SEPTEMBER 2018 Sea Prayer Khaled Hoesseini A heart-wrenching story from the international bestselling author of The Kite Runner Sales points • Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world. His books have sold over 8 million copies in UK markets alone, and over 55 million copies in more than 70 countries worldwide • Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi 's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution Description A heart-wrenching story from the international bestselling author of The Kite Runner On a moonlit beach a father cradles his sleeping son as they wait for dawn to break and a boat to arrive. He speaks to his boy of the long summers of his childhood, recalling his grandfather 's house in Syria, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the bleating of his grandmother 's goat, the clanking of her cooking pots. And he remembers, too, the bustling city of Homs with its crowded lanes, its mosque and grand souk, in the days before the sky spat bombs and they had to flee. When the sun rises they and those around them will gather their possessions and embark on a perilous sea journey in search of a new home. About the Author Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world, with over 55 million copies of his books sold in more than 70 countries. The Kite Runner was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. And the Mountains Echoed was chosen for the Richard & Judy Summer Book Club in 2014, and readers voted it as their favourite of all the titles. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides Price: AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California. ISBN: 9781526602718 khaledhosseini.com @khaledhosseini Format: Hard Cover Dan Williams is a London-based artist whose illustrations accompanied an extract of Dimensions: mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury SEPTEMBER 2018 Sea Prayer 12 Copy Pack Contains 12 copies of Sea Prayer, plus free reading copy. Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $299.88 NZ $323.88 ISBN: 9781526695420 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury SEPTEMBER 2018 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini New cover editions of all three Khaled Hosseini titles to tie in with publication of Sea Prayer. Sales points • International bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club choice, A Thousand Splendid Suns will enjoy further success in paperback • The Kite Runner has sold over 8 million copies worldwide and is a BAFTA nominated film from the director of Monster's Ball • Khaled Hosseini has a rising profile and continues to receive huge publicity, growing popularity and major critical acclaim • Description Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. About the Author Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-four countries. In 2006 he was named a US goodwill envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California. Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781526604750 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 131x199mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb SEPTEMBER 2018 And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini New cover editions of all three Khaled Hosseini titles to tie in with publication of . Sales points • Khaled Hosseini is one of the world's most widely read and beloved novelists: his books have sold more than 38 million copies. The Bloomsbury editions of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns have sold over 6 million copies • A guaranteed bestseller: its publication will be a major international event • And the Mountains Echoed is broader in scope and setting than anything Khaled Hosseini has written before and - if it is possible - even more moving and powerful. The canvas and resonance of the story expand gradually outward, like the rings created by a pebble in a pool • Description So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one... Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live in the small village of Shadbagh. To Abdullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their skulls touching, their limbs tangled. One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart; sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand. About the Author Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world, with over thirty eight million copies of his books sold in more than seventy countries. The Kite Runner was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year ISBN: 9781526604637 in 2008. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Format: Paperback - B format Agency and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian Dimensions: 128x200mm Extent: 480 pages assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California. Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb SEPTEMBER 2018 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini New cover editions of all three Khaled Hosseini titles to tie in with publication of Sea Prayer. Sales points • Isn't this an amazing book? I want to give it to everybody ... I was completely riveted, horrified and moved so much I had to put it down and sob at least twice' Lesley Glaister • 'A stunning debut novel ... It is rare that a book is at once so timely and of such high literary quality' Starred advance Publishers Weekly • 'Here is a real find: a striking debut...a searing spectacle of hard-won personal salvation ... irresistible' Starred Kirkus Review • 'Hosseini has captured the strange jumble of honour and selfishness, sympathy and egocentricity of a child brilliantly ... beautifully evoked' Marika Cobbold • • Description 315 About the Author Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world, with over thirty eight million copies of his books sold in more than seventy countries. The Kite Runner was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California. Price: AU $21.99 NZ $24.99 ISBN: 9781526604743 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 131x198mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury Pb SEPTEMBER 2018 Khaled Hosseini Mixed Pack Contains 3 copies of each new cover edition, plus free reading copy of The Kite Runner Sales points • Description About the Author Price: AU $197.91 NZ $224.91 ISBN: 9781526695437 Format: Dimensions: mm Extent: 0 pages Bic1: Miscellaneous items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: Bloomsbury SEPTEMBER 2018 French Exit Patrick deWitt A comedy/tragedy of manners. The new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers Sales points • A darkly comic and moving satire of high society from a bestselling writer, perfect for fans of Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Wes Anderson • DeWitt is a prize-winner and an exciting addition to the Bloomsbury list; The Sisters Brothers was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, won the Governor General's Award and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize • A lead title for Bloomsbury, publication will be accompanied by a dynamic and large-scale marketing campaign • A film of The Sisters Brothers starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C.