SHORT BOOKS autumn 2008

NEW TITLES P HOW TO BE WILD NON FICTION 1st August We are all wild. It’s just that 352pp £8.99 A civilisation keeps getting in the way B format paperback 978-1-906021-48-1 SIMON BARNES UK & Commonwealth, ex. Canada: Short Books P Bestselling author of How to be a Bad Birdwatcher Foreign rights: Capel & Land E

As everyone who has patted a dog, smelled a ‘Barnes is a poet of rose, taken a walk, or even had a drink in the the unexpected lifting garden well knows, humans have a soul-deep of the heart.’ need for non-human forms of life. This book is PJ Kavanagh R about pushing our birthright of wildness just that little bit further. In How to be Wild , Barnes takes us on a year- long journey, from one raucous spring to the ‘A bracing reminder to

next, with elephants and mosquitoes, dolphins us all “to keep things B and flying squirrels, giraffes and butterflies as his open: eyes, ears, hearts, companions. And again and again, he helps us to minds. And souls.” realise an essential truth: that by enjoying the ...Sparky, inspiring.’ wild world, by seeking to understand the wild Ned Dunny, world, our own lives become richer and more A satisfying.

Simon Barnes is the multi-award- ‘This book – packed winning chief sportswriter for the with so much insight Times . He is also a novelist, nature and so many descriptions C writer and horseman, and the of wildlife encounters bestselling author of a dozen books, always right on the including How to be a Bad Birdwatcher and The Meaning of Sport (Short button – leaves little for others to write.’ Books). He lives in Suffolk with his K family. Birds Magazine 2 August P ONE TO NINE NON FICTION 1st August The Inner Life of Numbers 328pp £7.99 A B format paperback ANDREW HODGES 978-1-906021-26-9 UK & Commonwealth, ex. Canada: Short Books

'The ideal book for P everyone interested in the Foreign rights: MBA only universal language, especially if their mathematical curiosity E exceeds their skill...' What does A4 paper have in common with Sunday Telegraph Mozart’s Requiem? Why does three have a dark side?Was zero discovered or invented? 'Hodges is very good at R With searching questions such as these, pulling numerical rabbits Andrew Hodges takes apart the numbers 1 to 9 out of every day hats… You and gathers up the pieces, exploring on the way such various topics as musical harmony, the can skip through the facts chemistry of sunflowers and the logic of the like a tourist, marvelling at game Paper, Scissors, Stone. the sights thrust in your B In One to Nine , Hodges unveils a universal path and still feeling language which has its roots in antiquity and yet impressed by the principles enables us to connect with the far reaches of that underpin them, even the universe. Whether it is explaining how when the technical detail A subatomic particles behave or challenging you to the ultimate sudoku puzzle, this is a book which eludes you.' succeeds in making the unfathomable enticing. Daily Mail

Andrew Hodges is best known as 'A virtuoso stream of C the author of Alan Turing: The Enigma , consciousness containing described by the New Yorker as 'one of everything important th ere the finest scientific biographies ever written'. He is also active in research is to say about numbers in into fundamental physics and a Fellow just over 300 pages...' of Wadham College, Oxford University. Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph K

4 August P AMO, AMAS, AMAT... NON FICTION 4th September AND ALL THAT 272pp £7.99 A How to become a Latin lover B format paperback 978-1-906021-15-3 HARRY MOUNT World rights: Short Books Over 100,000 copies sold in hardback worldwide P E Have you ever found yourself irritated when a ‘Amo, Amas, Amat is a sine qua non or a mea culpa is thrown into the diverting meander and conversation by a particularly annoying person? Mount’s love of Latin shines Or do distant memories of afternoons spent

out on every page.’ R struggling to learn obscure verbs fill you with The Spectator dread? Never fear! (or as a Latin show-off might say, Nil Desperandum! ) ‘If you studied Latin at In this delightful guided tour of Latin – school this will bring back featuring everything from a Monty Python B fond memories, but grammar lesson to David Beckham’s tattoos and all the best snippets of prose and poetry from even newcomers will be 2000 years of literary history – Harry Mount captivated by this witty and wipes the dust off those boring primers and entertaining book…‘ A breathes life back into the greatest language of Yorkshire Evening Post them all. ‘Latin without the pain.’ Harry Mount read Classics at Oxford The Guardian and was a Latin tutor before becoming C a journalist. He has been a leader- writer and New York correspondent at ‘The latest challenge to . His memoir of his the crown claimed by Eats, time as a barrister’s pupil, My Brief Career , is also published by Short Shoots & Leaves .’ Books. The Times K

6 September H DEAR BLUE PETER NON FICTION 4th September The best of 50 years of letters to 244pp £12.99 Britain’s favourite children’s programme 198 x 152mm A 978-1-906021-49-8 BIDDY BAXTER World rights: Short Books

