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Vintage
Books
Catalogue
January – June 2016
Contents
1 Jonathan Cape
19 The Bodley Head
25 Harvill Secker
36 Yellow Jersey
40 Chatto & Windus
50 Square Peg
56 Hogarth
59 Vintage Classics
Jonathan
Cape
Jonathan Cape
Keiron Pim
David Aaronovitch
Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the
Rock’n’Roll Underworld
Party Animals: Growing Up Communist
publication: 28/01/2016
price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 416
ISBN: 9780224098120
A fascinating quest for one of London’s legendary characters
David Litvinoff (1928–75) was ‘one of the great mythic characters
of ‘60s London’ – outrageous, possessed of a lightning wit and
intellect, dangerous to know, always lurking in the shadows as the
spotlight shone on his famous friends. Flitting between the worlds
of music, art and crime, he exerted a hidden influence that helped
create the Kray twins’ legend and Lucian Freud’s reputation as a
man never to be crossed; connected the Rolling Stones with
London’s dark side; redirected Eric Clapton’s musical career; and
shaped the plot of the classic film Performance by revealing his
knowledge of the city’s underworld, a decision that put his life in
danger.
Litvinoff’s determination to live without trace means that his life
has always eluded biographers, until now. This extraordinary feat
of research entailed 100 interviews over five years, with
everyone from Eric Clapton and Marianne Faithfull to James Fox
and ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser: the result is by turns wickedly funny,
appalling, revelatory and moving, and epic in its scope as it traces
a rogue’s progress at the interface of bohemia and criminality
from the early Fifties to the Seventies. It is also an account of
Keiron Pim’s determined pursuit of Litvinoff’s ghost, which took
him from London to Wales and Australia in a quest to reveal one
of British pop culture’s last great untold stories.
Keiron Pim is aged 37, married with three young daughters and
lives in Norwich, where he was for a decade the literary editor of
the Eastern Daily Press newspaper before leaving to concentrate
on writing books. He is the author of The Bumper Book of
Dinosaurs (Square Peg) and he edited and introduced Into the
Light: the Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Meir of Norwich, the first
translated edition of England’s only major medieval Hebrew poet.
1
price: £17.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 304
ISBN: 9780224074711
A revelatory memoir by one of Britain’s best-known
journalists
In July 1961, just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday,
Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was
everything the Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and
handsome embodiment of modern communism.
But who were they, these ever hopeful, defiant and (had they but
known it) historically doomed people? Like a non-magical
version of the wizards of J. K. Rowling's world, they lived
secretly with and parallel to the non-communist majority,
sometimes persecuted, sometimes ignored, but carrying on their
own ways and traditions. Where others went to church they went
to Socialist Sunday School, society’s up was their down and its
heroes were their villains. Who wanted American TV when you
could have Russian movies?
A memoir of early life among communists, Party Animals first
took David Aaronovitch back through his own memories of belief
and action. But there was much more to it. He found himself
studying the old secret service files, uncovering the unspoken
shame and fears that provided the unconscious background to his
own existence as a party animal.
Only then did he begin to understand what had come before – both
the obstinate heroism and the monstrous cowardice. And the
elements that shape our fondest beliefs.
David Aaronovitch is an award-winning journalist, who has
worked in radio, television and newspapers in the United
Kingdom since the early 1980s. He lives in Hampstead, north
London, with his wife, three daughters and Kerry Blue the terrier.
His first book, Paddling to Jerusalem, won the Madoc prize for
travel literature in 2001 and his second, Voodoo Histories, was a
Sunday Times top ten bestseller.
Jonathan Cape
Mary Morrissy
Julian Barnes
Prosperity Drive
The Noise of Time
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9780224102193
The gifted Irish writer returns to Cape with a stunning book of
linked stories
All the characters in this mesmerising book begin their journeys
on Prosperity Drive. Everything radiates out – often
internationally – from this suburban Dublin street, and everything
eventually returns to it. It is an Ireland in miniature. Like an
exploded novel, Prosperity Drive is laid out in stories, linked by
its characters who appear and disappear, bump into each other in
chance encounters, and join up again through love, marriage or
memory.
The form of Prosperity Drive reflects and embodies the theme of
dislocation. Exploring family ties and small coincidences, the
stories are united by recurring imagery, echoing a kind of
collective unconscious, and the magnetic force of place. While
each story is discrete, and stands perfectly alone, when read
together they have an extraordinary cumulative effect. Through the
central drama of the Elworthy family, the collection has a strong
narrative arc, very similar to that of a novel, making explicit to the
reader secrets withheld from the characters.
A stunningly original construction, this journey in stories is very
much like life itself: a series of circles and trajectories, a process
of learning how to love and how to lose that love. Heartbreaking
and hilarious in turn, always incisive and exquisitely written, this
is a thrilling book by a major Irish writer.
Mary Morrissy has published three novels – Mother of Pearl, The
Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey – and a collection of
short stories, A Lazy Eye (1993). She has won a Hennessy Award
and a Lannan Literary Foundation Award and currently teaches at
University College Cork.
2
price: £14.99
size: 198 x 126 mm
pages: 192
ISBN: 9781910702604
Art and Power collide in Julian Barnes’s first novel since the
Booker-winning The Sense of An Ending
In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a
Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night,
expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has
known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who
are taken to the Big House ever return.
So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning
The Sense of an Ending. A story about the collision of Art and
Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human
courage, it is the work of a true master.
Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense
of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel,
The Lemon Table and Pulse; four collections of essays; and two
books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday
Times Number One bestseller Levels of Life. He lives in London.
Jonathan Cape
A. T. Williams
J. O. Morgan
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the War’s
End
Interference Pattern
price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9780224099608
A devastating appraisal of the British investigations and trials
of German war criminals by the Orwell Prize-winning author,
A. T. Williams
Any trial is an act of theatre.
After the horror of the Second World War, the Nuremberg
Tribunal became a symbol of the ‘free world’s’ choice of justice
in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity. But it was only a
fragment of retribution as, with their Allies, the British embarked
on the largest programme of war crimes investigations and trials
in history.
This book exposes the deeper truth of this controlled scheme of
vengeance. Moving from the scripted trial of Göring, Hess and
von Ribbentrop, to the makeshift courtrooms where ‘minor’ war
criminals (the psychotic SS officers, the brutal guards, the
executioners) were prosecuted, A Passing Fury tells the story of
the extraordinary enterprise, the investigators, the lawyers and the
perpetrators and asks the question: was justice done?
A Passing Fury reassesses the value and flaws of the attempt to
do justice in clear, engaging prose, bringing it to life for a new
generation and demonstrating its contemporary relevance in
responding to ‘evil’.
Andrew Williams is a law professor at the University of Warwick
and Director of the Centre for Human Rights in Practice. He is the
author of A Very British Killing, which won the 2013 Orwell
Prize for Political Writing.
3
price: £10
size: 198 x 130 mm
pages: 64
ISBN: 9781910702024
Prize-winning poet joins the Cape stable
At first, these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb, but
the next reading could be one of rapture and astonishment; it all
hinges on your point of view. Like the optical illusion of the
maiden and the crone, you can only see one image at a time; the
brain deciding which is the figure and which the background. It is
a book that acts out its own subjects – dualities, ambiguities,
boundaries – through physical dislocation, through patterns of
interference.
This is a collage of many voices: eager or dispassionate,
unreliable or matter-of-fact – depending, as with everything else,
on your angle of entry. Some of the voices fear involvement; some
are afraid of doing nothing; some, perhaps, have already gone too
far. Like the image on the cover, these pieces shimmer and buzz in
their own instability. Is this punishment or reward? What is the
yellow smoke? Will there be bodies floating under the plastic
pool-cover? Are we, like the hotel manager, seeing visions?
Volatile, troubling, but endlessly interesting, these poems show J.
O. Morgan working and compressing language into a precarious,
frictional state. As a result, Interference Pattern is a unique
reading experience: vivid, challenging and completely original.
J. O. Morgan lives on a small farm in the Scottish Borders. He is
the author of four collections of poetry, each a single book-length
poem: Natural Mechanical (2009), which was shortlisted for the
Forward Prize for Best First Collection and won the Aldeburgh
First Collection Prize, its sequel, Long Cuts (2011), shortlisted
for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Award, At Maldon
(2013), shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year
Award, and In Casting Off (2015).
Jonathan Cape
Oliver Harris
Julie Myerson
The House of Fame: Nick Belsey Book 3
The Stopped Heart
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780224101875
4
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780224102490
An intoxicating and furiously paced thriller taking us into the
black heart of contemporary celebrity
What happens when every parent’s worst nightmare comes
true – and when the past is unwilling to be the past?
Amber Knight is London’s hottest ticket – pop star, film star, the
front-page subject of daily tabloid gossip.
Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past.
Nick Belsey is less celebrated. His decade-long career at
Hampstead CID seems to be coming to an end, and his habit of
getting into serious trouble is ongoing. He is currently of no fixed
abode.
But when Belsey is asked by a desperate mother to help find her
son, he finds himself infiltrating the entourage of Amber Knight. It
is a world of excess, obsession, lust and greed – precisely as
Belsey had expected, and perhaps even hoped for. Soon, though,
the blood begins to flow, one sickening crime is followed by the
next, and Belsey finds himself in a far more deadly world, whose
mysteries he must solve and whose grip he must escape.
Oliver Harris was born in north London in 1978. His previous
Nick Belsey novel, The Hollow Man, is available in Vintage
paperback.
During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the
garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him
in. But very soon, it’s clear he has no intention of leaving.
A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every
parent’s worst nightmare. Now, escaping their old London life, the
memories and the headlines, they have found an idyllic new home
in rural Suffolk. A cottage, a beautiful garden. The perfect place to
forget. To move on.
But in The Stopped Heart, the past never dies.
Julie Myerson is the author of Home: The Story of Everyone Who
Ever Lived in Our House and eight novels, including the bestselling Something Might Happen, which was longlisted for the
Booker Prize. In the words of the Observer, she 'has a talent for
making the unthinkable readable. The results are riveting.'
Jonathan Cape
Lauren Redniss
Jean Stein
Thunder and Lightning: Weather Past, Present and
Future
West of Eden
price: £20
size: 292 x 220 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9780224096751
An uncategorisable, distinctly beautiful piece of science
writing – a visual biography of the weather by a writer of
‘sheer imaginative genius’ (Malcolm Gladwell)
'21st-century genius' Elle
A howling wind, a thunderstorm, the beating sun – it’s with the
elements that nature shows its true force and wonder.
In Thunder and Lightning, Guggenheim fellow and Pulitzer
nominee Lauren Redniss draws a new account of the weather. She
has travelled from the frozen archipelagos of the Arctic Ocean to
the ‘absolute desert’ of Atacoma, Chile, to show us the elements at
their most extreme. Along the way, through interviews and
research, she has unearthed curious stories of exploration,
savagery and coincidence – stories which show us how weather
has shaped humanity, intervened in the course of history, and how
mankind, in turn, has tried to bend the weather to its ends.
A book of exquisite beauty, with each illustration etched and
coloured by hand, Thunder and Lightning informs, charms and
transports. A combination of art and cultural history, from an
uncategorisable and unique creative spirit, it will leave readers
looking at the wind, the sun and the rain with new eyes.
Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 years in the
Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld
Follies and Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love
and Fallout, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. Her
writing and drawing has appeared in numerous publications
including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the
Pulitzer Prize. She is the recipient of a 2012 Guggenheim
Fellowship and is currently Artist-in-Residence at the American
Museum of Natural History. She teaches at Parsons the New
School for Design in New York City.
5
price: £20
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780224102469
The inside story of Hollywood: money and corruption, drink
and drugs, fame and terrible secrets
West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their
own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur
Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion,
Stephen Sondheim – all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up
in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with
the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny (There Will Be Blood) and
traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob,
and the movie studios – from the beginnings of the film industry to
the end, with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch (who bought the
Stein mansion in 1985).
West of Eden is about money, power, fame and terrible secrets:
the doomed Hollywood of the late Fifties, early Sixties – ‘the
rotten heart of paradise’. Like her last book, the best-selling Edie,
this is an oral history told through brilliantly edited interviews. As
this is Hollywood, it’s a book full of sex, drugs and celebrity
glamour; but because it’s built from the firsthand accounts of
people who were actually there, many of them writers, actors and
artists, it’s also strangely claustrophobic, seductive, and
completely compelling.
Jean Stein’s father, Jules, founded MCA and she grew up in the
golden years of Hollywood. At Jean’s coming-out party, Judy
Garland sang ‘Over the Rainbow’; later she had an affair with
William Faulkner, became an editor at The Paris Review, and was
Elia Kazan’s assistant on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Immersed in the
demi-monde of New York, she was close to Andy Warhol and the
Velvet Underground, and to Warhol’s muse – Edie Sedgewick –
about whom Lou Reed wrote ‘Femme Fatale’ and Jean Stein
wrote Edie (1982). That book became an international best-seller,
of which Norman Mailer wrote: ‘This is the book of the Sixties
that we have been waiting for.’
Jonathan Cape
A. O. Scott
Jeremy Lewis
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about
Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
David Astor
price: £14.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9781910702550
6
price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 432
ISBN: 9780224090902
The New York Times film critic shows how we are all critics,
and why we need criticism now more than ever
An exceptional biography of that rarest of creatures – a really
good man
In this, his first book, celebrated New York Times critic A.O. Scott
shows that we are, in fact, all critics. Indeed, that critical thinking
informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action and
interpersonal life.
Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes,
but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule.
He converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into
essential reading, admired and envied for the quality of its writers
and for its trenchant but fair-minded views.
Using his own film criticism as a starting point – everything from
an infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The
Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar’s animated Ratatouille
– Scott expands outwards, easily guiding readers through the
complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and
the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovic and ‘Ode on
a Grecian Urn’. Drawing on the full tradition of criticism, from
Aristotle to Susan Sontag, he shows that while individual critics –
himself included – can make mistakes and find flaws where they
shouldn’t, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most
creative and urgent activities in a modern world where algorithms
threaten to supplant judgement.
With piercing intelligence, wit and warmth, Better Living
Through Criticism shows that real criticism was and always will
be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive. As
Scott puts it, ‘The time for criticism is always now, because the
imperative to think clearly, never goes away.’
A. O. SCOTT joined the New York Times as a film critic in
January 2000. Previously, he was a Sunday book reviewer for
Newsday and a frequent contributor to Slate, the New York
Review of Books, and many other publications. He has served on
the editorial staffs of Lingua Franca and the New York Review of
Books. In addition to his film-reviewing duties, A. O. Scott often
writes for the Times Magazine and the Book Review. He lives
with his family in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Astor grew up at Cliveden, the country house on the Thames
which his grandfather had bought when he turned his back on New
York, the source of the family fortune. His liberal-minded father
was a constant support, but his relations with his mother, Nancy,
were always embattled. At Oxford he suffered the first of the
bouts of depression that were to blight his life; a lost soul for
much of the Thirties, he became involved in attempts to put the
British Government in touch with the German opposition in the
months leading up to the war.
George Orwell had urged Astor to champion the decolonisation of
Africa, and Nelson Mandela always acknowledged how much he
owed to the Observer’s long-standing support. A generous
benefactor to good causes, he helped to set up Amnesty
International and Index on Censorship. A good man and a great
editor, he deserves to be better remembered.
