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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FICTION2
CRIME
12
HISTORY 16
POLITICS17
BIOGRAPHY 21
ARTS 24
SPORTS 25
POETRY 26
HUMOUR 31
MUSIC/FILM 35
REFERENCE 36
TRAVEL 38
CLASSICS 39
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FICTION
Elizabeth Buchan
I CAN’T BEGIN TO TELL YOU
Would you lie to the man you love to protect someone
who won’t even tell you his name?
Denmark, 1940.
For British-born Kay Eberstern, safely enveloped in the comfort
of her husband Bror’s country estate, war is a distant reality—until
the Nazis invade her adopted country.
With Bror determined to preserve the legacy of his family home,
even if it means collaborating with the enemy, Kay is forced to
decide where her loyalties truly lie. Drawn into a covert world of
intelligence, resistance and sacrifice—and into a relationship with
‘Felix’, an enigmatic SOE agent—she learns that nothing is simple
in wartime, and no one is above suspicion.
Even those you love most.
ELIZABETH BUCHAN’s previous novels include Light of the
Moon, the prizewinning Consider the Lily, the New York Times
bestseller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, and her most recent
book, Daughters.
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FICTION
3
Catherine Alliott
WISH YOU WERE HERE
A house in the south of France. A family holiday. A
summer party. What could be nicer? What could
possibly go wrong?
Copy TK
CATHERINE ALLIOTT is the author of twelve bestselling
novels including My Husband Next Door, A Rural Affair, One
Day in May, The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton, and A Crowded
Marriage.
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FICTION
Nadeem Aslam
MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS
A reissue of Nadeem Aslam’s 2005 critically acclaimed novel,
Map for Lost Lovers
If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants
in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as
Maps for Lost Lovers.
Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Like thousands of people all over
England, they were lovers and living together out of wedlock. To Chanda’s
family, however, the disgrace was unforgivable. Perhaps enough so as
to warrant murder. As he explores the disappearance and its aftermath
through the eyes of Jugnu’s worldly older brother, Shamas, and his devout
wife, Kaukab, Nadeem Aslam creates a closely observed and affecting
portrait of people whose traditions threaten to bury them alive.
NADEEM ASLAM is the author of three highly acclaimed novels: Season
of the Rainbirds, which won a Betty Trask Award; Maps for Lost Lovers,
which was a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Booker
Prize; and, most recently, The Wasted Vigil.
JANUARY | FICTION | 9780571313297
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“Extraordinary… . It deepens
our knowledge of life”
—The New York Review of Books
Robyn Cadwallader
THE ANCHORESS
An unforgettable debut set in thirteenth-century England, The
Anchoress resonates profoundly with the issues facing women
today.
England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress,
a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven paces by nine, at the side
of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth
and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers,
desires and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer and service to
God. But she slowly begins to understand that even the thick, unforgiving walls of
her cell cannot keep the outside world away…
ROBYN CADWALLADER has published numerous, prize-winning short
stories, poems and reviews, as well as a book of poetry and a non-fiction book
based on her PhD thesis which explored attitudes to virginity and female agency
in the Middle Ages.
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FICTION
5
Andrew Fox
OVER OUR HEADS
Dazzling tales of the young and befuddled, in love and in transit, from a
wonderful new talent
A young man rushes to the bedside of his ex, knowing the baby she’s having is not his own.
Travelling colleagues experience an eerie moment of truth when a fire starts in their hotel. A
misdirected parcel sets off a complex psychodrama involving two men, a woman and a dog ...
Andrew Fox’s clever, witty, intense and thoroughly entertaining stories capture the passions
and befuddlements of the young and rootless, equally dislocated at home and abroad. Set in
America and Ireland—and, at times, in jets over the Atlantic—Over Our Heads showcases a
brilliant new talent.
In the great tradition of Irish émigré writing—from Joyce and Beckett to Edna O’Brien and
Colum McCann—ANDREW FOX produces sharp portraits of his home country from
abroad, and of his fellow young emigrants making their way in America.
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Paul Murray
THE MARK AND THE VOID
A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the
banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies
Claude is a Frenchman who lives in Dublin.
His birthplace is famed as the city of
lovers, but so far love has always eluded
him. Instead his life revolves around the
investment bank where he works. And then
one day he realises he is being followed
around, by a pale, scrawny man. The man’s
name is Paul Murray.
Paul claims to want to write a novel
about Claude and Claude’s heart sings.
Finally, a chance to escape the drudgery
of his everyday office life, to be involved
in writing, in art! But Paul himself seems
more interested in where the bank keeps its
money than in Claude—and soon Claude
realises that Paul is not all he appears to be …
PAUL MURRAY is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes
and Skippy Dies. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted
for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003 and Skippy Dies
was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 and the Bollinger
Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
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Robert Williams
INTO THE TREES
Harriet Norton won’t stop crying. Her
parents are being driven close to insanity.
Mysteriously, the infant will only calm when
under the ancient trees of Bleasdale forest.
Drawn to this forest in search of something
they lack, four dispossessed people find their
lives intertwining in ways unimaginable.
ROBERT WILLIAMS’ first novel, Luke and Jon, won a Betty
Trask Award and was translated into six languages. His second,
How the Trouble Started, was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for
Fiction.
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“Williams is a master at writing about
sensational subjects with an uneasy, queasy
understatement.”—Metro
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FICTION
Stewart Binns
Melissa Pimentel
THE SHADOW
OF WAR
AGE, SEX, LOCATION
THE GREAT WAR SERIES BOOK 1
“A fascinating mix of fact, legend
and fiction…this is storytelling at
its best.”—Daily Mail
June 1914: Shots ring out in a distant
European land—the assassination of a
foreign aristocrat. From that moment the
world is propelled into a conflict unlike any
seen before.
This is the story of five British
communities, their circumstances very
different, but who will all share in the tragedy that is to come.
STEWART BINNS has won a BAFTA, a Grierson, an RTS
and a Peabody for his documentaries.
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A hilarious and refreshingly honest foray
into modern dating, Age, Sex, Location
is Bridget Jones’s Diary for HBO’s Girls
generation
An American ex-pat living in London, Lauren is
intelligent, beautiful, charming and loves to party.
So why can’t she convince a man she isn’t after
something more serious than scrambled eggs and
goodbye in the morning?
Determined to break the curse and snare some regular male
affection, she embarks on a project: each month she will follow the
rules of a dating guide. Lauren vows to stick by every rule along the
way—refusing to pay the bill, chatting up every man in her path and
withholding sex—and will switch seamlessly to the next book at the
end of each month.
MELISSA PIMENTEL, before meeting her fiance, spent much of
her time trawling the London dating scene for clean, non-sociopathic
sexual partners and blogging about it, which became the inspiration
for her first novel. She works in publishing.
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Roland Watson-Grant
SKETCHER
“A witty Mark Twain–like diversion
that tells of superstition and mojoconjuring among the swamp folk
of the Bayou during the Teaganite
1980s.”—The Spectator
Nine-year-old “Skid” Beaumont’s family
is stuck in the mud. Following his father’s
decision to relocate and build a new home,
based on a drunken vision that New
Orleans would rapidly expand eastwards
into the wetlands as a result of the 70s
oil boom, Skid and his brothers grow up
in a swampy area of Louisiana. But the
constructions stop short, the dream fizzles
out and the Beaumonts find themselves sinking in a soggy corner of 1980s
Cold War America. As things on the home front get more complicated, Skid
learns of his mother’s alleged magic powers and vaguely remembers some eerie
stories surrounding his older brother, Frico.
ROLAND WATSON-GRANT, a former teacher of English, studied
Literature at the University of the West Indies. He now works in advertising as
Creative Director. A short-story version of Sketcher won the Lightship Short
Story Competition.
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Roland Watson-Grant
SKID
The sequel to Roland Watson-Grant’s
acclaimed novel Sketcher
Having left the Louisiana swamp behind, the
Beaumonts are finding it hard to settle into
the big city. As he unpacks the boxes after
their move to Eastern New Orleans, the now,
sixteen-year old Skid finds a diary which had
belonged to his older brother, Frico. Among
various other family secrets that emerge from this discovery
is the startling revelation that “Skid” is a hoodoo word of
ominous significance. This throws Skid’s mind into turmoil and
prompts him to launch into a quest for the real meaning of his
name and the very foundations of his own being, an adventure
which will pit him against his own brother and lead him to
encounter Claire, a mysterious girl who seems to hold the
answers to some of his questions.
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FICTION
7
John Wyndham
CONSIDER HER WAYS
AND OTHERS
The six stories in this second collecton of John Wyndham’s short tales
continue his exploration of the science fiction staple—what if?
In the title story we are introduced to a world where all the men
have been killed by a virus and women continue to survive in a strict
caste system—bottom of the heap are the mothers. In others we meet
the man who accidentally summons a devil and then has to find a way
of getting rid of him without losing his immortal soul, as well as the
woman who, thanks to an experiment in time, discovers why her lover
abandoned her.
JOHN WYNDHAM wrote The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes,
The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned),
The Seeds of Time, Trouble with Lichen, The Outward Urge, Consider Her
Ways and Others, Web and Chocky.
January | Fiction | 9780140022315
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“Wyndham writes strongly and has a gift
for bizarre plots.”—Guardian
John Wyndham
THE SEEDS OF TIME
Ten wonderful stories by one of the greatest imaginations
ever to dream of what might be …
In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed
classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, conducts ten
experiments along the theme of ‘I wonder what might happen if …’
There’s the story of the meteor, which holds much more than meets the eye.
In Chronoclasm a man is pursued by his own future. We meet a robot with an
overactive compassion circuit. And what happens when the citizens of the future
turn the past into a giant theme park?
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“One of the few authors whose compulsive readability
is a compliment to the intelligence.”—Spectator
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FICTION
Stanley Donwood
Kate Hamer
HUMOR
THE GIRL IN THE
RED COAT
The stories of Stanley Donwood
collected for the first time in one
beautiful and collectible volume.