And now for something completely different.. . Dear Blue Peter R I couldn’t believe my ears Blue Peter , which celebrates its 50th anniversary in this morning – my mum October this year, means something to children of said come down stairs every generation from the 1960s onwards – Wendy – there’s a letter for whether it’s the theme tune, the pets, the sticky- you – I couldn’t believe it back plastic, or the legendary mishaps. D had come from Blue Peter But one little known aspect of the programme and I had won a badge! I is the extraordinary correspondence it generated took my letter to school to almost from the day that John Noakes, Valerie show to my teacher – Mr Singleton and co. first went on air. By the late Herbert – he said “Not now 1980s, Blue Peter was receiving an average of Wendy” but when he saw it 7,000 letters per week. B was from the BBC he said In this wonderfully entertaining book, Biddy “Oh alright”. He read it once, Baxter – the programme’s founding editor, and he read it twice and then he the woman who invented the Blue Peter badge to read it again – then he said encourage children to write in with ideas, “My goodness” and took it pictures and stories – introduces some of the very A to the Head Mistress Mrs best letters received. Original, engrossing, funny Smith. – and sometimes remarkably rude – they provide Mrs Smith read my letter a unique snapshot of life in the second half of the to the whole of the school at 20th century, of people from all over Britain (and Assembly – she said it was beyond) and children of every conceivable the first time anyone from C background. school had had a letter from the BBC. Biddy Baxter was the editor of Blue I’ll never forget the day I Peter , from 1962 to 1988. She was won my badge! awarded a gold badge herself when

she left the programme. Wendy, aged 10 K

8 September P ALONG CAME DYLAN NON FICTION Two’s a crowd when you’ve been top dog 2nd October

A 256pp £7.99 STEPHEN FOSTER B format paperback 978-1-906021-41-2 Over 100,000 copies of WALKING OLLIE sold so far! World rights:

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Having cured (well, just about...) his rescue dog Ollie of his neuroses and crackpot habits,

Stephen Foster might have been expected to take E a break. In Foster’s view though, there was still something missing from his dog’s world: Ollie needed a playmate, someone to talk to, someone to understand him. ‘If you must get another one, at least get a R girl,’ everybody said. But Dylan is a boy, a pure Saluki boy. And he’s a lunatic. The moment the PRAISE FOR new pup walked in the door, Ollie threw his WALKING OLLIE: master a look of contemptuous disbelief. It was a look that said,‘I refuse to have anything whatsoever ‘Ollie is trouble. But he is B to do with this.You’re on your own, pal.’ also a joy. So is reading In the riotously funny Along came Dylan , about him. Walking Ollie is Stephen Foster picks up where Walking Ollie left off. Instead of one difficult dog, he’s got two. the best book about a dog Where Ollie sees a threat, Dylan sees a challenge for... let us say eight years.’ A – and Foster finds himself forever somewhere in Roy Hattersley, Guardian the middle, trying to work out why they can’t just all be friends... ‘Foster’s wrily perceptive

book perfectly illustrates C Stephen Foster is the author of six the truism that the only books including the bestselling Walking Ollie (Short 2007) which has thing wrong with dogs is sold more than 100,000 copies. He their owners...’ lives in Norwich with his partner and TLS his two dogs, Ollie and Dylan. K

10 October H HEAD OVER HEELS NON FICTION 2nd October A journey of discovery with a 288pp £12.99 rather remarkable mare B format hardback A 978-1-906021-42-9 SIMON BARNES UK & Commonwealth, ex. Canada: Short Books Bestselling author of How to be a Bad Birdwatcher Foreign rights: Capel & Land R ‘All I can say is that there was something – right from the first. She was not a My Little Pony sort of a horse, not a dolly-girl, not winsome and winning, not even terribly pretty. A stubby little mare, bright bay with remarkably large ears. A white star in her forehead shaped like Madagascar. A huge arse; which is good, not bad, because that’s where the D power comes from. Not a horse that would turn heads, no, just a very horse-like horse. She stood, quiet, docile, as I approached her. I was a bit disappointed not to be offered something more lively. Ha. I placed a foot in the iron and swung on board... It was as if I had turned a key: all the lights came on. In that single instant, the horse came alive. She B started buzzing.To tell the truth, I was a little alarmed: a little intimidated. This was definitely rather more horse than I was expecting...’ In Head Over Heels , Simon Barnes – with his trademark humour, wisdom and delight in all things wild – takes us on a A journey of discovery, as he builds a life-changing, life- enhancing friendship with his beloved bay mare.

Simon Barnes is the multi-award- winning chief sportswriter for the C Times . He is also a novelist, nature writer and horseman, and the bestselling author of a dozen books, including How to be a Bad Birdwatcher and The Meaning of Sport . He lives in

Suffolk with his family. K

12 October H THE GOOD GRANNY NON FICTION 2nd October COMPANION 224pp £12.99 198 x152mm JANE FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL A 978-1-906021-44-3 UK & Commonwealth, Another winner from bestselling ex. Canada: Short Books Granny Jane... World rights: Greene & Heaton R

