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2 SPRING 2011
FICTION | JANUARY
Science fiction On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 1 84916 302 6 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 303 3 Royal format | 544 pages World See p. 92
The Demi-Monde: Winter
ROD REES
The Demi-Monde: Winter introduces readers to a richly detailed futuristic world, where history’s most fascinating figures and cruellest tyrants rub shoulders
The Demi-Monde is the most advanced simulation ever devised. Thirty million people ruled by history’s cruellest tyrants, locked in eternal civil conflict. The intention: to create the closest thing to hell, and prepare soldiers for the nightmarish environment of war. But something has gone badly wrong inside the Demi-Monde. Heydrich. Beria. Torquemada. Robespierre. History’s most notorious massmurderers – or at least simulacrums of these monsters – plot to escape their virtual world; their sights set on planet Earth once again. The Real-World’s hopes of stopping them rest on the unlikely shoulders of Ella Thomas. Eighteen-year-old Ella must enter the Demi-Monde, and infiltrate this perverse reality where little is as it seems, and everything is potentially lethal. A novel of breathtaking scope and imagination, The Demi-Monde: Winter is the first instalment in what will become a classic four-part series. Rod Rees has spent his life travelling throughout Africa, the Middle East, Bangladesh and Russia, and consequently found himself living in Qatar, Tehran and Moscow. He has built pharmaceutical factories in Dhaka, set up a satellite communication network in Moscow, and conceived and designed a jazz-themed hotel in the UK. The Demi-Monde: Winter is his first novel. Rod lives near Derby with his wife Nelli and their two children. His website can be found at www.thedemi-monde.com.
4 SPRING 2011
FICTION | JANUARY
The Legacy
KIRSTEN TRANTER
A sophisticated and intelligent debut reminiscent of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
What has happened to Ingrid? Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune. She leaves Australia and her friends Julia, and Ralph, who loves her, to marry the cold and intellectual Gil Grey and set up home with him and his daughter amid the New York art world. She enrolls at Columbia University while forgetting those who miss her in Sydney.
Fiction On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 060 9 Royal format | 464 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & NZ) & open markets
But at 9am on September 11th 2001 Ingrid has an appointment with her financial advisor downtown. And is never seen again. Or is she? A year later Ralph, heartbroken and sick, sends Julia to New York to try and piece together Ingrid’s life away from them. What she finds in Ingrid’s friends and unsettling haunts adds layers of mystery, deception and even tragedy; and Julia comes to realize more about her own nature and desires than she could ever have imagined. Both an unputdownable mystery and story on the nature of art, truth, friendship and love, The Legacy announces the arrival of a major new talent. Kirsten Tranter is the daughter of poet John and literary agent Lyn Tranter. She has published fiction, poetry and literary criticism. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and son.
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‘A sophisticated work of fiction, introducing a formidable new Australian writer’
The Age
SPRING 2011 5
FICTION | JANUARY
Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £14.99 978 1 84916 367 5 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 368 2 Royal format | 368 pages World See p. 92
The House at Sea’s End
ELLY GRIFFITHS
Fast-paced crime fiction with a quirky, engaging heroine – the third novel in the acclaimed series featuring forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway
Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff, she is immediately put on the case. DCI Nelson is investigating, but Ruth finds this more hindrance than help – Ruth and Nelson have unfinished business. Forensic tests prove that the bodies are from Southern Europe, killed sixty years ago. Police investigations unearth records of Project Lucifer, a wartime plan to stop a German invasion. A further discovery reveals that members of the Broughton Sea’s End Home Guard took a ‘blood oath’ to conceal some deadly wartime secret. When a body washes up on the beach, Ruth and Nelson realise that someone is still alive who will kill to keep this secret. Can they discover the truth in time to stop another murder? Elly Griffiths lives near Brighton. She is also the author of The Crossing Places and The Janus Stone. Her website can be found at www.ellygriffiths.co.uk.
‘A promising series with clever plots and beguiling characters’
Sunday Times
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6 SPRING 2011
FICTION | JANUARY
The Rembrandt Secret
ALEX CONNOR
When a man discovers the darkest secret of Rembrandt’s life, his days are numbered. And when his son discovers his body, he’s on a mission to find justice – whatever the cost
History's biggest conspiracy is about to be revealed, unless a brutal murderer can do something about it. Marshall Ziegler's father runs a gallery in London, which Marshall has always ignored. But when his father is beaten to a pulp, disembowelled and left to die, Marshall suddenly needs to know every last detail of his life. He discovers that his father knew a dark secret at the heart of Rembrandt's life, one with the potential to bring down one of the world's most lucrative industries. But a sadistic murderer is on the case, killing in increasingly brutal ways to keep it hidden. Will Marshall beat the killer to the truth? Who can he trust? Will he stay alive long enough to reveal the greatest secret never told? Alex Connor is also known as Alexandra Connor, under which name she has written a number of historical novels. This is her first crime thriller. Also an artist and a motivational speaker she regularly appears on television and on radio. She lives in Sussex. Her website can be found at www.therembrandtsecret.co.uk.
Fiction/Thriller On-sale date: 20 January 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 346 0 B format | 448 pages World
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‘Everybody should be forced to take a spoonful of Alex Connor every day’
Daily Telegraph
SPRING 2011 7
FICTION | JANUARY
MACLEHOSE PRESS
Fiction On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 90669 469 2 Royal format | 416 pages World See p. 92
The Breakers
CLAUDIE GALLAY
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Chosen by Le Monde and by readers of Elle as their Novel of the Year – a beautiful, resonant narrative set on Normandy’s Cotentin coast
In the storm-swept landscapes of Normandy’s coastline lies a village that might just be at the ends of the earth. A woman has recently arrived to seek healing for some deep sorrow, and spends her days cataloguing migrating birds. On the day of a battering storm a stranger appears in the village's bar, arousing her curiosity. He stirs up suspicion elsewhere too, looking to answer questions about his family lost long ago in an accident at sea. How was it, he chiefly needs to know, that the lighthouse did not guide them safely to shore? The eccentric inhabitants of this desolate place seem riveted to old hatreds, determined to leave secrets buried. Gradually the bird-watcher succeeds in unravelling a tragedy at the heart of a community in which many are suffering still from the loss at sea of those they loved. And in the process, she finds her own peace. The Breakers is an immensely satisfying and evocative mystery. Claudie Gallay unpeels the emotions of her unforgettable characters with such subtlety that the reader is captivated. Claudie Gallay is a teacher living in Provence. The Breakers was a runaway bestseller in France. Alison Anderson’s translations include Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog. She is the author of two novels, Hidden Latitudes and Darwin’s Wink.
‘A gem of a book! 400 pages which crack like a whip, slap you in the face and ultimately explode, leaving you stunned and blissful’
François Busnel, Express
8 SPRING 2011
FICTION | FEBRUARY
The Blackhouse
PETER MAY
A page-turning murder-mystery that explores the darkness in our souls, and just how difficult it is to escape the past
The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people’s fear of God. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past. Each year the island’s men perform the hunting of the gugas, a savage custom no longer necessary for survival, but which they cling to even more fiercely in the face of the demands of modern morality. For Fin the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy, which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice. Peter May was an award-winning journalist in his native Scotland, then left newspapers for television and screenwriting, creating three prime-time British drama series. He is the author of fifteen novels including The Enzo Files and The China Thillers. He won the French Prix Intramuros in 2007, and the 'Prix des Lecteurs' at the Le Havre festival of crime writing 2009.
Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £12.99 978 1 84916 384 2 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 385 9 Royal format | 432 pages World
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‘A masterwork of sheer momentum’
Glasgow Herald on The Fourth Sacrifice
SPRING 2011 9
FICTION | FEBRUARY
Fiction/Thriller On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 1 84916 199 2 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 200 5 Royal format | 352 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
Breach of Trust
DAVID ELLIS
A gritty tale of political corruption and murder at the highest levels of government
In this second instalment of the Jason Kolarich series, Jason investigates the murder of a key witness in a criminal case that he tried. Jason had forced the witness to testify and believes that this led to his murder. When the evidence points to an obscure agency in state government, guilt-stricken Jason goes to work for the agency to dig deeper. Before he knows it, he finds himself square in the middle of a high-level conspiracy of fraud and corruption – as well as a covert federal investigation into these crimes. David Ellis was the House Prosecutor who convicted Governor Rod Blagojevich in the sensational impeachment trial before the Illinois Senate in 2009. In this riveting thriller, Ellis calls upon his experience and expertise to deliver a gritty tale of political corruption and murder at the highest levels of government. David Ellis's previous novels include Line of Vision, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. An attorney from Chicago, Ellis currently serves as counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.
‘Ingenious and surprising’
The Sun
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10 SPRING 2011
FICTION | FEBRUARY
The Thing on the Shore
TOM FLETCHER
The much-anticipated second novel in the series that began with The Leaping, set in a malevolent call-centre that might just be alive
Arthur was twelve when he watched his mother jump from the cliff into the sea. Wasted by grief, he and his father stayed at the family home in Whitehaven, as life became more meaningless. Years later, Arthur works in a call centre, run by the enigmatic Artemis Black, and dreams of something extraordinary to change it all. All Arthur’s nightmares will come true when an experimental new system implemented by Artemis Black starts to take its toll. Inspired by the isolation of Cumbria’s bleak coastline and determined to reach ever better levels of efficiency, Artemis has brought in cutting-edge AI technology to operate the automated answering machines. But inside this new technology lurks an otherworldly consciousness; one that Arthur begins to believe will bring his mother back. Consumed with this idea, Arthur lets every other aspect of his life – his father, his job and his home – deteriorate around him, until there’s almost nothing left. Tom Fletcher has become well-known for his spinechilling readings at live literary events. His website can be found at http://fellhouse.wordpress.com.
Fiction/Horror On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Paperback £7.99 978 1 84916 136 7 B format | 400 pages World
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‘Frankly brilliant… everything that good horror should be’
Mark Morris on The Leaping
978 1 84916 135 0
SPRING 2011 11
FICTION | FEBRUARY
MACLEHOSE PRESS
Fiction On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 90669 497 5 B format | 256 pages World See p. 92
Love Virtually
DANIEL GLATTAUER
Translated from the German by Katharina Bielenberg and Jamie Bulloch
A funny, fast-paced and absorbing experience, with many twists and turns, about a love affair conducted exclusively by e-mail
Write to me, Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind. It begins by chance: Leo receives emails in error from an unknown woman called Emmi. Being polite he replies, and Emmi writes back. A few brief exchanges are all it takes to spark a mutual interest in each other, and soon Emmi and Leo are sharing their innermost secrets and longings. The erotic tension simmers, and it seems only a matter of time before they will meet in person. But they keep putting off the moment – the prospect both unsettles and excites them. And after all, Emmi is happily married. Will their feelings for each other survive the test of a real-life encounter? And if so, what then? Daniel Glattauer was born in Vienna and is a columnist for Standard. Every Seventh Wave, the bestselling sequel to Love Virtually, will be published by MacLehose Press in Autumn 2011. Katharina Bielenberg (Emmi) is an editor and translator. Jamie Bulloch (Leo) is a translator and historian. They are husband and wife.
‘One of the cleverest and most magical love-dialogues in modern literature’
Volker Hage, Spiegel
12 SPRING 2011
FICTION | FEBRUARY
The Folded Earth
ANURADHA ROY
A brilliant novel by the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing – a many-layered and powerful narrative, by turns poetic, elegiac and comic
In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. She teaches in a school and at night types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with him, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might forge a new existence away from the devastation of her recent past. As Maya finds out, no place is remote or small enough. The world she has come to love is endangered by the town’s new administration; impending elections are hijacked by powerful outsiders who threaten the future of her school. Charu begins to behave strangely, and soon Maya understands that a new boy in the neighbourhood may be responsible. When Diwan Sahib’s nephew arrives to set up his trekking company on their estate, she is despite herself drawn to him, and finally she is forced to confront bitter and terrible truths. Anuradha Roy is an editor at Permanent Black, an independent publishing press in New Delhi. She was the winner of the Picador-Outlook Non-fiction Prize in 2004. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been translated into thirteen languages.
MACLEHOSE PRESS
Fiction On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 0 85705 043 4 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85705 044 1 Royal format | 368 pages World
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‘Roy’s prose does not hit a single wrong note: its restrained beauty sings off the page’
Neel Mukherjee, Time magazine
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SPRING 2011 13
FICTION | MARCH
Fiction On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 374 3 Demy format | 416 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
CHRISTIE WATSON
Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away explores the world of twelve-yearold Blessing and her family
‘Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.’ Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their largerthan-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos, where they attend the International School for Future Leaders. All that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel – only married woman can work there – and soon they have to quit their apartment in the Better Life Executive Homes development in Lagos to go and live with their maternal grandparents in a compound in the bush. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged cosmopolitan upbringing in Lagos. Tiny Sunbirds Far Away is told in Blessing’s own beguiling voice. It is at times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally tragic, and peopled with unforgettable characters. Christie Watson trained as a paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and worked as a nurse, educator and senior sister for over ten years. She lives in South London with her Nigerian partner and their large dual heritage, multi-faith family.
14 SPRING 2011
FICTION | MARCH
Killed at the Whim of a Hat
COLIN COTTERILL
The start of an exciting new series from CWA Dagger in the Library winner Colin Cotterill
When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she’s convinced her career is over. Her journalism will surely dwindle to reports on the annual monsoon-induced floods, for what crimes could possibly occur in such an out-of-the-way place? When a local palm oil plantation owner is excavating a well, he digs down six feet and hits metal. It turns out to be the roof of an old Volkswagen combi, which is found to contain two skeletons – one of them wearing a hat. A monk is murdered in Lang Suan, the nearest town. There is apparently no motive for the killing and no suspects are found. But there are odd connections between this killing and several others around the world. Suddenly Jimm’s new life becomes somewhat more promising – and a great deal more dangerous. Colin Cotterill was born in London. He has taught in Australia, the USA and Japan and lived for many years in Laos where he worked for non-governmental social service organizations. He now writes full-time and lives in Chumphone, Thailand. His website can be found at www.colincotterill.com.
Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 0 85738 151 4 Export/Airside TPB £11.99 978 1 84916 552 5 Demy format | 384 pages World
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‘Witty dialogue and engaging characters ... combination of humour, social commentary and clever mystery’
Sunday Telegraph
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SPRING 2011 15
FICTION | MARCH
Historical Fiction On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 137 4 Royal format | 432 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 95 See p. 92
Madame Tussaud
MICHELLE MORAN
A young Madame Tussaud experiences the French Revolution at first hand when she goes to Versailles to teach Marie Antoinette to make waxwork masks
Marie has grown up in her step-father’s waxwork museum, learning the ways of crafting human statues for the rich and famous of Paris. But all is not well in the French capital – the people are going hungry while the king and queen enjoy increasingly lavish lives. Surrounded by her father’s friends, Marie learns of their plans for revolution, which she shares with her childhood sweetheart, Jack. A visit from Marie Antoinette results in Marie being offered a job in the palace, teaching the reviled queen how to make waxwork masks. Wary at first, Marie soon discovers the most hated woman in France to be charming, and she becomes a dear friend. When the revolution comes, Marie is thrown into jail and only has one method of survival – to make death masks of the key figures of the revolution and buy her way out. But will Jack have waited, or lost patience with her friendship with the queen? Michelle Moran’s experiences at archaeological sites around the world inspired her to write historical fiction. She lives in California with her husband. Her website can be found at www.michellemoran.com.
‘Hugely enjoyable’
Daily Express
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16 SPRING 2011
FICTION | MARCH
I Love the 80s
MEGAN CRANE
When Jenna Jenkins is jilted, she buries herself in memories of her favourite rockstar, who died in 1987, until a freak accident sends her back in time to meet the man himself
Jenna Jenkins was getting married to her boyfriend, Adam, and she was sure her life was all coming together. Until Adam left her for a twenty-three-yearold yoga instructor. To ease the pain, Jenna throws herself into her teenage memories of the late, great Tommy Seer, killed when his car crashed off a bridge in 1987, when she was just twelve. One evening, as Jenna is thinking about Tommy, a freak accident sends her back to 1987. It's a few months before Tommy will die and Jenna is working as his assistant. But Tommy is not the guy she imagined. He's rude and obnoxious, even if he is deliciously good-looking. When Tommy takes her into his confidence, she starts to see the real him again and finds herself more in love than ever. He suspects someone is trying to kill him – and she knows it won't be long before they succeed. Why is she here? Is she meant to save his life? How can she without revealing the bizarre, unbelievable truth? Megan Crane lives in Los Angeles with her husband. She is also the author of English as a Second Language, Frenemies, Names My Sisters Call Me and Everyone Else’s Girl. Her website can be found at www.megancrane.com
Fiction On-sale date: 17 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 999 8 B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘Frenemies is a hugely enjoyable novel with brilliant, convincing characters and dialogue. It’s romantic, funny, intelligent, believable and gripping. I couldn’t put it down’
Marian Keyes
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SPRING 2011 17
FICTION | MARCH
Fiction/Thriller On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 0 85738 112 5 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 290 0 Royal format | 416 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & New Zealand) & open markets See p. 92
The Delta
TONY PARK
Ex-soldier turned mercenary Sonja Kurtz is running for her life in this brilliant action thriller
After an assassination plan goes horribly wrong, Sonja ends up alone in the African wilderness. Elsewhere, groups of revolutionaries are plotting to destroy the dam being erected on the Delta and simultaneously bring about a regime change in Zimbabwe. American TV heartthrob and wildlife documentary presenter ‘Coyote’ Sam Chapman is desperate to cover the story, but finds himself stranded in the jungle after his entire crew disappears. His path crosses with Sonja’s and he is immediately attracted to her. But right now Sonja has got other things on her mind – blowing up the dam for one. This colourful, pulse-pounding African thriller, executed with Tony Park’s trademark talent to entertain and seduce, will leave you breathless. Australian writer Tony Park was born in 1964. He fell in love with South Africa on a short trip in 1995 and he and his wife now divide their time between their home in Sydney and a tent in the Kruger Park. He is a qualified military parachutist and a major in the Australian Army Reserve. He has worked in journalism and PR, including six months in Afghanistan in 2002 as PR officer for the Australian ground forces. His website can be found at www.tonypark.net.
‘Well, move over Wilbur is all I can say’
Northern Star
978 0 85738 117 0
18 SPRING 2011
FICTION | MARCH
The Mayan Prophecy
STEVE ALTEN
On 21 December 2012 the ancient Mayan calendar will complete its thirteenth cycle – it is the beginning of the end
For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel studied the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma that predicts the Apocalypse. His research led him to believe that ancient legacies – from the pyramids of Mexico and Egypt to the Nazca desert drawings – form part of an interlinking fail-safe system designed to save humanity from annihilation.
Fiction/Thriller On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 169 9 B format | 512 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
Julius Gabriel dies, and his theories have perished with him, discredited and ridiculed. Eleven years later, Julius’ son, Michael, must escape from an insane asylum, where he has been falsely incarcerated. With the help of part-Mayan psychiatric intern, Dominique Vazquez, he must travel to the Yucatan Peninsula. Here, Michael believes, lies the evidence he needs to prove his father’s theory, and to convince the world of the fast-approaching global catastrophe. In Mexico, at the autumn equinox, a serpent’s shadow appears over the northern face of the Temple of Kukulcán, as it has done for a thousand years. But this time it is different – mankind’s time is up... Steve Alten is the New York Times bestselling author of Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, The Loch and Goliath. He lives with his family in Boca Raton, Florida.
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‘A chilling, deeply researched peek into our ancient past. Jarring, frightening, thrilling’
James Rollins, author of The Doomsday Key
SPRING 2011 19
FICTION | MARCH
MACLEHOSE PRESS
Fiction On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £15.99 978 0 85705 018 2 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85705 019 9 Demy format | 276 pages World See p. 92
Child Wonder
ROY JACOBSEN
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
A glorious evocation of childhood in the early sixties, by 2009 Dublin Impac Award shortlisted author
Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. One day a mysterious half-sister appears 'with an atom-charge in a light blue suitcase', and she turns his life upside-down. Over an everlasting summer, Finn attempts to grasp the incomprehensible adult world and his place within it. His mother appears to carry a painful secret, and it is one which pushes them ever further apart. And why is his new sister so different from every other child? Child Wonder is a powerful and unsentimental portrait of childhood, a prodigiously uplifting coming-of-age novel that shines with humanity. Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991, and Frost in 2003. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. Don Bartlett is the translator of Jo Nesbø, K.O. Dahl and Pernille Rygg. Don Shaw is a teacher of Danish and the author of the Danish-Thai dictionary.
‘A book that makes you laugh and cry – what more can you wish for? ... Child Wonder is nothing less than a perfect masterpiece’
Dagsavisen
20 SPRING 2011
FICTION | APRIL
Island of Wings
KARIN ALTENBERG
An astounding first novel about the trials of marriage which marks the arrival of a new literary talent
July, 1830. On the ten-hour sailing west from the Hebrides to the islands of St Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders and bright, beautiful and devoted Lizzie, his new wife, is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life on an exposed archipelago on the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor, and babies perish mysteriously in their first week, their marriage – and their sanity – is threatened. Is Lizzie a willful temptress drawing him away from his faith? Is Neil’s zealous Christianity unhinging into madness? And who, or what, is haunting the moors and cliff-tops? Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is more than just an account of a marriage in peril – it is also a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of terrible hardship and tumultuous beauty. Karin Altenberg was born and brought up in southern Sweden, but moved to Britain to study in 1996. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading. She is currently senior advisor to the Swedish National Heritage Board and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Island of Wings is her first novel and she is currently working on her second.
© Paula Tranströmer
Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 232 0 Royal format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘Island of Wings captures a world that disappears in the act of description, and the love, so inescapable and elusive, of the outsiders who try to tame it. With scrupulous attention to place, history and the natural world, it tells a story washed by a clean and lovely kind of sorrow’
Anne Enright
SPRING 2011 21
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Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 291 7 Royal format | 300 pages World See p. 92
Toploader
ED O'LOUGHLIN
A darkly comic masterpiece in the tradition of M*A*S*H, Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse 5
Spying inside the Embargoed Zone is risky business. Agent Cobra has been doing just this, and is now due his payment. But there’s a snag: his spymaster, Captain Smith, is broke. All Smith can offer Cobra is the mysterious Toploader. Discontent with this arrangement, Cobra quickly offloads the device, and returns to haranguing Smith for cash. Yet senior military personnel soon learn that Toploader is no longer in their possession. Panic ensues, and a frantic operation is launched to retrieve it. Caught in the ensuing crossfire are Flora, a plucky teenage orphan; Cooper, a reporter with a penchant for the wrong end of the stick; and Moon, a hapless drone pilot. The Toploader is about to make all of their lives a lot more dangerous, and a hell of a lot more bizarre. Toploader is a wonderfully original novel that serves as a razor-sharp satire on the absurdity of war, and how the depersonalization of death and injury is meant to make it acceptable. Ed O’Loughlin was born in Toronto and raised in Ireland. He reported from Africa for the Irish Times, and was Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. His first novel, Not Untrue & Not Unkind was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
‘A simply brilliant debut by an author of great poise and power’
Tim Butcher, author of Blood River, on Not Untrue & Not Unkind
22 SPRING 2011
FICTION | APRIL
Flashback
DAN SIMMONS
Dan Simmons casts his unique vision of a terrifying not-too-distant future
America, 2036: a wasteland in economic ruin. Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose only escape is to numb itself on flashback – a euphoric yet cripplingly addictive drug that allows its users to re-visit their happier, past experiences. Ex-cop Nick Bottom is about to receive a proposition. Flashback dependency has taken his badge, his reputation, and the love of his son. All he has left are the flash-induced memories of his beloved wife, Dara, taken from him in a tragic car accident. Now powerful magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs Nick’s services, and, in particular, his memories. As head of the original investigation into the murder of Nakamura’s son – an unsolved and seemingly impossible mystery – Nick’s flashbacks now, six years later, hold the key to solving what was the toughest case of his career. But as Nick delves deeper, the harder it becomes to trust those around him. And when he uncovers a connection to Dara’s death, it is not only Hiroshi Nakamura who wants answers. Dan Simmons has won the Hugo award, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus award (three times) and the Bram Stoker award. He lives in Colorado. His website can be found at www.dansimmons.com.
Science Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 0 85738 124 8 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 346 4 Royal format | 600 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘I am in awe of Dan Simmons’
Stephen King
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Historical Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £14.99 978 0 85738 054 8 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 055 5 Royal format | 368 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
The Watermen
PATRICK EASTER
Thrillingly authentic historical crime novel set against the backdrop of the 18th Century docklands
A cruel villain holds sway in the Port of London. His name is Boylin. His face is scarred by lime and his soul by the two hundred lashes he received following a naval court martial. He holds Captain Tom Pascoe responsible. They meet again when Pascoe becomes River Surveyor for the newly formed marine police. They’ve had orders to investigate a sudden fall in government revenue. Pascoe knows that Boylin is behind it, but he can’t prove anything, yet. The Watermen follows these two adversaries across London as they try to outwit one another. Working alongside Pascoe is Sam Hart, a Jewish immigrant with his own agenda. Pascoe throws the rule-book out the window, scouring East London and the docklands in search of information. But fate takes a cruel twist when the two men find themselves involved with the same woman and there’s much more at stake than the fate of the nation. Patrick Easter was a police officer in the Met for thirty years and during that time was part of the Marine Police force. His love of 18th Century history and his knowledge of London's waterways make him the perfect author for this subject.
24 SPRING 2011
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Who’s Afraid of Mr Wolfe?
HAZEL OSMOND
The funny and heart-warming story of a young woman trying to get her life back on track after the arrival of a new boss
Jack Wolfe is about to become Ellie Somerset's boss. Heathcliff In Jeans is about to be stalking her corridors, with his trademark scowl, his demanding deadlines and his redundancy plan. This is not good news. Ellie likes flying under the radar. She knows she's good at her job, if they'd just let her get on with it. She and her creative partner, Leslie, have been working away at the advertising firm for years, and they have great ideas. It's just that Ellie can't see the point of dressing up for work or trying to impress her colleagues. Jack Wolfe is determined to change all that. It's time for Ellie to prove herself. It's also time for her to find her long-term boyfriend in bed with his German colleague. As she tries to come to terms with this, she can't help but be drawn to the sexy man who keeps calling her into meetings then giving her brooding looks. But Ellie's not the only one recovering from something. And Jack Wolfe has an awful lot to hide... Hazel Osmond has been an advertising copywriter for nearly twenty years. She won the 2008 Woman and Home short story competition sponsored by Costa. She lives in Northumberland with her husband and two children and two cats.