A former publisher and the deputy editor of the Oldie, Jeremy
Lewis has written three volumes of autobiography and biographies
of Cyril Connolly, Tobias Smollett and Allen Lane, the founder of
Penguin Books. Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English
Family, was published by Cape in 2010.
Jonathan Cape
Ottessa Moshfegh
Anthony Quinn
Eileen
Freya
price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9780224102551
A mordant story of obsession and suspense, by one of the
brightest new voices in American fiction
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an
unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role
as her alcoholic father’s carer in his squalid home and her day job
as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian
horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen
tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of
escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and
weekends with shoplifting, stalking a handsome prison guard
named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s
messes. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John
arrives on the scene as the new counselor at the prison, Eileen is
enchanted and unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously
budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for
Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that
surpasses her wildest imaginings.
Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England,
blending true noir and the the eerie, unforgettable books of Shirley
Jackson and Flannery O’Connor, this mesmeric, terrifying,
sublimely funny debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces
one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was
awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review
and the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and granted a creative
writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She
is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her short
stories, Homesick for Another World, are forthcoming from
Jonathan Cape.
7
price: £15.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 368
ISBN: 9781910702505
Once again Anthony Quinn shows himself a master at writing
fiction that ‘works on every level’ (Daily Telegraph)
London, May 1945. Freya Wyley, twenty, meets Nancy Holdaway,
eighteen, amid the wild celebrations of VE-Day, the prelude to a
devoted and competitive friendship that will endure on and off for
the next two decades. Freya, wilful, ambitious, outspoken, pursues
a career in newspapers which the chauvinism of Fleet Street and
her own impatience conspire to thwart, while Nancy, gentler, less
self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Both
friends become entangled at university with Robert Cosway, a
charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a
momentous bearing on their lives.
Flitting from war-haunted Oxford to the bright new shallows of the
1960s, Freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman’s life and
loves against a backdrop of Soho pornographers, theatrical
peacocks, willowy models, priapic painters, homophobic
blackmailers, political careerists.
Beneath the relentless thrum of changing times and a city being
reshaped, we glimpse the eternal: the battles fought by women in
pursuit of independence, the intimate mysteries of the human heart,
and the search for love. Stretching from the Nuremberg war trials
to the advent of the TV celebrity, from innocence abroad to bitter
experience at home, Freya presents the portrait of an
extraordinary woman taking arms against a sea of political and
personal tumult.
Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to
2014 he was the film critic of the Independent. He is the author of
four very successful novels: The Rescue Man, which won the
2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, Half of the Human
Race, The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter
Scott Prize, and Curtain Call, which was recently chosen for
Waterstones Book Club.
Jonathan Cape
Ben Gijsemans
Daniel Clowes
Hubert
Patience
price: £16.99
size: 260 x 210 mm
pages: 88
ISBN: 9780224101462
8
price: £16.99
size: 273 x 208 mm
pages: 180
ISBN: 9781910702451
An incredibly beautiful graphic novel by a precociously
brilliant young Belgian author. The start of a great career.
Dan Clowes’ most important graphic novel since Ghost World
and David Boring
Hubert is a solitary man who shapes his life by going to museums.
He talks to few people and only about museums and art. When his
neighbour downstairs, a lonely woman, tries to seduce him, he
doesn't understand. He takes photos of the pictures he likes usually of beautiful women - and paints copies of the paintings at
home. There is only one real woman who fascinates him; she lives
in the opposite building and he can see her balcony from his
window.
Patience is an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love
story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to
deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially
‘Clowesian’, and utterly unique in the author’s body of work. This
180-page, full-colour story affords Clowes the opportunity to
draw some of the most exuberant and breathtaking pages of his
life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story
yet.
One of the most beautiful graphic novels Jonathan Cape has ever
published, Hubert marks the beginning of a great career.
The story opens in 2012, when Jack Barlow returns home to find
Patience, his pregnant girlfriend, murdered. We meet him next in
2029, still haunted by the murder. He hears of a guy who thinks
he’s invented a device that enables time travel. On the next page
Jack is in 2006, watching Patience on her dates with boys. Is one
of them the killer?
Ben Gisjsemans was born in 1989. He studied audiovisual arts
and comics in Ghent and Brussels. The first chapter of Hubert
was his thesis. Hubert is his first book. www.bengijsemans.com
Daniel Clowes was born in 1961. He is the creator of the comic
books Eightball, Ghost World, which was made into a film by the
director Terry Zwigoff, David Boring, and Ice Haven. His
adaptation of his own Ghost World graphic novel for the screen
earned him an Oscar nomination. A regular contributor to the New
Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Comics, he lives
in California with his wife.
Jonathan Cape
Travis Elborough
Pablo Auladell
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a
People's Institution
Paradise Lost
price: £14.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9780224099820
Take a brilliantly entertaining walk through the history of the
park with ‘one of Britain’s finest pop cultural historians’
(Guardian), and see that little patch of green at the end of
your street in a brand new light
Flowerbeds and clipped green lawns, swings and roundabouts and
mud-stained knees…
Parks are part of almost everybody’s life. We walk the dog, we
unfurl the picnic blanket, we kick the ball about. They seem so
natural we might think they’ve always been there, and that they
always will.
A Walk in the Park is a loving history of these special places. It
introduces us to land-grabbing monarchs, architectural pioneers
and enlightened industrialists, anarchists and spies, squatters and
hippies. It tells us how the roots of even the humblest
neighbourhood park lie in age-old battles over land and liberty,
and how we’ve used parks to not only relax, but to challenge
authority and raise hell. And we learn why today parks remain
extremely vulnerable spaces, whose future is worth fighting for.
Sharp, witty and warm, packed with anecdote and surprise, this is
a book which means you will never visit your local park in the
same way again.
Travis Elborough is the author of four acclaimed books, The Bus
We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus; The Long Player
Goodbye, which lamented the passing of vinyl; Wish You Were
Here, a history of the British beside the seaside; and London
Bridge in America, which tells the transatlantic story of the sale of
the world's largest antique. Travis regularly appears on Radio 4
and writes for the Guardian.
9
price: £20
size: 235 x 165 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9781910702239
One of the oldest tales of all – Satan and God, Adam and Eve
– retold in dark and beautiful imagery by Pablo Auladell
Paradise Lost, Milton’s epic poem, charts humanity’s fall from
grace and the origin of the struggle between God and Satan, good
and evil, life and death. In the aftermath of the Angels' devastating
defeat in the war for Heaven, Satan determines to seek his
revenge. Meanwhile, Adam and Eve have newly awakened in the
Garden of Eden…
First published nearly 350 years ago, Paradise Lost has now been
reimagined by the Spanish artist Pablo Auladell. His astonishing
artwork portrays the complexity and tragedy of one of the great
stories of all time. His bleak and surprising imagery captures the
lyricism of Milton’s original for a new audience, and is a
masterful tribute to a literary classic.
Pablo Auladell is an artist from Alicante, Spain. He was the
runner-up for the 2005 Illustrated Book for Children Award and
won the the Best New Talented Author Award in the Saló del
Cómic de Barcelona 2006 for the graphic novel La Tour Blanche.
He teaches illustration at the University of Macerata, Italy.
Jonathan Cape
Irvine Welsh
David Szalay
The Blade Artist
All That Man Is
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 448
ISBN: 9780224102155
10
price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 240
ISBN: 9780224099769
The most terrifying character in Trainspotting returns – with
his own novel
A devastating portrait of contemporary manhood and
contemporary life, by a genius of realism
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now
unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and
sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two
young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say
he’s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine
visionary.
These nine stories introduce us to nine men. Each of them is at a
different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each
of them is striving – in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap
Cypriot hotel – to understand just what it means to be alive, here
and now.
But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very
different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native
Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his
old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But
as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies –
and, most alarmingly, his former self – Francis seems to have
other ideas.
All That Man Is is a portrait of contemporary manhood,
contemporary Europe and contemporary life from a British writer
of supreme gifts – a master of a new kind of realism which
vibrates with detail, intelligence and devastating pathos, comic
irony and surprise.
When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which
indicates that her husband’s violent past might also be his
psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.
The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel – ultra violent
but curiously redemptive – and it marks the return of one of
modern fiction’s most infamous, terrifying characters, the
incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.
Irvine Welsh is the author of ten previous novels and four books
of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.
David Szalay was born in Canada in 1974. His first novel,
London and the South-East, won the Betty Trask Prize and the
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His second and third novels, The
Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011), were published by Jonathan
Cape. In 2013 he was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young
British Novelists. He currently lives in Budapest.
Jonathan Cape
Anne Carson
M. Suddain
Float
Hunters & Collectors
price: £16.99
size: 240 x 186 mm
pages: 226
ISBN: 9781910702574
The brilliant new collection from the prize-winning poet and
renowned classicist
Anne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness,
her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes our
perspectives. With Float, she goes further still: exploring myth
and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with – and
pushing – the limits of language and form. Within this beautifully
designed box, there are twelve individual booklets that can be
read in any order: conjuring a mix of voices, time periods, and
structures to explore what makes people, memories, and stories
‘maddeningly attractive’ when observed in liminal space. One can
begin with Carson puzzling through Proust on a frozen Icelandic
plain, in the art-saturated enclaves of downtown New York City,
or atop Mount Olympus as Zeus ponders his afterlife. There is a
three-woman chorus of Gertrude Steins embodying an essay about
‘falling’, and an investigation of monogamy and marriage as
Carson anticipates the perfect egg her husband is cooking for
breakfast. Exquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, Float
illuminates the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of
boundaries. It is Carson’s most intellectually electrifying and
emotionally engaging book to date.
Anne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of
Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the
T. S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin
Prize, on two occasions, and fellowships from the Guggenheim
and MacArthur Foundations.
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price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 352
ISBN: 9780224097048
The universe’s most feared restaurant critic is on the hunt for
the greatest meal of his life – from a writer already compared
to Vonnegut, Pynchon and Douglas Adams
John Tamberlain is The Tomahawk – the universe’s most feared
and famous food critic (though he prefers ‘forensic gastronomer’).
He’s on the hunt for the galaxy’s most secretive and exclusive
establishment, Hotel Grand Skies: the Empyrean. A haven where
the rich and famous retreat to bask in perfect seclusion. Where the
waiters know their fish knife from their butter knife, their carotid
from their subclavian artery, and are trained to enforce the house
rules with brutal efficiency.
Blurring the lines between detective story, horror and sci-fi,
Hunters & Collectors is a mesmeric trip into the singular
imagination of M. Suddain. It is as if, at his freewheeling best,
Kurt Vonnegut had been cast into the future and asked to reimagine The Shining.
M. Suddain is a young writer from New Zealand about whom not
much is yet known. He is the author of one previous novel,
Theatre of the Gods, also published by Cape.
Jonathan Cape
Michael Symmons Roberts
A. L. Kennedy
Selected Poems
Serious Sweet
price: £14
size: 198 x 130 mm
pages: 192
ISBN: 9781910702420
The definitive introduction to a major poet
This selection of the best poems from six remarkable collections
reveals that all the strength and sensuality and strangeness is in
there from the start. This is a metaphysical poetry for our age:
rooted, steeped in the physical, but stretching for lyric completion,
philosophical clarity, emotional truth. These poems achieve their
seriousness not through hectoring argument but through their
lightness of touch, their wit, their tenderness, their music. Roberts
has always been a poet who, in the words of Lavinia Greenlaw,
‘inspires profound meditation on the nature of the soul, the body,
the stars and the heart, and sparks revelation’. He is also formally
and thematically diverse, restlessly exploring a wide range of
subjects from Cold-War fear to love lyrics, genetics to elegies,
always returning to the crucial, elemental themes – the mapping of
experience and the search for meaning.
After Drysalter, his double-prize-winning tour de force, we now
have this opportunity to observe the whole arc to date: the
consistency of grace and power, curiosity and risk, passion and
intelligence that – together – make Michael Symmons Roberts
such a thrilling and essential poet.
Michael Symmons Roberts’s fourth book of poetry, Corpus, was
the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award, and was
shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize, and the
Griffin International Prize. His sixth collection, Drysalter, was
the winner of both the Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Prize in
2013. He collaborated with Paul Farley on Edgelands
(Cape/Vintage) and will do so again in The Deaths of the Poets
(Cape, 2017). He has also worked many times with the composer
James MacMillan. He has published two novels, and is Professor
of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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price: £17.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 528
ISBN: 9780224098441
A topical London love story from the brilliant, prize-winning
A. L. Kennedy
A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a
senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his
colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in
unmentionable acts. A man of conscience.
Meg Williams is ‘a bankrupt accountant – two words you don’t
want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV’. She’s 45
and shakily sober, living on Telegraph Hill, where she can see
London unfurl below her. Somewhere out there is safety.
Somewhere out there is Jon, pinballing around the city with a
mobile phone and a letter-writing habit he can’t break. He’s a man
on the brink, leaking government secrets and affection as he runs
for his life.
Set in 2014, this is a novel of our times. Poignant, deeply funny,
and beautifully written, Serious Sweet is about two decent,
damaged people trying to make moral choices in an immoral
world: ready to sacrifice what’s left of themselves for honesty,
and for a chance at tenderness. As Jon and Meg navigate the sweet
and serious heart of London – passing through 24 hours that will
change them both for ever – they tell a very unusual, unbearably
moving love story.
A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of
Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards –
including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives
in London and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at
Warwick University.
Jonathan Cape
Adrian Tinniswood
Mark Haddon
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country
House 1918-1939
The Pier Falls
price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 256
ISBN: 9780224099455
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price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 336
ISBN: 9781910702161
A look at what really went on behind the curtains of England’s
stately homes, by the acclaimed historian
The first collection of stories from the author of The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in
summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian
summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in
which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows
lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.
An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier
collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One
woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean.
Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a
gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of
unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. A man shoots a
stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve.
Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not
always so sunny. By turns opulent and ordinary, noble and
vicious, its shadows were darker. In The Long Weekend, Adrian
Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten,
draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star
smiles. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, on unpublished letters
and diaries, on the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and
unhappy heiresses and bullying butlers, The Long Weekend gives
a voice to the people who inhabited this world. In a definitive
social history which combines anecdote and narrative with
scholarship, it brings the stately homes of England to life, giving
readers an insight into the guilt and the gingerbread, and showing
how the image of the country house was carefully protected by its
occupants above and below stairs, and how the reality was so
much more interesting than the dream.
Adrian Tinniswood is the author of fourteen books of social and
architectural history. A Senior Research Fellow at the University
of Buckingham and a Visiting Fellow in Heritage and History at
Bath Spa University, he has worked for and with the National
Trust at local, regional and national level for more than thirty
years. In 2013 he was awarded an OBE for services to heritage.
In this first collection of stories by the author of The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon demonstrates
two things: first that he is a master of the short form (several of the
stories have been longlisted for prizes), second that his
imagination is even darker than we had thought.
Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has
written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. His
bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David
Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the
Whitbread Award. His poetry collection, The Talking Horse and
the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by
Picador in 2005, and his last novel, The Red House, was
published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. He lives in Oxford.
