the holocaust memoir’ Vanessa Curtis, Jewish Chronicle RIGHTS SOLD: Spain: Ediciones Rialp; Finland: Gummerus

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A Prince Among Stones: That Business with The Rolling Stones and Other Adventures Prince Rupert Lowerstein

A wry, funny and fascinating memoir from a leading figure in the modern financial world, this is the unique account of one of the greatest bands in musical history. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as 'a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny', usually enthralled but often bemused and exasperated.

‘This book is far more than a footnote to the Rolling Stones; it is an elegantly written account of how two cultures came together’ Sunday Times

‘Unusually frank, enjoyable’ Daily Mail RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil: Editora Corvara; Poland: Znak; Japan: Kawade Shobo Shinsha

50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones Pete Fornatele

The illustrated, memorable, and rock-and-roll stories of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the 50th year – featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band. This is the book to commemorate their unparalleled achievement in rock music.

Pete Fornatale was until his death in 2012 an award-winning broadcaster who has been a fixture on the New York radio scene for the past 40 years. He is most recently the author of Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed A Generation. 50 Licks is his last book. RIGHTS SOLD:

Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion Robert Gordon

Set in the world of 1960s and ‘70s soul music, Respect Yourself is a character-driven story of racial integration, and then of black power and economic independence. It’s about music and musicians. It’s about a small independent company’s struggle to survive in an increasingly conglomerate-oriented world. And always at the centre of the story is Memphis, Tennessee, an explosive city struggling through volatile years.

Robert Gordon has been writing about Memphis music and history for thirty years and is the author of It Came from Memphis, Can’t Be Satisfied, The King on the Road, and The Elvis Treasures. He won a Grammy in 2011 for his liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky.

‘A masterful storyteller...Gordon deftly narrates the stories of the many musicians who called Stax home.’ Publishers Weekly (starred review) RIGHTS SOLD:

Pablo Neruda Adam Feinstein

Pablo Neruda was a complicated man, both politically and emotionally. This acclaimed biography, drawing on revealing interviews with his closest friends, acquaintances and surviving relatives, as well as newly discovered documents, tells the full story of an iconic twentieth- century figure for the first time. Updated with a new afterword to take account of the recent exhumation of the poet’s remains.

Adam Feinstein has published articles on Spanish and Latin American literature, and has translated the work of Federico García Lorca and Mario Benedetti for Modern Poetry in Translation. During his work on this book, he received awards from the Wingate Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.

‘A magnificently researched work ... compelling ... Feinstein brilliantly elucidates the main driving forces behind Neruda's life and work' Independent RIGHTS SOLD:

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A More Beautiful Question: The Power BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas 04/03/2014 Warren Berger EXTENT : 272

We’re all hungry today for better answers, but first we must learn to ask the right questions. RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: Berlin Verlag; In this groundbreaking book, journalist and innovation expert Warren Berger shows that one of China: Cheers Media; the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in our daily lives is a simple, under- Japan: Diamond Inc; appreciated tool—one that has been available to us since childhood. Questioning—deeply, Taiwan: Domain Publishing Co. imaginatively, ‘beautifully’—can help us identify and solve problems, come up with game- Korea: Book 21 changing ideas, and pursue fresh opportunities. So why are we often reluctant to ask ‘Why?’

Berger’s surprising findings reveal that even though children start out asking hundreds of questions a day, questioning ‘falls off a cliff’ as kids enter school. In an education and business culture devised to reward rote answers over challenging inquiry, questioning isn’t encouraged— and, in fact, is sometimes barely tolerated.

And yet, as Berger shows, the most creative, successful people tend to be expert questioners. They’ve mastered the art of inquiry, raising questions no one else is asking—and finding powerful answers. The author takes us inside red-hot businesses like Google, Netflix, Square, and Airbnb to show how questioning is baked into their organizational DNA.

A More Beautiful Question outlines a practical Why / What If / How system of inquiry that can guide you through the process of innovative questioning—helping you find imaginative, powerful answers to your own ‘beautiful questions.’

Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers to learn how they ask questions, generate original ideas, and solve problems. His writing and research on questioning and innovation has appeared in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and Wired. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Glimmer, an in-depth analysis of creative thinking that was named one of Business Week's ‘Best Innovation & Design Books of the Year.’ Berger has appeared on NBC’s ‘Today Show,’ ABC ‘World News,’ CNN, and NPR’s ‘All Things Considered.’ He lives with his wife Laura E. Kelly in Westchester, New York.

www.AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com. Finding the Space to Lead BLOOMSBURY PRESS PUBLICATION DATE: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership 07/01/2014

Janice Marturano EXTENT: 208

Executives and leaders from all over North America, and at Davos, have sought out Janice RIGHTS SOLD: Marturano’s mindful leadership training. Finding the Space to Lead brings it to readers everywhere Korea: Bulkwang; The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. Germany: Arbar Verlag They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. By the thousands, they seek out books on leadership skills, time management, and ‘getting things done,’ but the techniques these volumes offer, useful as they are, often don’t speak to the leader’s fundamental sense that something is missing.

Janice Marturano explains how Mindful Leadership training integrates the practice of mindfulness—meditation and self- awareness—with the practical tools of management, enabling leaders to bring a wider range of their capacities to the challenges at hand. Finding the Space to Lead shows how this training has specific value for leaders. This is not a new “leadership system” to add to the burden of already overworked people. It brings the concepts of mindfulness into the everyday life of anyone in a leadership role, through specific exercises that address practical issues—the calendar, schedule, phone usage, meetings, to-do list, and strategic planning, as well as interpersonal challenges such as listening and working with difficult colleagues.

‘At the World Economic Forum, I saw in person how Janice Marturano's Mindful Leadership training could make a real difference in the lives of corporate leaders from around the globe.’ Arianna Huffington

‘With leaders everywhere searching for ways to be mindful, Janice Marturano’s timely new book, Finding the Space to Lead, is the definitive guide to becoming a mindful leader. If you follow her practical advice and easy-to-adopt exercises, this book will change your life. You will not only become a better leader, you will have a more fulfilling life.’ Bill George, Professor, Harvard Business School and former Chair and CEO of Medtronic

Janice Marturano was for many years a senior executive and deputy general counsel at General Mills, a Fortune 200 corporation; she has also worked at Panasonic and Nabisco. At General Mills she initiated the company’s program in mindfulness for leaders, which has helped earn it the #1 ranking among American businesses for executive training. She is now the Director of the Institute for Mindful Leadership, which she founded and which offers this training to leaders from corporations, nonprofits, and other institutions. She lives in New Jersey. She was invited to speak on Mindful Leadership at the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos.

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Pen & Ink BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them 07/10/2014

Isaac Fitzgerald & Wendy MacNaughton EXTENT: 144

“Together, [these pictures and stories] do the work of great literature—gathering a RIGHTS SOLD: force so true they ultimately tell a story that includes us all.” —Cheryl Strayed, from the Introduction

Why did you get that tattoo?

Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearer’s true self or the accidental consequence of a bender. These most permanent and intimate of body adornments are hidden by pants legs and shirttails, emblazoned on knuckles, or tucked inside mouths. They are battle scars and beauty marks, totems and mementos.

Pen & Ink grants us access to the tattoos—and the stories behind them—of writers Cheryl Strayed, Tao Lin, and Roxane Gay; rockers in the bands Korn, Otep, and Five Finger Death Punch; and even a porn star. But it also illuminates the tattoos of the ordinary people living in our midst—from professors to thrift store salespeople, cafe owners to librarians, union organizers to administrators—and their extraordinary lives.

Curated and edited by Isaac Fitzgerald, who sports ten tattoos himself, each story “is like being let in on ... secrets by ... strangers who passed you on the street or sat across from you on the train” (Strayed) and features Wendy MacNaughton’s gorgeously rendered full-colour illustrations of the tattoos on black-and-white drawings of the bearer’s body. At its heart, beneath its colourful skin, Pen & Ink is an exploration of the decision to scar one’s self with a symbol and a story.

