BLOOMSBURY January – June 2018 NEW TITLES January – June 2018 2 Original Fiction 12 Paperback Fiction 26 Crime, Thriller & Mystery 32 Paperback Crime, Thriller & Mystery 34 Original Non-Fiction 68 Food 78 Wellbeing 83 Popular Science 87 Nature Writing & Outdoors 92 Religion 93 Sport 99 Business 102 Maritime 104 Paperback Non-fiction 128 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales 131 Social Media Contacts 132 Index export information TPB Trade Paperback PAPERBACK B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm) Peach Emma Glass Introducing a visionary new literary voice – a novel as poetic as it is playful, as bold as it is strangely beautiful omething has happened to Peach. Blood runs down her legs Sand the scent of charred meat lingers on her flesh. It hurts to walk but she staggers home to parents that don’t seem to notice. They can’t keep their hands off each other and, besides, they have a new infant, sweet and wobbly as a jelly baby. Peach must patch herself up alone so she can go to college and see her boyfriend, Green. But sleeping is hard when she is haunted by the gaping memory of a mouth, and working is hard when burning sausage fat fills her nostrils, and eating is impossible when her stomach is swollen tight as a drum. In this dazzling debut, Emma Glass articulates the unspeakable with breathtaking clarity and verve. Intensely physical, with rhythmic, visceral prose, Peach marks the arrival of a ground- breaking new talent. 11 JANUARY 2018 HARDBACK • 9781408886694 • £12.99 ‘An immensely talented young writer . Her fearlessness renews EBOOK • 9781408886670 • £10.99 one’s faith in the power of literature’ ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2018 George Saunders HARDBACK • AUS $24.99 • NZ $26.99 TERRITORY: WO ‘You'll be unable to put it down until the very last sentence’ TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY Kamila Shamsie ‘Peach is a work of genius. So lonesome and moving, so gruesome, wry, tender and plaintive’ Lucy Ellmann Emma Glass was born in Swansea. She studied English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Kent, then decided to become a nurse and went back to study Children’s Nursing at Swansea University. She lives in North London and is a research nurse specialist at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Peach is her first book. @Emmas_Window 2 ORIGINAL FICTION The Wanderers Tim Pears The spellbinding second novel in Tim Pears’ acclaimed West Country Trilogy set in pre-First World War Devon and Cornwall 912. Aged 13 and banished from the farm of his childhood, Leo journeys through 1Devon. Behind him lies the past, and before him the West Country. But a wanderer is never alone for long, and soon Leo is taken in by gypsies… Meanwhile, life on Lottie’s father’s estate continues as usual, yet nothing is the same. As the great house gains a new mistress, Lottie takes refuge in nature and science. Yet she and Leo are rarely far from one another’s thoughts. Charged with raw energy and gentle humour, this is a delicately wrought tale of adolescence, survival, longing and love. 11 JANUARY 2018 HARDBACK • 9781408892336 • £16.99 Tim Pears is the author of 10 novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner EBOOK • 9781408892329 • £14.99 of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), In a Land of Plenty (made into a BBC series), Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2018 HARDBACK • AUS $27.99 • NZ $29.99 Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize), and The Horseman, the first book in the West Country Trilogy. He lives in Oxford. TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH timpears.com Folk Zoe Gilbert A captivating, magical and haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award n a remote and unforgiving island lies a village unlike any other: Neverness. OA girl is snatched by a water bull and dragged to his lair, a babe is born with a wing for an arm and children ask their fortunes of an oracle ox. While the villagers live out their own tales, enchantment always lurks, blighting and blessing in equal measure. Folk is a dark and sinuous debut circling the lives of one generation. In this world far from our time and place, the stories of the islanders interweave and overlap, their own folklore twisting fates and changing lives. 