Jonathan Cape
Bryan and Mary Talbot
Daisy Johnson
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia
Fen
price: £16.99
size: 216 x 153 mm
pages: 144
ISBN: 9780224102346
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price: £14.99
size: 0 x 0 mm
pages: 160
ISBN: 9781910702338
An anarchist tale of an extraordinary woman, from the Costa
Prize-winning authors of Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes
Stories of desire, sex and animal instincts from a fierce new
voice in English fiction, told with the power of myth
Set against the background of violence and state repression in a
turbulent period of French history, The Red Virgin and the Vision
of Utopia chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise
Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed ‘The Red Virgin of
Montmartre’. A utopian dreamer, notorious anarchist, teacher,
orator and poet, she was decades ahead of her time. Always a
radical, she fought on the barricades defending the short-lived
Paris Commune of 1871 against the reactionary regime that
massacred thousands of French citizens after the Commune’s
defeat. Deported to a penal colony on the other side of the Earth,
she took up the cause of the indigenous population against French
colonial oppression.
The Fen – a strange, flat, shape-shifting land. The kind of place
where people mind their business, but where stories do get told.
Like that one about the girl who fell in love with a house. Or the
girl who starved herself into the shape of an eel. That one about a
woman who gave birth to a – well, what?
Celebrating the utopian urge in nineteenth-century literature and
politics and the origins of science fiction, The Red Virgin and the
Vision of Utopia is the third collaboration of best-selling
academic and graphic novelist Mary M. Talbot with her husband,
the graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot. Their first book together,
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, won the 2012 Costa Biography
Award.
Bryan Talbot (Author)
Bryan Talbot was born in 1952. He has worked on underground
comics, science fiction and superhero stories such as Judge
Dredd and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. His books
include Alice in Sunderland, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes (with
Mary Talbot), the first graphic novel to win the Costa biography
award, and the Grandville series.
Mary Talbot (Author)
Mary Talbot is an internationally acclaimed scholar who has
published widely on language, gender and power, particularly in
relation to media and consumer culture. She is the co-author of the
graphic novels Dotter of her Father's Eyes and Sally Heathcote:
Suffragette.
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In her debut collection, twenty-five-year-old Daisy Johnson has
taken a swathe of the contemporary British landscape, recreated it
with combustible invention and stylistic bite, and forged a
sequence of startling new myths. They show the full force of a true
imagination at work – an imagination which makes these tales of
voracious desire, sex and animal instinct indelible, beautiful and
somehow true.
Daisy Johnson was born in 1990 and currently lives in Oxford.
Her short fiction has appeared in The Boston Review and The
Warwick Review, among others. In 2014, she was the recipient of
the 2014 AM Heath prize.
Jonathan Cape
Elanor Dymott
Ann Wroe
Silver and Salt
Six Facets Of Light
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 304
ISBN: 9780224094054
From one of the biggest-selling debut novelists of 2012 comes
a startling and unforgettable story of two sisters, and of the
lies a family tells in order to survive
‘There was a child in our courtyard. I saw a child there,
standing by the fountain. She was there, then she was gone.’
On the death of her father, a celebrated photographer, Ruthie
returns to his villa in remote, wild Greece. After 15 years in exile
she is welcomed by her older sister, Vinny. Together they build a
fragile happiness in their haven above the sea, until the arrival of
an English family at a neighbouring cottage, and one young girl in
particular, triggers a chain of events that will plunge both women
back into their dark pasts, and entirely derail their present lives.
This is a story of love and violence, and of what happens when a
child is lied to by someone who has their trust.
Elanor Dymott was born in Chingola, Zambia, in 1973. She was
educated in the USA and England and spent parts of her childhood
in South East Asia, where she later worked. She lives in London.
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price: £25
size: 210 x 163 mm
pages: 336
ISBN: 9781910702321
Meditiations on the mystery of light
Goethe claimed to know what light was. Galileo and Einstein both
confessed they didn’t. On the essential nature of light, and how it
operates, the scientific jury is still out. There is still time,
therefore, to listen to painters and poets on the subject. They, after
all, spend their lives pursuing light and trying to tie it down.
Six Facets of Light is a series of meditations on this most elusive
and alluring feature of human life. Set mostly on the Downs and
coastline of East Sussex, the most luminous part of England, it
interweaves a walker’s experiences of light in Nature with the
observations, jottings and thoughts of a dozen writers and painters
– and some scientists – who have wrestled to define and
understand light. From Hopkins to Turner, Coleridge to Whitman,
Fra Angelico to Newton, Ravilious to Dante, the mystery of light
is teased out and pondered on. Some of the results are surprising.
By using mostly notebooks and sketchbooks, this book becomes a
portrait of the transitoriness, randomness, swiftness, frustrations
and quicksilver beauty that are the essence of light. It is a work to
be enjoyed, pondered over, engaged with, provoked by; to be
packed in the rucksack of every walker heading for the sea or the
hills, or to be opened to bring that outside radiance within four
dark town walls.
Ann Wroe is the Briefings and Obituaries editor of The
Economist. She is the author of six previous works of non-fiction,
including Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man, which was
shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W.H. Smith
Award. She lives in north London.
Jonathan Cape
Sarah Lippett
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Stan and Nan
The Prime Minister of Paradise
price: £16.99
size: 262 x 204 mm
pages: 96
ISBN: 9780224102537
A graphic memoir to place beside Raymond Briggs’ bestselling
Ethel & Ernest
My nan wrote me many letters back in 2011. They were about the
love of her life, my grandad, Stanley Burndred. I’ve never met
him, he died long before I was born, but his drawings, paintings
and ceramics have been in my life for as long as I can remember.
Every wall of Nan’s house would be decorated by his artworks
and every windowsill bore his ceramic creations. Whenever we
visited Nan in the Black Country I would study the ornaments and
pictures, wondering who had made them. It wasn’t until I wrote to
Nan many years later, receiving in return beautiful handwritten
letters detailing his life, that it became apparent that the work was
his.
The letters were so beautiful I felt my nan’s story had to be told.
Stan and Nan is the story of an ordinary couple and the people
who loved them. The narrative follows their lives from Stan’s
working-class background, to his premature death, through to
Nan’s struggle to cope, and the perils of ageing. It is a memoir
about the importance of family, and about death, love, living and
human connection.
Sarah Lippett is an artist and author living in London. She is a
graduate of both the University of Brighton and the Royal College
of Art. Sarah has had the pleasure of illustrating for clients
including the New York Times, the Guardian, and Time Out. When
she’s not drawing or writing, she plays bass in an indie rock band
called Fever Dream. Stan and Nan is her first graphic novel.
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price: £20
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 250
ISBN: 9780224098144
The award-winning author of Pulphead chases one of the 18th
century’s most elusive Utopian figures, drawing on his
extraordinary narrative gifts to bring a lost history to vivid
life.
As a student working in the dusty archives of the Sewanee Review,
John Jeremiah Sullivan came across an article entitled ‘Lost
Utopia of the American Frontier’ and was immediately hooked on
the dramatic story of a lost book, an alternative history of the
South, a white Indian. It was a story he’d chase for the next two
decades.
In 1735, a charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist named
Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany under threat of arrest,
bound for colonial South Carolina. In the Cherokee village of
Grand Tellico, he created a Utopian society that he named
Paradise.
For six years, Paradise was governed by a set of revolutionary
ideas that included racial equality, sexual freedom, and a lack of
private property, ideas which he chronicled in a mysterious
manuscript he called Paradise.
Priber’s ideas were so subversive that he was hunted for half a
decade and eventually captured by the British – making headlines
across the world – and imprisoned until his death. The only copy
of Paradise was apparently destroyed.
Now, in a rare combination of ground-breaking research and
stunning narrative skill, award-winning writer John Jeremiah
Sullivan brings that lost history vividly to life.
John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York
Times Magazine and the southern editor of The Paris Review. He
writes for GQ, Harper's Magazine, and Oxford American, and is
the author of Blood Horses and Pulphead. Sullivan lives in
Wilmington, North Carolina.
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The Bodley Head
Lisa Randall
Paul Kalanithi
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding
Interconnectedness of the Universe
When Breath Becomes Air
price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 432
ISBN: 9781847923066
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price: £12.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 256
ISBN: 9781847923677
The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you’ll
ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning,
superstar physicist Lisa Randall
You are a young neurosurgeon. You have completed 11 years
of training. You are devoted to your work and on the brink of
a wonderful career.
66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space
hurtled into the Earth at incredible speed and destroyed the
dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the
planet.
Then you are diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day
you are a doctor making a living treating the dying, the next a
patient dying, struggling to live.
Where did it come from, and why? And how is this connected to
dark matter – the most mysterious, elusive stuff in the universe,
that interacts with gravity like ordinary matter but doesn’t emit or
absorb light. Astronomers know it’s there but it is literally
invisible.
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs tells the story of Big Bang theory,
cosmological inflation, the makeup of the universe and our solar
system’s place in it; it’s about mass extinctions through the ages,
what we know has hit the Earth and what might hit us in the future.
And it explores the radical idea that dark matter might ultimately
have been responsible for the dinosaurs’ extinction.
A horizon-expanding tour of the cosmos that blends what we know
about the universe with new thinking, Dark Matter and the
Dinosaurs is a book full of wonders, from a gifted scientist and
writer.
Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and the Frank B.
Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. She has
received numerous awards and honors and is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical
Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an
Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and an Honorary
Fellow of the Institute of Physics. She is the author of several
acclaimed books on physics.
You are a young neurosurgeon. You have completed 11 years
of training. You are devoted to your work and on the brink of
a wonderful career.
Then you are diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day
you are a doctor making a living treating the dying, the next a
patient dying, struggling to live.
What makes a virtuous and meaningful life? Paul Kalanithi
believed that the answer lay in medicine’s most demanding
specialization, neurosurgery. Here are patients at their life’s most
critical moment. Here he worked in the most critical place for
human identity, the brain. What is it like to do that every day; and
what happens when life is catastrophically interrupted?
When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable reflection on the
practice of medicine and the relationship between doctor and
patient, from a gifted writer who became both.
With a foreword by Dr Abraham Verghese and an epilogue by
the author’s wife, Lucy.
Paul Kalanithi graduated from the Yale School of Medicine, and
went on to become one of the most accomplished neurosurgeons in
his field, winning numerous awards and holding a position at
Stanford University. At the age of 36 Kalanithi was diagnosed
with terminal cancer. His reflections on doctoring and illness have
been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post and
The Paris Review Daily. Kalanithi died on March 9, 2015, aged
37.
The Bodley Head
Volker Ullrich
Lyndal Roper
Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889–1939
Martin Luther
price: £30
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 800
ISBN: 9781847922854
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price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 640
ISBN: 9781847920041
The first volume of the definitive biography of the Führer –
‘beautifully written … deeply and freshly researched … with a
finely balanced judgement’ (Richard J. Evans)
The first historical biography, for many decades, of Martin
Luther (1483–1546), whose rebellion against the authority of
the Church helped to create the modern world
Given his status as arguably the most despised political figure in
history, it is surprising that there have only been four serious
biographies of the Führer since the 1930s. Perhaps even more
surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in how he
came to power and how he exercised his leadership than in Hitler
the person.
When on 31 October 1517 an unknown monk nailed a theological
pamphlet to the church door in a small German university town, he
set in motion a process that ushered in the modern age. His
attempts to reform Christianity would split the Western Church,
divide Europe and polarise people’s beliefs, leading to religious
persecution, social unrest and war; in the long run his ideas would
help break the grip of religion on every sphere of life.
Yet to render Hitler as a political animal with no personality to
speak of, as a man of limited intelligence and poor social skills,
does little to explain the spell that he cast not only on those close
to him but on the German people as a whole. In the first volume of
this magisterial biography, Volker Ullrich sets out to correct our
perception of the Führer. While charting in detail Hitler’s life
from his childhood to the eve of the Second World War, Ullrich
unveils the man behind the public persona: his charming and
repulsive traits, his talents and weaknesses, his deep-seated
insecurities and murderous passions.
Volker Ullrich is a historian and journalist whose previous books
include biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a
major study of Imperial Germany, The Nervous Superpower,
1871–1918. From 1990 to 2009, Ullrich was the editor of the
‘Political Book’ review section of the influential weekly
newspaper, Die Zeit.
Yet Luther was a deeply flawed human being: a fervent believer
tormented by spiritual doubts; a prolific writer whose translation
of the Bible would shape the German language; a married ex-monk
who liberated human sexuality from the stigma of sin; a religious
fundamentalist, Jew-hater and political reactionary.
An acclaimed historian and a brilliant biographer, Lyndal Roper
reveals the often contradictory psychological forces that drove
Luther forward and the dynamics they unleashed, which turned a
small act of protest into a battle against the power of the Church.
Lyndal Roper holds the prestigious chair of Regius Professor of
History at Oxford: she is one of the most respected historians at
work in Britain today. An expert on early modern Germany, her
previous books include a study of witchcraft, Witch Craze:
Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (Yale, 2004).
The Bodley Head
Catherine Fletcher
Mark Thompson
Alessandro de’ Medici: The Black Prince of
Florence
Enough Said: Politics, Media and the Crisis in
Public Language
price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9781847922694
A dramatic story of murder, lust and megalomania in the
opulent, cut-throat world of Renaissance Italy
Alessandro de’ Medici is thought to be the first black head of state
in the modern West. This is the first biography in two hundred
years to tell the story of his spectacular life.
Between 1531 and 1537, Alessandro’s reign as prince of Florence
was as magnificently colourful as it was short. The bastard son of
a Medici duke and a ‘half-Negro’ maidservant, he was propelled
to power at the age of only nineteen after the grandest dynasty of
the Italian Renaissance lost its last legitimate heir. Betrothed to
the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, he faced down bloody
family rivalry and enormous hostility from Florence’s oligarchs,
who called him a womaniser and tyrant. Yet this real-life
counterpart to Machiavelli’s Prince kept his grip on power until
he was assassinated during a late-night assignation by his
scheming cousin.
From dazzling palaces and Tuscan villas to the treacherous
backstreets of Florence and the corridors of papal power, this
dramatic biography draws on extensive archival research to
overturn our perceptions both of the history of race and of the
Italian Renaissance.
Catherine Fletcher is Associate Professor in History and Heritage
at Swansea University. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker,
and advised on the TV production of Wolf Hall. She has held
fellowships at the British School at Rome and the European
University Institute, and has taught at Royal Holloway, Durham
and the University of Sheffield. Her first book, The Divorce of
Henry VIII: The Untold Story, was published by The Bodley
Head in 2012.
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price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9781847923127
How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour rolling
news? What was rhetoric historically and what should it be
now? And what does Coca Cola have in common with the
Taliban?
In the twentieth century, the biggest threat facing public language
seemed to be state censorship and control. Instead we find
ourselves living in the era not of Newspeak but of Twitter and
YouTube – an era of radical freedom of expression. We have
never had more access to information or more opportunity to
debate the issues of the day. So why has this revolution failed to
live up to its promise?
More than party or ideology, Lost for Words will argue that
changes in public language that are to blame for the division and
paralysis in our democracies.
Featuring Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, George Osborne and Ed
Balls, Fox News, Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin and many
more, Lost for Words shows how language is losing its power to
explain and connect, how an ominous gap is opening up across the
West between the governed and those that govern, and explains
what we must do to put that right.
Mark Thompson is CEO of the The New York Times Company and
has served as Chief Executive of Channel 4 and Director General
of the BBC.
The Bodley Head
K. Anders Ericsson
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
The Gene: An Intimate History
price: £20
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 304
ISBN: 9781847923196
The scientific truth behind what makes an ordinary person
achieve extraordinary things
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price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 384
ISBN: 9781847922632
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and
dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning
author Siddhartha Mukherjee.
What does it take to be the best – at anything?
Is it hidden deep within your genetic code?