A substantial selection of Stanley’s fiction
over the past ten years or so, Humor shows
a contemporary master of the micro
narrative. Apocalyptic, funny, unsettling
and hallucinogenic in their intensity,
Stanley Donwood’s stories present a series
of haunting episodes in a world drained of
meaning, sense and consequence.
STANLEY DONWOOD is an artist.
He has produced record covers for
Radiohead and exhibited worldwide.
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A stand-out debut, The Girl in the
Red Coat is the page-turning and
hugely moving story of an abduction
that will appeal to fans of The Light
Between Oceans, Room and The
Snow Child.
“Public announcement. Lost child. There's a
lost child. Name of Carmel. Red coat. Eight
years old. If you find a lost child please bring
them to the large tent at the back of the field.”
Eight-year-old Carmel has always been different—sensitive,
distracted, with an heartstopping tendency to go missing.
Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about her daughter's
strangeness, especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two
of them on her own.
When she takes Carmel for an outing to a local festival, her
worst fear is realised: Carmel disappears into the crowd. Unable
to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good,
Beth embarks on a mission to find her.
KATE HAMER completed a Creative Writing MA at
Aberystwyth University and the Curtis Brown Creative novelwriting course. She won the Rhys Davies short story award in 2011.
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Glenn Patterson
THE REST JUST
FOLLOWS
Charming coming-of age novel
set in 70s Belfast.
First of September, 1974. Craig
Robinson and St John Nimmo are
starting secondary school. Across town
Maxine Nell is starting her own new school, convinced she should be where
Craig and St John are. Not that she has met either of them yet. Though
meet them she will, and more.
GLENN PATTERSON is the author of eight previous novels, the most
recent of which, The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, was the 2012 One
City One Book choice for Belfast.
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FICTION
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AMOS TUTUOLA
PAUPER, BRAWLER AND
SLANDERER
Drawing on the Yoruba folk tradition, Amos Tutuola's tales combine
the resonance of universal myth with reflections on a range of
human vagaries.
The leading characters of Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer are all
forced to embark on journeys of no return. There is a ploughing
competition for the hand of the beautiful Popondoro, and the reign
of Pauper and Slanderer in the town of women is inevitably brief.
This is Tutuola at his most vivid, funny and imaginative.
AMOS TUTOLA was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1920. His
first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was published in 1952 and
brought him international recognition. He died in Ibadan in 1997.
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THE WITCH-HERBALIST OF
THE REMOTE TOWN
After four years of marriage, the brave hunter of the Rocky Town
and his beautiful wife, Lola, are still without a child. Equipped
with juju, sharpened machete, bow and poisonous arrows, flints
and thunderbolts, he sets off in search of the Witch-Herbalist’s
medicine. For six years he journeys, conquering or escaping from
such haunting characters as the Abnormal Squatting Man of
the Jungle and the Crazy Removable-Headed Wild Man. Finally
he reaches the Remote Town of the Witch-Mother and is given
medicine for his wife, but on the way home he makes a decision
with interesting consequences.
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THE BRAVE AFRICAN HUNTRESS
This is the story of Adebisi, a brave African huntress who sets out for the Jungle
of the Pigmies to rescue her four brothers. Along the way, she conquers a giant,
serves as the barber to a king and endures the horrors of the pigmies’ prison. Yet
she will not give up. By employing her strength and intelligence, she finds a way
to release her brothers and returns home to a hero’s welcome.
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MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola’s second novel, was first published
in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical
African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying
beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but
after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance
of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.
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THE VILLAGE WITCH DOCTOR
AND OTHER STORIES
Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola’s writing
and the stories collected here are no exception. They feature characters from
folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical
happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Their very
titles—from The Duckling Brothers and their Disobedient Sister to Don’t Pay Bad
for Bad—are evocative of a unique blend of tradition and imagination, which
belongs to the same universal culture as Aesop and the Brothers Grimm.
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FICTION
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn
A LANDING ON
THE SUN
NOW YOU KNOW
A backlist fiction masterpiece from
the author of Spies and Skios
Ever since a Civil Servant fell to his death
from a window in the Admiralty, rumours
have circulated about a connection with
some secret defence project. Now, as the
case is reinvestigated, the Cabinet Office
makes a reassessment of its own, in case of
any sudden alarm at Number Ten.
MICHAEL FRAYN’s novels include
Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong,
Spies and Skios.
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A classic Frayn novel beautifully
repackaged.
Terry, a bit of a wide boy, is campaigning for open
government.
Hilary knows the truth about a case Terry
is interested in. But she despises him and
everything he stands for. So why is she to be
found one evening walking to the run-down
headquarters of Terry’ s pressure group?
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“Imaginative and delightful…Frayn
juxtaposes the humorous and the
frankly sinister into a satisfying and
witty picture.”—Sunday Telegraph
Michael Frayn
SWEET DREAMS
Michael Frayn
THE RUSSIAN
INTERPRETER
“A love affair through an interpreter,”
said Raya. “That’s a very cultured
prospect.”
Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who
speaks no English, is in the midst of an
affair with Gordon, a visiting British
businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter;
diverting Paul Manning from writing his thesis to become
involved in the deceptions of love and East-West relations.
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A profoundly brilliant novel from Frayn,
beautifully repackaged.
This book is the account of a recent journey to
Heaven, the metropolis at the nerve-centre of the
universe. Undertaken by Howard Baker, he finds
a city offering rich opportunities for leisure and
enjoyment – but also one that presents a very
personal, moral and intellectual challenge.
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FICTION
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Michael Frayn
THE TIN MEN
A satire as funny and imaginative
as anything by Douglas Adams.
Why not programme computers to take
over the really dull jobs that human beings
have to do? The William Morris Institute
of Automaton Research is doing just that;
freeing mankind for the really stimulating
tasks of today—first and foremost the visit
of Her Majesty to open its new wing …
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Michael Frayn
TOWARDS THE
END OF THE
MORNING
“A sublimely funny comedy about the
way newspapers try to put lives into
words.”—Spectator
Michael Frayn’s classic is set in the crossword
and nature notes department of an obscure
national newspaper during the declining
years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson
dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly
life—until one day his great chance of glory
at last arrives.
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“Dazzlingly funny.”—Observer
Michael Frayn
THE TRICK OF IT
One of Frayn’s best-loved novels, beautifully
repackaged
He knows everything about her before they meet;
more about her nine novels than she does herself,
having devoted his life to studying and teaching
them. Now, as she steps off the train in London,
maybe he has a chance to resolve the remaining
mystery at the heart of things…
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Michael Frayn
A VERY PRIVATE
LIFE
Humanity is divided in two—Insiders
and Outsiders. The Insiders are
privileged, with somatic drugs, threedimensional holovision and a prolonged
life. They are warned to never venture
into the dust and disease of the real
world. Uncumber, however, falls in love
with an Outsider and decides to go
exploring…
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CRIME FICTION
HELEN FITZGERALD
DEAD LOVELY
THE EXIT
“Outrageous, clever, funny, poignant. Helen Fitzgerald really
is one to watch.”—Mo Hayder
Some people love goodbyes...
When Krissie becomes pregnant after a fling and Sarah can’t seem to
conceive, things get a little tense between these best friends. What starts
as a much-needed break to get their friendship back in order, soon
becomes a nightmare of sexual tension, murder and mayhem…
A native Australian, HELEN FITZGERALD has worked as a parole
officer and prison social worker in Glasgow for over ten years.
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“Not to be missed—this book will keep
you on the edge of your seat until
the very last page.”
—Pick of the Month, Cosmopolitan (Australia)
23-year-old Catherine is mainly interested in Facebook and flirting,
but she reluctantly takes a job at a local care home after her mother
puts her foot down—and soon discovers that her new workplace
contains many secrets.
One of the residents at the home, 82-year-old Rose, is convinced
that something sinister is going on in Room 7 and that her own life
is under threat. But Rose has dementia—so what does she actually
know, and who would believe her anyway?
As Catherine starts investigating Rose’s allegations, terrible
revelations surface about everyone involved. Can Catherine find out
what’s really going on before it’s too late?
MARCH | CRIME FICTION | 9780571287895
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MY LAST CONFESSION
A darkly compelling psychological thriller from the acclaimed author
of The Cry.
When she starts her new job as a parole officer, Krissie is happy and
in love. Then she meets convicted murderer Jeremy, and begins to believe
he may be innocent. Her growing obsession with his case threatens to
jeopardise everything—her job, her relationship and her life.
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CRIME FICTION
Oscar de Muriel
THE STRINGS OF MURDER
Jonathan Strange meets Jonathan Creek in this
blistering crime debut set in Victorian Edinburgh.
1888. A violinist is brutally murdered in his Edinburgh home.
Fearing a national panic over a copycat Jack the Ripper, Scotland
Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey.
Frey reports to Detective ‘Nine-Nails’ McGray, local legend and
exact opposite of the foppish English Inspector. McGray’s tragic
past may have driven him to superstition, but even Frey must admit
that this case seems beyond belief.
There was no way in or out of the locked practice room. Black
magic symbols on the floor. The dead man’s maid swears there were
three musicians playing before the murder. And the suspects all talk
of a cursed violin once played by the Devil himself.
Inspector Frey has always been a man of reason—but the longer
this investigation goes on, the more his grasp on reason is slipping...
OSCAR DE MURIEL is a violinst, translator, chemist and author.
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CRIME FICTION
Sam Eastland
THE BEAST IN THE RED FOREST
Sam Eastland returns to Stalin’s Russia in another electrifying Inspector
Pekkala thriller.
Pekkala’s charred body has allegedly been found at the site of an ambush on the frontline.
Stalin refuses to believe this indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin’s orders, Pekkala’s
assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia. A new enemy has emerged
from the fog of war, more deadly than any Kirov or Pekkala have ever faced before.
But, unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap. Pursuing this legend of the halfhuman creature, each step brings Kirov closer to the truth about Pekkala’s disappearance.
Meanwhile, Pekkala’s nemesis is also closing in for the kill.
SAM EASTLAND lives in the US and the UK. He is the grandson of a London police
detective. Eye of the Red Tsar, the first Inspector Pekkala series, was followed by The Red
Coffin and Siberian Red.
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Alastair Gunn
UNTITLED
The second thrilling novel
in the DCI Antonia Hawkins
series by Alastair Gunn
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ALASTAIR GUNN is an
experienced magazine journalist.
The Advent Killer is the first in
a series featuring DCI Antonia
Hawkins.
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M.J. Arlidge
POP GOES THE
WEASEL
Helen Grace—heroine of Eeny
Meeny—returns in this furiously
paced new thriller.
The body of a middle-aged man is
discovered in Southampton’s red light
district—horrifically mutilated, with his
heart removed. Hours later—and barely
cold—the heart arrives with his wife and
children by courier.
A pattern emerges when another male
victim is found dead and eviscerated, his heart delivered soon
afterwards. The media call it Jack the Ripper in reverse; revenge
against the men who lead sordid double lives visiting prostitutes.
For Grace, only one thing is certain: there’s a vicious serial-killer at
large who must be halted at all costs …
M. J. ARLIDGE has worked in television for the last fifteen
years, specialising in high end drama production. Currently
writing for Silent Witness, Arlidge is also piloting original crime
series for both UK and US networks.
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CRIME FICTION
Chris Mooney
FEAR THE DARK
A nail-biting new thriller from the critically acclaimed Chris Mooney
Darby McCormick is a lone wolf—a woman who lives under different identities as she
travels across the United States, hunting down the people who tried to kill her. She’s living
in Montana when the FBI arrives and shares the chilling news: her former lab partner and
friend, Jackson Cooper, has gone missing in Red Hill, Colorado.
As Darby travels to the small town to help assist in the search for Coop, she embarks on
a harrowing journey through ordinary streets turned into scenes of unimaginable terror.
As she hunts for Coop, Darby becomes hunted by “The Night Stalker”, a vicious serial killer
who has been roaming through Red Hill and the surrounding town for over a quarter of
a century, kidnapping his victims in the middle of the night—and targeting anyone who
crosses his path.
CHRIS MOONEY is the author of eight previous thrillers, of which Remembering Sarah
was nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Novel.
FEBRUARY | CRIME FICTION | 9780718197919
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Eoin McNamee
BLUE IS THE NIGHT
The third and final novel of his
acclaimed Blue Trilogy—following
2001’s Booker-longlisted The Blue
Tango and 2010’s Orchid Blue.
In Blue Is the Night, it is Doris,
Lance Curran’s wife, who finally
emerges from the fog of deceit
and blame to cast a new light into
the murder of her daughter—as
McNamee once again explores
and dramatizes a notorious and
nefarious case.
EOIN MCNAMEE’s novels
include Resurrection Man, The
Blue Tango, which was longlisted
for the Booker Prize, and Orchid
Blue, described by John Burnside,
Guardian, as “not only into a political novel of the highest order but also
that rare phenomenon, a genuinely tragic work of art.”
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Doug Johnstone
THE DEAD BEAT
The author of Gone Again returns
with another heart-pounding
thriller.
On her first day interning at an
Edinburgh newspaper, Martha takes a
call from a former employee who seems
to commit suicide while on the phone.
Echoing her own troubled past, The Dead
Beat traces Martha’s desperate search for answers to the dark
mystery of her parents’ past.
DOUG JOHNSTONE is the author of five novels, most
recently the acclaimed Gone Again. He lives in Edinburgh.
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HISTORY
Michael Broers
Peter Pomeranzev
NAPOLEON
NOTHING IS
TRUE AND
EVERYTHING IS
POSSIBLE
The first life of Napoleon, in any language,
making full use of the new version of
his Correspondence compiled by the
Fondation Napoléon in Paris to replace
the sanitized compilation made under the
Second French Empire.
Broers’ biography draws on the thoughts
of Napoleon himself as his incomparable
life unfolded.
The essential book on the New
Russia, and how it’s travelled from
communist collapse to a new form
of dictatorship.
SOLDIER OF DESTINY
The first volume of a majestic new
biography of the great ruler, told with
energy, style and brand-new research
MICHAEL BROERS is Professor of Western European History
at Oxford University. He is the author of, among others, The
Napoleonic Empire in Italy 1796-1814, winner of the Grand Prix
Napoléon Prize, 2006, and Napoleon’s Other War: Bandits, Rebels
and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions.
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A journey into the glittering, surreal heart
of 21st -century Russia: a completely new
type of society. From 70s Soviet decay, post-communist 90s oil boom,
to the new tyranny of Putin’s Russia, this is the essential book for
anyone looking to understand the increasingly wild life of an everchanging superpower.
PETER POMERANZEV has written for the London Review of
Books, Newsweek, Le Monde Diplomatique, El Pais and Internationale
and has been praised as the most incisive about Russia. Apart from
media he has worked as a consultant for the EU and World Bank on
development projects in Russia.
MARCH | HISTORY | 9780571308019
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6 × 9¼ | 300 pages | Faber
Roger Knight
BRITAIN AGAINST
NAPOLEON
THE ORGANIZATION OF VICTORY,
1793-1815
The first book to explain how the
British state successfully organised
itself to overcome Napoleon—and
how very close it came to defeat
For more than twenty years after 1793, the
French army was supreme in continental
Europe. How was it that despite multiple
changes of government and the assassination of a prime minister, Britain
survived and eventually won a generation-long war against a regime that
at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower?
This book looks beyond the familiar exploits (and bravery) of the army and
navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
ROGER KNIGHT, in 2005, published, with Allen Lane/Penguin, The
Pursuit of Victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson, which won
the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten
Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research.
JANUARY | HISTORY | 9780141038940
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Maurice Walsh
BITTER FREEDOM
THE WORLD OF THE IRISH
REVOLUTION
The Irish Revolution—the war between
the British authorities and the newly
formed IRA—was the first successful revolt
anywhere against the British Empire. This is
a vividly written, compelling narrative placing
events in Ireland in the wider context of a
world in turmoil after the ending of a global war: one that saw
the collapse of empires and the rise of fascist Italy and communist
Russia. Walsh shows how developments in Europe and America
had a profound effect on Ireland, influencing the attitudes and
expectations of combatants and civilians.
MAURICE WALSH (1879–1964) was an Irish novelist best
known for the short story The Quiet Man, which was later made
into an Oscar-winning movie directed by John Ford and starring
John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara.
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POLITICS
17
“Without one man’s courage and a life-altering decision,
millions would never know about this most secret abuse
of power by the intelligence agencies…the story of
our age, brilliantly told.”—Guardian
Luke Harding
THE SNOWDEN FILES
Investigative journalism at its best. The Snowden Files
tells the story of the individuals behind the biggest
leak in history and the forces that tried to stop them.
It began with an unsigned email: “I am a senior member of the
intelligence community.”
What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach
ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. The consequences
have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide.
Edward Snowden, a young computer genius working for
America’s National Security Agency, blew the whistle on the way
this powerful organisation uses new technology to spy on the
entire planet. This is the inside story of Snowden’s deeds and the
journalists who faced down the pressure from US and British
governments to break a remarkable scoop.
LUKE HARDING is an award-winning foreign
correspondent with the Guardian. He is the author of, among
others, MafiaState and The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken,
nominated for the Orwell Prize.
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9781783350377
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POLITICS
Michael Barber
HOW TO RUN A
GOVERNMENT
Drawing on his experience in UK government and subsequent
advisory roles around the world, Michael Barber sets out his
expertise on how governments and institutions can implement
change more effectively and deliver on their promises.
This book is for those in government who want to deliver, for
those in universities who want to research policy and for those
citizens who would like to see governments succeed. Barber
argues that if the knowledge of how to deliver set out here was
systematically applied by governments across the world, outcomes
across a range of services such as health and education would
improve dramatically, the value realized from taxpayers’ money
would be substantially increased and citizens would have more
confidence in government than they currently do. To sum it up, the
application of the delivery knowledge we already have would make
the world a better place.
SIR MICHAEL BARBER has worked for over 20 years in
education and government reform and improvement. He served
as advisor to UK Prime Minister from 2001–2005 and is a global
expert on education reform and implementation of large-scale
system change. His previous books include Instruction to Deliver.
APRIL | POLITICS | 9780241004975
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POLITICS
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Philippe Sands
LAWLESS WORLD
MAKING AND BREAKING GLOBAL RULES
Explosive analysis of the consequences of British and US foreign policy
on global international order.
International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider’s view of the elites who
govern our lives. His sensational revelations in Lawless World changed the political
agenda overnight, forcing Tony Blair to publish damning mterial that he’d tried to hide.
Now, in this updated edition with a shocking new chapter, you can get the full
story of how the US and UK governments are riding roughshod over international
agreements on human rights, war, torture and the environment—the very laws they
put in place. Here Sands looks at why global rules matter for all of us. And he
powerfully makes the case for preserving them ... before justice becomes history.
PHILIPPE SANDS, QC, is Professor of Law at UCL and the author of several
books on international law. He is a practising barrister at the Matrix Chambers and
has been involved in leading cases before English and international courts.
MARCH | POLITICS | 9780241957769
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Larry Siedentop
INVENTING THE INDIVIDUAL
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN LIBERALISM
The highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and
their impact on western society, now in paperback
This ambitious and stimulating book asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on
which modern states are built. Larry Siedentop argues that the core of what is now our
system of beliefs—liberalism founded on the individual—emerged much earlier than
generally recognized, established not in the Renaissance but by the arguments of lawyers
and philosophers between the 12th and 14th centuries.