Fiction On-sale date: 14 April 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 418 4 B format | 400 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £12.00 978 0 85705 005 2 190 x 135 mm | 144 pages World See p. 92
The Goldsmith’s Secret
ELIA BARCELÓ
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye
A ghostly, seductive love story, and a mesmerizing reflection on a Spain that is long gone
One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide. Returning to the village in Spain where he grew up, he hopes that he will encounter Celia, 'the Black Widow', a beautiful and mysterious friend of his mother with whom he had a passionate affair when he was a teenager. But instead he meets a young woman who opens doors into a strange world, and takes him back in time. The Goldsmith’s Secret is a remarkable story of a love trapped between two parallel times, set in Spain in the fifties, seventies and in the last year of the twentieth century. Elia Barceló’s novel is filled with intense nostalgia, memories and desires. She has come to be known across Europe as a truly original voice, and her books as poetic works of great subtlety. Elia Barceló teaches Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Innsbruck. David Frye’s translations include Thine Is the Kingdom by Abilio Estévez and The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi.
‘A sad and magical story ... the novel moves in perfect rhythm, and its readers move with it’
Maria José Obiol, El Pais, on Heart of Tango
978 1 90669 460 9
26 SPRING 2011
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Monsieur Linh and His Child
PHILIPPE CLAUDEL
Translated from the French by Euan Cameron
A beautifully cadenced story of two cultures by the 2010 winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man; his case-workers are compassionate but overworked. Struggling beneath the weight of his sorrow, Monsieur Linh becomes increasingly bewildered and isolated, but then he encounters Monsieur Bark. They do not speak each other’s language, but Monsieur Bark is sympathetic to the Linh’s need to care for the child. Recently widowed and equally alone, he is eager to talk, and Monsieur Linh knows how to listen. Monsieur Linh and His Child is a remarkable novel with an extraordinary twist, a subtle portrait of friendship and a dialogue between two cultures. Philippe Claudel is a novelist, film director and university lecturer. He wrote and directed the BAFTA-winning film I’ve Loved You So Long. Euan Cameron’s translations include works by Julien Green, Simone de Beauvoir and Paul Morand.
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‘A book of extraordinary power, one that combines moments of transcendent natural beauty and humangenerated horror to create a potent, sustained spell’
Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail, on Brodeck’s Report
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Historical Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 297 9 Royal format | 400 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & New Zealand) & open markets See p. 95 See p. 92
Blossoms and Shadows
LIAN HEARN
A rich and atmospheric tale of love and war, women and men, and the rise of modern Japan
Japan, 1857. For centuries Japan has been on its own; isolated by choice from the rest of the world. But now the Western powers are at its shores demanding to be let in, the government is crumbling and revolution is building. The age of the samurai is ending and in its place a new Japan will be born. Amid the upheaval, a young woman is readying herself for marriage. Tsuru, a doctor’s daughter, has been working alongside her father and learning the ways of medicine. When he allows her to marry the man she chooses – a fellow doctor – she believes she will spend her life working among men, as an equal. But Japanese society does not work this way. The men of the times are determined to expel the foreigners, using violence and whatever else they need to make their message heard. The women are expected to be hidden at home, or behind the paper walls of the tea houses. Tsuru is far too able to accept this and she is drawn into a shadowy world of subversion, political intrigue and a dangerous love. Lian Hearn's internationally renowned Tales of the Otori books have sold in excess of four million copies. She lives in Australia with her husband. Her website can be found at www.lianhearn.com.
‘The writing is beautiful, packed with authentic, atmospheric detail’
Daily Mail on The Harsh Cry of the Heron
28 SPRING 2011
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Lex
JAMES MYLET
The funny, bright and pitch-perfect story of a seventeen-year-old leaving home and figuring out what he wants from life
Lex is all but finished growing up in Clifden, Connemara, where he runs a radio station from his bedroom and makes plans to go to university in London. As he shares his views on life, music and Michelle, the best girl in town, Lex is absurdly acute and brilliantly entertaining. Michelle is not only older than Lex, but she's dating the town thug, someone Lex would do well to avoid, but where's the fun in that?
Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 067 8 Royal format | 300 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
Surrounded by his adoring family and constantly taking the flak for his crazy best friend, Davey, he's caught between modesty and an edge of cool. But he finds himself in trouble when a friend uses Lex's own radio station to announce to the entire town that Lex is still a virgin and asks some nice young girl to help him out before he heads to London in the same state, especially when Lex accidentally lets slip he'd like that nice girl to be Michelle. Being seventeen is the stuff of rollercoasters – from one period of angst to boundless joy and on to another crisis – and Lex's summer is set to be typical. He's organised a major music festival in Clifden, or so he's told his favourite band, Toots and the Maytals. But when Davey's mother gets sick and he loses his temper one too many times, Ireland's answer to Glastonbury may not happen at all. With all his dreams falling around his ankles, Lex is determined to go out with a bang. And he will, but it might not be quite what he had in mind. James Mylet lives in South London with his wife and son. This is his first novel.
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Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 471 9 Royal format | 368 pages World See p. 92
Valdez
ANDREW NICOLL
A novel about love and greed from the Saltire First Novel Award-winning author of The Good Mayor
Only a few weeks after it happened, Luciano Hernando Valdez was almost unable to believe that he had ever been a murderer. Chano Valdez is a celebrated writer. He pens not just novels, but works of such astounding quality that he is known throughout his minor South American country and the world as the finest of his generation. He teaches at the university and lives a life of luxury, taking any woman he’d like to bed, and living on the joys of fame. But then two things happen to unsettle his life. He gets writer’s block and can only come up with ‘the scrawny yellow cat crossed the road’ for his next oeuvre and he meets Caterina. She is the answer to everything. Young, beautiful, talented and – best of all – she writes. Convinced she will unlock his mind and help him to succeed, Chano finds himself falling for this wonderful girl. That is, until he murders her. Andrew Nicoll has spent his working life as a journalist. His first novel, The Good Mayor, won the Saltire First Book Award and has been translated into twenty languages. He is married with three children.
‘A triumph of tone, very moving, completely convincing’
Andrew Marr on The Good Mayor
30 SPRING 2011
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Trieste
´ DAŠA DRNDIC
Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursa´ c
A novel that exposes the abduction of young children during the Second World War, through the extraordinary story of a mother’s search for her son
Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the War as part of Himmler’s clandestine “Lebensborn” project, which strove for a “racially pure” Germany. Haya’s reflection on her Catholicized Jewish family’s experiences deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials and interviews with second generation Jews, as well as witness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. Written in immensely powerful language, and employing a range of astonishing conceptual devices, Trieste is a novel like no other. Daša Drndic ´ has produced a shattering contribution to the literature of our twentieth-century history. Daša Drndic is a distinguished Croatian novelist ´ and playwright. She also translates and teaches at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. Ellen Elias-Bursac is the leading translator of ´ Serbo-Croat into English. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Gotz and Meyer was awarded the National Translation Award by the American Literary Translators Association.
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Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 1 84916 059 9 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 060 5 Royal format | 352 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
The Bone Yard
A Body Farm Thriller JEFFERSON BASS
Dr Bill Brockton investigates the murky past of a reform school for boys, when a number of shallow graves are unearthed
Early summer brings warm weather to the Body Farm in East Tennessee, but Dr Bill Brockton’s about to get more heat than he’s bargained for. A former student who’s now an agent with the Department of Law Enforcement seeks his help in identifying a partial skull found in the woods in rural Florida. The victim appears to have been a young male who died from fatal blows to the head. While leading a search for the remaining bones, Brockton and his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady find a series of shallow graves on the overgrown grounds of a shuttered reform school for boys. According to local lore, the school’s poor, troubled students understood that one wrong move could land them in their own plot in the de facto cemetery. As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets, and learn that the ghosts of the past are ever present. Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Dr Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Dr Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the Body Farm twenty-five years ago. Jefferson is a journalist, writer and film-maker. Their website can be found at www.jeffersonbass.com.
‘The real deal’
Kathy Reichs
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Memoirs of a Bitch
FRANCESCA PETRIZZO
Translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella
The unique story of Helen of Troy – the woman whose face launched a thousand ships – told from her own perspective
The bitch. That’s what the crew call me. The bitch. They say it behind my back. But I can hear them. My name’s Helen, I was born in Sparta, but I went away for love. They used to say I was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Historical Fiction On-sale date: 12 May 2011 Paperback £7.99 978 0 85738 066 1 B format | 304 pages World
The minstrels are already making up stories about how little I’ve won and how much I’ve lost. Lying tales. They weren’t there, after all. But I was. From her childhood in Sparta, through the turbulent years of her marriage, and her disappearance with Paris and its consequences, Helen of Troy tells her own story. In a lyrical and musical style, Helen sheds her legendary persona and walks from the page as a real woman of flesh and blood; the archetype of all the women who, throughout history, have followed their hearts, forsaking wealth and power. Francesca Petrizzo is nineteen. She is on her way to university to study Classics and is hoping to spend a year of her degree in the UK on an exchange. This is her first novel. Silvester Mazzarella has been translating Swedish and Italian literature professionally since 1997. He learned English from his mother, Italian from his father, and Swedish in Finland, where he taught English for many years at the University of Helsinki. He now lives in Canterbury.
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‘Memories of a Bitch is a book that stands out. A truly modern female character’
La Repubblica
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Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Paperback £7.99 978 0 85738 299 3 B format | 320 pages World See p. 92
The Gardener
PRUE LEITH
The perfect summer read – a woman, recovering from divorce, rebuilds a lost garden and finds healing and romance in the process
Under the bracken, under the soil, under the forest, under the water, the garden’s history is there. It needs an ardent lover to find it. Lotte is in unfamiliar territory. After a divorce and a great deal of soul-searching, she has abandoned her successful career as an architect for a degree in Garden History, and uprooted her three children to take up a job as head gardener to millionaire Brody Keegan at Maddon Park in Oxfordshire. Brody is as ignorant about gardens as Lotte is knowledgeable, his tastes as loud as hers are quiet. They have little in common except a passion for Maddon Park and a determination to get their own way. As Lotte locks horns with her boss and his spoilt young wife, she finds herself on an emotional rollercoaster. She knows what is right for the garden, but – raw from divorce, anxious about the children and frightened of entanglement – she is less sure of what is right for her. Prue Leith is a cook, restaurateur, food writer and business woman. She has played a key role in the revolution of Britain’s eating habits. She has also written five acclaimed novels, including Choral Society and A Serving of Scandal. Her website can be found at www.prue-leith.com.
‘An engaging and well-crafted tale’
Sue MacGregor
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978 1 84916 264 7
34 SPRING 2011
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Sixkill
ROBERT B. PARKER
A villainous movie star, a soft-spoken assassin, and a new sidekick all await Spenser, Robert B. Parker’s legendary private eye
A girl has been found dead, seemingly strangled, in the hotel room of movie star Jumbo Nelson. Jumbo’s lawyers want Spenser to find out whether Jumbo did it – not because they care either way, but because the knowledge will help them work out how to block his conviction.
Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 0 85738 211 5 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 212 2 Royal format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
Jumbo is a sufficiently repulsive individual that Spenser finds it hard to contain his distaste. Then there is his bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, a Cree Indian who squandered his pro-football career thanks to an inability to control his temper, and turned his attentions to alcohol instead. Also involved in Jumbo’s case, for reasons that remain unclear, is a cold-blooded assassin who just might be the most dangerous enemy Spenser has faced yet. But if he can persuade Sixkill to turn his life around, Spenser might just have the ally he needs … Robert B. Parker began writing his Spenser novels in 1971. He was named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America. He passed away in January 2010.
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‘Sharp, witty dialogue … fast-paced plots, comfortingly reminiscent of the hard-boiled era of mystery writing … Parker delivers yet again’
The Times on Rough Weather
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978 1 84916 075 9
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Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 033 3 Royal format | 400 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
The Dinosaur Feather
SISSEL-JO GAZAN
Translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund
A truly unique crime novel that interweaves a murder investigation with the central mystery of the theory of evolution
Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue on his bloodied shirtfront and a copy of her thesis in his lap. Police Superintendent Søren Marhauge is assigned to unravel a multitude of intrigues. Helland had been deliberately infected with a rare parasite that only an expert in the field would have access to. But when Anna Bella’s fellow graduate and close friend is also killed, the murders seem to be linked to Anna herself. As Marhauge investigates he comes up against vicious competition for academic success and dark secrets in the faculty. Set against the fabulous backdrop of palaeontology’s age-old mysteries, The Dinosaur Feather unveils a sparkling mosaic of related destinies and a sinister web of lies. Sissel-Jo Gazan is a biology graduate from the University of Copenhagen. The Dinosaur Feather is her breakthrough novel, having sold in twelve countries to date. Charlotte Barslund is the translator of the Inspector Sejer novels by Karin Fossum.
‘Sissel-Jo Gazan has mastered the arts of suspense and revelation’
Kristeligt Dagblad
36 SPRING 2011
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Pilgrims
WILL ELLIOTT
The first book in the Pendulum Trilogy, from one of genre fiction’s most exciting new voices
Eric Albright, a twenty-six-year-old unemployed journalist, and Stuart Casey, a homeless old drunk, discover a door in a graffiti-covered wall that leads them into the strange world of Levall. Here it is said a mountain-sized dragon with the powers of a god lies sleeping beneath a great white castle. In the castle the sinister Lord Vous rules with an iron fist, and the Project, designed to effect his transformation into an immortal spirit, nears completion. But Vous’s growing madness is close to consuming him, together with his fear of an imaginary being named 'Shadow'. And soon Eric may lend substance to that fear. An impossibly vast wall divides Levall, and no one has ever seen what lies beyond. But otherworlders Eric and Casey, known as Pilgrims, possess powers that no one in either world yet understands, and soon the Wall may be broken. What will enter from the other side? Pilgrims is no ordinary alternate-world fantasy: Will Elliott’s brilliantly subversive and creative imagination twists the conventions of the genre for an unforgettable, visionary experience. Will Elliott was a struggling novelist with five unpublished manuscripts when The Pilo Family Circus won the $10,000 ABC prize for new writing.
Fiction/Fantasy On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 0 85738 137 8 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 138 5 Royal format | 512 pages World (exc USA, Canada, Australia & New Zealand)
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‘I couldn’t put Elliott’s debut novel down. It’s fantastic’
Independent on Sunday on The Pilo Family Circus
978 1 84724 081 1
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As Though She Were Sleeping
ELIAS KHOURY
Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies
An enchanting hymn to the Middle East, infused with the richness and beauty of classical Arabic poetry
Beirut in the 1930s: a young woman has the gift of seeing the past in her dreams, and she can also predict the future. Over the course of three nights, Milia recalls her love affair with Mansour, between Beirut and Nazareth, and dreams of episodes in the lives of her family: of a grandmother who regains her virginity after the birth of her son; of the bizarre death of an uncle, who accidentally hangs himself by a church-bell rope; of her relationship with her mother. Milia’s visions also foretell transformations to come: Jewish immigration to Palestine, the influence of Christian missions and the Westernization of morality. As Though She Were Sleeping is a reminder of what life once was in the Middle East; Elias Khoury has again crafted a compelling narrative of great sensuality. Elias Khoury is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of twelve novels and three plays. Humphrey Davies has been awarded the Banipal Prize for his translation of Khoury’s Gate of the Sun, and the Best Translation of 2007 prize by the Society of Authors for Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building.
‘Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury’
Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times
978 1 90669 481 4
38 SPRING 2011
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Foxes in the Night and Other Stories
CEES NOOTEBOOM
Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke
Seductive, fascinating and wise stories of love and loss, by the author of The Following Story
Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in Foxes in the Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. In 'Paula', the narrator evokes the mysterious, brief life of a woman he once loved; in 'Paula II', the same woman is aware of the man thinking of her. No longer a body, she is slowly fading into the distance, remembering the time they spent together, and his fear of the black night when the foxes appear. And yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic; death, it seems, is nothing to be afraid of. Nooteboom is a superb stylist who observes the world with a combination of melancholy and astonishment. These stories are textured with humour, pathos and vast knowledge – the hallmarks of this outstanding and highly respected European writer. Cees Nooteboom is a poet, novelist and travel writer whose books include Rituals, The Following Story, Roads to Santiago and All Souls’ Day. Ina Rilke is the prize-winning translator of books by Erwin Mortier, Tessa de Loo, Dai Sijie and Margriet de Moor.
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‘One of the greatest modern novelists’
A. S. Byatt
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Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Paperback £7.99 978 0 85738 295 5 B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
Trashed
ANNA SMITH
A gritty take on the dark side of Glasgow, by an author who knows the story from the inside out
The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach near Glasgow. This stark event barely captures a headline in the cynical world of tabloid newspapers. This is Glasgow in the 1990s and she’s just another dead heroin addict. But Tracey Eadie was only fourteen-years-old and living in a children’s home. How did she get from there to where she is now? One of Tracey’s friends on the street contacts Rosie Gilmour, a tabloid journalist. She gives Rosie a tip-off that’s dynamite, too hot to print but impossible to ignore. Her investigation exposes a sordid tale of corruption and child abuse that leads from the murky city streets to the very top of the establishment. For Rosie, it is the only story worth telling, but she soon discovers that the forces united against her will stop at nothing to make sure nobody ever gets to the truth. Anna Smith is the author of two previous novels. Trashed is her first crime novel, and the first in a proposed series featuring crime journalist Rosie Gilmour. As a reporter Anna has covered major news stories from Dunblane to Kosovo to the events of September 11th 2001. She writes a regular column in the Scottish News of The World.
‘Smith writes with a tight, effortless prose that pushes the story and characters to the fore’
Glasgow Herald
40 SPRING 2011
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Non-fiction/Popular Psychology On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £19.99 978 1 84916 237 1 Royal format | 288 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 93
Soul Dust
The Magic of Consciousness NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
Not only an evolutionary history of consciousness but also an attempt to explain the ‘Meaning of Life’
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, returns to the front-line with a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside our own heads. This self-made show lights up the world for us, making us feel special and transcendent. Tightly argued, intellectually gripping and a joy to read, Soul Dust is a keenly anticipated book that provides answers to the deepest questions. It dovetails the 'hard problem of consciousness' with the matters that obsess us all: the fear of death, how life should be lived. Resting firmly on neuroscience and evolutionary theory, it is an uncompromising yet life-affirming work that never loses sight of the majesty and mystery of consciousness. Nicholas Humphrey is a theoretical psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His books include Consciousness Regained, The Inner Eye, A History of the Mind, Leaps of Faith, The Mind Made Flesh, and Seeing Red.
‘There are few scientists who think so originally, provoke so consistently or write so elegantly as Humphrey’
Sunday Telegraph
42 SPRING 2011
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful
The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom SEAN B. CARROLL
How evolution has shaped nature’s wondrous complexity and diversity
Striped horses, gigantic grey mammals with six-footlong noses, and spotted cats that can outrun a Jeep? If these creatures did not exist, they would be almost too incredible to believe. Our planet is filled with an astonishing multiplicity of strange and beautiful animal forms. For all the advances in our knowledge made by Darwin and pioneers in many different scientific fields since, how these forms are created has remained something of a mystery. Thanks to evolutionary development biology – dubbed Evo Devo – we now understand this process. The answer, it turns out, lies in an ancient genetic toolkit common to all species. Sean B. Carroll takes us on a fascinating journey through this groundbreaking field, showing how all forms – from the humble fruit fly to Homo sapiens – are a result of old genes learning new tricks. Sean B. Carroll is a Professor of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His discoveries have been featured in Time and The New York Times. His website can be found at www.seanbcarroll.com.
Non-fiction/Science On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Paperback £8.99 978 1 84916 048 3 B format | 288 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘Sean B. Carroll is the ideal author to lead the curious on this intellectual adventure – he is the acknowledged leader of the field’
Lewis Wolpert
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978 1 84916 072 8
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Non-fiction/Biography On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 1 90669 420 3 Demy/A5 format | 224 pages World See p. 93
Treblinka
A Survivor’s Memory CHIL RAJCHMAN
Translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld
A devastating account of the Treblinka death camp by one of its few survivors
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months under incessant threats and beatings as a barber, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from those same corpses. In August 1943 there was an uprising at the camp, and Rajchman was among the handful of men who managed to escape. Even before the war was over, he set down this unembellished and exact record of the raw horror endured every day. This unique testimony has remained in the sole possession of his family ever since, and has never before been published in English. For its description of unspeakably cruelty, Treblinka is a memoir that will not be superseded. This volume will include the complete text of Vasily Grossman’s “The Hell of Treblinka”, a powerful and harrowing document written only weeks after the camp was dissolved, and an introduction by Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Columbia University. Chil Rajchman was born in Lodz and was an active member of his Jewish community. After the Treblinka trials he emigrated to Uruguay, where he died in 2004. Solon Beinfeld taught Modern European and Jewish History at Washington University in St. Louis and he has written and consulted extensively on the Holocaust. Samuel Moyn is the author of A Holocaust: the Treblinka Affair in Postwar France.
‘In its poignant simplicity, Rajchman’s account opens new horizons in our perception of evil ... an important, heart-rending contribution to our search for truth’
Elie Wiesel
44 SPRING 2011
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Gautama Buddha
The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One VISHVAPANI BLOMFIELD
An insightful biography of one of the great global spiritual figures
The words and example of Gautama, often known by the title, 'Buddha’, have affected billions of people. But what do we really know about him? While there is much we cannot say for certain about the historical Gautama, this persuasive new biography provides the fullest and most plausible account yet.
Non-fiction/Biography On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 1 84916 409 2 Royal format | 400 pages World
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Weaving ancient sources and modern understanding into a compelling narrative, Gautama Buddha places his birth around 484 BCE, his Enlightenment in 449 BCE and his death in 404 BCE, a century later than the traditional dates. Placing Gautama in a credible historical setting, this book draws on the myths and legends that surround him to illuminate the significance of his life. It traces Gautama’s investigations of consciousness, his strikingly original view of life and his development of new forms of religious community and practice. An insightful and thought-provoking biography, this will appeal to anyone interested in history and religion, and in the Buddha as a thinker and seminal cultural figure. Vishvapani Blomfield has taught meditation for over eighteen years. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's ‘Thought for the Day’.
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Non-fiction/Reference On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 231 3 200 x 135 mm | 384 pages World
Words of Wisdom
Philosophy’s Most Important Quotations and their Meanings GARETH SOUTHWELL
A remarkable anthology of memorable, uplifting and thought-provoking quotations from the greatest philosophers who have ever lived
Words of Wisdom is a stimulating compendium of philosophical quotations, from the 5th century BC to the present day. Arranged chronologically, each of the 350 quotations is accompanied by a brief essay that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation. The pages of this book contain the greatest insights of the wisest men and women, those whose words are used to describe the human condition, offering instruction and inspiration: • ‘I know that I know nothing’ Socrates • ‘What does not destroy me makes me stronger’ Nietzsche • ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ de Beauvoir Gareth Southwell is a freelance philosopher, writer and illustrator. He is the author of an ongoing series of introductory philosophy books. He lives in Swansea with his wife and two children.
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46 SPRING 2011
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50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know
JOHN SUTHERLAND
The ultimate guide to the most important ideas in literature
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of great writers? And what can we hope to learn from apparently difficult ideas such as 'hermeneutics', 'affective fallacy' and 'bricolage'? 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is the essential guide to all the important concepts and movements in literature. It provides a clear, opinionated and thorough overview of theories about the nature of language, and outlines the thinking behind key literary concepts such as postmodernism, semiology and structuralism. It is a book that will delight anyone who has ever been mystified by literary jargon and wants to gain a deeper, more thorough enjoyment of reading and writing. John Sutherland is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. His previous works include The Boy Who Loved Books and How to Read a Novel. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian, and is a former Chairman of the Booker Prize.
Non-fiction/Literature On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84866 060 1 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages World
‘I can’t think of anyone better qualified, anyone with quite the same combination of pizzazz, technical know-how and sheer enthusiasm as Professor Sutherland’
Independent on Sunday on How to Read a Novel
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Non-fiction/Science On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 123 1 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages 50 b&w line illustrations World
Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know
JOANNE BAKER
An accessible introduction to the central ideas of astronomy and cosmology
For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus. The pace and sophistication of recent scientific discovery has been breathtaking, but breakthroughs are often difficult to understand and their impact is hard to fully appreciate. In Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know, Joanne Baker clearly and concisely explains all of the essential concepts, major discoveries and latest thinking in astrophysics. From dwarf planets to dark energy, and from the Big Bang to the death of stars, this book is the perfect introduction to the cutting-edge science that is shaping our understanding of our place in the Universe. Joanne Baker studied Physics at the University of Cambridge and took her PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Sydney. She is also the author of 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know.
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48 SPRING 2011
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The Victor’s Crown
A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium DAVID POTTER
The ancient world brought vividly to life through a history of Greek and Roman sport
What is sport? And why do we love it? These questions form the driving force behind The Victor’s Crown – David Potter’s study of the western tradition of competitive athletics between 700 BC and 600 AD.
Non-fiction/History On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £25.00 978 1 84916 252 4 Royal format | 352 pages 2 x 8pp colour plate sections World
The Victor’s Crown maps the emergence of popular sport, from its origins in the eighth century BC to the establishment of the great festival cycle of Classical Greece in the sixth century AD. We see the popularity of ancient forms of entertainment through the eyes of their fans and competitors; we meet the great athletes of the past and discover what made them so great; and we witness ancient sport’s other key facets – the training, the physiology, and the role it played in education. The Victor’s Crown is not just a comprehensive history of ancient sport, but also an examination of its abiding ability to provide a common cultural currency. David Potter is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He is also the author of Emperors of Rome.
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Non-fiction/Philiosophy On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 481 8 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages 100 2-colour illustrations World
How to Think Like a Bat
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy PETER CAVE
How do you know that you exist? Are you the same thing as your brain? What does it mean to be free?
A woman was advising her anguished friend, ‘Be philosophical – then you won’t need to think about it.’ Well, being philosophical is sometimes taken to mean that you should adopt a resigned attitude to the world – a quiet-ism – but the study that is western philosophy, starting with the ancient Greeks and continuing today in universities, bars and cafes – even bedrooms – is far from quiet. Philosophers think – but not just that, for they think about thinking and they think about how we think about the world, about how we conceive of ourselves, about how we possess a sense of right and wrong, about how we find meaning in life (if we do). How to Think Like a Bat might not help you to think like a bat, but it will certainly help you to think like a philosopher. Smart, witty and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the subject by one of Britain’s most brilliant philosophical writers. Peter Cave teaches philosophy at the Open University and City University in London, UK. His articles appear regularly in philosophy magazines and scholarly journals, and he is also a frequent broadcaster, having scripted the Paradoxical Fair series for BBC Radio 4.