Is it 10,000 hours of practise?
The key lies not in our genetic makeup, or the number of hours that
we spend in practise, but in how we practise – whether it be a
musical instrument, the study of medicine, the art of chess, or
running a marathon. It is the way in which we engage during
practise that separates the diligent amateurs from the true masters.
The brain is an astoundingly elastic organ, and we can adapt it to
create abilities that it didn’t previously have, through the act of
deliberate practise. Incredibly, you can teach yourself to have
perfect pitch, or lightning-fast reactions. In Peak, Professor
Ericsson unpacks the psychology and physiology behind how to
train our brains to make us become extraordinary.
Anders Ericsson is the Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of
Psychology at Florida State University. His research on expertise
has been widely cited in major newspapers and magazines, and he
speaks regularly to major international organisations, medical
schools, teachers and educational researchers, professional sports
teams, and military groups.
Spanning the globe and covering more than 150 years, the story of
the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in
1856. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution; collides
with the grim horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s; then dives
into turbulent contemporary debates about race, gender and
identity. Above all, it is a story driven by people—from Charles
Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick and James Watson
and scientists working now.
This is a magisterial, moving book by the author of The Emperor
of All Maladies, an internationally bestselling, prize-winning
writer who draws on his extensive scientific knowledge, but also
interweaves the personal history of his family’s struggle with
mental illness.
As we enter an age in which understanding the concept that gave
rise to modern biology is crucially important, The Gene gives us a
definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity—and a
vision of humanity’s past and future of human genetics.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is
the author of The Laws of Medicine and The Emperor of All
Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the 2011 Pulitzer
Prize in general nonfiction and the Guardian First Book Award.
Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia
University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University
Medical Center. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford
University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School.
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Harvill Secker
Gail Jones
Eva Dolan
A Guide to Berlin
After You Die
price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9781846559976
Five visitors to Berlin find their friendship shattered by a
sudden act of violence
We travel to find ourselves; to run away from ourselves.
‘A Guide to Berlin’ is the name of a short story written by
Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26,
living in Berlin.
A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese,
an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in
Berlin to share stories and memories. Each is enthralled in some
way to the work of Vladimir Nabokov, and each is finding their
way in deep winter in a haunted city. A moment of devastating
violence shatters the group, and changes the direction of
everyone’s story.
Brave and brilliant, A Guide to Berlin traces the strength and
fragility of our connections through biographies and secrets.
Gail Jones teaches literature, cinema and cultural studies at the
University of Western Australia. She is the author of Sixty Lights
which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Dreams of
Speaking and Sorry, both of which were longlisted for the Orange
Prize.
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price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 384
ISBN: 9781910701010
A mother murdered. A daughter left for dead. A village in
turmoil.
In the latest installment in Eva Dolan’s gripping series set in
the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit, her detective duo must
uncover who was the real target of the killer: mother or
daughter?
Dawn Prentice was already known to the Peterborough Hate
Crimes Unit.
The previous summer she had logged a number of calls detailing
the harassment she and her severely disabled teenage daughter
were undergoing. Now she is dead – stabbed to death whilst
Holly Prentice has been left to starve upstairs. DS Ferreira, only
recently back serving on the force after being severely injured in
the line of duty, had met with Dawn that summer. Was she
negligent in not taking Dawn’s accusations more seriously? Did
the murderer even know that Holly was helpless upstairs while
her mother bled to death?
Whilst Ferreira battles her demons, determined to prove she’s up
to the frontline, DI Zigic is drawn into conflict with an official
seemingly resolved to hide the truth about one of his main
suspects. Can either officer unpick the truth about mother and
daughter, and bring their killer to justice?
Eva Dolan is an Essex-based copywriter and intermittently
successful poker player. Shortlisted for the Crime Writers’
Association Dagger for unpublished authors when she was just a
teenager, her début novel Long Way Home, the start of a major
new crime series starring two detectives from the Peterborough
Hate Crimes Unit, was published in 2014 to widespread critical
acclaim.
Harvill Secker
Louis de Bernières
Ismail Kadare
Of Love and Desire
A Girl in Exile
price: £12.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 128
ISBN: 9781846558849
A beautiful gift book of poems on the subjects of love and
desire by one of the UK’s best-loved writers, author of
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.
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price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 208
ISBN: 9781846558467
A stunning, deeply affecting portrait of the lives of women
under communist dictatorship, ‘dedicated to the young
Albanian women who were born, grew up, and spent their
youth in internal exile’
Following the success of his first poetry collection, Imagining
Alexandria, Louis de Bernières’ second collection offers much of
the poetry that he has written about love and desire throughout his
life, under the influence, it seems, of everybody from the classical
Persian poets, to Neruda, to Quintus Smyrnaeus, to Brian Patten,
sometimes passionate and romantic, sometimes cynical and angry.
He captures all the moods from rapture to sorrow, to disillusion.
Stefa, a playwright, is called in for questioning by the Party
committee after an unknown girl, Linda B., is found dead with a
signed copy of his latest book in her possession. Stefa remembers
dedicating the copy to Linda’s friend, who has since become his
mistress. He soon learns that Linda’s family, considered suspect,
were banished from Albania and that the girl committed suicide.
Poetry was Louis de Bernières’ first and greatest literary love,
and he is particularly interested in exploiting the natural
musicality of language in order to create the emotional effect for
which he believes poetry ought to be striving. As you might expect
from someone who has made his name as a storyteller his poetry
is packed with narrative.
Gradually Linda’s story unfolds: how she loved Stefa, and
pretended to have cancer so she would be allowed back into the
country to be near him, before succumbing to despair. Told
through Stefa’s eyes, Kadare keeps us guessing, making us share
Stefa’s concern without knowing what really happened after
Linda’s death.
His hope is, that in reading these poems, you will find your own
experiences echoed and reflected, and that they will cause you to
think all over again about what they mean.
Louis de Bernières is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli’s
Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best
Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls
From Dreams, Birds Without Wings and A Partisan’s Daughter,
a collection of stories, Notwithstanding, and a collection of
poetry, Imagining Alexandria.
Ismail Kadare is Albania’s best-known poet and novelist.
Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty
countries. In 2005 he was awarded the inaugural Man Booker
International Prize.
Harvill Secker
Raphael Montes
Tim Parks
Perfect Days
Thomas and Mary: A Love Story
price: £15.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9781846559525
A brilliantly creepy, compelling and claustrophobic read-inone-sitting story about stalking, obsession and true love: The
Comfort of Strangers meets The Book of You with a touch of
The Talented Mr Ripley
Teo, a medical student, meets Clarice at a party. Teo doesn’t
really like people, they’re too messy, but he immediately realises
that he and Clarice are meant to be together. And if Clarice
doesn’t accept that? Well, they just need to spend some time
together, and she’ll come to realise that too.
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price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 352
ISBN: 9781910701157
A blackly comic novel about the dissolution of a long marriage,
from the bestselling author of Teach Us To Sit Still
‘Somehow it seemed to him the only thing that would really
solve the problem would be to return to the sea and find the old
ring with their names and the wedding date engraved inside, in
22-carat gold, and put it on again and then the world would
magically return to what it had been before. Many years before.
This did not happen.’
And yes, he has bought handcuffs and yes, he has taken her
prisoner and yes, he is lying to her mother and to his mother and to
the people at the hotel he’s keeping her at, but it’s all for her own
good.
Thomas and Mary have been married for thirty years. They have
two children, a dog, a house in the suburbs. But after years of
drifting apart, things – finally – come to a head.
She’ll understand. She’ll fall in love. She’ll settle down and be
his loving wife.
In this love story in reverse, Tim Parks recounts what happens
when youthful devotion has long given way to dog walking,
separate bed times, and tensions over who left the fridge door
open.
Won’t she?
Raphael Montes was born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro. A lawyer
and a writer, he has published short stories in various mystery
anthologies including the Brazilian Playboy magazine. Suicidas,
his debut novel, was a finalist for the Benvira Literature Prize in
2010, the Machado de Assis Prize awarded by the National
Library in 2012, and the São Paulo Literature Prize in 2013.
Lurching from comedy to tragedy, via dependence, cold reexamination, tenderness and betrayal, Thomas and Mary is a
fiercely intimate chronicle of a marriage – capturing the offshoots
of pain sent through an entire family, when the couple at its heart
decide it’s all over.
Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at
Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has
lived ever since.
He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays,
including Europa, Cleaver, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to
Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has won the Somerset Maugham,
Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for
the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan,
writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York
Review of Books, and his many translations from the Italian
include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and ...
Harvill Secker
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Simon Pasternak
Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5
Death Zones
price: £17.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 512
ISBN: 9781846558276
The fifth volume of Knausgaard’s internationally bestselling
My Struggle series
In this fifth volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s epic My Struggle
series Karl Ove moves to Bergen to attend a course at the Writing
Academy. It turns out to be a huge disappointment. He wants so
much, knows so little and achieves nothing. With no apparent
reason to feel a spirit of enterprise he continues his writing and
reading. Most of his contemporaries have their manuscripts
accepted and make their debuts as writers while he begins to feel
the best he can do is to write about literature.
Gradually his writing changes. His relationship with the world
around him changes too. This becomes a novel about new, strong
friendships and a serious relationship that transforms him until the
novel reaches the existential pivotal point: his father dies, Karl
Ove makes his debut as a writer and everything disintegrates. He
leaves for Sweden.
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first novel, Out of the World, was the
first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize and his
second, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely
acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle
cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The
My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece wherever it
appears.
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price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 336
ISBN: 9781846558504
Jonathan Littell meets Bret Easton Ellis in this harrowing
story of shifting loyalties, violence and greed in the Death
Zones of 1943 White Russia – told from the heart of a
floundering SS corps
‘Henceforth, in the death zones, all people are fair game .’
SS Polizieführer, Belorussia, 1943
As the Battle of Kursk rages to the east and the tide turns against
the Nazi offensive, Belorussia is declared a death zone –
unleashing a terrifying onslaught on the civilian population.
When a visiting General and his wife are murdered, seemingly in
a partisan attack, SS retailation promises to be swift and
merciless. Oberleutnant Heinrich Hoffmann is charged with
finding the culprit, at whatever cost. His only witness: a six-yearold local girl, scared witless.
In the man-hunt that follows, Heinrich struggles to retain his
humanity in the face of shifting loyalties, violence, and deadly SS
politics, amid the chaos of total war.
Simon Pasternak is a Danish author, screenwriter and publisher
living in Copenhagen. He is the co-author of a bestselling crime
series with Christian Dorph, and has co-written two feature films
including the historical thriller, The Idealist. Death Zones is his
first solo novel, for which he drew inspiration from his own
family history and Jewish roots in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels
from Danish, including works by Peter Høeg, Jussi Adler-Olsen
and Pia Juul, and his translations of short stories and poetry have
appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012 he was
awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia
Christensen Translation Prize.
Harvill Secker
Rebecca Asher
Álvaro Enrigue
Man Up
Sudden Death
price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9781910701065
Society's expectations of men and boys today are bad for all of
us: this engaging, urgent and accessible book calls for change
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price: £14.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 256
ISBN: 9781846558832
A funny and mind-bending novel about the clash of empires
and ideas in the sixteenth century, told over the course of one
dazzling tennis match
'Why should equality just be for girls?' Lauren Laverne
The pressures of growing up today absorb the media, politicians,
campaigners and parents, but why is the experience of half our
young people so often excluded from the picture?
In our growing obsession with physical and educational perfection
and the gap between the myth of ‘having it all’ and the difficulty of
attaining any of it, the plight of girls is compellingly portrayed and
passionately debated. Yet boys suffer too from these and other
stresses - many of them fuelled by narrow, rigid notions of
masculinity – and their hardship is often dismissed or overlooked.
Young men are reluctant to give voice to their troubles, despite a
startling rise in unhealthy attitudes towards sexual relationships,
fixation with body image, unhappiness with macho culture,
difficulties at school and in entering the workforce and mental
health issues.
Man Up lifts the lid on the social, sexual and educational
pressures faced by boys and young men. It reveals the resulting
confusion and wasted potential that can hamper men’s fulfillment
in later life. It calls for a more proactive, compassionate and
affirming approach from parents, schools, services and the wider
community so that all boys have the chance to become happier
men and decent citizens, partners and fathers. Above all, through
uplifting testimony and case studies it shows that change is
possible.
Rebecca Asher has worked in television news and current affairs
and as the Deputy Editor of Woman’s Hour and an Executive
Producer at BBC Radio 4. Her first book was Shattered: Modern
Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality. She lives in London
with her husband and children.
Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match, with the bawdy
Italian artist Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo
battling it out in Rome before a crowd that includes Galileo, Mary
Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw Europe
into flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII execute
Anne Boleyn, and her wily executioner transforms her legendary
locks into the most sought-after tennis balls of the time. Across the
ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec emperors play their own games,
as conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and
lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, fight and fuck, not
knowing that their domestic comedy will change the course of
history. And in a remote Mexican colony a bishop reads Thomas
More’s Utopia and thinks that instead of a parody, it’s a manual.
Worlds collide, time coils, traditions break down. There are
assassinations and executions, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bawdy
criminals, carnal liaisons and papal dramas, artistic and religious
revolutions, love and war. A blazingly original voice and a
postmodern visionary, Álvaro Enrigue tells the grand adventure of
the dawn of the modern era, breaking down traditions and
upending expectations, in this bold, powerful punch of a novel.
Game, set, match.
Álvaro Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City.
He has taught at New York University, Princeton University, the
University of Maryland and Columbia University. Sudden Death his first novel to be translated into English - was awarded the
prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska
International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for
Fiction, and has been translated into many languages.
Harvill Secker
Erik Axl Sund
Abir Mukherjee
The Crow Girl
A Rising Man
price: £20
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 768
ISBN: 9781846557569
The Crow Girl is an unputdownable and terrifying thriller with
two striking women as its centre and a series of plot twists
that will leave you open mouthed. Dare you read?
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price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 400
ISBN: 9781846559013
THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION
Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland
Yard detective new to India, is confronted with a highly
charged case: a senior British official has been found
murdered, in his mouth a note warning the British to quit India,
or else...
It starts with just one body – tortured, mummified and then
discarded.
The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime
writing competition
Its discovery reveals a nightmare world of hidden lives. Of lost
identities, secret rituals and brutal exploitation, where nobody can
be trusted.
Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new
arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his
experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to
head up a new post in the police force. But with barely a moment
to acclimatise to his new life or to deal with the ghosts which still
haunt him, Wyndham is caught up in a murder investigation that
will take him into the dark underbelly of the British Raj.
This is the darkest, most complex case the police have ever seen.
This is the world of the Crow Girl.
Erik Axl Sund is the pseudonym for 2 authors who have been
friends and collaborators for years: Jerker Erikson and Axlander
Håkan Sundquist. Håkan is a sound engineer, musician and artist,
while Jerker was a music producer and currently works as a
librarian in a prison. Both live in Sweden. Originally written as a
trilogy before being re-worked for the English language markets
The Crow Girl is their first book. The complete trilogy received
the 'Special Award' from the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers
in 2012, with the academy highlighting the trilogy's 'hypnotically
captivating psychoanalysis in crime fiction form.'
A senior official has been murdered, and a note left in his mouth
warns the British to quit India: or else. With rising political
dissent and the stability of the Raj under threat, Wyndham and his
two new colleagues – arrogant Inspector Digby and Britisheducated, but Indian-born Sargeant Banerjee, one of the few
Indians to be recruited into the new CID – embark on an
investigation that will take them from the luxurious parlours of
wealthy British traders to the seedy opium dens of the city.