LARRY SIEDENTOP was appointed to the first post in intellectual history ever
established in Britain, at Sussex University in the 1970s. His writings include a study
of Tocqueville, an edition of Guizot’s History of Civilization in Europe and Democracy in
Europe, which has been translated into a dozen languages.
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POLITICS
Anne Applebaum
BETWEEN EAST
AND WEST
ACROSS THE BORDERLANDS OF EUROPE
A vivid and human glimpse into Europe’s
borderlands as they emerged from Soviet
rule—back in print after nearly twenty years
For a thousand years, the geography of Europe’s
borderlands had dictated their destiny. East of Poland,
west of Russia, the region had always been defined
by colliding empires. Travelling through Lithuania,
Belarus and Ukraine, from Kalingrad on the Baltic
to Odessa on the Black Sea, Applebaum discovered
a wide range of competing cultures, religions and
nationalisms. Rich in surprising encounters and vivid
characters, Between East and West illuminates the soul
of the borderlands and the shaping power of the past
through the experiences of their people.
ANNE APPLEBAUM is the author of several
books, including Gulag: A History, which won the
2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, and Iron Curtain,
which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster Medal
for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in
Historical Literature.
FEBRUARY | POLITICS | 9780141979229
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Sam Delaney
MADMEN AND BADMEN
The scandalous story of British politics' love affair with advertising from
Sam Delaney, the journalist with the inside-track.
From the moment Margaret Thatcher met the Saatchi brothers, election campaigns would
never be the same again. Suddenly, every aspiring PM wanted a fast-talking, sharpthinking ad man on their team to help dazzle voters. But what were the consequences
of their fixation with the snappy and simplistic? Sam Delaney embarks on a journey to
expose the shocking truth behind the general election campaigns of the last four decades.
Everything is here – from the man who snorted coke in Number 10 to the politician
who fell in love with her own ad exec, fist-fights in Downing Street to all-day champagne
binges in Whitehall offices.
SAM DELANEY is a writer for the Telegraph, the Guardian, The Big Issue, a
documentary and radio show presenter for the BBC, Channel 4 and Talksport, a former
editor of Heat magazine, and the current editor in chief of Comedy Central UK. He is the
author of two previous books: Get Smashed! and Night Of The Living Dad.
FEBRUARY | CURRENT AFFAIRS | 9780571312382
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Polly Toynbee & David Walker
CAMERON’S COUP
An incisive and damning journey around the country to see first-hand the
effects of the coalition on Britain.
The NHS devastated without so much as a by-your-leave; Gen Y hung out to dry; legal aid cut
for the vulnerable; social housing on the brink of collapse… Cameron has indeed been busy.
Written with their trademark precision and passion, Toynbee and Walker reveal how in
four short years a party that failed to win a Commons majority has been devastatingly effective.
Blending polls and statistics with moving human stories from Taunton to Teeside, Cameron's
Coup shows the alarming reversal in decades of social progress.
POLLY TOYNBEE is a columnist for the Guardian. DAVID WALKER is contributing
editor to the Guardian's Public Leaders Network. They have co-authored Dogma & Disarray:
Cameron at Half-Time, Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today, The
Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain and Better or Worse: Did Labour Deliver?
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BIOGRAPHY
21
Tom Bower
BRANSON
Have the triumphs of Richard Branson, Britain’s most
popular and most publicity-seeking businessman,
turned to dust over the last decade?
The image remains pristine: a charismatic high-school dropout
turned billionaire, whose stratospheric rise and daring exploits
have won him millions of enduring admirers and made him a
model for aspiring entrepreneurs throughout the world.
But is this story still credible? Over the last decade, has
Branson matched the expectations perpetuated by Virgin’s
relentless publicity machine? Or have we all been seduced by a
brilliant showman?
In his most explosive book to date, Tom Bower, bestselling
biographer of Simon Cowell, Bernie Ecclestone, Conrad Black
and Robert Maxwell, dares to explore the reality of the Branson
empire. In doing so, he unravels the gripping story of his recent
activities—from the astonishing success of mobile phones to
his troubled airlines and his long delayed plan to send multimillionaires into space—and asks whether he really remains
Britain’s heroic buccaneer.
TOM BOWER is an investigative historian, broadcaster and
journalist. A former producer and reporter for BBC Television,
he is the author of twenty books, including biographies of Robert
Maxwell, Mohamed Fayed, Gordon Brown and Conrad Black.
He lives in London.
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BIOGRAPHY
Alan Bennett
WRITING HOME
A wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett’s writings, and
the companion volume to Untold Stories
This book brings together Bennett’s diaries for 1980-1995, filled with reminiscences
of his life’s and writing endeavours. From his now-legendary address at Russell
Harty’s memorial service to recollections of growing up in Leeds, Writing Home
provides a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England’s leading playwrights.
ALAN BENNETT is one of the most celebrated writers in Britain today. His play
(and film) The History Boys won seven Emmys in New York and was the most successful
play in the history of the National Theatre. Untold Stories, sold over 700,000 copies in
hardcover and paperback and won the PEN / Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.
JANUARY | BIOGRAPHY | 9780571315727
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“Simply the funniest and most poignant
thing I’ve read all year…only fools and
madmen will pass up the chance to read
it. Writing Home is a must.”—Tatler
John Carey
THE UNEXPECTED PROFESSOR
John Carey, English professor at Oxford, controversial commentator, book critic
and beekeeper, reflects on a life immersed in literature, from grammar school
beginning to the Oxford establishment.
In this warm and funny memoir, John Carey describes the events that formed
him – an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service
in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him
elected, age 40, to Oxford’s oldest English Literature professorship.
JOHN CAREY is Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include
studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What
Good Are the Arts? and a life of William Golding.
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BIOGRAPHY
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Viv Albertine
Richard Mabey
CLOTHES, CLOTHES,
CLOTHES. MUSIC,
MUSIC, MUSIC.
BOYS, BOYS,
BOYS.
THE LIFE OF FLORA THOMPSON AND THE
CREATION OF LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD
In 1976, Viv joined The Slits, making
musical history as one of the first
generation of punk bands. Here is the
story of what it was like to be a girl at
the height of punk: the sex, the drugs,
the tours, the hard lessons learnt and
those not considered.
VIV ALBERTINE was the guitarist
in the female punk band The Slits. A
confidante of the Sex Pistols and the
Clash, Viv was a key player in British punk culture. After a
hiatus of twenty-five years, Viv released her first solo album, The
Vermillion Border, in 2012 to great acclaim.
MARCH | BIOGRAPHY | 9780571297764
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DREAMS OF THE
GOOD LIFE
While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora
Thompson’s much-loved portrait of life in the English
countryside, has inspired a hit television series,
relatively little is known about the author herself. In
this highly original book, bestselling biographer and
nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetically retraces her life and her
transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at fourteen to a
sophisticated professional writer.
RICHARD MABEY is the acclaimed author of some thirty books
including Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award,
Flora Britannica, winner of a National Book Award, and Nature Cure,
which was short-listed for three major literary awards, the Whitbread,
Ondaatje, and J.R. Ackerley prizes.
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“Wow, what a great read. She’s incredibly
honest, this woman truly wears her Vagina
on her sleeve and I loved the insiders history
of punk pogoing along with her personal
journey.”—Kathy Burke
Shiv Malik
THE MESSENGER
Mick Houghton
I’VE ALWAYS
KEPT A UNICORN
The definitive biography of Sandy
Denny, one of the most influential
folk rock artists of all time
I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story
of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest
British singers of her time and the first
female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and
enduring body of original songs.
A real-life thriller with enough twists and
turns, deception and betrayal to satisfy
any Homeland fan.
Every reporter knows the first rule of journalism:
never betray your source. But what if your source
turns out to be unworthy of your silence? What
if it's your source who betrays you? The Messenger is about the
unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world
– a repentant jihadist and a journalist. This troubling thriller takes
us from their first meeting in a Spartan flat in the rough suburbs of
Manchester to a bombing in Pakistan, dramatic arrest and Malik's
reporting career on the brink of ruin.
MICK HOUGHTON began writing about music
during the 70s, for such publications as Circus, Sounds and
Time Out before stumbling into a PR job at Warner Bros.
SHIV MALIK is a reporter for the Guardian. He has written
for New Statesman, Sunday Times and The Independent on Sunday
and is a regular contributor on programmes like Newsnight, Today,
Channel4 News on issues of terrorism and economics. He has
authored Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth.
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ARTS
James Norbury
Penguin
THE PENGUIN
KNITTING BOOK
POSTCARDS
FROM PELICAN
100 SUBJECTS IN ONE BOX
The latest in our successful series of
Postcard publications, featuring 100
classic book covers from the iconic
Pelican series
A charming how-to-knit classic
packed with delightfully vintage
advice
James Norbury’s The Penguin Knitting
Book, first published in 1957, is a delightful
how-to guide for the experienced knitter as
well as the beginner.
Along with telling you how to knit, The
Penguin Knitting Book includes original
vintage patterns for every member of the
family. Babies’ coats, pullovers for father, sweaters for the teenager,
dresses, jumpers, coats and cardigans, you will find them all in this
charming aid to better knitting.
JAMES NORBURY wrote The Penguin Knitting Book in 1957. A
knitting historian, teacher and designer as well as a television star on
his own BBC knitting show, he was Chief Designer for Patons and
one of the foremost authorities on the history of knitting.
A collection of 100 postcards, each featuring
a different jacket from Pelican Books,
Penguin’s iconic non-fiction series.
In the years to come Pelican Books—including H. G. Wells’s
A Short History of the World, Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday
Life and J. K. Galbraith’s The Affluent Society, as well as guides to
everything from jazz to witchcraft, guerrilla warfare to smashing
atoms—would educate a generation. They became, in Lane’s words,
‘the true everyman’s library for the twentieth century.”