‘One of the most entertaining and thought provoking books I’ve come across in years ... give your brain a real treat by buying this book’
BBC Focus on Can a Robot Be Human?
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How to Live Forever
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science ALOK JHA
What does it take to create life? What do you need to build a brain? Will we ever talk to aliens?
How to Live Forever is the essential survival guide for anyone who has ever been baffled by science. Embarking on a journey from the very small to the very big, readers will be taken on a glorious tour of the Universe, taking in cloned sheep, alien worlds, bizarre life forms, quantum weirdness, parallel dimensions and dissected brains along the way. You’ll discover how to travel through time, how to start (and cure) a plague, how the mind works, how to turn sunbeams into oak trees, how to boil a planet, how Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility works and much, much more. Informative, accessible and enjoyable, this is a rip-roaring tour through the wonders of the natural world, by one of the country’s most talented science writers. Alok Jha is a science and environment correspondent at the Guardian, specialising in green technologies. In addition to writing news and comment, he presents the Science Weekly podcast and looks after the guardian.co.uk science website. He graduated with a physics degree from Imperial College London.
Non-fiction/Science On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 482 5 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages 100 2-colour illustrations World
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Non-fiction/True Crime On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 268 9 Royal format | 336 pages 8pp colour plate section UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 93
Hotel K
The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail KATHRYN BONELLA
An internationally bestselling account of one of the world’s most notorious drug-smuggler jails
Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the nickname for Bali’s most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it’s a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs and squalor. Hotel K has been home to a procession of the infamous and the tragic. Muslim terror bombers, a Balinese King, Gordon Ramsay’s brother and unlucky tourists have all lived crushed together in Hotel K’s filthy and disease ridden cells. Petty thieves and small-time drug users share cells with killers, rapists, and gangsters. Some are on death row waiting to be shot dead; others are serving anything from life to several days – but most westerners pay corrupt lawyers tens of thousands of dollars to try for a fast check-out. Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild ‘sex nights’ organised by corrupt guards, the rampant drug use, the killings made to look like suicides, the days out at the beach, the escapes. It takes you behind the grim white walls and exposes the jail’s role in supplying high-grade drugs to tourists and dealers on the outside, and the corruption that means anything is for sale – including a fully catered Italian jail wedding, or a cell upgraded with a plasma TV and Bose sound systems. The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page. Kathryn Bonella moved to Bali in 2005 to research and write Shapelle Corby’s bestselling autobiography, My Story.
‘An insightful and sharply observed account … a bleak reminder of the cruelty, hypocrisy and injustice taking place in the heart of one of our most popular holiday destinations’
Sun Herald
52 SPRING 2011
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Dead Men Risen
The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain’s War in Afghanistan TOBY HARNDEN
The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the Afghan War
This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their struggle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009, the bloodiest and most intense fighting the British had experienced in a generation. They were led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, a passionate believer in the justness of the war who would be killed by an IED. Dead Men Risen draws on secret documents written by Thorneloe, the first battalion commander to be killed in action since the Falklands war of 1982, which raise questions from beyond the grave that will unnerve politicians and generals alike. The Welsh Guards also lost Major Sean Birchall, commanding officer of IX Company, and Lieutenant Mark Evison, a platoon commander whose candid personal diary was unnervingly prophetic. Not since the Second World War had a single British battalion lost officers at the three key levels of leadership. Dead Men Risen transports the reader into the heart of a conflict in which a soldier has to be prepared to kill and die, to ward off paralysing fear and watch comrades perish in agony. Given unprecedented access to the Welsh Guards, Harnden weaves the experiences of the guardsmen into a seamless and unsparing narrative. No other book about modern warfare succeeds on so many different levels. Toby Harnden has been the US Editor of the Daily Telegraph since 2006 and a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph since 2009. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh.
Non-fiction/True Military On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 1 84916 421 4 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 422 1 Royal format | 400 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘Tremendous ... if you are to read only one book about the modern IRA, this should be it’
Irish Times on Bandit Country
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Non-fiction/History On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 0 85738 077 7 246 x 185 mm | 320 pages 120 colour illustrations World
Warrior Women
ROSALIND MILES AND ROBIN CROSS
Extraordinary profiles of the lives and careers of great women war leaders
‘They fought like devils, far better than the men.’ So George Clemenceau, then mayor of Montmartre, recalled the women of the Paris Commune who manned the barricades at France’s republican uprising of 1871. Fighting to the last, they died like men, too. History has seen many such acts of courage, daring and self-sacrifice by women like these. These traits are found today in such women as US Army helicopter pilot Major Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs when her Black Hawk was shot down in Iraq; and Colonel Martha McSally who flew A-10 ground-attack missions in Afghanistan and became the first woman to command a US Air Force combat squadron. Warrior Women contains vivid portraits of over 100 extraordinary women, ranging from the ‘killer queen’ Boudicca who wreaked brutal vengeance on the Roman Empire for insults against her family, to modern-day warrior queens such as Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher. It restores women’s deeds in wartime to their rightful place of honour and prominence. Dr Rosalind Miles, author of Who Cooked the Last Supper?, is a critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling writer, lecturer and BBC broadcaster. Robin Cross is the author of more than thirty books, including Livia and Hitler: An Illustrated Life.
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54 SPRING 2011
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The Big Questions: Mathematics
TONY CRILLY
SERIES EDITOR: Simon Blackburn
Maths demystified – the answers to twenty questions anyone might ask
The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts address the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers from history’s great thinkers. This ambitious project is a unique distillation of humanity’s best ideas. In Big Questions: Mathematics, Tony Crilly answers the 20 key questions: What is maths for? Where do numbers come from? Why are primes the atoms of maths? What are the strangest numbers? Are imaginary numbers real? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? What is the maths of the universe? Are statistics lies? Can maths guarantee riches? Is there a formula for everything? Why are three dimensions not enough? Can a butterfly’s wings really cause a hurricane? Can we create an unbreakable code? Is maths beauty? Can maths predict the future? What shape is the universe? What is symmetry? Is maths true? Is there anything left to solve? Tony Crilly is Reader in Mathematical Sciences at Middlesex University. He is the author of an acclaimed biography of the English mathematician Arthur Cayley.
Non-fiction/Mathematics On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £12.99 978 1 84916 240 1 210 x 145 mm | 208 pages 100 illustrations World
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Stieg
JAN-ERIK PETTERSSON
Translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes
The definitive biography of Stieg Larsson
Whereas most mega-selling authors might be expected to live lives that seem utterly tame compared to the characters in their novels, the same cannot be said of Stieg Larsson. As a tireless campaigner against fascism in a nation where murder is a favoured tool of neo-Nazi thugs who wish to silence their opponents, he and his partner Eva Gabrielsson lived in constant fear for their lives, and saw several fellow activists killed by extremists. When a friend of theirs was found shot dead in a stairwell, police raided the killers’ hideout and found photographs of Stieg and Eva – chillingly, they were the next targets. Jan-Erik Pettersson has interviewed virtually everyone of note, from Eva to Stieg’s close family. From his impoverished childhood in the wild northern provinces to his globetrotting as an international expert on fascism, and his writing of three books that would thrill millions, the story of Stieg Larsson resonates in a way that his innumerable fans cannot afford to miss. Jan-Erik Pettersson is editor-in-chief at Ordfront Forlag, in which role he published Stieg Larsson’s book on the right-wing party Sverigedemokraterna. Tom Geddes has translated over twenty novels and biographies.
Non-fiction/Biography On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 1 84916 499 3 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 500 6 Demy format | 368 pages World
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Non-fiction/Biography On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 1 84916 547 1 Royal format | 352 pages 16pp b&w plates World See p. 93
Churchill
ASHLEY JACKSON
A brilliant new biography of one of the greatest Britons
Winston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, ‘always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality’. Whatever one’s view of ‘the greatest Briton’, and despite the best efforts of an army of writers who have penned portraits of him, Winston Churchill remains splendidly unreduced. He also remains enormous fun. In this new biography Ashley Jackson ekes out the contours of Winston Churchill’s remarkable life and political career, whilst giving a fullsome sense of the man behind the dark eyes and bulldog features. From thrusting subaltern to political pup in a hurry, from Cabinet outcast to Britain’s greatest war leader, from serial electoral loser to elder statesman on the international stage in the years of Cold War and imperial decline, this is the eternally fascinating story of Winston Churchill’s appointment with destiny. Dr Ashley Jackson is a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College, London. His research concentrates on the history of empire, particularly the British Empire. He is also the author of Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
‘The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues’
Violet Asquith
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How to Destroy the Universe
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Physics PAUL PARSONS
How do you generate a force field? Is time travel possible? Could you survive falling in a black hole?
Non-fiction/Physics On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 479 5 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages World
If you thought physics was all about measuring the temperature of ice in a bucket or trying to fathom what E=mc2 means, think again. In How to Destroy the Universe you’ll find out how to save the planet from energy shortages by mining the vacuum of empty space, how to engineer the Earth’s climate to reverse the effects of global warming, and how to fend off killer asteroids. You’ll learn essential survival skills such as how to live through a lightning strike, how to tough it out during an earthquake and how to fall into a black hole without being squashed into spaghetti. So if you want to get to grips with the science behind antigravity or learn how to teleport or live forever, this is the perfect introduction to the amazing world of modern physics. Dr Paul Parsons is a contributor to the New Scientist and the Daily Telegraph. His The Science of Doctor Who was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.
‘More effective than a dozen earnest and worthy schemes to promote the public understanding of science’
New Scientist on The Science of Doctor Who
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Non-fiction/Mathematics On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 480 1 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages World
How to Build a Brain
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics RICHARD ELWES
Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? How do you unleash chaos?
How to Build a Brain demystifies the astonishing world of maths in a series of intriguing, entertaining and often extraordinary scenarios that explain key concepts in plain and simple language. You’ll find out how to unknot your DNA, how to count like a supercomputer and how to become famous for solving mathematics’s most challenging problem. You¹ll learn how to survive in a whirlpool, how to win at roulette and how to be alive and dead at the same time. So if you are struggling to fathom the great questions of number theory and geometry, the mysteries of the prime numbers or Plato’s classification of regular polyhedra, or if you are really more interested in learning how to make a million on the stock market, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of modern mathematics. Dr Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. He contributes to New Scientist and regularly appears at public lectures and on radio.
‘The author gave a real insight into the process of doing mathematics. This is the art of good popular science writing’
Marcus du Sautoy on An Enormous Theorem
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The Dog Care Handbook
SOPHIE COLLINS
The ideal reference guide for all dog lovers
The Dog Care Handbook covers every aspect of dog ownership with chapters on behaviour, choosing a dog, games, exercise and training, and diet and health. Information is presented in an accessible format with over 200 colour photos, case histories and checklists. Sophie Collins is a writer and editor specializing in dog behaviour. Included among her previous titles are Why Does My Dog Do That? and Tail Talk: The Secret Language of Dogs.
Flexi bound £8.99 978 1 84866 047 2
The Cat Care Handbook
CATHERINE DAVIDSON
All the help you need in choosing and caring for your cat
Information and advice on understanding feline behaviour, choosing the right cat, simple training and daily routines, as well as essential information on food, health and basic care requirements. Illustrated with 200 colour photos, as well as case histories, checklists and notes on feline instinct. Catherine Davidson is the author of many illustrated reference books including Why Does My Cat Do That? and Cats: A Guide to Cat Breeds.
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Non-fiction/Politics On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 254 8 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages World
50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know
BEN DUPRÉ
The perfect introduction to the theory and practice of politics
At a time of popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater. The forces of religious extremism and terrorism endanger our security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to liberty, democracy and human rights. Corruption, spin and a suspect political culture arouse public indignation, which is further aggravated by an array of pressure groups and the far-from-disinterested attentions of the mass media. In 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know, Ben Dupré clears away the murk that obscures key concepts and provides the perfect introduction for anyone wanting to enhance their understanding of the theory and practice of modern politics. Topics include: Justice, Liberty, Human rights, Democracy, Tyranny, Federalism, Monarchism, Republicanism, Fascism, Conservatism, Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, Presidential systems, Imperialism, Isolationism and Globalization. Ben Dupré read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He has more than twenty years’ experience of bringing challenging concepts to the widest possible audience.
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World History: 50 Things You Really Need to Know
IAN CROFTON
An essential guide to the events that shaped our world
People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics – the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis – and that they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, World History: 50 Things You Really Need to Know offers brief and stimulating outlines of key developments in the history of the world. Ian Crofton brings his lively style to bear in a series of essays ranging from the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago to the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11, from ancient Egypt to modern China, from the Vikings and the Mongols to the French Revolution and the Cold War, this book will appeal to those with a desire to enhance their understanding of world history. Each essay is accompanied by a detailed timeline of dates and events, and the flavour of the period concerned is brought to life by selected contemporary quotations from figures as diverse as Aristotle, Saladin, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and Winston Churchill. Ian Crofton’s authorial credits include Brewer’s Britain and Ireland and Brewer’s Cabinet of Curiosities. For Quercus he has written The Kings and Queens of England, History without the Boring Bits and Traitors and Turncoats.
Non-fiction/History On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 075 3 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages World
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Non-fiction/History On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 0 85738 070 8 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 071 5 Royal format | 352 pages World See p. 93
Camp Z
The Secret Life of Rudolf Hess STEPHEN MCGINTY
A riveting account of one of the forgotten episodes of the Second World War
On 10 May 1941 Rudolf Hess, then the Deputy Führer, parachuted over Renfrewshire in Scotland on a mission to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, ostensibly to broker a peace deal with the British government. After being held in the Tower of London, he was transferred to Mytchett Place near Aldershot on 20 May, under the codename of ‘Z’. The house was fitted with microphones and sound recording equipment, guarded by a battalion of soldiers and codenamed Camp Z. Churchill’s instructions were that Hess should be strictly isolated, and that every effort should be taken to get any useful information out of him. During the ensuing thirteen months a psychological battle was waged between intelligence officers, using the new Freudian techniques, and the man who had been a heartbeat away from Hitler. Stephen McGinty uses new documentation, contemporaneous reports, diaries, letters and memos to piece together an engrossing tale of the claustrophobia, paranoia and high-stakes gamesmanship played out in an English country house. Stephen McGinty is an award-winning journalist with the Scotsman. He is also the author of This Turbulent Priest, Churchill’s Cigar and Fire In The Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster.
‘The year’s most unlikely page-turner’
Daily Telegraph on This Turbulent Priest
64 SPRING 2011
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Born Liars
Why We Can’t Live Without Deceit IAN LESLIE
A fascinating journey which makes us question not only our own relationship with truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have
Born Liars is thought-provoking, anecdotally driven narrative non-fiction at its best. Ian Leslie’s intoxicating blend of anthropology, biology, cultural history, philosophy and popular psychology belies a serious central message, that Homo sapiens has evolved and thrived in large part because of his/her ability to deceive. Lying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. This book investigates how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa). It queries the philosophical ambiguity of telling the truth and presents the history of the lie detector. It interrogates both Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess and Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth, and tells us why we should be wary of anyone with more than 150 Facebook friends. Ian Leslie lives in London, combining careers in advertising and writing. His first book, To Be President, was extracted by Granta. He has written about politics, culture, marketing, and psychology for Prospect, the Guardian, The Times and the BBC.
Non-fiction/Popular Psychology On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 424 5 Demy format | 352 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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Non-fiction/Space On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Hardback £14.99 978 0 85738 345 7 185 x 246 mm | 320 pages 300 colour illustrations World
Cosmos Close-up
GILES SPARROW
A unique view of the universe – in beautiful panoramas and in stunning close-up
Using a wealth of high-resolution images collected by a fleet of telescopes, satellites and inter-planetary probes, Cosmos Close-up embarks on a voyage across the universe, pausing only to zoom in on the most spectacular planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae. After a fly past of our planetary neighbours we reach the edge of the solar system, emerging into interstellar space and heading for the heart of our galaxy. Navigating through thick swarms of stars, we reach the galactic core, a gravitational maelstrom of exotic stars in the thrall of a supermassive black hole. Hundreds of thousands of light years must be covered to reach the Milky Way’s companions, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and millions more devoured before we cross true intergalactic space. Here we can discern the large-scale structure of the universe: massive conglomerations of galaxies warping space with their tremendous gravity. Having crossed 13.4 billion light years, we encounter a wall of radiation. Here our voyage into the cosmos must finally end, for we have reached the very edge of the visible universe: what stands before us is the afterglow of the Big Bang itself. Giles Sparrow is the author of The Universe and How to See it and Hubble: Window on the Universe.
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Fiction 6 January 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 121 7 272 pages World
Twenty-One Locks
LAURA BARTON
The beautifully crafted love story of a young girl making the biggest decision of her life. ‘This absolutely stunning first novel challenges all preconceived ideas about supposedly “ordinary” lives’ Kate Saunders, The Times
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Fiction 6 January 2011 Royal format £7.99 978 1 84916 090 2 464 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Black Hills
DAN SIMMONS
A richly imaginative tale of alien cultures set on a collision course from an author who continues to build on his substantial fan-base to attain a wider readership. ‘I am in awe of Dan Simmons’ Stephen King
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Fiction 6 January 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 132 3 224 pages World
The Book Club
MARJOLIJN FEBRUARI
Translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent
A rich, deep and atmospheric story about what happens when you turn a blind eye once too often. ‘An extremely enjoyable book’ De Volkskrant
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Fiction/Crime 6 January 2011 B format £8.99 978 1 84916 289 0 416 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Classic Robert B. Parker
Looking for Rachel Wallace; Promised Land ROBERT B. PARKER
Two of the finest early Spensers in a single volume – a must-have for Parker’s many fans. ‘One of the great series in the history of the American detective story’ The New York Times Book Review
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Fiction/Crime 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 152 7 384 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Three Seconds
ANDERS ROSLUND AND BÖRGE HELLSTRÖM
Translated from the Swedish by Kari Dickson
The powerful story of one man’s fight against the system he spent his life protecting. ‘The pinnacle of the Swedish crime writing elite’ Mariestads-Tidningen
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Fiction/Crime 17 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 259 3 320 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
Evil in Return
ELENA FORBES
A chilling crime novel set in London featuring detective Mark Tartaglia and his female partner, DS Sam Donovan. ‘Elena Forbes hits the spot. A pleasure to read – tightly plotted, well-written and convincing’ Daily Mail
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Fiction/Crime 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 349 5 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
The Broken Shore
PETER TEMPLE
A new and exciting re-issue of the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, and winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. ‘The Broken Shore is a masterpiece, as good as any new novel I’ve read in the last ten years’ John Lanchester
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Fiction/Crime 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 350 1 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
In the Evil Day
PETER TEMPLE
The stunning thriller from the bestselling author of The Broken Shore and Truth. ‘A truly international 21st century thriller with an exquisite denouement’ Guardian
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Fiction/Crime 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 120 0 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
Gunshot Road
An Emily Tempest Mystery ADRIAN HYLAND
From the author of Diamond Dove. Emily Tempest becomes a cop and investigates the death of a friend. ‘Every word comes over as vividly as an eyewitness’s description of something that happened half an hour ago’ Literary Review
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The Last Brother
NATHACHA APPANAH
Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan
A poetic and infinitely moving novel – sure to become a classic of literature about childhood. ‘Sophisticated, confident and beautifully poetic writing that’s tender and poignant and consistently captivating’ Daniel Hahn, Bookseller
Fiction 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 401 6 208 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
See p. 94 Fiction/Crime 3 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 310 1 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
A Capital Crime
LAURA WILSON
An outstanding historical crime thriller based on the true story of the two most controversial murder trials of the 1950s. ‘Laura Wilson writes beautifully, creates characters we believe in and applies a vivid imagination to well-researched facts ... convincing and exciting’ Literary Review
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Fiction/Crime 3 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 075 9 288 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Split Image
ROBERT B. PARKER
Two ‘retired’ mobsters, two nymphomaniac identical twins, one religious commune – more trouble in Paradise, Massachusetts for Police Chief Jesse Stone. ‘If Spenser is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity’ The New York Times
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Shadow Country
PETER MATTHIESSEN
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, a powerful, epic tale of America’s rise and descent, from the Civil War to the Great Depression. ‘Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s expectations of great writing’ Richard Ford
Fiction 3 March 2011 B format £9.99 978 0 85738 130 9 892 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
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The Upright Piano Player
DAVID ABBOTT
A beautifully observed, entirely compelling novel of family fracture, loss and redemption. ‘This is a fine, sensitive, moving book ... a remarkable first novel’ Justin Cartwright
Fiction 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 405 4 232 pages World
See p. 94 Fiction/Crime 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 90669 499 9 240 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
The Vintage Caper
PETER MAYLE
A wry and witty crime novel by the renowned author of A Year in Provence. ‘The star of this caper is the vineyard-veined, lavender-scented, sun-showered, garlic-seasoned setting itself: pure Provence’ National Geographic Traveler
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Fiction/Crime 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 414 6 384 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Field Grey
PHILIP KERR
An outstanding thriller set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp, Paris and Berlin. ‘The pace is cracking, the dialogue crisply Chandleresque, the characterisation refreshingly stereotype-free. Kerr’s research, historical and geographical, is all but faultless’ The Times
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Fiction 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 031 5 336 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
The Imperfectionists
TOM RACHMAN
The charming and enthralling story of an idiosyncratic English-language newspaper in Rome. ‘The Imperfectionists is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching ... a cross between Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing adventure’ New York Times Book Review
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Fiction 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 130 5 304 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
A Watermelon, A Fish and a Bible
CHRISTY LEFTERI
A lyrical, moving and beautiful tale of love lost and found set during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. ‘So much more than another romantic beach read, this is a powerful piece of writing’ Sunday Telegraph
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Fiction/Crime 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 134 7 336 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Rendezvous
ESTHER VERHOEF
Translated from the Dutch by Alexander Smith
A woman’s carefully constructed life unravels as she is arrested for murder in this powerful and intense psychological thriller. ‘Excellent writing’ Literary Review
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Fiction/Crime 28 April 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84724 970 8 320 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
The Long Glasgow Kiss
CRAIG RUSSELL
A second brilliant thriller featuring shady investigator Lennox as he stalks Glasgow’s tough streets. ‘Craig Russell brilliantly uses the character of his tough, funny and hopeful man Lennox to give us the eyes and ears on a time and place. This is storytelling at its very best!’ Michael Connelly
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Fiction 3 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 135 4 320 pages UK & Comm (with EU exclusive)
At Sea
LAURIE GRAHAM
A woman chases revenge while on a cruise of the Med: the only escape is overboard... ‘What a wonderful, life-enhancing, truly funny writer she is’ Elizabeth Buchan
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Fiction 28 April 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 143 5 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
The Extinction Club
JEFFREY MOORE
The captivating, moving and evocative story of two lost souls trying to change the world. ‘The Extinction Club is a tour de force, as sophisticated as it is brutal’ Heather O’Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals
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No-One Loves a Policeman
GUILLERMO ORSI
Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
A brilliantly reviewed Latin-American odyssey – hard-boiled detective story, political novel and road movie rolled into one. ‘Wonderfully evocative and cynical, it captures Buenos Aires with a delicate precision’ Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
Fiction/Crime 28 April 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 147 7 368 pages World English
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All the Hopeful Lovers
WILLIAM NICHOLSON
A stylish romantic comedy and a brilliant follow up to The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life from the award-winning screenwriter. ‘William Nicholson is one of our most underrated novelists, a subtle and addictive writer who deserves to be a household name’ Observer
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Fiction/Horror 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 513 6 520 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia, NZ)
Harbour
JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST
Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy
The incredibly moving and atmospheric new novel about a parent’s love for his child from the author of Let the Right One In. ‘A whiff of the new Stephen King’ The Times
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Fiction/Crime 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 117 6 352 pages World
Scream
NIGEL MCCRERY
An abusive murderer is taking people from the streets, making them terrified enough to scream ... and if they’re lucky he’ll like the sound of it. ‘One of the most memorable monsters in crime fiction’ Daily Express
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Fiction/Crime 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 150 7 320 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
The Last Talk with Lola Faye
THOMAS H. COOK
A historian is forced to rewrite his own history when the beautiful Lola Faye reappears. ‘I have long been an admirer of Thomas H. Cook’s novels, and The Last Talk with Lola Faye is one of his best yet: an expertly plotted, beautifully written, compelling and suspenseful book’ Harlan Coben
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Fiction/Thriller 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 122 4 368 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Freedom
DANIEL SUAREZ
Human freedom has one last hope to survive the information revolution in the epic, apocalyptic sequel to the international bestseller Daemon. ‘The best author of tech fiction since Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson. Buy everything he writes’ John Robb
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Wartime Notebooks
And Other Texts MARGUERITE DURAS
Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
The World War II notebooks of one of the twentieth century’s renowned literary figures. ‘As fresh, as original and as mesmerizing as on the day they were written’ Carmen Callil, Guardian
Non-fiction/Biography 6 January 2011 B format £9.99 978 1 84724 733 9 400 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Non-fiction/Sport 3 February 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 125 5 336 pages World
Burning Rubber
The Extraordinary Story of Formula One CHARLES JENNINGS
A turbo-charged account of 60 years of motor sport’s premier competition. ‘A funny and engaging tale of how the sport got where it is today’ Motorsport
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Non-fiction 3 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 136 1 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
At the Loch of the Green Corrie
ANDREW GRIEG
A fishing trip honoring a dying man’s wish becomes a meditation on life, nature and friendship, a literary biography and a celebration of the beauty of the Highlands of Scotland. ‘Moving and utterly memorable, a triumph’ The Times
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Non-fiction/History 3 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 327 3 304 pages World
Great British Speeches
SIMON HEFFER
A stirring anthology of 50 influential speeches from every period of British history, from the medieval era to the present day. ‘Simon Heffer has performed a useful service with this collection ... providing some fifty seminal texts, often of great interest’ Literary Review
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Non-fiction/Biography 31 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 161 3 288 pages World
Gandhi
JAD ADAMS
A brand-new biography of the ‘father’ of modern India. ‘For anyone trying to find a way through the myriad political byways of modern India and Pakistan, Adams’s no-nonsense biography is as good a starting point as any’ Glasgow Herald
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Non-fiction/History 31 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 160 6 320 pages World
Macbeth: A True Story
FIONA WATSON
A respected historian of medieval Scotland releases the authentic historical Macbeth from a prison of literary and folkloric myth. ‘A lucid picture of a Celtic warrior-king of some sophistication who was respected and loved... A fascinating read through Scotland’s Middle Ages’ Big Issue
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Non-fiction/Literature 31 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 328 0 224 pages World
The Story of English
PHILIP GOODEN
The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet. ‘A fascinating tale of linguistic, social and cultural transformations, accessibly and authoratively told’ Business Destinations
Non-fiction/Sport 28 April 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 148 4 368 pages World
A Last English Summer
DUNCAN HAMILTON
A portrait of a revolution in English cricket by the twice William Hill Sports Book of the Year winner. ‘The quality of his writing, so evident in his previous works, shines again’ Mike Atherton, The Times
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Non-fiction/Biography 28 April 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 162 0 448 pages World
Emperor of the West
HYWEL WILLIAMS
The life, times and historical legacy of the man who created modern Europe, Charlemagne. ‘Hugely enjoyable. Confidence, elegance and brilliance’ Times Literary Supplement on Cassell’s Chronology of World History
Non-fiction/History 28 April 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 339 6 256 pages World
Days that Changed the World
HYWEL WILLIAMS
A concise history of the world, told through the stories of 50 momentous days. ‘Hywel Williams has thee wide learning of the academic and the mischief of the good journalist’ A. N. Wilson
Non-fiction/ Mathematics 28 April 2011 B format £8.99 978 1 84724 768 1 272 pages World
Taming the Infinite
IAN STEWART
From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. ‘The author manages to demystify the subject while maintaining one’s sense of wonder’ Sunday Telegraph
Non-fiction/Biography 26 May 2011 B format £8.99 978 1 84724 975 3 256 pages World
Miss Shirley Bassey
JOHN L. WILLIAMS
From ‘Hot from Harlem’ to ‘Goldfinger,’ the story of how a two-bit jazz singer from Cardiff became an immortal icon. ‘An essential history of race, sex and class in the sixties. One of the best biographies I’ve read in years’ Jake Arnott on Michael X
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Non-fiction/History 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 111 8 352 pages World English
The King’s Speech
PETER CONRADI AND MARK LOGUE
Now a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Helena Bonham-Carter, this is the story of how an Australian commoner saved the British monarchy. ‘One of the most extraordinary periods of the nation’s history’ Daily Mail
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Non-fiction/History 26 May 2011 B Format £9.99 978 0 85738 175 0 408 pages World
The Third Reich: A Chronicle
RICHARD OVERY
Authoritative, informative and sumptuously illustrated, The Third Reich brings the bloody realities of war vividly to life. ‘This country’s most distinguished historian of the Second World War’ Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard
HARDBACK REISSUE Non-fiction/Archaeology 26 May 2011 248 x 192mm £14.99 978 0 85738 342 6 256 pages World
The Story of Archaeology
JUSTIN POLLARD
The fascinating tale of modern archaeology from its earliest beginnings to the present day. ‘Amusingly and energetically told ... Pollard has the QI knack of knowing what's interesting’ Spectator on Secret Britain
HARDBACK REISSUE Non-fiction/Religion 26 May 2011 248 x 192mm £14.99 978 0 85738 343 3 256 pages World
The Story of Christianity
DAVID BENTLEY HART
The story of Christianity is a fascinating one, and this account does justice to the full range of Christian tradition, belief and practice. ‘I can think of no more brilliant work by an American theologian in the past ten years’ The Christian Century on The Beauty of the Infinite
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The Imperfectionists
TOM RACHMAN
Charming and enthralling stories of life working for a newspaper in Rome. ‘Funny, poignant, occasionally breathtaking’ Financial Times
4 January 2011 • Fiction £6.99 Open Market Edition 978 0 85738 326 6
Three Seconds
ROSLUND AND HELLSTROM
One man’s fight against the very system he spent his life protecting. ‘The pinnacle of the Swedish crime writing elite’ Mariestads-Tidningen
3 February 2011 • Crime £6.99 Open Market Edition 978 0 85738 406 5
Field Grey
PHILIP KERR
Bernie Gunther’s most atmospheric and exciting adventure yet. ‘One of the great achievements of contemporary crime fiction’ Observer
31 March 2011 • Crime £6.99 Open Market Edition 978 0 85738 407 2
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 394 1 B format | 256 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Age range: Young Adult See p. 93
Entangled
CAT CLARKE
Cat Clarke evokes just how it feels to be seventeen, in this gripping novel of dangerous secrets, intense friendships and electrifying attraction
The same questions whirl around and around in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have let this happen? Am I going to die? 17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper – and no clue how she got there. As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she's tried to forget. There’s falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her best friend Sal. But there’s something missing. As hard as she’s trying to remember, is there something she just can’t see? Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here? Entangled introduces a new and powerful British voice in YA fiction. The emotional intensity and compulsive plot will grip fans of stories about teen life and love, as well as fans of paranormal fiction. Cat Clarke was born in Zambia and brought up in Edinburgh and Yorkshire. She has written non-fiction books about cowboys, sharks and pirates, and now writes YA novels. She lives in South London with her cats, Jem and Scout.
