Atlantic Books Atlantic July–December 2012 Atlantic Books Atlantic Books Ormond House, 26-27 Boswell Street July – December 2012 London, WC1N 3JZ, United Kingdom Tel +44 (0)207 269 1610 Fax +44 (0)207 430 0916 isbn 978-0-85789-781-7 Contents Christopher Hitchens 2 Atlantic Books Non-Fiction 5 Atlantic Books Fiction 28 Corvus Fiction 37 Paperback Non-Fiction 50 Paperback Fiction 59 Allen & Unwin 75 Grove Press 80 Stocklist 81 Sales, Publicity and Rights 98 ‘Goodbye, Christopher Hitchens. You were envied, feared, adored, reviled and loved. Never ignored. Never bested. A great and marvellous man.’ Stephen Fry ‘Christopher Hitchens, finest orator of our time, fellow horseman, valiant fighter against all tyrants including God.’ Richard Dawkins ‘Goodbye, my beloved friend. A great voice falls silent. A great heart stops.’ Salman Rushdie 13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011 2 Atlantic Books Non-Fiction Mortality Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens confronts his own death in his last and most unforgettable book. During the American book tour for Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write, he was being deported ‘from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady’. Mortality is the most meditative piece of writing Hitchens ever produced; he returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering. Mortality is Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) an extraordinary coda to a singular career and was a contributing editor to Vanity a singular life. Fair and a columnist for Slate. He was the author of numerous ‘To say that, during the past three decades, books, including works on Thomas the world would have been poorer, duller and Jefferson, George Orwell, Mother Theresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill altogether a smaller place without Hitchens and Hillary Clinton, as well as his and his writings would be to utter a cliché of international bestseller, god Is Not the kind he despises. It would also be true.’ Great. His memoir, Hitch-22, was New Statesman nominated for the Orwell Prize. Biography 4th September 2012 Airport and Export Hardback • £15.99 Trade Paperback 234 x 156mm • 288pp £15.99 9781848879218 9781848879225 Territories: NCR/ NANZ Rights: AU/E/SL Christopher Hitchens 3 Also by Christopher Hitchens The Missionary Position Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice No One Left In this frank and damning exposé of to Lie to the Teresa cult, Christopher Hitchens details the nature and limits of one The Triangulations of woman’s mission to help the world’s William Jefferson Clinton poor. Is Mother Teresa merely an essential salve to the conscience Christopher Hitchens portrays of the rich West, or an expert PR President Bill Clinton as one of the machine for the Catholic Church? most ideologically skewed and morally 9780857898388 • 1 October 2012 negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer The Trial of and philistine, crooked and corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions - of Henry Kissinger liberals and conservatives alike - of this highly divisive figure. Hitchens goes straight for the jugular. 9780857898418 • 1 December 2012 Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor is accused of being a war criminal whose reckless actions and heinous disregard for international law have led to torture, Hardback Reissues kidnapping, and murder. £14.99 • 216x138mm Rights: AU/E/SL 9780857898357 • 1 November 2012 Territories: NCR, NANZ Christopher Hitchens 4 Risk Intelligence How to Live with Uncertainty Dylan Evans In an age of global uncertainty, Dylan Evans outlines a powerful form of thinking, in which the same decision making and intuition seen in the best poker players is transferred to business, politics and everyday life. There is a special kind of intelligence for dealing with risk and uncertainty. It doesn’t correlate with IQ and most psychologists fail to spot it because it is found in such a disparate, rag-tag group of people, from weather forecasters and professional gamblers to hedge fund managers. Dylan Evans is the founder and CEO Risk Intelligence is a traveller’s guide to the of Projection Point, which designs risk twilight zone of probabilities and speculation, intelligence training programmes which reveals how risk intelligence is vital for corporate clients. He has written to making good decisions, from dealing with several popular science books, including Emotion: The Science of climate change to global terrorism. Sentiment (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Placebo: The Belief Effect From the reviews of Placebo: (HarperCollins, 2003). ‘Fascinating and stimulating to expert and ordinary readers alike.’ Evening Standard ‘Persuasive, elegant and challenging.’ Daily Telegraph Popular Science 1st July 2012 Trade Paperback • £12.99 234 x 156mm • 320pp 9781848877382 Territories: NCR Rights: AU/E/SL Atlantic Books Non-Fiction 5 Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War Stephen R. Platt The dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping civil war: the bloodiest civil war ever fought. The narrative of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion brims with unforgettable characters and vivid recreations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles. It is a riveting Stephen R. Platt received his PhD portrait – both sweeping and intimate – of from Yale and teaches Chinese the largest civil war in history. Autumn in the history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work Heavenly Kingdom is an essential and enthralling has been supported by the Fulbright history of the rise and fall of the movement program, the National Endowment that, a century and a half ago, should have for the Humanities, and the Chiang launched China into the modern world. Ching-kuo Foundation. ‘Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom is a fascinating work by a first-class historian and superb writer.’ Henry Kissinger ‘A splendid example of finely calibrated historical narrative.’ Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for History Modern China 1st July 2012 Airport and Export Hardback • £25.00 Trade Paperback 234 x 156mm • 496pp £14.99 9780857897664 9780857897671 Territories: NCR Rights: Contact publisher Atlantic Books Non-Fiction 6 The Honoured Society The Secret History of Italy’s Most Powerful Mafia Petra Reski Translated by Shaun Whiteside ‘Everything I know about the Mafia, I owe to Petra Reski.’ Donna Leon In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg. In just a few minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and assassins were members of Petra Reski was born in Kamen, the ‘Ndrangheta crime organization: Calabria’s Germany in 1958. Having lived in mafia had extended the savage tentacles of its Italy since 1989, she is a widely influence outside Italy for the first time. respected journalist known for her Petra Reski dispels the Hollywood romance investigative pieces about the mafia. surrounding the ‘Ndrangheta, revealing the huge and menacing force lurking everywhere from parliament offices to corporate headquarters – and involved in everything from petty extortion to the disposal of nuclear waste. Reski’s searing portrait of the criminals who have come to control vast swathes of Europe is a journalistic tour de force. Politics & History 1st July 2012 Airport and Export Hardback • £17.99 Trade Paperback 234 x 156mm • 320pp £14.99 9781848871342 9781848871359 Territories: ALL Rights: US/AU/E/SL Atlantic Books Non-Fiction 7 Not Me Memoirs of a German Childhood Joachim Fest Translated by Martin Chalmers ‘Exceptional... it tells in a modest, believable, quietly bitter and totally proud way of a family’s extraordinary decency... Without it, the English language these days is short a very good book.’ New York Times Fierce and intransigent, Joachim Fest was a relentless interrogator of Germany’s modern history. His biographies of Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer have reached a worldwide Born in Berlin in 1926, Joachim Fest audience of millions, but what was his own was a historian, journalist, critic experience of National Socialism, the Second and publisher of the newspaper World War and a defeated Germany? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Best In this autobiography of his youth, Fest known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, he provides an intimate picture of his immediate authored renowned biographies experiences of those dark years of conflict. of both Hitler and Speer. A leading Whether describing his father’s early working figure in the debate among German ban for refusing to join the Nazi party, or his historians about the Nazi period, own expulsion from school, these are the Fest died in 2006. long-awaited personal reflections of a born observer. Memoir 1st August 2012 Airport and Export Hardback • £20.00 Trade Paperback 234 x 156mm • 304pp £14.99 9781843549314 9781848875753 Territories: ALL Rights: US/AU/E/SL Atlantic Books Non-Fiction 8 Some Remarks Neal Stephenson In this definitive collection of Stephenson’s writings, journalism and meditations, the great American polymath puts the 20th Century under his eclectic and unflinching gaze. One of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels. Exploring and blending a diversity of topics, including technology, economics, history, science, pop culture, and philosophy, his books are the product of a keen and adventurous intellect. Stephenson is regularly asked to contribute articles, lectures, and essays to numerous outlets, from major Neal Stephenson is the author newspapers and cutting edge magazines to of eight novels, including the college symposia. cult successes Snow Crash and Covering a wealth of subjects from movies Cryptonomicon. He has been and politics to video games, sci-fi and the future shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke of publishing, this remarkable collection brings Award six times, winning with Quicksilver.