Spine: 7.3mm July – December 2020 4 Original Fiction 14 Raven Books – Crime, Thriller & Mystery 20 Original Non-Fiction 46 Cookery 54 Paperback Fiction 60 Paperback Non-Fiction 74 Bloomsbury Business 78 Sigma – Popular Science 82 Green Tree – Wellbeing 86 Bloomsbury Sport & Wisden 94 Yearbooks 98 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales 101 Social Media Contacts 102 Index export information TPB Trade Paperback PAPERBACK B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm) ORIGINAL FICTION 4 ORIGINAL FICTION Why Visit America Matthew Baker A twisted, exhilarating and darkly strange vision of our time, explored in thirteen interconnected episodes young man breaks the news to his family that he is going to A transition from an analogue body to a digital existence. A man returns home after committing a great crime, his sentence being that his memory, and thereby his entire life, is wiped clean. The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the United States. So they decide to secede, rename themselves America in memory of their former country, and set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbour: America. The stories in Matthew Baker’s collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us – from old age to consumerism, drugs to internet culture – turned on its head by one of the most darkly innovative and defiantly strange voices of the moment. 04 AUGUST 2020 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Matthew Baker is the author of the story collection Hybrid EXPORT TPB / 9781526618399 / £13.99 Creatures. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review, American HARDBACK / 9781526618382 / £14.99 EBOOK / 9781526618405 / £12.58 Short Fiction, New England Review, One Story, Electric Literature TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/ and Conjunctions, and in anthologies including Best of the Net UK/OPEN MARKET and Best Small Fictions. Born in Michigan, he currently lives in TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ABNER STEIN New York City. ANZ PUB DATE 04 AUGUST 2020 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99 ‘Matthew Baker is the rarest of writers, one who can turn complex, high-concept stories into sublime character-driven psalms. His work is both highly original and refreshingly human’ Noah Hawley, creator of ‘Fargo’ ORIGINAL FICTION 5 Here is the Beehive Sarah Crossan What happens when you lose something the world never knew was yours? A shattering novel about transgression, desire, secrecy and loss ou made me very bad, Connor. And I am so glad. Y Ana and Connor have been having an affair for three years. In hotel rooms and coffee shops, swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends, they have built a world with none but the two of them in it. But then the unimaginable happens, and Ana finds herself alone, trapped inside her secret. How can we lose someone the world never knew was ours? How do we grieve for something no one else can ever find out? In her desperate bid for answers, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach – Connor’s wife Rebecca. 20 AUGUST 2020 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Peeling away the layers of two overlapping marriages, Here is the EXPORT TPB / 9781526619518 / £12.99 HARDBACK / 9781526619495 / £12.99 Beehive is a devastating excavation of marriage, betrayal and loss. EBOOK / 9781526619532 / £10.90 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/ Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now EUROPE/OPEN MARKET lives in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy TRANSLATION RIGHTS: A M HEATH & COMPANY LTD and Literature before training as an English and drama teacher at ANZ PUB DATE 01 SEPTEMBER 2020 the University of Cambridge. Crossan is the current Laureate na TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99 nÓg (Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate). Here is the Beehive is her first novel for adults. sarahcrossan.com / @SarahCrossan Praise for Sarah Crossan: ‘One of our most original writers. Sarah has almost created an entirely new form of writing in her novels that is hers and hers alone’ John Boyne 6 ORIGINAL FICTION Monogamy Sue Miller A beautiful and bittersweet novel about marriage, loss and betrayal, by the internationally bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Senator’s Wife ere is Graham, and here is Annie; here they are in marriage, in Hlate middle age, in comfort. The bookseller with his appetite, his conviviality, his bigness; the photographer with her delicacy, her astuteness, her reserve. The children are offstage, grown up and scattered on either coast. Annie is not the first love of Graham’s life but she is, he thinks, his last and greatest. Very recently, he has faltered; but he means to put it right. Then the unthinkable happens. Now Annie stumbles in the dark: did she know all there was to know about the man who loved her? A novel about marriage, family, secrets and love, Monogamy confirms Sue Miller’s place among the greatest writers at work 03 SEPTEMBER 2020 in America today. IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING EXPORT TPB / 9781526618948 / £13.99 Sue Miller is the bestselling author of ten novels including the HARDBACK / 9781526618900 / £16.99 Oprah Book Club selection While I Was Gone, Lost in the Forest EBOOK / 9781526618924 / £14.26 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/ and the Richard & Judy choice The Senator’s Wife. Her books UK/OPEN MARKET have been published in twenty-two countries and she has been TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WILLIAM MORRIS ENDEAVOR awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Institute fellowships. She lives ENTERTAINMENT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ANZ PUB DATE 29 SEPTEMBER 2020 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99 ‘Miller is concerned with deeper mysteries of human motivation ... A writer with an uncanny compass for the contrary’ Sunday Telegraph ORIGINAL FICTION 7 Piranesi Susanna Clarke The long-awaited return from the author of the multi-million- copy bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell iranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. P In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands of statues, the tides which thunder up staircases, the clouds which slowly move through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? 15 SEPTEMBER 2020 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world HARDBACK / 9781526622426 / £14.99 that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. EBOOK / 9781526622440 / £12.58 TERRITORY: WE The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN ANZ PUB DATE 15 SEPTEMBER 2020 Susanna Clarke’s debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was HARDBACK / AUS $27.99 / NZ $29.99 published in more than thirty-four countries, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. She lives in Derbyshire. Praise for Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: ‘Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years. It’s funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical ... Closing Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell after 800 pages my only regret was that it wasn’t twice the length’ Neil Gaiman 8 ORIGINAL FICTION To Be a Man Nicole Krauss A mesmerising short story collection from the bestselling, twice- Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author of The History of Love teenage girl lies on the floor of her dorm room and tells her A friends about the businessman who gave her his hotel number on a 500 franc note. An ageing professor, brought back to life, flees with his newborn grandchild to the rooftop. Two sisters return home for their parents’ divorce ceremony to find their home town on fire. As the government issues warnings about toxic gas in the atmosphere, a woman cries over a game of Scrabble in her sealed-up home. Unfurling their bright petals with elegance, humanity and mystery, Nicole Krauss’s blazingly brilliant stories explore death, violence and desire with absolute mastery. 12 NOVEMBER 2020 Nicole Krauss is the author of four novels, including the IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING international bestsellers Great House (shortlisted for the National HARDBACK / 9781408871829 / £16.99 Book Award and the Orange Prize) and The History of Love EXPORT TPB / 9781408871836 / £12.99 EBOOK / 9781408871843 / £14.27 (shortlisted for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes, and TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/ winner of the Saroyan Prize and the Prix du Meilleur Livre UK/EUROPE/OPEN MARKET Étranger). Her work has been translated into over thirty-five TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ROGERS, COLERIDGE & WHITE LTD languages. She lives in New York. ANZ PUB DATE 01 DECEMBER 2020 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99 ORIGINAL FICTION 9 Artifact Arlene Heyman The debut novel from the acclaimed author of Scary Old Sex – a book about the experiments we undertake in sex, motherhood and science ottie Kristin possesses a passion for experimentation, intellectual and sensual. LA girl who’d rather carry out dissections in the back yard than join her family for Christmas dinner is a strange artifact in the town of Sleeping Bay. But by her twenties, Lottie finds herself trapped in a marriage and motherhood. How can a young woman make her way in a world determined to contain her brilliance, her longing to live? Artifact is a portrait of a whole woman, a celebration of her refusal to be defined by others’ imaginations, and a meditation on the glorious chaos of biological life.