The start of an atmospheric and enticing new historical crime
series.
Abir Mukherjee was born in London, but spent most of his
childhood in Glasgow. A graduate of the LSE, he currently works
in finance in the City.
Harvill Secker
Rachel Aspden
Henning Mankell
Generation Revolution: On the Frontline Between
Tradition and Change in the Middle East
Quicksand
price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 256
ISBN: 9781846557637
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price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9781846559945
Generation Revolution asks: what will the Middle East look
like in 15 years, when this generation is in charge? From the
shisha cafes of Cairo, via Emirati studios and boardrooms to
the austere madrassas of Yemen and Saudi Arabia, it unravels
the questions that baffle westerners.
A fascinating memoir-of-sorts from the legendary writer &
campaigner for human rights: Quicksand is a collection of
micro-essays exploring what it is to be human, covering topics
as varied as Henning's cancer diagnosis, art, jealousy, Ice
Ages past and present, and the future of our planet
As westerners watched the uprisings ignite on their TV and
computer screens, many realised for the first time that the young
people leading them seemed much 'like us'. They wanted
democratic government – and they wore Levis and Nikes, ate at
KFC, McDonalds and Pizza Hut and used Twitter and Facebook.
The most visible were university graduates fluent in English. But
it was not long before less familiar characteristics began to
emerge. Most were increasingly devoted to religion as a guide to
all aspects of life, from private to public. Many held strongly antiwestern views. Some dreamed of creating an entirely Islamic
society.
In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer.
Why are educated, tech-savvy young Arabs increasingly hostile to
the west? Why is conservative Islam booming on campuses and
among young professionals? Who are the religious scholars,
online gurus and billionaire businessmen influencing their beliefs?
And how do we understand people who may watch the same TV
shows and eat the same fast food as us, but whose values and
choices can seem so unlike ours?
This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago
chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And
about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the
bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years.
Rachel Aspden was born in London in 1980. She moved to Cairo
to study Arabic and work as a trainee journalist in 2003 and spent
the next several years travelling and writing about Islam and
politics in Yemen, Pakistan and across the Middle East. After a
period as the literary editor of the New Statesman, in 2010 she
was awarded a Winston Churchill fellowship to research Islamic
education while crossing Sudan and north India. Following the
Arab spring uprisings in 2011, she moved back to Egypt. She has
written for the Guardian, New Statesman and Prospect magazine.
And, not least, about the great zest for life, which came back when
I managed to drag myself out of the quicksand that threatened to
suck me down into the abyss.
However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction,
but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey
from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key
events in my life, and about the people who have given me new
perspectives. About men and women I have never met, but wish I
had.
I write about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about
what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness.
It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live,
and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life.
Henning Mankell (1948-2015) became a worldwide phenomenon
with his crime writing, gripping thrillers and atmospheric novels
set in Africa. His prizewinning and critically acclaimed Inspector
Wallander Mysteries continue to dominate bestseller lists all over
the globe and his books have been translated into forty-five
languages and made into numerous international film and
television adaptations: most recently the BAFTA-award-winning
BBC television series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh ...
Harvill Secker
Milena Busquets
Lili Wright
This Too Shall Pass
Dancing with the Tiger
price: £9.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 164
ISBN: 9781910701072
A lively, sexy, honest, and moving novel set on the idyllic
Spanish coast, about a woman facing life in her forties
Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shocked at the
unexpected loss of the most important person in her life, she
suddenly realises that she has no idea what her future will look
like.
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price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 336
ISBN: 9781846559969
Indiana Jones meets The Sister Brothers in this exuberant and
energetic battle for ownership of a priceless Aztec death mask
which is unearthed by a meth addicted looter, sold to a dying
crime lord, stolen at gunpoint, traded and fought for.
The death mask of Montezuma. A priceless artefact.
Lost. Looted. Sold. Stolen. Traded. Hunted. Wanted. Needed.
To deal with her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to sex,
her dearest friends, her closest family, and a change of scenery.
Leaving Barcelona behind, she returns to her mother’s former
home in Cadaqués on the coast, accompanied by her two sons, two
ex-husbands, and two best friends, with plans to meet her married
lover. Though she is haunted by both the past and the present,
Blanca embarks on a new sort of journey alongside those she
loves most, one of resilience and hope, teaching her to live on
with the knowledge that even the most devastating pain will
eventually subside.
Wryly funny, wistfully romantic, grief-stricken, and raw, This Too
Shall Pass is at once an unforgettable meditation on loss and on
love, and a timeless story of what it means to find a way forward
and to truly, happily live on one’s own terms.
Milena Busquets was born in Barcelona where she attended the
Lycée Français de Barcelone. She obtained a degree in
archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at University
College London, began work in publishing, and has since founded
her own publishing house. She currently works as a journalist and
as a translator.
A meth-addicted looter, a ruthless drugs baron, an opportunistic
henchman, an obsessive ex-pat art dealer and at the centre of this
tangled web, Anna. Anna, whose life is spiralling out of control,
Anna, whose charming fiancée has been cheating on her, Anna,
who has just discovered her father’s credibility as a renowned art
collector is in ruins and her own reputation as a fact checker is in
tatters.
But she has a chance to redeem herself, to restore both her and her
father. She needs to go to Mexico, find the mask, and bring it to
America where it will form the focal point of a new exhibition.
Against a backdrop of heat and colour and danger, she must
negotiate with criminals, flatter the powerful and take her life in
her hands.
Because other people want that mask – and they will stop at
nothing to get it.
Lili Wright spent ten years as a journalist in New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut, Utah and Mexico. Her work has appeared in
newspapers across the US, including the New York Times and the
Baltimore Sun. A graduate of Columbia University's M.F.A.
program, she currently teaches creative writing and journalism at
DePauw University and lives in Greencastle, Indiana, with her
husband and daughter.
Harvill Secker
Karin Fossum
Stefan Hertmans
Hell Fire
War and Turpentine
price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9781846559402
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price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 336
ISBN: 9781846558818
The latest intricate psychological crime novel in the awardwinning Inspector Sejer series, books beloved for their deep
insight into the human mind
A set of notebooks, left unopened for thirty years, leads to a
personal story of love, war and art, for fans of W.G. Sebald
and Pat Barker
Inspector Konrad Sejer is called to investigate the double murder
of a mother and her young son. They have been found, knifed
repeatedly, in a worn-out caravan on a remote piece of land. A
bloody footprint is discovered.
Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather Urbain
Martien gave his grandson a set of notebooks containing the
detailed memories of his life. He grew up in poverty around 1900,
the son of a struggling church painter who died young, and went to
work in an iron foundry at only 13. Afternoons spent with his
father at work on a church fresco were Urbain’s heaven; the iron
foundry an inferno.
Meanwhile, another mother, dying of cancer, confesses to her 21year-old son that he is adopted. The man who abandoned them,
whom the boy has become obsessed by, is not his real father.
Delving deep into the vagaries of family and why we lie, Fossum
expertly intertwines their stories, forcing us to question what
drives people to commit the most horrific of crimes.
Karin Fossum has won numerous awards, including the Glass Key
Award for the best Nordic crime novel, an honour shared with
Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo, and the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize. Her highly acclaimed Inspector Sejer series has been
published in more than thirty countries.
During the First World War, Urbain was on the front line
confronting the invading Germans, and ever after he is haunted by
events he can never forget. The war ends and he marries his great
love, Maria Emelia, but she dies tragically in the 1919 flu
epidemic. Urbain mourns her bitterly for the rest of his life but,
like the obedient soldier he is, he marries her sister at her parents'
bidding. The rest is not quite silence, but a marriage with a sad
secret at its heart, and the consolations found in art and painting.
War and Turpentine is the imaginative reconstruction of a
damaged life across the tumultuous decades of the twentieth
century; a deeply moving portrayal of family, grief, love and war.
Stefan Hertmans is the author of several literary works,
including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories and a
handbook on the history of art. He has taught at the Royal
Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, at the Sorbonne, the Universities
of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, at The Library of Congress in
Washington, and University College London.
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Yellow
Jersey
Yellow Jersey
Jo Pavey
Tim Moore
This Mum Runs
Hitting the Wall: Cycling the Iron Curtain Trail (on an
East German Shopping Bike)
price: £18.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780224100427
The inspirational story of Jo Pavey, the runner that mums and
the mum that runs
‘My life is different now. My priorities are different. I used to
plan my day around running. Now I grab a pack of mini
cheddars in the car before a long run because I haven’t had
time to think about anything else. I eat food my daughter Emily
has dropped from the highchair to the floor, like every other
mum.’
Jo Pavey was forty years old when she won the 10,000m at the
European Championships. It was the first gold medal of her career
and, astonishingly, it came within months of having her second
child.
The media dubbed her ‘Supermum’, but Jo’s story is in many ways
the same as every mother juggling the demands of working life
with a family – the guilt, the sleepless nights, the endless nappy
changing, the euphoric highs and the desperate early-morning
lows. The only difference is that Jo is a full-time athlete pushing a
pram on her training runs, fitting in her core work on the sitting
room floor while her daughter has her lunchtime nap, and leaving
her children to build sand castles in the long jump pit while she
hits the track.
Heartwarming and uplifting, The Running Adventures of a
Supermum follows Jo’s roundabout journey to the top and is
packed full of hard-won advice whether you’re an amateur jogger
looking to get fit, or a seasoned veteran hoping to knock a few
seconds off your PB. It is the inspiring yet everyday story of a
mum that runs and a runner that mums.
Jo Pavey has represented Britain at every Olympics since Sydney
2000 and is hoping for a squad place for Rio 2016, where
unbelievably she will be forty-three years-old! As well as
winning gold at the European Championships over 10,000m, Jo
has won a host of other accolades, most notably she came third in
the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014.
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price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 368
ISBN: 9780224100205
A hideously over-ambitious challenge on doomed machinery:
Tim Moore, author of Gironimo!, cycles the length of the old
Iron Curtain
Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the
9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, twogeared East German shopping bike.
Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off from the northernmost
Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter’s brutal height,
bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively
sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland.
Sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces and unreconstructed
Soviet youth hostels, battling vodka-breathed Russian hostility,
Romanian landslides and a diet of dumplings, Moore and his ‘sosmall bicycle’ are sustained by the kindness of reindeer farmers
and Serbian rock gods, plus a shameful addiction to Magic Man
energy drink.
Haunted throughout by the border detritus of watchtowers and
rusted razor wire, Moore reflects on the curdling of the
Communist dream, and the memories of a Cold War generation
reared on the fear of apocalypse – at a time of ratcheting EastWest tension.
After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the
centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea
beach in Bulgaria, older and wiser, but mainly older.
Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the
Observer, The Sunday Times and Esquire. He is the author of
Gironimo!, French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps,
Nul Points, I Believe In Yesterday and You Are Awful (But I Like
You). He lives in London.
Yellow Jersey
Jon Hotten
The Meaning of Cricket: or How to Waste Your Life
on an Inconsequential Sport
price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9780224100182
An exploration of what it is about the peculiar game of cricket
that so takes hold of the imagination from the writer of the
popular blog, The Old Batsman
Cricket is unique among sports in its psychological aspect. It does
strange things to you. It is a team game that is almost entirely
dependent on individual performance: indeed, at any moment,
almost ninety percent of one side is not taking part. In its
combination of time, opportunity, a constant threat of disaster, and
its ability to drive its participants to despair, cricket is unrivalled.
To survive a single delivery propelled at almost one hundred
miles an hour takes the body and brain to the edges of their
capabilities, yet its abiding image is of the village green, and the
glorious absurdities of the amateur player.
In this book, Jon Hotten attempts to understand this fascinating,
frustrating and complex game. By blending encounters with
legends, from Vivian Richards to Brian Lara, Kevin Pietersen to
Ricky Ponting, with a more personal story he reveals the funny,
moving and melancholic impact the game can have on an
individual life.
Jon Hotten has been called ‘one of the best cricket writers on
earth’ by All Out Cricket magazine. He is the writer behind the
popular The Old Batsman blog, which counts Gideon Haigh and
Mike Atherton among its readers. He also writes about the game
for the Guardian, the Nightwatchman, Wisden’s quarterly
magazine, and ESPN Cricinfo, the world’s biggest cricket
website.
He is the author of Muscle and The Years of the Lotus.
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Windus
Chatto & Windus
A Little, Aloud with Love
D.J. Taylor
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in Britain Since
1918
price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 464
ISBN: 9781784740078
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price: £20
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 512
ISBN: 9780701186135
An anthology of prose and poetry selected for reading a little,
aloud, to someone you love
Gossipy journalists, revolutionary poets, political novelists and
influential professors: a fascinating history of taste in literary
culture over the last century
‘O tell me the truth about love.’ W.H. Auden
What do we mean when we talk about ‘taste’?
Many of the most popular works in the English language celebrate
love in all its forms: that heady first flush, the agony of heartbreak,
joyful reunions, the love of a parent for a child… And what better
way to share these beautiful pieces than to read them aloud, to
someone you love?
'Taste’ takes countless forms. There is the exclusive taste of
highbrow critics such as T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis. There is the
taste of ordinary book lovers persuaded to buy the best-sellers of
the day. And there is the taste of Virginia’s Woolf’s elusive
‘common reader’. A taste that in the days of the Victorian reading
public was founded on shared standards but now, in the age of
Twitter and the blogosphere, is fragmenting into chaos.
Research has shown that being read to makes us healthier and
happier, it enriches our hearts and minds. Bring real pleasure with
poetry and prose, favourites and new discoveries, especially
chosen to be shared. Read ‘Our places by the fire place’ to a
parent, ‘My love is come to me’ to a partner, ‘Most near, most
dear’ to a child or ‘A need to reach out sometimes’ to a friend.
Discover Haruki Murakami’s quirky take on love at first sight and,
alongside it, enjoy the immortal wisdom of Walt Whitman.
‘Reading aloud is pleasure. Pure pleasure.’ Stephen Fry ‘Reading
aloud is an activity that everyone can take part in. It sharpens the
intellect, invigorates the imagination and enlarges the scope of
human sympathy. If we all read aloud every day, the world would
be a better place.’ Philip Pullman
The publisher is donating all royalties from this book to The
Reader, the leading UK agency for reading and health.
Angela Macmillan (Author)
The Reader is a national charity dedicated to bringing about a
reading revolution by making it possible for people of all ages,
backgrounds and abilities to enjoy and engage with literature on a
deep and personal level. Their Shared Reading groups, in which
books and poems are always read aloud, reach across all ages,
demographics and settings from nurseries and schools to care
homes, via hospitals, mental health settings and prisons. The
organisation started on Merseyside but has since expanded across
...
Spanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles
fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists
to the political in-fighting of the Thirties, the arrival of the
upwardly mobile post-war ‘New Man’ and the impact of creative
writing degrees and the media don, The Prose Factory explores
the myriad influences on English literary life in the past century
and the way in which they have shaped our preferences.
It is also a tale of personalities – ‘star reviewers’, sniping critics,
caballing editors, crusading ideologues, megalomaniac
professors, Arts Council functionaries – a tale of dazzling
successes and embittered failures in which gossip and intrigue are
as important as intellectual zeal. Above all, it is a study of change.