‘I was glued to the page. Smiling one minute and getting all choky the next. Grace’s voice was so clear, tough and tender – I didn’t know if I wanted to shake her or hug her’
Simmone Howell, author of Everything Beautiful
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The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group
CATHERINE JINKS
Hamster-drinking vampires, vulnerable werewolves and accidental zombies? Welcome to the bizarre world of the Abused Werewolf Rescue Group
When Tobias Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, he is told that he was found unconscious. In a zoo pen. The doctor rules out epilepsy and Toby’s prank-loving friends are just as freaked out as he is. Then the wild-eyed Reuben turns up talking in hushed tones about Toby being a werewolf. Reuben’s pale, insomniac friends seem equally convinced and offer to chain him up every full moon. They also claim to be part of some sort of vampire support group. This has to be a joke— right? It’s only when he's kidnapped, imprisoned and in desperate need of rescuing that Toby begins to believe them… Catherine Jinks is the four-times winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBC) Award and has also won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Australian IBBY Award. She now lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales with her husband and daughter.
Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 324 8 B format | 206 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & NZ) & open markets Age range: 12+
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‘Young teens will devour it’
The Sun on The Reformed Vampire Support Group
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 408 5 B format | 272 pages World Age range: 12+ See p. 93
Belle’s Song
K. M. GRANT
A heady tale of intrigue, adventure and forbidden love, centred around a young girl and one of England’s greatest poets
When Belle meets Luke, son of an alchemist and Scribe to the famous poet Chaucer, she is determined to travel with him to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. She hopes for a miracle: that her father will walk again. It is a time of unrest across the country and the young King Richard II is just hanging on to his throne. A malign character on the pilgrimage suspects Chaucer of treason and slowly winds Belle into a political intrigue. At the same time, the impulsive Belle is drawn towards both Luke and Walter, the wealthy son of a Knight. But Walter is guarding his own romantic secret... As the uprising against the King starts to draw pace and the web of intrigue around Belle and Chaucer tightens, Belle and her friends must risk everything to save their country, and themselves... K. M. Grant has written several books of historical fiction, including Blue Flame, White Heat and Paradise Red. She is a columnist on the Scottish Daily Mail and lives in Glasgow with her husband and three children.
‘A high-water mark in historical fiction’
Financial Times
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The Unknown Spy
EOIN MCNAMEE
A high-stakes spy adventure complete with double-crossings, brilliant spy inventions and a hero who has everything to learn about who he really is
In the second instalment of The Ring of Five trilogy, Wilsons Spy Academy has called back its most brilliant trainee spy: Danny Caulfield. Danny is to be sent on an urgent mission: to find the treaty stone that protects the Upper World before the Ring of Five, leaders of the Cherbs, destroy it and wage war. Danny and his friend Dixie must set off to the Kingdom of Morne to save the stone. But the Cherb children have got there first, and the King pits Danny against them in a contest for the stone. Lily, a Cherb, reveals to Danny that she is his sister: she urges him to join her side. Danny is locked into a battle between the two worlds and with himself. Who’s side is he on? Wilsons or the Ring of Five? And how much can he trust Lily? Eoin McNamee’s first children’s book, The Navigator, received significant critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. His adult books have twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Sligo, West Ireland.
Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 129 3 B format | 416 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Age range: 9+
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‘A riveting tale of good and evil’
New York Times on The Navigator
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £12.99 978 1 84724 939 5 B format | 272 pages World Age range: 12+ See p. 93
Bracelet of Bones
KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
The thrilling new adventure from a bestselling master storyteller
It is 1036. Halfdan is a Viking mercenary who is determined to travel to Constantinople and become one of the Viking Guard serving Empress Zoe. He promises to take his daughter, Solveig, but one morning she wakes up to find him gone. Setting off in her own tiny boat, Solveig vows to complete the journey as planned. Her boat may be washed up, but Solveig is undeterred. She finds passage with Viking traders and learns to fight. In this perilous and exciting world, Solveig is all too aware of the dangers that surround her. She witnesses violent clashes against the new Christians and girls her age being forced into slavery. Will she live to see her father again, and if she survives, can she remain free? Bracelet of Bones is a glittering novel that explores friendship and betrayal, the father-daughter relationship, the clash of religions and the journey from childhood to adulthood. It marks the start of a major new series from Kevin Crossley-Holland, his first since the acclaimed Arthur trilogy. Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Arthur trilogy was translated into 23 languages, and has sold over one million copies worldwide. Kevin has won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He is a patron of the Society of Storytelling, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
‘High imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound’
Philip Pullman on The Seeing-Stone
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Defiance
LILI ST. CROW
The heart-stopping fourth novel in the much loved Strange Angels series
Sixteen-year-old Dru’s worst fears have come true – Sergej, the deadly nosferat, has kidnapped her best friend Graves and she must now go on a suicidal rescue mission to bring him back in one piece. That is, if she can put all of Christophe’s training to good use, defeat her mother’s traitor, Anna, once and for all, and manage to survive another day... Lili St. Crow is the author of Strange Angels, Betrayals and Jealousy. She lives with her children in Vancouver, Washington. Her website can be found at www.strange-angels.co.uk. Praise for Lili St. Crow:
Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 996 7 B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & NZ) & open markets Age range: 12+
‘This cracking read is for youngsters and adults alike’ Sun ‘Dru Anderson is the toughest teen gal since Buffy hung up her stake! Both books are gripping reads’ Mizz ‘An elegantly written thriller’ Bliss ‘If you prefer supernatural thrillers with a side of romance, as opposed to romance with a side of supernatural thrillers, Strange Angels is the perfect book for you’ Bookbag ‘Strange Angels is like Buffy and Supernatural thrown together, which, for me, is a very good mix indeed … St. Crow’s writing is sharp and contemporary, with enough sarcasm to make even the snarkiest teen appreciate Dru’s voice’ Wondrous Reads
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‘Dark, dangerous and sexy!’
Richelle Mead
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 146 0 B format | 352 pages World Age range: 9+ See p. 93
Kill Fish Jones
CARO KING
A demon is after Fish Jones: he is armed with a curse from beyond the grave. Where is there for Fish to run?
Grimshaw and Lampwick the Robber, a curse demon and his master, are stuck in Limbo. Grimshaw hasn’t had a chance to unleash any destruction in the Real World since Lampwick’s death bed curses years ago. When Lampwick has an unexpected opportunity to curse a whole new set of humans, Grimshaw can’t believe his luck! Fish Jones is on Grimshaw’s list. But Fish has unworldly talents of his own. Unlike other humans, he can see Grimshaw. Why is Fish able to avoid the demon’s curse? And when Grimshaw plans to wreak the ultimate destruction, not just on Fish, but on the world, will young Jones’ power be enough to stop him? Full of humour and wild imagination, Kill Fish Jones is a devilish read. Caro King’s first novel, Seven Sorcerers, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Prize. Caro regularly visits schools and finds that creative ideas sessions with students help fuel her very imaginative storywriting. She lives in Croydon.
‘Truly moving and involving’
Sunday Times on Seven Sorcerers
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Trial by Fire
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
The action-packed sequel to the thrilling YA werewolf novel Raised by Wolves
Bryn is now leader of the Cedar Ridge pack of werewolves and she’s convinced that her pack is different – it’s democratic and fair. Then Bryn finds a battered teenage Were, Connor, bleeding on her front porch. He begs Bryn to protect him from an abusive leader. But Bryn’s Were partner Chase doesn’t trust the new boy, and the more time she spends helping Connor, the more aggressive Chase becomes. Bryn is not sure if it’s jealousy, or Were possessiveness, but for the first time she starts to feel suffocated by the bond she and Chase share. Filled with action, unlikely allies, and deadly conspiracies, Trial By Fire will change Bryn forever. She is soon to realise that to lead a pack of werewolves she must give in to her animal instincts and become a little less human. And as hard as it’s going to be, Bryn is going to have to do it alone. There can only be one alpha.
See p. 93
Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 078 4 B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Age range: 12+
‘Quite simply, the most compelling YA werewolf book out there’
Melissa Marr
Jennifer Lynn Barnes has been, in turn, a competitive cheerleader, a teen model, a dancer, a debutante and is now a primate cognition researcher. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in cognitive science. Her first book was published when she was nineteenyears-old. Her website can be found at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com.
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 131 6 B format | 432 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Age range: 9+ See p. 93
The Magic Thief: Found
SARAH PRINEAS
An order of exile, a dangerous foe and a powerful dragon: a truly moving finale to an exciting magical trilogy
Sneaking out of prison isn’t easy, unless you are a thief, or a wizard. Luckily, Conn is both! Trouble is, once he’s out, where does he go? His home is a pile of rubble since he blew it up doing magic. His master, the wizard Nevery, is furious. With a new order of exile, this time with a death penalty, Conn has never been in such a tight fix. But Wellmet is in danger from an evil predator coming to destroy the city. Conn must set off on a quest to find something that will help him fight back. After an explosive experiment, he follows the call of his magic stone to a distant land. When Conn is swept away in the mouth of a magnificent Dragon, he is to face a power unlike any other ... but is he a match for it and can he save his city in time? Sarah Prineas lives in the midst of corn in Iowa City, Iowa, with her husband John and their children Maud and Theo. She holds a PhD in English Literature and recently taught honours seminars on fantasy and science fiction literature. Her website can be found at www.sarah-prineas.com.
‘I couldn’t put it down. Wonderful, exciting stuff’
Diana Wynne Jones
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Dead Men Risen
TOBY HARNDEN
The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War.
April 2011 • See p. 53 £21.99 Audio download 978 0 85738 389 1
Blossoms and Shadows
LIAN HEARN
A historical love story about a young Japanese woman.
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MICHELLE MORAN
A young Madame Tussaud experiences the French Revolution at first hand.
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GAME OF SORROWS, A REDEMPTION OF ALEXANDER SEATON, THE CORE OF EVIL TOOTH AND CLAW CRIME AND PUNISHMENT NIGHT AND DAY PROFESSIONAL, THE ROUGH WEATHER STRANGER IN PARADISE NINETEEN EIGHTY NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE NINETEEN SEVENTY FOUR NINETEEN SEVENTY SEVEN TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, THE BIG BOOK OF PULPS, THE FIDELITY SILENCE STRIP SIX GRAVES TO MUNICH FABRIC OF SIN, THE REMAINS OF AN ALTAR, THE TO DREAM OF THE DEAD LENNOX ICE COLD MURDER FARM, THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS PERSON OF INTEREST PROBABLE CAUSE BIG BANG, THE GOLIATH BONE, THE BREAKOUT COMEBACK DIRTY MONEY FIREBREAK FLASHFIRE AN IRON ROSE BAD DEBTS BLACK TIDE DEAD POINT SHOOTING STAR TRUTH CLOSE UP BRUNO CHIEF OF POLICE DARK VINEYARD THE BLUE KNIGHT, THE HOLLYWOOD CROWS HOLLYWOOD MOON NEW CENTURIONS, THE
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DON’T ASK DROWNED HOPES GET REAL WHAT’S SO FUNNY ?
Donald Westlake Donald Westlake Donald Westlake Donald Westlake
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CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER HERETIC QUEEN, THE NEFERTITI DROOD SOUL CATCHER
Michelle Moran Michelle Moran Michelle Moran Dan Simmons Michael White
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ANGELS AND AGES ISLANDER, THE: A BIOGRAPHY OF HALLDOR LAXNESS EXCAVATING KAFKA MARTIN LUTHER KING CONFUCIUS JUNGLE SOLDIER EDITH CAVELL CONSTANTINE
Adam Gopnik Halldor Gudmunsson James Hawes Godfrey Hodgson Meher McArthur Brian Moynahan Diana Souhami Paul Stephenson
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ESSAYS
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FINANCE
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GEOGRAPHY
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HEALTH
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TURN BACK TIME: THE HIGH STREET HITLER LEGIONS OF ROME TUDOR CHRONICLES, THE PLACES OF DESTINY GREAT BRITISH BOBBY, THE DRAGON THRONE, THE QUEEN EMPRESS CONCUBINE GREAT MIGRATIONS, THE MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN WARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD HEROES MONSTERS SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD AUDIO CD SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD+ DVD SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD + CD WRATH OF GOD WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD EMPERORS OF ROME LANDMARK HERODOTUS, THE PHARAOHS, THE POPES, THE ONE SMALL STEP IN OUR TIME
Philip Wilkinson Robin Cross Stephen Dando-Collins Susan Doran Ben Dupre Clive Emsley Jonathan Fenby Claudia Gold John Haywood Ashley Jackson Charles Messenger Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Sebag Montefiore Simon Sebag Montefiore Edward Paice Justin Pollard David Potter Robert B. Strassler Joyce Tyldesley Michael Walsh David Whitehouse Hywel Williams
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HOBBIES
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HUMOUR
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LITERATURE
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MARITIME
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MATHEMATICS
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MEMOIR
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MUSIC
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NATURAL WORLD
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PHILOSOPHY
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PHOTOGRAPHY
9781849165259 9781847246592 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY HANDBOOK, THE ANSEL ADAMS Doug Harman Lauris Morgan-Griffiths PB HB £6.99 £25.00
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POPULAR SCIENCE
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REFERENCE
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RELIGION
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SPORT
9781849162074 9781847246462 HAROLD LARWOOD PLAY BETTER GOLF Duncan Hamilton Colin Howe PB PB £8.99 £6.99
TRAVEL
9781848660519 DREAM DESTINATIONS Mary-Ann Gallagher TPB £14.99
TRUE CRIME
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CHILDREN’S
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FRIGHTFULLY FRIENDLY GHOSTIES: GHOSTLY HOLLER-DAY Daren King
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INDEX | BY TITLE AND AUTHOR
INDEX
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know Abbott, David Abused Werewolf Rescue Group, The Adams, Jad All the Hopeful Lovers Alten, Steve Altenberg, Karin Appanah, Nathacha As Though She Were Sleeping At Sea At the Loch of the Green Corrie Audio books Baker, Joanne Barceló, Elia Barnes, Jennifer Lynn Barton, Laura Bass, Jefferson Belle's Song Bentley Hart, David Big Questions: Mathematics, The Black Hills Blackhouse, The Blomfield, Vishvapani Blossoms and Shadows Bone Yard, The Bonella, Kathryn Book Club, The Born Liars Bracelet of Bones Breach of Trust Breakers, The Broken Shore, The Burning Rubber Camp Z Capital Crime, A Carroll, Sean B. Cat Care Handbook, The Cave, Peter Child Wonder Churchill 47 62 71 83 77 73 19 21 70 38 73 76 92 48 26 89 68 32 84 79 55 68 9 45 28 32 52 68 65 86 10 8 69 76 64 70 43 61 50 20 58 Clarke, Cat Classic Robert B. Parker Claudel, Philippe Collins, Sophie Connor, Alex Conradi, Peter Cook, Thomas H. Cosmos Close-Up Cotterill, Colin Crane, Megan Crilly, Tony Crofton, Ian Cross, Robin Crossley-Holland, Kevin Davidson, Catherine Days that Changed the World Dead Men Risen Defiance Delta, The Demi-Monde: Winter, The Dinosaur Feather, The Dog Care Handbook, The Drndi´ Daša c, Dupré, Ben Duras, Marguerite Easter, Patrick Ebooks Elliott, Will Ellis, David Elwes, Richard Emperor of the West Endless Forms Most Beautiful Entangled Evil in Return Extinction Club, The Februari, Marjolijn Field Grey Flashback Fletcher, Tom Folded Earth, The Forbes, Elena 82 68 27 61 7 79 74 66 15 17 55 63 54 86 61 78 53 87 18 4 36 61 31 62 76 24 93 37 10 60 78 43 82 69 73 68 71 23 11 13 69
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INDEX | BY TITLE AND AUTHOR
Foxes in the Night & Other Stories FreedomTM Gallay, Claudie Gandhi Gardener, The Gautama Buddha Gazan, Sissel-Jo Glattauer, Daniel Goldsmith's Secret, The Gooden, Philip Graham, Laurie Grant, K. M. Great British Speeches Grieg, Andrew Griffiths, Elly Gunshot Road Hamilton, Duncan Harbour Harnden, Toby Hearn, Lian Heffer, Simon Hellström, Börge Hotel K House at Sea's End, The How to Build a Brain How to Destroy the Universe How to Live Forever How to Think Like a Bat Humphrey, Nicholas Hyland, Adrian I Love the 80s Imperfectionists, The In the Evil Day Island of Wings Jackson, Ashley Jacobsen, Roy Jennings, Charles Jha, Alok Jinks, Catherine Kerr, Philip Khoury, Elias Kill Fish Jones Killed at the Whim of a Hat
39 74 8 77 34 45 36 12 26 77 73 84 76 76 6 70 77 74 53 28 76 69 52 6 60 59 51 50 42 70 17 72 69 21 58 20 76 51 83 71 38 88 15
King, Caro King's Speech, The Last Brother, The Last English Summer, A Last Talk with Lola Faye, The Lefteri, Christy Legacy, The Leith, Prue Leslie, Ian Lex Lindqvist, John Ajvide Logue, Mark Long Glasgow Kiss, The Love Virtually Macbeth Madame Tussaud Magic Thief: Found, The Matthiessen, Peter May, Peter Mayan Prophecy, The Mayle, Peter McCrery, Nigel McGinty, Stephen McNamee, Eoin Memoirs of a Bitch Miles, Rosalind Miss Shirley Bassey Monsieur Linh and His Child Moore, Jeffrey Moran, Michelle Mylet, James Nicholson, William Nicoll, Andrew No-One Loves a Policeman Nooteboom, Cees O'Loughlin, Ed Open market editions Orsi, Guillermo Osmond, Hazel Overy, Richard Park, Tony Parker, Robert B. Parsons, Paul
88 79 70 77 74 72 5 34 65 29 74 79 72 12 77 16 90 71 9 19 71 74 64 85 33 54 78 27 73 16 29 73 30 73 39 22 80 73 25 79 18 35, 68, 70 59
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INDEX | BY TITLE AND AUTHOR
Petrizzo, Francesca Pettersson, Jan-Erik Pilgrims Pollard, Justin Potter, David Prineas, Sarah Rachman, Tom Rajchman, Chil Rees, Rod Rembrandt Secret, The Rendezvous Roslund, Anders Roy, Anuradha Russell, Craig Scream Shadow Country Simmons, Dan Sixkill Smith, Anna Soul Dust Southwell, Gareth Sparrow, Giles Split Image St Crow, Lili Stewart, Ian Stieg Story of Archaeology, The Story of Christianity, The Story of English, The Suarez, Daniel Sutherland, John Taming the Infinite Temple, Peter Thing on the Shore, The Third Reich: A Chronicle, The Three Seconds Tiny Sunbirds Far Away Toploader Tranter, Kirsten Trashed Treblinka Trial by Fire Trieste
33 57 37 79 49 90 72 44 4 7 72 69 13 72 74 71 23, 68 35 40 42 46 66 70 87 78 57 79 79 77 74 47 78 69 11 79 68 14 22 5 40 44 89 31
Twenty-One Locks Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Unknown Spy, The Upright Piano Player, The Valdez Verhoef, Esther Victor's Crown, The Vintage Caper, The Warrior Women Wartime Notebooks Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible, A Watermen, The Watson, Christie Watson, Fiona Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe? Williams, Hywel Williams, John L. Wilson, Laura Words of Wisdom World History: 50 Things You Really Need to Know
68 48 85 71 30 72 49 71 54 76 72 24 14 77 25 78 78 70 46 63
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3 4 9 14 21 28 36 41 42 49 53 56 62 65 67 75 80 81 91 92 93 96 104 105 106 107 108 Fiction New Titles January February March April May June Non-fiction New Titles January February March April May June Paperback Fiction Paperback Non-fiction Open Market Paperback Editions Children’s New Titles Quercus Information Audio Title Information Ebook Title Information Key Backlist Titles Children’s Backlist Titles Contact Us and Quercus Online UK Sales Representatives Overseas Distribution Index
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FICTION | JANUARY
Science fiction On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 1 84916 302 6 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 303 3 Royal format | 544 pages World See p. 92
The Demi-Monde: Winter
ROD REES
The Demi-Monde: Winter introduces readers to a richly detailed futuristic world, where history’s most fascinating figures and cruellest tyrants rub shoulders
The Demi-Monde is the most advanced simulation ever devised. Thirty million people ruled by history’s cruellest tyrants, locked in eternal civil conflict. The intention: to create the closest thing to hell, and prepare soldiers for the nightmarish environment of war. But something has gone badly wrong inside the Demi-Monde. Heydrich. Beria. Torquemada. Robespierre. History’s most notorious massmurderers – or at least simulacrums of these monsters – plot to escape their virtual world; their sights set on planet Earth once again. The Real-World’s hopes of stopping them rest on the unlikely shoulders of Ella Thomas. Eighteen-year-old Ella must enter the Demi-Monde, and infiltrate this perverse reality where little is as it seems, and everything is potentially lethal. A novel of breathtaking scope and imagination, The Demi-Monde: Winter is the first instalment in what will become a classic four-part series. Rod Rees has spent his life travelling throughout Africa, the Middle East, Bangladesh and Russia, and consequently found himself living in Qatar, Tehran and Moscow. He has built pharmaceutical factories in Dhaka, set up a satellite communication network in Moscow, and conceived and designed a jazz-themed hotel in the UK. The Demi-Monde: Winter is his first novel. Rod lives near Derby with his wife Nelli and their two children. His website can be found at www.thedemi-monde.com.
4 SPRING 2011
FICTION | JANUARY
The Legacy
KIRSTEN TRANTER
A sophisticated and intelligent debut reminiscent of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
What has happened to Ingrid? Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune. She leaves Australia and her friends Julia, and Ralph, who loves her, to marry the cold and intellectual Gil Grey and set up home with him and his daughter amid the New York art world. She enrolls at Columbia University while forgetting those who miss her in Sydney.