JANUARY | COLLECTABLES | 9780241006375
$23.99 | 100 pages | Penguin Particular
AA: 9780141044668 $26.50
JANUARY | KNITTING | 9780241971253
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4½ × 7 | 256 pages | Viking UK
Hans Ulrich Obrist
WAYS OF CURATING
Will Gompertz
THINK LIKE
AN ARTIST
Embrace your inner Picasso—wisdom
and self-help from Da Vinci to Cezanne,
Frida Kahlo to Ai Weiwei
Wouldn’t it be nice to be a bona fide “artist”—
one of those independent spirits who earns a
good living, and a big reputation, from being
“creative” and making things up? What are
their secrets? They are, in fact, the most entrepreneurial, cunning,
inquisitive, brave, concerned, competitive, ingenious, fun-loving and,
brace yourself, normal people you are ever likely to meet.
WILL GOMPERTZ is a journalist, author, curator, broadcaster,
impresario and critic. In 2008 Creativity Magazine in New York
ranked him as one of the fifty most original thinkers in the world,
alongside Steve Jobs and the Coen Brothers.
APRIL | ART | 9780241970805
TP | $19.99
The world’s most famous curator shows
how we can use the process of curation
outside the art world
Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations—
from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich
kitchen in 1986 to encounters and conversations
with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers alive and
dead—Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Ways of Curating looks to inspire all those
engaged in the creation of culture.
Moving from meetings with the artists who have inspired him
(including Gerhard Richter and Gilbert and George) to the creation of
the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice
of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev and Walter Hopps, skipping
between exhibitions (his own and others), continents and centuries, Ways
of Curating argues that curation is far from a static practice. Driven by
curiosity, at its best it allows us to create the future.
HANS ULRICH OBRIST is a curator and writer. Since 2006 he has
been co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. His previous books
include Ai Weiwei Speaks.
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David Goldblatt
Tony Evans
THE GAME OF OUR LIVES
I DON’T KNOW
WHAT IT IS BUT
I LOVE IT
HOW FOOTBALL MADE BRITAIN GREAT
The story a national obsession—from
Maggie to Mourinho
In the last two decades football in Britain has
made the transition from a peripheral dying
sport to the very centre of our popular culture,
from an economic basket case to a booming
entertainment industry.
In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues
that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous
economic, social and political changes of the postThatcherite era in a more illuminating manner
than football, and no cultural practice sheds more
light on the aspirations and attitudes of our long
boom and subsequent bust.
DAVID GOLDBLATT is the author of The Ball Is Round: A Global History
of Football, the definitive historical account of the world’s game, and of Futebol
Nation, a highly acclaimed footballing history of Brazil.
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LIVERPOOL’S UNFORGETTABLE
1983–84 SEASON
How Dalglish, Souness, Rush
and the gang drank their way to
the most unlikely success story
in football
Kenny Dalglish. Graeme Souness. Ian Rush. Alan Hansen.
Bruce Grobelaar. They rank with the very greatest players ever.
But the heroes of 1984 were an unlikely group to make history.
Led by a 63-year-old first-time manager and a captain showoff better known for his moves on the dance floor, Liverpool’s
greatest season was a booze-fuelled journey to three trophies: the
first division title, the League Cup and the European Cup, won
on a remarkable night in Rome.
TONY EVANS has been football editor of The Times for five
years and was born a Liverpool fan.
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Jonathan Rendall
Anonymous
THE SECRET
FOOTBALLER:
MY GUIDE TO THE
MODERN GAME
Everything you need to know (and what
they usually don’t tell you) about the
modern game by the top-ten bestselling
football insider.
With his trademark wit, opinion and candour,
the Secret Footballer guides you through
formations, tactics, mind-games and anything
you need to know about what it takes to be a pro.
Fully illustrated with line drawings showing the
technical aspects of the game. Perfect for football
fans and armchair referees alike.
JANUARY | SPORTS | 9781783350629
HC | $24.99
5 × 7¾ | 288 pages | Faber
THIS BLOODY
MARY
The classic book on boxing,
reissued for a new generation
This Bloody Mary is the journey of an
obsession. It started innocently enough.
But as it proceeds, the arc lights begin to
shift, until even the shadows in the minds
of those who inhabit and surround the ring
seem caught in their glare.
JONATHAN RENDALL studied at Oxford, where
he represented the university, unsuccessfully, at boxing.
He wrote for the Guardian, Independent, The Times,
Ring and Esquire and won the prestigious Somerset
Maugham Award for This Bloody Mary.
JANUARY | SPORTS | 9780571315987
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5 × 7¾ | 208 pages | Faber
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POETRY
SOPHIE HANNAH, ED.
The Poetry of Sex
Fifty Shades of Poetry—a no-holds-barred, highly enjoyable
anthology of writing about sex
“It’s the way that you say I don’t usually do this.”
Romance and poetry seem to go hand in hand but—implicit, explicit,
nuanced or starkly frank—sex itself has long been a staple subject for poets. In
fact a great deal of erotic poetry rejects the distinction.
It’s hard to imagine a more fruitful subject for poets than sex, in all its glorious
manifestations: from desire and hope, through disappointment and confusion, to
conclusion and consequence. And little has changed over the centuries, as Sophie
Hannah’s anthology vividly demonstrates, from Ovid describing a summer
afternoon of lovemaking to Rosemary Tonks telling the Story of a Hotel Room.
Moods and attitudes may vary but the drive persists as does the desire to write
about it.
Sophie Hannah’s selection ranges from ancient Rome to modern New York,
from gay to straight, from marital bliss to furtive adultery, but her principle has
been to go low on the sugar and high on the excitement.
SOPHIE HANNAH has published five collections of poetry. Her fifth,
Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award in 2007. She
also writes internationally successful psychological crime thrillers.
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CAROL ANN DUFFY, ED.
1914: Poetry Remembers
A powerful and moving anthology to mark the centenary of the First World
War in 2014—compiled by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate
Carol Ann Duffy has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose
the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly. This
anthology holds their choices alongside specially commissioned poems of their
own in response to the war to end all wars.
CAROL ANN DUFFY is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at
Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and
Collected Poems for Children and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award.
She is Poet Laureate.
NOVEMBER | POETRY | 9780571302154
TP | $18.99
5 × 7¾ | 160 pages | Faber
JUDITH CHERNAIK, GERARD BENSON,
CICELY HERBERT, EDS.
Poems on the Underground
A NEW EDITION
A wonderful new collection of 230 of the most captivating poems
to have appeared on the Underground over the last 26 years
After over twenty-five years and almost 500 poems, Poems on the Underground
has become a common and welcome sight on London’s Tube, paying tribute
to the magnificent tradition of English poetry, as well as those who have
contributed to its richness and diversity. In this beautiful new edition to
celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground, poems old and new,
familiar and unfamiliar, explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile,
families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature hundreds of poets
including Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, Paul Celan, William Blake,
D. H. Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy
Cope, John Clare and Louis McNeice, among many others.
NEW in
PAPERBACK
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5 × 7¾ | 192 pages | Penguin Particular
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POETRY
BERNARD
O’DONOGHUE, ED.
Geoffrey
Chaucer
One of six new additions to
the acclaimed Poet to Poet
series
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400)
was a diplomat, customs controller
and knight of the shire, and author
of Troilus and Criseyde and The
Canterbury Tales.
In this series, contemporary poets select and introduce some of
the greatest poets of the past, as well as offering insights into their
own work.
BERNARD O’DONOGHUE is a Fellow of Wadham College,
Oxford, where he teaches Medieval English. He has published four
collections of poetry, The Weakness, Gunpowder (winner of the
1995 Whitbread Award for Poetry), Here Nor There and Outliving.
APRIL | POETRY | 9780571230655
HC | $26.99
5½ × 8½ | 128 pages | Faber
DAVID HARSENT
Fire Songs
The new collection from awardwinning poet David Harsent
DAVID JONES
In
Parenthesis
Faber remembers Poets of the Great War
in this stunning new hardcover series.
No poetry has touched readers’
hearts more deeply than the soldier
poets of the First World War. Published
to commemorate the centenary of
1914, this stunning set of books, with
specially commissioned covers by leading
printmakers, is an essential gathering of our
most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers
of our present day.
In 1915, DAVID JONES (1895–1974) went to war with the Royal
Welsh Fusiliers, where he fought in the battles of the Somme and
Ypres. In Parenthesis is based on Jones’s experiences in World War I.
JANUARY | POETRY | 9780571315796
HC | $19.99
5 × 7¾ | 256 pages | Faber
Poetry Please:
Love Poems
From Shakespeare and Rossetti to Auden,
Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, Poetry
Please: Love Poems is a treasury of the
nation's favourite love poems.
DAVID HARSENT has published ten collections of poetry. The
most recent, Night, was a Poetry Book Society Choice, shortlisted for
the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot poetry prizes and won the Griffin
International Poetry Prize.
‘What will survive of us is love.'
In this new anthology poets from across the
ages lead us on a journey of love in its many
forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to
Auden, Byron to Browning and beyond. Including
as well a host of contemporary voices including
Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering
of timeless love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of
themes.
Whether in marriage or heartbreak, friendship or infatuation, whether
in pursuit of the unattainable ideal or else settling down together for life,
whether in love or out of it, you will find poems here to touch the heart.
A vital assembly of our most treasured and enduring love poems.
HC | $24.99
5½ × 8½ | 80 pages | Faber
FEBRUARY | POETRY | 9780571315994
HC | $19.99
5 × 7¾ | 144 pages | Faber
The poems in David Harsent’s new
collection share a dark territory and a
sometimes haunting, sometimes steely,
lyrical tone. Throughout the book, in a
variety of different styles—single poems,
dramatic sequences or poems that “belong
to one another”—Harsent writes, as
always, with passion and a sureness of touch.
