JAN TITLE INFORMATIO N SHEET APRIL 2015 RELEASES www.facebook.com/PanMacmillanIndia www.twitter.com/PanMacIndia ADVANCE INFORMATION HAUSFRAU Jill Alexander Essbaum HAUSFRAU An extraordinary debut literary page-turner with echoes ofMadameadobe news go Bovarythic plain and fon tAnna size n oKareninat to exceed 10 Haunting and elegant, Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum. Anna was a good wife, mostly . Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far from home; but, despite its tranquility and order, inside she is falling apart. Feeling adrift and unable to connect with her husband or his family; with the fellow expatriates who try to befriend her; or even, increasingly, her own thoughts and emotions, Anna attempts to assert her agency in the only way that makes sense to her: by engaging in short- lived but intense sexual affairs. But adultery, too, has its own morality, and when Anna finds herself crossing a line, she will set off a terrible chain of events that ends in unspeakable tragedy. As her life crashes down around her, Anna must then discover Publication: April 2015 where one must go when there is no going back . ISBN: 9781447280804 Price: INR 499 Category: Fiction Format: Demy Page Extent: 256 Binding: Trade Paperback Imprint: Mantle Territorial Rights: Indian Subcontinent ADVANCE INFORMATION UNWRAPPED SKY Rjurik Davidson A blend of science fantasy from a new voice in the genre - a completely compelling vision of a society on the verge of collapse UNWRAPPED SKY Caeli-Amur: an ancient city harbouring hidden mysteries,adobe news goruledthic p labyin fothreent size nwarringot to exc eeHouses.d 10 Once, the gods used magic - or thaumaturgy - to create reality. Now, under the oppression of the controlling classes, that magic seems like a dream. But things are changing in Caeli-Amur. Ancient minotaurs arrive for the traditional Festival of the Sun and New-Men bring wondrous technology from their homeland. Hideously disfigured Wastelanders stream into the city and strikes break out in the factory district. Three very different people may hold the key to the city's survival but only if they can put aside their own personal vendettas. The philosopher-assassin Kata has debts that need settling and will do anything to ensure they're met - but can she put a price on the ultimate betrayal? Meanwhile the ambitious bureaucrat Boris Autec rises through the ranks, turning his back on everything he once believed, Publication: April 2015 and soon his private life turns to ashes. Elsewhere, the idealistic seditionist Maximilian resolves to overturn the ISBN: 9781447252382 tyranny dominating the city, and hatches a mad plot to unlock the secrets of the Great Library of Caeli Enas, Price: INR 450 drowned in the fabled city at the bottom of the sea. Category: Fiction In a novel of startling originality and riveting suspense, these three individuals risk everything for a future they Format: B Format can only create by throwing off the shackles of tradition and superstition. As their destinies collide, the Page Extent: 480 destruction will either transform the ancient city . or Binding: Paperback ruin it. Imprint: Tor RJURIK DAVIDSON Territorial Rights: Indian Subcontinent Rjurik Davidson is a winner of the Ditmar Award as Best New Talent and the Aurealis Award for his short fiction. His first book was a collection, The Library of Forgotten Books. A columnist, and a literary and film critic, he lives in Melbourne, Australia. ADVANCE INFORMATION SOME DESPERATE GLORY: THE FIRST WORLD WAR THE POETS KNEW Max Egremont SOME DESPERATE GLORY After his highly successful history of Prussia, the authorizedadobe news go biographerthic plain fon tof size Siegfried not to excee Sassoond 10 examines the First World War through the lives of the poets who fought at the front. 2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets – many of whom were killed – show not only the war’s tragedy but the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. In Some Desperate Glory, historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets. Wilfred Owen with his flaring genius; the intense, compassionate Siegfried Sassoon; the composer Ivor Gurney; Robert Graves who would later spurn his war poems; the nature-loving Edward Thomas; the glamorous Fabian Socialist Rupert Brooke; and the Publication: April 2015 shell-shocked Robert Nichols all fought in the war, and their poetry is a bold act of creativity in the face of ISBN: 9781447242000 unprecedented destruction. Some Desperate Glory will include a chronological Price: INR 499 anthology of their poems, with linking commentary, Category: Non - Fiction telling the story of the war through their art. This unique volume unites the poetry and the history of the war, so Format: B Format often treated separately, granting readers the pride, strife, and sorrow of the individual soldier’s experience Page Extent: 304 coupled with a panoramic view of the war’s toll on an Binding: Paperback entire nation. Imprint: Picador MAX EGREMONT Territorial Rights: Indian Subcontinent Max Egremont was born in 1948 and studied Modern History at Oxford University. As well as four novels, he is the author of The Cousins and Balfour: A Life of Arthur James Balfour. His acclaimed biography of Siegfried Sassoon was published in 2005 and his most recent work is Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. ADVANCE INFORMATION THE BRIDE OF SCIENCE: ROMANCE, REASON AND BYRON’S DAUGHTER Benjamin Woolley The much-acclaimed biography of Ada Lovelace, reissued to tie-in with the bicentenary of her birth in 2015 THE BRIDE OF SCIENCE Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron was born in 1815adobe justnews after gothic the pla inBattle font size of nWaterloo,ot to exceed and 10 died aged 36, soon after the Great Exhibition of 1851. She was connected with some of the most influential and colourful characters of the age: Charles Dickens, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin and Charles Babbage. It was her work with Babbage that led to her being credited with the invention of computer programming and to her name being adopted for the programming language that controls the US military machine. Ada personified the seismic historical changes taking place over her lifetime. This was the era when fissures began to open up in culture: romance split away from reason, instinct from intellect, art from science. Ada came to embody these new polarities and her life heralded a new era: the machine age. Publication: April 2015 Reissued to coincide with the bicentenary of Ada's birth, The Bride of Science is a fascinating examination ISBN: 9781447272540 of an extraordinary life offering devastating insight into Price: INR 499 the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between art and science, the consequences of which are still with us today. Category: Non - Fiction Format: B Format BENJAMIN WOOLLEY Page Extent: 432 Benjamin Woolley is an author and broadcaster whose work covers subjects ranging from the origins of virtual Binding: Paperback reality to the history of colonial America. His books Imprint: Pan have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese, and his documentaries broadcast Territorial Rights: Indian Subcontinent across the world. ADVANCE INFORMATION THE SEVEN SISTERS Lucinda Riley Their future is written in the stars . THE SEVEN SISTERS Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at theiradobe childhoodnews gothic phome,lain fon t'Atlantis' size not to e-x caee fabulous,d 10 secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sisters were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage - a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of where her story began . Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Epoque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio's father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is working on a statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela - passionate and longing to see the world - convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Publication: April 2015 Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski's studio and in the heady, vibrant cafés of ISBN: 9781447218647 Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Price: INR 399 Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again. Category: Fiction The Seven Sisters is a sweeping epic tale of love and Format: B Format loss - the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven books, based on the legends of the Seven Sisters star Page Extent: 400 constellation - Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling Binding: Paperback talent like never before. LUCINDA RILEY Imprint: Pan Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland and wrote her first Territorial Rights: Indian Subcontinent novel at twenty-four. Hothouse Flower was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice and became a number one international bestseller. Since then, her novels have gone on to sell over three million copies worldwide and her books have been translated into twenty-six languages.