Fiction On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 060 9 Royal format | 464 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & NZ) & open markets
But at 9am on September 11th 2001 Ingrid has an appointment with her financial advisor downtown. And is never seen again. Or is she? A year later Ralph, heartbroken and sick, sends Julia to New York to try and piece together Ingrid’s life away from them. What she finds in Ingrid’s friends and unsettling haunts adds layers of mystery, deception and even tragedy; and Julia comes to realize more about her own nature and desires than she could ever have imagined. Both an unputdownable mystery and story on the nature of art, truth, friendship and love, The Legacy announces the arrival of a major new talent. Kirsten Tranter is the daughter of poet John and literary agent Lyn Tranter. She has published fiction, poetry and literary criticism. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and son.
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‘A sophisticated work of fiction, introducing a formidable new Australian writer’
The Age
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The House at Sea’s End
ELLY GRIFFITHS
Fast-paced crime fiction with a quirky, engaging heroine – the third novel in the acclaimed series featuring forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway
Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff, she is immediately put on the case. DCI Nelson is investigating, but Ruth finds this more hindrance than help – Ruth and Nelson have unfinished business. Forensic tests prove that the bodies are from Southern Europe, killed sixty years ago. Police investigations unearth records of Project Lucifer, a wartime plan to stop a German invasion. A further discovery reveals that members of the Broughton Sea’s End Home Guard took a ‘blood oath’ to conceal some deadly wartime secret. When a body washes up on the beach, Ruth and Nelson realise that someone is still alive who will kill to keep this secret. Can they discover the truth in time to stop another murder? Elly Griffiths lives near Brighton. She is also the author of The Crossing Places and The Janus Stone. Her website can be found at www.ellygriffiths.co.uk.
‘A promising series with clever plots and beguiling characters’
Sunday Times
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978 1 84916 229 6
6 SPRING 2011
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The Rembrandt Secret
ALEX CONNOR
When a man discovers the darkest secret of Rembrandt’s life, his days are numbered. And when his son discovers his body, he’s on a mission to find justice – whatever the cost
History's biggest conspiracy is about to be revealed, unless a brutal murderer can do something about it. Marshall Ziegler's father runs a gallery in London, which Marshall has always ignored. But when his father is beaten to a pulp, disembowelled and left to die, Marshall suddenly needs to know every last detail of his life. He discovers that his father knew a dark secret at the heart of Rembrandt's life, one with the potential to bring down one of the world's most lucrative industries. But a sadistic murderer is on the case, killing in increasingly brutal ways to keep it hidden. Will Marshall beat the killer to the truth? Who can he trust? Will he stay alive long enough to reveal the greatest secret never told? Alex Connor is also known as Alexandra Connor, under which name she has written a number of historical novels. This is her first crime thriller. Also an artist and a motivational speaker she regularly appears on television and on radio. She lives in Sussex. Her website can be found at www.therembrandtsecret.co.uk.
Fiction/Thriller On-sale date: 20 January 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 346 0 B format | 448 pages World
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‘Everybody should be forced to take a spoonful of Alex Connor every day’
Daily Telegraph
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MACLEHOSE PRESS
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The Breakers
CLAUDIE GALLAY
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Chosen by Le Monde and by readers of Elle as their Novel of the Year – a beautiful, resonant narrative set on Normandy’s Cotentin coast
In the storm-swept landscapes of Normandy’s coastline lies a village that might just be at the ends of the earth. A woman has recently arrived to seek healing for some deep sorrow, and spends her days cataloguing migrating birds. On the day of a battering storm a stranger appears in the village's bar, arousing her curiosity. He stirs up suspicion elsewhere too, looking to answer questions about his family lost long ago in an accident at sea. How was it, he chiefly needs to know, that the lighthouse did not guide them safely to shore? The eccentric inhabitants of this desolate place seem riveted to old hatreds, determined to leave secrets buried. Gradually the bird-watcher succeeds in unravelling a tragedy at the heart of a community in which many are suffering still from the loss at sea of those they loved. And in the process, she finds her own peace. The Breakers is an immensely satisfying and evocative mystery. Claudie Gallay unpeels the emotions of her unforgettable characters with such subtlety that the reader is captivated. Claudie Gallay is a teacher living in Provence. The Breakers was a runaway bestseller in France. Alison Anderson’s translations include Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog. She is the author of two novels, Hidden Latitudes and Darwin’s Wink.
‘A gem of a book! 400 pages which crack like a whip, slap you in the face and ultimately explode, leaving you stunned and blissful’
François Busnel, Express
8 SPRING 2011
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The Blackhouse
PETER MAY
A page-turning murder-mystery that explores the darkness in our souls, and just how difficult it is to escape the past
The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people’s fear of God. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past. Each year the island’s men perform the hunting of the gugas, a savage custom no longer necessary for survival, but which they cling to even more fiercely in the face of the demands of modern morality. For Fin the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy, which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice. Peter May was an award-winning journalist in his native Scotland, then left newspapers for television and screenwriting, creating three prime-time British drama series. He is the author of fifteen novels including The Enzo Files and The China Thillers. He won the French Prix Intramuros in 2007, and the 'Prix des Lecteurs' at the Le Havre festival of crime writing 2009.
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‘A masterwork of sheer momentum’
Glasgow Herald on The Fourth Sacrifice
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Breach of Trust
DAVID ELLIS
A gritty tale of political corruption and murder at the highest levels of government
In this second instalment of the Jason Kolarich series, Jason investigates the murder of a key witness in a criminal case that he tried. Jason had forced the witness to testify and believes that this led to his murder. When the evidence points to an obscure agency in state government, guilt-stricken Jason goes to work for the agency to dig deeper. Before he knows it, he finds himself square in the middle of a high-level conspiracy of fraud and corruption – as well as a covert federal investigation into these crimes. David Ellis was the House Prosecutor who convicted Governor Rod Blagojevich in the sensational impeachment trial before the Illinois Senate in 2009. In this riveting thriller, Ellis calls upon his experience and expertise to deliver a gritty tale of political corruption and murder at the highest levels of government. David Ellis's previous novels include Line of Vision, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. An attorney from Chicago, Ellis currently serves as counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.
‘Ingenious and surprising’
The Sun
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10 SPRING 2011
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The Thing on the Shore
TOM FLETCHER
The much-anticipated second novel in the series that began with The Leaping, set in a malevolent call-centre that might just be alive
Arthur was twelve when he watched his mother jump from the cliff into the sea. Wasted by grief, he and his father stayed at the family home in Whitehaven, as life became more meaningless. Years later, Arthur works in a call centre, run by the enigmatic Artemis Black, and dreams of something extraordinary to change it all. All Arthur’s nightmares will come true when an experimental new system implemented by Artemis Black starts to take its toll. Inspired by the isolation of Cumbria’s bleak coastline and determined to reach ever better levels of efficiency, Artemis has brought in cutting-edge AI technology to operate the automated answering machines. But inside this new technology lurks an otherworldly consciousness; one that Arthur begins to believe will bring his mother back. Consumed with this idea, Arthur lets every other aspect of his life – his father, his job and his home – deteriorate around him, until there’s almost nothing left. Tom Fletcher has become well-known for his spinechilling readings at live literary events. His website can be found at http://fellhouse.wordpress.com.
Fiction/Horror On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Paperback £7.99 978 1 84916 136 7 B format | 400 pages World
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‘Frankly brilliant… everything that good horror should be’
Mark Morris on The Leaping
978 1 84916 135 0
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MACLEHOSE PRESS
Fiction On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 90669 497 5 B format | 256 pages World See p. 92
Love Virtually
DANIEL GLATTAUER
Translated from the German by Katharina Bielenberg and Jamie Bulloch
A funny, fast-paced and absorbing experience, with many twists and turns, about a love affair conducted exclusively by e-mail
Write to me, Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind. It begins by chance: Leo receives emails in error from an unknown woman called Emmi. Being polite he replies, and Emmi writes back. A few brief exchanges are all it takes to spark a mutual interest in each other, and soon Emmi and Leo are sharing their innermost secrets and longings. The erotic tension simmers, and it seems only a matter of time before they will meet in person. But they keep putting off the moment – the prospect both unsettles and excites them. And after all, Emmi is happily married. Will their feelings for each other survive the test of a real-life encounter? And if so, what then? Daniel Glattauer was born in Vienna and is a columnist for Standard. Every Seventh Wave, the bestselling sequel to Love Virtually, will be published by MacLehose Press in Autumn 2011. Katharina Bielenberg (Emmi) is an editor and translator. Jamie Bulloch (Leo) is a translator and historian. They are husband and wife.
‘One of the cleverest and most magical love-dialogues in modern literature’
Volker Hage, Spiegel
12 SPRING 2011
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The Folded Earth
ANURADHA ROY
A brilliant novel by the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing – a many-layered and powerful narrative, by turns poetic, elegiac and comic
In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. She teaches in a school and at night types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known as Diwan Sahib. Her bond with him, and her friendship with a peasant girl, Charu, give her the sense that she might forge a new existence away from the devastation of her recent past. As Maya finds out, no place is remote or small enough. The world she has come to love is endangered by the town’s new administration; impending elections are hijacked by powerful outsiders who threaten the future of her school. Charu begins to behave strangely, and soon Maya understands that a new boy in the neighbourhood may be responsible. When Diwan Sahib’s nephew arrives to set up his trekking company on their estate, she is despite herself drawn to him, and finally she is forced to confront bitter and terrible truths. Anuradha Roy is an editor at Permanent Black, an independent publishing press in New Delhi. She was the winner of the Picador-Outlook Non-fiction Prize in 2004. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been translated into thirteen languages.
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‘Roy’s prose does not hit a single wrong note: its restrained beauty sings off the page’
Neel Mukherjee, Time magazine
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Fiction On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 374 3 Demy format | 416 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
CHRISTIE WATSON
Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away explores the world of twelve-yearold Blessing and her family
‘Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.’ Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their largerthan-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos, where they attend the International School for Future Leaders. All that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel – only married woman can work there – and soon they have to quit their apartment in the Better Life Executive Homes development in Lagos to go and live with their maternal grandparents in a compound in the bush. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged cosmopolitan upbringing in Lagos. Tiny Sunbirds Far Away is told in Blessing’s own beguiling voice. It is at times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally tragic, and peopled with unforgettable characters. Christie Watson trained as a paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and worked as a nurse, educator and senior sister for over ten years. She lives in South London with her Nigerian partner and their large dual heritage, multi-faith family.
14 SPRING 2011
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Killed at the Whim of a Hat
COLIN COTTERILL
The start of an exciting new series from CWA Dagger in the Library winner Colin Cotterill
When crime reporter Jimm Juree is forced to follow her family from Chiang Mai to a fishing village on the Gulf of Siam, she’s convinced her career is over. Her journalism will surely dwindle to reports on the annual monsoon-induced floods, for what crimes could possibly occur in such an out-of-the-way place? When a local palm oil plantation owner is excavating a well, he digs down six feet and hits metal. It turns out to be the roof of an old Volkswagen combi, which is found to contain two skeletons – one of them wearing a hat. A monk is murdered in Lang Suan, the nearest town. There is apparently no motive for the killing and no suspects are found. But there are odd connections between this killing and several others around the world. Suddenly Jimm’s new life becomes somewhat more promising – and a great deal more dangerous. Colin Cotterill was born in London. He has taught in Australia, the USA and Japan and lived for many years in Laos where he worked for non-governmental social service organizations. He now writes full-time and lives in Chumphone, Thailand. His website can be found at www.colincotterill.com.
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‘Witty dialogue and engaging characters ... combination of humour, social commentary and clever mystery’
Sunday Telegraph
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Historical Fiction On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 137 4 Royal format | 432 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 95 See p. 92
Madame Tussaud
MICHELLE MORAN
A young Madame Tussaud experiences the French Revolution at first hand when she goes to Versailles to teach Marie Antoinette to make waxwork masks
Marie has grown up in her step-father’s waxwork museum, learning the ways of crafting human statues for the rich and famous of Paris. But all is not well in the French capital – the people are going hungry while the king and queen enjoy increasingly lavish lives. Surrounded by her father’s friends, Marie learns of their plans for revolution, which she shares with her childhood sweetheart, Jack. A visit from Marie Antoinette results in Marie being offered a job in the palace, teaching the reviled queen how to make waxwork masks. Wary at first, Marie soon discovers the most hated woman in France to be charming, and she becomes a dear friend. When the revolution comes, Marie is thrown into jail and only has one method of survival – to make death masks of the key figures of the revolution and buy her way out. But will Jack have waited, or lost patience with her friendship with the queen? Michelle Moran’s experiences at archaeological sites around the world inspired her to write historical fiction. She lives in California with her husband. Her website can be found at www.michellemoran.com.
‘Hugely enjoyable’
Daily Express
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16 SPRING 2011
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I Love the 80s
MEGAN CRANE
When Jenna Jenkins is jilted, she buries herself in memories of her favourite rockstar, who died in 1987, until a freak accident sends her back in time to meet the man himself
Jenna Jenkins was getting married to her boyfriend, Adam, and she was sure her life was all coming together. Until Adam left her for a twenty-three-yearold yoga instructor. To ease the pain, Jenna throws herself into her teenage memories of the late, great Tommy Seer, killed when his car crashed off a bridge in 1987, when she was just twelve. One evening, as Jenna is thinking about Tommy, a freak accident sends her back to 1987. It's a few months before Tommy will die and Jenna is working as his assistant. But Tommy is not the guy she imagined. He's rude and obnoxious, even if he is deliciously good-looking. When Tommy takes her into his confidence, she starts to see the real him again and finds herself more in love than ever. He suspects someone is trying to kill him – and she knows it won't be long before they succeed. Why is she here? Is she meant to save his life? How can she without revealing the bizarre, unbelievable truth? Megan Crane lives in Los Angeles with her husband. She is also the author of English as a Second Language, Frenemies, Names My Sisters Call Me and Everyone Else’s Girl. Her website can be found at www.megancrane.com
Fiction On-sale date: 17 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 999 8 B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘Frenemies is a hugely enjoyable novel with brilliant, convincing characters and dialogue. It’s romantic, funny, intelligent, believable and gripping. I couldn’t put it down’
Marian Keyes
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Fiction/Thriller On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 0 85738 112 5 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 290 0 Royal format | 416 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & New Zealand) & open markets See p. 92
The Delta
TONY PARK
Ex-soldier turned mercenary Sonja Kurtz is running for her life in this brilliant action thriller
After an assassination plan goes horribly wrong, Sonja ends up alone in the African wilderness. Elsewhere, groups of revolutionaries are plotting to destroy the dam being erected on the Delta and simultaneously bring about a regime change in Zimbabwe. American TV heartthrob and wildlife documentary presenter ‘Coyote’ Sam Chapman is desperate to cover the story, but finds himself stranded in the jungle after his entire crew disappears. His path crosses with Sonja’s and he is immediately attracted to her. But right now Sonja has got other things on her mind – blowing up the dam for one. This colourful, pulse-pounding African thriller, executed with Tony Park’s trademark talent to entertain and seduce, will leave you breathless. Australian writer Tony Park was born in 1964. He fell in love with South Africa on a short trip in 1995 and he and his wife now divide their time between their home in Sydney and a tent in the Kruger Park. He is a qualified military parachutist and a major in the Australian Army Reserve. He has worked in journalism and PR, including six months in Afghanistan in 2002 as PR officer for the Australian ground forces. His website can be found at www.tonypark.net.
‘Well, move over Wilbur is all I can say’
Northern Star
978 0 85738 117 0
18 SPRING 2011
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The Mayan Prophecy
STEVE ALTEN
On 21 December 2012 the ancient Mayan calendar will complete its thirteenth cycle – it is the beginning of the end
For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel studied the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma that predicts the Apocalypse. His research led him to believe that ancient legacies – from the pyramids of Mexico and Egypt to the Nazca desert drawings – form part of an interlinking fail-safe system designed to save humanity from annihilation.
Fiction/Thriller On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 169 9 B format | 512 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
Julius Gabriel dies, and his theories have perished with him, discredited and ridiculed. Eleven years later, Julius’ son, Michael, must escape from an insane asylum, where he has been falsely incarcerated. With the help of part-Mayan psychiatric intern, Dominique Vazquez, he must travel to the Yucatan Peninsula. Here, Michael believes, lies the evidence he needs to prove his father’s theory, and to convince the world of the fast-approaching global catastrophe. In Mexico, at the autumn equinox, a serpent’s shadow appears over the northern face of the Temple of Kukulcán, as it has done for a thousand years. But this time it is different – mankind’s time is up... Steve Alten is the New York Times bestselling author of Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, The Loch and Goliath. He lives with his family in Boca Raton, Florida.
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‘A chilling, deeply researched peek into our ancient past. Jarring, frightening, thrilling’
James Rollins, author of The Doomsday Key
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Child Wonder
ROY JACOBSEN
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
A glorious evocation of childhood in the early sixties, by 2009 Dublin Impac Award shortlisted author
Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women', the year the Berlin Wall is erected and Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to travel into space. Life is electrical, beautiful and stubbornly social-democratic. One day a mysterious half-sister appears 'with an atom-charge in a light blue suitcase', and she turns his life upside-down. Over an everlasting summer, Finn attempts to grasp the incomprehensible adult world and his place within it. His mother appears to carry a painful secret, and it is one which pushes them ever further apart. And why is his new sister so different from every other child? Child Wonder is a powerful and unsentimental portrait of childhood, a prodigiously uplifting coming-of-age novel that shines with humanity. Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991, and Frost in 2003. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. Don Bartlett is the translator of Jo Nesbø, K.O. Dahl and Pernille Rygg. Don Shaw is a teacher of Danish and the author of the Danish-Thai dictionary.
‘A book that makes you laugh and cry – what more can you wish for? ... Child Wonder is nothing less than a perfect masterpiece’
Dagsavisen
20 SPRING 2011
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Island of Wings
KARIN ALTENBERG
An astounding first novel about the trials of marriage which marks the arrival of a new literary talent
July, 1830. On the ten-hour sailing west from the Hebrides to the islands of St Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders and bright, beautiful and devoted Lizzie, his new wife, is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life on an exposed archipelago on the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor, and babies perish mysteriously in their first week, their marriage – and their sanity – is threatened. Is Lizzie a willful temptress drawing him away from his faith? Is Neil’s zealous Christianity unhinging into madness? And who, or what, is haunting the moors and cliff-tops? Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is more than just an account of a marriage in peril – it is also a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of terrible hardship and tumultuous beauty. Karin Altenberg was born and brought up in southern Sweden, but moved to Britain to study in 1996. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading. She is currently senior advisor to the Swedish National Heritage Board and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Island of Wings is her first novel and she is currently working on her second.
© Paula Tranströmer
Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 232 0 Royal format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘Island of Wings captures a world that disappears in the act of description, and the love, so inescapable and elusive, of the outsiders who try to tame it. With scrupulous attention to place, history and the natural world, it tells a story washed by a clean and lovely kind of sorrow’
Anne Enright
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Toploader
ED O'LOUGHLIN
A darkly comic masterpiece in the tradition of M*A*S*H, Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse 5
Spying inside the Embargoed Zone is risky business. Agent Cobra has been doing just this, and is now due his payment. But there’s a snag: his spymaster, Captain Smith, is broke. All Smith can offer Cobra is the mysterious Toploader. Discontent with this arrangement, Cobra quickly offloads the device, and returns to haranguing Smith for cash. Yet senior military personnel soon learn that Toploader is no longer in their possession. Panic ensues, and a frantic operation is launched to retrieve it. Caught in the ensuing crossfire are Flora, a plucky teenage orphan; Cooper, a reporter with a penchant for the wrong end of the stick; and Moon, a hapless drone pilot. The Toploader is about to make all of their lives a lot more dangerous, and a hell of a lot more bizarre. Toploader is a wonderfully original novel that serves as a razor-sharp satire on the absurdity of war, and how the depersonalization of death and injury is meant to make it acceptable. Ed O’Loughlin was born in Toronto and raised in Ireland. He reported from Africa for the Irish Times, and was Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. His first novel, Not Untrue & Not Unkind was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
‘A simply brilliant debut by an author of great poise and power’
Tim Butcher, author of Blood River, on Not Untrue & Not Unkind
22 SPRING 2011
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Flashback
DAN SIMMONS
Dan Simmons casts his unique vision of a terrifying not-too-distant future
America, 2036: a wasteland in economic ruin. Terrorism and ultra-violence plague a once powerful society, whose only escape is to numb itself on flashback – a euphoric yet cripplingly addictive drug that allows its users to re-visit their happier, past experiences. Ex-cop Nick Bottom is about to receive a proposition. Flashback dependency has taken his badge, his reputation, and the love of his son. All he has left are the flash-induced memories of his beloved wife, Dara, taken from him in a tragic car accident. Now powerful magnate Hiroshi Nakamura needs Nick’s services, and, in particular, his memories. As head of the original investigation into the murder of Nakamura’s son – an unsolved and seemingly impossible mystery – Nick’s flashbacks now, six years later, hold the key to solving what was the toughest case of his career. But as Nick delves deeper, the harder it becomes to trust those around him. And when he uncovers a connection to Dara’s death, it is not only Hiroshi Nakamura who wants answers. Dan Simmons has won the Hugo award, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus award (three times) and the Bram Stoker award. He lives in Colorado. His website can be found at www.dansimmons.com.
Science Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 0 85738 124 8 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 346 4 Royal format | 600 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘I am in awe of Dan Simmons’
Stephen King
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Historical Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £14.99 978 0 85738 054 8 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 055 5 Royal format | 368 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
The Watermen
PATRICK EASTER
Thrillingly authentic historical crime novel set against the backdrop of the 18th Century docklands
A cruel villain holds sway in the Port of London. His name is Boylin. His face is scarred by lime and his soul by the two hundred lashes he received following a naval court martial. He holds Captain Tom Pascoe responsible. They meet again when Pascoe becomes River Surveyor for the newly formed marine police. They’ve had orders to investigate a sudden fall in government revenue. Pascoe knows that Boylin is behind it, but he can’t prove anything, yet. The Watermen follows these two adversaries across London as they try to outwit one another. Working alongside Pascoe is Sam Hart, a Jewish immigrant with his own agenda. Pascoe throws the rule-book out the window, scouring East London and the docklands in search of information. But fate takes a cruel twist when the two men find themselves involved with the same woman and there’s much more at stake than the fate of the nation. Patrick Easter was a police officer in the Met for thirty years and during that time was part of the Marine Police force. His love of 18th Century history and his knowledge of London's waterways make him the perfect author for this subject.
24 SPRING 2011
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Who’s Afraid of Mr Wolfe?
HAZEL OSMOND
The funny and heart-warming story of a young woman trying to get her life back on track after the arrival of a new boss
Jack Wolfe is about to become Ellie Somerset's boss. Heathcliff In Jeans is about to be stalking her corridors, with his trademark scowl, his demanding deadlines and his redundancy plan. This is not good news. Ellie likes flying under the radar. She knows she's good at her job, if they'd just let her get on with it. She and her creative partner, Leslie, have been working away at the advertising firm for years, and they have great ideas. It's just that Ellie can't see the point of dressing up for work or trying to impress her colleagues. Jack Wolfe is determined to change all that. It's time for Ellie to prove herself. It's also time for her to find her long-term boyfriend in bed with his German colleague. As she tries to come to terms with this, she can't help but be drawn to the sexy man who keeps calling her into meetings then giving her brooding looks. But Ellie's not the only one recovering from something. And Jack Wolfe has an awful lot to hide... Hazel Osmond has been an advertising copywriter for nearly twenty years. She won the 2008 Woman and Home short story competition sponsored by Costa. She lives in Northumberland with her husband and two children and two cats.
Fiction On-sale date: 14 April 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 418 4 B format | 400 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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The Goldsmith’s Secret
ELIA BARCELÓ
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye
A ghostly, seductive love story, and a mesmerizing reflection on a Spain that is long gone
One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide. Returning to the village in Spain where he grew up, he hopes that he will encounter Celia, 'the Black Widow', a beautiful and mysterious friend of his mother with whom he had a passionate affair when he was a teenager. But instead he meets a young woman who opens doors into a strange world, and takes him back in time. The Goldsmith’s Secret is a remarkable story of a love trapped between two parallel times, set in Spain in the fifties, seventies and in the last year of the twentieth century. Elia Barceló’s novel is filled with intense nostalgia, memories and desires. She has come to be known across Europe as a truly original voice, and her books as poetic works of great subtlety. Elia Barceló teaches Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Innsbruck. David Frye’s translations include Thine Is the Kingdom by Abilio Estévez and The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi.
‘A sad and magical story ... the novel moves in perfect rhythm, and its readers move with it’
Maria José Obiol, El Pais, on Heart of Tango
978 1 90669 460 9
26 SPRING 2011
FICTION | APRIL
Monsieur Linh and His Child
PHILIPPE CLAUDEL
Translated from the French by Euan Cameron
A beautifully cadenced story of two cultures by the 2010 winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man; his case-workers are compassionate but overworked. Struggling beneath the weight of his sorrow, Monsieur Linh becomes increasingly bewildered and isolated, but then he encounters Monsieur Bark. They do not speak each other’s language, but Monsieur Bark is sympathetic to the Linh’s need to care for the child. Recently widowed and equally alone, he is eager to talk, and Monsieur Linh knows how to listen. Monsieur Linh and His Child is a remarkable novel with an extraordinary twist, a subtle portrait of friendship and a dialogue between two cultures. Philippe Claudel is a novelist, film director and university lecturer. He wrote and directed the BAFTA-winning film I’ve Loved You So Long. Euan Cameron’s translations include works by Julien Green, Simone de Beauvoir and Paul Morand.
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Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £12.00 978 1 90669 499 9 190 x 135 mm | 144 pages World
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‘A book of extraordinary power, one that combines moments of transcendent natural beauty and humangenerated horror to create a potent, sustained spell’
Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail, on Brodeck’s Report
978 1 90669 468 5
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Historical Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 297 9 Royal format | 400 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & New Zealand) & open markets See p. 95 See p. 92
Blossoms and Shadows
LIAN HEARN
A rich and atmospheric tale of love and war, women and men, and the rise of modern Japan
Japan, 1857. For centuries Japan has been on its own; isolated by choice from the rest of the world. But now the Western powers are at its shores demanding to be let in, the government is crumbling and revolution is building. The age of the samurai is ending and in its place a new Japan will be born. Amid the upheaval, a young woman is readying herself for marriage. Tsuru, a doctor’s daughter, has been working alongside her father and learning the ways of medicine. When he allows her to marry the man she chooses – a fellow doctor – she believes she will spend her life working among men, as an equal. But Japanese society does not work this way. The men of the times are determined to expel the foreigners, using violence and whatever else they need to make their message heard. The women are expected to be hidden at home, or behind the paper walls of the tea houses. Tsuru is far too able to accept this and she is drawn into a shadowy world of subversion, political intrigue and a dangerous love. Lian Hearn's internationally renowned Tales of the Otori books have sold in excess of four million copies. She lives in Australia with her husband. Her website can be found at www.lianhearn.com.