ARTS
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PAUL MULDOON
One Thousand Things
Worth Knowing
“The most significant Englishlanguage poet born since the
Second World War.”—TLS
Paul Muldoon’s twelfth collection of
poems, One Thousand Things Worth
Knowing, is wide-ranging in its subject
matter yet is everywhere concerned with
watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, headturning, heartfelt, these poems attempt
to bring scrutiny to bear on everything,
including scrutiny itself.
MARTIN MCDONAGH
A Behanding in
Spokane
COPY TK
APRIL | PLAYS | 9780571269563
TP | $19.99
5 × 7¾ | 96 pages | Faber
PAUL MULDOON published his
first collection of poems, New Weather,
in 1973. Since 1987 he has lived in the
United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the
Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was
Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.
HC | $24.99
5½ × 8½ | 96 pages | Faber
MAURICE RIORDAN
The Water
Stealer
ALAN BENNETT
People
People premiered at the National Theatre, London, in
October 2012.
People spoil things; there are so many of them and
the last thing one wants is them traipsing through
one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on
the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy wonders
if an attic sale could be a solution.
The Water Stealer is the fourth collection by
Maurice Riordan, a writer of precise searching
originality.
Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his
native Co. Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted
London, Riordan’s poems exist between many
states, poised at once in the grip of both activity
and stillness, concerned with speaking and
listening to what he hauntingly describes as “the
unwonted quiet.”
ALAN BENNETT has been one of Britain’s leading
dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in
the 1960s.
MAURICE RIRODAN’S first collection, A Word
from the Loki, was nominated for the T.S. Eliot
Prize. Floods was a Book of the Year in both the
Sunday Times and Irish Times. The Holy Land won
the Michael Hartnett Award.
JANUARY | PLAYS | 9780571309801
TP | $19.99
APRIL | POETRY | 9780571303137
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“Wonderfully funny…a grand
evening. Dorothy is Frances de la Tour,
in the best part Alan Bennett has
written for her.” —The Times
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POETRY
ROGER MCGOUGH
T.S. ELIOT
It Never Rains
Ariel Poems
More new poems, free-line
drawings, in this expanded edition
of McGough’s comic verse
A beautiful Christmas gift hardcover
celebrating the best of the Faber
and Faber archive
From a poem commissioned to
commemorate Dylan Thomas in just 140
characters, which unfortunately comes
to an end mid-word, to a pre-emptive
erratum notice, these poems show
McGough at his inventive, hilarious best
—and there are also new line drawings
by the author offered at no extra cost.
From 1927 to 1931 T. S. Eliot published
the poetry series Ariel Poems, featuring
prestigious writers and artists celebrating
Christmas. Among the poets were W. B.
Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon and Edith Sitwell.
This is a collection of Eliot’s works from
the series, illustrated beautifully by leading
artists of the time.
ROGER McGOUGH was a member
of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when
he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has
since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic.
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was educated at Harvard, the
Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. He settled in
England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne HaighWood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time.
TP | $6.99
5 × 7 | 96 pages | Viking UK
HC | $26.99
5½ × 8½ | 48 pages | Faber
T.S. ELIOT
The Letters
of T.S. Eliot
VOLUME 5: 1930-1931
COPY TK
T.S. ELIOT
The Waste Land
A major recording of the most influential poem of
the twentieth century, read by the author.
Eliot’s masterpiece depicts the breakdown both of an
individual consciousness and of civilization as a whole, in a
variety of voices and moods from witty satire to nightmare
vision, from despair to a glimpse of peace.
This previously unknown and unheard recording of Eliot
was recorded in America in 1935.
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT published his first book
of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
APRIL | POETRY | 9780571269327
CD (1 Disc) | $24.99 | Faber
HC | $85.00
6 × 9¼ | 960 pages | Faber
HUMOUR
31
Jenny Crompton
CRAP CVS
A hilarious compendium of crap CVs, excruciating interviews
and cover letters from hell
Application for Employment:
“I refer to the recent death of the Technical Manager at your company
and hereby apply for the replacement of the deceased manager.
Each time I apply for a job, I get a reply that there is no vacancy but in
this case I have caught you red-handed and you have no excuse because
I even attended the funeral to be sure that he was truly dead and buried
before applying.
Attached to my letter is a copy of my CV and his death certificate.”
Crap CVs is a hilarious compilation of the worst job applications
imaginable, including overly honest cover letters, embarrassing typos,
mortifying personal revelations, awkward interview questions, misplaced
self-confidence, self-aggrandising gibberish, blatant truth-twisting and, of
course, outright lies.
JENNY CROMPTON is a freelance writer and editor.
APRIL | HUMOUR | 9781405918671
TP | $16.99
5 × 7 | 368 pages | Michael Joseph
Jim’ll Paint It
ELECTRIC DREAMS
The incredible full-colour book of the outrageous online
phenomenon
Generating hundreds of thousands of requests, Jim has painted
everything from Brian Blessed punching a polar bear to Mary and
Joseph being turned away from a Premier Inn by Lenny Henry.
Here for the first time are the selected works of one of the finest
and most popular artists of our day.
JANUARY | HUMOUR | 9780571315550
HC | $24.99
6½ × 6¼ | 240 pages | Faber
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HUMOUR
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
1,339 QI FACTS TO
MAKE YOUR JAW DROP
QI are back with a smorgasbord of facts even
more astonishing than their last bestselling buffet
sensation—1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off
Pigs suffer from anorexia. It is impossible to whistle in a
spacesuit. J. K Rowling has no middle name.
Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts to
Blow Your Socks Off, the QI team returns with a fresh stack
of facts to astonish and enlighten.
NEW in
JANUARY | HUMOUR |
9780571308972
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5 × 7¾ | 368 pages | Faber
“FASCINATING…
The answers to the questions
you never even thought to ask.”
—Daily Mail on 1,227 QI Facts
HOMOUR
33
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
1,411 QI FACTS TO
KNOCK YOU SIDEWAYS
All-new facts from the QI team to astonish,
delight and enlighten
Orchids can get jetlag. Lizards can’t walk and breathe at the
same time. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie.
1,227 QI Facts blew your socks off. 1,339 QI Facts made
your jaw drop. Now the QI team return with this year’s
groaning sack of astonishment. Prepare to be knocked
sideways...
The smash-hit BBC 1 panel game QI first aired on the
BBC in September 2003 with JOHN LLOYD producing
and JOHN MITCHINSON in charge of the research.
There are now more than 100 editions of the programme.
HC | $19.99
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HUMOUR
Richard Ayoade
AYOADE ON AYOADE
From the director of Submarine and star
of The IT Crowd, the world of film as you’ve
never read it before
Richard Ayoade is many things—film director, comedy
actor, comedian and TV presenter. Ayoade on Ayoade
captures the director in his own words: pompous, vain,
angry and very, very funny.
RICHARD AYOADE is an English comedian, actor,
writer, TV presenter and director, best known for his
roles as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
and Maurice Moss in the Emmy Award–winning The
IT Crowd director of the movies Submarine and The
Double, and presenter of Channel 4’s Gadget Man.
HC | $28.99
6 × 9¼ | 208 pages | Faber
Marc Burrows
BELOW THE LINE
Hilarious, brilliant or just plain weird—comments from
Guardian readers collected in a gift book
Here are the wittiest, wisest, most bonkers of the Guardian
readers’ comments on every subject from food (mostly quinoa),
ethics (mostly guilt), politics (mostly angry), travel (mostly
skiing), sport (mostly banter), sex and drugs (mostly awkward),
culture (mostly harmless) and blocked comments and abuse
(mostly baffling). Illustrated by Tom Gauld.
HC | $19.99
5 × 7¾ | 192 pages | Faber
Reverand Adam Smallbone
THE REV DIARIES
A hilarious tie-in novel to the award-winning hit BBC1 comedy Rev
When vicar Adam Smallbone swapped his rural parish for St Saviours in Hackney,
he thought he was going somewhere where he would be able to make a difference.
Somewhere his ministry would have a purpose. Or that was the idea.
But an eccentric, needy band of parishioners, unhelpfully attractive head teacher
of the local CofE school and a waspish deacon with Adam in his crosshairs would
test the patience of a saint. And Adam, despite his best intentions, is no saint. So he
muddles along, trying to do the right thing.
Thank God he’s got his diary …
REV. ADAM SMALLBONE is the vicar of St Saviour’s in Hackney. He studied
History at Bristol University, and was ordained in 1999.
APRIL | HUMOUR | 9781405913683
TP | $16.99
MUSIC/FILM
35
Deborah Curtis
Mike Figgis
TOUCHING FROM
A DISTANCE
36 DRAMATIC
SITUATIONS
FOR FILM
The only in-depth biographical
account of the lead singer of Joy
Division, Ian Curtis, written by his
widow. Includes a foreword by
Jon Savage and an introduction
by Steven Morris.
Revered by his peers and idolized by
his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy
rich in artistic genius. Mesmerizing
on stage but introverted and prone to
desperate mood swings in his private
life, Curtis died by his own hand on
May 18, 1980.
Touching from a Distance documents
how, with a wife, child and impending
international fame, Curtis was seduced
by the glory of an early grave. Regarded
as the essential book on the essential icon of the post-punk era,
Touching from a Distance includes a full set of Curtis's lyrics, a
discography and gig list.
DEBORAH CURTIS is the author of Touching from a Distance,
her memoir of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division.
An essential tool to stimulate
writers into thinking about plot in
an entirely different manner
A transformed edition of the 1850s
French original by Georges Polti. Polti
synthesised all drama as belonging to
combinations of 36 situations. Realizing
that Polti’s book could be a powerful tool
for writers, Mike Figgis has updated all of
the references, moving the focus away from theatre, focusing
primarily on cinema.
MIKE FIGGIS is the renowned filmmaker and musician
whose career began with the People Show in the 1970s. His
film credits include Stormy Monday, Internal Affairs, Miss Julie,
Timecode and Hotel. He received Oscar nominations for Best
Director and Best Screenplay for Leaving Las Vegas.