Isaac Fitzgerald is co-owner of The Rumpus and books editor at BuzzFeed. He lives in New York City. isaacfitzgerald.net / @isaacfitzgerald.

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator whose work has appeared in places like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Lucky Peach, and Print Magazine. She lives in San Francisco, CA. wendymacnaughton.com / @wendymac

Lost Cat BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS 09/04/2013 Technology EXTENT: 164 Caroline Paul & Wendy MacNoughton RIGHTS SOLD: What do our pets do when they're not with us? Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton Taiwan: Global Group used cutting-edge technology to track the adventures of their beloved cat Tibia Holdings ltd.; Germany: Heyne; Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get China: Jilin; worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Italy: Salani Editore; Wendy MacNaughton, anxiously waited for his return, before resigning themselves to Korea: WILL BOOK; their loss. Turkey: Versus Yayinlard; But weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed. They Spain: Ariel might also have been a bit jealous. All right, they were very jealous! Where had their sweet anxious cat disappeared to? Had he become a swashbuckling cat adventurer? Did he love someone else more? His owners were determined to find out.

Using methods as diverse as GPS technology, cat cameras, psychics, the web and animal communicators, they embarked on a quest to discover what their cat did when they weren't around. Writer Caroline Paul tells the warm and poignant story of their discoveries, alongside Wendy MacNaughton's elegant and hilarious full-colour watercolours. Lost Cat is a book for animal lovers, pet owners and anyone who has ever done anything desperate for love.

Caroline Paul is the acclaimed author of two books. Her first wasFighting Fire, the story of her thirteen-year career as a firefighter in San Francisco, and her second was the novel Paul's East Wind, Rain. Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator whose work has appeared in national publications including the New York Times. She is the creator of the popular Meanwhile column in Rumpus magazine. They live together in San Francisco. carolinepaul.com | wendymacnaughton.com

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Unbored Games BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: Joshua Glenn & Elizabeth Foy Larsen 07/10/2014

The best games book ever – for kids and the whole family, from the team that bought us EXTENT: 176 the critically acclaimed, award-winning, best-selling UNBORED: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun RIGHTS SOLD: UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED (‘It’s a book! It’s a guide! It’s a way of life!’ – Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we all do for pure fun, to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations – games. Covering the full gambit and then some, from old-fashioned favorites to today’s high-tech games, the book offers a gold mine of creative, constructive fun: Complicated Clapping Games, Bike Rodeo, Google Earth Challenges, Croquet Golf, Climate Change Games, Capture the Flag, and the Best Ever Apps to Play with Grandma, to name only a handful. Gaming is a whole culture for kids to explore, and the book will be complete with gaming history and interviews with awesome game designers. The lesson here: all games can be self-customized, or hacked. You can even make up your own games. Some could even change the world.

The original UNBORED is already a much beloved, distinctly contemporary family brand. UNBORED Games will extend the franchise and be followed by UNBORED Adventure, both in the new handy, flexibound format. Soon, there will be a whole shelf of serious fun the whole family can enjoy indoors, outdoors, online and offline.

Joshua Glenn is editor of the website HiLobrow, and coauthor and coeditor of several books. In 2011, he produced Ker-Punch!, a brainteaser iPhone app for kids. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons. He is the co-author of Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun. Elizabeth Foy Larsen is a writer and editor whose stories on children and families have appeared in numerous national publications, including the New York Times, Slate, and Parents. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, daughter, and two sons. She is the co-author of Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun. Designed by Tony Leone. Illustrated by Heather Kasunick and Mister Reusch.

Praise for UNBORED:

‘This year’s hottest activity book for kids’ Publishers Weekly ‘An old-fashioned child’s activity book for a modern Gen-X parented family’ New York Times ‘Exactly the book parents need during a weeklong school break that feels like a month’ New York Magazine

UNBORED: The Essential Guide to RIGHTS SOLD: Serious Fun Elizabeth Foy Larsen, Joshua Glenn & Tony Leone

Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to be creative, try new things and change the world. And it gets parents to join in. Unbored is fully illustrated, easy to use and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humour. Kids will just think it's brilliant.

‘Of the legions of activity books promising to drag your children away from the screen and to engage them in creative, life-enhancing activities, Unbored is the very best I have come across’ – Daily Telegraph

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A Guinea Pig Nativity You know the story ... Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethlehem, only to find there’s no room at the inn. Then along come angels, shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger. A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you've never seen it before: with (you guessed it) guinea pigs photographed in the starring roles. Sweet, humble and funny, they bring their own guinea-pig-joyfulness to the Nativity in a way that is completely irresistible. RIGHTS SOLD: Germany: S Fischer Verlag

Roy G. Biv: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color Jude Stewart

Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, digs into this rich subject with gusto, telling her favourite stories about color as she discovers what it can really mean. Each chapter is devoted to a color, opening with an infographic map that links such unlikely pairings as fox-hunting and flamingos. From there on in, you're plunged into a kaleidoscopic tour of the universe that encompasses everything from wildflowers to Japanese warriors. The links between them reveal hidden realities that you never would have suspected. RIGHTS SOLD: Korea: ART Books; China: China CITIC Press; Taiwan: Cube; Russia: EXMO; Japan: Filmart-sha Co Ltd.

Abbey Road: The Best Studio in the World Alastair Lawrence

The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world with a foreword by Sir George Martin

This gorgeous book includes material on the artists, the engineers, the technology and the history of Abbey Road. It's an incredible document of cultural history, for anyone who values music and how it's made. RIGHTS SOLD: Japan: Kawade Shobo Shinsha

Le Road Trip: A Traveller’s Journal of Love and France Vivian Swift

Le Road Trip tells the story of one idyllic French honeymoon trip, but it is also a witty handbook of tips and advice on how to thrive as a traveller, a captivating visual record with hundreds of watercolour illustrations, and a chronicle depicting the incomparable charms of being footloose in France. RIGHTS SOLD: Russia: Astrel; China: China CITIC Press; Taiwan: Common Master Press

Dogs Make Us Human: A Global Family Album Art Wolfe & Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

From New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and premier wildlife photographer Art Wolfe comes a groundbreaking tribute to canine and human friendship around the globe, inspired by the classic photography book The Family of Man.

‘Dogs Make Us Human will be greatly appreciated by dog-lovers everywhere. The text is heart-warming, and the photographs are beautiful. The book is a triumph.’ - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas RIGHTS SOLD: Italy: Rizzoli

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International Night BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World 19/08/2014 Including More Than 250 Recipes EXTENT: 400 Mark Kurlansky and Talia Kurlansky RIGHTS SOLD: From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savoury trip across the globe for parents and kids, with delicious and accessible recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical.

Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night’s dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia – and now the readers of International Night – the recipes, stories, and insights he’s collected over more than thirty years of traveling the world writing about food, culture, and history, and his charming pen-and-ink drawings, which appear throughout the book.

International Night is brimming with recipes for fifty-two special meals – appetizers, a main course, side dishes, and dessert for each – one for every week of the year. Some are old favourites from Mark’s repertoire, and others gleaned from research. Always, they are his own version, drawn from techniques he learned as a professional chef and from many years of talking to chefs, producers, and household cooks around the world. Despite these insights, every recipe is designed to be carried out – easily – by any amateur chef, and they are designed to be completed with the assistance of children.

Mark and Talia invite you and your family into their kitchen, outfitted with overflowing packets of exotic spices and aromas of delicacies from Tanzania and Kazakhstan to Cuba and Norway. From there, recipes and toothsome morsels of cultural and historical information will fill your bellies and your minds, and transport you to countries all around the world.