We live in a world where is ever more difficult for professional
writers to make a living, where the dangers of institutionalisation
lurk on every corner and where critical authority is giving way to
the whims of cyberspace. Wide-ranging and controversial, as
interested in the newspaper essayist and the bookclub best-seller
as the view from Mount Olympus, The Prose Factory is the book
that D.J. Taylor was born to write.
D.J. Taylor wrote his first paid book review – for The Spectator
– the week after he came down from university. Over the course of
the next three decades he has produced enough literary journalism
...
Chatto & Windus
Laura Cumming
Lynn Knight
The Vanishing Man: In pursuit of Velazquez
The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives
price: £18.99
size: 216 x 153 mm
pages: 304
ISBN: 9780701188443
A captivating and mysterious tale of an obsessive Victorian
bookseller whose fate was changed forever by the greatest
painter of all time
The life of the Spanish master Velázquez, a painter who spent
almost all his career immured in the Madrid court, is interwoven
with that of John Snare, a nineteenth-century printer and
bookseller from Reading, who gave everything to own a portrait
of a royal prince by the artist, but whose passion for his picture
would lead him to ruin and exile. As Observer art critic Laura
Cumming tracks the lives of Velázquez and Snare (the details of
which are scant and elusive) she finds herself on the scent of
Snare’s lost portrait by the Spanish painter and makes a most
surprising discovery…
The Vanishing Man is an innovative dual biography that becomes
an unexpected detective story. Travelling from the Spanish and
Papal courts of the seventeenth century via the courtrooms of
nineteenth-century Edinburgh and the garrets of Manhattan, it is a
gripping depiction of how and why great works of art can affect
us, even to the point of mania. Most movingly, it is an evocation of
some of the greatest paintings of all time by an author who is an
eloquent and passionate admirer, and brings us closer to the
creation and appreciation of Velázquez’s works than ever before.
Laura Cumming has been the art critic of the Observer since 1999.
Previously, she was Arts Editor for the New Statesman, presenter
of Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3, and arts producer at the BBC
World Service. Her previous book, A Face to the World: On
Self-Portraits, received widespread critical acclaim.
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price: £15.99
size: 216 x 153 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780701188917
The story of women in the twentieth century told through the
clothes they wore and the buttons they collected
I used to love the rattle and whoosh of my grandma’s buttons as
they scattered from their Quality Street tin.
An inlaid wooden chest the size of a shoe box holds Lynn Knight’s
button collection. A collection that has been passed down through
three generations of women: a chunky sixties-era toggle from a
favourite coat, three tiny pearl buttons from her mother’s first
dress after she was adopted as a baby, a jet button from a time of
Victorian mourning. Each button tells a story.
‘They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us’
said Virginia Woolf of clothes. The Button Box traces the story of
women at home and in work from pre-First World War
domesticity, through the first clerical girls in silk blouses, to the
delights of beading and glamour in the thirties to short skirts and
sexual liberation in the sixties.
Lynn Knight was born in Derbyshire and lives in London. The
women of her family, who have passed on many stories along with
beaded bags and buttoned gauntlets, fostered her interest in the
texture and narratives of women's lives. She is also the author of
the biography Clarice Cliff (2005), and a memoir, Lemon Sherbet
and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family (2011).
Chatto & Windus
Fiona Sampson
Juliet Nicolson
The Catch
A House Full of Daughters
price: £10
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 80
ISBN: 9781784740658
Crystalline poems of beauty and risk, from T.S. Eliot and
Forward Prize shortlisted poet, Fiona Sampson
The poems of Fiona Sampson’s latest new collection are of quiet
attention and devastating clarity – paying full attention to slices of
life and states of mind – delicately hewn patterns of patience and
grace, exquisitely observed. Their lightness and dark hang
perfectly balanced, their lucidity and understated power both
remarkable and memorable.
Here is a masterwork of renewal, beauty and risk, from a poet of
tremendous power.
Fiona Sampson’s poetry books include Rough Music (2010),
shortlisted for the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes, and Common
Prayer (2007), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Coleshill,
a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She has received a
Cholmondeley Award, the Newdigate Prize, the Zlaten Prsten
(Macedonia), Writer’s Awards from the Arts Councils of England
and of Wales, and from the Society of Authors, and is a Fellow
and Council Member of the Royal Society of Literature. She is
Professor of Poetry at the University of Roehampton, where she
edits the international quarterly, Poem.
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price: £14.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 352
ISBN: 9780701189303
What effect does the past really have on the present?
Historian Juliet Nicolson sets out to uncover her family's past,
and makes significant discoveries about herself in the process
All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet
Nicolson accepted hers – the dangerous beauty of her flamenco
dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of
her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her
grandmother Vita, her mother’s Tory-conventional background.
But then Juliet, a renowned historian, started to question. As she
did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets
long held just out of sight.
A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of
women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of
fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during
the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that
was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet
as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and
where she has come from.
A House Full of Daughters is one woman’s investigation into the
nature of family, memory, the past – and, above all, love. It brings
with it messages of truth and hope for us all.
Juliet Nicolson is the author of two works of history, The Great
Silence: 1918–1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War and
The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911, and a novel,
Abdication. As the grand-daughter of Vita Sackville-West and
Harold Nicolson and the daughter of Nigel Nicolson she is part of
a renowned and much scrutinised family and the latest in the
family line of record-keepers of the past. She lives with her
husband in East Sussex, not far from Sissinghurst, where she spent
her childhood. She has two daughters, Clemmie and Flora, and
one grand-daughter, Imogen.
Chatto & Windus
Sarah Bakewell
Margaret Forster
At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and
Apricot Cocktails
How to Measure a Cow
price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 300
ISBN: 9780701186586
Another brilliant, offbeat, warm and idiosyncratic biography
from Sarah Bakewell, author of HOW TO LIVE: this time to
the existentialists in Paris. Featuring Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone
de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidigger, Edmund
Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Maurice Mearleau-Ponty and others
'When you look through the window of existentialism, the first
thing you see is a busy café scene, with clinking glasses and
rattling cups, the hubbub of conversation, and lights glittering
off the windows. You notice a particularly large table in front,
with a dumpy, wall-eyed man and an elegant woman in a turban,
smoking, surrounded by friends. But many other people are
coming and going too...'
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price: £14.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 240
ISBN: 9781784740665
Can we ever really re-invent ourselves, start again, or will the
past catch up with us wherever we hide?
Tara Fraser leaves London to start a new life in a Cumbrian town
selected at random. She plans to obliterate her past, which
contains a shocking event that had serious consequences, by
becoming a completely different personality from her previous
volatile self. She is going to be quiet, even dull, and very private.
But one of her new neighbours, Nancy, is intrigued by her. She
wants to become her friend. Equally determined not to be
discarded are three old friends who Tara feels let her down when
she most needed them.
It is 1933, at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montaparnasse in
Paris, where three friends are drinking apricot cocktails, and
talking about freedom and existence.
Tara fights to keep herself to herself, but can she do it? And does
she really want to? Slowly, reluctantly, she discovers the dangers
of trying to supress the past and reject other people.
It is the story of a young group of thinkers, writers, artists, lovers,
friends, rivals. It is the story of encounters – the moment where
one thinker bumps against another and goes away changed in some
way – and also the story of some spectacular falling-outs.
Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster is the author of many
successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had
Enough?, Lady's Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There
Anything You Want?, Keeping the World Away and Over. She has
also written bestselling memoirs – Hidden Lives, Precious Lives
and, most recently, My Life in Houses – and biographies. She is
married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lives in
London and the Lake District.
But it’s also a story of rebellion; of war; of change; of liberation.
At the Existentialist Café is the story of existentialism as a story
of meetings – of people and of ideas. It is a warm, witty and
engaging biography of a philosophy about life that also changed
lives, and one that tackled the biggest questions of all: what we
are and how we are to live.
This is the story of the birth of modern existentialism: a
philosophy international in origin and scope, but distinctly
Parisian in flavour.
Sarah Bakewell was a teenage existentialist, having been swept
off her feet by reading Sartre's Nausea, aged 16. She is the author
of three biographies, including How to Live: A Life of Montaigne,
which won the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction, and the ...
Chatto & Windus
Luke Dittrich
Lisa Stromme
Patient H.M.: A Family's Secrets, the Ruthless
Pursuit of Knowledge, and the Brain that Changed
Everything
The Strawberry Girl
price: £17.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 384
ISBN: 9780701187132
Meet Patient H.M., he has a memory of just thirty seconds. In
the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Luke
Dittrich uncovers the history of neuroscience, his own family’s
dark secrets and the story behind one of the most important
operations in the history of medicine.
In the summer of 1953 neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville
performed a ground-breaking operation on a 27-year-old epileptic
patient named Henry Molaison. The operation helped control
Molaison’s intractable seizures, but it also left him with a shortterm memory of just thirty seconds. The story of Patient H.M., as
he came to be known, is the story of how we came to understand
memory, and one of the most significant in the history of modern
medicine.
Scoville’s grandson, award-winning journalist Luke Dittrich,
takes us from the gleaming laboratory analysing Molaison’s
disembodied brain, to the archives of the decrepit New-England
asylum where his grandfather first developed a taste for human
experimentation. Dittrich’s rich, kaleidoscopic investigation
delves into the grim secrets of his own family, and reveals how
the bright future of modern neuroscience has dark roots in the
forgotten history of psychosurgery, raising ethical questions that
echo into the present day.
Luke Dittrich is a contributing editor at Esquire, and his work has
been widely anthologized. In 2012 he won the American National
Magazine Award for feature writing. This is his first book.
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price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 332
ISBN: 9781784740580
A vivid and bewitching debut novel set in the 1890s, in the
small Norwegian coastal town of Åsgårdstrand, narrated by a
young woman who is witness to the tumultuous love affair that
led Edvard Munch to paint ‘The Scream’.
The ‘Strawberry Girl’ is Johanne Lien, whose simple life of
gathering berries to sell to tourists and posing barefoot for visiting
artists changes dramatically when she is sent to work for a
wealthy naval family. There she is befriended by the admiral’s
youngest daughter, Tullik Ihlen, who is desperate for sexual and
emotional adventure.
Johanne acts as a go-between for Tullik – who secretly meets and
seduces Munch, a controversial artist struggling to find success,
and whose habits the local community regard as ‘sinful’. As
Johanne is drawn ever deeper into the raw emotion of Munch’s
paintings and his highly charged relationship with Tullik, she is
forced to pay the price for concealing the liaison. The crisis that
results when the truth emerges will end Johanne’s innocence,
undermine Tullik’s sanity and potentially destroy Munch’s work
and the little that is left of his reputation.
Just as Tracy Chevalier approached an artist and his work through
fiction to great effect so Lisa Strømme places Munch and ‘The
Scream’ in fascinating context to create an intense and surprising
love story.
Lisa Strømme was born in Yorkshire in 1973, and lives in
Norway, not far from Åsgårdstrand, with her Norwegian husband
and their two children. The Strawberry Girl is her first novel.
Chatto & Windus
Rose Tremain
Yewande Omotoso
The Gustav Sonata
The Woman Next Door
price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 256
ISBN: 9781784740030
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price: £12.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 352
ISBN: 9781784740337
A gripping story of the struggle for love and the healing power
of lasting friendship from a master storyteller
Two wickedly funny old women show us it's never too late to
find friendship
It is the tutor who tells the young Gustav that he must try to be
more like a coconut – that he needs a hard shell to protect the
softness inside. This is what his native Switzerland has perfected
– a shell to protect its neutrality, to keep its people safe. But his
beloved friend, Anton, doesn’t want to be safe – a gifted pianist,
he longs to make his mark in the world outside.
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is
black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive
careers. Both have recently been widowed. Both are living with
questions, disappointments, secrets. And both are sworn enemies,
sharing hedge and hatred and pruning both with a vim and zeal that
belies the fact that they are both over eighty.
On holiday one summer in Davos, the boys stumble across a
remote building. Long ago, it was a TB sanitorium; now it is
wrecked and derelict. Here, they play a game of life and death,
deciding which of their imaginary patients must burn. It becomes
their secret.
But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. And
gradually the sniping and bickering softens into lively debate, and
from there into memories shared and, finally, just possibly, into
something that looks a bit like a (rather spiky) form of friendship.
The Gustav Sonata begins in the 1930s, under the shadow of the
Second World War, and follows the boys into maturity, and
middle age, where their friendship is tested as never before.
Rose Tremain’s bestselling novels have won many awards,
including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread
Novel of the Year (Music & Silence), the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger (Sacred Country).
Restoration was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1989 and
made into a film in 1995. The sequel, Merivel, was published to
rapturous acclaim in 2012, and the Telegraph described the
character of Robert Merivel as ‘one of the great imaginative
creations in English literature of the past fifty years’. Rose
Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and was appointed Chancellor
of the University of East Anglia in 2013. She lives in Norfolk and
London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.
Yewande Omotoso was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria,
moving to South Africa with her family in 1992. She is the author
of Bom Boy, published in South Africa in 2011. In 2012 she won
the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author
and was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction
Prize. In 2013 she was runner-up to NoViolet Bulawayo in the
inaugural, pan-African Etisalat Fiction Prize. She lives in
Johannesburg, where she writes and has her own architectural
practice.
Chatto & Windus
Helen Mort
Emma Cline
No Map Could Show Them
The Girls
price: £10
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 80
ISBN: 9781784740641
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price: £12.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9781784740443
The brilliant second collection from Next Generation Poet,
T.S. Eliot and Costa shortlisted poet, Helen Mort
California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a
floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught
up in unthinkable violence, and a decision made at this
moment, on the cusp of adulthood, will shape her life....
'When we climb alone
en cordeé feminine,
we are magicians of the Alps –
we make the routes we follow
disappear.'
Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969,
empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of
honeysuckle thickens the air and the sidewalks radiate heat.
Helen Mort's riveting second collection is inspired by her two
greatest passions: mountaineering and running.
Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair, long and
uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings
like a second set of knuckles. The girls.
In odes to the young women who tramped the Alps in their skirts
and petticoats, long hemlines and ‘fashionable shoes’, here are
poems inspired by Miss Jemima Morrell, a young woman from
Yorkshire, who was the first Victorian woman to scale the Swiss
peaks. At the heart of the collection lies the breathtaking sequence
‘Black Rocks’, dedicated to Alison Hargreaves, the British
climber who perished at the face of K2.
And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt
track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords.
Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways.
These are distinctive and unforgettable poems of passion and
precipices, of edges and extremes. No Map Could Show Them
confirms Helen’s position as one of the finest young poets at work
today.
Emma Cline is from California. Her fiction has appeared in Tin
House and The Paris Review. She was the recipient of the 2014
Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction.
Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985, and grew up in nearby
Chesterfield. Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award,
she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and won the
Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. In 2010, she became the
youngest ever Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust,
Grasmere. Her first collection, DIVISION STREET (2013), was
shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Poetry Award, and
won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. In 2014, she
was named as a 'Next Generation Poet', the prestigious accolade
announced only once every ten years, recognising the 20 most
exciting new poets from the UK and Ireland.
Was there a warning, a sign of things to come? Or is Evie already
too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be
changed forever?
Chatto & Windus
Gavin Knight
The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall's
most dangerous stretch of coast
price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 304
ISBN: 9781784740153
Gavin Knight has caught the stories of the last frontiersmen,
the Cornish fishermen --the dreamers and fighters, the lost
and the saved, the timeless and the new
The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The
Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of
grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the 21st
century. It is revealed as a microcosm of Britain, a Middlemarch,
with the drama and increasing precariousness of life there
resonating far beyond its shores.