MARCH | FILM | 9780571305049
TP | $26.99
5½ × 8½ | 208 pages | Faber
JANUARY | MUSIC | 9780571313600
TP | $18.99
5 × 7¾ | 240 pages | Faber
Daniele Villa
Ian Bostridge
SCHUBERT’S
WINTER
JOURNEY
Schubert’s Winterreise is at the
same time one of the most powerful
and one of the most enigmatic
masterpieces in Western culture.
In his new book, Schubert’s Winter
Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession,
Ian Bostridge—one of the work’s
finest interpreters—focusses on the
context, resonance and personal significance of a work
which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of
Lieder. Using each of the 24 songs as a starting point, the
book brings the work and its world alive for connoisseurs
and new listeners alike.
FEBRUARY | MUSIC | 9780571282807
HC | $28.99
5½ × 8½ | 192 pages | Faber
TERRENCE MALICK
The brilliant and essential guide to
the award-winning director of Days of
Heaven and Badlands
This book is not meant to be a biography of
Terrence Malick. The purpose behind the book
is to introduce readers to the extraordinary
universe of his filmmaking, to aid them in
understanding his work and to do this through
the words of his closest collaborators.
Daniele Villa, Carlo Hintermann, Luciano Baracaroli and
Gerardo Panichi worked together in Italian publishing house
Ubulibri. Having edited books on Otar Ioseliani, David Lynch
and Takeshi Kitano, they decided to make a documentary about
Terrence Malick since his films served as a prism through which
they could view American cinema.
APRIL | FILM | 9780571234561
TP | $41.95
6 × 9¼ | 256 pages | Faber
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REFERENCE
David Marsh
FOR WHO
THE BELL
TOLLS
It’s been a lifelong mission
to create order out of chaos.
This is the story of my quest
for perfection
From sloppy syntax, to a disregard
for grammar or a fundamental
misunderstanding of what
grammar is, this book explains
what people really need to know,
such as the fact that an apostrophe
is the difference between a
company that knows its s*** and a
company that knows it’s s***.
DAVID MARSH has worked for
newspapers for four decades, turning the sow’s ear of rough-and-ready
reportage into a passable imitation of a silk purse. He is currently the
Production Editor of the Guardian and the fierce protector of Guardian
Style. Follow his hugely popular Twitter tips @guardianstyle.
NEW in
PAPERBACK
JANUARY | GRAMMAR | 9781783350520
TP | $16.99
Mario Vargas Llosa
NOTES ON
THE DEATH
OF CULTURE
This book-length essay by the
great Peruvian novelist is an alarm
call to Western civilisation, which
is in danger of losing some of
its most precious achievements.
His starting point is the famous
analysis by T.S. Eliot in Notes
Towards the Definition of
Culture. Eliot wrote: ‘I see no
reason why […] we may not even anticipate a period, of some
duration, of which it will be possible to say that it will have no
culture.’ Vargas Llosa believes that moment has now arrived.
Born in Peru in 1936, MARIO VARGAS-LLOSA has written
some of the last half-century's most important novels—The War
of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the
Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
FEBRUARY | ESSAYS | 9780571300549
TP | $26.99
6 × 9¼ | 224 pages | Faber
Ernest Gowers & Rebecca Gowers
PLAIN WORDS
The essential and original guide for anyone who wants to express
themselves clearly in English
When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to
the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm
and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print. In a new
preface, this edition draws on an extensive private archive, previously hidden away in family
cupboards and attics.
Sir Ernest Gowers contributed significantly to ending the death penalty in Britain,
wrote the bestseller, Plain Words, and later became the first editor of H. W. Fowler’s classic
Dictionary of Modern English Usage.
REBECCA GOWERS studied English at Oxford and Cambridge. She is the author of
The Swamp of Death, shortlisted for the CWA non-fiction Golden Dagger Award, and of
two novels, When to Walk and The Twisted Heart, both longlisted for the Orange Prize.
NEW in
PAPERBACK
APRIL | REFERENCE | 9780241960349
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REFERENCE
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Francoise Heritier
THE SWEETNESS
OF LIFE
This beautiful list of the daily
moments that accrete to a life worth
living asks us to reconnect with and
cherish a different sense of worth
If you assume an average life expectancy of 85
years, and deduct the hours we spend daily on
sleeping, shopping, eating, working, tending
to our relationships and on everything else
that is obligatory, then how much time is left
for the average person to enjoy those activities
that are the sweetness of life? For Francoise
Heritier, it is those activities, those moments,
that make up pure sensuality, the actual experience of humanity.
FRANCOISE HERITIER is the author of such highly successful
works as Masculin/feminin and De la violence, translated into more
than ten languages.
NEW in
PAPERBACK
JANUARY | SELF-HELP | 9780718198831
TP | $15.99
4½ × 7 | 96 pages | Penguin Particular
Caroline Lodge
& Eileen Carnell
RETIRING WITH
ATTITUDE
A practical and inspirational guide
on to how to enjoy an active,
contented and fulfilling retirement
Is your retirement date looming? Do
you fear the void that lies ahead or are
you excited about the opportunities the
future holds? Retiring With Attitude is a
thoughtful and constructive guide, which will lead you step by step
through the different issues you will face as you approach retirement
and help you find your way to an exciting new outlook.
CAROLINE LODGE is a freelance writer, consultant and former
head teacher. EILEEN CARNELL is a freelance writer and
educational consultant. They run courses on writing and retiring.
JANUARY | LIFESTYLE | 9780852655580
TP | $24.99
5½ × 8½ | 240 pages | Guardian Faber
Mrs Moneypenny with
Heather McGregor
MRS
MONEYPENNY’S
FINANCIAL ADVICE
FOR INDEPENDENT
WOMEN
Get a money makeover from the
legendary Financial Times columnist
In Mrs Moneypenny’s Financial Advice for Independent Women, we
show you how to set your own financial finish line, and then how
to go about reaching it. From cutting your grocery bills to buying a
house, from starting a business to saving a pension, we give new, easy
ways to think about your money and take control of your life.
For over 14 years Mrs Moneypenny has been entertaining readers
of the Financial Times with her weekly column. She is the author of
Mrs Moneypenny’s Careers Advice for Ambitious Women.
HEATHER McGREGOR owns and runs Taylor Bennett, the
executive search firm.
MARCH | PERSONAL FINANCE | 9780670923304
TP | $21.99
5 × 7¾ | 320 pages | Penguin Portfolio UK
James Reed
WHY YOU?
101 INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS YOU’LL
NEVER FEAR AGAIN
The secrets to excelling at
interview, direct from top
interviewers and recruiters
Interviews: we all have to do
them; we all have to succeed in them. Why You? gives you the
tools you need to master this fundamental and crucial part
of getting the job you want.
Why You? includes real-life examples of interview success
and horror stories (and how to avoid them); techniques for
preparing for interviews and how to deal with stress; the
truth behind what hirers want and their expectations from
interviews; and examples of interview questions and how to
answer them successfully.
JAMES REED is the Chairman of REED, the recruitment
specialists.
JANUARY | SELF-HELP | 9780241970218
TP | $19.99
5 × 7¾ | 272 pages | Penguin Portfolio UK
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TRAVEL
Dr Matthew Green
A TIME TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO
LONDON
A beautifully-illustrated guide to London that takes you back in time
Dr Matthew Green explores the sights and sounds of London through history.
This is a fascinating and unique guide to the capital that takes the reader off the
beaten track and into unexplored territory. Whether you are a tourist looking for
an alternative way to see the city, or a Londoner that wants to learn more about the
world around you, this is a must-have guide.
DR MATTHEW GREEN has a PhD in the history of London from Oxford
University. He writes historical features for the Telegraph and Guardian, appears in
documentaries on the BBC and ITV and gives talks all over London.
APRIL | TRAVEL | 9780718179779
TP | $21.99
CLASSICS
39
Small, stylish, and designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith, these books combine the appeal
and value of both Great Ideas and Clothbound Classics
MARCO POLO
THE TRAVELS
NIGEL CLIFF, TRANS.
A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written, in a collectable
clothbound edition
Marco Polo’s voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan
on numerous diplomatic missions in the far east. His subsequent account of his travels offers a
fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, customs and societies; the
spices and silks of the east; the precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts of faraway lands.
MARCO POLO was born in 1254, joining his father on a journey to China in 1271. He spent
the next twenty years travelling in the service of Kublai Khan.
NIGEL CLIFF’S first book, The Shakespeare Riots, was published in 2007 and shortlisted for
the Washington-based National Award for Arts Writing. His second book, The Last Crusade:
Vasco da Gama and the Birth of the Modern World appeared in 2011.
MARCH | HISTORY | 9780141198774
HC | $28.99
5 × 7¾ | 380 pages | Hardcover Classics
LUCRETIUS
THE NATURE
OF THINGS
ALICIA STALLINGS, TRANS.
Lucretius’ poem On the Nature of
Things combines a scientific and
philosophical treatise with some
of the greatest poetry ever written.
With intense moral fervor he
demonstrates to humanity that in
death there is nothing to fear since
the soul is mortal, and the world
and everything in it is governed by
the mechanical laws of nature and
not by gods; and that by believing
this men can live in peace of mind and happiness.
TITUS LUCRETIUS Carus (who died c.50 BC) was an
Epicurean poet writing in the middle years of the first century BC.
A. E. STALLINGS’ poetry has appeared in The Best American
Poetry (1994 and 2000) and has received numerous awards,
including a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Prize Anthology XXII),
the 1997 Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry and the third annual
James Dickey Prize from Five Points.