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling and award winning author of Cod, Salt, The Basque History of the World and 1968, among many other books. He lives in New York City. Visit his website at markkurlansky.com.

Talia Kurlansky, who often cooks and travels with her father, is in the eighth grade. This is her first book.

Spuntino BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Russell Norman 07/05/2015

Mouth-watering recipes and inspiring stories from Spuntino – the New York-influenced EXTENT: 320 diner taking the London restaurant scene by storm RIGHTS SOLD: Spuntino promises to achieve the same level of acclaim as ‘it-book’ POLPO, which won the Waterstones Book of the Year 2012 Award. OPTION PUBLISHERS: Hidden behind rust-coloured frontage in the bustling heart of London’s Soho, Germany: Christian Verlag Spuntino is the epitome of New York’s vibrant restaurant scene. After bringing the Holland: Karakter bàcari of Venice to the backstreets of the British capital at his critically acclaimed restaurant POLPO, Russell Norman scoured the scruffiest and quirkiest boroughs of the Big Apple to find authentic inspiration for an urban, machine-age diner. Since its smash-hit opening in 2011, the restaurant has delivered big bold flavours with a dose of swagger to the crowds who flock to its pewter-topped bar.

Spuntino will take you on culinary adventure from London to New York and back, bringing the best of American cuisine to your kitchen. The 120 recipes include hearty sliders, zingy salads, the definitive macaroni cheese, Spuntino’s signature truffled egg toast, boozy desserts and prohibition-era cocktails. You’ll get a glimpse of New © Laurie Fletcher York foodie heaven as Russell maps out his walks through the city’s cultural hubs and quirky neighbourhoods such as East Village and Williamsburg, discovering family-run delis, brasseries, street traders, sweet shops and liquor bars.

With radiant photography by Jenny Zarins capturing New York’s visceral grittiness, Spuntino pays homage to the energy, dynamism and extraordinary cuisine that the world’s greatest melting pot has inspired.

Russell Norman spent four years running some of London’s most venerated restaurants in the Caprice Holdings group, before turning his back on the high life, getting a tattoo of an octopus on his back and setting up POLPO in scruffy Soho. Polpetto, Spuntino, Mishkin’s and the Ape & Bird followed soon after. Russell Norman now gives advice to budding restaurateurs in the BBC2 series The Restaurant Man. He lives in London. @Spuntino / spuntino.co.uk

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The Detox Kitchen Bible BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Lily Simpson & Rob Hobson 12/03/2015

The cookbook that will leave you feeling cleansed from the inside out EXTENT: 416 The power of good, natural food beats any fad diet. By bombarding your body with RIGHTS SOLD: a sea of nutrients and a range of delicious flavours, your skin will glow, your hair will shine, your stress levels will decrease and you’ll feel full of energy. This is what the Detox Kitchen philosophy is all about: fresh, bright, delicious and nutritious food that will leave you radiant with health.

Using mouth-watering flavour combinations and an encyclopaedic knowledge of ingredients, founder and chef Lily Simpson and nutritionist Rob Hobson have created 200 carefully tailored recipes and a variety of meal plans to bring you this ultimate, comprehensive bible of detox food, all wheat-, dairy- and sugar-free. Whether you’d like a weekend plan to nurture your body after a demanding week, or a seven-day regime to improve your skin or to boost your energy levels, the book will allow you to ‘eat yourself well’ and shuffle this treasury of recipes to suit your needs.

The vibrant dishes are inspired by Lily’s worldwide travels, and include Beetroot falafel, Avocado smash, Chicken, cashew and tarragon wraps, Pad Thai with brown rice noodles, Kale crisps with paprika, Green papaya salad, Tomato pesto with courgette spaghetti, Sesame seed cookies, Butterbean mash, Keralan fish curry, Pinto bean chilli, Pineapple carpaccio coconut clouds, and Apricot and ginger jam.

With beautiful photography and a striking design, The Detox Kitchen Bible is the definitive guide to eating your way to a healthy glow. Get detoxing and feel cleansed from the inside out.

Lily Simpson and Rob Hobson are a chef-and-nutritionist team shaking up the healthy food industry. A unique detox food delivery service, The Detox Kitchen was founded by Lily and launched in 2012 to dazzling success and a loyal following of celebrity clients, and now serves a range of delicious, healthy dishes from a deli in Harvey Nichols.

Lily Simpson is an inventive chef, taking ideas from her travels in France, Spain, Italy, Thailand, Morocco and Sri Lanka, and Rob Hobson is a qualified nutritionist who runs two consultancies in London and has worked with government agencies and the NHS.

detoxkitchen.co.uk | @TheDetoxKitchen

Dabbous: The Cookbook BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Ollie Dabbous 11/09/2014

Original recipes from London’s hottest restaurant EXTENT: 320 Occupying an edgy urban space in London’s Fitzrovia, Dabbous is the restaurant RIGHTS SOLD: that has stunned critics and diners since it opened in 2012. Behind the sheet metal door, chef Ollie Dabbous creates light, modern dishes that are both sophisticated and deceptively delicate; jewel-like creations that are in stark contrast with the restaurant’s industrial décor.

‘Spring’ includes ‘Mixed alliums in a chilled pine infusion’ and ‘Braised halibut with pink purslane and celery’, whilst ‘Summer’ features ‘Ripe avocado with osmantus’ and ‘Elderflower sherbet’. In ‘Autumn’ there is ‘Chocolate and hazelnut ganache with basil moss and sheep's milk sorbet’ and ‘Winter’ boasts ‘Coddled hen’s egg with smoked butter and mushrooms’, ‘Mash and gravy’, and ‘Fresh milk curds with birch sap and grilled chestnuts’.

Dabbous is closely aligned with the ethos of the restaurant: stripped-down and pure, with exquisite photographs of each dish taken by Joakim Blockstrom. As the distillation of Ollie Dabbous’ creativity, it is without doubt the most desirable cookery book of the year.

© Rei Moon Ollie Dabbous knew he wanted to be a chef from the age of six, and started cooking in restaurants when he was fifteen. He worked at Kensington Place for Rowley Leigh and for Guy Savoy in Paris. He spent time with René Redzepi at Noma and with Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck, but it was his years spent working with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons that most profoundly influenced his cooking. He went on to be head chef at the Scandinavian-influenced Texture on Portman Street. In January 2012 he opened Dabbous to rapturous reviews, and it has already been awarded a Michelin star.

45 RIVER COTTAGE LIGHT AND EASY FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL ONE PAGE HUGH THUMBNAILS OF HUGH BOOKS: FRUIT, EVERYDAY, VEG!, THREE GOOD THINGS, BABY AND TODDLER, FISH, RIVER COTTAGE HANDBOOKS: BOOZE, CAKE, HERBS, PRESERVES, CURING AND SMOKING SECOND HALF OF HUGH PAGE COOKERY

River Cottage Light & Easy BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 11/09/2014

Quick, easy and healthy recipes from River Cottage: all dairy-free and wheat-free, and EXTENT: 416 irresistibly delicious RIGHTS SOLD: River Cottage Light & Easy is a collection of simple, inexpensive and supremely healthy dishes that will give you a lift and make you glow from the inside out. If you Germany: AZ Fachverlag; ever lack the time or inspiration to cook a nourishing meal after a hectic day, forget takeaways, ready meals or heavy bowls of pasta. Here, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Option Publishers: delivers up wholesome delights with zero compromise on taste for all occasions – from Norway: Cappelen Damm; brilliant breakfasts to goodness on the go, from nutrient-packed fish dishes to lighter Holland: Gottmer; breads and baking. All of the recipes are dairy-free and wheat-free. Sweden: Max Strau; Denmark: Strandberg; The 170 flavour-hitting recipes include: fruity almond dairy-free shakes, wheat-free US: Tenspeed; spinach wraps, easiest ever oven fishcakes, Thai pumpkin curry, mustard braised Italy: Gribaudo; carrots, raw chocolate and raspberry tarts, fat-free chocolate sorbet with oranges, Lithuania: Baltos Lankas quick wheat-free flat breads, dukka corn crackers, scones that rise to the gluten- free challenge, luscious raspberry and almond cupcakes, coconut pannacotta with passion fruit and life-loving brownies. Every single recipe will do you good and do you proud. © Simon Wheeler With striking photography from Simon Wheeler, this beautiful book provides solutions to creating the most nourishing and healthy of meals as quickly and easily as possible.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy (twice), the André Simon Food Book of the Year (three times), the Michael Smith Award (twice) and, in the US, the James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Hugh lives in Devon with his family.