‘The writing is beautiful, packed with authentic, atmospheric detail’
Daily Mail on The Harsh Cry of the Heron
28 SPRING 2011
FICTION | MAY
Lex
JAMES MYLET
The funny, bright and pitch-perfect story of a seventeen-year-old leaving home and figuring out what he wants from life
Lex is all but finished growing up in Clifden, Connemara, where he runs a radio station from his bedroom and makes plans to go to university in London. As he shares his views on life, music and Michelle, the best girl in town, Lex is absurdly acute and brilliantly entertaining. Michelle is not only older than Lex, but she's dating the town thug, someone Lex would do well to avoid, but where's the fun in that?
Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 067 8 Royal format | 300 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
Surrounded by his adoring family and constantly taking the flak for his crazy best friend, Davey, he's caught between modesty and an edge of cool. But he finds himself in trouble when a friend uses Lex's own radio station to announce to the entire town that Lex is still a virgin and asks some nice young girl to help him out before he heads to London in the same state, especially when Lex accidentally lets slip he'd like that nice girl to be Michelle. Being seventeen is the stuff of rollercoasters – from one period of angst to boundless joy and on to another crisis – and Lex's summer is set to be typical. He's organised a major music festival in Clifden, or so he's told his favourite band, Toots and the Maytals. But when Davey's mother gets sick and he loses his temper one too many times, Ireland's answer to Glastonbury may not happen at all. With all his dreams falling around his ankles, Lex is determined to go out with a bang. And he will, but it might not be quite what he had in mind. James Mylet lives in South London with his wife and son. This is his first novel.
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Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 471 9 Royal format | 368 pages World See p. 92
Valdez
ANDREW NICOLL
A novel about love and greed from the Saltire First Novel Award-winning author of The Good Mayor
Only a few weeks after it happened, Luciano Hernando Valdez was almost unable to believe that he had ever been a murderer. Chano Valdez is a celebrated writer. He pens not just novels, but works of such astounding quality that he is known throughout his minor South American country and the world as the finest of his generation. He teaches at the university and lives a life of luxury, taking any woman he’d like to bed, and living on the joys of fame. But then two things happen to unsettle his life. He gets writer’s block and can only come up with ‘the scrawny yellow cat crossed the road’ for his next oeuvre and he meets Caterina. She is the answer to everything. Young, beautiful, talented and – best of all – she writes. Convinced she will unlock his mind and help him to succeed, Chano finds himself falling for this wonderful girl. That is, until he murders her. Andrew Nicoll has spent his working life as a journalist. His first novel, The Good Mayor, won the Saltire First Book Award and has been translated into twenty languages. He is married with three children.
‘A triumph of tone, very moving, completely convincing’
Andrew Marr on The Good Mayor
30 SPRING 2011
FICTION | MAY
Trieste
´ DAŠA DRNDIC
Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursa´ c
A novel that exposes the abduction of young children during the Second World War, through the extraordinary story of a mother’s search for her son
Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and newspaper clippings. Now an old woman, she waits to be reunited after sixty-two years with her son, fathered by an S.S. officer and stolen from her by the German authorities during the War as part of Himmler’s clandestine “Lebensborn” project, which strove for a “racially pure” Germany. Haya’s reflection on her Catholicized Jewish family’s experiences deals unsparingly with the massacre of Italian Jews in the concentration camps of Trieste. Her obsessive search for her son leads her to photographs, maps and fragments of verse, to testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials and interviews with second generation Jews, as well as witness accounts of atrocities that took place on her doorstep. Written in immensely powerful language, and employing a range of astonishing conceptual devices, Trieste is a novel like no other. Daša Drndic ´ has produced a shattering contribution to the literature of our twentieth-century history. Daša Drndic is a distinguished Croatian novelist ´ and playwright. She also translates and teaches at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. Ellen Elias-Bursac is the leading translator of ´ Serbo-Croat into English. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Gotz and Meyer was awarded the National Translation Award by the American Literary Translators Association.
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Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 0 85705 022 9 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85705 025 0 Royal format | 384 pages World English
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Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 1 84916 059 9 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 060 5 Royal format | 352 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
The Bone Yard
A Body Farm Thriller JEFFERSON BASS
Dr Bill Brockton investigates the murky past of a reform school for boys, when a number of shallow graves are unearthed
Early summer brings warm weather to the Body Farm in East Tennessee, but Dr Bill Brockton’s about to get more heat than he’s bargained for. A former student who’s now an agent with the Department of Law Enforcement seeks his help in identifying a partial skull found in the woods in rural Florida. The victim appears to have been a young male who died from fatal blows to the head. While leading a search for the remaining bones, Brockton and his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady find a series of shallow graves on the overgrown grounds of a shuttered reform school for boys. According to local lore, the school’s poor, troubled students understood that one wrong move could land them in their own plot in the de facto cemetery. As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets, and learn that the ghosts of the past are ever present. Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Dr Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Dr Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the Body Farm twenty-five years ago. Jefferson is a journalist, writer and film-maker. Their website can be found at www.jeffersonbass.com.
‘The real deal’
Kathy Reichs
978 1 84724 279 2
978 1 84916 055 1
978 1 84916 058 2
32 SPRING 2011
FICTION | MAY
Memoirs of a Bitch
FRANCESCA PETRIZZO
Translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella
The unique story of Helen of Troy – the woman whose face launched a thousand ships – told from her own perspective
The bitch. That’s what the crew call me. The bitch. They say it behind my back. But I can hear them. My name’s Helen, I was born in Sparta, but I went away for love. They used to say I was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Historical Fiction On-sale date: 12 May 2011 Paperback £7.99 978 0 85738 066 1 B format | 304 pages World
The minstrels are already making up stories about how little I’ve won and how much I’ve lost. Lying tales. They weren’t there, after all. But I was. From her childhood in Sparta, through the turbulent years of her marriage, and her disappearance with Paris and its consequences, Helen of Troy tells her own story. In a lyrical and musical style, Helen sheds her legendary persona and walks from the page as a real woman of flesh and blood; the archetype of all the women who, throughout history, have followed their hearts, forsaking wealth and power. Francesca Petrizzo is nineteen. She is on her way to university to study Classics and is hoping to spend a year of her degree in the UK on an exchange. This is her first novel. Silvester Mazzarella has been translating Swedish and Italian literature professionally since 1997. He learned English from his mother, Italian from his father, and Swedish in Finland, where he taught English for many years at the University of Helsinki. He now lives in Canterbury.
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‘Memories of a Bitch is a book that stands out. A truly modern female character’
La Repubblica
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FICTION | MAY
Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Paperback £7.99 978 0 85738 299 3 B format | 320 pages World See p. 92
The Gardener
PRUE LEITH
The perfect summer read – a woman, recovering from divorce, rebuilds a lost garden and finds healing and romance in the process
Under the bracken, under the soil, under the forest, under the water, the garden’s history is there. It needs an ardent lover to find it. Lotte is in unfamiliar territory. After a divorce and a great deal of soul-searching, she has abandoned her successful career as an architect for a degree in Garden History, and uprooted her three children to take up a job as head gardener to millionaire Brody Keegan at Maddon Park in Oxfordshire. Brody is as ignorant about gardens as Lotte is knowledgeable, his tastes as loud as hers are quiet. They have little in common except a passion for Maddon Park and a determination to get their own way. As Lotte locks horns with her boss and his spoilt young wife, she finds herself on an emotional rollercoaster. She knows what is right for the garden, but – raw from divorce, anxious about the children and frightened of entanglement – she is less sure of what is right for her. Prue Leith is a cook, restaurateur, food writer and business woman. She has played a key role in the revolution of Britain’s eating habits. She has also written five acclaimed novels, including Choral Society and A Serving of Scandal. Her website can be found at www.prue-leith.com.
‘An engaging and well-crafted tale’
Sue MacGregor
978 1 84916 013 1
978 1 84916 264 7
34 SPRING 2011
FICTION | MAY
Sixkill
ROBERT B. PARKER
A villainous movie star, a soft-spoken assassin, and a new sidekick all await Spenser, Robert B. Parker’s legendary private eye
A girl has been found dead, seemingly strangled, in the hotel room of movie star Jumbo Nelson. Jumbo’s lawyers want Spenser to find out whether Jumbo did it – not because they care either way, but because the knowledge will help them work out how to block his conviction.
Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 0 85738 211 5 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 212 2 Royal format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
Jumbo is a sufficiently repulsive individual that Spenser finds it hard to contain his distaste. Then there is his bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, a Cree Indian who squandered his pro-football career thanks to an inability to control his temper, and turned his attentions to alcohol instead. Also involved in Jumbo’s case, for reasons that remain unclear, is a cold-blooded assassin who just might be the most dangerous enemy Spenser has faced yet. But if he can persuade Sixkill to turn his life around, Spenser might just have the ally he needs … Robert B. Parker began writing his Spenser novels in 1971. He was named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar Awards by the Mystery Writers of America. He passed away in January 2010.
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‘Sharp, witty dialogue … fast-paced plots, comfortingly reminiscent of the hard-boiled era of mystery writing … Parker delivers yet again’
The Times on Rough Weather
978 1 84916 131 2
978 1 84916 289 0
978 1 84916 075 9
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Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 033 3 Royal format | 400 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
The Dinosaur Feather
SISSEL-JO GAZAN
Translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund
A truly unique crime novel that interweaves a murder investigation with the central mystery of the theory of evolution
Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue on his bloodied shirtfront and a copy of her thesis in his lap. Police Superintendent Søren Marhauge is assigned to unravel a multitude of intrigues. Helland had been deliberately infected with a rare parasite that only an expert in the field would have access to. But when Anna Bella’s fellow graduate and close friend is also killed, the murders seem to be linked to Anna herself. As Marhauge investigates he comes up against vicious competition for academic success and dark secrets in the faculty. Set against the fabulous backdrop of palaeontology’s age-old mysteries, The Dinosaur Feather unveils a sparkling mosaic of related destinies and a sinister web of lies. Sissel-Jo Gazan is a biology graduate from the University of Copenhagen. The Dinosaur Feather is her breakthrough novel, having sold in twelve countries to date. Charlotte Barslund is the translator of the Inspector Sejer novels by Karin Fossum.
‘Sissel-Jo Gazan has mastered the arts of suspense and revelation’
Kristeligt Dagblad
36 SPRING 2011
FICTION | JUNE
Pilgrims
WILL ELLIOTT
The first book in the Pendulum Trilogy, from one of genre fiction’s most exciting new voices
Eric Albright, a twenty-six-year-old unemployed journalist, and Stuart Casey, a homeless old drunk, discover a door in a graffiti-covered wall that leads them into the strange world of Levall. Here it is said a mountain-sized dragon with the powers of a god lies sleeping beneath a great white castle. In the castle the sinister Lord Vous rules with an iron fist, and the Project, designed to effect his transformation into an immortal spirit, nears completion. But Vous’s growing madness is close to consuming him, together with his fear of an imaginary being named 'Shadow'. And soon Eric may lend substance to that fear. An impossibly vast wall divides Levall, and no one has ever seen what lies beyond. But otherworlders Eric and Casey, known as Pilgrims, possess powers that no one in either world yet understands, and soon the Wall may be broken. What will enter from the other side? Pilgrims is no ordinary alternate-world fantasy: Will Elliott’s brilliantly subversive and creative imagination twists the conventions of the genre for an unforgettable, visionary experience. Will Elliott was a struggling novelist with five unpublished manuscripts when The Pilo Family Circus won the $10,000 ABC prize for new writing.
Fiction/Fantasy On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 0 85738 137 8 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 138 5 Royal format | 512 pages World (exc USA, Canada, Australia & New Zealand)
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‘I couldn’t put Elliott’s debut novel down. It’s fantastic’
Independent on Sunday on The Pilo Family Circus
978 1 84724 081 1
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Fiction On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 0 85705 051 9 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85705 052 6 Royal format | 368 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
As Though She Were Sleeping
ELIAS KHOURY
Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies
An enchanting hymn to the Middle East, infused with the richness and beauty of classical Arabic poetry
Beirut in the 1930s: a young woman has the gift of seeing the past in her dreams, and she can also predict the future. Over the course of three nights, Milia recalls her love affair with Mansour, between Beirut and Nazareth, and dreams of episodes in the lives of her family: of a grandmother who regains her virginity after the birth of her son; of the bizarre death of an uncle, who accidentally hangs himself by a church-bell rope; of her relationship with her mother. Milia’s visions also foretell transformations to come: Jewish immigration to Palestine, the influence of Christian missions and the Westernization of morality. As Though She Were Sleeping is a reminder of what life once was in the Middle East; Elias Khoury has again crafted a compelling narrative of great sensuality. Elias Khoury is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of twelve novels and three plays. Humphrey Davies has been awarded the Banipal Prize for his translation of Khoury’s Gate of the Sun, and the Best Translation of 2007 prize by the Society of Authors for Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building.
‘Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury’
Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times
978 1 90669 481 4
38 SPRING 2011
FICTION | JUNE
Foxes in the Night and Other Stories
CEES NOOTEBOOM
Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke
Seductive, fascinating and wise stories of love and loss, by the author of The Following Story
Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in Foxes in the Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. In 'Paula', the narrator evokes the mysterious, brief life of a woman he once loved; in 'Paula II', the same woman is aware of the man thinking of her. No longer a body, she is slowly fading into the distance, remembering the time they spent together, and his fear of the black night when the foxes appear. And yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic; death, it seems, is nothing to be afraid of. Nooteboom is a superb stylist who observes the world with a combination of melancholy and astonishment. These stories are textured with humour, pathos and vast knowledge – the hallmarks of this outstanding and highly respected European writer. Cees Nooteboom is a poet, novelist and travel writer whose books include Rituals, The Following Story, Roads to Santiago and All Souls’ Day. Ina Rilke is the prize-winning translator of books by Erwin Mortier, Tessa de Loo, Dai Sijie and Margriet de Moor.
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Fiction On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Hardback £12.00 978 0 85705 023 6 190 x 135 mm | 192 pages UK, Commonwealth & open markets
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‘One of the greatest modern novelists’
A. S. Byatt
SPRING 2011 39
FICTION | JUNE
Fiction/Crime On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Paperback £7.99 978 0 85738 295 5 B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 92
Trashed
ANNA SMITH
A gritty take on the dark side of Glasgow, by an author who knows the story from the inside out
The body of a young teenage hooker is found washed up on the beach near Glasgow. This stark event barely captures a headline in the cynical world of tabloid newspapers. This is Glasgow in the 1990s and she’s just another dead heroin addict. But Tracey Eadie was only fourteen-years-old and living in a children’s home. How did she get from there to where she is now? One of Tracey’s friends on the street contacts Rosie Gilmour, a tabloid journalist. She gives Rosie a tip-off that’s dynamite, too hot to print but impossible to ignore. Her investigation exposes a sordid tale of corruption and child abuse that leads from the murky city streets to the very top of the establishment. For Rosie, it is the only story worth telling, but she soon discovers that the forces united against her will stop at nothing to make sure nobody ever gets to the truth. Anna Smith is the author of two previous novels. Trashed is her first crime novel, and the first in a proposed series featuring crime journalist Rosie Gilmour. As a reporter Anna has covered major news stories from Dunblane to Kosovo to the events of September 11th 2001. She writes a regular column in the Scottish News of The World.
‘Smith writes with a tight, effortless prose that pushes the story and characters to the fore’
Glasgow Herald
40 SPRING 2011
NON-FICTION | JANUARY
Non-fiction/Popular Psychology On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £19.99 978 1 84916 237 1 Royal format | 288 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 93
Soul Dust
The Magic of Consciousness NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
Not only an evolutionary history of consciousness but also an attempt to explain the ‘Meaning of Life’
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, returns to the front-line with a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside our own heads. This self-made show lights up the world for us, making us feel special and transcendent. Tightly argued, intellectually gripping and a joy to read, Soul Dust is a keenly anticipated book that provides answers to the deepest questions. It dovetails the 'hard problem of consciousness' with the matters that obsess us all: the fear of death, how life should be lived. Resting firmly on neuroscience and evolutionary theory, it is an uncompromising yet life-affirming work that never loses sight of the majesty and mystery of consciousness. Nicholas Humphrey is a theoretical psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His books include Consciousness Regained, The Inner Eye, A History of the Mind, Leaps of Faith, The Mind Made Flesh, and Seeing Red.
‘There are few scientists who think so originally, provoke so consistently or write so elegantly as Humphrey’
Sunday Telegraph
42 SPRING 2011
NON-FICTION | JANUARY
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom SEAN B. CARROLL
How evolution has shaped nature’s wondrous complexity and diversity
Striped horses, gigantic grey mammals with six-footlong noses, and spotted cats that can outrun a Jeep? If these creatures did not exist, they would be almost too incredible to believe. Our planet is filled with an astonishing multiplicity of strange and beautiful animal forms. For all the advances in our knowledge made by Darwin and pioneers in many different scientific fields since, how these forms are created has remained something of a mystery. Thanks to evolutionary development biology – dubbed Evo Devo – we now understand this process. The answer, it turns out, lies in an ancient genetic toolkit common to all species. Sean B. Carroll takes us on a fascinating journey through this groundbreaking field, showing how all forms – from the humble fruit fly to Homo sapiens – are a result of old genes learning new tricks. Sean B. Carroll is a Professor of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His discoveries have been featured in Time and The New York Times. His website can be found at www.seanbcarroll.com.
Non-fiction/Science On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Paperback £8.99 978 1 84916 048 3 B format | 288 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘Sean B. Carroll is the ideal author to lead the curious on this intellectual adventure – he is the acknowledged leader of the field’
Lewis Wolpert
978 1 84724 724 7
978 1 84916 072 8
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Non-fiction/Biography On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 1 90669 420 3 Demy/A5 format | 224 pages World See p. 93
Treblinka
A Survivor’s Memory CHIL RAJCHMAN
Translated from the Yiddish by Solon Beinfeld
A devastating account of the Treblinka death camp by one of its few survivors
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months under incessant threats and beatings as a barber, a corpse-carrier, a puller of teeth from those same corpses. In August 1943 there was an uprising at the camp, and Rajchman was among the handful of men who managed to escape. Even before the war was over, he set down this unembellished and exact record of the raw horror endured every day. This unique testimony has remained in the sole possession of his family ever since, and has never before been published in English. For its description of unspeakably cruelty, Treblinka is a memoir that will not be superseded. This volume will include the complete text of Vasily Grossman’s “The Hell of Treblinka”, a powerful and harrowing document written only weeks after the camp was dissolved, and an introduction by Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Columbia University. Chil Rajchman was born in Lodz and was an active member of his Jewish community. After the Treblinka trials he emigrated to Uruguay, where he died in 2004. Solon Beinfeld taught Modern European and Jewish History at Washington University in St. Louis and he has written and consulted extensively on the Holocaust. Samuel Moyn is the author of A Holocaust: the Treblinka Affair in Postwar France.
‘In its poignant simplicity, Rajchman’s account opens new horizons in our perception of evil ... an important, heart-rending contribution to our search for truth’
Elie Wiesel
44 SPRING 2011
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Gautama Buddha
The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One VISHVAPANI BLOMFIELD
An insightful biography of one of the great global spiritual figures
The words and example of Gautama, often known by the title, 'Buddha’, have affected billions of people. But what do we really know about him? While there is much we cannot say for certain about the historical Gautama, this persuasive new biography provides the fullest and most plausible account yet.
Non-fiction/Biography On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 1 84916 409 2 Royal format | 400 pages World
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Weaving ancient sources and modern understanding into a compelling narrative, Gautama Buddha places his birth around 484 BCE, his Enlightenment in 449 BCE and his death in 404 BCE, a century later than the traditional dates. Placing Gautama in a credible historical setting, this book draws on the myths and legends that surround him to illuminate the significance of his life. It traces Gautama’s investigations of consciousness, his strikingly original view of life and his development of new forms of religious community and practice. An insightful and thought-provoking biography, this will appeal to anyone interested in history and religion, and in the Buddha as a thinker and seminal cultural figure. Vishvapani Blomfield has taught meditation for over eighteen years. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's ‘Thought for the Day’.
978 1 84916 203 6
978 1 84916 210 4
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Non-fiction/Reference On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 231 3 200 x 135 mm | 384 pages World
Words of Wisdom
Philosophy’s Most Important Quotations and their Meanings GARETH SOUTHWELL
A remarkable anthology of memorable, uplifting and thought-provoking quotations from the greatest philosophers who have ever lived
Words of Wisdom is a stimulating compendium of philosophical quotations, from the 5th century BC to the present day. Arranged chronologically, each of the 350 quotations is accompanied by a brief essay that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation. The pages of this book contain the greatest insights of the wisest men and women, those whose words are used to describe the human condition, offering instruction and inspiration: • ‘I know that I know nothing’ Socrates • ‘What does not destroy me makes me stronger’ Nietzsche • ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ de Beauvoir Gareth Southwell is a freelance philosopher, writer and illustrator. He is the author of an ongoing series of introductory philosophy books. He lives in Swansea with his wife and two children.
978 1 84866 004 5
978 1 84916 478 8
978 0 85738 247 4
46 SPRING 2011
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50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know
JOHN SUTHERLAND
The ultimate guide to the most important ideas in literature
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of great writers? And what can we hope to learn from apparently difficult ideas such as 'hermeneutics', 'affective fallacy' and 'bricolage'? 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is the essential guide to all the important concepts and movements in literature. It provides a clear, opinionated and thorough overview of theories about the nature of language, and outlines the thinking behind key literary concepts such as postmodernism, semiology and structuralism. It is a book that will delight anyone who has ever been mystified by literary jargon and wants to gain a deeper, more thorough enjoyment of reading and writing. John Sutherland is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. His previous works include The Boy Who Loved Books and How to Read a Novel. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian, and is a former Chairman of the Booker Prize.
Non-fiction/Literature On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84866 060 1 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages World
‘I can’t think of anyone better qualified, anyone with quite the same combination of pizzazz, technical know-how and sheer enthusiasm as Professor Sutherland’
Independent on Sunday on How to Read a Novel
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Non-fiction/Science On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 123 1 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages 50 b&w line illustrations World
Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know
JOANNE BAKER
An accessible introduction to the central ideas of astronomy and cosmology
For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus. The pace and sophistication of recent scientific discovery has been breathtaking, but breakthroughs are often difficult to understand and their impact is hard to fully appreciate. In Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know, Joanne Baker clearly and concisely explains all of the essential concepts, major discoveries and latest thinking in astrophysics. From dwarf planets to dark energy, and from the Big Bang to the death of stars, this book is the perfect introduction to the cutting-edge science that is shaping our understanding of our place in the Universe. Joanne Baker studied Physics at the University of Cambridge and took her PhD in Astrophysics at the University of Sydney. She is also the author of 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know.
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The Victor’s Crown
A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium DAVID POTTER
The ancient world brought vividly to life through a history of Greek and Roman sport
What is sport? And why do we love it? These questions form the driving force behind The Victor’s Crown – David Potter’s study of the western tradition of competitive athletics between 700 BC and 600 AD.
Non-fiction/History On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £25.00 978 1 84916 252 4 Royal format | 352 pages 2 x 8pp colour plate sections World
The Victor’s Crown maps the emergence of popular sport, from its origins in the eighth century BC to the establishment of the great festival cycle of Classical Greece in the sixth century AD. We see the popularity of ancient forms of entertainment through the eyes of their fans and competitors; we meet the great athletes of the past and discover what made them so great; and we witness ancient sport’s other key facets – the training, the physiology, and the role it played in education. The Victor’s Crown is not just a comprehensive history of ancient sport, but also an examination of its abiding ability to provide a common cultural currency. David Potter is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He is also the author of Emperors of Rome.
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Non-fiction/Philiosophy On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 481 8 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages 100 2-colour illustrations World
How to Think Like a Bat
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy PETER CAVE
How do you know that you exist? Are you the same thing as your brain? What does it mean to be free?
A woman was advising her anguished friend, ‘Be philosophical – then you won’t need to think about it.’ Well, being philosophical is sometimes taken to mean that you should adopt a resigned attitude to the world – a quiet-ism – but the study that is western philosophy, starting with the ancient Greeks and continuing today in universities, bars and cafes – even bedrooms – is far from quiet. Philosophers think – but not just that, for they think about thinking and they think about how we think about the world, about how we conceive of ourselves, about how we possess a sense of right and wrong, about how we find meaning in life (if we do). How to Think Like a Bat might not help you to think like a bat, but it will certainly help you to think like a philosopher. Smart, witty and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the subject by one of Britain’s most brilliant philosophical writers. Peter Cave teaches philosophy at the Open University and City University in London, UK. His articles appear regularly in philosophy magazines and scholarly journals, and he is also a frequent broadcaster, having scripted the Paradoxical Fair series for BBC Radio 4.
‘One of the most entertaining and thought provoking books I’ve come across in years ... give your brain a real treat by buying this book’
BBC Focus on Can a Robot Be Human?
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How to Live Forever
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Science ALOK JHA
What does it take to create life? What do you need to build a brain? Will we ever talk to aliens?
How to Live Forever is the essential survival guide for anyone who has ever been baffled by science. Embarking on a journey from the very small to the very big, readers will be taken on a glorious tour of the Universe, taking in cloned sheep, alien worlds, bizarre life forms, quantum weirdness, parallel dimensions and dissected brains along the way. You’ll discover how to travel through time, how to start (and cure) a plague, how the mind works, how to turn sunbeams into oak trees, how to boil a planet, how Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility works and much, much more. Informative, accessible and enjoyable, this is a rip-roaring tour through the wonders of the natural world, by one of the country’s most talented science writers. Alok Jha is a science and environment correspondent at the Guardian, specialising in green technologies. In addition to writing news and comment, he presents the Science Weekly podcast and looks after the guardian.co.uk science website. He graduated with a physics degree from Imperial College London.