MARCH | LITERARY STUDIES | 9780141396903
HC | $19.99
4 × 6½ | 304 pages | Hardcover Classics
AUGUSTINE
CONFESSIONS
The son of a pagan father
and a Christian mother, Saint
Augustine spent his early
years torn between conflicting
faiths and world views. His
Confessions, written when he
was in his forties, recount how,
slowly and painfully, he came to
turn away from his youthful ideas
and licentious lifestyle, to become
instead a staunch advocate of
Christianity and one of its most
influential thinkers. A remarkably
honest and revealing spiritual
autobiography, the Confessions also address fundamental issues
of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it
includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity today.
MARCH | RELIGION | 9780141396897
HC | $18.99
4 × 6½ | 352 pages | Hardcover Classics
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CLASSICS
GEORGES SIMENON
LIBERTY BAR
A new translation of this novel set in the demi-monde of the sunsoaked Riviera, part of the Maigret series
Dazzled at first by the glamour of sunny Antibes, Maigret soon finds
himself immersed in the less salubrious side of the Riviera when he
traces the steps of a shabby former spy who is fond of pretty women and
dive bars.
GEORGES SIMENON, best known in Britain as the author of the
Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have
made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989.
APRIL | FICTION | 9780141396095
TP | $15.99
5 × 7¾ | 112 pages | Modern Classics
MATTHEW ARNOLD
CULTURE AND ANARCHY AND OTHER
SELECTED PROSE
A collection of controversial and
galvanizing essays on literature, culture
and politics from Matthew Arnold, one
of the greatest Victorian thinkers
Poet, Francophile, educationalist, social
theorist and cultural commentator, Matthew
Arnold was one of the greatest Victorian critics. He understood
profoundly the problems to be faced by a mass democratic society, and
his essays form a galvanizing call to moral and cultural arms.
MATTHEW ARNOLD’s influence as a social and literary critic and
a controversial thinker on religious and educational issues has been felt
throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
MARCH | ESSAYS | 9780141396248
TP | $19.99
5 × 7¾ | 480 pages | Penguin Classics
DAVID CARPENTER, TRANS.
MAGNA CARTA
The definitive translation of our history’s
founding legal document
Magna Carta is probably the most famous
declaration in western legal history.
DAVID CARPENTER, who has translated
the text of Magna Carta and written the
text of this edition, is Professor of Medieval
History at King’s College, London.
FEBRUARY | HISTORY | 9780241953372
TP | $17.99
RADCLYFFE HALL
THE WELL OF
LONELINESS
New to Penguin Modern Classics, the
seminal work of gay literature that
sparked an infamous legal trial for
obscenity and went on to become a
bestseller
The Well of Loneliness tells the story of
tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears
trousers and cuts her hair short—and who gradually comes to realise
that she is attracted to women, not men. Charting her romantic and
professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the
novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian
theme and led to a famous legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself,
however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a
landmark work of gay fiction.
RADCLYFFE HALL was born in 1883 and educated at Cambridge
and in Germany. In 1907 she became a devout Catholic, and in 1915
she set up home with Una Troubridge, who became her lifelong
companion. She wrote many books but is best known for The Well of
Loneliness, first published in 1928. Hall died in 1943 and is buried in
Highgate Cemetery in London.
MARCH | FICTION | 9780141191836
TP | $18.99
5 × 7¾ | 466 pages | Modern Classics
PETER KROPOTKIN
THE CONQUEST OF BREAD
One of the greatest of all anarchist texts—a powerful response
both to capitalism and to communism
In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book,
Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs—beliefs which
surged around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and
which have a renewed relevance and poignancy today.
PETER KROPOTKIN’s major works are The Conquest of Bread
and Mutual Aid. His funeral was marked by the last permitted
gathering of anarchists in the USSR.
DAVID PRIESTLAND is the author of Red Flag and Merchant, Soldier,
Sage. He teaches at St Edmund’s Hall, University of Oxford.
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CLASSICS
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EMILE ZOLA
ADAM KERN, ED.
COPY TK (no older editions that I could find)
First Penguin volume
APRIL | FICTION | 9780141392752
TP | $19.99
Of best Japanese haiku
MONEY
GEORGE CRABBE
SELECTED POEMS
The powerful, distinctive poems of George Crabbe—including
'Peter Grimes' and 'Sir Eustace Gray'
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HAIKU
Vivid translations
Originally a Japanese form that flourished from the sixteenth to
nineteenth centuries, haiku are tiny poems defined by their brevity:
they are usually only three lines long in translation and a total of
seventeen syllables.
ADAM L. KERN studied Japanese literature at Harvard University,
where he earned his PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations
before joining the faculty for nearly a decade.
George Crabbe's poems, mostly heroic couplets, form powerful,
unsentimental and often unflinching portrayals of provincial life and
society. Dramatizing human motive in the subtlest of language, and
anticipating writers like Charles Dickens and George Eliot, Crabbe
explores his characters' beliefs and relationships, and their struggle
against the undertow of past loves and humiliations.
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GEORGE CRABBE was befriended by Edmund Burke, who
helped him first to get his work published and then to embark
on a career in the church. His religious career culminated in his
appointment as Rector of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, where he died in
1832.
THE WHIRLPOOL
APRIL | POETRY | 9780141396255
TP | $19.99
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS
JOHN KERRIGAN, ED.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets have caused endless debate and speculation:
who is the dark lady, who is the ‘only begetter’; and what light do the
poems shed on the life of the poet? Yet the sonnets themselves can be
enjoyed for their lyricism rather than their intention.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE was an English poet and playwright
of the 16th and 17th centuries, now widely regarded as the greatest
writer in the English language and the word's pre-eminent dramatist.
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TP | $14.99
GEORGE GISSING
An extraordinary novel of love and ambition set in Late Victorian
London
The greatest of English realist novelists, famous for New Grub Street,
George Gissing creates in The Whirlpool an astonish picture of
characters caught in the vortex of London, struggling to understand
how they can make sense of their lives in a society of remorseless
faithlessness and social snobbery.
GEORGE GISSING wrote a series of startling novels principally
set in London, including New Grub Street, The Whirlpool, The Nether
World and The Odd Women. He lived a chaotic, often povertystriken life from which he frequently drew for his fiction. He is
generally viewed as the greatest English realist novelist.
MARCH | FICTION | 9780141395647
TP | $21.99
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THE
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
COLLECTION
Beautiful cover illustration by art-deco artist George Barbier
INCLUDES
ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN
THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
THE GREAT GATSBY
TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE
TENDER IS THE NIGHT
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
AVAILABLE NOW | FICTION | 9781847493347
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Lavishly produced editions with french flaps
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
All the Sad Young Men
The Last Tycoon
Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection
showcases many of the celebrated novel’s themes, as well as its unique
writing style.
Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered
by the industry and in control of every aspect of his business empire.
In his ruthless rise to the top, the young widower has had little time
for sentiment, until he meets the beguiling Kathleen Moore, and the
two embark on an intense but ill-fated relationship.
Basil and Josephine
Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths
from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry –
based on Fitzgerald himself and a combination of his first love Ginevra
King and his wife Zelda.
Flappers and Philosophers
Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel Flappers and
Philosophers explores the familiar themes of aspiration and social
satire which will permeate his writing.
The Great Gatsby
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion,
Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the
neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby,
a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business
interests and a shadowy past.
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most notable of
which is the novella-length ‘May Day’ – with more fanciful creations,
such as the fantastical ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’,
recently made into a Hollywood film.
Tender is the Night
Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender is the
Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of
the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal
tragedy and disillusionment.
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ALMA CLASSICS
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
JAMES JOYCE
Diaboliad and Other Stories
Dubliners
TRANSLATED BY HUGH APLIN
New translation of a lesser known work by the author
of The Master and Margarita
In Bulgakov’s ‘Diaboliad’, the modest and unassuming office
clerk Korotkov is summarily fired for a trifling error from
his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for
Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior
Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through
the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly
surreal dimensions of a nightmare.
The Life of Monsieur Molière
TRANSLATED BY MIRRA GINSBURG
New English translation and only edition in print
Completed in 1933, but not published until 1962, over twenty
years after its author’s death, The Life of Monsieur de Molière
charts the life of the playwright, from humble beginnings to
later theatrical triumphs and political controversies.
AVAILABLE NOW | BIOGRAPHY | 9781847491275
A Young Doctor’s Notebook
TRANSLATED BY HUGH APLIN
Includes notes, plates and an extensive section on
Bulgakov’s life and works
In this collection of short stories, which also include the
famous piece Morphine, the author draws heavily from his
own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the
Russian Revolution.
A new edition of one of Joyce’s most popular and
accessible works
Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu,
the fifteen short stories included in this collection all
centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the
beginning of the twentieth century.
Ulysses
EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY SAM SLOTE
Only edition in print of the 1939 version of James
Joyce’s masterpiece
A lively repository of literary allusion and colloquial
realism, this dazzlingly innovative, ambitious novel is here
presented in its 1939 version, which contains notable textual
differences from the standard editions currently in print.
TP | $26.99 | 6 × 9¼ | 880 pages | Alma Classics
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ALMA CLASSICS
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Mrs Dalloway
New edition of major work by Virginia Woolf
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner
party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories
of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to
assess the choices she has made in life and love.
To the Lighthouse
Includes pictures and a section on Virginia Wolf’s life
and works
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house
on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby
lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip
will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that
a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime.
TRISTAN TZARA
Seven Dada Manifestos
and Lampisteries
TRANSLATED BY RUPERT COPELAND CUNINGHAM
Only edition in print of an essential text of the modern movement
This volume contains Tristan Tzara’s famous manifestos, which first appeared
between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement
and models for Breton’s Surrealist manifestos.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
Winesburg, Ohio
New edition of one of the most influential American classics
RAYMOND ROUSSEL
Locus Solus
Only edition in print of one of the most influential novels of twentieth
century literature
Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth imposes no limits
upon his prolific ingenuity, is taking a group of visitors on a tour of “Locus
Solus”, his secluded estate near Paris.
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