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Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food ABSOLUTE PUBLICATION DATE: Tom Kerridge 29/08/2013

A mighty collection of new food favourites from the champion of perfect pub food: EXTENT: 256 Tom Kerridge. RIGHTS SOLD: The king of beautiful pub food has collected all of his best ideas into this proper cookbook, ready to warm the world on a grey day and restore the nation’s good mood. Holland & Belgium: Veltman Tom Kerridge’s idea of food heaven isn’t fussy gastronomy; it’s proper ‘man food’ with Michelin star magic, including breakfasts that keep you smiling for the whole day, indulgent long lunches, teatime temptations, seasonal snacks and heart-warming suppers.

In this cookbook Tom proves that everyone can make proper pub food, and the only place he wants to see a foam is on the head of a pint of beer! Over 100 recipes reveal his secrets for making real food truly amazing, including perfected dishes from his childhood and special treats he serves at his own one-of-a-kind pub. These recipes are simply the best version you’ll ever have of the dishes everyone loves the most.

This fantastic feel-good cookbook is the official accompaniment to Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food TV show, featuring all the recipes from the six episodes and many, many more. With excellent photography from Cristian Barnett.

Tom Kerridge has a big reputation in professional kitchens and on foodie TV. He has worked with well-known chefs such as Philip Britten, Stephen Bull and Gary Rhodes in Michelin starred restaurants, and featured on TV shows The Great British Menu, Saturday Kitchen, Food and Drink and The Great British Food Revival. There are only twenty-one chefs in Britain with more than one Michelin star, but there is just one chef who has earned two stars by cooking in a pub. The Hand and Flowers is a unique pub with a unique chef, whose first cookbook is sure to be the first of many favourites.

The Superfood Diet ABSOLUTE PUBLICATION DATE: Gurpareet Bains 08/05/2014

The Superfood Diet is a fusion of the most successful health and dietary trends in EXTENT: 224 recent times plus the magic of superspices. A collection of low-calorie, full-flavour recipes for life. RIGHTS SOLD: Become slim and healthy with this unique cookbook that ensures positive weight loss and extended lifespan with tempting, full-flavour foods. Specialist nutritional chef Gurpareet Bains' fantastic plan brings together a combination of detox, feasts and superspices to suppress appetite and boost fat metabolism with high antioxidant foods. In this collection of more than 100 recipes, Gurpareet captures some of the nation’s favourite dishes and reconstructs them as delicious, easy-to-make, low-calorie, disease-fighting meals. At the heart of the recipes are superspices in medicinal quantities and each dish comes with calorie and fat counts plus a list of spice benefits. Stay slim, eat well and be healthy for life.

Gurpareet Bains is a qualified nutritionist, TV personality, columnist and chef. He first came to the international spotlight in 2009, when he created the ‘world’s healthiest meal’ – a simple Chicken Curry with Blueberries and Goji Berry Pilau – which contained the antioxidant equivalent of 23 bunches of grapes. His distinctive culinary concept acknowledges the USDA finding that nearly a quarter of the top antioxidant-rich foods available to us are, in fact, spices. Gurpareet’s best-selling debut recipe book, Indian Superfood, was published by Absolute Press in 2010. He has been featured in nearly every major newspaper in the UK and India and he is a contributor to BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio London and BBC Asian Network. In 2011 he was crowned Chef of the Year at the English Curry Awards and in 2012. Gurpareet’s celebrity fans include Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Goldie Hawn and Dame Vivienne Westwood.

Web: www.gurpareetbains.co.uk

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Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Paul Hollywood 24/10/2013

Comforting, hearty and delicious recipes from expert baker Paul Hollywood EXTENT: 224 There is nothing quite like the smell of a scrumptious steak and ale pie cooking in the RIGHTS SOLD: oven. There perhaps isn’t anything better than the first taste of a caramel and coffee éclair. From Britain’s favourite expert baker comes a mouth-watering new book about two of our nation’s obsessions: pies and puddings.

Paul Hollywood puts his signature twist on the traditional classics, with easy-to- follow, foolproof and tantalising recipes for meat and potato pie, pork, apple and cider pie, sausage plait and luxury fish pie. He will show you how to create inventive dishes such as chicken and chorizo empanadas, chilli beef cornbread pies and savoury choux buns. If that isn’t enough, here you will find his recipe for the Queen of puddings, as well as spiced plum pizza, chocolate volcanoes and apple and Wensleydale pie. There are also regional recipes like Yorkshire curd tart and the Bedfordshire clanger, and a step-by-step guide to all the classic doughs from rich shortcrust to choux pastry.

Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds is simply a must-have. Whether you’re a sweet or a savoury person, a keen novice or an expert baker: it’s time to get baking pies and puds.

Paul Hollywood shot to fame with his role as a judge on The Great British Bake Off. He is the author of How to Bake along with Paul Hollywood’s Bread, a tie-in to his television series. Having started out at his father’s bakery as a teenager, he has worked as Head Baker at exclusive hotels including Cliveden and the Dorchester and he went on to launch The Paul Hollywood Artisan Bread Company, which now supplies Harrods among others. paulhollywood.com / @PaulHollywood

Paul Hollywood’s Bread BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Paul Hollywood 14/02/2013

How to make great breads into even greater meals EXTENT: 224 This book is all about bread – how to make it and how to use it. Not only does Paul RIGHTS SOLD: teach you exactly how to make a variety of breads, but for each one there is a spin-off recipe that shows you how to make a fantastic meal of it.

The book has six chapters, each with five bread recipes – plus the spin-off recipes for main courses. Not only are Paul's recipes delicious but they are also foolproof, with comprehensive step-by-step photographs. Try your hand at a basic white bloomer, which can become a savoury picnic loaf; stilton and bacon rolls, which are excellent served with celery soup; fluffy crumpets, which become the base for eggs Benedict; flatbreads, which are a natural pairing with chickpea masala; ciabatta, which the Italians have traditionally used as a base for tomatoey panzanella; pizza bases, which can become home-made fig, Parma ham and Gorgonzola pizzas; or white chocolate and raspberry bread, which makes for the best summer pudding you've ever tasted.

How To Bake BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Paul Hollywood 05/07/2012

The last word in baking from the nation's favourite expert EXTENT: 304 At last, the star of BBC2's The Great British Bake Off reveals all the secrets of his RIGHTS SOLD: craft in How to Bake. The son of a baker, Paul Hollywood is passionate about busting the myths that surround baking, sharing his finely honed skills, and showing that Italy: Edizioni Gribaudo Srl; with the right guidance, anybody can achieve success time after time. With this in The Netherlands: Good cook mind, he has filled this book with easy-to-follow, clearly explained, utterly delicious Publishing; recipes. Having taken you through the basic techniques, Paul explains how to make Germany: Patrous an abundance of breads, pastries, cakes and biscuits including wholemeal loaf, tin bread, ciabatta, focaccia, sour cherry and chocolate loaf, Roquefort and almond bread, fresh croissants, milles feuilles, quiche, classic Victoria sponge, lemon drizzle cake, chocolate temptation cake, buttery shortbread and fiery ginger biscuits.