Non-fiction/Science On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 482 5 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages 100 2-colour illustrations World
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Non-fiction/True Crime On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 0 85738 268 9 Royal format | 336 pages 8pp colour plate section UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets See p. 93
Hotel K
The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail KATHRYN BONELLA
An internationally bestselling account of one of the world’s most notorious drug-smuggler jails
Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the nickname for Bali’s most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it’s a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs and squalor. Hotel K has been home to a procession of the infamous and the tragic. Muslim terror bombers, a Balinese King, Gordon Ramsay’s brother and unlucky tourists have all lived crushed together in Hotel K’s filthy and disease ridden cells. Petty thieves and small-time drug users share cells with killers, rapists, and gangsters. Some are on death row waiting to be shot dead; others are serving anything from life to several days – but most westerners pay corrupt lawyers tens of thousands of dollars to try for a fast check-out. Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates, revealing the wild ‘sex nights’ organised by corrupt guards, the rampant drug use, the killings made to look like suicides, the days out at the beach, the escapes. It takes you behind the grim white walls and exposes the jail’s role in supplying high-grade drugs to tourists and dealers on the outside, and the corruption that means anything is for sale – including a fully catered Italian jail wedding, or a cell upgraded with a plasma TV and Bose sound systems. The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page. Kathryn Bonella moved to Bali in 2005 to research and write Shapelle Corby’s bestselling autobiography, My Story.
‘An insightful and sharply observed account … a bleak reminder of the cruelty, hypocrisy and injustice taking place in the heart of one of our most popular holiday destinations’
Sun Herald
52 SPRING 2011
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Dead Men Risen
The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain’s War in Afghanistan TOBY HARNDEN
The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the Afghan War
This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their struggle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009, the bloodiest and most intense fighting the British had experienced in a generation. They were led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, a passionate believer in the justness of the war who would be killed by an IED. Dead Men Risen draws on secret documents written by Thorneloe, the first battalion commander to be killed in action since the Falklands war of 1982, which raise questions from beyond the grave that will unnerve politicians and generals alike. The Welsh Guards also lost Major Sean Birchall, commanding officer of IX Company, and Lieutenant Mark Evison, a platoon commander whose candid personal diary was unnervingly prophetic. Not since the Second World War had a single British battalion lost officers at the three key levels of leadership. Dead Men Risen transports the reader into the heart of a conflict in which a soldier has to be prepared to kill and die, to ward off paralysing fear and watch comrades perish in agony. Given unprecedented access to the Welsh Guards, Harnden weaves the experiences of the guardsmen into a seamless and unsparing narrative. No other book about modern warfare succeeds on so many different levels. Toby Harnden has been the US Editor of the Daily Telegraph since 2006 and a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph since 2009. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh.
Non-fiction/True Military On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £18.99 978 1 84916 421 4 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 422 1 Royal format | 400 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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‘Tremendous ... if you are to read only one book about the modern IRA, this should be it’
Irish Times on Bandit Country
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Non-fiction/History On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 0 85738 077 7 246 x 185 mm | 320 pages 120 colour illustrations World
Warrior Women
ROSALIND MILES AND ROBIN CROSS
Extraordinary profiles of the lives and careers of great women war leaders
‘They fought like devils, far better than the men.’ So George Clemenceau, then mayor of Montmartre, recalled the women of the Paris Commune who manned the barricades at France’s republican uprising of 1871. Fighting to the last, they died like men, too. History has seen many such acts of courage, daring and self-sacrifice by women like these. These traits are found today in such women as US Army helicopter pilot Major Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs when her Black Hawk was shot down in Iraq; and Colonel Martha McSally who flew A-10 ground-attack missions in Afghanistan and became the first woman to command a US Air Force combat squadron. Warrior Women contains vivid portraits of over 100 extraordinary women, ranging from the ‘killer queen’ Boudicca who wreaked brutal vengeance on the Roman Empire for insults against her family, to modern-day warrior queens such as Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher. It restores women’s deeds in wartime to their rightful place of honour and prominence. Dr Rosalind Miles, author of Who Cooked the Last Supper?, is a critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling writer, lecturer and BBC broadcaster. Robin Cross is the author of more than thirty books, including Livia and Hitler: An Illustrated Life.
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The Big Questions: Mathematics
TONY CRILLY
SERIES EDITOR: Simon Blackburn
Maths demystified – the answers to twenty questions anyone might ask
The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts address the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers from history’s great thinkers. This ambitious project is a unique distillation of humanity’s best ideas. In Big Questions: Mathematics, Tony Crilly answers the 20 key questions: What is maths for? Where do numbers come from? Why are primes the atoms of maths? What are the strangest numbers? Are imaginary numbers real? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? What is the maths of the universe? Are statistics lies? Can maths guarantee riches? Is there a formula for everything? Why are three dimensions not enough? Can a butterfly’s wings really cause a hurricane? Can we create an unbreakable code? Is maths beauty? Can maths predict the future? What shape is the universe? What is symmetry? Is maths true? Is there anything left to solve? Tony Crilly is Reader in Mathematical Sciences at Middlesex University. He is the author of an acclaimed biography of the English mathematician Arthur Cayley.
Non-fiction/Mathematics On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Hardback £12.99 978 1 84916 240 1 210 x 145 mm | 208 pages 100 illustrations World
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Stieg
JAN-ERIK PETTERSSON
Translated from the Swedish by Tom Geddes
The definitive biography of Stieg Larsson
Whereas most mega-selling authors might be expected to live lives that seem utterly tame compared to the characters in their novels, the same cannot be said of Stieg Larsson. As a tireless campaigner against fascism in a nation where murder is a favoured tool of neo-Nazi thugs who wish to silence their opponents, he and his partner Eva Gabrielsson lived in constant fear for their lives, and saw several fellow activists killed by extremists. When a friend of theirs was found shot dead in a stairwell, police raided the killers’ hideout and found photographs of Stieg and Eva – chillingly, they were the next targets. Jan-Erik Pettersson has interviewed virtually everyone of note, from Eva to Stieg’s close family. From his impoverished childhood in the wild northern provinces to his globetrotting as an international expert on fascism, and his writing of three books that would thrill millions, the story of Stieg Larsson resonates in a way that his innumerable fans cannot afford to miss. Jan-Erik Pettersson is editor-in-chief at Ordfront Forlag, in which role he published Stieg Larsson’s book on the right-wing party Sverigedemokraterna. Tom Geddes has translated over twenty novels and biographies.
Non-fiction/Biography On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 1 84916 499 3 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 1 84916 500 6 Demy format | 368 pages World
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Non-fiction/Biography On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £20.00 978 1 84916 547 1 Royal format | 352 pages 16pp b&w plates World See p. 93
Churchill
ASHLEY JACKSON
A brilliant new biography of one of the greatest Britons
Winston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, ‘always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality’. Whatever one’s view of ‘the greatest Briton’, and despite the best efforts of an army of writers who have penned portraits of him, Winston Churchill remains splendidly unreduced. He also remains enormous fun. In this new biography Ashley Jackson ekes out the contours of Winston Churchill’s remarkable life and political career, whilst giving a fullsome sense of the man behind the dark eyes and bulldog features. From thrusting subaltern to political pup in a hurry, from Cabinet outcast to Britain’s greatest war leader, from serial electoral loser to elder statesman on the international stage in the years of Cold War and imperial decline, this is the eternally fascinating story of Winston Churchill’s appointment with destiny. Dr Ashley Jackson is a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College, London. His research concentrates on the history of empire, particularly the British Empire. He is also the author of Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
‘The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues’
Violet Asquith
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How to Destroy the Universe
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Physics PAUL PARSONS
How do you generate a force field? Is time travel possible? Could you survive falling in a black hole?
Non-fiction/Physics On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 479 5 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages World
If you thought physics was all about measuring the temperature of ice in a bucket or trying to fathom what E=mc2 means, think again. In How to Destroy the Universe you’ll find out how to save the planet from energy shortages by mining the vacuum of empty space, how to engineer the Earth’s climate to reverse the effects of global warming, and how to fend off killer asteroids. You’ll learn essential survival skills such as how to live through a lightning strike, how to tough it out during an earthquake and how to fall into a black hole without being squashed into spaghetti. So if you want to get to grips with the science behind antigravity or learn how to teleport or live forever, this is the perfect introduction to the amazing world of modern physics. Dr Paul Parsons is a contributor to the New Scientist and the Daily Telegraph. His The Science of Doctor Who was longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.
‘More effective than a dozen earnest and worthy schemes to promote the public understanding of science’
New Scientist on The Science of Doctor Who
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Non-fiction/Mathematics On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 480 1 215 x 170 mm | 224 pages World
How to Build a Brain
And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics RICHARD ELWES
Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? How do you unleash chaos?
How to Build a Brain demystifies the astonishing world of maths in a series of intriguing, entertaining and often extraordinary scenarios that explain key concepts in plain and simple language. You’ll find out how to unknot your DNA, how to count like a supercomputer and how to become famous for solving mathematics’s most challenging problem. You¹ll learn how to survive in a whirlpool, how to win at roulette and how to be alive and dead at the same time. So if you are struggling to fathom the great questions of number theory and geometry, the mysteries of the prime numbers or Plato’s classification of regular polyhedra, or if you are really more interested in learning how to make a million on the stock market, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of modern mathematics. Dr Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. He contributes to New Scientist and regularly appears at public lectures and on radio.
‘The author gave a real insight into the process of doing mathematics. This is the art of good popular science writing’
Marcus du Sautoy on An Enormous Theorem
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The Dog Care Handbook
SOPHIE COLLINS
The ideal reference guide for all dog lovers
The Dog Care Handbook covers every aspect of dog ownership with chapters on behaviour, choosing a dog, games, exercise and training, and diet and health. Information is presented in an accessible format with over 200 colour photos, case histories and checklists. Sophie Collins is a writer and editor specializing in dog behaviour. Included among her previous titles are Why Does My Dog Do That? and Tail Talk: The Secret Language of Dogs.
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The Cat Care Handbook
CATHERINE DAVIDSON
All the help you need in choosing and caring for your cat
Information and advice on understanding feline behaviour, choosing the right cat, simple training and daily routines, as well as essential information on food, health and basic care requirements. Illustrated with 200 colour photos, as well as case histories, checklists and notes on feline instinct. Catherine Davidson is the author of many illustrated reference books including Why Does My Cat Do That? and Cats: A Guide to Cat Breeds.
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Non-fiction/Politics On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 1 84916 254 8 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages World
50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know
BEN DUPRÉ
The perfect introduction to the theory and practice of politics
At a time of popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the fundamental concepts of politics has never been greater. The forces of religious extremism and terrorism endanger our security, while government responses to it pose a basic threat to liberty, democracy and human rights. Corruption, spin and a suspect political culture arouse public indignation, which is further aggravated by an array of pressure groups and the far-from-disinterested attentions of the mass media. In 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know, Ben Dupré clears away the murk that obscures key concepts and provides the perfect introduction for anyone wanting to enhance their understanding of the theory and practice of modern politics. Topics include: Justice, Liberty, Human rights, Democracy, Tyranny, Federalism, Monarchism, Republicanism, Fascism, Conservatism, Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, Presidential systems, Imperialism, Isolationism and Globalization. Ben Dupré read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He has more than twenty years’ experience of bringing challenging concepts to the widest possible audience.
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World History: 50 Things You Really Need to Know
IAN CROFTON
An essential guide to the events that shaped our world
People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics – the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis – and that they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, World History: 50 Things You Really Need to Know offers brief and stimulating outlines of key developments in the history of the world. Ian Crofton brings his lively style to bear in a series of essays ranging from the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago to the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11, from ancient Egypt to modern China, from the Vikings and the Mongols to the French Revolution and the Cold War, this book will appeal to those with a desire to enhance their understanding of world history. Each essay is accompanied by a detailed timeline of dates and events, and the flavour of the period concerned is brought to life by selected contemporary quotations from figures as diverse as Aristotle, Saladin, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and Winston Churchill. Ian Crofton’s authorial credits include Brewer’s Britain and Ireland and Brewer’s Cabinet of Curiosities. For Quercus he has written The Kings and Queens of England, History without the Boring Bits and Traitors and Turncoats.
Non-fiction/History On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £9.99 978 0 85738 075 3 200 x 170 mm | 208 pages World
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Non-fiction/History On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Hardback £16.99 978 0 85738 070 8 Export/Airside TPB £12.99 978 0 85738 071 5 Royal format | 352 pages World See p. 93
Camp Z
The Secret Life of Rudolf Hess STEPHEN MCGINTY
A riveting account of one of the forgotten episodes of the Second World War
On 10 May 1941 Rudolf Hess, then the Deputy Führer, parachuted over Renfrewshire in Scotland on a mission to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, ostensibly to broker a peace deal with the British government. After being held in the Tower of London, he was transferred to Mytchett Place near Aldershot on 20 May, under the codename of ‘Z’. The house was fitted with microphones and sound recording equipment, guarded by a battalion of soldiers and codenamed Camp Z. Churchill’s instructions were that Hess should be strictly isolated, and that every effort should be taken to get any useful information out of him. During the ensuing thirteen months a psychological battle was waged between intelligence officers, using the new Freudian techniques, and the man who had been a heartbeat away from Hitler. Stephen McGinty uses new documentation, contemporaneous reports, diaries, letters and memos to piece together an engrossing tale of the claustrophobia, paranoia and high-stakes gamesmanship played out in an English country house. Stephen McGinty is an award-winning journalist with the Scotsman. He is also the author of This Turbulent Priest, Churchill’s Cigar and Fire In The Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster.
‘The year’s most unlikely page-turner’
Daily Telegraph on This Turbulent Priest
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Born Liars
Why We Can’t Live Without Deceit IAN LESLIE
A fascinating journey which makes us question not only our own relationship with truth, but also virtually every daily encounter we have
Born Liars is thought-provoking, anecdotally driven narrative non-fiction at its best. Ian Leslie’s intoxicating blend of anthropology, biology, cultural history, philosophy and popular psychology belies a serious central message, that Homo sapiens has evolved and thrived in large part because of his/her ability to deceive. Lying is an intrinsic part of our social fabric, but is also a deeply problematic and misunderstood aspect of what makes us human. This book investigates how parents affect their children’s attitude to lying (and vice versa). It queries the philosophical ambiguity of telling the truth and presents the history of the lie detector. It interrogates both Bill Clinton’s presentational prowess and Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth, and tells us why we should be wary of anyone with more than 150 Facebook friends. Ian Leslie lives in London, combining careers in advertising and writing. His first book, To Be President, was extracted by Granta. He has written about politics, culture, marketing, and psychology for Prospect, the Guardian, The Times and the BBC.
Non-fiction/Popular Psychology On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Trade Paperback Original £12.99 978 1 84916 424 5 Demy format | 352 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets
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Non-fiction/Space On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Hardback £14.99 978 0 85738 345 7 185 x 246 mm | 320 pages 300 colour illustrations World
Cosmos Close-up
GILES SPARROW
A unique view of the universe – in beautiful panoramas and in stunning close-up
Using a wealth of high-resolution images collected by a fleet of telescopes, satellites and inter-planetary probes, Cosmos Close-up embarks on a voyage across the universe, pausing only to zoom in on the most spectacular planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae. After a fly past of our planetary neighbours we reach the edge of the solar system, emerging into interstellar space and heading for the heart of our galaxy. Navigating through thick swarms of stars, we reach the galactic core, a gravitational maelstrom of exotic stars in the thrall of a supermassive black hole. Hundreds of thousands of light years must be covered to reach the Milky Way’s companions, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and millions more devoured before we cross true intergalactic space. Here we can discern the large-scale structure of the universe: massive conglomerations of galaxies warping space with their tremendous gravity. Having crossed 13.4 billion light years, we encounter a wall of radiation. Here our voyage into the cosmos must finally end, for we have reached the very edge of the visible universe: what stands before us is the afterglow of the Big Bang itself. Giles Sparrow is the author of The Universe and How to See it and Hubble: Window on the Universe.
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Fiction 6 January 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 121 7 272 pages World
Twenty-One Locks
LAURA BARTON
The beautifully crafted love story of a young girl making the biggest decision of her life. ‘This absolutely stunning first novel challenges all preconceived ideas about supposedly “ordinary” lives’ Kate Saunders, The Times
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Fiction 6 January 2011 Royal format £7.99 978 1 84916 090 2 464 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Black Hills
DAN SIMMONS
A richly imaginative tale of alien cultures set on a collision course from an author who continues to build on his substantial fan-base to attain a wider readership. ‘I am in awe of Dan Simmons’ Stephen King
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Fiction 6 January 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 132 3 224 pages World
The Book Club
MARJOLIJN FEBRUARI
Translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent
A rich, deep and atmospheric story about what happens when you turn a blind eye once too often. ‘An extremely enjoyable book’ De Volkskrant
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Fiction/Crime 6 January 2011 B format £8.99 978 1 84916 289 0 416 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Classic Robert B. Parker
Looking for Rachel Wallace; Promised Land ROBERT B. PARKER
Two of the finest early Spensers in a single volume – a must-have for Parker’s many fans. ‘One of the great series in the history of the American detective story’ The New York Times Book Review
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Fiction/Crime 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 152 7 384 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Three Seconds
ANDERS ROSLUND AND BÖRGE HELLSTRÖM
Translated from the Swedish by Kari Dickson
The powerful story of one man’s fight against the system he spent his life protecting. ‘The pinnacle of the Swedish crime writing elite’ Mariestads-Tidningen
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Fiction/Crime 17 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 259 3 320 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
Evil in Return
ELENA FORBES
A chilling crime novel set in London featuring detective Mark Tartaglia and his female partner, DS Sam Donovan. ‘Elena Forbes hits the spot. A pleasure to read – tightly plotted, well-written and convincing’ Daily Mail
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Fiction/Crime 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 349 5 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
The Broken Shore
PETER TEMPLE
A new and exciting re-issue of the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, and winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. ‘The Broken Shore is a masterpiece, as good as any new novel I’ve read in the last ten years’ John Lanchester
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Fiction/Crime 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 350 1 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
In the Evil Day
PETER TEMPLE
The stunning thriller from the bestselling author of The Broken Shore and Truth. ‘A truly international 21st century thriller with an exquisite denouement’ Guardian
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Fiction/Crime 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 120 0 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
Gunshot Road
An Emily Tempest Mystery ADRIAN HYLAND
From the author of Diamond Dove. Emily Tempest becomes a cop and investigates the death of a friend. ‘Every word comes over as vividly as an eyewitness’s description of something that happened half an hour ago’ Literary Review
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MACLEHOSE PRESS
The Last Brother
NATHACHA APPANAH
Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan
A poetic and infinitely moving novel – sure to become a classic of literature about childhood. ‘Sophisticated, confident and beautifully poetic writing that’s tender and poignant and consistently captivating’ Daniel Hahn, Bookseller
Fiction 3 February 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 401 6 208 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
See p. 94 Fiction/Crime 3 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 310 1 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
A Capital Crime
LAURA WILSON
An outstanding historical crime thriller based on the true story of the two most controversial murder trials of the 1950s. ‘Laura Wilson writes beautifully, creates characters we believe in and applies a vivid imagination to well-researched facts ... convincing and exciting’ Literary Review
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Fiction/Crime 3 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 075 9 288 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Split Image
ROBERT B. PARKER
Two ‘retired’ mobsters, two nymphomaniac identical twins, one religious commune – more trouble in Paradise, Massachusetts for Police Chief Jesse Stone. ‘If Spenser is the invincible knight, the timeless hero of American detective fiction, then Jesse Stone is the flawed hero of the moment, a man whose deficiencies define his humanity’ The New York Times
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Shadow Country
PETER MATTHIESSEN
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, a powerful, epic tale of America’s rise and descent, from the Civil War to the Great Depression. ‘Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s expectations of great writing’ Richard Ford
Fiction 3 March 2011 B format £9.99 978 0 85738 130 9 892 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
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MACLEHOSE PRESS
The Upright Piano Player
DAVID ABBOTT
A beautifully observed, entirely compelling novel of family fracture, loss and redemption. ‘This is a fine, sensitive, moving book ... a remarkable first novel’ Justin Cartwright
Fiction 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 405 4 232 pages World
See p. 94 Fiction/Crime 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 90669 499 9 240 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
The Vintage Caper
PETER MAYLE
A wry and witty crime novel by the renowned author of A Year in Provence. ‘The star of this caper is the vineyard-veined, lavender-scented, sun-showered, garlic-seasoned setting itself: pure Provence’ National Geographic Traveler
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Fiction/Crime 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 414 6 384 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Field Grey
PHILIP KERR
An outstanding thriller set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp, Paris and Berlin. ‘The pace is cracking, the dialogue crisply Chandleresque, the characterisation refreshingly stereotype-free. Kerr’s research, historical and geographical, is all but faultless’ The Times
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Fiction 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 031 5 336 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia & NZ)
The Imperfectionists
TOM RACHMAN
The charming and enthralling story of an idiosyncratic English-language newspaper in Rome. ‘The Imperfectionists is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching ... a cross between Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing adventure’ New York Times Book Review
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Fiction 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 130 5 304 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
A Watermelon, A Fish and a Bible
CHRISTY LEFTERI
A lyrical, moving and beautiful tale of love lost and found set during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. ‘So much more than another romantic beach read, this is a powerful piece of writing’ Sunday Telegraph
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Fiction/Crime 31 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 134 7 336 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Rendezvous
ESTHER VERHOEF
Translated from the Dutch by Alexander Smith
A woman’s carefully constructed life unravels as she is arrested for murder in this powerful and intense psychological thriller. ‘Excellent writing’ Literary Review
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Fiction/Crime 28 April 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84724 970 8 320 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
The Long Glasgow Kiss
CRAIG RUSSELL
A second brilliant thriller featuring shady investigator Lennox as he stalks Glasgow’s tough streets. ‘Craig Russell brilliantly uses the character of his tough, funny and hopeful man Lennox to give us the eyes and ears on a time and place. This is storytelling at its very best!’ Michael Connelly
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72 SPRING 2011
PAPERBACK | FICTION
Fiction 3 March 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 135 4 320 pages UK & Comm (with EU exclusive)
At Sea
LAURIE GRAHAM
A woman chases revenge while on a cruise of the Med: the only escape is overboard... ‘What a wonderful, life-enhancing, truly funny writer she is’ Elizabeth Buchan
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Fiction 28 April 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 143 5 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
The Extinction Club
JEFFREY MOORE
The captivating, moving and evocative story of two lost souls trying to change the world. ‘The Extinction Club is a tour de force, as sophisticated as it is brutal’ Heather O’Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals
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MACLEHOSE PRESS
No-One Loves a Policeman
GUILLERMO ORSI
Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
A brilliantly reviewed Latin-American odyssey – hard-boiled detective story, political novel and road movie rolled into one. ‘Wonderfully evocative and cynical, it captures Buenos Aires with a delicate precision’ Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
Fiction/Crime 28 April 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 147 7 368 pages World English
See p. 94 Fiction 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 390 3 364 pages World
All the Hopeful Lovers
WILLIAM NICHOLSON
A stylish romantic comedy and a brilliant follow up to The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life from the award-winning screenwriter. ‘William Nicholson is one of our most underrated novelists, a subtle and addictive writer who deserves to be a household name’ Observer
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Fiction/Horror 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 513 6 520 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada, Australia, NZ)
Harbour
JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST
Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy
The incredibly moving and atmospheric new novel about a parent’s love for his child from the author of Let the Right One In. ‘A whiff of the new Stephen King’ The Times
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Fiction/Crime 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 1 84916 117 6 352 pages World
Scream
NIGEL MCCRERY
An abusive murderer is taking people from the streets, making them terrified enough to scream ... and if they’re lucky he’ll like the sound of it. ‘One of the most memorable monsters in crime fiction’ Daily Express
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Fiction/Crime 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 150 7 320 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
The Last Talk with Lola Faye
THOMAS H. COOK
A historian is forced to rewrite his own history when the beautiful Lola Faye reappears. ‘I have long been an admirer of Thomas H. Cook’s novels, and The Last Talk with Lola Faye is one of his best yet: an expertly plotted, beautifully written, compelling and suspenseful book’ Harlan Coben
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Fiction/Thriller 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 122 4 368 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Freedom
DANIEL SUAREZ
Human freedom has one last hope to survive the information revolution in the epic, apocalyptic sequel to the international bestseller Daemon. ‘The best author of tech fiction since Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson. Buy everything he writes’ John Robb
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Wartime Notebooks
And Other Texts MARGUERITE DURAS
Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
The World War II notebooks of one of the twentieth century’s renowned literary figures. ‘As fresh, as original and as mesmerizing as on the day they were written’ Carmen Callil, Guardian
Non-fiction/Biography 6 January 2011 B format £9.99 978 1 84724 733 9 400 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
Non-fiction/Sport 3 February 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 125 5 336 pages World
Burning Rubber
The Extraordinary Story of Formula One CHARLES JENNINGS
A turbo-charged account of 60 years of motor sport’s premier competition. ‘A funny and engaging tale of how the sport got where it is today’ Motorsport
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Non-fiction 3 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 136 1 352 pages UK & Comm (exc Canada)
At the Loch of the Green Corrie
ANDREW GRIEG
A fishing trip honoring a dying man’s wish becomes a meditation on life, nature and friendship, a literary biography and a celebration of the beauty of the Highlands of Scotland. ‘Moving and utterly memorable, a triumph’ The Times
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Non-fiction/History 3 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 327 3 304 pages World
Great British Speeches
SIMON HEFFER
A stirring anthology of 50 influential speeches from every period of British history, from the medieval era to the present day. ‘Simon Heffer has performed a useful service with this collection ... providing some fifty seminal texts, often of great interest’ Literary Review
76 SPRING 2011
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Non-fiction/Biography 31 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 161 3 288 pages World
Gandhi
JAD ADAMS
A brand-new biography of the ‘father’ of modern India. ‘For anyone trying to find a way through the myriad political byways of modern India and Pakistan, Adams’s no-nonsense biography is as good a starting point as any’ Glasgow Herald
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Non-fiction/History 31 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 160 6 320 pages World
Macbeth: A True Story
FIONA WATSON
A respected historian of medieval Scotland releases the authentic historical Macbeth from a prison of literary and folkloric myth. ‘A lucid picture of a Celtic warrior-king of some sophistication who was respected and loved... A fascinating read through Scotland’s Middle Ages’ Big Issue
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Non-fiction/Literature 31 March 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 328 0 224 pages World
The Story of English
PHILIP GOODEN
The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet. ‘A fascinating tale of linguistic, social and cultural transformations, accessibly and authoratively told’ Business Destinations
Non-fiction/Sport 28 April 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 148 4 368 pages World
A Last English Summer
DUNCAN HAMILTON
A portrait of a revolution in English cricket by the twice William Hill Sports Book of the Year winner. ‘The quality of his writing, so evident in his previous works, shines again’ Mike Atherton, The Times
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PAPERBACK | NON-FICTION
Non-fiction/Biography 28 April 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 162 0 448 pages World
Emperor of the West
HYWEL WILLIAMS
The life, times and historical legacy of the man who created modern Europe, Charlemagne. ‘Hugely enjoyable. Confidence, elegance and brilliance’ Times Literary Supplement on Cassell’s Chronology of World History
Non-fiction/History 28 April 2011 B format £8.99 978 0 85738 339 6 256 pages World
Days that Changed the World
HYWEL WILLIAMS
A concise history of the world, told through the stories of 50 momentous days. ‘Hywel Williams has thee wide learning of the academic and the mischief of the good journalist’ A. N. Wilson
Non-fiction/ Mathematics 28 April 2011 B format £8.99 978 1 84724 768 1 272 pages World
Taming the Infinite
IAN STEWART
From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. ‘The author manages to demystify the subject while maintaining one’s sense of wonder’ Sunday Telegraph
Non-fiction/Biography 26 May 2011 B format £8.99 978 1 84724 975 3 256 pages World
Miss Shirley Bassey
JOHN L. WILLIAMS
From ‘Hot from Harlem’ to ‘Goldfinger,’ the story of how a two-bit jazz singer from Cardiff became an immortal icon. ‘An essential history of race, sex and class in the sixties. One of the best biographies I’ve read in years’ Jake Arnott on Michael X
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Non-fiction/History 26 May 2011 B format £7.99 978 0 85738 111 8 352 pages World English
The King’s Speech
PETER CONRADI AND MARK LOGUE
Now a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Helena Bonham-Carter, this is the story of how an Australian commoner saved the British monarchy. ‘One of the most extraordinary periods of the nation’s history’ Daily Mail
Still courtesy of Momentum Pictures
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Non-fiction/History 26 May 2011 B Format £9.99 978 0 85738 175 0 408 pages World
The Third Reich: A Chronicle
RICHARD OVERY
Authoritative, informative and sumptuously illustrated, The Third Reich brings the bloody realities of war vividly to life. ‘This country’s most distinguished historian of the Second World War’ Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard
HARDBACK REISSUE Non-fiction/Archaeology 26 May 2011 248 x 192mm £14.99 978 0 85738 342 6 256 pages World
The Story of Archaeology
JUSTIN POLLARD
The fascinating tale of modern archaeology from its earliest beginnings to the present day. ‘Amusingly and energetically told ... Pollard has the QI knack of knowing what's interesting’ Spectator on Secret Britain
HARDBACK REISSUE Non-fiction/Religion 26 May 2011 248 x 192mm £14.99 978 0 85738 343 3 256 pages World
The Story of Christianity
DAVID BENTLEY HART
The story of Christianity is a fascinating one, and this account does justice to the full range of Christian tradition, belief and practice. ‘I can think of no more brilliant work by an American theologian in the past ten years’ The Christian Century on The Beauty of the Infinite
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The Imperfectionists
TOM RACHMAN
Charming and enthralling stories of life working for a newspaper in Rome. ‘Funny, poignant, occasionally breathtaking’ Financial Times
4 January 2011 • Fiction £6.99 Open Market Edition 978 0 85738 326 6
Three Seconds
ROSLUND AND HELLSTROM
One man’s fight against the very system he spent his life protecting. ‘The pinnacle of the Swedish crime writing elite’ Mariestads-Tidningen
3 February 2011 • Crime £6.99 Open Market Edition 978 0 85738 406 5
Field Grey
PHILIP KERR
Bernie Gunther’s most atmospheric and exciting adventure yet. ‘One of the great achievements of contemporary crime fiction’ Observer
31 March 2011 • Crime £6.99 Open Market Edition 978 0 85738 407 2
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 6 January 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 394 1 B format | 256 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Age range: Young Adult See p. 93
Entangled
CAT CLARKE
Cat Clarke evokes just how it feels to be seventeen, in this gripping novel of dangerous secrets, intense friendships and electrifying attraction
The same questions whirl around and around in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have let this happen? Am I going to die? 17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper – and no clue how she got there. As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she's tried to forget. There’s falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her best friend Sal. But there’s something missing. As hard as she’s trying to remember, is there something she just can’t see? Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here? Entangled introduces a new and powerful British voice in YA fiction. The emotional intensity and compulsive plot will grip fans of stories about teen life and love, as well as fans of paranormal fiction. Cat Clarke was born in Zambia and brought up in Edinburgh and Yorkshire. She has written non-fiction books about cowboys, sharks and pirates, and now writes YA novels. She lives in South London with her cats, Jem and Scout.