Spring and Easter egg hunts, Summer and fun ON THE RANCH, IN THE D days out, Autumn and Hallowe’en treats, and of CASTLE : course every grandchild’s favourite time of year brilliant birthday cakes – Christmas… Packed with seasonal activities and pastimes, The Good Granny Companion takes you through from January to December with SONGS & STORIES : great ideas both to brighten up ordinary days and classic tales that still B to make those Very Important Days truly work memorable. Whether she is reminding us of the rules of a classic card game or the perfect KNITTING & SEWING : bedtime story, or providing an easy recipe for a from sausage dogs to spectacular birthday cake, Granny Jane brings to A lavender bags bear her trademark good humour and clear, practical style – this is a must for all modern grandparents. TURN OFF THE TELLY : great card games and Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, bestselling granny scrabble... C author of The Good Granny Guide and The Good Granny Cookbook, has written EASTER, HALLOWE’EN, many other books on plants and gardening. A grandmother of five, and CHRISTMAS : the mother of TV chef Hugh, she lives dressing up, treasure

with her husband in Gloucestershire. hunts, making presents K

14 October H HOW TO GET THINGS NON FICTION REALLY FLAT 2nd October A Man’s Guide to Ironing, Dusting and 240pp £12.99

A B format hardback Other Household Chores 978-1-906021-46-7 World rights: ANDREW MARTIN Short Books

Martin is surprisingly well qualified to write a INCLUDES: R guide to housework for men. Not only is he a – Do I need to read the labels man himself, but he does a lot about the house. on clothes? On purely humanitarian grounds he recently took over some of the ironing from his wife; he – Do I have to iron the backs then branched out into bath-cleaning, dusting, washing up after dinner (when he wasn’t going of things? D out), vacuuming (when the hoover was working), and loading the washing machine – What is dust? completely unaided. For the purposes of this book, Martin has – Stain removal for beginners interviewed many experts. The fruits of his B research include the answers to such burning – The principles of questions as: ‘Do I Need to Bother about the vacuuming Controls on the Iron?’ ‘Is Dust Dangerous?’ and ‘What is All That Stuff at the Bottom of the Laundry Basket?’ – Cleaning the toilet: an How to Get Things Really Flat will amuse and introduction A instruct any man, forced at gunpoint by his significant other to read it. – ‘Doing’ Christmas

Andrew Martin trained as a barrister

before becoming a journalist and C novelist. His seven novels include five titles featuring the young Edwardian detective, Jim Stringer. He has also written short stories and radio plays. He is married with two children, and

lives in Highgate. K

16 October H IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME NON FICTION

Everything you need to know about the 2nd October greatest civilisation that ever was 304pp £12.99 A Demy hardback CHARLOTTE HIGGINS 978-1-906021-43-6 World rights: Short Books Why are some laws draconian? What is an PRAISE FOR Achilles heel? Why were the Spartans spartan? LATIN LOVE LESSONS:

Charlotte Higgins answers all these questions R and more in this indispensable guide to the ‘A funny, gloriously erudite greatest civilisation the world has ever known. Consider the way we think: about right and and charming book.’ wrong, about the nature of beauty, goodness, Scotland on Sunday and truth. About what, in the end, it is to be a human being amid the immensity of the ‘Engaging and very funny.’ D universe. What it is to be mortal, to live for a Mary Beard, brief while, and die. All this we have learned The Guardian from the ancient Greeks. They moulded the basic disciplines and genres in which we still organise thought: from poetry to drama, from ‘Who wouldn’t want politics to philosophy, from history to medicine, Miss Higgins as their B and even ethnography. Latin mistress?’ Packed with useful cribs – history timelines; The Times mythology for dummies; even a map for those who struggle to know their Lemnos from their Lesbos – It’s All GreekTo Me is a bluffer’s guide in A one sense; but it is much more than that. This book aims to unlock the richness of Greek culture and place it where it should be, in the mainstream of life. C Charlotte Higgins has been the Guardian’s arts correspondent since 2004. She is the author of Latin Love Lessons (Short Books, 2007). Charlotte studied classics at Balliol College,

Oxford. She lives in . K

18 October H CAN WE PLAY YOU EVERY NON FICTION

WEEK? 6th November From Newcastle United to Plymouth Argyle 240pp £12.99 – a fan’s guide to the 92 football league A 198 x 152 mm hardback 978-1-906021-47-4 clubs of England and Wales World rights: Short Books

MAX VELODY R

Watching football, thinking football... okay you The pints, may not play much but whether you’re a the pies... D supporter glued to the telly, or a dedicated away fan prepared to travel hundreds of miles to The fans, grotty towns in drizzle to watch your team win, the stands... draw or lose, you’re always hoping for – always dreaming of – joy. The nicknames, Can We Play You Every Week? is the essential the chants... B guide to the 92 football league clubs of England The history, andWales – providing fans with everything they want to know. A must-buy for anyone with the the legends... love of our national sport running through their The scandals, veins – or even those married to one. A . the lies... Max Velody is old enough to be paying Best of times, precisely 40,000% more for a ticket to worst of times... his home club than he did as a kid. He considers himself a failure both as a C husband and father because of the variety of football scarves of differing colours hanging in his hallway. Bovril is Max’s half-time beverage of choice and he worries it is going out of fashion.

He is a TV News Editor. K

20 November RECENTLY PUBLISHED

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