With 120 recipes and luscious photography from Peter Cassidy, How to Bake is the answer to every baker's prayers. Scrumptious.

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Apples of Uncommon Character: BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: Heirlooms, Modern Classics, and 02/09/2014 Little-Known Wonders EXTENT: 304 Rowan Jacobsen RIGHTS SOLD:

A celebration of America’s apple renaissance by a James Beard Award–winning author

In his classic A Geography of Oysters, Rowan Jacobsen forever changed the way America talks about its best bivalve. Now he does the same for our favourite fruit, showing us that there is indeed life beyond Red Delicious—and even Honeycrisp. While supermarkets limit their offerings to a few waxy options, apple trees with lives spanning human generations are producing characterful varieties—and now they are in the midst of a rediscovery. From heirlooms to new designer breeds, a delicious diversity of apples is out there for the eating.

Apples have strong personalities, ranging from crabby to wholesome. The Black Oxford apple is actually purple, and looks like a plum. The Knobbed Russet looks like the love child of a toad and a potato. (But don’t be fooled by its looks.)

With more than 150 art-quality colour photographs, Apples of Uncommon Character shows us the fruit in all its glory. Jacobsen collected specimens both common and rare from all over North America, including the best varieties for eating, baking, and hard-cider making. Each is accompanied by a photograph, history, lore, and a list of characteristics. The book also includes 20 recipes, savoury and sweet, resources for buying and growing, and a guide to the best apple festivals. It’s a must-have for every foodie.

Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award-winning author of A Geography of Oysters, Fruitless Fall, The Living Shore, and American Terroir. He has written for the New York Times, Harper's, Outside, Mother Jones, Orion, and others, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best Food Writing collections. Whether visiting endangered oystermen in Louisiana or cacao-gathering tribes in the Bolivian Amazon, his subject is how to maintain a sense of place in a world of increasing placelessness. He lives in rural Vermont.

Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes BLOOMSBURY USA PUBLICATION DATE: of Historic Garden Treasures 03/11/2015 Amy Goldman EXTENT: 224

A gift for gardeners, foodies, and photo enthusiasts: ravishing contemporary daguerreotypes of a RIGHTS SOLD: decade of garden harvests, celebrating the beauty of heirloom fruits and vegetables

On two hundred acres in the Hudson Valley, Amy Goldman grows fruits and vegetables – an orchard full of apples, pears, and peaches; plots of squashes, melons, cabbages, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, and beets. The president of the New York Botanical Garden has called her ‘perhaps the world’s premier vegetable gardener.’ It’s her life’s work, and she’s focused not only on the pleasures of cultivating the land or feeding her family – she’s also interested in preserving our agricultural heritage, and the beautiful and unique heirlooms that truly are organic treasures.

Over nearly fifteen years, the acclaimed photographer Jerry Spagnoli has visited Amy’s gardens to preserve these cherished varieties in another way – with the historical daguerreotype process, producing ethereal images with a silvery, luminous depth and a timeless beauty, underscoring the historical continuity and value of knobby gourds, carrots pulled from the soil, and fruit picked fresh from the tree.

In Heirloom Harvest, photographs are accompanied by an introduction by Amy, a foreword by Jerry Spagnoli, and an afterword by M Mark – comprising an exquisite package, an artist’s herbarium worthy of becoming an heirloom itself.

Amy Goldman is one of the foremost heirloom plant conservationists in the United States. She is the author of Melons for the Passionate Grower, The Compleat Squash, and The Heirloom Tomato. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York. Jerry Spagnoli is America’s premier daguerreotypist. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

M Mark founded the Village Voice Literary Supplement, teaches at Vassar College, and writes on art and photography.

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80 Cakes From Around the World ABSOLUTE PUBLICATION DATE: Claire Clark 28/08/2014

A selection of the best cakes in the world from one of the leading pastry chefs in the world EXTENT: 192 6 continents RIGHTS SOLD: 51 countries

80 cakes

Cake, in all its multifarious incarnations, is adored the world over. Top pastry chef Claire Clark explores six continents of cake culture in this treasury of adventurous baked delights. Discover the cakes most loved around the world and make the best versions of them in your own home. These favourites are finessed to perfection and each given the inimitable Claire Clark twist. An inspiring and diverse range of indulgent cakes for every home baker to enjoy! Photography by Jean Cazals.

AUSTRALIA: frog cakes, lamingtons. AUSTRIA: sachertorte, coffee cake. CHILE: milhojas cake. CHINA: pandan spiral mooncakes. ENGLAND: fondant fancy, Swiss roll, lemon drizzle cake, Victoria sandwich cake. FIJI: rainbow cake. FINLAND: runeberg cake, Helsinki caramel cake. FRANCE: croquembouche, bûche de Noël, macaroons. GERMANY: black forest gateau, streuselkuchen, bienenstich (bee sting cake), gingerbread house, lebkuchen. INDONESIA: chocolate and strawberry steamed cakes. IRELAND: barmbrack, Irish coffee cake, chocolate potato cake, chocolate Guinness cupcakes. ISRAEL: chocolate pomegranate cake. ITALY: pandoro di Verona, torta gianduja, Italian hazelnut cake, Genoa cake, génoise. LUXEMBOURG: apple kuchen. MARTINIQUE: pineapple rum cake. POLAND: Polish Easter cake, beetroot cake. SCOTLAND: whisky Dundee cake, marmalade cake, treacle scones. SPAIN: tarta de Santiago. TAIWAN: Fènglísu (pineapple cakes). TURKEY: Turkish fig and sesame cake, sini katmer. WALES: Welsh cakes, bara brith. YEMEN: honey and date cake.

Claire Clark, regarded as one of the top three pastry chefs in the world, learned her craft under the legendary Swiss patissiers Ernst Bachmann and John Huber. Her glittering career has taken her to some of the leading restaurants in London including the kitchens of Claridges Hotel in Mayfair and The Wolseley on Piccadilly. Claire Clark moved to California in 2005 to take up the position of Head Pastry Chef at The French Laundry, voted 'The Best Restaurant in the World' in 2003 and 2004, where she worked under the admiring eye of the inspirational double three-star Michelin chef Thomas Keller. Claire is now a freelance chef consultant. Her huge range of clients includes Benares, The Square, Harvey Nichols, Morrisons and MasterChef. www.claire-clark.com / @Claire_Clark

Masterchef: The Masters ABSOLUTE Master chefs from around the globe congregate in this ground-breaking book to celebrate PUBLICATION DATE: delicious food for perfect weekends at home 05/03/2015

Ever wondered what chefs love to cook when they are in their own kitchen? Away from the EXTENT: 240 intensity and heat of restaurant service, what food makes them happiest on a weekend off? 30 globally renowned chefs have each shared three recipes for their favourite weekend treats in this RIGHTS SOLD: special MasterChef collection of food at home.

The fascinating background of each chef is explored and accompanying candid snapshots from their home life provide a unique, never-seen-before window into their world. Such an intimate showcase of chefs’ private cooking is captured perfectly on the most immediate and much-loved camera of a generation – the Apple iPhone. This artistic book of chef portraits and their food is illustrated through Hipstamatic’s Loftus Lens by the famous photographer and iPhone camera guru David Loftus. The lens has been specifically designed to get the best food photography on the smartphone app and can be used by anyone. David is the primary photographer, but some of the photos are also taken by family members or Hipstamatic art ambassadors in each country.

This unprecedented and innovative cookbook is distinctive in style and substance; a groundbreaking masterpiece for the new MasterChef book series from Absolute Press.