‘I was glued to the page. Smiling one minute and getting all choky the next. Grace’s voice was so clear, tough and tender – I didn’t know if I wanted to shake her or hug her’
Simmone Howell, author of Everything Beautiful
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The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group
CATHERINE JINKS
Hamster-drinking vampires, vulnerable werewolves and accidental zombies? Welcome to the bizarre world of the Abused Werewolf Rescue Group
When Tobias Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, he is told that he was found unconscious. In a zoo pen. The doctor rules out epilepsy and Toby’s prank-loving friends are just as freaked out as he is. Then the wild-eyed Reuben turns up talking in hushed tones about Toby being a werewolf. Reuben’s pale, insomniac friends seem equally convinced and offer to chain him up every full moon. They also claim to be part of some sort of vampire support group. This has to be a joke— right? It’s only when he's kidnapped, imprisoned and in desperate need of rescuing that Toby begins to believe them… Catherine Jinks is the four-times winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBC) Award and has also won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Australian IBBY Award. She now lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales with her husband and daughter.
Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 324 8 B format | 206 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & NZ) & open markets Age range: 12+
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‘Young teens will devour it’
The Sun on The Reformed Vampire Support Group
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 3 February 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 408 5 B format | 272 pages World Age range: 12+ See p. 93
Belle’s Song
K. M. GRANT
A heady tale of intrigue, adventure and forbidden love, centred around a young girl and one of England’s greatest poets
When Belle meets Luke, son of an alchemist and Scribe to the famous poet Chaucer, she is determined to travel with him to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. She hopes for a miracle: that her father will walk again. It is a time of unrest across the country and the young King Richard II is just hanging on to his throne. A malign character on the pilgrimage suspects Chaucer of treason and slowly winds Belle into a political intrigue. At the same time, the impulsive Belle is drawn towards both Luke and Walter, the wealthy son of a Knight. But Walter is guarding his own romantic secret... As the uprising against the King starts to draw pace and the web of intrigue around Belle and Chaucer tightens, Belle and her friends must risk everything to save their country, and themselves... K. M. Grant has written several books of historical fiction, including Blue Flame, White Heat and Paradise Red. She is a columnist on the Scottish Daily Mail and lives in Glasgow with her husband and three children.
‘A high-water mark in historical fiction’
Financial Times
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The Unknown Spy
EOIN MCNAMEE
A high-stakes spy adventure complete with double-crossings, brilliant spy inventions and a hero who has everything to learn about who he really is
In the second instalment of The Ring of Five trilogy, Wilsons Spy Academy has called back its most brilliant trainee spy: Danny Caulfield. Danny is to be sent on an urgent mission: to find the treaty stone that protects the Upper World before the Ring of Five, leaders of the Cherbs, destroy it and wage war. Danny and his friend Dixie must set off to the Kingdom of Morne to save the stone. But the Cherb children have got there first, and the King pits Danny against them in a contest for the stone. Lily, a Cherb, reveals to Danny that she is his sister: she urges him to join her side. Danny is locked into a battle between the two worlds and with himself. Who’s side is he on? Wilsons or the Ring of Five? And how much can he trust Lily? Eoin McNamee’s first children’s book, The Navigator, received significant critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. His adult books have twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Sligo, West Ireland.
Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 3 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 129 3 B format | 416 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Age range: 9+
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‘A riveting tale of good and evil’
New York Times on The Navigator
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CHILDREN’S | APRIL
Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Hardback £12.99 978 1 84724 939 5 B format | 272 pages World Age range: 12+ See p. 93
Bracelet of Bones
KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
The thrilling new adventure from a bestselling master storyteller
It is 1036. Halfdan is a Viking mercenary who is determined to travel to Constantinople and become one of the Viking Guard serving Empress Zoe. He promises to take his daughter, Solveig, but one morning she wakes up to find him gone. Setting off in her own tiny boat, Solveig vows to complete the journey as planned. Her boat may be washed up, but Solveig is undeterred. She finds passage with Viking traders and learns to fight. In this perilous and exciting world, Solveig is all too aware of the dangers that surround her. She witnesses violent clashes against the new Christians and girls her age being forced into slavery. Will she live to see her father again, and if she survives, can she remain free? Bracelet of Bones is a glittering novel that explores friendship and betrayal, the father-daughter relationship, the clash of religions and the journey from childhood to adulthood. It marks the start of a major new series from Kevin Crossley-Holland, his first since the acclaimed Arthur trilogy. Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Arthur trilogy was translated into 23 languages, and has sold over one million copies worldwide. Kevin has won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He is a patron of the Society of Storytelling, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
‘High imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound’
Philip Pullman on The Seeing-Stone
978 1 84916 211 1
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Defiance
LILI ST. CROW
The heart-stopping fourth novel in the much loved Strange Angels series
Sixteen-year-old Dru’s worst fears have come true – Sergej, the deadly nosferat, has kidnapped her best friend Graves and she must now go on a suicidal rescue mission to bring him back in one piece. That is, if she can put all of Christophe’s training to good use, defeat her mother’s traitor, Anna, once and for all, and manage to survive another day... Lili St. Crow is the author of Strange Angels, Betrayals and Jealousy. She lives with her children in Vancouver, Washington. Her website can be found at www.strange-angels.co.uk. Praise for Lili St. Crow:
Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 31 March 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 1 84916 996 7 B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada, Australia & NZ) & open markets Age range: 12+
‘This cracking read is for youngsters and adults alike’ Sun ‘Dru Anderson is the toughest teen gal since Buffy hung up her stake! Both books are gripping reads’ Mizz ‘An elegantly written thriller’ Bliss ‘If you prefer supernatural thrillers with a side of romance, as opposed to romance with a side of supernatural thrillers, Strange Angels is the perfect book for you’ Bookbag ‘Strange Angels is like Buffy and Supernatural thrown together, which, for me, is a very good mix indeed … St. Crow’s writing is sharp and contemporary, with enough sarcasm to make even the snarkiest teen appreciate Dru’s voice’ Wondrous Reads
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‘Dark, dangerous and sexy!’
Richelle Mead
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 28 April 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 146 0 B format | 352 pages World Age range: 9+ See p. 93
Kill Fish Jones
CARO KING
A demon is after Fish Jones: he is armed with a curse from beyond the grave. Where is there for Fish to run?
Grimshaw and Lampwick the Robber, a curse demon and his master, are stuck in Limbo. Grimshaw hasn’t had a chance to unleash any destruction in the Real World since Lampwick’s death bed curses years ago. When Lampwick has an unexpected opportunity to curse a whole new set of humans, Grimshaw can’t believe his luck! Fish Jones is on Grimshaw’s list. But Fish has unworldly talents of his own. Unlike other humans, he can see Grimshaw. Why is Fish able to avoid the demon’s curse? And when Grimshaw plans to wreak the ultimate destruction, not just on Fish, but on the world, will young Jones’ power be enough to stop him? Full of humour and wild imagination, Kill Fish Jones is a devilish read. Caro King’s first novel, Seven Sorcerers, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Prize. Caro regularly visits schools and finds that creative ideas sessions with students help fuel her very imaginative storywriting. She lives in Croydon.
‘Truly moving and involving’
Sunday Times on Seven Sorcerers
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Trial by Fire
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
The action-packed sequel to the thrilling YA werewolf novel Raised by Wolves
Bryn is now leader of the Cedar Ridge pack of werewolves and she’s convinced that her pack is different – it’s democratic and fair. Then Bryn finds a battered teenage Were, Connor, bleeding on her front porch. He begs Bryn to protect him from an abusive leader. But Bryn’s Were partner Chase doesn’t trust the new boy, and the more time she spends helping Connor, the more aggressive Chase becomes. Bryn is not sure if it’s jealousy, or Were possessiveness, but for the first time she starts to feel suffocated by the bond she and Chase share. Filled with action, unlikely allies, and deadly conspiracies, Trial By Fire will change Bryn forever. She is soon to realise that to lead a pack of werewolves she must give in to her animal instincts and become a little less human. And as hard as it’s going to be, Bryn is going to have to do it alone. There can only be one alpha.
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 078 4 B format | 304 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Age range: 12+
‘Quite simply, the most compelling YA werewolf book out there’
Melissa Marr
Jennifer Lynn Barnes has been, in turn, a competitive cheerleader, a teen model, a dancer, a debutante and is now a primate cognition researcher. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in cognitive science. Her first book was published when she was nineteenyears-old. Her website can be found at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com.
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Children’s Fiction On-sale date: 26 May 2011 Paperback £6.99 978 0 85738 131 6 B format | 432 pages UK, Commonwealth (exc Canada) & open markets Age range: 9+ See p. 93
The Magic Thief: Found
SARAH PRINEAS
An order of exile, a dangerous foe and a powerful dragon: a truly moving finale to an exciting magical trilogy
Sneaking out of prison isn’t easy, unless you are a thief, or a wizard. Luckily, Conn is both! Trouble is, once he’s out, where does he go? His home is a pile of rubble since he blew it up doing magic. His master, the wizard Nevery, is furious. With a new order of exile, this time with a death penalty, Conn has never been in such a tight fix. But Wellmet is in danger from an evil predator coming to destroy the city. Conn must set off on a quest to find something that will help him fight back. After an explosive experiment, he follows the call of his magic stone to a distant land. When Conn is swept away in the mouth of a magnificent Dragon, he is to face a power unlike any other ... but is he a match for it and can he save his city in time? Sarah Prineas lives in the midst of corn in Iowa City, Iowa, with her husband John and their children Maud and Theo. She holds a PhD in English Literature and recently taught honours seminars on fantasy and science fiction literature. Her website can be found at www.sarah-prineas.com.
‘I couldn’t put it down. Wonderful, exciting stuff’
Diana Wynne Jones
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9780857382160 9780857380906 9781849161367 9780857384591 9780857382580 THE BLACKHOUSE BREACH OF TRUST THE THING ON THE SHORE LOVE VIRTUALLY (MacLehose Press) THE FOLDED EARTH (MacLehose Press) Peter May David Ellis Tom Fletcher Daniel Glattauer Anuradha Roy £12.99 £19.99 £7.99 £9.99 £18.99 p. 9 p. 10 p. 11 p. 12 p. 13
MARCH
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MAY
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JUNE
9780857382429 9780857381521 9780857384584 9781849165570 9780857384232 THE DINOSAUR FEATHER PILGRIMS AS THOUGH SHE WERE SLEEPING (MacLehose Press) FOXES IN THE NIGHT (MacLehose Press) TRASHED Sissel-Jo Gazan Will Elliott Elias Khoury Cess Nooteboom Anna Smith £12.99 £18.99 £18.99 £12.00 £7.99 p. 36 p. 37 p. 38 p. 39 p. 40
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9781849168052 DEAD MEN RISEN Toby Harnden £18.99 p. 53
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MAY
9781849165693 9780857381774 9780857381590 50 POLITICAL IDEAS YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW WORLD HISTORY: 50 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW CAMP Z: THE SECRET LIFE OF RUDOLF HESS Ben Dupré Ian Crofton Stephen McGinty £9.99 £9.99 £16.99 p. 62 p. 63 p. 64
JUNE
9780857380432 BORN LIARS Ian Leslie £12.99 p. 65
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Dead Men Risen
TOBY HARNDEN
The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War.
April 2011 • See p. 53 £21.99 Audio download 978 0 85738 389 1
Blossoms and Shadows
LIAN HEARN
A historical love story about a young Japanese woman.
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MICHELLE MORAN
A young Madame Tussaud experiences the French Revolution at first hand.
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CRIME
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GAME OF SORROWS, A REDEMPTION OF ALEXANDER SEATON, THE CORE OF EVIL TOOTH AND CLAW CRIME AND PUNISHMENT NIGHT AND DAY PROFESSIONAL, THE ROUGH WEATHER STRANGER IN PARADISE NINETEEN EIGHTY NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE NINETEEN SEVENTY FOUR NINETEEN SEVENTY SEVEN TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES, THE BIG BOOK OF PULPS, THE FIDELITY SILENCE STRIP SIX GRAVES TO MUNICH FABRIC OF SIN, THE REMAINS OF AN ALTAR, THE TO DREAM OF THE DEAD LENNOX ICE COLD MURDER FARM, THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS PERSON OF INTEREST PROBABLE CAUSE BIG BANG, THE GOLIATH BONE, THE BREAKOUT COMEBACK DIRTY MONEY FIREBREAK FLASHFIRE AN IRON ROSE BAD DEBTS BLACK TIDE DEAD POINT SHOOTING STAR TRUTH CLOSE UP BRUNO CHIEF OF POLICE DARK VINEYARD THE BLUE KNIGHT, THE HOLLYWOOD CROWS HOLLYWOOD MOON NEW CENTURIONS, THE
Shona MacLean Shona MacLean Nigel McCrery Nigel McCrery G. F. Newman Robert B. Parker Robert B. Parker Robert B. Parker Robert B. Parker David Peace David Peace David Peace David Peace Stef Penney Stef Penney Otto Penzler (ed.) Thomas Perry Thomas Perry Thomas Perry Mario Puzo Phil Rickman Phil Rickman Phil Rickman Craig Russell Andrea Maria Schenkel Andrea Maria Schenkel Theresa Schwegel Theresa Schwegel Theresa Schwegel Mickey Spillane Mickey Spillane Richard Stark Richard Stark Richard Stark Richard Stark Richard Stark Peter Temple Peter Temple Peter Temple Peter Temple Peter Temple Peter Temple Esther Verhoef Martin Walker Martin Walker Joseph Wambaugh Joseph Wambaugh Joseph Wambaugh Joseph Wambaugh
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DON’T ASK DROWNED HOPES GET REAL WHAT’S SO FUNNY ?
Donald Westlake Donald Westlake Donald Westlake Donald Westlake
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HISTORICAL
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98 SPRING 2011
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CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER HERETIC QUEEN, THE NEFERTITI DROOD SOUL CATCHER
Michelle Moran Michelle Moran Michelle Moran Dan Simmons Michael White
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HORROR
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ANGELS AND AGES ISLANDER, THE: A BIOGRAPHY OF HALLDOR LAXNESS EXCAVATING KAFKA MARTIN LUTHER KING CONFUCIUS JUNGLE SOLDIER EDITH CAVELL CONSTANTINE
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100 SPRING 2011
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TURN BACK TIME: THE HIGH STREET HITLER LEGIONS OF ROME TUDOR CHRONICLES, THE PLACES OF DESTINY GREAT BRITISH BOBBY, THE DRAGON THRONE, THE QUEEN EMPRESS CONCUBINE GREAT MIGRATIONS, THE MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN WARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD HEROES MONSTERS SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD AUDIO CD SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD+ DVD SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD + CD WRATH OF GOD WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD EMPERORS OF ROME LANDMARK HERODOTUS, THE PHARAOHS, THE POPES, THE ONE SMALL STEP IN OUR TIME
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HOBBIES
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HUMOUR
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LITERATURE
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MARITIME
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MATHEMATICS
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MEMOIR
9781906694197 9781849162111 9781847242518 9781847243928 9781847243249 9781847249968 9781906694647 JOURNAL HIDDEN ROADS, THE WARTIME NOTEBOOKS & OTHER TEXTS PARIS TO THE MOON THROUGH THE CHILDREN’S GATE AT THE LOCH OF THE GREEN CORRIE SCHOOL BLUES Helene Berr Kevin Crossley-Holland Marguerite Duras Adam Gopnik Adam Gopnik Andrew Greig Daniel Pennac PB PB HB PB PB HB HB £8.99 £7.99 £19.99 £8.99 £8.99 £16.99 £16.99
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MUSIC
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NATURAL WORLD
9781847244178 9781847241993 9781849160049 DINOSAURS BIRDS ANIMALS Steve Brusatte Katrina Cook Dr. Keith Laidler HB HB HB £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
PHILOSOPHY
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PHOTOGRAPHY
9781849165259 9781847246592 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY HANDBOOK, THE ANSEL ADAMS Doug Harman Lauris Morgan-Griffiths PB HB £6.99 £25.00
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POPULAR SCIENCE
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REFERENCE
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RELIGION
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SPORT
9781849162074 9781847246462 HAROLD LARWOOD PLAY BETTER GOLF Duncan Hamilton Colin Howe PB PB £8.99 £6.99
TRAVEL
9781848660519 DREAM DESTINATIONS Mary-Ann Gallagher TPB £14.99
TRUE CRIME
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CHILDREN’S
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FRIGHTFULLY FRIENDLY GHOSTIES: GHOSTLY HOLLER-DAY Daren King
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INDEX | BY TITLE AND AUTHOR
INDEX
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know 50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know Abbott, David Abused Werewolf Rescue Group, The Adams, Jad All the Hopeful Lovers Alten, Steve Altenberg, Karin Appanah, Nathacha As Though She Were Sleeping At Sea At the Loch of the Green Corrie Audio books Baker, Joanne Barceló, Elia Barnes, Jennifer Lynn Barton, Laura Bass, Jefferson Belle's Song Bentley Hart, David Big Questions: Mathematics, The Black Hills Blackhouse, The Blomfield, Vishvapani Blossoms and Shadows Bone Yard, The Bonella, Kathryn Book Club, The Born Liars Bracelet of Bones Breach of Trust Breakers, The Broken Shore, The Burning Rubber Camp Z Capital Crime, A Carroll, Sean B. Cat Care Handbook, The Cave, Peter Child Wonder Churchill 47 62 71 83 77 73 19 21 70 38 73 76 92 48 26 89 68 32 84 79 55 68 9 45 28 32 52 68 65 86 10 8 69 76 64 70 43 61 50 20 58 Clarke, Cat Classic Robert B. Parker Claudel, Philippe Collins, Sophie Connor, Alex Conradi, Peter Cook, Thomas H. Cosmos Close-Up Cotterill, Colin Crane, Megan Crilly, Tony Crofton, Ian Cross, Robin Crossley-Holland, Kevin Davidson, Catherine Days that Changed the World Dead Men Risen Defiance Delta, The Demi-Monde: Winter, The Dinosaur Feather, The Dog Care Handbook, The Drndi´ Daša c, Dupré, Ben Duras, Marguerite Easter, Patrick Ebooks Elliott, Will Ellis, David Elwes, Richard Emperor of the West Endless Forms Most Beautiful Entangled Evil in Return Extinction Club, The Februari, Marjolijn Field Grey Flashback Fletcher, Tom Folded Earth, The Forbes, Elena 82 68 27 61 7 79 74 66 15 17 55 63 54 86 61 78 53 87 18 4 36 61 31 62 76 24 93 37 10 60 78 43 82 69 73 68 71 23 11 13 69
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Foxes in the Night & Other Stories FreedomTM Gallay, Claudie Gandhi Gardener, The Gautama Buddha Gazan, Sissel-Jo Glattauer, Daniel Goldsmith's Secret, The Gooden, Philip Graham, Laurie Grant, K. M. Great British Speeches Grieg, Andrew Griffiths, Elly Gunshot Road Hamilton, Duncan Harbour Harnden, Toby Hearn, Lian Heffer, Simon Hellström, Börge Hotel K House at Sea's End, The How to Build a Brain How to Destroy the Universe How to Live Forever How to Think Like a Bat Humphrey, Nicholas Hyland, Adrian I Love the 80s Imperfectionists, The In the Evil Day Island of Wings Jackson, Ashley Jacobsen, Roy Jennings, Charles Jha, Alok Jinks, Catherine Kerr, Philip Khoury, Elias Kill Fish Jones Killed at the Whim of a Hat
39 74 8 77 34 45 36 12 26 77 73 84 76 76 6 70 77 74 53 28 76 69 52 6 60 59 51 50 42 70 17 72 69 21 58 20 76 51 83 71 38 88 15
King, Caro King's Speech, The Last Brother, The Last English Summer, A Last Talk with Lola Faye, The Lefteri, Christy Legacy, The Leith, Prue Leslie, Ian Lex Lindqvist, John Ajvide Logue, Mark Long Glasgow Kiss, The Love Virtually Macbeth Madame Tussaud Magic Thief: Found, The Matthiessen, Peter May, Peter Mayan Prophecy, The Mayle, Peter McCrery, Nigel McGinty, Stephen McNamee, Eoin Memoirs of a Bitch Miles, Rosalind Miss Shirley Bassey Monsieur Linh and His Child Moore, Jeffrey Moran, Michelle Mylet, James Nicholson, William Nicoll, Andrew No-One Loves a Policeman Nooteboom, Cees O'Loughlin, Ed Open market editions Orsi, Guillermo Osmond, Hazel Overy, Richard Park, Tony Parker, Robert B. Parsons, Paul
88 79 70 77 74 72 5 34 65 29 74 79 72 12 77 16 90 71 9 19 71 74 64 85 33 54 78 27 73 16 29 73 30 73 39 22 80 73 25 79 18 35, 68, 70 59
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Petrizzo, Francesca Pettersson, Jan-Erik Pilgrims Pollard, Justin Potter, David Prineas, Sarah Rachman, Tom Rajchman, Chil Rees, Rod Rembrandt Secret, The Rendezvous Roslund, Anders Roy, Anuradha Russell, Craig Scream Shadow Country Simmons, Dan Sixkill Smith, Anna Soul Dust Southwell, Gareth Sparrow, Giles Split Image St Crow, Lili Stewart, Ian Stieg Story of Archaeology, The Story of Christianity, The Story of English, The Suarez, Daniel Sutherland, John Taming the Infinite Temple, Peter Thing on the Shore, The Third Reich: A Chronicle, The Three Seconds Tiny Sunbirds Far Away Toploader Tranter, Kirsten Trashed Treblinka Trial by Fire Trieste
33 57 37 79 49 90 72 44 4 7 72 69 13 72 74 71 23, 68 35 40 42 46 66 70 87 78 57 79 79 77 74 47 78 69 11 79 68 14 22 5 40 44 89 31
Twenty-One Locks Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Unknown Spy, The Upright Piano Player, The Valdez Verhoef, Esther Victor's Crown, The Vintage Caper, The Warrior Women Wartime Notebooks Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible, A Watermen, The Watson, Christie Watson, Fiona Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe? Williams, Hywel Williams, John L. Wilson, Laura Words of Wisdom World History: 50 Things You Really Need to Know
68 48 85 71 30 72 49 71 54 76 72 24 14 77 25 78 78 70 46 63
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