Gavin Knight has caught the stories of dreamers and fighters, of
the lost and the saved, the timeless and the new – and above all, of
those last frontiersmen, the Cornish fishermen. Cornwall and the
seas around its coasts are brought to life, mixing pubs and drugs
and sea spray, moonlit beaches and shattering storms, myth and
urban myth. The result is an arresting tapestry of a place we
thought we knew; the real Cornwall behind our holiday snaps and
picture postcards.
Based on immersive research and rich with the voices of a cast of
remarkable characters, this is an eye-opening, poignant account of
life on Britain’s most dangerous stretch of coastline from one of
Britain’s most promising young non-fiction writers.
Gavin Knight’s first book, Hood Rat, was shortlisted for the
Orwell Prize and the Crime Writer’s Association Non-fiction
Dagger in 2012. To research it, he spent two years with criminals,
frontline police units and gang members from the inner cities of
Britain. His work has appeared in publications including The
Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Prospect, Newsweek, New
Statesman and Esquire; and he has appeared on BBC, CNN, ITN,
Channel Four News and Sky News. This is his second book.
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Rob Eastaway & Mike Askew
Jacky Fleming
Maths on the Go: 101 Fun Ways to Play with Maths
The Trouble With Women
price: £9.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 208
ISBN: 9780224101622
101 fun maths games and activities for ages 4 to 14
Need some help with addition? Play a game of Salute
Having trouble with times tables? Try Times Table Donk
Floundering with fractions? Get creative cutting up the toast with
your kids at breakfast
Busy mums or dads are crying out for quick and easy ways to
help their children with primary school maths and beyond. Here
are 101 simple tips, games and activities to make practising
maths as engaging and enjoyable as possible, for you and your
child. All can be incorporated into the everyday routine – at home
and on the go – with minimal fuss and no expensive kit – helping
children have fun with numbers. Indeed, most of the time they
won’t even realise that maths is involved. Sneaky!
Areas covered include, addition and subtraction, multiplication
and division, fractions, ratio and proportion, telling the time,
estimation, measurement, geometry and shapes, with an emphasis
on problem solving throughout.
Rob Eastaway (Author)
Rob Eastaway has written several bestselling books that connect
maths with everyday life, including Why do Buses Come in
Threes?, the bestselling Maths for Mums and Dads for parents
with primary schoolchildren, and More Maths for Mums and
Dads for parents with teenage children. He appears regularly on
the radio and has given talks about maths across the UK to
audiences of all ages, at locations ranging from the Royal
Exchange Theatre to Pentonville Prison. Married with three
children, he lives in south London.
Mike Askew (Author)
Mike Askew is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Until
recently he was Professor of Primary Education at Monash
University, Melbourne and previously Professor of Mathematics
Education at King's College, University of London. A former ...
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price: £8.99
size: 178 x 110 mm
pages: 96
ISBN: 9781910931097
Iconic cartoonist Jacky Fleming returns with her first book in
over 10 years
The trouble with women is that for centuries they have done
nothing at all worth mentioning. Not one tiny solitary thing. This is
probably because, as the celebrated male genius Charles Darwin
attested, their brains are far smaller than those of men. But the
problem isn’t just their tiny brains. As John Ruskin, another
celebrated male genius, famously pointed out, what little intellect
they do have is best used in praise, not invention or creation.
1066 and all that quite rightly omits women altogether, as they
have done nothing of note in history. This book puts the women
back in, but only in their proper place, of course – behind curtains,
trussed up in corsets, kneeling in subservience. It offers a timely,
witty reminder that women haven’t done that much, ever,
particularly in comparison to all those male geniuses we learnt
about in school.
Jacky Fleming was born in London in 1955, and attended the
North London Collegiate School for Girls. She discovered
feminism studying Fine Art at Leeds University, recalling later that
'a lot of the things in my life started to make sense once I applied
some sort of feminist understanding to it.' Her first published
cartoons appeared in 1978, on the cover and centre pages of the
feminist magazine Spare Rib. Fleming’s work has also appeared
in The Big Issue, Cover, Gloss, The Guardian, Independent on
Sunday, New Internationalist, New Statesman & Society, and
Red Pepper. Fleming’s most recent cartoon book, Demented, was
published in 2004.
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Alice Hart
Allie Brosh
The New Vegetarian
Solutions and Other Problems
price: £25
size: 246 x 189 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780224101493
Wholesome and healthy - this modern vegetarian bible has
over 200 recipes for tempting food which will make you feel
amazing
Wholefood has come a long way. The vegetarian option is no
longer a sad side-dish of limp vegetables. But these rapid changes
in trends can be confusing. Is raw the same as vegan? Should we
go 'grain-free' or experiment with ancient grains? What does
plant-based really mean? Is sugar the bad guy these days?
Alice Hart is a food expert and an incredible cook (as well as a
vegetarian). Delicious healthiness is intrinsic to her cooking but
she doesn't subscribe to one particular fad. So this book covers
the full range of nourishing vegetarian food, with chapters on
Mornings, Raw and Healthy, Gatherings, Amazing Grains,
Grazing, Dinners and Afters. With recipes from raw thai salad, to
hearty quesadillas, to vegan almond and blood orange cake this
book will speak to everyone who loves feel-good food.
Alice Hart is a food stylist and writer who has written three
cookbooks, including Vegetarian which was a bestseller
internationally. Formerly food editor at Waitrose Food
Illustrated, she has written about food for publications including
the New York Times, the Guardian, The Times and the Telegraph.
She lives in Brighton and is currently setting up a cookery school
at her home where she also runs an occasional pop-up called The
Hart and Fuggle. She travels widely and has a keen eye for
international flavours like South Asian and Vietnamese.
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price: £10.99
size: 211 x 140 mm
pages: 384
ISBN: 9780224101288
Allie Brosh, the 'gut-bustingly funny' (NPR), award-winning,
and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hyperbole and a
Half, shares an all-new collection of autobiographical and
illustrated essays.
‘Funny and smart as hell’ Bill Gates
Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely
popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.
Her whole new collection once again showcases her unique
voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions
with deceptively simple illustrations.
Allie Brosh lives as a recluse in her bedroom in Denver,
Colorado. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller
Hyperbole and a Half which was named the Goodreads Choice
Award Winner for Best Humour Book of the Year. Brosh has also
given herself many prestigious awards, including 'fanciest horse
drawing' and 'most likely to succeed'.
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Stephen Moss
Clare Lattin
Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain¹s Wildlife
The Wisdom of Simple Cooking: The Ducksoup
Cookbook
price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 304
ISBN: 9780224095655
Britain’s wildlife is in trouble. Wild creatures that have lived
here for thousands of years are disappearing, because of pollution
and persecution, competition with alien species, changing farming
and forestry practices, and climate change.
It’s not just rare creatures such as the Scottish wildcat or the red
squirrel that are vanishing. Hares and hedgehogs, skylarks and
water voles, even the humble house sparrow, are in freefall. But
now, at last, there is hope.
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price: £20
size: 260 x 195 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9780224101578
Recipes and stories from a tiny Soho restaurant kitchen
Buried in the heart of bustling Soho is Ducksoup, a small, simple
restaurant serving delicious small plates of exactly what you might
want to eat, at any time of day. There's wine by the glass, served
by people who know exactly what they are talking about, to eat
alongside a small plate of mozzarella, cavalo nero and chilli, or
perhaps a more substantial supper of wild boar ragu pappardelle.
Author and naturalist Stephen Moss has travelled the length and
breadth of the United Kingdom to see just how Britons are fighting
back to save the wildlife they love. In Newcastle, he sees otters
that have returned to the river Tyne and red kites flying over the
Metro centre; in Devon, beavers on the River Otter; and in
London, peregrines – the fastest living creature on the planet –
which have taken up residence in the capital.
This cookbook aims to bring this simple, pared back approach to
cooking out of the restaurant and into your kitchen. Recipes draw
inspiration from Italy to the Middle East, and range from simple
three-ingredient, tear-them-up, chuck-them-on-the plate
assemblies to unwind-as-you-stir lengthier dishes for a feast with
loved ones, or simply for yourself at the end of a very long day.
Along the way, learn the power of natural flavour enchancers like
burnt lemon, labneh and green sauce, and how to make your own.
Elsewhere in the British countryside things are changing too. What
were once nature-free zones are being ‘rewilded’; giving our wild
creatures the space they need – not just to survive, but also to
thrive.
The best sort of cooking is the frequently the simplest sort;
whether in a restaurant or a kitchen. This is a book to prove this
and teach you exactly how to do it, all in the comfort of your own
home.
As Britain’s wildlife begins its long, slow fightback, perhaps,
Stephen Moss argues, we are beginning to realise that nature is no
longer a bolt-on luxury – and that it is absolutely essential for our
well being, both as individuals and as a nation.
A book publicist for over 10 years, Clare Lattin is the co-owner
and co-founder of Ducksoup and its sister restaurant, Rawduck.
Stephen Moss is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and
author. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit
his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannica and The
Nature of Britain. His books include A Bird in the Bush, A Sky
Full of Starlings, The Bumper Book of Nature and Wild Hares
and Hummingbirds. Originally from London, he now lives with
his wife and children on the Somerset Levels.
Square Peg
Farida Abbas
Georgina Hayden
The Girl Who Beat Isis: Farida's Story
Stirring Slowly: Recipes to Restore and Revive
price: £16.99
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9781910931011
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price: £20
size: 246 x 189 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9780224101653
The astonishing true story of a heroic young woman's capture
and eventual escape from ISIS
Food to bolster, comfort and nourish: a book which celebrates
the virtues and benefits of stirring something, slowly
In August 2014, Farida Abbas was just a normal Yazidi girl,
living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her
village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her
whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and the
boys of her village, including her father and brothers, before
taking Farida prisoner along with the rest of the women.
Whether it is a steaming bowl of your favourite pasta after being
caught in a downpour or a crisp salad on a hot day, we all know
that food has the power to restore, revive and rejuvenate.
This is the story of what happened to Farida after she was
captured: the beatings, the rapes, the markets where ISIS sold their
female prisoners like cattle, and Farida's realisation that the more
difficult and resistant she became, the harder it was for her
captors to continue their atrocities against her. So she struggled,
she bit, she kicked, she accused her captors of going against their
religion, and then, one day, the door to her room was left
unlocked. She took her chance along with 5 other women, and set
out across the Syrian desert ...
This is a story of incredible courage in the face of unthinkable
atrocity. As the battle against ISIS continues to ravage the Middle
East, The Girl Who Beat Isis provides an astonishing perspective
on this very terrifying global threat.
But it isn't just about the food on the plate: it's about how it got
there. Cooking also has the power to turn a day (or a week, or a
month, or a year) around. Focussing the mind on one activity and
making the disparate collection of ingredients on your kitchen
counter into something delicious can make the biggest (or the
smallest) of problems seem far away. And what's more, what you
end up with serves a purpose. It nourishes you inside and out.
Stirring Slowly celebrates time spent in the kitchen. Wile away a
happy hour or more folding a batch of pork and prawn gyozas,
kneading pastry for a chicken and leek pie, or flipping some apple,
ricotta and hazelnut pancakes. There are recipes for every
occasion, but, most of all, there are recipes for those everyday inbetween times when, actually, you just want to cook something,
and you want it to be really good.
Georgina is a food writer, stylist and illustrator from North
London. Raised above her grandparents Greek Cypriot restaurant
in Kentish Town, Georgina inherited her passion for cooking and
baking from her two talented Yiayias, and cake loving mum. After
leaving art school she worked for a year on Delicious and
Sainsbury’s magazines and then moved to the Jamie Oliver team
where she has now been for over eight years. She documents her
everyday life on her instagram page: @georgiepuddingnpie and
her recipes on her blog georginahayden.com
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Howard Jacobson
Anne Tyler
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice
Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold
(Hogarth Shakespeare)
price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9781781090282
Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish
life revisits Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
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price: £16.99
size: 216 x 135 mm
pages: 224
ISBN: 9781781090183
Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen
today? Find out in this funny, off-beat version from one of our
most beloved novelists
AS SEEN ON BBC IMAGINE
‘You can’t get around Kate Battista as easily as all that’
‘Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?’
With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art
collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of
someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in
Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s
the beginning of a remarkable friendship.
Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative
Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of
Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV
series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery and lavish parties.
She shares prejudices and a barbed sense of humour with her
loyal friend D’Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve
Strulovitch’s daughter – and put a pound of flesh on the line.
Howard Jacobson’s version of The Merchant of Venice bends
time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a
Jew and a merciful human being in the modern world.
Howard Jacobson has written fourteen novels and five works of
non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award in
2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time.
In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question
and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for his most recent
novel, J. Howard Jacobson’s first book, Shakespeare’s
Magnanimity, written with the scholar Wilbur Sanders, was a
study of four Shakespearean heroes. Many books later he has
returned to Shakespeare with a contemporary interpretation of The
Merchant of Venice – 'the most troubling of Shakespeare's plays
for anyone, but, for an English novelist who happens to be Jewish,
also the most challenging.'
Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house
and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty
younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work – her
pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don’t always
appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner.
Dr Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic
wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research
could help millions. There’s only one problem: his brilliant young
lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr…
When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable
Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying – as usual – on Kate to
help him. Kate is furious: this time he’s really asking too much.
But will she be able to resist the two men’s touchingly ludicrous
campaign to win her round?
Anne Tyler’s retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a
thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever
sacrifice herself for a man. Its answer is as individual, off-beat
and funny as Kate herself.
Anne Tyler is the author of twenty bestselling novels. Her most
recent, A Spool of Blue Thread, was a Sunday Times bestseller
and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and
the Man Booker Prize. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the
Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognises a
lifetime’s achievement in books, as well as being nominated by
Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as ‘the greatest novelist writing in
English’.
Vinegar Girl sees Anne Tyler going behind the scenes of one of ...
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Nik Cohn
Stella Gibbons
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: Pop from the
Beginning
Pure Juliet
price: £8.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9781784870485
'The definitive history of rock 'n' roll' Rolling Stone
Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple
purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had written
a serious book on the subject before, and there were no reference
books or research to refer to. The result is an unruly, thrilling and
definitive history of an era, from Bill Haley to Jimi Hendrix, full
of guts, flash, energy and speed. In vividly describing the music
and cutting through the hype, Nik Cohn engendered and perfected a
new form: rock criticism.
Nik Cohn was brought up in Derry, Northern Ireland. His books
include I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo, Ball the
Wall, The Heart of the World, Need and Triksta: Life and Death
and New Orleans Rap. He also wrote the story that gave rise to
Saturday Night Fever and collaborated on Rock Dreams and
Twentieth Century Dreams with the artist Guy Peellaert. He lives
in New York.
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price: £8.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 352
ISBN: 9781784870270
Never before published, the lost novel by the bestselling
author of Cold Comfort Farm
Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.
No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother.
And clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons and what
other people think - none of these things seem to matter to Juliet.
She spends hours in her room with incomprehensible
mathematical text books, her mind voyaging in strange seas of
thought, alone. Is she a genius? It might take the rest of her life to
find out.
While Stella Gibbons was celebrated for her beloved bestseller
Cold Comfort Farm, the manuscript for Pure Juliet lay unseen
and forgotten until it was brought to light by her family in 2014,
and is published here for the first time in Vintage Classics. A tale
that travels from an eco-millionaire's British country idyll to an
Arabian Nights-style fantasy of the Middle East, this is a treat for
fans of this witty, curious and always surprising author.
Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North
London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University
College, London. She then worked for ten years on various
papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the
author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and
four volumes of poetry. Her first publication was a book of
poems, The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold
Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for
1933. Among her works are Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
(1940) Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
(1959) and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature in 1950. In 1933 she married the actor
and singer Allan Webb. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons
died in 1989.
Vintage Classics
Euripides
Tom Payne
Bacchae
The Ancient Art of Growing Old
price: £6.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 112
ISBN: 9780099577386
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price: £7.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 176
ISBN: 9780099573180
A bold new translation of this shockingly modern classic work
by Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson
An original, accessible exploration of Greek and Latin wisdom
on age and ageing
Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy, has come to Thebes, and the
women are streaming out of the city to worship him on the
mountain, drinking and dancing in wild frenzy. The king, Pentheus,
denouces this so-called 'god' as a charlatan. But no mortal can
deny a god and no man can ever stand against Dionysus.
Bette Davis said ‘Old age ain’t no place for sissies’. If that’s true,
we could all use a little help as we approach our twilight years.
This stunning translation, by the award-winning poet Robin
Robertson, reinvigorated Euripides' devastating take of a god's
revenge for contemporary readers, bringing the ancient verse to
fervid, brutal life.
Euripides is thought to have lived between 485 and 406 BC. He is
considered to be one of the three great dramatists of Ancient
Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is particularly
admired by modern audiences and readers for his characterization
and astute and balanced depiction of human behaviour. Medea is
his most famous work.
Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. He is
the author of three collections of poetry: A Painted Field (1997),
winner of the 1997 Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection),
the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and the Saltire Society
Scottish First Book of the Year Award; Slow Air (2002); and
Swithering (2006). He is also the editor of Mortification:
Writers' Stories of their Public Shame (2003). In 2004, he was
named by the Poetry Book Society as one of the 'Next Generation'
poets, and received the E. M. Forster Award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. Robin Robertson's third poetry
collection, Swithering (2006), was shortlisted for the 2005 T. S.
Eliot Prize and won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry
Collection of the Year). In 2013 Robin Robertson was awarded
the Petrarca-Preis. He lives and works in London.
Translator Tom Payne turns to Cicero, Ovid, Seneca, Hippocrates,
Plato, Aristotle, and Aristophanes to learn what the wisest minds
of antiquity could tell us about the pleasures and pains of old age.
His discoveries are not always palatable (old age is an incurable
disease) or inspiring (you’ll live longer if you don’t go to dinner
parties), but in the surviving works of the classical world there is
also comforting, invigorating and poignant counsel on mental
decline, medicine, late love affairs, death and legacy.
Presented in a modern, accessible and playful tone, this lively tour
around ancient attitudes to ageing, supplemented by a translation
of Cicero’s On Old Age, reveals the true art of growing old
gracefully.
Tom Payne was born in 1971. He read Classics at Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge and was deputy literary editor of the Daily
Telegraph. He now lives with his wife and four children in
Dorset, where he teaches English and Classics at Sherborne
School, and Latin at the Gryphon School. His previous books are
Fame: from the Bronze Age to Britney, and a verse translation of
Ovid's The Art of Love (both in Vintage).
Vintage Classics
Raymond Williams
Homer and Caroline Alexander
The Country And The City
The Iliad
price: £9.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 400
ISBN: 9781784870829
A groundbreaking work of social, literary and intellectual
history by the godfather of the ‘New Left’
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price: £25
size: 234 x 153 mm
pages: 576
ISBN: 9781784870560
A stunning new translation of Homer's great war epic, the
legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the
Trojan War
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TRISTRAM HUNT
Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly
powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication,
power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent,
peaceful, backward countryside. Examining literature since the
sixteenth century, Williams traces the development of our
conceptions of these two traditional poles of life. His
groundbreaking study casts the country and city as central symbols
for the social and economic changes associated with capitalist
development.
Raymond Williams was born in 1921 in the Welsh border village
of Pandy, and was educated at the village school, at Abergavenny
Grammar School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After
serving in the war as an anti-tank captain, he became an adult
education tutor in the Oxford University Delegacy for Extra-Mural
Studies. In 1947 he was an editor of Politics and Letters, and in
the 1960s was general editor of the New Thinker’s Library. He
was elected Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1961 and
was later appointed University Professor of Drama.
His books include Culture and Society (1958), The Long
Revolution (1961) and its sequel Towards 2000 (1983);
Communications (1962) and Television: Technology and
Cultural Form (1974); Drama in Performance (1954), Modern
Tragedy (1966) and Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (1968); The
English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence (1970), Orwell (1971)
and The Country and the City (1973); Politics and Letters
(interviews) (1979) and Problems in Materialism and Culture
(selected essays) (1980); and four novels – the Welsh trilogy of
Border Country (1960), Second Generation (1964) and The
Fight for Manod (1979), and The Volunteers (1978).
Raymond Williams was married in 1942, had three children, and
...
High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on
the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody
war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a
legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men
languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate
people await the next turn of fate.
This is the Iliad: an ancient story of enduring power; magnetic
characters defined by stirring and momentous speeches; a
panorama of human lives locked in a heroic struggle beneath a
mischievous or indifferent heaven. Above all, this is a tale of the
devastation, waste and pity of war.
Caroline Alexander's virtuoso translation captures the rhythms and
energy of Homer's original Greek while making the text as
accessible as possible to a modern reader, accompanied by
extensive extra material to provide a background to the poem.
The result of three thousand years of story-telling, Homer’s epic
has resonated with every age and every human conflict: this is the
Iliad at its most electrifying and vital.
Caroline Alexander is the author of seven books of non-fiction
including the international bestsellers The Endurance:
Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition and The Bounty:
The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. A contributing
writer for National Geographic Magazine, Alexander has also
written for the New Yorker, Smithsonian and Granta among other
publications. Alexander’s latest books are Lost Gold of the Dark
Ages: War, Treasure and the Mystery of the Saxons and The War
That Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Iliad and the Trojan
War. Between 1982 and 85, Alexander established a department
of Classics at the University of Malawi, in central-east Africa.
Vintage Classics
Thomas Savage
Erich Maria Remarque
The Power of the Dog
The Promised Land
price: £8.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 304
ISBN: 9781784870621
A powerfully tense tale of domestic tyranny set against the
wild open spaces of the American West - another rediscovered
classic from the publishers of Stoner
Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of
the biggest ranch in their Montana valley.
Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular;
George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a
voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly,
and devotes himself to the business.
Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to
match his thirst for dominance; George has a gentle, loving soul.
They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for
forty years.
When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her
to live at the ranch, Phil begins an relentless campaign to destroy
his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely
protector.
From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an
ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip.
WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULX
Thomas Savage was born on 25 April 1915 in Salt Lake City,
Utah, to a large sheep-ranching family. His parents divorced when
he was two years old, and on his mother’s remarriage Savage
moved with her to Montana. He studied at the University of
Montana and worked as a ranch hand for several years, but when
an article he wrote on horse-breaking was published in Coronet
magazine in 1937, Savage enrolled at Colby College in Maine to
study English. He went on to have a variety of jobs, including
welder, insurance man and plumber as well as teaching English at
Brandeis and Vassar. His first novel, The Pass, was published in
...
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price: £7.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 384
ISBN: 9780099577096
The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All
Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving
account of an emigrant's experience of New York during
World War II
From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks
across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New
York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years
of wandering through a perlious, suffering Europe.
Remarque's final novel, left unfinished at his death, tells of the
precarious life of the refugee – life lived in hotel lobbies, on false
passports, the strange, ill-assorted refugee community held
together by an unspeakable past. For Somner, each new luxury ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new
suit, a new romance - has a bittersweet edge. Memories of war
and inhumanity continue to resurface even in this peaceful
promised land.
A haunting snapshot of a unique time, place and predicament, this
is another powerful comment from Remarque on the devastating
effects of war.
Erich Maria Remarque was born in 1899. He fought and was
injured in the trenches in the First World War when he was
eighteen years old. He was exiled and his works were burnt by the
Nazis. He lived in America and Switzerland and married and
divorced his first wife twice before marrying the celebrated
Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard. He published several
novels after All Quiet on the Western Front, the most famous of
which is The Road Back. He died in 1970.
Vintage Classics
Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West
All Passion Spent
Pepita
price: £8.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9781784870553
Life begins at 88: a widow escapes her overbearing family and
discovers the unexpected freedoms of old age
When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his
dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her
six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a
rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom,
revives her youthful ambition to become an artist and gathers some
very unsuitable companions. Irreverent, entertaining and insightful,
this is a tale of the unexpected joys of growing older.
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, known as Vita, was born in 1892
at Knole in Kent, the only child of aristocratic parents. In 1913 she
married diplomat Harold Nicolson, with whom she had two sons
and travelled extensively before settling at Kent’s Sissinghurst
Castle in 1930, where she devoted much of her time to creating its
now world famous garden. Throughout her life Sackville-West
had a number of other relationships with both men and women,
and her unconventional marriage would later become the subject
of a biography written by her son Nigel Nicolson. Though she
produced a substantial body of work, amongst which are writings
on travel and gardening, Sackville-West is best known for her
novels The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931), and
for the pastoral poem The Land (1926), which was awarded the
prestigious Hawthornden Prize. Sackville-West died on 2 June
1962 at her Sissinghurst home, aged 70.
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price: £9.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 282
ISBN: 9781784871161
A colourful family history - scandal, perjury, forgery,
passionate love affairs and class conflict - and a revealing selfportrait of the author herself, the extraordinary Vita
Sackville-West
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSON
Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line
of extraordinary women – Pepita tells their stories. Her
grandmother Josefa, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her
fortune as a dancer and then had a scandalous affair with an
English diplomat. Their illegitimate daughter Victoria, Vita's
mother, spent her childhood hidden in a convent but went on to be
the glamorous mistress of Knole, one of the grandest old houses in
England. Vita brings her legendary wit, passion and eccentricity to
this colourful family portrait.
Vintage Classics
Vita Sackville-West
Dave Goulson
The Edwardians
A Sting in the Tale (The Birds and the Bees)
price: £8.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9781784870546
A glittering portrait of fashionable Edwardian high society,
seen through the lives of a brother and sister torn between
their ties to the past and the lure of the modern era
Sebastian is the heir of Chevron, a vast and beautiful English
country estate. As such he is a fixed part of an eternal round of
lavish parties, intrigues, traditions and fashions at the cold,
decadent heart of Edwardian high society. Everyone knows the
role Sebastian must play, but Sebastian isn't sure he wants the
part. His sister Viola, meanwhile, scorns every part of her
inheritance and is searching for a way out. The brave new world
of the twentieth-century offers both escape and destruction.
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price: £9.99
size: 178 x 129 mm
pages: 288
ISBN: 9781784871116
The Birds and the Bees series from Vintage Classics beautiful editions of the finest British nature writing
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics
by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs
inspired by the natural world
As a small boy, Dave Goulson was obsessed with wildlife, from
his childhood menagerie of exotic pets to his ill-fated experiments
with taxidermy. But it was the bumblebee that fascinated him the
most. The short-haired bumblebee is now extinct in the UK, but
still lives in the wilds of New Zealand, descended from a few
queen bees shipped over in the nineteenth century. With groundbreaking research into these curious creatures, A Sting in the Tale
tells the story of Goulson’s passionate drive to reintroduce them to
their native land.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Dave Goulson studied biology at Oxford University and is now
Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex. He
has spent the last 20 years studying bumblebees, and has published
over 200 scientific articles on their biology. He founded the
Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006. A Sting in the Tale was
published by Jonathan Cape in 2013 and was shortlisted for the
Samuel Johnson Prize. A Buzz in the Meadow was published in
2014.
Vintage Classics
Sean Borodale
Mark Cocker
Bee Journal (The Birds and the Bees)
Crow Country (The Birds and the Bees)
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price: £9.99
size: 178 x 129 mm
pages: 112
ISBN: 9781784871130
price: £9.99
size: 178 x 129 mm
pages: 224
ISBN: 9781784871123
Bee Journal is a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the
life of the hive. It observes the living architecture of the comb, the
range and locality of the colony; its flights, flowers, water
sources, parasites, lives and deaths. Because of its genesis as a
working journal, there is here an unusual intimacy and scrutiny of
life and death in nature. The language is dense and clotted, the
imagery thrillingly fresh, and the observing eye close, scrupulous
and full of wonder.
One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of
rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk
home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he
watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower
above the woods, these gloriously commonplace birds were
unsheathed entirely from their ordinariness. They became for
Cocker a fixation and a way of life. Journeying across Britain,
experiencing spectacular failures alongside magical successes and
epiphanies, Cocker uncovers the mysteries of these birds' inner
lives.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 T. S. ELIOT POETRY PRIZE
Sean Borodale works as a poet and artist, making scriptive and
documentary poems written on location; this derives from his
process of writing and walking for works such as Notes for an
Atlas (Isinglass 2003) and Walking to Paradise (1999). Bee
Journal is his first collection of poetry. He lives in Somerset.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2008 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Mark Cocker is one of Britain's foremost writers on nature and
contributes regularly to the Guardian and other publications. All
of his seven books, including the universally acclaimed Birds
Britannica, deal with modern responses to wilderness, whether
found in landscape, human societies or in other species. His latest
book, Crow Country, was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson
Prize 2008 and won the New Angle Prize for Literature 2009. He
is currently working with the photographer David Tipling on their
joint magnum opus, Birds and People. He lives deep in the
Norfolk countryside with his wife Mary Muir and their two
daughters.
Vintage Classics
Helen Macdonald
Tim Dee
H is for Hawk (The Birds and Bees)
The Running Sky (The Birds and the Bees): A BirdWatching Life
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price: £9.99
size: 178 x 129 mm
pages: 320
ISBN: 9781784871109
price: £9.99
size: 178 x 129 mm
pages: 272
ISBN: 9781784871147
inspired by the natural world.
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a
falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed
with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for
£800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge,
ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this
wildest of animals. Her story is an unflinchingly honest account of
Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the
hawk's taming and her own untaming.
Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland
and ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart
of England, Tim Dee maps his own observations and encounters
over four decades of tracking birds across the globe. He tells of
near-global birds like sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic
species, like electrically coloured hummingbirds in California and
bee-eaters and broadbills in Africa. Dee restores us to the
primacy of looking, and takes us outside, again and again, to
marvel at what is flying about us.
WINNER OF THE 2014 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator, historian and
affiliate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at
the University of Cambridge. Her books include Falcon (2006)
and Shaler’s Fish (2001).
Tim Dee was born in Liverpool in 1961. He has worked as a BBC
radio producer for twenty years and divides his life between
Bristol and Cambridge. This is his first book.
Vintage Classics
Angela Carter
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Black Venus
price: £7.99
size: 198 x 129 mm
pages: 144
ISBN: 9780099480716
Eight short works of fiction by one of Britain's greatest and
most original writers.
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe,
occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based
on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and
reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus,
trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a
little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe,
with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed
how right his friends were when they said 'No man is safe who
drinks before breakfast.'
And some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the
seventeenth century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving,
who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the
Indians, who have nothing worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by
wolves, strange and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate
returning to humanity.
Angela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention,
literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious
collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life
itself.
Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United
States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was
published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the
John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the
Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.
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