Huge names in the culinary world each share three favourite recipes for food they love to cook at home:

Wylie Dufresne, Curtis Stone, Gordon Ramsay, Andoni Aduriz, Elena Arzak, Massimo Bottura, Tom Kerridge, Neil Perry, Pascal Proyart, Claire Clark, Jason Atherton, Peter Gilmore, Tom Kitchin, David Thompson, Andrew Fairlie, Peter Gordon, Angela Hartnett, Atul Kochhar, Marco Pierre White, Mitch Tonks, Claude Bosi, Bill Grainger, Pierre Koffmann, Michael Anthony, Tetsuya Wakuda, Joan and Jordi Roca, Eric Ripert, Graham Elliot, Ruth Rogers, Joe Bastianich, Ferran Adria.

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The Benares Cookbook ABSOLUTE PUBLICATION DATE: Atul Kochhar 25/09/2014

A bewitching cookbook of exquisite recipes from Benares, Atul Kochhar’s acclaimed EXTENT: 272 Michelin starred Indian restaurant RIGHTS SOLD: Atul Kochhar’s unique, world-class cuisine is showcased in this beautiful book of recipes from his Michelin starred kitchen. Here is a constellation of over 80 signature dishes reflecting the excellent food ethos that Atul has created using the best of British produce with his modern Indian style. Every aromatic desire is explored on a journey to the heart of Benares where Atul has captured the essences of chillies, spices, sweets, leaves, zests, oils and perfumes to create exotic fusions and dazzling flavours. Unforgettable meals might start with original zingy cocktails such as Passion Fruit Chutney Martini or Masala Sour, include the warming heat from Tikki Teen Tarike Se or Tandoori Macchi, and be sweetened by a Rose and Raspberry Bhapa Doi Pistachio Burfi or Jaggery Cake with Peanut Butter Tube and Cumin, Marshmallow and Sugar Cane Ice Cream.

The Benares book is the epicurean artefact that the fine dining room deserves. All the sumptuous recipes and photography are stylishly designed, printed perfectly on silky paper and encased in a majestic cover. This is a benchmark book of lavish production, special finishes and binding: a cookbook to treasure and use to conjure the masterly Michelin spirit in your home.

Atul Kochhar is one of the finest Indian chefs in the country, renowned for the vibrancy of his food and the subtlety of his spice mixes. He was one of the first two Indian chefs to be awarded a Michelin star and he has become the recognisable face of Indian cuisine on television. His innovative food has taken him through two whole series of the BBC's Great British Menu and continues to win Atul an admiring public through many TV appearances, including regular stints on BBC's Saturday Kitchen.

sketch ABSOLUTE PUBLICATION DATE: Pierre Gangaire & Mourad Mazouz 06/11/2014

A dreamscape book about one of London's most fascinating restaurants: sketch EXTENT: 320 sketch is a unique meeting place in the centre of London created by Mourad Mazouz RIGHTS SOLD: and Pierre Gagnaire. The converted 18th-century building in Mayfair is an opulent, zany maze with treasures to be discovered in every room. A mad hatter’s fantasy comes alive in the enchanted woodland Glade tearoom. Eccentric tasty tricks abound in the Parlour patisserie. The kitsch Gallery bistro fills you with gorgeous nosh. Chic pre-dinner cocktails in the urbane East Bar prepare you for the Michelin magic unleashed in the vibrant Lecture Room & Library. Whether you want a tearoom, bistro, restaurant, bar or nightclub, sketch has the best to offer. Now these myriad food, drink and entertainment styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium of all things sketch.

Unique cuisine is at its heart. World-renowned three-Michelin-star chef Pierre Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic menus. Interlaced with the recipes are histories and art from the wonderful gastrodome. A sensual feast in a book.

Photography by Jean Cazals.

Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have created unique experiences in Paris, London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beirut.

Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical mastery. He is a leading figure of modern French fare and mad-scientist food experiments, with restaurants in Paris, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul and Dubai. www.sketch.uk.com / @sketchlondon

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The Boat Cookbook: Real Food for ADLARD COLES PUBLICATION DATE: Hungry Sailors 10/04/2014 Fiona Sims EXTENT: 160

With 85 fuss free and fabulous recipes inspired by the sea and happy times on the RIGHTS SOLD : water, The Boat Cookbook serves up simple, mouth-watering galley grub – prepared almost as quickly as it will be devoured by your hungry crew...

For anyone with a tiny galley kitchen, there's good news: no more bland leftovers aboard. These delicious and easy recipes, all made with minimum fuss and maximum flavour, will allow you to spoil yourself in harbour and keep things simple at sea – not to mention rustle up a mean rum punch. With handy ideas on setting up the galley, a lazy guide to filleting mackerel and tips for hosting the perfect beach barbecue, this is the must-have guide for sailors and seaside-lovers alike.

The book includes recipe contributions from top chefs (Chris Galvin, Angela Hartnett, Kevin Mangeolles, Ed Wilson and Judy Joo) and sailing legends (Sir Robin Knox- Johnston, Mike Golding, Brian Thompson, Shirley Robertson and Dee Caffari). With a foreword by Chris Galvin, and accompanied throughout by wonderful photography and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, this will prove to be an invaluable addition to the food lover's kitchen or galley.

Fiona Sims has written for The Times, The Sunday Times, Food & Travel, Delicious, Decanter, and more. The award-winning food and wine writer has interviewed many of the world’s top chefs, including Alain Ducasse, Gordon Ramsay and René Redzepi, and accompanied Heston Blumenthal on his first trip to the legendary El Bulli. The idea for this book came after much nagging from her sailing-mad Dad, who kept losing her scribbled-down recipes for on board cooking in his rather basic galley. She and her husband Mark split their time between London and Yarmouth, and she sails regularly from the south coast with her Dad on his 29ft Westerly, always cooking on board.

A Year at Otter Farm BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: Mark Diacono 06/05/2014

Pioneering gardener Mark Diacono’s vivid account of living, growing and cooking on EXTENT: 384 his adventurous British smallholding, filled with practical advice, seasonal tales and inspiring recipes. RIGHTS SOLD: ‘Otter Farm is all about flavour. It starts and ends with the question: What do I really want to eat?’

The taste of a ripe mulberry was Mark Diacono’s inspiration for creating Otter Farm, a unique smallholding in Devon. Here, Mark shares his colourful, beautiful recipes, all brimming with flavour and fresh ingredients – a warm salad of Padron peppers, cherries and halloumi; a chicken, pork and borlotti bean stew; cucumber ice cream; fennel toffee apples; and quince doughnuts. Charting the seasonal challenges and triumphs of rural living, he offers practical advice for cultivating both familiar and exotic produce in a vibrant celebration of growing, cooking and eating.

A smallholder, environmental consultant and award-winning writer and photographer, Mark Diacono is known for his commitment to sustainable, ethically produced food. His name has become synonymous with climate-change growing, an approach to producing food that takes sustainable advantage of recent weather patterns. As well as running Otter Farm, Mark was, for many years, head of the Garden Team at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage and is a regular on the TV series.

Mark’s book Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No.4 was named Practical Book of the Year at the Garden Media Guild Awards 2009 and A Taste of the Unexpected won the Guild of Food Writers’ Book of the Year 2011. Mark was also named Book Photographer of the Year at the Garden Media Guild Awards 2011 for the outstanding photography in Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9. otterfarm.co.uk | @MarkDoc | @OtterFarmUK

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The Monuments BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest 13/03/2014 One-day Races EXTENT: 416 Peter Cossins RIGHTS SOLD: An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary ‘classic’ races in world cycling

The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling’s one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called ‘Monuments’, the five legendary races that are the sport’s equivalent of golf’s majors or the grand slams in tennis. Milan–Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century and each of them is an anomaly in modern-day sport, the cycling equivalent of the Monaco Grand Prix.

Time has changed them to a degree, but they remain as brutally testing as they ever have been. They provide the sport’s outstanding one-day performers – the likes of Philippe Gilbert, Fabian Cancellara, Mark Cavendish, Tom Boonen, Peter Sagan and Thor Hushovd – with a chance to measure themselves against each other and their predecessors in the most challenging tests in world cycling. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of the Paris–Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win them and enter their epic history.