08 FEBRUARY 2018 HARDBACK • 9781408884393 • £16.99 Zoe Gilbert is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award. Her work has appeared EBOOK • 9781408884379 • £14.99 in anthologies from Comma, Cinnamon, Labello and Pankhearst presses, and has been published in many journals worldwide. She chairs the Short Story Critique EXPORT TPB • 9781408884386 • £12.99 Group at Waterstones Piccadilly, co-hosts the Word Factory Short Story Club and ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2018 is co-founder of London Lit Lab. Zoe Gilbert lives in London. TPB • AUS $21.99 • NZ $23.99 TERRITORY: WE EXCAN @mindandlanguage TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AITKEN ALEXANDER ASSOCIATES ORIGINAL FICTION 3 In the Fall They Come Back Robert Bausch A brilliantly observed prep school novel about fraught teacher–student relationships – and about coming into adulthood en Jameson begins his teaching career in a small private school in Northern BVirginia. Within two years he comes to believe this is his calling; he wants to change lives. But his desire to ‘save’ his students leads him into complicated territory, as he becomes involved with three students in particular: an abused boy, a mute and damaged girl, and a dangerous eighteen-year-old who has come back to school for one more chance to graduate. 08 FEBRUARY 2018 HARDBACK • 9781632864000 • £18.99 In the Fall They Come Back explores the limits and complexities of even our most ANZ PUB DATE 01 JANUARY 2018 benevolent urges – what we can give to others and how we lose ourselves. HARDBACK • AUS $36.99 • NZ $38.99 TERRITORY: WE Robert Bausch is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories. TRANSLATION RIGHTS: MASSIE & In 2005 he won the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Hillsdale Award for Fiction MCQUILKIN LITERARY AGENTS for his body of work, and in 2009 he was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Virginia. www.robertbausch.org 4 ORIGINAL FICTION Sail Away Celia Imrie From the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of Not Quite Nice comes a thrilling new stand-alone novel about two women on an Atlantic cruise ship he phone hasn’t rung for months. Suzy is discovering that work Tcan be sluggish for an actress over sixty – even for a TV star of the 1980s. So when her agent offers her a role in The Importance of Being Earnest in Zurich, it seems like a godsend. Then the play is abruptly cancelled, and Suzy is forced to take a job on a cruise ship to get home. Meanwhile Amanda finds herself homeless in rainy Clapham. Her flat purchase has fallen through, and her children have their own dramas to attend to. Then she spots an advertisement for Mermaid Cruises, and realises three weeks on-board would tide her over – and save her money – until the crisis is solved. As these two women set sail, each on a new adventure, neither can predict the strange characters and dodgy dealings they will encounter... ‘A very witty woman’ 22 FEBRUARY 2018 Julian Fellowes HARDBACK • 9781408883228 • £12.99 EBOOK • 9781408883211 • £10.99 ‘Her work has definite joie de vivre and a sunny, good-natured feel’ EXPORT TPB • 9781408883235 • £12.99 Wendy Holden, Daily Mail ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2018 TPB • AUS $27.99 • NZ $29.99 Celia Imrie is an Olivier Award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress known for roles in films includingThe TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: UNITED AGENTS Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie and A Cure for Wellness. She is the author of an autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, and two top ten Sunday Times bestselling novels, Not Quite Nice and Nice Work (If You Can Get It). celiaimrie.info • @CeliaImrie ALSO AVAILABLE PAPERBACK PAPERBACK 9781408876947 • £7.99 9781408846896 • £7.99 ORIGINAL FICTION 5 Travelling in a Strange Land David Park Set in a frozen landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning author is a psychologically astute portrait of fatherhood and a family in crisis he world is hushed, cloaked in snow. Transport has ground to a halt, yet Tom Tmust venture out to collect his son Luke, sick and stranded in student lodgings. On this solitary journey from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom reflects on life: his beloved wife; the son he struggles to connect with; the countless small disappointments of his photography career; and the absence that is always there as a voice in his head – his other son, Daniel. In prose both lyrical and effortless, David Park vividly evokes the inner life of one man – and in so doing, captures the nuances and mysteries of human experience. 08 MARCH 2018 HARDBACK • 9781408892787 • £16.99 David Park has written 10 previous books including The Light of Amsterdam EBOOK • 9781408892763 • £14.99 (shortlisted for the International IMPAC Prize 2014), The Poets’ Wives (Belfast’s EXPORT TPB • 9781408892794 • £12.99 Choice for One City One Book 2014), and The Truth Commissioner (adapted into a BBC Two TV drama). He has been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award ANZ PUB DATE 01 APRIL 2018 TPB • AUS $27.99 • NZ $29.99 three times. He lives in Northern Ireland.