Over the course of a century, only Rik Van Looy and Eddy Merckx have won all five races. Yet victory in a single edition of a Monument guarantees a rider lasting fame. In The Monuments Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these extraordinary races and the riders they have immortalised.

First drawn into the sport while a student in bike-obsessed Spain in the mid- 1980s, Peter Cossins has been writing about cycling since 1993. He has covered sixteen editions of the Tour de France and spent three years as editor of Procycling magazine and the last four as contributing editor to that title. He has also contributed to the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Express and the Sunday Herald.

Faster BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the 27/03/2014 World’s Fastest Cyclists EXTENT: 320 Michael Hutchinson RIGHTS SOLD: A fascinating and funny investigation into cyclists' incessant pursuit of speed by one of the sport's top professionals

‘What is it about me that makes me faster than the vast majority of bike riders? Is it innate, or something I achieved by training? Why are a lucky few faster than me? Is it just more of the same thing that makes me faster than everyone else? Most importantly, what can I do to catch them? These questions have had a hold over me for more than a decade – most of my adult life. It’s no sensible preoccupation for a grown man. I know that. But I can’t help it.’

In Faster Michael Hutchinson investigates what makes a fast bike rider – the extraordinary physiology, the mental resilience and how they must give over their whole existence to chasing a perfection they may only experience once or twice in their lives.

He looks at the role of coaches, sports scientists and Formula 1 engineers in paring off vital seconds. Along the way he explains why lactic acid is not the root of all evil, why what you wear matters more than what you ride and why genetics is not just about what you’re born with, but the future of sporting performance. Not to mention such critical issues as lobsters on treadmills, the consequences of incompetent self-hypnosis and what we can learn from racing pigs.

‘A unique and funny writer with a true understanding of what it takes to make it as an elite cyclist’ Chris Boardman

‘Michael Hutchinson takes an inhuman sport and makes it deliciously, wonderfully, wickedly human’ Ned Boulting

‘Hutchinson is not only faster than you, he can explain why in sharp and funny prose’ Gary Imlach Michael Hutchinson is a former professional cyclist. He has won over 50 national titles in both Britain and Ireland, and represented both countries internationally, as well as Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games of 2002, 2006 and 2010. He is the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly and a regular broadcaster on the sport. Faster is the follow-up to his award-winning previous book, The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way.

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Futebol BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Brazilian Way of Life – Updated Edition 13/03/2014

Alex Bellos EXTENT: 432

The updated edition of Alex Bellos's modern classic about Brazilian football, published RIGHTS SOLD: to coincide with the 2014 World Cup Brazil: Zahar; The Brazilian football team is one of the wonders of the modern world and legendary Denmark: Forlaget names like Pelé, Garrincha and Ronaldo inspire awe in football-lovers everywhere. Herrevaerelset; But in Latin America’s largest country, football also symbolises racial harmony, the The Netherlands: De Fontein madness of love and the flamboyance of youth – it’s a sport expresses the identity of Tirion; a nation. Poland: Helios Marek Wawrzynowski; This edition of a book that is now a modern classic, updated to coincide with the Russia: AST; 2014 World Cup, explores what makes Brazil the ‘football country’ it is. From the Amazonian jungle to the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Alex Bellos weaves Spain: Ariel a golden-yellow tapestry of stories of great names, great teams and great matches. Mixing fact with local legend, history and myth, in Futebol he uncovers what makes football the Brazilian way of life.

Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. He has worked for the Guardian in London and Rio de Janeiro, where he was the paper's foreign correspondent. In 2006 he ghostwrote Pelé's autobiography, which was a number one bestseller, and he is also the author of the bestselling Alex's Adventures in Numberland and its sequel Alex Through the Lookign-glass. www.alexbellos.com / @alexbellos

Thirty-One Nil BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: On the Road With Football’s Outsiders: A World 22/05/2014 Cup Odyssey EXTENT: 336 James Montague RIGHTS SOLD: The story of the immense struggle to qualify for the 2014 Brazilian World Cup, Thirty- One Nil roams the globe in a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of world football

In a tiny, decaying aluminium smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war zone, Afghanistan take on Palestine in the first Asian qualifier for 2014’s World Cup in Brazil. Every player on both teams is risking something by playing: their careers, their families, even their lives. Yet, along with thousands of other footballers backed by millions of supporters, they all dream of snatching one of the precious 32 places at the finals; and so begins a three-year epic struggle for qualification.

Named after the greatest victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualifiers have ever seen (Australia’s 31-0 victory over American Samoa), Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey chasing a place at the World Cup Finals. It celebrates the part-time priests, princes and hopeless chancers who dream of making it to Brazil, in defiance of the staggering odds stacked against them. It tells the story of teams who have struggled for their very existence through political and social turmoil, from which they will very occasionally emerge into international stardom. James Montague gets intimately and often dangerously close to some of the world’s most extraordinary teams, and tells their exceptional stories.

James Montague is a journalist and author who writes for the New York Times, CNN, GQ and World Soccer. His first book,When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone, won him Best New Writer at the 2009 British Sports Book of the Year Awards and has recently been updated and reissued. He was described in Sports Illustrated as ‘the Indiana Jones of soccer writing’. He appears regularly on CNN as well as writing and producing regular radio shows for the BBC World Service's award-winning World Football show. He grew up in Essex and has spent the past eight years reporting from the Middle East and beyond.

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The Oval World BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: A Global History of Rugby 01/09/2015

Tony Collins EXTENT: TBC

Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every RIGHTS SOLD: thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the world cup or Jonah Lomu rampage down the touchline for a try, there has been a split, a feud or a controversy.

The Oval World is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its origins in the village-based football games of medieval times up to the globalised sport of the twenty-first century, now played in well over 100 countries. It tells the story of how a game played in an obscure English public school became the winter sport of the British Empire, spread to France, Argentina, Japan and the rest of the world and commanded a global television audience of over four billion for the last World Cup final. And how American football – and other games such as Australian, Canadian and Gaelic football – emerged from rugby and highlight just how much the modern gridiron game owes to its English cousin.

Featuring the great moments in the game’s history and its great names – such as Jonah Lomu, David Duckham, Serge Blanco, Billy Boston and David Campese alongside Rupert Brooke, King George V, Boris Karloff, Charles de Gaulle and Nelson Mandela – The Oval World investigates just what it is about rugby that enables it to survive and thrive in countries with very different traditions and cultures. This is the the definitive world history of a truly global game.

Tony Collins is professor of history and director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, the world’s leading centre for the study of the history of sport. His previous books include Rugby’s Great Split (1998), Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain (2006), A Social History of English Rugby Union (2009), each of which won the Aberdare Prize for sports history book of the year, and Mud, Sweat and Beers: a cultural history of sport and alcohol (2003). In 2009, his Social History of English Rugby Union was selected as a book of the year by the New Statesman, the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday. He is historical consultant for the BBC Radio 4 series Sport and the British.

Reckless BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña 08/05/2014

Alasdair Fotheringham EXTENT: 320

The first biography of Luis Ocaña, one of the greatest cyclists of the twentieth century RIGHTS SOLD: whose rivalry with ‘The Cannibal’ Eddy Merckx is legendary

Luis Ocaña seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling’s greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx – ‘The Cannibal’. Their rivalry defined Ocaña’s entire career, yet he was the one rider capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. After an impoverished upbringing he flourished at the sport he loved and in 1970 secured his biggest victory on home soil, winning the Vuelta a España, and confirming his status as a Grand Tour challenger. But it was in the 1971 Tour de France that the battle between Merckx and Ocaña reached its peak when, at the Orcières-Merlette stage, he inflicted on Merckx the worst defeat he would suffer in a major Tour, with an astonishing 120-kilometre solo breakaway through the Alps.

A fascinating, complicated character both on and off his bike, Ocaña’s fierce determination, impetuosity and – some would say – recklessness created some of the most beautiful and gripping episodes in the history of the sport. This is the first ever biography in English of ‘the Spanish Merckx’ who remains one of the most fascinating Tour de France champions.

Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist based in Spain. He has covered 22 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain, as well as numerous other major races. The Independent and The Independent on Sunday's correspondent on Spain and cycling, he is also a regular contributor to a number of leading cycling magazines and websites. The Eagle of Toledo, his biography of Spain's first Tour de France winner, Federico Martin Bahamontes, was published in 2012.

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Alone BLOOMSBURY SPORT PUBLICATION DATE: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry 31/07/2014

Bill Jones EXTENT: 336

The previously-untold story of the life and tragic early death of John Curry, one of the RIGHTS SOLD: most famous ice skaters in history

One winter’s night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic glory on an ice rink in Austria. Many millions more watched around the world. Overnight he became one of the most famous men on the planet. He was awarded the OBE and chosen as BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Curry had changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet the man was – and would always remain – an absolute mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gift. Surely, men’s skating was supposed to be Cossack-muscular, not sensual and ambiguous like this.

Curry himself was an often-tortured man of labyrinthine complexity. For the first time, Alone untangles the extraordinary web of his toxic, troubled, brilliant – and short – life. It is a story of childhood nightmares, furious ambition, sporting genius, lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, financial ruin and deep personal tragedy. Alone reveals the restless, impatient, often dark soul of a man whose words could lacerate, whose skating invariably moved audiences to tears, and who – after succumbing to AIDS, as so many of his fellow artists and friends did – died of a heart attack aged just 44.

Bill Jones has spent most of his working life making award-winning international documentaries with Granada Television in Manchester. In 2011, his first book The Ghost Runner – a biography of John Tarrant – was published to widespread critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for the William Hill Sport Book of the Year, and won the 'Best New Writer' category at the British Sports Book Awards. He lives in the North of England.

Foul Play BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Dark Arts of Cheating in Sport 17/07/2014

Mike Rowbottom EXTENT: 240

Foul Play looks at cheating in sport in all its guises: from doping to match-fixing, RIGHTS SOLD: from tampering with equipment to mind games. Where to draw the line between Japan: X-Knowledge gamesmanship and outright cheating? Foul Play investigates the lengths some people will go to just to win

There is cheating. And then there is cheating. But where does one end and the other start?

Doping. Fixing. Sledging. Intimidating. Time-wasting. Diving. Ever since sporting contests began there have been rules, and for many competitors those rules have been there to be broken. Or maybe just bent a little...

Foul Play offers an inside track on the dark arts employed in sport to gain an unfair advantage – on the football or rugby field, on the tennis or squash court, on the athletics track and the golf course, even on the bowling green or the Subbuteo table.

Some cheating in sport is considered virtually par for the course, while other forms are completely unacceptable. But who, ultimately, makes that judgement? From ball-tampering and bribery in cricket to rugby union’s ‘Bloodgate’ scandal; from Diego Maradona’s Hand of God to Alex Ferguson’s managerial mind games; from the dodgy dealing of the ancient Greeks and the wily cunning of W.G. Grace to the doping scandals engulfing Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong, it’s all here.Foul Play – sometimes funny, sometimes shocking – provides all the evidence you’ll ever need that the sporting world is often anything but.

Mike Rowbottom has written about sport for The Times, the Guardian, the Observer and the Independent for more than two decades and is now chief features writer for insidethegames.biz. He has covered the last six summer Olympics and four winter Olympics, as well as many other sports. He co-wrote Olympic athlete Roger Black’s autobiography How Long’s The Course? and is the author of Usain Bolt: Fast as Lightning.

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Danish Dynamite BLOOMSBURY UK PUBLICATION DATE: The Story of Football’s Greatest Cult Team 24/04/2014

Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen & Mike Gibbons EXTENT: 240

The story of the coolest international football team in history - the iconic 1980s RIGHTS SOLD: Denmark national team - told for the first time Denmark: Art People The Denmark side of the 1980s was one of the last truly iconic international football teams. Although they did not win a trophy, they claimed something much more important and enduring: glory, and in industrial quantities. The story of Danish Dynamite, as the team became known, is the story of a team of rock stars in a polyester Hummel kit.

Everymen off the field and superheroes on it, they were totally of their time, and their approach to the game was in complete contrast to the gaudy excess and charmless arrogance of today’s football stars. That they ultimately imploded in spectacular style, with a shocking 5-1 defeat to Spain in the 1986 World Cup in a game that almost everyone expected them to win, only adds to their legend.

For the first time,Danish Dynamite tells the story of perhaps the coolest team in football history, a team that had it all and blew it in spectacular style. Featuring interviews with the players themselves, including Michael Laudrup, Preben Elkjær and Jesper Olsen, as well as with those who played or managed against them, this is a joyous celebration of one of the most life-affirming teams the world has ever seen.

Rob Smyth works for the Guardian and has also written for Wisden, Intelligent Life, GQ Style, Sports Illustrated and the official Manchester United magazine. He has also written four books.

Lars Eriksen is a Danish journalist who used to work as a production editor for the Guardian. He now lives in Copenhagen where he writes about sport, culture and food for the Guardian and various other international publications. Mike Gibbons has written for the Planet World Cup website, extracts of which have been republished in numerous books, including a full article on George Best's international career in George Best: A Celebration.

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Tutenkhamen’s Tracksuit The History of Sport in 100ish Objects Alan Tyers & Beach

A surreally subversive sporting take on The History of the World in 100 Objects by the fantastically original Tyers and Beach

In this weird and wonderful museum catalogue, the optician's eye test for the 1966 World Cup Russian linesman appears next to a surprising menu from hotel Pantan during the Tour de France, and Lance Armstrong’s school report.

The hundred objects are presented as a unique collection of sporting ephemera curated by Gideon Rupert, Acting Director of the National Museum for Sport and Fishing, Orkney. From spoof diaries, school reports, news articles and intercepted emails to postcards, and cave paintings, each tells the story of a well-known sporting event or personality in a completely irreverent way, alongside curator's notes and spurious academic references. RIGHTS SOLD:

The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final Richard Moore

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 athletes' positive drug tests. This is the story of that race, the rivalry between Johnson and Lewis, and the repercussions still felt almost a quarter of a century on.

‘Magnificent ... the breadth and detail is astonishing’ –The Times RIGHTS SOLD: The Netherlands: De Fontein Tirion

This Love Is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez Robert Andrew Powell

The story of Mexico's infamous border city ravaged by violence, but held together by the resilience of its citizens and one beloved soccer team. In this honest, unflinching, and powerful book, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles a season of soccer in this treacherous city just across the Rio Grande, and the moments of pain, longing, and redemption along the way. RIGHTS SOLD:

The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders Mike Carson

Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in football management reveal just what it takes. InThe Manager they explain their methods, give examples of lessons they’ve learned along the way, and describe the decisions they make and the leadership they provide. Featuring chapters from Sir Alex Ferguson, José Mourinho, Arsène Wenger, Roy Hodgson, Harry Redknapp, Roberto Mancini and Carlo Ancelotti among others.

‘More than a “how-to guide”, its depth of shared knowledge is huge. ****’ – Four Four Two RIGHTS SOLD: Turkey: Optimist Yayinlari; Poland: Rebis; Japan: Softbank; Slovak Republic: Vydavatelstvo TATRAN; Arabic: Tawseel; China: Xiamen Juejiezu; Denmark: Art People; Korea: Random House Korea; Brazil; Belas Letra; Russia: Exmo; Finland: Auditorium Books

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